title: 1953 Soviet Top League
text: # 1953 Soviet Top League
  
  11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.
  
  ## League standings
  
  | Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Spartak Moscow (C) | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 47 | 15 | 3.133 | 29 | League champions |
  | 2 | Dynamo Tbilisi | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 24 | 1.625 | 27 | |
  | 3 | Torpedo Moscow | 20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 34 | 34 | 1.000 | 25 | |
  | 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 34 | 19 | 1.789 | 23 | |
  | 5 | Zenit Leningrad | 20 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 21 | 1.190 | 23 | |
  | 6 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 0.750 | 18 | |
  | 7 | Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 0.880 | 17 | |
  | 8 | Dynamo Kiev | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 26 | 0.808 | 17 | |
  | 9 | Lokomotiv Kharkov | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 34 | 0.559 | 16 | |
  | 10 | Dynamo Leningrad (W) | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 33 | 0.606 | 14 | Replaced with Trudovye Rezervy Leningrad |
  | 11 | Spartak Vilnius (R) | 20 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 33 | 0.303 | 11 | Relegation to Class B |
  
  ## Results
  
  | Home \ Away | DYK | DLE | DYN | DTB | KRY | LKH | LOK | SPA | SVL | TOR | ZEN |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Dynamo Kiev | | 3–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 |
  | Dynamo Leningrad | 1–1 | | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 |
  | Dynamo Moscow | 2–0 | 2–0 | | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 |
  | Dynamo Tbilisi | 3–0 | 5–0 | 3–2 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 3–1 |
  | Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 |
  | Lokomotiv Kharkov | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 5–2 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
  | Lokomotiv Moscow | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–4 |
  | Spartak Moscow | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | | 7–0 | 7–1 | 3–0 |
  | Spartak Vilnius | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–4 | | 3–1 | 1–0 |
  | Torpedo Moscow | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–8 | 4–1 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | | 2–1 |
  | Zenit Leningrad | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | |
  
  ## Top scorers
  
  ### 14 goals
  
  * Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
  * Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
  
  ### 9 goals
  
  * Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow)
  
  ### 8 goals
  
  * Georgi Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kharkov)
  * Pyotr Katrovsky (Zenit Leningrad)
  * Boris Tatushin (Spartak Moscow)
  
  ### 7 goals
  
  * Aleksandr Gulevsky (Zenit Kuybyshev)
  * Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
  * Mykhaylo Koman (Dynamo Kiev)
  * Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow)
  