1973 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season.

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Soviet Top League
Season	1973
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Overview

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

League standings

More information Pos, Team ...

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	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
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	Relegation to First League

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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.

More information Home \ Away, ARA ...

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

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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

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More information No., Club ...

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

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1973 Soviet Top League

Overview

League standings

Results

Top scorers

Attendances

References

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