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42nd season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union Football league season

Soviet Top League
Season	1979
Champions	Spartak Moscow
Relegated	Zaria Voroshilovgrad, Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev
European Cup	Spartak Moscow
Cup Winners' Cup	Dinamo Tbilisi
UEFA Cup	Dinamo Moscow Dinamo Kiev Shakhter Donetsk
Matches played	306
Goals scored	758 (2.48 per match)
Top goalscorer	(26) Vitaliy Starukhin (Shakhter)
← 1978 1980 →

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1979 season.

Overview

1979 Top League was composed of 18 teams, the championship was won by Spartak Moscow.

On 11 August 1979, a mid-air collision killed virtually the entire FC Pakhtakor Tashkent team. The Top League ordered all the other teams to make three players available for a draft to restock the team, and Pakhtakor was given exemption from relegation for the next three years.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	34	21	10	3	66	25	+41	50	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	20	8	6	57	33	+24	48	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Dynamo Kyiv	34	21	5	8	51	26	+25	47	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Dinamo Tbilisi	34	19	12	3	54	27	+27	46	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
5	Dynamo Moscow	34	17	9	8	41	27	+14	42	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
6	Dinamo Minsk	34	15	6	13	48	38	+10	36
7	Ararat Yerevan	34	12	13	9	44	32	+12	32
8	CSKA Moscow	34	12	8	14	46	46	0	32
9	Pakhtakor Tashkent	34	11	9	14	42	53	−11	30
10	Zenit Leningrad	34	11	9	14	41	45	−4	30
11	Chornomorets Odessa	34	10	11	13	32	37	−5	28
12	Lokomotiv Moscow	34	8	12	14	44	57	−13	24
13	Kairat Alma-Ata	34	8	9	17	29	44	−15	24
14	Neftchi Baku	34	8	8	18	29	50	−21	24
15	SKA Rostov-on-Don	34	8	14	12	37	50	−13	24
16	Torpedo Moscow	34	8	9	17	32	46	−14	24
17	Zaria Voroshilovgrad (R)	34	6	11	17	41	62	−21	20	Relegation to First League
18	Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev (R)	34	7	5	22	24	60	−36	19	Relegation to First League

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

2 points deducted (8 draw limit)
^ 4 points deducted (8 draw limit)
^ 1 point deducted (8 draw limit)
5 points deducted (8 draw limit)
^ 3 points deducted (8 draw limit)
6 points deducted (8 draw limit)

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	CHO	CSK	DYK	DMN	DYN	DTB	KAI	KRY	LOK	NEF	PAK	SHA	SKA	SPA	TOR	ZAR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		2–0	2–1	3–1	4–1	0–0	0–0	4–2	0–0	2–2	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–1
Chornomorets Odessa	2–1		0–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–2
CSKA Moscow	1–3	3–0		0–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–3	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–5	1–2	2–1	1–1
Dynamo Kyiv	2–1	1–0	1–0		1–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	4–1	3–1	5–1	4–3	2–0	2–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	3–0
Dinamo Minsk	3–2	2–0	0–0	0–0		2–3	1–2	1–0	0–0	3–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	1–2	2–0	6–2	3–1
Dynamo Moscow	0–1	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–0		1–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	2–2	0–0
Dinamo Tbilisi	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–1		2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	3–1	3–0	2–0
Kairat Alma-Ata	1–0	1–3	2–3	1–0	1–0	0–2	0–0		0–2	2–2	3–1	0–1	1–2	4–1	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–0
Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev	0–3	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–4	2–0	1–3	2–1		0–4	0–1	1–1	0–3	2–1	0–5	1–0	1–0	0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	4–2	2–2	2–1		0–0	1–1	1–1	5–0	1–8	1–0	1–2	1–1
Neftçi Baku	4–2	1–0	0–3	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	2–0		0–1	3–1	2–2	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–2
Pakhtakor Tashkent	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–2	2–0	0–0		1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–1
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–3	1–0	3–2	4–1	2–0	3–0		3–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–1
SKA Rostov-on-Don	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–3	2–0		2–3	2–1	2–2	1–0
Spartak Moscow	1–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	4–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	0–0		0–1	3–1	3–1
Torpedo Moscow	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–4	1–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	6–2	1–2	1–0	1–1		1–0	1–2
Zaria Voroshilovgrad	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	4–1	3–5	1–2	1–2	4–2		1–2
Zenit Leningrad	0–0	2–0	1–2	1–3	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–2

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

26 goals

Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

17 goals

Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

16 goals

Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow)
Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit)

14 goals

Aleksandr Prokopenko (Dinamo Minsk)
Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)
Nikolai Vasilyev (Torpedo Moscow)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)

Soviet Top League

Seasons

Gruppa "A" (Group A)	1936 (spring, autumn) 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 (unfinished)
Pervaya Gruppa (First Group)	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Klass "A" (Class A)	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Vysshaya Liga (Top League)	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 (spring, autumn) 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 (canceled)

Winners

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European competitions	European Cup 1978–79 1979–80 Cup Winners' Cup 1978–79 1979–80 UEFA Cup 1978–79 1979–80

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League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '77–'78 '79–'80

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League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup

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