1982 Soviet Top League

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.

League standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dinamo Minsk (C) 34 19 9 6 63 35 +28 47 Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Dynamo Kyiv 34 18 10 6 58 25 +33 46 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Spartak Moscow 34 16 9 9 59 35 +24 41
4 Dinamo Tbilisi 34 16 9 9 51 47 +4 41
5 Ararat Yerevan 34 14 10 10 50 47 +3 38
6 Pakhtakor Tashkent 34 13 11 10 42 38 +4 36[lower-alpha 1]
7 Zenit Leningrad 34 12 9 13 44 41 +3 33
8 Torpedo Moscow 34 11 12 11 36 33 +3 32[lower-alpha 2]
9 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 34 11 12 11 34 38 −4 32[lower-alpha 2]
10 Chornomorets Odessa 34 11 11 12 30 36 −6 32[lower-alpha 1]
11 Dynamo Moscow 34 13 5 16 42 52 −10 31
12 Metalist Kharkiv 34 10 11 13 32 34 −2 30[lower-alpha 1]
13 Torpedo Kutaisi 34 10 10 14 39 45 −6 30
14 Shakhtar Donetsk 34 10 9 15 42 57 −15 29 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
15 CSKA Moscow 34 10 9 15 41 46 −5 29
16 Neftchi Baku 34 10 7 17 42 63 −21 27
17 Kuban Krasnodar (R) 34 9 9 16 37 48 −11 27 Relegation to First League
18 Kairat Alma-Ata (R) 34 7 10 17 34 56 −22 24
Source:
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. 1 point deducted (10 draw limit)
  2. 2 points deducted (10 draw limit)

Top scorers
23 goals
18 goals
16 goals
13 goals
12 goals

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dinamo Minsk

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Vergeyenko (28 / 1), Yury Kurbyko (7).
Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (31 / 7), Yury Trukhan (29), Viktor Yanushevsky (27), Sergei Borovsky (25), Viktor Shishkin (18), Liudas Rumbutis (17), Igor Belov (12).
Midfielders: Aleksandr Prokopenko (31 / 11), Sergey Gotsmanov (31 / 2), Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (29 / 3), Sergei Aleinikov (21 / 8), Valeri Melnikov (18), Alyaksandr Vanyushkin (1).
Forwards: Georgi Kondratyev (32 / 10), Igor Gurinovich (28 / 13), Pyotr Vasilevsky (20 / 5), Viktor Sokol (2 / 1).

Manager: Eduard Malofeyev.

Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (24), Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (12).
Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (32 / 5), Oleksandr Sorokalet (29), Volodymyr Lozynskyi (28 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (25 / 2), Volodymyr Bezsonov (18 / 4), Oleksandr Boyko (12), Yuriy Makhynya (2).
Midfielders: Andriy Bal (31 / 5), Yaroslav Dumanskyi (29 / 2), Leonid Buryak (21 / 3), Aleksandr Khapsalis (14 / 2), Vasyl Rats (11 / 1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (10), Pavlo Yakovenko (4).
Forwards: Viktor Khlus (31 / 10), Vadym Yevtushenko (25 / 9), Oleg Blokhin (24 / 10), Hryhoriy Pasechnyi (4 / 1).

Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi.

Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (28), Aleksei Prudnikov (12).
Defenders: Oleg Romantsev (33 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (27), Vladimir Shcherbak (24), Boris Pozdnyakov (19), Vladimir Bukiyevskiy (4), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (2), Alexander Mirzoyan (2).
Midfielders: Sergey Shavlo (34 / 11), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Yuri Gavrilov (31 / 6), Edgar Gess (30 / 5), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Sergei Nikitin (2).
Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (30 / 9), Aleksandr Kalashnikov (26 / 5), Sergei Shvetsov (24 / 9), Viktor Hrachov (5 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (3), Vladimir Nikonov (1), Oleg Smirnov (1).

Manager: Konstantin Beskov.

Transferred out during the season: Viktor Hrachov (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk).

Number of teams by union republic
Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)
1  RSFSR 6 CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Kuban Krasnodar, 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
 Uzbek SSR Pakhtakor Tashkent

References
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