1984 Soviet Top League

The 1984 Soviet Top League was the 15th season of the Soviet Top League and 47th since the start of the Soviet top-tier club competitions. It started on March 10 and continued until November 24.

Zenit Leningrad won their first league title, while the defending champion Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk finished third. The league was composed of 18 teams and draw limit was implemented this season of 10 games. There were only allowed two substitutions. Footballers who were on a team list for one team, during the season were not allowed to compete for another except for those who were demobilized from the Soviet Army (sic) and returned to their home club. Those athletes transferred during the season were not allowed to play against the team for which they played earlier.

Teams

Promoted teams

• FC Kairat Alma-Ata – champion (returning after a season)
• SKA Rostov-na-Donu – 2nd place (returning after two seasons)

Top scorers

19 goals

• Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

18 goals

• Hamlet Mkhitaryan (Ararat)

17 goals

• Oleh Protasov (Dnipro)
• Yuri Tarasov (Metalist)
• Yuri Zheludkov (Zenit)

14 goals

• Andrei Redkous (Torpedo Moscow)

13 goals

• Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)
• Sergei Stukashov (Kairat)

12 goals

• Georgi Kondratyev (Dinamo Minsk)
• Yevstafi Pekhlevanidi (Kairat)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Zenit Leningrad

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Biryukov (34). Defenders: Aleksei Stepanov (32 / 2), Sergei Vedeneyev (28 / 1), Anatoli Davydov (27 / 1), Vladimir Dolgopolov (27), Sergey Kuznetsov (22), Valeri Zolin (13), Nikolai Vorobyov (8), Gennadi Timofeyev (6). Midfielders: Valeri Broshin (32 / 4), Yuri Zheludkov (31 / 17), Arkadi Afanasyev (28 / 1), Vyacheslav Melnikov (21 / 3), Dmitri Barannik (19), Nikolay Larionov (9 / 2), Igor Komarov (5 / 2). Forwards: Sergey Dmitriev (30 / 8), Vladimir Klementyev (29 / 10), Boris Chukhlov (28 / 7), Yuri Gerasimov (7 / 1), Aleksandr Zakharikov (6). Manager: Pavel Sadyrin. Transferred out during the season: none.

2. FC Spartak Moscow

Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2), Andrei Mikhalychev (1). Defenders: Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 2), Aleksandr Bubnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (31), Boris Pozdnyakov (30 / 2), Sergei Bazulev (16), Sergei Shvetsov (11), Sergei Shulgin (3), Almir Kayumov (1). Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 8), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Sergey Shavlo (32 / 5), Yevgeni Sidorov (26 / 4), Fyodor Cherenkov (25 / 8), Guram Adzhoyev (13 / 1), Valeri Gladilin (12 / 3), Oleksandr Baranov (2). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (32 / 13), Mikhail Rusyayev (6 / 1), Jevgeņijs Miļevskis (6), Oleg Kuzhlev (5). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (31 / 3), Viktor Konsevich (3). Defenders: Sergei Bashkirov (32), Serhiy Puchkov (29 / 2), Oleksandr Lysenko (28 / 2), Mykola Pavlov (19 / 1), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (17), Petro Kutuzov (17), Petro Chylibi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (1), Anatoliy Nazarenko (1), Oleksandr Chervonyi (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (33 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (30 / 2), Andriy Dilay (30 / 1), Volodymyr Bahmut (25 / 2), Oleksiy Cherednyk (19 / 2), Oleh Serebryanskyi (13 / 2), Mykola Fedorenko (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (3), Anatoli Zagrebayev (2), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (2). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (34 / 17), Volodymyr Lyutyi (30 / 8), Oleh Taran (20 / 7). One own goal scored by Yuri Lykov (FC SKA Rostov-on-Don). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustymchyk (retired).

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	Template:Country data RSFSR	6	CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, SKA Rostov-na-Donu, 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 Armenian SSR	1	Ararat Yerevan
	Template:Country data Azerbaijan SSR		Neftchi Baku
	Template:Country data Belarusian SSR		Dinamo Minsk
	Template:Country data Georgian SSR		Dinamo Tbilisi
	Template:Country data Kazakh SSR		Kairat Alma-Ata
	Template:Country data Lithuanian SSR		Zhalgiris Vilnius
	Template:Country data Uzbek SSR		Pakhtakor Tashkent

External links

• 1984 season regulations. football.lg.ua
• 1984 season calendar. fc-dynamo.ru
• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)