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Football in the Soviet Union

Season	1960
Men's football
Class A	Torpedo Moscow
Class B	Trud Voronezh (Russia) Metallurg Zaporozhye (Ukraine) Torpedo Kutaisi (Union republics)
Soviet Cup	Torpedo Moscow
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The 1960 Soviet football championship was the 28th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 22nd among teams of sports societies and factories. Torpedo Moscow won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the first time.

Honours

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

Class A (second stage)

Places 1–6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Torpedo Moscow (C)	10	6	2	2	17	9	+8	14
2	Dynamo Kiev	10	5	1	4	19	14	+5	11
3	Dynamo Moscow	10	5	1	4	12	10	+2	11
4	SKA Rostov-on-Don	10	2	6	2	13	12	+1	10
5	Lokomotiv Moscow	10	3	1	6	14	19	−5	7
6	CSKA Moscow	10	3	1	6	7	18	−11	7

Places 7–12

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
7	Spartak Moscow	10	5	3	2	19	14	+5	13
8	Dynamo Tbilisi	10	5	2	3	18	12	+6	12
9	Ararat Yerevan	10	4	3	3	11	12	−1	11
10	Admiralteyets Leningrad	10	4	1	5	17	15	+2	9
11	Belarus Minsk	10	4	1	5	8	12	−4	9
12	Daugava Riga	10	1	4	5	10	18	−8	6

Places 13–18

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
13	Avangard Kharkiv	10	4	4	2	11	5	+6	12
14	Pakhtakor Tashkent	10	4	3	3	11	9	+2	11
15	Zenit Leningrad	10	5	1	4	13	12	+1	11
16	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev (R)	10	4	2	4	15	13	+2	10	Relegation to Class B
17	Shakhtyor Stalino (O)	10	4	2	4	10	12	−2	10	Qualification for relegation play-off
18	Kairat Almaty	10	3	0	7	6	15	−9	6

1. Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev were relegated because were been a worst ranked team from Russia.
2. Shakhtyor Stalino were played a relegation play-out match because were been a worst ranked team from Ukraine.

Places 19–22

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
19	Kalev Tallinn	6	2	3	1	8	11	−3	7
20	Spartak Vilnius	6	1	4	1	8	8	0	6
21	Neftyanik Baku	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	6
22	Moldova Kishinyov	6	1	3	2	10	6	+4	5

Promotion/relegation play-off

• Shakhtyor Stalino 2-0 0-1 Metallurg Zaporozhye

Class B

Russian Federation finals

Ukraine finals

• Metallurg Zaporozhye 6-2 0-0 Sudostroitel Nikolayev

Union republics finals

• Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 0-1 Lokomotiv Tbilisi

Top goalscorers

Class A

• Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi) – 20 goals

References

External links

• 1960 Soviet football championship. RSSSF

• 1960 in Soviet football