Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1972 season.
Overview Sixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship.
League standings
Results
Top scorers 14 goals Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
13 goals Oganes Zanazanyan (Ararat)
12 goals Gennadi Khromchenkov (Zenit) Yuri Smirnov (Torpedo Moscow)
11 goals Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv)
10 goals Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi) Vladimir Onischenko (Zorya) Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
9 goals Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat) Vladimir Muntyan (Dynamo Kyiv) Pavel Sadyrin (Zenit) Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk) Yuri Yeliseyev (Zorya)
Attendances No. Club Average 1 Zenit 39,900 2 Dynamo Kyiv 39,533 3 Zorya 33,933 4 Dnipro 30,667 5 Ararat 30,547 6 Dinamo Minsk 30,533 7 Karpaty 29,600 8 Dinamo Tbilisi 27,667 9 Dynamo Moscow 21,787 10 Spartak Moscow 21,673 11 PFC CSKA 19,333 12 Torpedo Moscow 17,673 13 Rostov-on-Don 16,000 14 Kairat 15,733 15 Neftçhi 15,400 16 Lokomotiv Moscow 12,477
Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sov/avesov72.htm
References
Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)