1985 Soviet Top League

Teams

Promoted teams

• FC Fakel Voronezh – champion (returning for the first time since 1961 after twenty 24 seasons, known as Trud Voronezh)
• FC Torpedo Kutaisi – 2nd place (returning after a season)

Location

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Final table

Post-season promotion/relegation tournament

• For the following season the League was reduced to 16 members. The teams that finished 15th and 16th played a mini-tournament in format of home-away double round-robin with the two best out of the Soviet First League (Daugava Riga and CSKA Moscow). Out of this tournament the two best teams (Chernomorets Odessa and Nefchi Baku) continued on in the Soviet Top League. The tournament was conducted in winter-like conditions from 27 November to 15 December.

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

Results

Top scorers

;35 goals

• Oleh Protasov (Dnipro)

;14 goals

• Vladimir Klementyev (Zenit)
• Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)

;13 goals

• Fyodor Cherenkov (Spartak Moscow)
• Oleh Taran (Dnipro)

;12 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Viktor Grachyov (Shakhtar)
• Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris)

;11 goals

• Georgi Kondratyev (Dinamo Minsk)
• Sergei Volgin (Kairat)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Number of teams by union republic

Attendances

!#!!Football club!!Home games!!Average attendance |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Dinamo Tbilisi || 17 || 54,429 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Dynamo Kyiv || 17 || 35,918 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Torpedo Kutaisi || 17 || 26,765 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Ararat Yerevan || 17 || 26,659 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Fakel Voronezh || 17 || 25,676 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Dnipro || 17 || 25,506 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Spartak Moscow || 17 || 25,159 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Zenit || 17 || 24,882 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Dinamo Minsk || 17 || 24,435 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Shakhtar Donetsk || 17 || 21,688 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Metalist Kharkiv || 17 || 19,324 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Chornomorets Odesa || 17 || 17,371 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Kairat || 17 || 16,424 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || Neftçi || 17 || 11,388 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || SKA Rostov-on-Don || 17 || 9,771 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Dynamo Moscow || 17 || 9,129 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FK Žalgiris || 17 || 8,171 |- | style"text-align:center;"| _row_count || FC Torpedo Moscow || 17 || 5,776 |- |} }}

References

• 1985 season

References

1. https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov85.htm