1972 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League in season 1972.

Overview

Sixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	30	15	10	5	52	30	40
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	12	11	7	52	38	35
3	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	12	11	7	41	34	35
4	Ararat Yerevan	30	12	10	8	38	29	34
5	CSKA Moscow	30	15	4	11	37	33	34
6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	12	10	8	37	37	34
7	Zenit Leningrad	30	11	11	8	44	30	33
8	Dinamo Minsk	30	10	11	9	27	28	31
9	Torpedo Moscow	30	11	9	10	31	33	31
10	Dynamo Moscow	30	12	6	12	39	35	30
11	Spartak Moscow	30	8	10	12	29	30	26
12	SKA Rostov-on-Don	30	8	10	12	31	35	26
13	Kairat Almaty	30	6	14	10	23	27	26
14	Karpaty Lviv	30	8	8	14	27	43	24
15	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	6	9	15	29	48	21
16	Neftchi Baku	30	6	8	16	28	55	20

Top scorers

14 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

13 goals

• Oganes Zanazanyan (Ararat)

12 goals

• Gennadi Khromchenkov (Zenit)
• Yuri Smirnov (Torpedo Moscow)

11 goals

• Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv)

10 goals

• Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi)
• Vladimir Onischenko (Zorya)
• Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

9 goals

• Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)
• Vladimir Muntyan (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Pavel Sadyrin (Zenit)
• Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk)
• Yuri Yeliseyev (Zorya)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)