The 1988 season was the 51st completed season of the USSR Football Championship: Top League. Spartak Moscow were the defending 11-times champions.

Teams

Promoted teams

FC Chernomorets Odessa FC Chornomorets Odesa ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Odesa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 capacity Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. According to the club's website, it was formed in 1936 as ...

– champion ''(returning after a season)'' * FC Lokomotiv Moscow – 2nd place ''(returning after seven seasons)''

Location

Final standings

Promotion *

Pamir Dushanbe CSKA Pamir Dushanbe ( tg, Клуби футболи ЦСКА-Помир Душанбе, Klubi Futboli CSKA Pomir Dushanbe; fa, زسکا پامیر دوشنبه) is a professional football club based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan that currently plays in ...

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Rotor Volgograd SC Rotor Volgograd (russian: СK Ротор) is a Russian professional football club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club will play in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2 in the 2022– ...

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Results

Top scorers

;16 goals * Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow) * Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro) ;15 goals * Mikhail Rusyayev (Lokomotiv Moscow) ;12 goals *

Sergei 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 Durin ...

(Spartak Moscow) ;11 goals *

Oleg 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 ...

(Dynamo Kyiv) ;10 goals * Mashalla Akhmedov (Neftchi) *

Ihor Petrov Ihor Hryhorovych Petrov (born 30 January 1964) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player. In 1983 Petrov took part in the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in the team of Ukrainian SSR. In 2012, he received the ...

(Shakhtar) ;9 goals * Sergei Dmitriyev (Zenit) * Vladimir Grechnev (Torpedo Moscow) * Gija Guruli (Dinamo Tbilisi) * Vladimir Liuty (Dnipro) *

Arminas Narbekovas Arminas Narbekovas (born 28 January 1965 in Gargždai) is a former Lithuanian football player. In 2003, he was selected by UEFA as his country's Golden Player, the greatest player of the past 50 years. Personal life Arminas Narbekovas was born ...

(Žalgiris) * Andrei Rudakov (Torpedo Moscow)

Clean sheets

;14 matches *

Valeri Sarychev Valeri Konstantinovich Sarychev (russian: Валерий Константинович Сарычев; born 12 January 1960), also known as Shin Eui-son ( ko, 신의손), is a former Tajikistani footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is regard ...

(Torpedo Moscow) ;12 matches *

Valeriy Horodov Valeriy Vasylyovich Horodov ( uk, Валерій Васильович Городов; russian: Валерий Васильевич Городов; born 14 February 1961) is a Russian and Ukraine, Ukrainian professional Association football, foot ...

(Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) ;11 matches *

Stanislav Cherchesov Stanislav Salamovich Cherchesov (russian: Станислав Саламович Черчесов, ; os, Черчесты Саламы фырт Станислав, Ĉerĉesty Salamy fyrt Stanislav; born 2 September 1963) is a Russian football ma ...

(Lokomotiv Moscow) * Aleksandr Podshivalov (Ararat Yerevan) *

Viktor Chanov Viktor Viktorovych Chanov ( uk, Віктор Вікторович Чанов; 21 July 1959 – 8 February 2017) was a Ukrainian football goalkeeper. Throughout the 1980s in the former USSR, Chanov played mainly for FC Dynamo Kyiv. Club career ...

(Dynamo Kyiv) ;10 matches *

Rinat Dasayev Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasayev (russian: Ринат Файзрахманович Дасаев, tt-Cyrl, Ринат Фәйзерахман улы Дасаев, translit=Rinat Fäyzerakhman uly Dasaev; born 13 June 1957) is a Russian football coa ...

(Spartak Moscow) ;9 matches *

Otar Gabelia Otar Gabelia ( ka, ოთარ ამბროსის ძე გაბელია; born 24 March 1953) is a Georgian football manager and a former player. He was a long-time goalkeeper for Dinamo Tbilisi. Winner of the Best Soviet Goalkeeper ...

(Dinamo Tbilisi) * Andrei Satsunkevich (Dinamo Minsk) ;7 matches * Mikhail Biryukov (Zenit Leningrad)

Medal squads

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

Number of teams by union republic

References

External links

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