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1979 Soviet Top League

42nd season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

Field	Value
competition	Soviet Top League
season	1979
winners	Spartak Moscow
relegated	Zaria Voroshilovgrad, Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev
continentalcup1	European Cup
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Spartak Moscow
continentalcup2	Cup Winners' Cup
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Dinamo Tbilisi
continentalcup3	UEFA Cup
continentalcup3 qualifiers	Dinamo Moscow
Dinamo Kiev
Shakhter Donetsk
league topscorer	(26) Vitaliy Starukhin (Shakhter)
matches	306
total goals	758
prevseason	1978
nextseason	1980

Dinamo Kiev Shakhter Donetsk Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1979 season.

Overview

1979 Top League was composed of 18 teams, the championship was won by Spartak Moscow.

On 11 August 1979, a mid-air collision killed virtually the entire FC Pakhtakor Tashkent team. The Top League ordered all the other teams to make three players available for a draft to restock the team, and Pakhtakor was given exemption from relegation for the next three years.

League standings

Results

Top scorers

;26 goals

Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

;17 goals

Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

;16 goals

Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow)
Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit)

;14 goals

Aleksandr Prokopenko (Dinamo Minsk)
Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)
Nikolai Vasilyev (Torpedo Moscow)

Attendances

Source:

No.	Club	Average
1	Dinamo Tbilisi	55,882
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	38,471
3	Spartak Moscow	30,588
4	Paxtakor	29,941
5	Dinamo Minsk	19,824
6	Chornomorets	19,353
7	Zenit	18,000
8	Rostov-on-Don	17,806
9	Neftçhi	16,412
10	Kairat	16,353
11	Dynamo Kyiv	15,706
12	Ararat	15,047
13	Krylia Sovetov	13,118
14	Zorya	11,118
15	Torpedo Moscow	10,647
16	PFC CSKA	10,471
17	Dynamo Moscow	10,147
18	Lokomotiv Moscow	4,735

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)

References

https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov79.htm

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