1991 Soviet First League

Soviet First League 1991 was the last season of the Soviet First League. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the football structure was reformed. All of its participants have entered the Top Divisions of the republics of their origin, except of Dinamo Sukhumi that because of the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia was dissolved.

Soviet First League
Season1991
ChampionsRotor Volgograd
Relegatednone
Top goalscorer(25) Serhiy Husyev (Tiligul Tiraspol)
1990

Teams

  • FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg – Winner of the Second League, Zone East (returning after an absence of 10 seasons)
  • FC Bukovina Chernovtsy – Winner of the Second League, Zone West (debut)
  • FC Neftianik Fergona – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
  • FC Novbakhor Namangan – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
  • FC Textilshchik Kamyshin – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
  • FC Daugava Riga – Winner of the Second League, Zone West (debut)

Relegated teams

  • Rotor Volgograd – (Returning after 2 seasons)

Renamed teams

  • Prior to the start of the season Tiras Tiraspol was renamed to Tiligul Tiraspol.
  • Prior to the start of the season Nistru Kishenev was renamed to Zimbrul Kishinev.

Replaced or withdrawn teams

With fall of the Soviet Union, the promoted FC Daugava Riga was dissolved and replaced with FC Pardaugava Riga that was based on the junior squad of the Latvian national football team (U-21) and took part in the 1990 Baltic League placing only 15th out 17 teams.

Locations

Bukovyna
Lokomotiv
Dinamo Sukh
Kairat
Neftchi
Dinamo Stav
Kotayk
Zimbru
Pardaugava
Location of teams in the 1991 Soviet First League.

League standings

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Republic
1 FC Rotor Volgograd (C) 42 24 11 7 79 44 35 59 Russian Vysshaya Liga
2 FC Tiligul Tiraspol 42 22 10 10 64 45 19 54 Moldovan Divizia Naţională
3 FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg 42 21 9 12 68 40 28 51 Russian Vysshaya Liga
4 FC Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu 42 20 10 12 47 39 8 50 Russian Vysshaya Liga
5 FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi 42 20 8 14 56 49 7 48 Ukraine Vyscha Liha
6 SC Tavriya Simferopol 42 19 10 13 64 56 8 48 Ukraine Vyscha Liha
7 FC Neftiannik Fergona 42 21 5 16 54 56 -2 47 Uzbek League
8 FC Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod 42 17 13 12 46 35 11 47 Russian Vysshaya Liga
9 FC Novbahor 42 19 7 16 60 53 7 45 Uzbek League
10 FC Dinamo Sukhumi 42 16 11 15 50 50 0 43 dissolved
11 FC Textilschik Kamyshin 42 15 13 14 56 52 4 43 Russian Vysshaya Liga
12 FC Shinnik Yaroslavl 42 17 7 18 57 59 -2 41 Russian Vysshaya Liga
13 FC Fakel Voronezh 42 17 7 18 45 50 -5 41 Russian Vysshaya Liga
14 FC Kairat Almaty 42 17 6 19 58 52 6 40  Kazakh SSR
15 PFC Neftchi Baku 42 17 5 20 60 58 2 39  Azerbaijan SSR
16 FC Dinamo Stavropol 42 14 11 17 50 54 -4 39 Russian Vysshaya Liga
17 FC Kotaik Abovian 42 15 7 20 30 48 -18 37  Armenian SSR
18 FC Zenit Saint Petersburg 42 11 14 17 44 50 -6 36 Russian Vysshaya Liga
19 FC Zimbru Chisinau 42 11 13 18 36 49 -13 35 Moldovan Divizia Naţională
20 FC Geolog Tyumen 42 11 13 18 32 47 -15 35 Russian Vysshaya Liga
21 FC Kuban Krasnodar 42 8 10 24 40 68 -28 26 Russian Vysshaya Liga
22 FC Pardaugava Riga 42 7 6 29 31 73 -42 20 Latvian Virs Liga
   participants that left the Soviet/Russian competitions.

Notes:

Number of teams by union republic

Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)
1  RSFSR 11 Dinamo Stavropol, Fakel Voronezh, Geolog Tyumen, Kuban Krasnodar, Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Rotor Volgograd, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Tekstilschik Kamyshin, Uralmash Yekaterinburg, Zenit Saint Petersburg
2  Moldavian SSR 2 Tiligul Tiraspol, Zimbru Kishenev
 Ukrainian SSR Bukovina Chernovtsy, Tavriya Simferopol
 Uzbek SSR Navbahor Namangan, Neftiannik Fergana
5  Armenian SSR 1 Kotaik Abovian
 Azerbaijan SSR Neftchi Baku
 Georgian SSR Dinamo Sukhumi
 Kazakh SSR Kairat Alma-Ata
 Latvian SSR Pardaugava Riga

Top scorers

#PlayerClubGoalsGames
1Serhiy Husyev«Tiligul Tiraspol»2536
2Serhiy Shevchenko«Tavriya Simferopol»2140
3Valeri Shushlyakov«Uralmash Yekaterinburg»2038
4Vladislav Lemish«Kuban Krasnodar»2042
5Rustam Zabirov«Navbahor Namangan»1935
6Yuri Kalitvintsev«Rotor Volgograd»1837
7Aleksandr Tikhonov«Rostselmash Rostov»1740
8Yunis Hüseynov«Neftchi Baku»1634
9Vəli Qasımov«Neftchi Baku»1638
10Rustem Shaymukhametov«Textilshchik Kamyshin»1538
11Yuriy Hudymenko«Rotor Volgograd»1539

See also

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