| Season | 1953 |
|---|---|
| ← 1952 1954 → | |
11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.
League standings
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Spartak Moscow (C)
|
20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 47 | 15 | 3.133 | 29 | League champions |
| 2 |  Dynamo Tbilisi
|
20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 24 | 1.625 | 27 | |
| 3 | Torpedo Moscow
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20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 34 | 34 | 1.000 | 25 | |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow
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20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 34 | 19 | 1.789 | 23 | |
| 5 | Zenit Leningrad
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20 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 21 | 1.190 | 23 | |
| 6 | Lokomotiv Moscow
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20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 0.750 | 18 | |
| 7 | Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev
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20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 0.880 | 17 | |
| 8 |  Dynamo Kiev
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20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 26 | 0.808 | 17 | |
| 9 | Lokomotiv Kharkov
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20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 34 | 0.559 | 16 | |
| 10 | Dynamo Leningrad (W)
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20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 33 | 0.606 | 14 | Replaced with Trudovye Rezervy Leningrad |
| 11 |  Spartak Vilnius (R)
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20 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 33 | 0.303 | 11 | Relegation to Class B |
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated; (W) ?
Results
| Home \ Away | DYK | DLE | DYN | DTB | KRY | LKH | LOK | SPA | SVL | TOR | ZEN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamo Kiev | 3–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | |
| Dynamo Leningrad | 1–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | |
| Dynamo Moscow | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | |
| Dynamo Tbilisi | 3–0 | 5–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 3–1 | |
| Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | |
| Lokomotiv Kharkov | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–4 | |
| Spartak Moscow | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 7–0 | 7–1 | 3–0 | |
| Spartak Vilnius | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 3–1 | 1–0 | |
| Torpedo Moscow | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–8 | 4–1 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| Zenit Leningrad | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top scorers
- 14 goals
- Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
- Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- 9 goals
- Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow)
- 8 goals
- Georgi Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kharkov)
- Pyotr Katrovsky (Zenit Leningrad)
- Boris Tatushin (Spartak Moscow)
- 7 goals
- Aleksandr Gulevsky (Zenit Kuybyshev)
- Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- Mykhaylo Koman (Dynamo Kiev)
- Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow)
References
- Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
- Season regulations. football.lg.ua
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| 1952–53 in European football | |
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| « 1951–52 1953–54 » | |
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| 1953–54 in European football | |
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| « 1952–53 1954–55 » | |
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