1972 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1972 season.

Soviet Top League

Season	1972
← 1971 1973 →

Overview

Sixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Zarya Voroshilovgrad (C)	30	15	10	5	52	30	+22	40	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	12	11	7	52	38	+14	35	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	12	11	7	41	34	+7	35
4	Ararat Yerevan	30	12	10	8	38	29	+9	34
5	CSKA Moscow	30	15	4	11	37	33	+4	34
6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	12	10	8	37	37	0	34
7	Zenit Leningrad	30	11	11	8	44	30	+14	33
8	Dinamo Minsk	30	10	11	9	27	28	−1	31
9	Torpedo Moscow	30	11	9	10	31	33	−2	31	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
10	Dynamo Moscow	30	12	6	12	39	35	+4	30
11	Spartak Moscow	30	8	10	12	29	30	−1	26
12	SKA Rostov-on-Don	30	8	10	12	31	35	−4	26
13	Kairat Alma-Ata	30	6	14	10	23	27	−4	26
14	Karpaty Lviv	30	8	8	14	27	43	−16	24
15	Lokomotiv Moscow (R)	30	6	9	15	29	48	−19	21	Relegation to First League
16	Neftchi Baku (R)	30	6	8	16	28	55	−27	20

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	CSK	DNI	DYK	DMN	DYN	DTB	KAI	KAR	LOK	NEF	SKA	SPA	TOR	ZAR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		2–0	2–3	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	4–2	0–1	1–1	5–0	1–2	4–2
CSKA Moscow	0–1		2–0	3–2	0–3	0–0	3–2	3–1	3–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	0–0	2–1		2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–0	5–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–3
Dynamo Kyiv	2–2	2–0	2–1		4–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	6–1	3–2	4–1	0–0	3–3	1–1
Dinamo Minsk	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1		0–3	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–0
Dynamo Moscow	0–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–1		1–1	1–1	3–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–4	1–4	0–1	1–4
Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–0		0–0	5–1	0–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	1–0
Kairat Alma-Ata	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–2		1–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0
Karpaty Lviv	1–0	1–3	0–1	2–3	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0		3–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–3	2–2	0–1
Lokomotiv Moscow	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–3	2–2	0–2	4–1		1–0	2–4	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–6
Neftçi Baku	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–4	1–0	2–5	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–2		2–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–1
SKA Rostov-on-Don	1–1	1–2	4–0	0–2	0–0	0–3	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–1		0–1	1–0	3–1	0–0
Spartak Moscow	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	5–0	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–0	0–0		0–0	1–1	1–2
Torpedo Moscow	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–4	0–3	2–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–2	2–1		2–4	0–0
Zarya Voroshilovgrad	4–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–1		2–1
Zenit Leningrad	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	0–2	1–0	5–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–0

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

Top scorers

14 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

13 goals

• Oganes Zanazanyan (Ararat)

12 goals

• Gennadi Khromchenkov (Zenit)
• Yuri Smirnov (Torpedo Moscow)

11 goals

• Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv)

10 goals

• Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi)
• Vladimir Onischenko (Zorya)
• Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

9 goals

• Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)
• Vladimir Muntyan (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Pavel Sadyrin (Zenit)
• Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk)
• Yuri Yeliseyev (Zorya)

Attendances

No.	Club	Average
1	Zenit	39,900
2	Dynamo Kyiv	39,533
3	Zorya	33,933
4	Dnipro	30,667
5	Ararat	30,547
6	Dinamo Minsk	30,533
7	Karpaty	29,600
8	Dinamo Tbilisi	27,667
9	Dynamo Moscow	21,787
10	Spartak Moscow	21,673
11	PFC CSKA	19,333
12	Torpedo Moscow	17,673
13	Rostov-on-Don	16,000
14	Kairat	15,733
15	Neftçhi	15,400
16	Lokomotiv Moscow	12,477

Source:^[1]