1984 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1984 season.

Soviet Top League
Season1984
ChampionsZenit Leningrad
RelegatedPakhtakor Tashkent, CSKA Moscow
European CupZenit Leningrad
Cup Winners' CupDinamo Kiev
UEFA CupSpartak Moscow
Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
Chernomorets Odessa
Top goalscorer(19) Sergey Andreyev (SKA)
← 1983
1985 →

18 teams participated, and Zenit Leningrad won the championship. The 10 games draw limit was implemented this season.

Teams
  • FC Kairat Alma-Ata – champion (returning after a season)
  • SKA Rostov-na-Donu – 2nd place (returning after two seasons)

Location
Locations of teams in the 1984 Top League

League standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Zenit Leningrad (C) 34 19 9 6 60 32 +28 47 Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Spartak Moscow 34 18 9 7 53 29 +24 45 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 34 17 8 9 54 40 +14 42
4 Chornomorets Odessa 34 16 9 9 49 38 +11 41
5 Dinamo Minsk 34 15 13 6 43 28 +15 40[lower-alpha 1]
6 Torpedo Moscow 34 15 10 9 43 36 +7 40
7 Dinamo Tbilisi 34 14 8 12 36 41 −5 36
8 Kairat Almaty 34 13 8 13 44 42 +2 34
9 Žalgiris Vilnius 34 12 11 11 30 38 −8 34[lower-alpha 2]
10 Dynamo Kyiv 34 12 13 9 46 30 +16 34[lower-alpha 1] Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
11 Ararat Yerevan 34 12 7 15 46 50 −4 31
12 Metalist Kharkiv 34 12 5 17 42 53 −11 29
13 Shakhtar Donetsk 34 10 9 15 47 46 +1 29
14 SKA Rostov-on-Don 34 10 7 17 48 58 −10 27
15 Neftchi Baku 34 9 8 17 30 50 −20 26
16 Dynamo Moscow 34 8 10 16 35 43 −8 26
17 Pakhtakor Tashkent (R) 34 10 5 19 37 58 −21 25 Relegation to First League
18 CSKA Moscow (R) 34 5 9 20 24 55 −31 19
Source:
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. 3 points deducted (10 draw limit)
  2. 1 point deducted (10 draw limit)

Top scorers
19 goals
  • Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
18 goals
  • Hamlet Mkhitaryan (Ararat)
17 goals
14 goals
13 goals
12 goals
  • Georgi Kondratyev (Dinamo Minsk)
  • Yevstafi Pekhlevanidi (Kairat)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Zenit Leningrad

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Biryukov (34).
Defenders: Aleksei Stepanov (32 / 2), Sergei Vedeneyev (28 / 1), Anatoli Davydov (27 / 1), Vladimir Dolgopolov (27), Sergey Kuznetsov (22), Valeri Zolin (13), Nikolai Vorobyov (8), Gennadi Timofeyev (6).
Midfielders: Valeri Broshin (32 / 4), Yuri Zheludkov (31 / 17), Arkadi Afanasyev (28 / 1), Vyacheslav Melnikov (21 / 3), Dmitri Barannik (19), Nikolay Larionov (9 / 2), Igor Komarov (5 / 2).
Forwards: Sergey Dmitriev (30 / 8), Vladimir Klementyev (29 / 10), Boris Chukhlov (28 / 7), Yuri Gerasimov (7 / 1), Aleksandr Zakharikov (6).

Manager: Pavel Sadyrin.

Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2), Andrei Mikhalychev (1).
Defenders: Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 2), Aleksandr Bubnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (31), Boris Pozdnyakov (30 / 2), Sergei Bazulev (16), Sergei Shvetsov (11), Sergei Shulgin (3), Almir Kayumov (1).
Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 8), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Sergey Shavlo (32 / 5), Yevgeni Sidorov (26 / 4), Fyodor Cherenkov (25 / 8), Guram Adzhoyev (13 / 1), Valeri Gladilin (12 / 3), Oleksandr Baranov (2).
Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (32 / 13), Mikhail Rusyayev (6 / 1), Jevgeņijs Miļevskis (6), Oleg Kuzhlev (5).

Manager: Konstantin Beskov.

Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (31 / 3), Viktor Konsevich (3).
Defenders: Sergei Bashkirov (32), Serhiy Puchkov (29 / 2), Oleksandr Lysenko (28 / 2), Mykola Pavlov (19 / 1), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (17), Petro Kutuzov (17), Petro Chylibi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (1), Anatoliy Nazarenko (1), Oleksandr Chervonyi (1).
Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (33 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (30 / 2), Andriy Dilay (30 / 1), Volodymyr Bahmut (25 / 2), Oleksiy Cherednyk (19 / 2), Oleh Serebryanskyi (13 / 2), Mykola Fedorenko (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (3), Anatoli Zagrebayev (2), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (2).
Forwards: Oleh Protasov (34 / 17), Volodymyr Lyutyi (30 / 8), Oleh Taran (20 / 7).

One own goal scored by Yuri Lykov (FC SKA Rostov-on-Don).

Manager: Volodymyr Yemets.

Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustymchyk (retired).

Number of teams by union republic
Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)
1  RSFSR 6 CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, SKA Rostov-na-Donu, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
2  Ukrainian SSR 5 Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk
3  Armenian SSR 1 Ararat Yerevan
 Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku
 Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk
 Georgian SSR Dinamo Tbilisi
 Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata
 Lithuanian SSR Zhalgiris Vilnius
 Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent

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