# 1964 Soviet Top League

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26th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

Football league season

Class A First Group Season 1964 Dates 27 March–8 November 18 November–22 November (playoffs) Champions Dinamo Tbilisi (1st title) Relegated Volga Gorky Kairat Alma-Ata Shinnik Yaroslavl Moldova Chisinau European Cup none Cup Winners' Cup Dynamo Kyiv Matches 274 Goals 544 (1.99 per match) Best Player Valery Voronin (Torpedo M) Top goalscorer Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA) Best goalkeeper Viktor Bannikov (Dynamo Kv) ← 1963 1965 →

The **1964 Class A First Group** was the 26th season of the Soviet football championship at top division and the 15th for Class A. The season started on 27 March 1964 and finished on 8 November 1964. Upon conclusion of the regular season, at the end of November in warmer [Tashkent](/source/Tashkent) took place additional play-offs for the first place and the 13th place.

- 17 teams took part in the league with [FC Dinamo Tbilisi](/source/FC_Dinamo_Tbilisi) winning the championship.

- Volga Gorky and Shinnik Yaroslavl were the newly promoted clubs.

- According to the rules, if two teams had the equal number of points the winner was decided by the final match between them. The game between Dinamo and Torpedo took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan SSR with [FC Dinamo Tbilisi](/source/FC_Dinamo_Tbilisi) winning 4-1 after [extra time](/source/Overtime_(sports)).

- [FC Dynamo Kyiv](/source/FC_Dynamo_Kyiv) qualified for [CWC 1965–66](/source/1965%E2%80%9366_European_Cup_Winners'_Cup#First_round) by beating Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 1–0 in the [national cup](/source/Soviet_Cup) this year becoming the first Soviet football club in European competitions.

- The defending champions Dynamo Moscow placed seventh.

## League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification 1 Dinamo Tbilisi (C) 32 18 10 4 48 30 +18 46 League champions 2 Torpedo Moscow 32 19 8 5 52 19 +33 46 3 CSKA Moscow 32 16 11 5 49 23 +26 43 4 SKA Rostov-on-Don 32 16 6 10 40 28 +12 38 5 Shakhtyor Donetsk 32 13 11 8 35 26 +9 37 6 Dinamo Kiev 32 10 16 6 42 29 +13 36 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round 7 Dinamo Moscow 32 12 10 10 33 31 +2 34 8 Spartak Moscow 32 12 8 12 34 32 +2 32 9 Dinamo Minsk 32 7 17 8 24 21 +3 31 10 Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 32 7 14 11 24 35 −11 28 11 Zenit Leningrad 32 9 9 14 30 35 −5 27 12 Neftyanik Baku 32 8 11 13 25 30 −5 27 13 Torpedo Kutaisi 32 10 7 15 20 37 −17 27 14 Volga Gorky (R) 32 7 13 12 19 38 −19 27 Relegation to Class A Second Group 15 Kairat Alma-Ata (R) 32 8 10 14 23 27 −4 26 16 Shinnik Yaroslavl (R) 32 6 9 17 20 48 −28 21 17 Moldova Chișinău (R) 32 6 6 20 15 44 −29 18

Source: [rsssf.com](https://www.rsssf.org/tablesu/ussrhist.html)
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

## Results

Home \ Away CSK DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KRY MOL NEF TOR SHA SHI SKA SPA TKU VOL ZEN CSKA Moscow 1–2 0–0 1–1 4–1 2–0 4–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–2 10–2 1–0 2–0 4–0 5–2 0–0 Dinamo Kiev 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 3–1 0–0 4–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–0 0–1 2–2 3–0 1–1 1–0 Dinamo Minsk 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 4–0 0–2 0–3 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 Dinamo Moscow 1–2 1–1 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–2 2–1 0–2 0–1 0–1 Dinamo Tbilisi 3–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–2 1–1 1–0 4–3 3–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 Kairat Alma-Ata 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–0 1–2 2–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 2–2 Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 0–0 1–1 0–0 4–0 3–3 0–2 3–1 0–0 0–4 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 Moldova Chisinau 0–0 1–3 0–0 0–3 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–1 Neftyanik Baku 1–1 1–0 0–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 2–0 3–1 3–1 0–0 0–1 0–4 2–0 1–0 2–1 Torpedo Moscow 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 0–0 3–1 0–0 5–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 Shakhtyor Donetsk 0–0 0–0 0–5 1–2 2–1 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–2 3–0 3–0 2–0 2–1 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1–2 2–2 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–4 0–2 1–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 SKA Rostov-on-Don 1–0 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–2 1–0 2–0 0–1 7–0 0–1 2–1 Spartak Moscow 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 2–1 2–1 2–2 0–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 2–1 Torpedo Kutaisi 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 4–1 0–3 3–0 0–2 Volga Gorky 0–1 0–3 1–1 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 3–2 0–4 1–4 1–0 0–0 Zenit Leningrad 0–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 4–1 3–0 1–0 0–4 1–1 4–0 2–0 0–4 0–1 0–0

Source: [*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

## Top scorers

**16 goals**

- [Vladimir Fedotov](/source/Vladimir_Fedotov) (CSKA)

**15 goals**

- [Viktor Kanevskyi](/source/Viktor_Kanevskyi) (Dinamo Kiev)

**14 goals**

- [Valentin Ivanov](/source/Valentin_Kozmich_Ivanov) (Torpedo Moscow)

**13 goals**

- [Ilya Datunashvili](/source/Ilya_Datunashvili) (Dinamo Tbilisi)

**12 goals**

- [Slava Metreveli](/source/Slava_Metreveli) (Dinamo Tbilisi)

**10 goals**

- [Oleg Kopayev](/source/Oleg_Kopayev) (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

- [Eduard Malofeyev](/source/Eduard_Malofeyev) (Dinamo Minsk)

- [Viktor Ponedelnik](/source/Viktor_Ponedelnik) (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

- [Oleg Sergeyev](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oleg_Sergeyev_(footballer_born_1940)&action=edit&redlink=1) (Torpedo Moscow)

**9 goals**

- [Yuri Ananchenko](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yuri_Ananchenko&action=edit&redlink=1) (Shakhtyor)

- [Vladimir Barkaya](/source/Vladimir_Barkaya) (Dinamo Tbilisi)

- [Igor Chislenko](/source/Igor_Chislenko) (Dynamo Moscow)

- [Valeryan Chkhartishvili](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valeryan_Chkhartishvili&action=edit&redlink=1) (Torpedo Kutaisi)

- [Boris Kazakov](/source/Boris_Kazakov) (CSKA)

## References

- [Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)](https://www.rsssf.org/tablesu/ussrhist.html)

v t e 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 Dinamo Kiev (13) Spartak Moscow (12) Dinamo Moscow (11) CSKA Moscow (7) Torpedo Moscow (3) Dinamo Tbilisi (2) Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk (2) Zenit Leningrad (1) Dinamo Minsk (1) Ararat Yerevan (1) Zaria Voroshilovgrad (1)

v t e 1964 in Soviet football « 1963 » 1965 Domestic leagues Class A 1st Group Class A 2nd Group Class B Ukrainian SSR Domestic cups Soviet Cup

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