1985 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season1985
ChampionsFC Dynamo Kyiv
RelegatedFC Fakel Voronezh, FC SKA Rostov-na-Donu
European CupDynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' CupTorpedo Moscow
UEFA CupFC Dinamo Minsk
Spartak Moscow
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Top goalscorer(35) Oleh Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
← 1984
1986 →

Teams
  • FC Fakel Voronezh – champion (returning for the first time since 1961 after twenty 24 seasons, known as Trud Voronezh)
  • FC Torpedo Kutaisi – 2nd place (returning after a season)

Location
Locations of teams in the 1989 Top League

Final table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dynamo Kyiv (C) 34 20 8 6 64 26 +38 48 Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Spartak Moscow 34 18 10 6 72 28 +44 46 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 34 16 11 7 71 41 +30 42[lower-alpha 1]
4 Dinamo Minsk 34 16 9 9 40 31 +9 41
5 Torpedo Moscow 34 13 10 11 42 40 +2 36
6 Zenit Leningrad 34 14 7 13 48 38 +10 35
7 Žalgiris Vilnius 34 12 11 11 43 49 −6 34[lower-alpha 1]
8 Dinamo Tbilisi 34 11 10 13 34 39 −5 32
9 Kairat Almaty 34 11 13 10 43 46 −3 32[lower-alpha 2]
10 Metalist Kharkiv 34 12 7 15 39 55 −16 31
11 Torpedo Kutaisi 34 11 9 14 40 51 −11 31
12 Shakhtar Donetsk 34 10 12 12 46 45 +1 30[lower-alpha 3]
13 Ararat Yerevan 34 10 12 12 42 46 −4 30[lower-alpha 3]
14 Dinamo Moscow 34 11 7 16 37 50 −13 29
15 Chornomorets Odessa (O) 34 11 7 16 44 65 −21 29 Qualification for Relegation play-off
16 Neftçi Baku (O) 34 9 11 14 30 40 −10 28[lower-alpha 1]
17 Fakel Voronezh (R) 34 9 9 16 24 45 −21 27 Relegation to First League
18 SKA Rostov-na-Donu (R) 34 7 7 20 36 60 −24 21
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. 1 point deducted (10 draw limit)
  2. 3 points deducted (10 draw limit)
  3. 2 points deducted (10 draw limit)
  • For the following season the League was reduced to 16 members. The teams that finished 15th and 16th played a mini-tournament with the two best out of the Soviet First League. Out of this tournament the two best teams continued on in the Soviet Top League.
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Chornomorets Odessa 6 3 3 0 6 3 +3 9
2 Neftçi Baku 6 2 3 1 9 4 +5 7
3 Daugava Riga 6 1 3 2 7 7 0 5
4 CSKA Moscow 6 1 1 4 3 11 −8 3
Source: rsssf.com
  • For the 1986 season there was no promotion out of the Soviet First League.

Top scorers
35 goals
14 goals
13 goals
12 goals
11 goals

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (34), Viktor Chanov (1).
Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (34 / 8), Oleh Kuznetsov (29 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Volodymyr Bezsonov (25), Vasyl Yevseyev (19), Ivan Palamar (2), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (1), Vadym Karatayev (1).
Midfielders: Vasyl Rats (34 / 6), Ivan Yaremchuk (33 / 3), Oleksandr Zavarov (31 / 9), Andriy Bal (31 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (29), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (20 / 2).
Forwards: Ihor Belanov (31 / 10), Oleg Blokhin (29 / 12), Vadym Yevtushenko (22 / 10), Oleksandr Hushchyn (2), Viktor Khlus (2).

Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi.

Transferred out during the season: Viktor Khlus (to FC Chornomorets Odesa).

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2).
Defenders: Aleksandr Bubnov (34), Boris Kuznetsov (34), Gennady Morozov (31 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (24 / 2), Almir Kayumov (14), Aleksandr Shibayev (4).
Midfielders: Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 13), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (33 / 7), Sergei Novikov (31 / 7), Yuri Gavrilov (26 / 6), Sergey Shavlo (25 / 6), Yevgeni Sidorov (24 / 4), Guram Adzhoyev (7 / 1).
Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (29 / 14), Andrei Rudakov (23 / 8), Vladimir Kapustin (13 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (5 / 2), Oleg Kuzhlev (5).

Manager: Konstantin Beskov.

Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (32), Valeriy Horodov (6).
Defenders: Serhiy Puchkov (32 / 1), Oleksandr Lysenko (31 / 2), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (31), Sergei Bashkirov (29 / 1), Oleksandr Sorokalet (11), Sergey Kulinich (3), Anatoliy Nazarenko (3), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (2), Petro Kutuzov (2), Ihor Deli (1).
Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (34 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (33 / 3), Oleksiy Cherednyk (28 / 1), Andriy Dilay (27), Volodymyr Bahmut (20 / 1), Borys Shurshin (12 / 2), Mykola Kudrytsky (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (2), Mykola Fedorenko (1).
Forwards: Oleh Protasov (33 / 35), Oleh Taran (27 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (22 / 4), Volodymyr Mozolyuk (1), Andriy Sydelnykov (1).

Manager: Volodymyr Yemets.

Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Khudozhylov, Mykola Fedorenko (both to FC Kolos Nikopol).

Number of teams by union republic
Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)
1  RSFSR 6 Dinamo Moscow, Fakel Voronezh, 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  Georgian SSR 2 Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi
4  Armenian SSR 1 Ararat Yerevan
 Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku
 Belarusian SSR Dinamo Minsk
 Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata
 Lithuanian SSR Zhalgiris Vilnius

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