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1988 Soviet Top League

51st season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

51st season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

FieldValue
competitionSoviet Top League
season1988
datesMarch 7 — November 19, 1988
winnersDnipro Dnepropetrovsk
(2nd title)
relegatedNeftchi Baku
Kairat Alma-Ata
continentalcup1European Cup
continentalcup1 qualifiersDnipr Dnipropetrovsk
continentalcup2Cup Winners' Cup
continentalcup2 qualifiersTorpedo Moscow
continentalcup3UEFA Cup
continentalcup3 qualifiersSpartak Moscow
Dynamo Kiev
Žalgiris Vilnius
Zenit Leningrad
league topscorer(16) Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow), Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
matches240
total goals526
prevseason1987
nextseason1989

(2nd title) Kairat Alma-Ata Dynamo Kiev Žalgiris Vilnius Zenit Leningrad The 1988 season was the 51st completed season of the USSR Football Championship: Top League. Spartak Moscow, the defending 11-times champions, placed fourth this season.

Teams

  • FC Chernomorets Odessa – champion (returning after a season)
  • FC Lokomotiv Moscow – 2nd place (returning after seven seasons)

Location

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Final standings

Promotion

  • Pamir Dushanbe (Tajik SSR)
  • Rotor Volgograd (Russian SFSR)

Results

Top scorers

;16 goals

  • Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)
  • Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

;15 goals

  • Mikhail Rusyayev (Lokomotiv Moscow)

;12 goals

  • Sergei Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)

;11 goals

  • Oleh Protasov (Dynamo Kyiv)

;10 goals

  • Mashalla Akhmedov (Neftchi)
  • Ihor Petrov (Shakhtar Donetsk)

;9 goals

  • Sergei Dmitriyev (Zenit)
  • Vladimir Grechnev (Torpedo Moscow)
  • Gija Guruli (Dinamo Tbilisi)
  • Volodymyr Lyutyi (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
  • Arminas Narbekovas (Žalgiris)
  • Andrei Rudakov (Torpedo Moscow)

Clean sheets

;14 matches

  • Valeri Sarychev (Torpedo Moscow)

;12 matches

  • Valeriy Horodov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

;11 matches

  • Stanislav Cherchesov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
  • Aleksandr Podshivalov (Ararat Yerevan)
  • Viktor Chanov (Dynamo Kyiv)

;10 matches

  • Rinat Dasayev (Spartak Moscow)

;9 matches

  • Otar Gabelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
  • Andrei Satsunkevich (Dinamo Minsk)

;7 matches

  • Mikhail Biryukov (Zenit Leningrad)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Number of teams by union republic

RankUnion republicNumber of teamsClub(s)
1RSFSR5Dinamo Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
Ukrainian SSRChernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk
3Armenian SSR1Ararat Yerevan
Azerbaijan SSRNeftchi Baku
Belarusian SSRDinamo Minsk
Georgian SSRDinamo Tbilisi
Kazakh SSRKairat Alma-Ata
Lithuanian SSRZhalgiris Vilnius

Attendances

Source:

No.ClubAverageChangeHighest
1Dynamo Kyiv54,680-5,9%100,000
2Dinamo Tbilisi34,78021,2%66,200
3Zenit32,16750,8%61,000
4Spartak Moscow28,260-23,0%50,400
5Shakhtar Donetsk26,100-13,4%40,000
6Ararat22,440-48,0%39,500
7Kairat20,753-24,3%28,000
8Chornomorets19,927-22,1%38,500
9Dnipro16,933-30,5%30,000
10Dinamo Minsk14,607-36,2%50,000
11Metalist Kharkiv14,313-37,0%33,500
12Neftçhi13,067-64,6%26,000
13Dynamo Moscow11,600-29,7%29,000
14Žalgiris11,167-3,2%18,000
15Lokomotiv Moscow6,33384,7%16,500
16Torpedo Moscow6,167-34,1%15,900

References

References

  1. https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov88.htm
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