The 1972 Soviet football championship was the 40th 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 34th among teams of sports societies and factories.
Zaria Voroshilovgrad
FC Zorya Luhansk ( uk, ФК «Зоря» Луганськ ) is a Ukrainian football team. Zorya Luhansk is based in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine. However, because of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the team play their games at Slavutych-Arena in Zapori ...
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
Top League
First League
Second League (finals)
ov 4-18, Sochi
;Additional Play-Off
ov 22, 25 SPARTAK Ivano-Frankovsk 0-1 3-1 Daugava Riga
Top goalscorers
Top League
*
Oleg Blokhin
Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin ( uk, Оле́г Володи́мирович Блохі́н, rus, Оле́г Влади́мирович Блохи́н; born 5 November 1952), is a former Ukrainian and Soviet footbal ...
(
Dinamo Kiev
Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was officia ...
) – 14 goals
First League
*
Berador Abduraimov
Berador Khasanovich Abduraimov (russian: Берадор Хасанович Абдураимов) (born May 14, 1943) is a Soviet former football player, who played for Pakhtakor for most of his football career as a striker. He is regarded as on ...
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Pakhtakor Tashkent
FC Pakhtakor Tashkent ( uz, Paxtakor futbol klubi) is an Uzbek professional association football, football club, based in the capital city Tashkent, that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Pakhtakor literally means "cotton-grower" in Englis ...
) – 34 goals
References
External links
1972 Soviet football championship RSSSF
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