*17 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. *

qualified for Champions Cup 1966–67 and FC Spartak Moscow qualified for CWC 1966–67.

League standings

Results

Top scorers

;18 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) ;17 goals *

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) ;15 goals *

Boris Kazakov Boris Aleksandrovich Kazakov (russian: Борис Александрович Казаков) (born November 6, 1940 in Kuibyshev; died November 25, 1978 in Kuibyshev) was a Soviet football player. He died when he tried to drive his car over the ...

(CSKA Moscow) ;13 goals *

Lev Gorshkov Lev may refer to: Common uses *Bulgarian lev, the currency of Bulgaria *an abbreviation for Leviticus, the third book of the Hebrew Bible and the Torah People and fictional characters *Lev (given name) *Lev (surname) Places *Lev, Azerbaijan, a ...

(Lokomotiv Moscow) *

Gennadi Krasnitsky Gennadi Aleksandrovich Krasnitsky (russian: Геннадий Александрович Красницкий) (August 27, 1940 in Tashkent – June 12, 1988 in Qurghonteppa, suicide by jumping out of the highrise window) was a Soviet footba ...

(Pakhtakor) ;12 goals *

Eduard Streltsov Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov ( rus, Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Стрельцо́в, p=ɨdʊˈart ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲitɕ strʲɪlʲˈtsof, a=Ru-Eduard Streltsov-yzavyalo.ogg; 21 July 1937 – 22 July 1990) was a Soviet footballer ...

(Torpedo Moscow) ;11 goals *

Mikhail Mustygin Mikhail Mikhailovich Mustygin (russian: Михаил Михайлович Мустыгин; 27 October 1937 – 27 January 2023) was a Soviet and Belarusian footballer who played as a striker. Career Mustygin started his career with FC Avangar ...

(Dinamo Minsk) *

Viktor Serebryanikov Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov (russian: Виктор Петрович Серебряников; uk, Віктор Петрович Серебряников, 29 March 1940 – 12 November 2014) was a Soviet association football player from Ukraine ...

(Dynamo Kyiv) ;10 goals *

Andriy Biba Andriy Andriyovych (or Andrei Andreyevich) Biba (russian: Андрей Андреевич Биба; uk, Андрій Андрійович Біба; born 10 August 1937) is a retired Ukrainian football player and coach. Career Biba's first tea ...

(Dynamo Kyiv) * Dzhumber Khazhaliya (Torpedo Kutaisi) * Vitaly Khmelnitsky (Dynamo Kyiv) * Valeri Lobanovsky (Chornomorets) * Eduard Markarov (Neftyanik) *

Ishtvan Sekech Ishtvan Sekech (born István Szekecs; 3 December 1939 – 28 January 2019) was Ukrainian football player and coach of Hungarian ethnic background. As a player, Sekech appeared in 223 matches and scored 43 goals in the Soviet championships. He cap ...

(SKA Odessa)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1965–66 in European football (UEFA) Soviet Top League seasons 1

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, ...