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1991 in Soviet football

Season
CSKA Moscow
Rotor Volgograd
Karpaty Lvov (West)Asmaral Moscow (Center)Okean Nakhodka (East)
Neftianik Akhtyrka (Group 1)Siunik Kapan (Group 2)Khazar Sumgait (Group 3)Zhemchuzhina Sochi (Group 4)Spartak Anapa (Group 5)Dinamo Saint Petersburg (Group 6)Rubin Kazan (Group 7)Aktiubinets Aktiubinsk (Group 8)Traktor Tashkent (Group 9)Lokomotiv Chita (Group 10)
CSKA Moscow
Metallurg Molodechno
Tekstilschik Ramenskoye
Energiya Voronezh
Rus Moscow
Sibiryachka Krasnoyarsk

The 1991 Soviet football championship was the 60th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union. With the ongoing armed conflicts throughout the former Soviet Union (Moldova, Georgia, Tajikistan), the Army main football team, CSKA Moscow, won the Top League championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the seventh time. It became de facto the last full-scale season of the falling apart Soviet Union.

Competition	Winner	Runner-up
Top League	CSKA Moscow (7)	Spartak Moscow
First League	Rotor Volgograd (1)	Tiligul Tiraspol
Second League	West	Karpaty Lvov	Zaria Lugansk
Center	Asmaral Moscow	Krylia Sovetov Samara
East	Okean Nakhodka	Kopetdag Ashkhabad
Lower Second League	Group 1	Neftianik Akhtyrka	Prikarpatie Ivano-Frankovsk
Group 2	Siunik Kapan	Shirak Giumri
Group 3	Khazar Sumgait	Stroitel Baku
Group 4	Zhemchuzhina Sochi	Uralan Elista
Group 5	Spartak Anapa	Svetotekhnika Saransk
Group 6	Dinamo Saint Petersburg	Tekstilschik Ivanovo
Group 7	Rubin Kazan	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Group 8	Aktiubinets Aktiubinsk	Spartak Semipalatinsk
Group 9	Traktor Tashkent	Umid Tashkent
Group 10	Lokomotiv Chita	SKA Khabarovsk
Soviet Cup	CSKA Moscow (5)	Torpedo Moscow

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

Competition	Winner	Runner-up
Top League	Tekstilschik Ramenskoye (1)	Nadezhda Mogilev
First League	Energiya Voronezh (1)	Spartak-13 Moscow
Second League	Rus Moscow (1)	Syuyumbike Zelenodolsk
Soviet Cup	Sibiryachka Krasnoyarsk (1*)	Prometei Saint Petersburg

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

Notes:

On 6 September 1991, the city of Leningrad was renamed into Saint Petersburg
On 4 September 1991, the city of Sverdlovsk was renamed into Yekaterinburg

Representation

Ukrainian SSR: 11
Byelorussian SSR: 4
Moldavian SSR 2
Russian SFSR 2
Azerbaijan SSR 3

Representation

Kazakh SSR: 8
Russian SFSR: 6
Uzbek SSR: 5
Kyrgyz SSR: 1
Turkmen SSR: 1
Tajik SSR: 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	38	32	2	4	107	40	+67	66
2	38	30	4	4	112	24	+88	64
3	38	26	5	7	98	45	+53	57
4	38	25	3	10	112	61	+51	53
5	38	23	4	11	78	63	+15	50
6	38	20	2	16	84	67	+17	42
7	38	16	8	14	59	54	+5	40
8	38	17	4	17	67	67	0	38
9	38	17	3	18	58	64	−6	37
10	38	15	5	18	51	64	−13	35
11	38	14	4	20	59	76	−17	32
12	38	12	7	19	60	81	−21	31
13	38	12	7	19	61	70	−9	31
14	38	12	5	21	52	81	−29	29
15	38	10	9	19	60	80	−20	29
16	38	10	9	19	47	76	−29	29
17	38	12	4	22	51	79	−28	28
18	38	10	6	22	46	67	−21	26
19	38	8	10	20	35	71	−36	26
20	38	7	3	28	36	103	−67	17

Top League

Igor Kolyvanov (Dinamo Moscow) – 18 goals

First League

Serhiy Husyev (Tiligul Tiraspol) – 25 goals

The final stage included winners and runners-up from both groups of the Top League. All matches took place in Sevastopol.

Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Semi-finals		Final



Tekstilschik Ramenskoye	1

Arena Kiev	0
Tekstilschik Ramenskoye	0 (6)

	Nadezhda Mogilev	0 (5)
Nadezhda Mogilev	0 (2)

SKIF Malakhovka	0 (0)
Third place



SKIF Malakhovka	1

Arena Kiev	0

The final stage included all winners of the four groups. All three matches took place in Voronezh.

The final stage included all winners of the three groups. The two matches that took place all were in Moscow.

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