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1979 Soviet Top League

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1980 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League in season 1979.

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Overview

1979 Top League was composed of 18 teams, the championship was won by Spartak Moscow.

On 11 August 1979, a mid-air collision killed virtually the entire FC Pakhtakor Tashkent team. The Top League ordered all the other teams to make three players available for a draft to restock the team, and Pakhtakor was given exemption from relegation for the next three years.

Top scorers

26 goals
  • Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)
    • 17 goals
  • Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
  • Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
  • Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
  • Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
    • 16 goals
  • Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow)
  • Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit)
    • 14 goals
  • Aleksandr Prokopenko (Dinamo Minsk)
  • Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)
  • Nikolai Vasilyev (Torpedo Moscow)

    • References

    1979 Soviet Top League Wikipedia
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