# 1951 Soviet Top League

Following are the results of the 1951 Soviet Top League football championship. Fifteen teams took part, with CDSA Moscow winning the championship.

## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | CDSA Moscow (C) | 28 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 53 | 19 | +34 | 43 | League champions |
| 2 | Dynamo Tbilisi | 28 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 59 | 36 | +23 | 36 | |
| 3 | Shakhtyor Stalino | 28 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 44 | 30 | +14 | 34 | |
| 4 | Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev | 28 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 34 | 25 | +9 | 34 | |
| 5 | Dynamo Moscow | 28 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 62 | 41 | +21 | 32 | |
| 6 | Spartak Moscow | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 50 | 35 | +15 | 31 | |
| 7 | Zenit Leningrad | 28 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 28 | |
| 8 | Dynamo Kiev | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 43 | 39 | +4 | 27 | |
| 9 | Dynamo Leningrad | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 46 | 53 | −7 | 27 | |
| 10 | VVS Moscow | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 44 | 56 | −12 | 26 | |
| 11 | Daugava Riga | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 44 | 44 | 0 | 25 | |
| 12 | Torpedo Moscow | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 37 | 48 | −11 | 24 | |
| 13 | VMS Moscow (R) | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 30 | 50 | −20 | 23 | Relegation to Class B |
| 14 | Spartak Tbilisi (R) | 28 | 7 | 2 | 19 | 32 | 56 | −24 | 16 | Relegation to Class B |
| 15 | Torpedo Gorky (R) | 28 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 62 | −42 | 14 | Relegation to Class B |

## Results

| Home \ Away | CDS | DAU | DYK | DLE | DYN | DTB | KRY | SHA | SPA | STB | TGR | TOR | VMS | VVS | ZEN |
| CDSA Moscow | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| Daugava Riga | 0–0 | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 5–0 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 4–1 |
| Dynamo Kiev | 1–1 | 2–4 | | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 4–4 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 |
| Dynamo Leningrad | 0–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 | | 3–2 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 5–4 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–4 | 1–1 |
| Dynamo Moscow | 0–2 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–4 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 5–1 | 5–1 | 3–0 |
| Dynamo Tbilisi | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 6–0 | 5–0 | 7–1 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 4–2 |
| Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| Shakhtyor Stalino | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 4–0 | 0–0 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 8–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–3 |
| Spartak Moscow | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 2–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 5–3 | 3–1 | 1–2 |
| Spartak Tbilisi | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–4 | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 |
| Torpedo Gorky | 0–5 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–6 | 1–6 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| Torpedo Moscow | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–5 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | | 1–2 | 2–3 | 3–1 |
| VMS Moscow | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–6 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| VVS Moscow | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–6 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 3–2 | | 2–4 |
| Zenit Leningrad | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | |

## Top scorers
### 16 goals

* Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

### 15 goals

* Konstantin Beskov (Dynamo Moscow)
* Aleksandr Ponomarev (Shakhtyor Stalino)

### 14 goals

* Fyodor Dashkov (Dynamo Kiev)

### 13 goals

* Aleksei Kolobov (Dynamo Leningrad)
* Sergei Korshunov (VVS Moscow)

### 12 goals

* Zaur Kaloyev (Spartak Tbilisi)
* Viktor Zhylin (Zenit Leningrad)

### 10 goals

* Gennadi Bondarenko (Dynamo Leningrad)
* Aleksei Grinin (CDSA Moscow)
* Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
* Vyacheslav Solovyov (CDSA Moscow)
* Vasili Trofimov (Dynamo Moscow)
* Pavlo Vinkovatov (Dynamo Kiev)
* Viktor Voroshilov (Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev)