# 1982 Soviet Top League

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45th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

Football league season

Soviet Top League Season 1982 Champions Dinamo Minsk Relegated Kuban Krasnodar, Kairat Alma-Ata European Cup Dinamo Minsk Cup Winners' Cup Shakhter Donetsk UEFA Cup Spartak Moscow Dinamo Kiev Matches 306 Goals 776 (2.54 per match) Top goalscorer (23) Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor) ← 1981 1983 →

Statistics of [Soviet Top League](/source/Soviet_Top_League) for the 1982 season.

## Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and [Dinamo Minsk](/source/FC_Dinamo_Minsk) won the championship.

The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.

## 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[a] 7 Zenit Leningrad 34 12 9 13 44 41 +3 33 8 Torpedo Moscow 34 11 12 11 36 33 +3 32[b] 9 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 34 11 12 11 34 38 −4 32[b] 10 Chornomorets Odessa 34 11 11 12 30 36 −6 32[a] 11 Dynamo Moscow 34 13 5 16 42 52 −10 31 12 Metalist Kharkiv 34 10 11 13 32 34 −2 30[a] 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: [*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-table_hth_PAK0.96435224449465_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-table_hth_PAK0.96435224449465_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-table_hth_PAK0.96435224449465_1-2) 1 point deducted (10 draw limit)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-table_hth_TOR0.96435224449465_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-table_hth_TOR0.96435224449465_2-1) 2 points deducted (10 draw limit)

## Results

Home \ Away ARA CHO CSK DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KUB MKH NEF PAK SHA SPA TKU TOR ZEN Ararat Yerevan 6–1 3–2 1–3 2–3 1–1 2–2 1–1 3–2 2–1 0–0 3–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 4–1 2–0 Chornomorets Odessa 0–1 0–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–2 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 3–2 3–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 0–0 CSKA Moscow 2–3 1–2 1–1 1–1 2–3 1–2 2–3 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–2 3–0 2–1 1–1 Dnipro Dnipropetrosk 1–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–3 3–2 0–0 3–2 1–0 0–0 2–0 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 3–1 Dynamo Kyiv 4–0 0–0 3–0 1–1 2–3 2–1 3–1 3–0 3–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 5–0 1–2 2–0 0–0 1–1 Dinamo Minsk 1–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 3–2 0–0 2–0 3–1 0–0 3–0 1–0 3–2 0–1 0–0 Dynamo Moscow 2–0 0–1 0–1 3–0 2–1 0–7 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 3–1 0–3 0–2 2–1 1–1 2–0 Dinamo Tbilisi 1–1 1–0 1–1 3–1 1–5 4–1 1–0 1–0 3–1 1–0 5–3 2–1 2–2 3–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 Kairat Alma-Ata 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 2–2 1–2 2–2 2–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 0–4 1–0 1–1 2–3 Kuban Krasnodar 1–0 3–3 2–0 0–1 0–1 1–3 4–1 0–2 1–1 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 0–2 1–0 0–0 1–2 Metalist Kharkiv 1–0 0–0 2–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 3–0 0–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–3 3–3 1–2 0–0 Neftçi Baku 0–1 1–1 2–2 3–0 2–1 3–2 2–1 0–0 1–0 2–3 1–0 4–2 2–2 4–3 3–2 0–2 1–0 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 0–2 0–3 3–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 3–2 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 5–0 Shakhtar Donetsk 3–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 3–3 3–2 1–0 2–1 0–0 3–1 2–2 1–1 0–1 4–3 Spartak Moscow 1–2 1–1 2–1 0–0 1–2 3–4 0–1 4–1 3–0 3–1 0–0 5–0 0–0 3–2 2–0 2–0 1–1 Torpedo Kutaisi 2–0 1–1 0–2 2–3 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–2 1–0 3–1 2–0 2–4 2–1 2–0 Torpedo Moscow 1–0 2–0 1–1 2–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–0 1–1 3–1 2–0 0–0 0–0 5–1 1–2 0–0 2–0 Zenit Leningrad 5–0 0–0 1–2 2–1 2–0 0–2 2–0 3–1 5–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–1 3–0 0–0 1–0 4–2

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

## Top scorers

**23 goals**

- [Andrei Yakubik](/source/Andrei_Yakubik) (Pakhtakor)

**18 goals**

- [Merab Megreladze](/source/Merab_Megreladze) (Torpedo Kutaisi)

**16 goals**

- [Ramaz Shengelia](/source/Ramaz_Shengelia) (Dinamo Tbilisi)

- [Aleksandr Tarkhanov](/source/Aleksandr_Tarkhanov) (CSKA)

**13 goals**

- [Igor Gurinovich](/source/Igor_Gurinovich) (Dinamo Minsk)

**12 goals**

- [Boris Chukhlov](/source/Boris_Chukhlov) (Zenit)

- [Valery Gazzaev](/source/Valery_Gazzaev) (Dynamo Moscow)

- [Khoren Hovhannisyan](/source/Khoren_Hovhannisyan) (Ararat)

- [Andrei Redkous](/source/Andrei_Redkous) (Torpedo Moscow)

- [Mykhaylo Sokolovsky](/source/Mykhaylo_Sokolovsky) (Shakhtar)

## 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

## Attendances

No. Club Average 1 Dinamo Tbilisi 41,153 2 Metalist Kharkiv 31,847 3 Dynamo Kyiv 27,365 4 Dinamo Minsk 26,276 5 Shakhtar Donetsk 23,388 6 Torpedo Kutaisi 20,882 7 Zenit 18,229 8 Kuban 17,994 9 Ararat 17,312 10 Chornomorets 16,282 11 Spartak Moscow 15,765 12 Dnipro 15,029 13 Paxtakor 14,735 14 Kairat 11,726 15 Neftçhi 8,859 16 Dynamo Moscow 8,853 17 PFC CSKA 8,159 18 Torpedo Moscow 5,847

Source:[1]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov82.htm](https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov82.htm)

- [Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)](https://web.archive.org/web/20090602084017/http://www.rsssf.com/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)

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