1983 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1983 season.

Teams

Promoted teams

• Zhalgiris Vilnius – champion (returning after 21 seasons)
• Nistru Kishinev – 2nd place (returning after nine seasons)

Top scorers

18 goals

• Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow)

17 goals

• Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk)

15 goals

• Volodymyr Fink (Chornomorets)
• Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
• Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar)
• Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)

14 goals

• Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris)

13 goals

• Viktor Kolyadko (CSKA Moscow)
• Oleh Taran (Dnipro)

11 goals

• Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow)
• Valeriy Petrakov (Torpedo Moscow)
• Igor Ponomaryov (Neftchi)
• Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA Moscow)
• Vadym Yevtushenko (Dynamo Kyiv)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (34). Defenders: Mykola Pavlov (33 / 3), Petro Kutuzov (27), Oleksandr Lysenko (17 / 1), Yuriy Mirhorodskyi (17), Serhiy Puchkov (13), Oleksandr Chervonyi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (7), Volodymyr Ustinov (6), Anatoliy Nazarenko (5), Valeriy Zuyev (2). Midfielders: Andriy Dilay (34 / 2), Vyktor Kuznetsov (31 / 7), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (30 / 5), Oleh Serebryanskyi (26 / 1), Hennadiy Lytovchenko (24 / 5), Mykola Fedorenko (17 / 3), Volodymyr Bahmut (6), Volodymyr Kobzarev (5). Forwards: Oleh Taran (30 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (24 / 9), Oleh Protasov (21 / 7), Aleksandr Pogorelov (21 / 5). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustinov (to FC Kolos Nikopol), Valeriy Zuyev (retired).

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Andrei Mikhalychev (1). Defenders: Sergei Bazulev (30), Gennady Morozov (30), Yevgeni Mileshkin (29 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (25 / 3), Boris Pozdnyakov (25), Oleg Romantsev (17), Aleksandr Bubnov (13), Sergei Savchenkov (3), Sergei Shulgin (1). Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 18), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Valeri Gladilin (26 / 9), Yuri Reznik (25 / 4), Edgar Gess (18 / 2), Sergei Shvetsov (8), Mikhail Dubinin (5 / 2), Vladimir Korolyov (1), Sergei Nikitin (1). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (16 / 5), Sergei Argudyayev (6), Mikhail Rusyayev (5), Oleg Kuzhlev (2), Oleg Smirnov (1). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: Oleg Romantsev (retired), Mikhail Dubinin (to FC Metallurg Aldan).

3. FC Dinamo Minsk

Goalkeepers: Yury Kurbyko (30), Mikhail Vergeyenko (4), Arkadi Batalov (1). Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (32 / 1), Sergei Borovsky (32), Viktor Yanushevsky (30), Viktor Shishkin (24), Liudas Rumbutis (22 / 3), Oļegs Aleksejenko (18), Igor Belov (10), Yury Trukhan (5). Midfielders: Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 1), Sergey Gotsmanov (29 / 5), Sergei Aleinikov (29 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (26 / 1), Aleksandr Prokopenko (12 / 2), Valeri Melnikov (9 / 1). Forwards: Igor Gurinovich (28 / 17), Georgi Kondratyev (28 / 8), Viktor Sokol (18 / 9), Pyotr Vasilevsky (17 / 1). Manager: Eduard Malofeyev. Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Prokopenko (released).

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	Template:Country data RSFSR	5	CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
	Template:Country data Ukrainian SSR		Chernomorets Odesa, Dinamo Kyiv, 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 Moldavian SSR		Nistru Kishinev
	Template:Country data Lithuanian SSR		Zhalgiris Vilnius
	Template:Country data Uzbek SSR		Pakhtakor Tashkent

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)