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 1973 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and

Ararat Yerevan Football Club Ararat Yerevan ( hy, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Արարատ Երևան), commonly known as Ararat Yerevan, is an Armenian football club based in Yerevan that plays in the Armenian Premier League. Since 1999, the club is ...

won the championship.

League standings

Results

Results in brackets indicate the results from

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s whenever games were drawn.

Top scorers

;18 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) ;16 goals *

Anatoli Kozhemyakin Anatoli Yevgenyevich Kozhemyakin (russian: Анатолий Евгеньевич Кожемякин, 24 February 1953 – 13 October 1974) was a Soviet football player. He died in a freak accident: he was stuck in an elevator, but was able to op ...

(Dynamo Moscow) ;13 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) ;12 goals *

Berador Abduraimov Berador Khasanovich Abduraimov (russian: Берадор Хасанович Абдураимов) (born May 14, 1943) is a Soviet former football player, who played for Pakhtakor for most of his football career as a striker. He is regarded as on ...

(Pakhtakor) *

Aleksandr Piskaryov Aleksandr Mikhaiylovich Piskaryov (russian: Александр Михайлович Пискарёв; born 18 November 1949) is a Russian football player and manager. Work history *Krasnaya Presnya Moscow (1980–83) *Kareda (1998–99) *FC Kh ...

(Spartak Moscow) ;11 goals * Mikhail Bulgakov (Spartak Moscow) *

Givi Nodia Givi Georgiyevich Nodia ( ka, გივი ნოდია; russian: Гиви Георгиевич Нодия; 2 January 1948 – 7 April 2005) was a Soviet Georgian association football player. Honours * Soviet Top League bronze: 1967, 1969, 1 ...

(Dinamo Tbilisi) ;10 goals *

Eduard Markarov Eduard Artyomovich Markarov ( hy, Էդուարդ Մարկարով, russian: Эдуард Артёмович Маркаров, az, Eduard Artyomoviç Markarov, born on 20 June 1942) is a retired Soviet football player who played striker for cl ...

(Ararat) * Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar) ;9 goals *

Vladimir Dorofeyev Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukr ...

(CSKA) * Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1973–74 in European football (UEFA)

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