1964 Soviet Top League
Appearance
Season | 1964 |
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Dates | 27 March–8 November 18 November–22 November(playoffs) |
Champions | Dinamo Tbilisi(1st title) |
Relegated | Volga Gorky Kairat Alma-Ata Shinnik Yaroslavl Moldova Chisinau |
European Cup | none |
Cup Winners' Cup | Dynamo Kyiv |
Matches played | 274 |
Goals scored | 544 (1.99 per match) |
Best Player | Valery Voronin(Torpedo M) |
Top goalscorer | Vladimir Fedotov(CSKA) |
Best goalkeeper | Viktor Bannikov(Dynamo Kv) |
←1963 1965→ |
The1964 Class A First Groupwas the 26th season of the Soviet football championship at top division and the 15th for Class A. The season started on 27 March 1964 and finished on 8 November 1964. Upon conclusion of the regular season, at the end of November in warmerTashkenttook place additional play-offs for the first place and the 13th place.
- 17 teams took part in the league withFC Dinamo Tbilisiwinning the championship.
- Volga Gorky and Shinnik Yaroslavl were the newly promoted clubs.
- According to the rules, if two teams had the equal number of points the winner was decided by the final match between them. The game between Dinamo and Torpedo took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan SSR withFC Dinamo Tbilisiwinning 4-1 afterextra time.
- FC Dynamo Kyivqualified forCWC 1965–66by beating Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 1–0 in thenational cupthis year becoming the first Soviet football club in European competitions.
- The defending champions Dynamo Moscow placed seventh.
League standings
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Dinamo Tbilisi(C) | 32 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 48 | 30 | +18 | 46 | League champions |
2 | Torpedo Moscow | 32 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 52 | 19 | +33 | 46 | |
3 | CSKA Moscow | 32 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 49 | 23 | +26 | 43 | |
4 | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 32 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 40 | 28 | +12 | 38 | |
5 | Shakhtyor Donetsk | 32 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 35 | 26 | +9 | 37 | |
6 | Dinamo Kiev | 32 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 42 | 29 | +13 | 36 | Qualification forCup Winners' Cup first round |
7 | Dinamo Moscow | 32 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 34 | |
8 | Spartak Moscow | 32 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 32 | |
9 | Dinamo Minsk | 32 | 7 | 17 | 8 | 24 | 21 | +3 | 31 | |
10 | Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev | 32 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 24 | 35 | −11 | 28 | |
11 | Zenit Leningrad | 32 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 30 | 35 | −5 | 27 | |
12 | Neftyanik Baku | 32 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 25 | 30 | −5 | 27 | |
13 | Torpedo Kutaisi | 32 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 37 | −17 | 27 | |
14 | Volga Gorky(R) | 32 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 38 | −19 | 27 | Relegation toClass A Second Group |
15 | Kairat Alma-Ata(R) | 32 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 23 | 27 | −4 | 26 | |
16 | Shinnik Yaroslavl(R) | 32 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 20 | 48 | −28 | 21 | |
17 | Moldova Chișinău(R) | 32 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 44 | −29 | 18 |
Results
[edit]Top scorers
[edit]- 16 goals
- Vladimir Fedotov(CSKA)
- 15 goals
- Viktor Kanevskyi(Dinamo Kiev)
- 14 goals
- Valentin Ivanov(Torpedo Moscow)
- 13 goals
- Ilya Datunashvili(Dinamo Tbilisi)
- 12 goals
- Slava Metreveli(Dinamo Tbilisi)
- 10 goals
- Oleg Kopayev(SKA Rostov-on-Don)
- Eduard Malofeyev(Dinamo Minsk)
- Viktor Ponedelnik(SKA Rostov-on-Don)
- Oleg Sergeyev(Torpedo Moscow)
- 9 goals
- Yuri Ananchenko(Shakhtyor)
- Vladimir Barkaya(Dinamo Tbilisi)
- Igor Chislenko(Dynamo Moscow)
- Valeryan Chkhartishvili(Torpedo Kutaisi)
- Boris Kazakov(CSKA)