title: 1972 Soviet Top League
text: # 1972 Soviet Top League
  
  Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1972 season.
  
  ## 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 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
  | 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 | Relegation to First League |
  
  ## 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 | |
  
  ## 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)
  