Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1983 season.
Teams
Promoted teams Žalgiris Vilnius – champion (returning after 21 seasons) Nistru Kishinev – 2nd place (returning after nine seasons)
Location
League standings
Results
Top scorers 18 goals Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow)
17 goals Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk)
15 goals Volodymyr Fink (Chornomorets) Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat) Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar) Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)
14 goals Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris)
13 goals Viktor Kolyadko (CSKA Moscow) Oleh Taran (Dnipro)
11 goals Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow) Valeriy Petrakov (Torpedo Moscow) Igor Ponomaryov (Neftchi) Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi) Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA Moscow) Vadym Yevtushenko (Dynamo Kyiv)
Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) 1. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (34). Defenders: Mykola Pavlov (33 / 3), Petro Kutuzov (27), Oleksandr Lysenko (17 / 1), Yuriy Mirhorodskyi (17), Serhiy Puchkov (13), Oleksandr Chervonyi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (7), Volodymyr Ustinov (6), Anatoliy Nazarenko (5), Valeriy Zuyev (2). Midfielders: Andriy Dilay (34 / 2), Vyktor Kuznetsov (31 / 7), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (30 / 5), Oleh Serebryanskyi (26 / 1), Hennadiy Lytovchenko (24 / 5), Mykola Fedorenko (17 / 3), Volodymyr Bahmut (6), Volodymyr Kobzarev (5). Forwards: Oleh Taran (30 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (24 / 9), Oleh Protasov (21 / 7), Aleksandr Pogorelov (21 / 5).
Manager: Volodymyr Yemets.
Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustinov (to FC Kolos Nikopol), Valeriy Zuyev (retired). 2. FC Spartak Moscow Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Andrei Mikhalychev (1). Defenders: Sergei Bazulev (30), Gennady Morozov (30), Yevgeni Mileshkin (29 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (25 / 3), Boris Pozdnyakov (25), Oleg Romantsev (17), Aleksandr Bubnov (13), Sergei Savchenkov (3), Sergei Shulgin (1). Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 18), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Valeri Gladilin (26 / 9), Yuri Reznik (25 / 4), Edgar Gess (18 / 2), Sergei Shvetsov (8), Mikhail Dubinin (5 / 2), Vladimir Korolyov (1), Sergei Nikitin (1). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (16 / 5), Sergei Argudyayev (6), Mikhail Rusyayev (5), Oleg Kuzhlev (2), Oleg Smirnov (1).
Manager: Konstantin Beskov.
Transferred out during the season: Oleg Romantsev (retired), Mikhail Dubinin (to FC Metallurg Aldan). 3. FC Dinamo Minsk Goalkeepers: Yury Kurbyko (30), Mikhail Vergeyenko (4), Arkadi Batalov (1). Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (32 / 1), Sergei Borovsky (32), Viktor Yanushevsky (30), Viktor Shishkin (24), Liudas Rumbutis (22 / 3), Oļegs Aleksejenko (18), Igor Belov (10), Yury Trukhan (5). Midfielders: Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 1), Sergey Gotsmanov (29 / 5), Sergei Aleinikov (29 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (26 / 1), Aleksandr Prokopenko (12 / 2), Valeri Melnikov (9 / 1). Forwards: Igor Gurinovich (28 / 17), Georgi Kondratyev (28 / 8), Viktor Sokol (18 / 9), Pyotr Vasilevsky (17 / 1).
Manager: Eduard Malofeyev.
Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Prokopenko (released).
Number of teams by union republic Rank Union republic Number of teams Club(s)1 5CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk3 2Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi4 1Ararat Yerevan Neftchi Baku Dinamo Minsk Nistru Kishinev Zhalgiris Vilnius Pakhtakor Tashkent
Attendances
No. Club Average 1 Shakhtar Donetsk 31,376 2 Dinamo Minsk 27,024 3 Zenit 26,712 4 Metalist Kharkiv 26,412 5 Spartak Moscow 26,047 6 Dynamo Kyiv 25,147 7 Dinamo Tbilisi 24,024 8 Dnipro 23,347 9 Chornomorets 22,088 10 Paxtakor 19,841 11 Ararat 18,794 12 Torpedo Kutaisi 18,000 13 Neftçhi 17,265 14 Nistru 17,112 15 Žalgiris 12,141 16 PFC CSKA 10,782 17 Dynamo Moscow 8,576 18 Torpedo Moscow 6,835
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References
Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)