1939 Soviet Top League was the fifth season of the

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 ...

known at that time as Group A. It started on May 12 with six games of the first round. The main calendar was scheduled to be finished on October 19 with the Moscow derby between Lokomotiv and Dynamo. However, due to numerous protests and postponed games the championship finished on November 30 in

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with game between Dynamo Tbilisi and Dynamo Odessa. The new champions became Spartak Moscow with two teams being relegated: Elektrik Leningrad and Dynamo Odessa. This was the first full season championship with each team playing over 25 games. The last year defending champions were Spartak Moscow. There were no newly promoted teams and initially was decided to conduct the championship with 12 teams. However the Soviet sport committee allowed for two Leningrad teams Stalinets and Elektrik to remain in the league. Spartak once again won the

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that started in summer with final played in mid-September. That was the last edition of the cup before

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Representation by republic

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Standings

Results

Top scorers

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Grigory Fedotov Grigory Ivanovich Fedotov (29 March 1916 – 8 December 1957) was a Soviet professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' nor ...

(CDKA Moscow) ;19 goals *

Boris Paichadze Boris Paichadze ( ka, ბორის პაიჭაძე, ; russian: Борис Соломонович Пайчадзе; 3 February 1915 – 9 October 1990) was a Georgian footballer, who played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi. The largest stadium in Ge ...

(Dinamo Tbilisi) ;18 goals * Sergei Kapelkin (CDKA Moscow) *

Viktor Semyonov Viktor Semyonovich Semyonov (born 28 June 1949) is a Soviet racewalker. He competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultur ...

(Spartak Moscow) ;16 goals * Ivan Mitronov (Metallurg Moscow) ;15 goals * Viktor Shilovsky (Dynamo Kiev) ;14 goals * Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow) ;13 goals * Aleksandr Nazarov (Dynamo Moscow) * Aleksei Zaytsev (Metallurg Moscow) * Georgi Zharkov (Torpedo Moscow)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1939–40 in European football (UEFA) Soviet Top League seasons 1

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