1939 Soviet Top League

1939 Soviet Top League was the fifth season of the Soviet Top League known at that time as Group A.

Group A

Season	1939
Champions	FC Spartak Moscow
Relegated	FC Elektrik Leningrad FC Dynamo Odessa
Matches played	182
Goals scored	649 (3.57 per match)
Top goalscorer	(21) Grigory Fedotov (CDKA)
Biggest home win	Spartak 8–0 Dynamo Od. (July 8)
Biggest away win	Dynamo Od. 0–6 Dynamo M. (October 12)
Highest scoring	Dynamo L. 3–7 CDKA (June 15)
← 1938 1940 →

It started on May 12 with six games of the first round. The main calendar was scheduled to be finished on October 19 with the Moscow derby between Lokomotiv and Dynamo. However, due to numerous protests and postponed games the championship finished on November 30 in Tbilisi with game between Dynamo Tbilisi and Dynamo Odessa. The new champions became Spartak Moscow with two teams being relegated: Elektrik Leningrad and Dynamo Odessa. This was the first full season championship with each team playing over 25 games.

The last year defending champions were Spartak Moscow. There were no newly promoted teams and initially was decided to conduct the championship with 12 teams. However the Soviet sport committee allowed for two Leningrad teams Stalinets and Elektrik to remain in the league.

Spartak once again won the cup competition that started in summer with final played in mid-September. That was the last edition of the cup before World War II.

Representation by republic

•  Russian SFSR 10
•  Ukrainian SSR 3
•  Georgian SSR 1

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	26	14	9	3	58	23	35	37
2	Dynamo Tbilisi	26	14	5	7	60	41	19	33
3	CDKA Moscow	26	14	4	8	68	43	25	32
4	Traktor Stalingrad	26	13	4	9	50	39	11	30
5	Lokomotiv Moscow	26	12	6	8	42	39	3	30
6	Metallurg Moscow	26	12	5	9	53	50	3	29
7	Dynamo Moscow	26	12	4	10	60	46	14	28
8	Dynamo Kiev	26	9	8	9	39	44	-5	26
9	Torpedo Moscow	26	8	7	11	51	51	0	23
10	Dynamo Leningrad	26	8	6	12	41	56	-15	22
11	Stalinets Leningrad	26	7	7	12	30	46	-16	21
12	Stakhanovets Stalino	26	5	10	11	40	55	-15	20
13	Elektrik Leningrad (R)	26	6	5	15	32	49	-17	17
14	Dynamo Odessa (R)	26	7	2	17	25	67	-42	16

Top scorers

21 goals

• Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)

19 goals

• Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

18 goals

• Sergei Kapelkin (CDKA Moscow)
• Viktor Semyonov (Spartak Moscow)

16 goals

• Ivan Mitronov (Metallurg Moscow)

15 goals

• Viktor Shilovsky (Dynamo Kiev)

14 goals

• Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow)

13 goals

• Aleksandr Nazarov (Dynamo Moscow)
• Aleksei Zaytsev (Metallurg Moscow)
• Georgi Zharkov (Torpedo Moscow)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)