title: 1975 Soviet Top League
text: # 1975 Soviet Top League
  
  The 1975 season of the Soviet Top League proved that Dynamo Kyiv was at the moment unbeatable for other Soviet clubs. Besides that, the Ukrainian club was one of the strongest on the international arena, winning the UEFA Cup Winners Cup the same year. Another Ukrainian club, Shakhtar from Donetsk, took the second place.
  
  ## Final league table
  
  | Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Dynamo Kyiv (C) | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 53 | 30 | +23 | 43 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
  | 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 45 | 23 | +22 | 38 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
  | 3 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 39 | 23 | +16 | 38 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
  | 4 | Torpedo Moscow | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 42 | 33 | +9 | 34 | |
  | 5 | Ararat Yerevan | 30 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 40 | 38 | +2 | 34 | |
  | 6 | Karpaty Lviv | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 36 | 28 | +8 | 32 | |
  | 7 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 30 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 33 | 30 | +3 | 31 | |
  | 8 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 31 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
  | 9 | Zarya Voroshilovgrad | 30 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 32 | 37 | −5 | 31 | |
  | 10 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 30 | −3 | 28 | |
  | 11 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 30 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 28 | 33 | −5 | 26 | |
  | 12 | Chornomorets Odessa | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 26 | |
  | 13 | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 29 | 36 | −7 | 25 | |
  | 14 | Zenit Leningrad | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 27 | 42 | −15 | 24 | |
  | 15 | Pakhtakor Tashkent (R) | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 31 | 44 | −13 | 23 | Relegation to First League |
  | 16 | SKA Rostov-on-Don (R) | 30 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 50 | −27 | 16 | Relegation to First League |
  
  ## Results
  
  | Home \ Away | ARA | CHO | CSK | DNI | DYK | DYN | DTB | KAR | LOK | PAK | SHA | SKA | SPA | TOR | ZAR | ZEN |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Ararat Yerevan | | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 3–5 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–2 |
  | Chornomorets Odessa | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
  | CSKA Moscow | 0–1 | 0–0 | | 3–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 |
  | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
  | Dynamo Kyiv | 4–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–2 |
  | Dynamo Moscow | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
  | Dinamo Tbilisi | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 0–1 |
  | Karpaty Lviv | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 |
  | Lokomotiv Moscow | 4–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
  | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | | 0–2 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 |
  | Shakhtar Donetsk | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 4–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 5–0 |
  | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 3–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–3 | | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 |
  | Spartak Moscow | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 0–3 | 0–0 | 2–2 |
  | Torpedo Moscow | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 4–0 | | 2–1 | 2–0 |
  | Zarya Voroshilovgrad | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–6 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | | 3–0 |
  | Zenit Leningrad | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
  
  ## Top scorers
  
  ### 18 goals
  
  * Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
  
  ### 13 goals
  
  * Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow)
  
  ### 12 goals
  
  * Vladimir Danilyuk (Karpaty)
  * David Kipiani (Dinamo Tbilisi)
  * Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv)
  
  ### 11 goals
  
  * Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar)
  
  ### 10 goals
  
  * Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)
  * Roman Khizhak (Karpaty)
  * Eduard Markarov (Ararat)
  
  ### 9 goals
  
  * Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)
  