The 1964 Class A First Group was the 26th season of the Soviet football championship at top division and the 15th for Class A. The season started on 27 March 1964 and finished on 8 November 1964. Upon conclusion of the regular season, at the end of November in warmer

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took place additional play-offs for the first place and the 13th place. * 17 teams took part in the league with

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winning the championship. * Volga Gorky and Shinnik Yaroslavl were the newly promoted clubs. * According to the rules, if two teams had the equal number of points the winner was decided by the final match between them. The game between Dinamo and Torpedo took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan SSR with

winning 4-1 after extra time. * FC Dynamo Kyiv qualified for CWC 1965–66 by beating Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 1–0 in the

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this year becoming the first Soviet football club in European competitions. * The defending champions Dynamo Moscow placed seventh.

League standings

Results

Top scorers

;16 goals *

Vladimir Fedotov Vladimir Grigoryevich Fedotov (russian: Владимир Григорьевич Федотов; 18 January 1943 – 29 March 2009) was a Soviet football striker and manager who holds the all-time record of caps for CSKA Moscow. He was the son of ...

(CSKA) ;15 goals *

Viktor Kanevskyi Viktor Izrailyovych (Illich) Kanevskyi ( ua, Віктор Ізраїльович Каневський, russian: Виктор Израилевич Каневский; 3 October 1936 – 25 November 2018) was a Ukrainian and Soviet football player ...

(Dinamo Kiev) ;14 goals * Valentin Ivanov (Torpedo Moscow) ;13 goals * Ilya Datunashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi) ;12 goals *

Slava Metreveli Slava Kalistratovich Metreveli ( ka, სლავა კალისტრატეს ძე მეტრეველი; russian: Слава Калистратович Метревели, 30 May 1936 – 7 January 1998) was a Soviet and G ...

(Dinamo Tbilisi) ;10 goals *

Oleg Kopayev Oleg Pavlovich Kopayev (russian: Олег Павлович Копаев; 28 November 1937 – 3 April 2010) was a Soviet football player. Honours * Soviet Top League runner-up: 1966. * Grigory Fedotov club member. * Soviet Top League top scorer: ...

(SKA Rostov-on-Don) *

Eduard Malofeyev Eduard Vassilievich Malofeyev ( rus, Эдуа́рд Васи́льевич Малофе́ев, p=məlɐˈfʲeɪf, be, Эдуард Васілевіч Малафееў ''Eduard Malafyeyew''; born 2 June 1942 in Kolomna) is a Soviet and Belarusi ...

(Dinamo Minsk) * Viktor Ponedelnik (SKA Rostov-on-Don) * Oleg Sergeyev (Torpedo Moscow) ;9 goals * Yuri Ananchenko (Shakhtyor) * Vladimir Barkaya (Dinamo Tbilisi) * Igor Chislenko (Dynamo Moscow) * Valeryan Chkhartishvili (Torpedo Kutaisi) * Boris Kazakov (CSKA)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1964–65 in European football (UEFA) Soviet Top League seasons 1

Soviet 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 nation ...