1971 Soviet Top League

The 1971 season of the Soviet Top League saw Dynamo Kyiv clinching their title after three unsuccessful seasons. This season was also unique for successful performances of non-RSFSR clubs: Ararat Yerevan from the Armenian SSR took the second place, while bronze medals were awarded to Dinamo Tbilisi.

Soviet Top League

Season	1971
← 1970 1972 →

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	30	17	10	3	41	17	+24	44	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Ararat Yerevan	30	13	11	6	37	28	+9	37	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	14	8	8	33	33	0	36
4	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	30	11	11	8	29	23	+6	33
5	Dynamo Moscow	30	9	13	8	35	22	+13	31
6	Spartak Moscow	30	9	13	8	35	31	+4	31	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
7	Torpedo Moscow	30	4	20	6	27	27	0	28
8	Kairat Alma-Ata	30	9	10	11	36	40	−4	28
9	Neftchi Baku	30	9	10	11	30	34	−4	28
10	Karpaty Lviv	30	5	18	7	30	35	−5	28
11	Dinamo Minsk	30	8	12	10	36	43	−7	28
12	CSKA Moscow	30	7	12	11	34	36	−2	26
13	Zenit Leningrad	30	8	10	12	29	32	−3	26
14	SKA Rostov-on-Don	30	9	8	13	35	43	−8	26
15	Pakhtakor Tashkent (R)	30	8	10	12	29	46	−17	26	Relegation to First League
16	Shakhtar Donetsk (R)	30	10	4	16	31	37	−6	24

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	CSK	DYK	DMN	DYN	DTB	KAI	KAR	NEF	PAK	SHA	SKA	SPA	TOR	ZAR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	3–2
CSKA Moscow	0–1		0–1	3–1	1–0	6–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	3–3	1–2	3–0
Dynamo Kyiv	2–0	4–1		3–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	4–3	4–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0
Dinamo Minsk	4–1	1–1	0–1		0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	4–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0
Dynamo Moscow	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–0		1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	8–0	1–0	4–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0
Dinamo Tbilisi	0–4	0–1	1–0	4–1	0–2		1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–1
Kairat Alma-Ata	2–2	2–1	0–0	3–3	1–2	2–1		2–2	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	3–1
Karpaty Lviv	2–2	2–2	3–1	3–1	1–3	2–2	2–3		1–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Neftçi Baku	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	4–0		2–0	2–0	1–1	5–3	1–1	2–1	1–0
Pakhtakor Tashkent	0–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–1	5–1	1–1	0–0	2–0		2–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–0	2–1	0–1	3–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	3–3		1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–1
SKA Rostov-on-Don	1–0	0–0	2–1	3–3	1–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	3–1	4–2	2–1		1–2	1–1	3–1	1–0
Spartak Moscow	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–0		0–2	2–0	1–1
Torpedo Moscow	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–3	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–2	2–2		0–0	1–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0		1–0
Zenit Leningrad	3–3	5–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	4–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

16 goals

• Eduard Malofeyev (Dinamo Minsk)

14 goals

• Eduard Markarov (Ararat)

10 goals

• Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi)
• Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Vitaliy Shevchenko (Neftchi)

9 goals

• Valery Yaremchenko (Shakhtar)
• Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

8 goals

• Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor)
• Anzor Chikhladze (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
• Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow)
• Eduard Kozinkevich (Shakhtar)
• Anatoliy Puzach (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Pavel Sadyrin (Zenit)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)