1983 Soviet First League

Soviet First League
Season	1983
	← 1982 1984 →

The 1983 Soviet First League was the thirteenth season of the Soviet First League and the 43rd season of the Soviet second tier league competition.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Kairat Almaty (C, P)	42	25	10	7	78	36	+42	60	Promotion to Top League
2	SKA Rostov-on-Don (P)	42	23	13	6	73	36	+37	58^[a]	Promotion to Top League
3	Fakel Voronezh	42	21	12	9	53	30	+23	54
4	Rotor Volgograd	42	23	5	14	62	48	+14	51
5	Metallurg Zaporozhia	42	21	8	13	66	46	+20	50
6	Kolos Nikopol	42	18	12	12	69	52	+17	48
7	Tavria Simferopol	42	16	12	14	78	67	+11	44
8	Kuban Krasnodar	42	16	11	15	58	48	+10	43
9	Guria Lanchkhuti	42	19	4	19	52	71	−19	42
10	Kuzbass Kemerovo	42	15	13	14	50	49	+1	42^[a]
11	SKA Karpaty Lvov	42	15	12	15	43	46	−3	42
12	Pamir Dushanbe	42	15	10	17	46	55	−9	40
13	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	42	14	11	17	66	67	−1	39
14	Daugava Riga	42	14	10	18	57	63	−6	38
15	Lokomotiv Moscow	42	13	13	16	51	47	+4	38^[a]
16	Zvezda Dzhizak	42	13	12	17	62	64	−2	38
17	Iskra Smolensk	42	14	9	19	51	47	+4	37
18	Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	13	11	18	45	75	−30	37
19	SKA Khabarovsk	42	12	12	18	33	54	−21	36
20	Dnepr Mogilev (R)	42	12	13	17	40	60	−20	36^[a]	Relegation to Second League
21	Textilshchik Ivanovo (R)	42	8	10	24	45	83	−38	26
22	Dinamo Kirov (R)	42	5	11	26	29	63	−34	21

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Yuriy Bondarenko	Tavriya Simferopol	25 (1)
2	Valeriy Tursunov	Pamir Dushanbe	23 (2)
3	Vitaly Razdayev	Kuzbass Kemerevo	22 (2)
4	Evstaphiy Pechlevanidis	Kairat Alma-Ata	21
4	Ravil Sharipov	Metallurg Zaporozhye	21 (8)
6	Oleksandr Malyshenko	Zaria Voroshilovgrad	20
7	Sergey Andreyev	SKA Rostov-na-Donu	19
7	Sergei Stukashov	Kairat Alma-Ata	19
9	Nikolai Kolesov	Kuban Krasnodar	18

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	11	SKA Rostov-na-Donu, Fakel Voronezh, Rotor Volgograd, Kuban Krasnodar, Kuzbass Kemerovo, Lokomotiv Moscow, Iskra Smolensk, Shinnik Yaroslavl, SKA Khabarovsk, Tekstilshchik Ivanovo, Dinamo Kirov
2	Ukrainian SSR	5	Metallurg Zaporozhye, Kolos Nikopol, Tavria Simferopol, SKA Karpaty Lvov, Zaria Voroshilovgrad
3	Georgian SSR	1	Guria Lanchkhuti
	Kazakh SSR		Kairat Alma-Ata
	Tajik SSR		Pamir Dushanbe
	Latvian SSR		Daugava Riga
	Uzbek SSR		Zvezda Dzhizak
	Belarusian SSR		Dnepr Mogilev

v t e Second level Soviet football championship seasons
Group B	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Second Group	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Class B	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Second Group (Class A)	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
First Group (Class A)	1970
First League	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991

v t e 1983 in Soviet football
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Domestic leagues	Supreme League First League Second League (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Finals)
Domestic cups	Soviet Cup Final
Other	Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
European competitions	European Cup 1982–83 1983–84 Cup Winners' Cup 1982–83 1983–84 UEFA Cup 1982–83 1983–84
Related to national team	Senior Youth U-19 Juniors
Club seasons
Supreme League	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Spartak Moscow Dinamo Minsk Dinamo Minsk Torpedo Moscow Torpedo Moscow Dynamo Kyiv Chornomorets Odessa Shakhtar Donetsk Pakhtakor Tashkent Metalist Kharkiv CSKA Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Ararat Yerevan Dynamo Moscow Metalurh Zaporizhia Pamir Dushanbe Spartak Vladikavkaz

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