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1985 in Soviet football

The 1985 Soviet football championship was the 54th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union. Dinamo Kiev won the Top League championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the eleventh time.

Season
Dinamo Kiev
Daugava Riga
Dinamo Briansk (Group 1)Zvezda Perm (Group 2)Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu (Group 3)Geolog Tyumen (Group 4)Atlantas Klapeida (Group 5)Tavriya Simferopol (Group 6)Sokhibkor Khalkabad (Group 7)Meliorator Chimkent (Group 8)Mertskhali Makharadze (Group 9)
Dinamo Kiev

The 1985 Soviet football championship was the 54th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union. Dinamo Kiev won the Top League championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the eleventh time.

Competition	Winner	Runner-up
Top League	Dinamo Kiev (11)	Spartak Moscow
First League	Daugava Riga (1)	CSKA Moscow
Second League	Group 1	Dinamo Briansk	Zorkiy Krasnogorsk
Group 2	Zvezda Perm	Uralmash Sverdlovsk
Group 3	Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu	Spartak Nalchik
Group 4	Geolog Tyumen	Zvezda Irkutsk
Group 5	Atlantas Klapeida	Metallurg Lipetsk
Group 6	Tavriya Simferopol	Niva Vinnitsa
Group 7	Sokhibkor Khalkabad	Neftyanik Fergana
Group 8	Meliorator Chimkent	Tselinnik Telinograd
Group 9	Mertskhali Makharadze	Kiapaz Kirovobad
Soviet Cup	Dinamo Kiev (7)	Shakhter Donetsk

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

For the following season the League was reduced to 16 members. The teams that finished 15th and 16th played a mini-tournament with the two best out of the Soviet First League. Out of this tournament the two best teams continued on in the Soviet Top League.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	6	3	3	0	6	3	+3	9
2	6	2	3	1	9	4	+5	7
3	6	1	3	2	7	7	0	5
4	6	1	1	4	3	11	−8	3

For the 1986 season there was no promotion out of the Soviet First League.

Group A

Group B

Group V

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	32	23	5	4	73	30	+43	51

2	32	18	10	4	56	26	+30	46
3	32	16	11	5	67	34	+33	43
4	32	15	12	5	50	34	+16	42
5	32	17	7	8	58	31	+27	41
6	32	16	7	9	49	33	+16	39
7	32	16	6	10	47	28	+19	38
8	32	14	10	8	40	27	+13	38
9	32	15	7	10	55	41	+14	37
10	32	13	3	16	39	44	−5	29
11	32	8	11	13	28	40	−12	27
12	32	7	10	15	32	56	−24	24
13	32	7	8	17	23	53	−30	22
14	32	7	7	18	29	48	−19	21
15	32	5	11	16	31	57	−26	21
16	32	4	5	23	31	72	−41	13
17	32	5	2	25	15	69	−54	12

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	28	19	5	4	41	20	+21	43

2	28	15	8	5	40	21	+19	38
3	28	15	6	7	41	28	+13	36
4	28	15	5	8	41	22	+19	35
5	28	14	7	7	49	25	+24	35
6	28	14	5	9	40	35	+5	33
7	28	13	4	11	34	32	+2	30
8	28	10	7	11	44	51	−7	27
9	28	11	4	13	36	41	−5	26
10	28	8	10	10	32	29	+3	26
11	28	8	4	16	25	34	−9	20
12	28	8	3	17	29	54	−25	19
13	28	6	7	15	26	41	−15	19
14	28	6	7	15	23	44	−21	19
15	28	2	10	16	17	41	−24	14

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	30	20	9	1	61	26	+35	49

2	30	19	6	5	44	16	+28	44
3	30	19	4	7	79	34	+45	42
4	30	19	4	7	62	35	+27	42
5	30	14	7	9	57	49	+8	35
6	30	14	6	10	56	43	+13	34
7	30	12	6	12	53	41	+12	30
8	30	10	10	10	34	37	−3	30
9	30	10	7	13	39	44	−5	27
10	30	10	6	14	35	39	−4	26
11	30	9	7	14	31	40	−9	25
12	30	10	3	17	34	59	−25	23
13	30	7	9	14	33	52	−19	23
14	30	7	6	17	33	66	−33	20
15	30	5	6	19	28	53	−25	16
16	30	5	4	21	27	72	−45	14

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	26	13	9	4	49	31	+18	35

2	26	13	6	7	43	26	+17	32
3	26	12	8	6	41	36	+5	32
4	26	14	3	9	40	29	+11	31
5	26	13	4	9	46	33	+13	30
6	26	12	6	8	37	25	+12	30
7	26	12	6	8	41	31	+10	30
8	26	11	7	8	40	31	+9	29
9	26	11	5	10	31	31	0	27
10	26	11	4	11	31	31	0	26
11	26	7	7	12	19	36	−17	21
12	26	6	5	15	20	37	−17	17
13	26	5	7	14	25	42	−17	17
14	26	1	5	20	15	59	−44	7

For places 1-14

For places 1-6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	36	24	6	6	86	31	+55	54

2	36	22	4	10	64	42	+22	48
3	36	20	3	13	55	44	+11	43
4	36	17	8	11	47	42	+5	42
5	36	16	6	14	60	42	+18	38
6	36	13	9	14	46	51	−5	35

Top League

Oleh Protasov (Dnepr Dneprpetrovsk) – 35 goals

First League

Valeriy Shmarov (CSKA Moscow) – 29 goals
1985 Soviet football championship. RSSSF

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