1951 Soviet Top League

Following are the results of the 1951 Soviet Top League football championship. Fifteen teams took part, with CDSA Moscow winning the championship.

Soviet Top League

Season	1951
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League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	CDSA Moscow (C)	28	18	7	3	53	19	+34	43	League champions
2	Dynamo Tbilisi	28	15	6	7	59	36	+23	36
3	Shakhtyor Stalino	28	12	10	6	44	30	+14	34
4	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	28	11	12	5	34	25	+9	34
5	Dynamo Moscow	28	13	6	9	62	41	+21	32
6	Spartak Moscow	28	13	5	10	50	35	+15	31
7	Zenit Leningrad	28	10	8	10	36	40	−4	28
8	Dynamo Kiev	28	9	9	10	43	39	+4	27
9	Dynamo Leningrad	28	11	5	12	46	53	−7	27
10	VVS Moscow	28	11	4	13	44	56	−12	26
11	Daugava Riga	28	9	7	12	44	44	0	25
12	Torpedo Moscow	28	8	8	12	37	48	−11	24
13	VMS Moscow (R)	28	7	9	12	30	50	−20	23	Relegation to Class B
14	Spartak Tbilisi (R)	28	7	2	19	32	56	−24	16
15	Torpedo Gorky (R)	28	4	6	18	20	62	−42	14

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

Results

Home \ Away	CDS	DAU	DYK	DLE	DYN	DTB	KRY	SHA	SPA	STB	TGR	TOR	VMS	VVS	ZEN
CDSA Moscow		1–1	2–0	5–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	3–1	4–0	3–1	2–0
Daugava Riga	0–0		0–2	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	5–0	2–3	3–1	1–0	4–1	2–3	1–3	4–1
Dynamo Kiev	1–1	2–4		3–0	2–2	1–1	2–2	1–3	1–0	3–2	2–0	4–4	4–0	1–2	0–0
Dynamo Leningrad	0–2	1–3	2–0		3–2	1–3	2–2	5–4	0–2	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–4	1–1
Dynamo Moscow	0–2	5–2	1–0	2–1		2–0	1–1	3–4	1–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	5–1	5–1	3–0
Dynamo Tbilisi	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–2	0–2		1–1	1–1	3–1	6–0	5–0	7–1	1–0	3–3	4–2
Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–3		0–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	3–1	1–1
Shakhtyor Stalino	0–1	3–1	0–1	2–0	1–4	4–0	0–0		0–1	1–0	8–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	3–3
Spartak Moscow	0–1	2–1	0–0	3–1	1–3	4–2	0–0	1–1		2–3	2–0	1–2	5–3	3–1	1–2
Spartak Tbilisi	1–2	3–1	0–3	2–3	3–2	0–2	1–0	1–2	0–4		0–2	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–2
Torpedo Gorky	0–5	2–1	1–1	1–6	1–6	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–3	1–2		1–1	0–0	3–1	1–1
Torpedo Moscow	1–1	1–1	3–5	1–2	2–0	1–3	4–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	2–1		1–2	2–3	3–1
VMS Moscow	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–4	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–6	2–1	2–1	2–0		2–1	0–0
VVS Moscow	1–1	0–2	3–1	1–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–6	3–1	0–2	3–2		2–4
Zenit Leningrad	1–3	0–1	1–0	4–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–1

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

Top scorers

16 goals

• Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

15 goals

• Konstantin Beskov (Dynamo Moscow)
• Aleksandr Ponomarev (Shakhtyor Stalino)

14 goals

• Fyodor Dashkov (Dynamo Kiev)

13 goals

• Aleksei Kolobov (Dynamo Leningrad)
• Sergei Korshunov (VVS Moscow)

12 goals

• Zaur Kaloyev (Spartak Tbilisi)
• Viktor Zhylin (Zenit Leningrad)

10 goals

• Gennadi Bondarenko (Dynamo Leningrad)
• Aleksei Grinin (CDSA Moscow)
• Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
• Vyacheslav Solovyov (CDSA Moscow)
• Vasili Trofimov (Dynamo Moscow)
• Pavlo Vinkovatov (Dynamo Kiev)
• Viktor Voroshilov (Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev)