1973 Soviet Top League
Season | 1973 |
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← 1972 1974 → |
Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season.
Overview
[edit]It was contested by 16 teams, and Ararat Yerevan won the championship.
League standings
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ararat Yerevan (C) | 30 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 52 | 26 | +26 | 39 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 30 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 44 | 23 | +21 | 36 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
3 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 43 | 30 | +13 | 33 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
4 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 28 | +9 | 31 | |
5 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 30 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 42 | 33 | +9 | 31 | |
6 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 30 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 31 | |
7 | Zarya Voroshilovgrad | 30 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 29 | |
8 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 30 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 26 | |
9 | Kairat Alma-Ata | 30 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 25 | 37 | −12 | 26 | |
10 | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 33 | 36 | −3 | 25 | |
11 | Zenit Leningrad | 30 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 35 | −2 | 21 | |
12 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 30 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 37 | 44 | −7 | 20 | |
13 | Torpedo Moscow | 30 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 28 | 37 | −9 | 19 | |
14 | Karpaty Lviv | 30 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 28 | 48 | −20 | 19 | |
15 | Dinamo Minsk (R) | 30 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 36 | −15 | 17 | Relegation to First League |
16 | SKA Rostov-on-Don (R) | 30 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 43 | −24 | 11 |
Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: Drawn matches decided by penalties, the winners obtaining 1 point, the losers 0.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Rules for classification: Drawn matches decided by penalties, the winners obtaining 1 point, the losers 0.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Results
[edit]Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.
Top scorers
[edit]- 18 goals
- Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
- 16 goals
- Anatoli Kozhemyakin (Dynamo Moscow)
- 13 goals
- Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)
- 12 goals
- Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor)
- Aleksandr Piskaryov (Spartak Moscow)
- 11 goals
- Mikhail Bulgakov (Spartak Moscow)
- Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- 10 goals
- Eduard Markarov (Ararat)
- Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)
- 9 goals
- Vladimir Dorofeyev (CSKA)
- Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya)