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 1979 season.

Overview

1979 Top League was composed of 18 teams, the championship was won by

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. On 11 August 1979, a

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killed virtually the entire

FC Pakhtakor Tashkent (The cotton grower) uz, Sherlar(The Lions) uz, Xalq jamoasi(People's team) , founded = , ground = Pakhtakor Central Stadium , capacity = 35,000 , owner = , chairman = Bobur Shodiev , chrtitle = President , manager ...

team. The Top League ordered all the other teams to make three players available for a draft to restock the team, and Pakhtakor was given exemption from relegation for the next three years.

League standings

Results

Top scorers

;26 goals * Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar) ;17 goals *

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(SKA Rostov-on-Don) *

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) *

Khoren Hovhannisyan Khoren Oganesian ( hy, Խորեն Հովհաննիսյան; born 10 January 1955), also known as Khoren Hovhannisyan, is a former Armenian and Soviet football player who played as a midfielder and current manager and coach. He was awarded the Mas ...

(Ararat) * Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow) ;16 goals * Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow) * Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit) ;14 goals * Aleksandr Prokopenko (Dinamo Minsk) * Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow) * Nikolai Vasilyev (Torpedo Moscow)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1979–80 in European football (UEFA) Soviet Top League seasons 1

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