1953 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season1953
1952
1954

11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Qualification
1 Spartak Moscow (C) 20 11 7 2 47 15 3.133 29 League champions
2 Dynamo Tbilisi 20 11 5 4 39 24 1.625 27
3 Torpedo Moscow 20 11 3 6 34 34 1.000 25
4 Dynamo Moscow 20 8 7 5 34 19 1.789 23
5 Zenit Leningrad 20 11 1 8 25 21 1.190 23
6 Lokomotiv Moscow 20 6 6 8 21 28 0.750 18
7 Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev 20 6 5 9 22 25 0.880 17
8 Dynamo Kiev 20 6 5 9 21 26 0.808 17
9 Lokomotiv Kharkov 20 6 4 10 19 34 0.559 16
10 Dynamo Leningrad (W) 20 5 4 11 20 33 0.606 14 Replaced with Trudovye Rezervy Leningrad
11 Spartak Vilnius (R) 20 2 7 11 10 33 0.303 11 Relegation to Class B
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated; (W) ?

Results

Home \ Away DYK DLE DYN DTB KRY LKH LOK SPA SVL TOR ZEN
Dynamo Kiev 3–3 1–0 0–1 0–1 3–0 0–1 0–2 1–1 3–1 1–0
Dynamo Leningrad 1–1 1–3 0–0 0–1 2–1 0–0 1–3 1–0 1–2 0–1
Dynamo Moscow 2–0 2–0 2–2 1–1 0–0 3–1 2–2 0–0 0–1 2–0
Dynamo Tbilisi 3–0 5–0 3–2 2–1 2–0 3–0 0–0 2–1 4–0 3–1
Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev 0–1 1–3 1–0 1–2 5–0 2–0 0–0 3–0 0–2 1–2
Lokomotiv Kharkov 1–1 2–0 0–2 1–1 5–2 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow 1–2 2–1 0–3 4–2 1–1 4–1 3–3 2–0 1–0 0–4
Spartak Moscow 3–1 2–0 1–1 4–1 1–0 3–0 1–1 7–0 7–1 3–0
Spartak Vilnius 0–0 1–3 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–2 0–0 1–4 3–1 1–0
Torpedo Moscow 3–2 2–1 3–8 4–1 5–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 2–1
Zenit Leningrad 2–1 1–2 1–0 2–1 0–0 5–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

14 goals
9 goals
  • Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow)
8 goals
7 goals

References