1988 Soviet Top League

Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other The 1988 season was the 51st completed season of the USSR Football Championship: Top League. Spartak Moscow, the defending 11-times champions, placed fourth this season.

Teams

Promoted teams

• FC Chernomorets Odessa – champion (returning after a season)
• FC Lokomotiv Moscow – 2nd place (returning after seven seasons)

Final standings

Promotion

• Pamir Dushanbe (Template:Country data Tajik SSR)
• Rotor Volgograd (Template:Country data Russian SFSR)

Top scorers

16 goals

• Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)
• Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

15 goals

• Mikhail Rusyayev (Lokomotiv Moscow)

12 goals

• Sergei Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)

11 goals

• Oleh Protasov (Dynamo Kyiv)

10 goals

• Mashalla Akhmedov (Neftchi)
• Ihor Petrov (Shakhtar Donetsk)

9 goals

• Sergei Dmitriyev (Zenit)
• Vladimir Grechnev (Torpedo Moscow)
• Gija Guruli (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Volodymyr Lyutyi (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
• Arminas Narbekovas (Žalgiris)
• Andrei Rudakov (Torpedo Moscow)

Clean sheets

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14 matches

• Valeri Sarychev (Torpedo Moscow)

12 matches

• Valeriy Horodov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

11 matches

• Stanislav Cherchesov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
• Aleksandr Podshivalov (Ararat Yerevan)
• Viktor Chanov (Dynamo Kyiv)

10 matches

• Rinat Dasayev (Spartak Moscow)

9 matches

• Otar Gabelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Andrei Satsunkevich (Dinamo Minsk)

7 matches

• Mikhail Biryukov (Zenit Leningrad)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Goalkeepers: Valeriy Horodov (25), Serhiy Krakovskyi (4), Igor Tyuterev (1). Defenders: Sergei Bashkirov (29 / 1), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (28), Oleksandr Sorokalet (27 / 1), Oleksiy Cherednyk (24 / 3), Serhiy Puchkov (22), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (7), Peter Neustädter (4), Serhiy Bezhenar (3), Oleksandr Chervonyi (1 / 1), Petro Buts (1), Oleh Fediukov (1). Midfielders: Volodymyr Bahmut (28 / 2), Mykola Kudrytsky (27 / 3), Anton Shokh (22 / 1), Vadym Yevtushenko (20), Vadym Tyshchenko (6), Viktor Rafalchuk (2), Yevhen Pokhlebayev (1). Forwards: Eduard Son (29 / 8), Yevhen Shakhov (28 / 16), Volodymyr Lyutyi (21 / 9), Igor Shkvyrin (10 / 2), Andriy Sydelnykov (8 / 1), Oleh Taran (4), Vasyl Storchak (2), Oleh Koshelyuk (1 / 1), Konstantin Yeryomenko (1), Yuriy Leonov (1), Valentyn Moskvyn (1). Manager: Yevhen Kucherevskyi. Transferred out during the season: Vadym Yevtushenko (to FC Dynamo Kyiv reserves), Peter Neustädter (to SC Tavriya Simferopol), Vasyl Storchak (to FC SKA Karpaty Lviv).

2. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (25), Aleksandr Zhidkov (5). Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (30 / 1), Oleh Kuznetsov (26 / 1), Andriy Bal (23), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (21), Volodymyr Bezsonov (19), Ihor Korniyets (13), Sergei Baltacha (12), Vladimir Gorilyi (11 / 1). Midfielders: Vasyl Rats (30 / 2), Hennadiy Lytovchenko (29 / 7), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (23 / 6), Oleksandr Zavarov (18 / 4), Ivan Yaremchuk (11), Andrei Kanchelskis (7 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (6 / 1), Serhiy Pohodin (3), Mykhaylo Stelmakh (1). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (29 / 11), Ihor Belanov (27 / 8). Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Transferred out during the season: Oleksandr Zavarov (to Template:Flagicon Juventus).

3. FC Torpedo Moscow

Goalkeepers: Valeri Sarychev (26), Aleksei Prudnikov (5). Defenders: Aleksandr Polukarov (29), Valentin Kovach (26 / 1), Sergei Prigoda (15), Sergei Bodak (3), Maksim Cheltsov (3), Dmitri Chugunov (2). Midfielders: Sergey Agashkov (30), Vladimir Grechnyov (29 / 9), Oleg Shirinbekov (29 / 2), Gennadi Grishin (27 / 1), Nikolai Savichev (25 / 6), Sergei Zhukov (19), Aleksei Yeryomenko (9 / 1), Sergei Shustikov (1). Forwards: Vadim Rogovskoy (29), Nikolai Pisarev (19 / 1), Andrei Rudakov (18 / 9), Yuri Savichev (17 / 6), Aleksandr Gitselov (13 / 2), Vladimir Kobzev (8 / 1), Yuri Tishkov (1). Manager: Valentin Ivanov. Transferred out during the season: Aleksei Yeryomenko (to FC Dynamo Moscow), Vladimir Kobzev (to FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don).

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	Template:Country data RSFSR	5	Dinamo Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad
	Template:Country data Ukrainian SSR		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

See also

• 1988 Soviet First League
• 1988 Soviet Second League

External links

• 1988 season at RSSSF