1973 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season.

Soviet Top League

Season	1973
← 1972 1974 →

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Ararat Yerevan won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PKW	PKL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ararat Yerevan (C)	30	18	3	4	5	52	26	+26	39	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	16	4	4	6	44	23	+21	36	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Dynamo Moscow	30	13	7	3	7	43	30	+13	33	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Spartak Moscow	30	14	3	5	8	37	28	+9	31
5	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	13	5	2	10	42	33	+9	31
6	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	14	3	4	9	32	26	+6	31
7	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	30	14	1	5	10	38	26	+12	29
8	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	9	8	1	12	36	40	−4	26
9	Kairat Alma-Ata	30	8	10	1	11	25	37	−12	26
10	CSKA Moscow	30	10	5	4	11	33	36	−3	25
11	Zenit Leningrad	30	9	3	9	9	33	35	−2	21
12	Pakhtakor Tashkent	30	9	2	4	15	37	44	−7	20
13	Torpedo Moscow	30	9	1	7	13	28	37	−9	19
14	Karpaty Lviv	30	8	3	3	16	28	48	−20	19
15	Dinamo Minsk (R)	30	7	3	6	14	21	36	−15	17	Relegation to First League
16	SKA Rostov-on-Don (R)	30	3	5	4	18	19	43	−24	11

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: Drawn matches decided by penalties, the winners obtaining 1 point, the losers 0.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results

Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.

Home \ Away	ARA	CSK	DNI	DYK	DMN	DYN	DTB	KAI	KAR	PAK	SHA	SKA	SPA	TOR	ZAR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		1–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–1(3–5)	3–0	4–0	3–0	4–0	3–0	2–2(4–5)	3–1	1–3	1–1(4–3)	3–2
CSKA Moscow	0–1		0–0(3–5)	3–0	3–2	1–1(4–5)	1–1(5–4)	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	3–1	2–2(5–3)	3–2	1–0	0–0(8–7)
Dnipo Dnipropetrovsk	1–1(5–4)	4–1		1–0	1–0	2–3	0–0(4–2)	2–0	1–1(4–3)	1–1(5–3)	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–1
Dynamo Kyiv	3–1	1–0	5–2		4–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–1(7–8)	1–1(3–2)	0–0(5–3)	1–0	2–0
Dinamo Minsk	1–0	1–1(5–3)	2–0	0–0(4–5)		2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1(4–5)	0–1	0–0(8–9)	1–1(5–4)	0–1	1–0	1–2	0–0(4–5)
Dynamo Moscow	0–1	3–0	1–0	2–2(5–4)	1–1(5–4)		4–1	1–1(3–4)	2–0	1–1(6–5)	2–0	2–0	0–0(5–3)	1–1(4–5)	2–1	1–1(5–4)
Dinamo Tbilisi	0–0(4–3)	3–1	2–0	0–1	4–0	0–3		3–0	3–0	4–0	0–0(6–5)	2–0	1–0	4–2	1–1(4–3)	1–1(6–5)
Kairat Alma-Ata	1–4	1–1(4–3)	2–2(4–5)	0–0(5–3)	1–0	1–0	1–0		2–1	1–1(5–4)	2–0	0–0(5–4)	1–2	1–1(4–3)	1–1(4–3)	0–0(5–2)
Karpaty Lviv	3–0	0–9	3–2	0–0(4–5)	1–0	3–5	1–3	0–1		2–1(5–4)	0–1	1–0	3–2	1–0	0–2	2–2(4–5)
Pakhtakor Tashkent	2–3	1–0	4–1	0–1	4–0	2–0	2–2(2–5)	4–1	3–1		0–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	5–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	0–0(3–4)	4–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–1(4–3)	0–1	0–0(3–5)	3–1	1–0		3–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	3–1
SKA Rostov-on-Don	0–2	0–1	2–2(6–5)	1–1(10–9)	1–2	0–1	2–3	1–2	0–1	1–1(4–5)	0–0(2–4)		1–1(6–5)	0–1	1–0	2–0
Spartak Moscow	2–2(4–5)	2–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	4–0	0–0(5–1)	1–0		1–1(5–4)	0–2	2–0
Torpedo Moscow	0–1	2–2(3–4)	3–1	0–2	1–1(3–5)	1–0	1–0	1–3	1–1(3–4)	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0		0–3	0–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad	0–1	1–0	0–0(3–4)	1–0	0–2	0–1	3–0	1–0	4–1	3–1	2–1	3–1	2–0	0–0(5–3)		0–0(2–4)
Zenit Leningrad	1–0	1–2	0–0(11–12)	2–1	1–1(7–6)	2–3	1–0	1–1(3–4)	3–0	0–0(3–4)	3–0	3–0	0–0(4–5)	3–1	3–2

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

Top scorers

18 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

16 goals

• Anatoli Kozhemyakin (Dynamo Moscow)

13 goals

• Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)

12 goals

• Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor)
• Aleksandr Piskaryov (Spartak Moscow)

11 goals

• Mikhail Bulgakov (Spartak Moscow)
• Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

10 goals

• Eduard Markarov (Ararat)
• Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

9 goals

• Vladimir Dorofeyev (CSKA)
• Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya)

Attendances

Source:^[1]

No.	Club	Average
1	Ararat	56,867
2	Dynamo Kyiv	41,200
3	Shakhtar Donetsk	31,000
4	Zorya	27,800
5	Dinamo Tbilisi	25,467
6	Zenit	25,133
7	Karpaty	24,467
8	Paxtakor	24,333
9	Dinamo Minsk	22,200
10	Spartak Moscow	21,407
11	Dnipro	21,067
12	Dynamo Moscow	19,967
13	Kairat	19,467
14	Torpedo Moscow	19,100
15	PFC CSKA	18,533
16	Rostov-on-Don	12,900