The 1961 Soviet football championship was the 29th seasons of competitive
football
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in the
Soviet Union
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and the 23rd among teams of sports societies and factories.
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Places
* Dinamo (Moscow Metro), a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia
* Dinamo (Yekaterinburg Metro), a station of the Yekaterinbu ...
won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the first time.
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 (second stage)
Places 1–10
Places 11–22
Promotion/Relegation Tournament
Class B
Russian Federation finals
ct 24 – Nov 5, Krasnodar
Ukraine (playoffs)
;For places 1-2
* Chernomorets Odessa 2-1 0-0 SKA Odessa
Union republics finals
* no finals
* Torpedo Kutaisi and Lokomotiv Tbilisi qualified for promotion playoffs as two group winners
Top goalscorers
Class A
*
Gennadiy 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 run ...
(
Torpedo Moscow) – 22 goals
References
External links
1961 Soviet football championship RSSSF
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