1939 Soviet Top League

Group A
Season	1939
Champions	FC Spartak Moscow
Relegated	FC Elektrik Leningrad FC Dynamo Odessa
Matches played	182
Goals scored	649 (3.57 per match)
Top goalscorer	(21) Grigory Fedotov (CDKA)
Biggest home win	Spartak 8–0 Dynamo Od. (July 8)
Biggest away win	Dynamo Od. 0–6 Dynamo M. (October 12)
Highest scoring	Dynamo L. 3–7 CDKA (June 15)
← 1938 1940 →

1939 Soviet Top League was the fifth season of the Soviet Top League known at that time as Group A.

It started on May 12 with six games of the first round. The main calendar was scheduled to be finished on October 19 with the Moscow derby between Lokomotiv and Dynamo. However, due to numerous protests and postponed games the championship finished on November 30 in Tbilisi with game between Dynamo Tbilisi and Dynamo Odessa. The new champions became Spartak Moscow with two teams being relegated: Elektrik Leningrad and Dynamo Odessa. This was the first full season championship with each team playing over 25 games.

The last year defending champions were Spartak Moscow. There were no newly promoted teams and initially was decided to conduct the championship with 12 teams. However the Soviet sport committee allowed for two Leningrad teams Stalinets and Elektrik to remain in the league.

Spartak once again won the cup competition that started in summer with final played in mid-September. That was the last edition of the cup before the World War II.

Representation by republic

Standings

No	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF-GA	Pts	Notes
1	Spartak Moscow	26	14	9	3	58-23	37	Champions
2	Dynamo Tbilisi	26	14	5	7	60-41	33
3	CDKA Moscow	26	14	4	8	68-43	32
4	Traktor Stalingrad	26	13	4	9	50-39	30
5	Lokomotiv Moscow	26	12	6	8	42-39	30
6	Metallurg Moscow	26	12	5	9	53-50	29
7	Dynamo Moscow	26	12	4	10	60-46	28
8	Dynamo Kiev	26	9	8	9	39-44	26
9	Torpedo Moscow	26	8	7	11	51-51	23
10	Dynamo Leningrad	26	8	6	12	41-56	22
11	Stalinets Leningrad	26	7	7	12	30-46	21
12	Stakhanovets Stalino	26	5	10	11	40-55	20
13	Elektrik Leningrad	26	6	5	15	32-49	17	Relegated
14	Dynamo Odessa	26	7	2	17	25-67	16	Relegated

Top scorers

21 goals

Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)

19 goals

Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

18 goals

Sergei Kapelkin (CDKA Moscow)
Viktor Semyonov (Spartak Moscow)

16 goals

Ivan Mitronov (Metallurg Moscow)

15 goals

Viktor Shilovsky (Dynamo Kiev)

14 goals

Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow)

13 goals

Aleksandr Nazarov (Dynamo Moscow)
Aleksei Zaytsev (Metallurg Moscow)
Georgi Zharkov (Torpedo Moscow)

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

1938–39 in European football

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