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1974 Soviet Top League

37th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

37th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

FieldValue
competitionVysshaya Liga
season1974
dates12 April – 21 November 1974
winnersDynamo Kyiv
6th top-tier title
relegatedKairat Alma-Ata
Nistru Kishinev
continentalcup1European Cup
continentalcup1 qualifiersDynamo Kyiv
continentalcup2Cup Winners' Cup
continentalcup2 qualifiersArarat Yerevan
continentalcup3UEFA Cup
continentalcup3 qualifiersSpartak Moscow
Chernomorets Odessa
league topscorerOleg Blokhin (20)
prevseason1973
nextseason1975

6th top-tier title Nistru Kishinev Chernomorets Odessa

The 1974 Soviet Top League was the 36th season of the Soviet top tier football competitions. It also was the 4th season since the establishing of Vysshaya Liga (Soviet Top League) in place of the Soviet Class A competition.

The league's title was contested by 16 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship which was their sixth title. The last season's champions Ararat placed fifth trailing 8 points. The newly promoted Chernomorets placed third qualifying for the continental competitions for the first time.

Teams

Pre-season promotion

Teams promoted from the 1973 Soviet First League:

  • Chernomorets Odessa – the champions (returning after three seasons absence)
  • Nistru Kishinev – the runners-up (returning after 10 seasons absence)

Pre-season relegation

Teams relegated to the 1974 Soviet First League:

  • Dinamo Minsk – the 15th place (ending their 14 seasons stay in the top-flight)
  • SKA Rostov-na-Donu – the 16th place (ending their 15 seasons stay in the top-flight)

Managers

ClubHead coach
Ararat YerevanNikita Simonyan
Dynamo KyivValeriy Lobanovskyi
Dynamo MoscowGavriil Kachalin
Spartak MoscowNikolay Gulyayev
Dinamo TbilisiGivi Chokheli (until August)
Mikhail Yakushin (from August)
Shakhter DonetskYuriy Zakharov (until August)
Vladimir Salkov (from August)
Zaria VoroshilovgradVsevolod Blinkov (until July)
Yevhen Pestov (from July)
Dnepr DnepropetrovskViktor Kanevsky
Kairat Alma-AtaArtem Falyan
CSKA MoscowVladimir Agapov
Zenit LeningradGerman Zonin
Pakhtakor TashkentVyacheslav Solovyov
Torpedo MoscowValentin Ivanov
Karpaty LvovValentin Babukin (until September)
Ernest Yust (from September)
Chernomorets OdessaAkhmed Aleskerov
Nistru KishenevViktor Korolkov

League standings

Results

Top scorers

;20 goals

  • Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

;16 goals

  • Anatoli Ionkin (Kairat)
  • Vadim Pavlenko (Dynamo Moscow)

;13 goals

  • Vladimir Makarov (Chornomorets Odessa)

;12 goals

  • Vadim Nikonov (Torpedo Moscow)

;11 goals

  • Mikhail An (Pakhtakor)
  • Anatoly Baidachny (Dynamo Moscow)
  • Vladimir Onischenko (Dynamo Kyiv)
  • Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

;10 goals

  • Vladimir Danilyuk (Karpaty)
  • Aleksandr Piskaryov (Spartak Moscow)

Attendances

Source:

No.ClubAverage
1Dynamo Kyiv42,267
2Ararat37,513
3Zenit36,533
4Chornomorets29,600
5Paxtakor28,933
6Shakhtar Donetsk25,733
7Dynamo Moscow24,333
8Spartak Moscow24,033
9Karpaty21,533
10Kairat21,433
11Dinamo Tbilisi20,600
12Nistru20,000
13Torpedo Moscow18,467
14PFC CSKA18,467
15Dnipro16,467
16Zorya15,533

References

References

  1. https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov74.htm
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