1990 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season 1990
Champions FC Dynamo Kyiv
Champions League Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup CSKA Moscow
UEFA Cup Dynamo Moscow
Torpedo Moscow
Spartak Moscow
Top goalscorer (12) Oleh Protasov (Dynamo Kyiv)
Valeri Shmarov (Spartak Moscow)
Biggest home win CSKA – Rotor 7–0
Biggest away win Chornomorets – Dynamo K. 0–3
Highest scoring Spartak – CSKA 5–4
← 1989
1991 →

The 1990 Soviet Top League season was the 53rd since its establishment. Spartak Moscow were the defending 12-times champions. The league was shortened and a total of fourteen teams participated. By the start of the season both Georgian teams have withdrew followed by another withdrawal from Žalgiris at the start of competition. The league consisted of ten teams contested in the 1989 season and the Army club promoted from the Soviet First League. The representatives of the Baltic states as well as Georgia chose not to take part in the competition.

The season began on 1 March with the game between Dnipro and Rotor and lasted until 20 October 1990. The season was won by FC Dynamo Kyiv.

Participating teams

The league was reduced to 13 after first Georgian clubs (Dinamo Tbilisi and Guria Lanchkhuti) and then Žalgiris withdrew from the Soviet Top League.

Lokomotiv Moscow and the last placed Zenit Leningrad of the 1989 Soviet Top League were relegated to the 1990 Soviet First League. Lokomotiv returned to the Soviet First League after two seasons absence, while Zenit was relegated for the first time since being promoted back in 1938 through the club's merger.

Originally two teams were promoted from the 1989 Soviet First League and included PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Guria Lanchkhuti. Just before the start of new season Georgian clubs and Žalgiris left the league.

Withdrawn teams

Locations

Locations of teams in the 1990 Top League

Stadiums

Stadium Team Opened Capacity Notes
Republican Stadium, Kiev Dinamo Kiev 1923 100,062
Olimpic Stadium Luzhniki, Moscow Spartak 1956 81,000
CSKA
Central Stadium Dynamo, Moscow Dynamo Moscow 1928 71,430
Central Stadium Hrazdan, Yerevan Ararat 1970 70,000
BSS Central Stadium, Odessa Chernomorets 1935 55,000
OSC Metalist, Kharkov Metallist 1926 42,000
Dinamo Stadium, Minsk Dinamo Minsk 1934 40,000
Meteor Stadium, Dnepropetrovsk Dnepr 1966 40,000
Central Stadium, Volgograd Rotor 1962 40,000
Central Stadium Shakhter, Donetsk Shakhter 1936 31,718
SC Olimpiyskiy, Moscow Spartak 1980 22,000 used in round 3rd, 4th, 7th, 9th
Frunze Republican Stadium, Dushanbe Pamir 1946 21,400
Torpedo Stadium, Moscow Torpedo 1959 16,000
LFK CSKA, Moscow CSKA 1979 4,000 used in rounds 1st, 2nd, 5th, 10th
Dinamo Moscow used in rounds 1st, 2nd, 5th

Final standings

No Club GP W D L GF–GA Pts Rpblc Notes
1 Dynamo Kyiv (C) 24 14 6 4 44–20 34  Ukrainian SSR Champions League
2 CSKA Moscow 24 13 5 6 43–26 31  Russian SFSR + Cup Winners' Cup
3 Dinamo Moscow 24 12 7 5 27–24 31  Russian SFSR UEFA Cup
4 Torpedo Moscow 24 13 4 7 28–24 30  Russian SFSR UEFA Cup
5 Spartak Moscow 24 12 5 7 39–26 29  Russian SFSR UEFA Cup
6 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 24 11 6 7 39–26 28  Ukrainian SSR
7 Ararat Erevan 24 8 7 9 25–23 23 Armenia Armenian SSR
8 Shakhtar Donetsk 24 6 10 8 23–31 22  Ukrainian SSR
9 Chornomorets Odessa 24 8 3 13 23–29 19  Ukrainian SSR
10 Pamir Dushambe 24 7 4 13 26–34 18  Tajik SSR
11 Metalist Kharkiv 24 5 8 11 13–28 18  Ukrainian SSR
12 Dinamo Minsk 24 6 3 15 20–34 15  Byelorussian SSR
13 Rotor Volgograd (R) 24 4 6 14 14–39 14  Russian SFSR relegation play-off
14 Žalgiris Vilnius (R) 1 0 0 1 0–1 0  Lithuanian SSR withdrew
  • + − Newly promoted
  • Žalgiris Vilnius withdrew from the championship after losing to Chornomorets 1–0 in Odessa. Žalgiris' record was 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss with 0-1 goal difference and later was annulled. As Žalgiris withdrew, its European berth was transferred to Chornomorets.
  • Guria and Dinamo never played any games in the league for the season and joined their national competition. Žalgiris joined the 1990 Baltic League which was a regional international competition.

Promotion/relegation play-off

(13th team of the Top League and 4th team of the First League)

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Lokomotiv Moscow 3–2 Rotor Volgograd 3–1 0–1

Lokomotiv Moscow 3 – 1 Rotor Volgograd
Samatov  12'
Rybakov  51'
Zhitkov  79'		 Report Fyodorovsky  76'
Attendance: 2,000 (4,600)[1]
Referee: Petro Kobychek (Chernivtsi)

Lokomotiv Moscow won the promotion on 3–2 aggregate

Top scorers

12 goals
10 goals
9 goals
8 goals

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv

Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (21), Aleksandr Zhidkov (4).
Defenders: Serhiy Shmatovalenko (22 / 1), Oleh Kuznetsov (20 / 2), Akhrik Tsveiba (20), Serhiy Zayets (17 / 1), Anatoliy Demyanenko (15), Oleh Luzhny (12), Andriy Annenkov (8), Volodymyr Bezsonov (7 / 1), Andriy Bal (4), Borys Derkach (3 / 2), Andriy Aleksanenkov (3), Yuriy Moroz (3).
Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (24 / 6), Vasyl Rats (21 / 2), Ivan Yaremchuk (18 / 2), Serhiy Kovalets (11 / 2), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (8), Pavlo Yakovenko (6).
Forwards: Oleg Salenko (21 / 4), Oleh Protasov (16 / 12), Sergei Yuran (13 / 9).

Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi (until September), Anatoliy Puzach (from September).

Transferred out during the season: Oleh Kuznetsov (to Scotland Rangers), Oleh Protasov (to Greece Olympiacos CFP), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (to Italy Sampdoria).

2. PFC CSKA Moscow

Goalkeepers: Mikhail Yeremin (15), Aleksandr Guteyev (6), Yuri Shishkin (4).
Defenders: Dmitri Bystrov (23 / 1), Dmitri Galiamin (23), Sergei Fokin (21 / 1), Sergei Kolotovkin (20), Oleg Malyukov (16), Viktor Yanushevsky (12).
Midfielders: Valeri Broshin (24 / 5), Dmitri Kuznetsov (22 / 5), Igor Korneev (21 / 8), Vladimir Tatarchuk (21 / 3), Mikhail Kolesnikov (18 / 2), Igor Kozlov (8), Sergei Krutov (2), Aleksandr Grishin (1).
Forwards: Oleg Sergeyev (24 / 6), Sergey Dmitriev (21 / 4), Valeri Masalitin (9 / 8).

Manager: Pavel Sadyrin.

Transferred out during the season: none.

3. FC Dynamo Moscow

Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Uvarov (20), Andrei Smetanin (3), Dmitri Kharine (1).
Defenders: Andrei Chernyshov (22 / 2), Igor Sklyarov (21 / 1), Viktor Losev (20), Andrei Mokh (18 / 2), Yevgeni Smertin (18), Yevgeni Dolgov (16), Vyacheslav Tsaryov (10), Serhiy Protsyuk (9), Andrei Zhirov (2), Ravil Sabitov (2).
Midfielders: Aleksei Sereda (23), Andrey Kobelev (21 / 4), Sergei Derkach (19 / 4), Igor Dobrovolski (15 / 4), Roman Pylypchuk (15 / 2), Aleksandr Zakharov (4), Aleksandr Smirnov (3), Aleksei Yeryomenko (2), Sergei Neyman (1).
Forwards: Sergei Kiriakov (22 / 3), Igor Kolyvanov (19 / 5), Igor Simutenkov (1).

Manager: Anatoli Byshovets (until July), Semen Altman (caretaker, from July).

Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Smirnov, Ravil Sabitov (both to FC Dinamo Sukhumi).

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Фубольный манеж ЛФК ЦСКА". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.