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Soviet Top League
Season	1977
Champions	Dinamo Kiev
Relegated	Karpaty Lvov, Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev
European Cup	Dinamo Kiev
Cup Winners' Cup	Shakhter Donetsk
UEFA Cup	Dinamo Tbilisi Torpedo Moscow
Matches played	240
Goals scored	486 (2.03 per match)
Top goalscorer	(17) Oleg Blokhin (Dinamo K.)
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Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1977 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	30	14	15	1	51	12	+39	43	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	13	13	4	43	26	+17	39	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Torpedo Moscow	30	12	13	5	30	23	+7	37	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Dynamo Moscow	30	9	17	4	34	20	+14	35
5	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	9	16	5	31	24	+7	34	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
6	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	9	14	7	27	25	+2	32
7	Chornomorets Odessa	30	11	8	11	33	41	−8	30
8	Kairat Alma-Ata	30	6	17	7	26	31	−5	29
9	Zaria Voroshilovgrad	30	8	12	10	28	24	+4	28
10	Zenit Leningrad	30	8	12	10	34	33	+1	28
11	Ararat Yerevan	30	7	13	10	28	34	−6	27
12	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	9	9	12	24	31	−7	27
13	Neftchi Baku	30	5	17	8	25	34	−9	27
14	CSKA Moscow	30	5	17	8	28	39	−11	27
15	Karpaty Lviv (R)	30	6	14	10	26	30	−4	26	Relegation to First League
16	Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev (R)	30	2	7	21	18	59	−41	11	Relegation to First League

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	CHO	CSK	DNI	DYK	DYN	DTB	KAI	KAR	KRY	LOK	NEF	SHA	TOR	ZAR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		1–1	2–3	1–0	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–2
Chornomorets Odessa	1–0		2–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0
CSKA Moscow	0–0	1–1		2–1	0–1	3–2	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–0
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–1	1–1	2–3		1–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–0
Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	8–0	4–0	4–0		0–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–0
Dynamo Moscow	1–1	2–0	4–0	0–0	1–1		1–1	0–0	0–0	5–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0
Dinamo Tbilisi	1–0	3–3	2–2	5–1	0–0	1–1		2–0	3–1	4–2	1–0	4–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–0
Kairat Alma-Ata	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–1		1–1	1–0	3–3	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	4–3
Karpaty Lviv	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0		2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–2
Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–3	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–4	1–1		1–1	1–1	3–3	0–1	0–2	1–3
Lokomotiv Moscow	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–3	2–1		0–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	3–0
Neftçi Baku	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–0		1–1	1–1	1–0	3–2
Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	3–2	3–0	2–2	1–0		2–0	2–2	3–2
Torpedo Moscow	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	3–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–0		0–1	1–0
Zaria Voroshilovgrad	2–0	4–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–0	4–1	0–0	0–1		1–0
Zenit Leningrad	4–1	4–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0

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

Top scorers

17 goals

Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

14 goals

David Kipiani (Dinamo Tbilisi)

12 goals

Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow)

10 goals

Andrei Yakubik (Dynamo Moscow)

9 goals

Yuri Reznik (Shakhtar)
Nikolai Smolnikov (Neftchi)
Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

8 goals

Revaz Chelebadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Vladimir Klementyev (Zenit)

7 goals

Yuri Dubrovny (Karpaty)
Vladimir Kazachyonok (Dynamo Moscow)
Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow)
Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
Vyacheslav Semyonov (Zorya Voroshylovhrad)

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)

Soviet Top League

Seasons

Gruppa "A" (Group A)	1936 (spring, autumn) 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 (unfinished)
Pervaya Gruppa (First Group)	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Klass "A" (Class A)	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Vysshaya Liga (Top League)	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 (spring, autumn) 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 (canceled)

Winners

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Domestic cups	Soviet Cup Season's Cup
European competitions	European Cup 1976–77 1977–78 Cup Winners' Cup 1976–77 1977–78 UEFA Cup 1976–77 1977–78
Related to national team	1978 World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9

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League cups	England Poland Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
Super cups	Soviet Union
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '76 '77

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Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '77 '78 Finland '77 '78 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '77 '78 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '77 '78 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Poland Republic of Ireland Scotland Switzerland
Super cups	Soviet Union
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Super Cup
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '77 '77–'78

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