Overview

*19 teams took part in the league with

FC Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet ...

winning the championship. *

qualified for Champions Cup 1967–68 and

FC Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. The club will return to the Russian Premier League in the 2025–26 season. Their colours are white and b ...

qualified for CWC 1967–68 as runners-up of the

Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ...

1965-66. *The top 3 team with the most wins qualified for the World Cup.

League standings

Results

Top scorers

;20 goals *

Ilya Datunashvili Ilya Ilyich Datunashvili (; ka, ილია დათუნაშვილი; 1 September 1937 – 11 February 2022) was a Soviet Union, Soviet Georgia (country), Georgian association football, football player. Among his many achievements, th ...

(Dinamo Tbilisi) ;19 goals *

Anatoliy Byshovets Anatoliy Fyodorovich Byshovets (, ; born 23 April 1946) is a Soviet and Russian football manager of Ukrainian origin and former Soviet international striker. He played his entire professional career with club side Dynamo Kyiv. He won Olympic g ...

(Dynamo Kyiv) ;15 goals * Boris Kazakov (CSKA Moscow) *

Nikolai Osyanin Nikolai Viktorovich Osyanin (; 12 December 1941 – 21 March 2022) was a Soviet footballer who played as a striker. International career Osyanin scored on his debut for the USSR national team on 4 December 1965 in a friendly against Uruguay. ...

(Spartak Moscow) ;14 goals *

Kazbek Tuaev Kazbek Alievich Tuaev (Kazbek Alirza oglu Tuayev, , ; born 13 November 1940 in Alyat, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is an Azerbaijani footballer and manager. Career Tuaev played for Neftchi Baku as a forward from 1961 to 1972 and managed the side i ...

(Neftyanik Baku) * Oleg Kopayev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) *

Vladimir Kozlov Oleg Aleksandrovich Prudius (born April 27, 1969) better known by his ring name Vladimir Kozlov, is a Ukrainian-American actor and Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he won the WWE Raw Ta ...

(Lokomotiv Moscow) * Gennadi Matveyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) ;12 goals *

Anatoliy Banishevskiy Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy (; ; 23 February 1946, in Baku – 10 December 1997, in Baku) was an Azerbaijani association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. Throughout most of his playing and coachi ...

(Neftyanik Baku) *

Eduard Markarov Eduard Artyomovich Markarov (, , , born on 20 June 1942) is a retired Soviet football player who played striker for clubs Torpedo Armavir, Neftchi Baku and Ararat Yerevan and for the Soviet Union national football team. In his career as a ma ...

(Neftyanik Baku) *

Eduard Streltsov Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov ( rus, Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Стрельцо́в, p=ɨdʊˈart ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲitɕ strʲɪlʲˈtsof, a=Ru-Eduard Streltsov-yzavyalo.ogg; 21 July 1937 – 22 July 1990) was a Soviet footballer ...

(Torpedo Moscow)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1966–67 in European football (UEFA) Soviet Top League seasons 1

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...