The 1990 Soviet football championship was the 59th season of competitive football in the Soviet Union. Dinamo Kiev won the Top League championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the thirteenth time.
Honours CompetitionWinnerRunner-upTop LeagueDinamo Kiev (13*)CSKA MoscowFirst LeagueSpartak Vladikavkaz (1)Pakhtakor TashkentSecond LeagueWestBukovina ChernovtsyDaugava RigaCenterUralmash SverdlovskTekstilschik KamyshinEastNeftianik FerganaNovbakhor NamanganBalticZhaligiris VilniusSiriyus KlaipedaLower Second LeagueGroup 1Torpedo ZaporozhyeSudostroitel NikolayevGroup 2Ararat-2 YerevanAraks OktemberianGroup 3Karabakh AgdamKhazar SumgayitGroup 4Torpedo TaganrogAPK AzovGroup 5Asmaral MoscowTigina BenderyGroup 6Volga TverKIM VitebskGroup 7KAMAZ Naberezhnye ChelnyLada TolyattiGroup 8Vostok Ust-KamenogorskZhetysu Taldy-KurganGroup 9Nurafshon BukharaKasansayets KasansayGroup 10Sakhalin Yuzhno-SakhalinskLokomotiv ChitaSoviet CupDinamo Kiev (9)Lokomotiv Moscow
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition
Soviet Union football championship
Top League
Promotion/relegation play-off (13th team of the Top League and 4th team of the First League)
Lokomotiv Moscow won the promotion on 3–2 aggregate
First League
Notes: The city of Ordzhonikidze was renamed to Vladikavkaz. The city of Gorkiy was renamed to Nizhniy Novgorod. Kotayk Abovyan played all its home games in the neighboring Yerevan.
Second League
West
Representation : 11 4 : 3 2 : 1 1
Center
Representation 20 2
East
Representation
: 7 7 : 5 : 1 : 1 : 1
Baltic
ASK Fosforit Tallinn quit the competition after 14 games
Lower Second League
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Group 10
Top goalscorers
Top League Oleh Protasov (Dinamo Kiev) – 12 goals
First League Igor Shkvyrin (Pakhtakor Tashkent) – 37 goals
References
External links 1990 Soviet football championship. RSSSF