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1939 Soviet Top League

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Season
  
1939

Champion
  
FC Spartak Moscow

Matches played
  
182

Champions
  
FC Spartak Moscow

Goals scored
  
649

Top goalscorer
  
(21) Grigory Fedotov (CDKA)

Biggest home win
  
Spartak 8–0 Dynamo Od. (July 8)

Biggest away win
  
Dynamo Od. 0–6 Dynamo M. (October 12)

Highest scoring
  
Dynamo L. 3–7 CDKA (June 15)

Relegated
  
FC Elektrosila Leningrad, FC Dynamo Odessa

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1938 Soviet Top League

1939 Soviet Top League was the fifth season of the Soviet Top League known at that time as Group A.

Contents

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 Tbilisi 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 cup competition that started in summer with final played in mid-September. That was the last edition of the cup before the World War II.

Representation by republic

  •  Russian SFSR 10
  •  Ukrainian SSR 3
  •  Georgian SSR 1
  • Top scorers

    21 goals
  • Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)
  • 19 goals
  • Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
  • 18 goals
  • Sergei Kapelkin (CDKA Moscow)
  • Viktor Semyonov (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

    1939 Soviet Top League Wikipedia