The 1951 Soviet football championship was the 19th seasons of competitive
football
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in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
and the 13th among teams of sports societies and factories.
CDSA Moscow
Professional Football Club CSKA (russian: link=yes, Профессиональный футбольный клуб – ЦСКА, derived from the historical name 'Центральный спортивный клуб армии', English: ...
again won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the fifth time and tied with Dynamo for the number of league titles won.
The defending champions CDSA defeated their main rivals Dinamo (2–1, 2–0) and took this season title.
Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition
Soviet Union football championship
Class A
Class B
Top goalscorers
Class A
*
Avtandil Gogoberidze
Avtandil Nikolozis dze Gogoberidze ( ka, ავთანდილ ნიკოლოზის ძე ღოღობერიძე, russian: Автандил Николаевич Гогоберидзе; 3 August 1922, Sukhumi – 20 November 19 ...
(
Dinamo Tbilisi
Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia. It was founded in 1925.
Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating FC Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2–1 i ...
) – 16 goals
References
External links
1951 Soviet football championship RSSSF
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