1982 Soviet Top League

Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1982 season.

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.

The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.

Top scorers

23 goals

• Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)

18 goals

• Merab Megreladze (Torpedo Kutaisi)

16 goals

• Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA)

13 goals

• Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk)

12 goals

• Boris Chukhlov (Zenit)
• Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow)
• Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
• Andrei Redkous (Torpedo Moscow)
• Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dinamo Minsk

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Vergeyenko (28 / 1), Yury Kurbyko (7). Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (31 / 7), Yury Trukhan (29), Viktor Yanushevsky (27), Sergei Borovsky (25), Viktor Shishkin (18), Liudas Rumbutis (17), Igor Belov (12). Midfielders: Aleksandr Prokopenko (31 / 11), Sergey Gotsmanov (31 / 2), Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (29 / 3), Sergei Aleinikov (21 / 8), Valeri Melnikov (18), Alyaksandr Vanyushkin (1). Forwards: Georgi Kondratyev (32 / 10), Igor Gurinovich (28 / 13), Pyotr Vasilevsky (20 / 5), Viktor Sokol (2 / 1). Manager: Eduard Malofeyev. Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (24), Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (12). Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (32 / 5), Oleksandr Sorokalet (29), Volodymyr Lozynskyi (28 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (25 / 2), Volodymyr Bezsonov (18 / 4), Oleksandr Boyko (12), Yuriy Makhynya (2). Midfielders: Andriy Bal (31 / 5), Yaroslav Dumanskyi (29 / 2), Leonid Buryak (21 / 3), Aleksandr Khapsalis (14 / 2), Vasyl Rats (11 / 1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (10), Pavlo Yakovenko (4). Forwards: Viktor Khlus (31 / 10), Vadym Yevtushenko (25 / 9), Oleg Blokhin (24 / 10), Hryhoriy Pasechnyi (4 / 1). Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (28), Aleksei Prudnikov (12). Defenders: Oleg Romantsev (33 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (27), Vladimir Shcherbak (24), Boris Pozdnyakov (19), Vladimir Bukiyevskiy (4), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (2), Alexander Mirzoyan (2). Midfielders: Sergey Shavlo (34 / 11), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Yuri Gavrilov (31 / 6), Edgar Gess (30 / 5), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Sergei Nikitin (2). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (30 / 9), Aleksandr Kalashnikov (26 / 5), Sergei Shvetsov (24 / 9), Viktor Hrachov (5 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (3), Vladimir Nikonov (1), Oleg Smirnov (1). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: Viktor Hrachov (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk).

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	Template:Country data RSFSR	6	CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Kuban Krasnodar, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
2	Template:Country data Ukrainian SSR	5	Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk
3	Template:Country data Georgian SSR	2	Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi
4	Template:Country data Armenian SSR	1	Ararat Yerevan
	Template:Country data Azerbaijan SSR		Neftchi Baku
	Template:Country data Belarusian SSR		Dinamo Minsk
	Template:Country data Kazakh SSR		Kairat Alma-Ata
	Template:Country data Uzbek SSR		Pakhtakor Tashkent

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)