1973 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season1973
1972
1974

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Ararat Yerevan won the championship.

League standings

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:
Rules for classification: Drawn matches decided by penalties, the winners obtaining 1 point, the losers 0.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results

Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.

Home \ Away ARA CSK DNI DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KAR PAK SHA SKA SPA TOR ZAR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 1–0 1–0 3–1 2–1 1–1(3–5) 3–0 4–0 3–0 4–0 3–0 2–2(4–5) 3–1 1–3 1–1(4–3) 3–2
CSKA Moscow 0–1 0–0(3–5) 3–0 3–2 1–1(4–5) 1–1(5–4) 1–0 1–0 3–0 0–1 3–1 2–2(5–3) 3–2 1–0 0–0(8–7)
Dnipo Dnipropetrovsk 1–1(5–4) 4–1 1–0 1–0 2–3 0–0(4–2) 2–0 1–1(4–3) 1–1(5–3) 2–1 2–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 3–1
Dynamo Kyiv 3–1 1–0 5–2 4–0 3–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 1–1(7–8) 1–1(3–2) 0–0(5–3) 1–0 2–0
Dinamo Minsk 1–0 1–1(5–3) 2–0 0–0(4–5) 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–1(4–5) 0–1 0–0(8–9) 1–1(5–4) 0–1 1–0 1–2 0–0(4–5)
Dynamo Moscow 0–1 3–0 1–0 2–2(5–4) 1–1(5–4) 4–1 1–1(3–4) 2–0 1–1(6–5) 2–0 2–0 0–0(5–3) 1–1(4–5) 2–1 1–1(5–4)
Dinamo Tbilisi 0–0(4–3) 3–1 2–0 0–1 4–0 0–3 3–0 3–0 4–0 0–0(6–5) 2–0 1–0 4–2 1–1(4–3) 1–1(6–5)
Kairat Alma-Ata 1–4 1–1(4–3) 2–2(4–5) 0–0(5–3) 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1(5–4) 2–0 0–0(5–4) 1–2 1–1(4–3) 1–1(4–3) 0–0(5–2)
Karpaty Lviv 3–0 0–9 3–2 0–0(4–5) 1–0 3–5 1–3 0–1 2–1(5–4) 0–1 1–0 3–2 1–0 0–2 2–2(4–5)
Pakhtakor Tashkent 2–3 1–0 4–1 0–1 4–0 2–0 2–2(2–5) 4–1 3–1 0–1 0–1 1–0 1–2 1–2 5–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0(3–4) 4–1 2–1 0–2 1–0 1–1(4–3) 0–1 0–0(3–5) 3–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 3–1
SKA Rostov-on-Don 0–2 0–1 2–2(6–5) 1–1(10–9) 1–2 0–1 2–3 1–2 0–1 1–1(4–5) 0–0(2–4) 1–1(6–5) 0–1 1–0 2–0
Spartak Moscow 2–2(4–5) 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–0 4–0 0–0(5–1) 1–0 1–1(5–4) 0–2 2–0
Torpedo Moscow 0–1 2–2(3–4) 3–1 0–2 1–1(3–5) 1–0 1–0 1–3 1–1(3–4) 1–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 0–3 0–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad 0–1 1–0 0–0(3–4) 1–0 0–2 0–1 3–0 1–0 4–1 3–1 2–1 3–1 2–0 0–0(5–3) 0–0(2–4)
Zenit Leningrad 1–0 1–2 0–0(11–12) 2–1 1–1(7–6) 2–3 1–0 1–1(3–4) 3–0 0–0(3–4) 3–0 3–0 0–0(4–5) 3–1 3–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

18 goals
16 goals
13 goals
12 goals
11 goals
  • Mikhail Bulgakov (Spartak Moscow)
  • Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
10 goals
9 goals

Attendances

Source:[1]

No. Club Average
1 Ararat 56,867
2 Dynamo Kyiv 41,200
3 Shakhtar Donetsk 31,000
4 Zorya 27,800
5 Dinamo Tbilisi 25,467
6 Zenit 25,133
7 Karpaty 24,467
8 Paxtakor 24,333
9 Dinamo Minsk 22,200
10 Spartak Moscow 21,407
11 Dnipro 21,067
12 Dynamo Moscow 19,967
13 Kairat 19,467
14 Torpedo Moscow 19,100
15 PFC CSKA 18,533
16 Rostov-on-Don 12,900

References