title: 1982 Soviet Top League
text: # 1982 Soviet Top League
  
  Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1982 season.
  
  ## Overview
  
  It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.
  
  The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.
  
  ## League standings
  
  | Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Dinamo Minsk (C) | 34 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 63 | 35 | +28 | 47 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
  | 2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 34 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 58 | 25 | +33 | 46 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
  | 3 | Spartak Moscow | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 59 | 35 | +24 | 41 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
  | 4 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 51 | 47 | +4 | 41 | |
  | 5 | Ararat Yerevan | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 47 | +3 | 38 | |
  | 6 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 34 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 42 | 38 | +4 | 36 | |
  | 7 | Zenit Leningrad | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 44 | 41 | +3 | 33 | |
  | 8 | Torpedo Moscow | 34 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 36 | 33 | +3 | 32 | |
  | 9 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 34 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 34 | 38 | −4 | 32 | |
  | 10 | Chornomorets Odessa | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 30 | 36 | −6 | 32 | |
  | 11 | Dynamo Moscow | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 42 | 52 | −10 | 31 | |
  | 12 | Metalist Kharkiv | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 32 | 34 | −2 | 30 | |
  | 13 | Torpedo Kutaisi | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 39 | 45 | −6 | 30 | |
  | 14 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 42 | 57 | −15 | 29 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
  | 15 | CSKA Moscow | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 41 | 46 | −5 | 29 | |
  | 16 | Neftchi Baku | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 42 | 63 | −21 | 27 | |
  | 17 | Kuban Krasnodar (R) | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 37 | 48 | −11 | 27 | Relegation to First League |
  | 18 | Kairat Alma-Ata (R) | 34 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 34 | 56 | −22 | 24 | Relegation to First League |
  
  * 1 2 3 1 point deducted (10 draw limit)
  * 1 2 2 points deducted (10 draw limit)
  
  ## Results
  
  | Home \ Away | ARA | CHO | CSK | DNI | DYK | DMN | DYN | DTB | KAI | KUB | MKH | NEF | PAK | SHA | SPA | TKU | TOR | ZEN |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Ararat Yerevan | | 6–1 | 3–2 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 |
  | Chornomorets Odessa | 0–1 | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
  | CSKA Moscow | 2–3 | 1–2 | | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
  | Dnipro Dnipropetrosk | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 |
  | Dynamo Kyiv | 4–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | | 2–3 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
  | Dinamo Minsk | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
  | Dynamo Moscow | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–7 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
  | Dinamo Tbilisi | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–5 | 4–1 | 1–0 | | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 5–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
  | Kairat Alma-Ata | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 |
  | Kuban Krasnodar | 1–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 |
  | Metalist Kharkiv | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 0–0 |
  | Neftçi Baku | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | | 4–2 | 2–2 | 4–3 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 |
  | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 5–0 |
  | Shakhtar Donetsk | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–3 |
  | Spartak Moscow | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 5–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
  | Torpedo Kutaisi | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–4 | | 2–1 | 2–0 |
  | Torpedo Moscow | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 2–0 |
  | Zenit Leningrad | 5–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | |
  
  ## Top scorers
  
  ### 23 goals
  
  * Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)
  
  ### 18 goals
  
  * Merab Megreladze (Torpedo Kutaisi)
  
  ### 16 goals
  
  * Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
  * Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA)
  
  ### 13 goals
  
  * Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk)
  
  ### 12 goals
  
  * Boris Chukhlov (Zenit)
  * Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow)
  * Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
  * Andrei Redkous (Torpedo Moscow)
  * Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar)
  
  ## Medal squads
  
  (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
  
  * 1. FC Dinamo Minsk
  * Goalkeepers: Mikhail Vergeyenko (28 / 1), Yury Kurbyko (7).
  * Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (31 / 7), Yury Trukhan (29), Viktor Yanushevsky (27), Sergei Borovsky (25), Viktor Shishkin (18), Liudas Rumbutis (17), Igor Belov (12).
  * Midfielders: Aleksandr Prokopenko (31 / 11), Sergey Gotsmanov (31 / 2), Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (29 / 3), Sergei Aleinikov (21 / 8), Valeri Melnikov (18), Alyaksandr Vanyushkin (1).
  * Forwards: Georgi Kondratyev (32 / 10), Igor Gurinovich (28 / 13), Pyotr Vasilevsky (20 / 5), Viktor Sokol (2 / 1).
  * Manager: Eduard Malofeyev.
  * Transferred out during the season: none.
  * 2. FC Dynamo Kyiv
  * Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (24), Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (12).
  * Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (32 / 5), Oleksandr Sorokalet (29), Volodymyr Lozynskyi (28 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (25 / 2), Volodymyr Bezsonov (18 / 4), Oleksandr Boyko (12), Yuriy Makhynya (2).
  * Midfielders: Andriy Bal (31 / 5), Yaroslav Dumanskyi (29 / 2), Leonid Buryak (21 / 3), Aleksandr Khapsalis (14 / 2), Vasyl Rats (11 / 1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (10), Pavlo Yakovenko (4).
  * Forwards: Viktor Khlus (31 / 10), Vadym Yevtushenko (25 / 9), Oleg Blokhin (24 / 10), Hryhoriy Pasechnyi (4 / 1).
  * Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi.
  * Transferred out during the season: none.
  * 3. FC Spartak Moscow
  * Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (28), Aleksei Prudnikov (12).
  * Defenders: Oleg Romantsev (33 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (27), Vladimir Shcherbak (24), Boris Pozdnyakov (19), Vladimir Bukiyevskiy (4), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (2), Alexander Mirzoyan (2).
  * Midfielders: Sergey Shavlo (34 / 11), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Yuri Gavrilov (31 / 6), Edgar Gess (30 / 5), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Sergei Nikitin (2).
  * Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (30 / 9), Aleksandr Kalashnikov (26 / 5), Sergei Shvetsov (24 / 9), Viktor Hrachov (5 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (3), Vladimir Nikonov (1), Oleg Smirnov (1).
  * Manager: Konstantin Beskov.
  * Transferred out during the season: Viktor Hrachov (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk).
  
  ## Number of teams by union republic
  
  | Rank | Union republic | Number of teams | Club(s) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | RSFSR | 6 | CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Kuban Krasnodar, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad |
  | 2 | Ukrainian SSR | 5 | Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk |
  | 3 | Georgian SSR | 2 | Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi |
  | 4 | Armenian SSR | 1 | Ararat Yerevan |
  | 4 | Azerbaijan SSR | 1 | Neftchi Baku |
  | 4 | Belarusian SSR | 1 | Dinamo Minsk |
  | 4 | Kazakh SSR | 1 | Kairat Alma-Ata |
  | 4 | Uzbek SSR | 1 | Pakhtakor Tashkent |
  