Teams

Promoted teams

FC Fakel Voronezh FC Fakel Voronezh (russian: Футбольный клуб "Факел" Воронеж) is a Soviet and Russian professional football club based in Voronezh. Founded in 1947, the club has played in the Soviet Top League and the Russian Premier Le ...

– champion ''(returning for the first time since 1961 after twenty 24 seasons, known as Trud Voronezh)'' *

FC Torpedo Kutaisi FC Torpedo Kutaisi is a Georgian professional football club based in Kutaisi, Georgia's third largest city. 'Torpedo Kutaisi' was founded in 1946 and in just three years the club became the winner of the Football Championship of that time. Torpe ...

– 2nd place ''(returning after a season)''

Location

Final table

* For the following season the League was reduced to 16 members. The teams that finished 15th and 16th played a mini-tournament with the two best out of the Soviet First League. Out of this tournament the two best teams continued on in ''the Soviet Top League''. * For the 1986 season there was no promotion out of the Soviet First League.

Results

Top scorers

;35 goals *

Oleh Protasov Oleh Valeriyovych Protasov ( uk, Олег Валерійович Протасов; born 4 February 1964) is a Ukrainian and Soviet former footballer who played as a striker. He was a key member of the Soviet Union national team throughout the ...

(Dnipro) ;14 goals *

Vladimir Klementyev Vladimir Alekseyevich Klementyev (russian: Владимир Алексеевич Клементьев; born January 4, 1956, in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg) is a Soviet professional football coach and a former player. Honours * Soviet Top Le ...

(Zenit) *

Sergey Rodionov Sergei Yurievich Rodionov (russian: Серге́й Юрьевич Родионов, born 3 September 1962) is a Russian football coach and former professional player, who played most of his career as a forward for Spartak Moscow. Career Dur ...

(Spartak Moscow) ;13 goals * Fyodor Cherenkov (Spartak Moscow) *

Oleh Taran Oleh Anatolyevich Taran ( uk, Олег Анатолійович Таран; born 11 January 1960) is a Ukrainian footballer coach and former player. He was a prolific forward who possessed a powerful shot and was capable of dribbling quickly an ...

(Dnipro) ;12 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) * Viktor Grachyov (Shakhtar) *

Sigitas Jakubauskas Sigitas Jakubauskas (born 29 December 1958 in Kaunas) is a retired Soviet and Lithuanian football player. International career Jakubauskas played his only game for USSR on 7 August 1985 in a friendly against Romania Romania ( ; ro, Ro ...

(Žalgiris) ;11 goals * Georgi Kondratyev (Dinamo Minsk) * Sergei Volgin (Kairat)

Medal squads

''(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)''

Number of teams by union republic

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1985–86 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 ...