22 teams took part in the league with
FC Torpedo Moscow
Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pr ...
winning the championship.
Round 1
Subgroup 1
Table
Results
Subgroup 2
Table
Results
Round 2
Places 1–6
Table
Results
Places 7–12
Table
Results
Places 13–18
Table
Results
Places 19–22
Table
Results
Top scorers
;20 goals
*
Zaur Kaloyev
Zaur Kaloevi ( ka, ზაურ კალოევი; 24 March 1931 – 23 December 1997) was a famous Georgian footballer.
During his career he played for Spartaki Tbilisi (1950–1951), Dinamo Tbilisi (1953–1956, 1959–1964), and Lokomoti ...
(Dinamo Tbilisi)
;19 goals
*
Gennady Krasnitsky (Pakhtakor Tashkent)
;17 goals
*
Viktor Sokolov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
;13 goals
*
Anatoli Ilyin
Anatoli Mikhaylovich Ilyin (russian: Анатолий Михайлович Ильин; 27 June 1931 – 10 February 2016) was a Soviet Russian footballer.
Honours
* Olympic champion: 1956.
* Soviet Top League winner: 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 196 ...
(Spartak Moscow)
*
Tengiz Melashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi)
;12 goals
*
Feliks Arutyunyan (Spartak Yerevan)
*
Igor Chislenko
Igor Leonidovich Chislenko (russian: Игорь Леонидович Численко, 4 January 1939 — 22 September 1994) was a Soviet association football player. He played over 200 league games for FC Dinamo Moscow, winning two Soviet leag ...
(Dinamo Moscow)
*
Gennadi Gusarov
Gennadi Aleksandrovich Gusarov (russian: Геннадий Александрович Гусаров) (11 March 1937 – 2 June 2014) was a Soviet Russian football player.
Honours
* Soviet Top League winner: 1960, 1963.
* Soviet Top League runn ...
(Torpedo Moscow)
*
Aleksei Levchenko (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
*
Valery Lobanovsky
Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi ( uk, Вале́рій Васи́льович Лобано́вський ; russian: Вале́рий Васи́льевич Лобано́вский; 6 January 1939 – 13 May 2002) was а Ukrainian football playe ...
(Dynamo Kyiv)
*
Vladimir Streshny (CSKA Moscow)
*
Anatoli Vasilyev (Admiralteyets Leningrad)
Promotion/Relegation play-off
References
Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1960–61 in European football (UEFA)
Soviet Top League seasons
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Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...