1978 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League in season 1978.

Overview

It was performed in 16 teams, and Dinamo Tbilisi won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	17	8	5	45	24	21	42
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	15	9	6	42	20	22	38
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	16	5	9	42	31	11	37
4	Dynamo Moscow	30	14	10	6	37	23	14	36
5	Spartak Moscow	30	14	5	11	42	33	9	33
6	CSKA Moscow	30	14	4	12	36	40	-4	32
7	Chornomorets Odessa	30	12	10	8	41	26	15	32
8	Torpedo Moscow	30	11	11	8	36	29	7	30
9	Zaria Voroshilovgrad	30	9	8	13	38	44	-6	26
10	Zenit Leningrad	30	9	8	13	31	46	-15	26
11	Pakhtakor Tashkent	30	9	8	13	42	43	-1	26
12	Kairat Almaty	30	9	7	14	29	41	-12	25
13	Neftchi Baku	30	8	7	15	28	39	-11	23
14	Ararat Yerevan	30	8	6	16	20	42	-22	22
15	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	7	9	14	26	40	-14	22
16	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	9	3	18	25	39	-14	21

Top scorers

19 goals

• Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)

15 goals

• Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

13 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

11 goals

• Nikolai Latysh (Shakhtar)

10 goals

• Vladimir Klementyev (Zenit)

9 goals

• Nikolai Kolesov (Dynamo Moscow)

8 goals

• Aleksei Belenkov (CSKA Moscow)
• Vakhtang Koridze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya Voroshylovhrad)

7 goals

• Konstantin Bakanov (Pakhtakor)
• Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi)
• Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow)
• Vladimir Fyodorov (Pakhtakor)
• Yevgeni Khrabrostin (Torpedo Moscow)
• David Kipiani (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Aleksandr Maksimenkov (Dynamo Moscow)
• Vladimir Onischenko (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Vladimir Ploskina (Chornomorets)
• Andrei Redkous (Zenit)
• Yuri Reznik (Shakhtar)
• Vitaliy Shevchenko (Chornomorets)
• Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)