Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1982 season.
Overview It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.
The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.
League standings
Results
Top scorers 23 goals Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)
18 goals Merab Megreladze (Torpedo Kutaisi)
16 goals Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi) Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA)
13 goals Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk)
12 goals Boris Chukhlov (Zenit) Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow) Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat) Andrei Redkous (Torpedo Moscow) Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar)
Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) 1. FC Dinamo Minsk Goalkeepers: Mikhail Vergeyenko (28 / 1), Yury Kurbyko (7). Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (31 / 7), Yury Trukhan (29), Viktor Yanushevsky (27), Sergei Borovsky (25), Viktor Shishkin (18), Liudas Rumbutis (17), Igor Belov (12). Midfielders: Aleksandr Prokopenko (31 / 11), Sergey Gotsmanov (31 / 2), Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (29 / 3), Sergei Aleinikov (21 / 8), Valeri Melnikov (18), Alyaksandr Vanyushkin (1). Forwards: Georgi Kondratyev (32 / 10), Igor Gurinovich (28 / 13), Pyotr Vasilevsky (20 / 5), Viktor Sokol (2 / 1).
Manager: Eduard Malofeyev.
Transferred out during the season: none. 2. FC Dynamo Kyiv Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (24), Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (12). Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (32 / 5), Oleksandr Sorokalet (29), Volodymyr Lozynskyi (28 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (25 / 2), Volodymyr Bezsonov (18 / 4), Oleksandr Boyko (12), Yuriy Makhynya (2). Midfielders: Andriy Bal (31 / 5), Yaroslav Dumanskyi (29 / 2), Leonid Buryak (21 / 3), Aleksandr Khapsalis (14 / 2), Vasyl Rats (11 / 1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (10), Pavlo Yakovenko (4). Forwards: Viktor Khlus (31 / 10), Vadym Yevtushenko (25 / 9), Oleg Blokhin (24 / 10), Hryhoriy Pasechnyi (4 / 1).
Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi.
Transferred out during the season: none. 3. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (28), Aleksei Prudnikov (12). Defenders: Oleg Romantsev (33 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (27), Vladimir Shcherbak (24), Boris Pozdnyakov (19), Vladimir Bukiyevskiy (4), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (2), Alexander Mirzoyan (2). Midfielders: Sergey Shavlo (34 / 11), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Yuri Gavrilov (31 / 6), Edgar Gess (30 / 5), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Sergei Nikitin (2). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (30 / 9), Aleksandr Kalashnikov (26 / 5), Sergei Shvetsov (24 / 9), Viktor Hrachov (5 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (3), Vladimir Nikonov (1), Oleg Smirnov (1).
Manager: Konstantin Beskov.
Transferred out during the season: Viktor Hrachov (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk).
Number of teams by union republic Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)1 6CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Kuban Krasnodar, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad2 5Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk3 2Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi4 1Ararat Yerevan Neftchi Baku Dinamo Minsk Kairat Alma-Ata Pakhtakor Tashkent
Attendances No. Club Average 1 Dinamo Tbilisi 41,153 2 Metalist Kharkiv 31,847 3 Dynamo Kyiv 27,365 4 Dinamo Minsk 26,276 5 Shakhtar Donetsk 23,388 6 Torpedo Kutaisi 20,882 7 Zenit 18,229 8 Kuban 17,994 9 Ararat 17,312 10 Chornomorets 16,282 11 Spartak Moscow 15,765 12 Dnipro 15,029 13 Paxtakor 14,735 14 Kairat 11,726 15 Neftçhi 8,859 16 Dynamo Moscow 8,853 17 PFC CSKA 8,159 18 Torpedo Moscow 5,847Source:
References
External links Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)