Season 1936 spring Relegated none Goals scored 85 | Champions FC Dynamo Moscow Champion FC Dynamo Moscow Matches played 21 | |
Biggest away win Krasnaya Zarya 2–7 Dynamo K. (May 31)CDKA 1–6 Dynamo K. (June 11) People also search for 1937 Soviet Top League | ||
The 1936 season was the first season of the Soviet Top League. The season was split into two championships with a cup competition between them that took place in August 1936. The first part (considered spring) started in late May and finished by mid of July with a single match played by each participant against each other. The same format was resumed in the fall that started in September finishing before November. The main contenders for the title appeared to be the Moscow's Spartak and Dynamo.
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Overview
The first championship started on May 22, 1936, with the game FC Dynamo Leningrad - FC Lokomotiv Moscow 3:1 on the Dynamo Stadium in Leningrad. The spring half finished on July 17, 1936, with two games in Moscow and Leningrad. During the season each team played another team once. The points were awarded in the following manner: three for a win, two for a draw, one for a loss, and none for no appearance. No teams were relegated to the B Group, instead it was extended to eight teams in the autumn championship.
League standings
Note: Classification is done by points and then goal difference. Please, also note that FC Krasnaya Zaria won a match against their city-mates FC Dynamo 1:0 at Dynamo Stadium (Leningrad) on June 5, 1936. The decisive game that guaranteed the title for Dynamo Moscow took place on July 11, 1936, when they beat Spartak 1:0 at Dynamo Stadium (Moscow). The host team for that game was considered to be Spartak.
Round by round
The following table is a historic representation of the team's position in the standings after the completion of each round.
Last updated: 24 April 2010
Source: helmsoccer.narod.ru (Russian)
Top scorers
Medal squads
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
Stadiums
Note: Balitsky was Narkom of NKVD, later was executed during the Great Purge.
Overview
This tournament was exact replica of the spring championship by the format of the competition, including the nomination of points. The Georgian FC Dynamo Tbilisi was admitted to the League expanding it to eight teams. The defending champion was FC Dynamo Moscow.
It opened with two games in Leningrad and Moscow on September 5, 1936, soon after the Soviet Cup final that took place just week prior to that on August 28. The season concluded on October 30, 1936, with three games in Moscow, Leningrad, and Tbilisi. It was then when Spartak Moscow by beating CDKA at their home turf (CSKA Stadium) passed Dinamo Moscow in rankings to obtain the first place and with it the first national title.
League Standings
Round by round
The following table is a historic representation of the team's position in the standings after the completion of each round.
Last updated: 24 April 2010
Source: helmsoccer.narod.ru (Russian)
Top scorers
Medal squads
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)