Soviet First League 1991 was the last season of the

Soviet First League The Soviet First League in football (russian: Первая лига СССР по футболу) was the second highest division of Soviet football,Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футбо ...

. With the collapse of the

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the football structure was reformed. All of its participants have entered the Top Divisions of the republics of their origin, except of ''Dinamo Sukhumi'' that because of the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia was dissolved. Due to the

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, a process of

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accelerated as well as a process of

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in former

union republics The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics ( rus, Сою́зные Респу́блики, r=Soyúznye Respúbliki) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( ...

. Number of cities changed their names returning to their original names.

Teams

Promoted teams

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– Winner of the

1990 Soviet Second League The Second League was restructured reducing number of zones from 9 to 3 due to withdrawals by clubs from Estonia, Georgia (country), Georgia, Latvia (except Pardaugava Riga, a majority-Russian club) and Lithuania as they declared independence from ...

, Zone Center ''(returning after an absence of 10 seasons)'' * FC Bukovina Chernovtsy – Winner of the

, Zone West ''(debut)'' * FC Neftianik Fergona – Winner of the

, Zone East ''(debut)'' * FC Novbakhor Namangan – Runner-up of the

, Zone East ''(debut)'' * FC Textilshchik Kamyshin – Runner-up of the

, Zone Center ''(debut)'' *''

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'' – Runner-up of the

, Zone West ''(debut)''

Relegated teams

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– ''(Returning after 2 seasons)''

Renamed teams

*Prior to the start of the season ''Tiras Tiraspol'' was renamed to Tiligul Tiraspol. *Prior to the start of the season ''Nistru Kishenev'' was renamed to Zimbrul Kishinev.

Replaced or withdrawn teams

With

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, the promoted

was dissolved and replaced with

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that was based on the junior squad of the Latvian national football team (U-21) and took part in the

1990 Baltic League 1990 Baltic League (russian: Чемпионат Прибалтики по футболу 1990) was an international football competition organized in 1990 between three Baltic states with the ongoing dissolution of the Soviet Union. The league co ...

placing only 15th out 17 teams.

Locations

League standings

''Notes:'' * On 6 September 1991, the city of Leningrad was renamed into

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

* On 4 September 1991, the city of Sverdlovsk was renamed into

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Number of teams by union republic

Top scorers

Managers

External links

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at the

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