1970 Soviet Top League

17 teams took part in the league with PFC CSKA Moscow winning the championship.

Soviet Top League

Season	1970
← 1969 1971 →

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Moscow (C)	32	20	5	7	46	17	+29	45	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Moscow	32	19	7	6	50	22	+28	45	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Spartak Moscow	32	12	14	6	43	25	+18	38	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Dinamo Tbilisi	32	14	8	10	43	30	+13	36
5	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	32	10	14	8	27	25	+2	34
6	Torpedo Moscow	32	12	10	10	36	38	−2	34
7	Dynamo Kyiv	32	14	5	13	36	32	+4	33
8	SKA Rostov-on-Don	32	9	15	8	28	29	−1	33
9	Dinamo Minsk	32	11	10	11	33	29	+4	32
10	Shakhtar Donetsk	32	11	8	13	35	50	−15	30
11	Neftchi Baku	32	9	11	12	27	28	−1	29
12	Ararat Yerevan	32	10	9	13	31	34	−3	29
13	Pakhtakor Tashkent	32	8	12	12	28	46	−18	28
14	Zenit Leningrad	32	10	7	15	30	40	−10	27
15	Chornomorets Odessa (R)	32	8	10	14	25	38	−13	26	Relegation to First League
16	Torpedo Kutaisi (R)	32	6	11	15	24	42	−18	23
17	Spartak Ordzhonikidze (R)	32	7	8	17	31	48	−17	22

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

• Note: On 5 January 1970 the city of Luhansk was officially renamed again as Voroshilovgrad, therefore Zorya Luhansk became known as Zorya Voroshilovgrad.^[1]

Championship play-off

On December 5 and 6 in Tashkent (RSSSF)

• CSKA Moscow – Dynamo Moscow 0:0 and 4:3

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	CHO	CSK	DYK	DMN	DYN	DTB	NEF	PAK	SHA	SKA	SPA	ORD	TKU	TOR	ZAR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		1–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0
Chornomorets Odessa	2–1		0–2	3–2	2–2	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0
CSKA Moscow	1–2	1–0		1–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	5–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	4–0	0–0
Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	2–1	1–0		1–0	0–2	2–0	3–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–3	0–0	1–0
Dinamo Minsk	3–1	2–0	0–0	1–3		1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	5–1
Dynamo Moscow	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–2		3–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–1	0–0	3–0	5–1	2–1	3–0	2–0
Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–0		1–0	4–0	4–1	2–0	2–0	5–2	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–0
Neftçi Baku	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–0		1–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	4–0
Pakhtakor Tashkent	2–1	0–0	0–5	1–1	1–2	0–4	2–1	1–0		1–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	3–2	1–1	0–2
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	3–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	3–0		1–0	0–0	1–4	3–1	4–2	0–0	1–0
SKA Rostov-on-Don	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–0	0–0	0–0	3–3	0–0	3–0
Spartak Moscow	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	4–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	5–0	1–3		5–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–0
Spartak Ordzhonikidze	2–0	4–1	0–1	3–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1		1–2	0–2	0–0	2–2
Torpedo Kutaisi	0–0	0–2	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–4	4–1	0–1	1–1	3–0		2–2	1–3	0–0
Torpedo Moscow	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–0		0–2	2–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	5–1	2–2	0–2	1–0	0–0	4–1		0–0
Zenit Leningrad	2–0	4–1	0–2	1–3	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

17 goals

• Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

15 goals

• Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow)
• Vladimir Kozlov (Dynamo Moscow)

14 goals

• Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow)

12 goals

• Galimzyan Khusainov (Spartak Moscow)

10 goals

• Valeriy Porkujan (Chornomorets)
• Gennadi Unanov (Zenit)

9 goals

• Yuri Avrutskiy (Dynamo Moscow)
• Eduard Kozinkevich (Shakhtar)
• Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk)