Statistics of

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

for the 1972 season.

Overview

Sixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship.

League standings

Results

Top scorers

;14 goals *

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 ...

(Dynamo Kyiv) ;13 goals *

Oganes Zanazanyan Hovhannes Arutyunovich Zanazanyan ( hy, Հովհանես Զանազանյան, russian: Оганес Арутюнович Заназанян; 10 December 1946 – 4 October 2015) was a Soviet football player and an Armenian coach. Honours * Sov ...

(Ararat) ;12 goals *

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(Zenit) * Yuri Smirnov (Torpedo Moscow) ;11 goals *

Viktor Kolotov Viktor Mikhailovich Kolotov (russian: Виктор Михайлович Колотов; ua, Віктор Михайлович Колотов; 3 July 1949 – 3 January 2000) was a Soviet and Ukrainian footballer. He was born in the settlement ...

(Dynamo Kyiv) ;10 goals *

Anatoliy Banishevskiy Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy ( az, Anatoli Andreyeviç Banişevski; russian: Анатолий Андреевич Банишевский; 23 February 1946, in Baku – 10 December 1997, in Baku) was an Azerbaijani footballer. Throughout most o ...

(Neftchi) * Vladimir Onischenko (Zorya) * Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don) ;9 goals *

Arkady Andreasyan Arkady Georgievich Andreasyan ( hy, Արկադի Գեորգիի Անդրեասյան, russian: Аркадий Георгиевич Андреасян; 11 August 1947 – 23 December 2020) was a Soviet Armenian football player and manager. He pla ...

(Ararat) *

Vladimir Muntyan Volodymyr Fedorovych Muntyan ( uk, Володимир Федорович Мунтян, russian: Владимир Фёдорович Мунтян, ro, Vladimir Muntean), (born 14 September 1946, Kotovsk, USSR) is a Soviet and Ukrainian midfield ...

(Dynamo Kyiv) *

Pavel Sadyrin Pavel Fyodorovich Sadyrin (russian: Павел Фёдорович Садырин; 18 September 1942 – 1 December 2001) was a Soviet and Russian footballer and manager. Career Sadyrin played as a midfielder for Zvezda Perm and Zenit Leningra ...

(Zenit) * Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk) * Yuri Yeliseyev (Zorya)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1972–73 in European football (UEFA)

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