Statistics of
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (), served as the top division (tier) of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The league's name was a conditional designation used for brevity since being completely owned and g ...
for the 1978 season.
Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and
Dinamo Tbilisi
Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia (country), Georgia. It was founded in 1925.
Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its Association football, football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating ...
won the championship.
Introduction of
draw limit, a number of games tied during a season.
League standings
Results
Top scorers
;19 goals
*
Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)
;15 goals
*
Ramaz Shengelia
Ramaz Shengelia ( ka, რამაზ შენგელია; 1 January 1957 – 21 June 2012) was a Georgian and Soviet footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
Born in Kutaisi, Shengelia started career in his hometown club Torpedo K ...
(Dinamo Tbilisi)
;13 goals
*
Oleg Blokhin
Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (, ; born 5 November 1952), is a Ukrainian former football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Blokhin was a standout striker for Dynamo ...
(Dynamo Kyiv)
;11 goals
*
Nikolai Latysh (Shakhtar)
;10 goals
*
Vladimir Klementyev (Zenit)
;9 goals
*
Nikolai Kolesov (Dynamo Moscow)
;8 goals
*
Aleksei Belenkov (CSKA Moscow)
*
Vakhtang Koridze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
*
Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya Voroshylovhrad)
;7 goals
*
Konstantin Bakanov (Pakhtakor)
*
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 ...
(Neftchi)
*
Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow)
*
Vladimir Fyodorov (Pakhtakor)
*
Yevgeni Khrabrostin (Torpedo Moscow)
*
David Kipiani
David Kipiani ( ka, დავით ყიფიანი; 18 June 1951 – 17 September 2001) was a Georgian and Soviet football midfielder and manager, who played for the USSR national team. Kipiani principally played as a playmaker an ...
(Dinamo Tbilisi)
*
Aleksandr Maksimenkov (Dynamo Moscow)
*
Vladimir Onischenko (Dynamo Kyiv)
*
Vladimir Ploskina (Chornomorets)
*
Andrei Redkous (Zenit)
*
Yuri Reznik (Shakhtar)
*
Vitaliy Shevchenko (Chornomorets)
*
Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)
References
Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
{{1978–79 in European football (UEFA)
1969
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Soviet
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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 ...