1938 Soviet Top League

Group A
Season	1938
Champions	FC Spartak Moscow
Relegated	12 teams
Matches played	325
Goals scored	1175 (3.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	(20) Makar Honcharenko (Dynamo K.)
Biggest home win	Metallurg 8–1 Burevestnik (August 28)
Biggest away win	Burevestnik 1–9 Dynamo L. (May 25)
Highest scoring	Burevestnik 1–9 Dynamo L. (May 25)
← 1937 1939 →

The 1938 Soviet Top League combined all the Groups into one Super League.

The season started on May 10 with the game between FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Spartak Kharkiv in Moscow. The very last game was played on November 14 between FC Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu and FC Dynamo Odessa in Rostov-na-Donu. Each team played once with every other. The point system changed as well and stayed this way to the end of the competition in 1991: 2 for win, 1 for draw, and none for loss. This all-National championship was experimental and was disbanded next year. A half of the League was relegated at the end of the season.

Spartak beside becoming the champion in the League format managed to win the national cup competition, defeating a surprise team Elektrik from Leningrad, that last year was called Krasnaya Zarya.

Standings

No	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF-GA	Pts	Rpblc	Notes
1	Spartak Moscow	25	18	3	4	74-19	39	Russian SFSR
2	CDKA Moscow	25	17	3	5	52-24	37	Russian SFSR
3	Metallurg Moscow	25	16	5	4	57-29	37	Russian SFSR
4	Dynamo Kiev	25	15	6	4	30-24	36	Ukrainian SSR
5	Dynamo Moscow	25	14	4	7	69-34	32	Russian SFSR
6	Dynamo Tbilisi	25	11	9	5	53-38	31	Georgian SSR
7	Dynamo Leningrad	25	12	6	7	52-32	30	Russian SFSR
8	Lokomotiv Moscow	25	12	6	7	44-37	30	Russian SFSR
9	Torpedo Moscow	25	9	11	5	51-38	29	Russian SFSR
10	Dynamo Odessa	25	9	11	5	39-35	29	Ukrainian SSR
11	Stakhanovets Stalino	25	11	7	7	55-50	29	Ukrainian SSR
12	Traktor Stalingrad	25	12	3	10	53-48	27	Russian SFSR
13	Elektrik Leningrad	25	8	8	9	42-44	24	Russian SFSR
14	Stalinets Leningrad¹	25	7	10	8	38-57	24	Russian SFSR
15	Silmash Kharkiv	25	8	6	11	34-45	22	Ukrainian SSR	Relegated
16	Stalinets Moscow	25	8	5	12	36-44	21	Russian SFSR	Relegated
17	Lokomotyv Kiev	25	8	5	12	43-64	21	Ukrainian SSR	Relegated
18	Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu	25	7	6	12	39-43	20	Russian SFSR	Relegated
19	Temp Baku	25	6	8	11	33-40	20	Azerbaijan SSR	Relegated
20	Spartak Leningrad	25	6	8	11	30-39	20	Russian SFSR	Relegated
21	Spartak Kharkiv	25	5	7	13	43-63	17	Ukrainian SSR	Relegated
22	Zenit Leningrad	25	7	3	15	35-57	17	Russian SFSR	Relegated
23	Pishchevik Moscow	25	5	6	14	25-53	16	Russian SFSR	Relegated
24	Lokomotiv Tbilisi	25	5	5	15	44-62	15	Georgian SSR	Relegated
25	Krylia Sovetov Moscow	25	4	7	14	28-56	15	Russian SFSR	Relegated
26	Burevestnik Moscow	25	4	4	17	28-87	12	Russian SFSR	Relegated

Note:

1 Stalinets Leningrad merged with Zenit in 1939.

Top scorers

20 goals

Makar Goncharenko (Dynamo Kiev)

19 goals

Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)
Aleksandr Ponomarev (Traktor Stalingrad)

18 goals

Sergei Kapelkin (Metallurg Moscow)
Aleksei Sokolov (Spartak Moscow)

15 goals

Pyotr Petrov (Torpedo Moscow)
Aleksandr Sinyakov (Torpedo Moscow)

14 goals

Arkadi Alov (Dynamo Leningrad)
Pyotr Layko (Dynamo Kiev)
Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Sergei Protsenko (Traktor Stalingrad)

References

Soviet Top League seasons

1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Russian League

1937–38 in European football

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