Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1979 season.
Overview 1979 Top League was composed of 18 teams, the championship was won by Spartak Moscow.
On 11 August 1979, a mid-air collision killed virtually the entire FC Pakhtakor Tashkent team. The Top League ordered all the other teams to make three players available for a draft to restock the team, and Pakhtakor was given exemption from relegation for the next three years.
League standings
Results
Top scorers 26 goals Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)
17 goals Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat) Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
16 goals Yuri Chesnokov (CSKA Moscow) Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit)
14 goals Aleksandr Prokopenko (Dinamo Minsk) Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow) Nikolai Vasilyev (Torpedo Moscow)
Attendances
Source:
No. Club Average 1 Dinamo Tbilisi 55,882 2 Shakhtar Donetsk 38,471 3 Spartak Moscow 30,588 4 Paxtakor 29,941 5 Dinamo Minsk 19,824 6 Chornomorets 19,353 7 Zenit 18,000 8 Rostov-on-Don 17,806 9 Neftçhi 16,412 10 Kairat 16,353 11 Dynamo Kyiv 15,706 12 Ararat 15,047 13 Krylia Sovetov 13,118 14 Zorya 11,118 15 Torpedo Moscow 10,647 16 PFC CSKA 10,471 17 Dynamo Moscow 10,147 18 Lokomotiv Moscow 4,735
References
Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)