# 1970 in Soviet football

The 1970 Soviet football championship was the 38th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 32nd among teams of sports societies and factories. CSKA won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the sixth time.

## Honours

| Competition | Winner | Runner-up |
| Class A Top Group | CSKA Moscow (6) | Dinamo Moscow |
| Class A 1. Group | Karpaty Lvov (1) | Kairat Alma-Ata |
| Class A 2. Group | Metallurg Zaporozhye (Subgroup 1) | Tavriya Simferopol (Subgroup 1) |
| Class A 2. Group | Shinnik Yaroslavl (Subgroup 2) | Avtomobilist Nalchik (Subgroup 2) |
| Class A 2. Group | Kuzbass Kemerovo (Subgroup 3) | Spartak Yoshkar-Ola (Subgroup 3) |
| Class B | Motor Vladimir (Russia Group 1) | Spartak Kostroma (Russia Subgroup 1) |
| Class B | Terek Groznyi (Russia Group 2) | Spartak Ryazan (Russia Group 2) |
| Class B | Kord Balakovo (Russia Group 3) | Neftyanik Tyumen (Russia Group 3) |
| Class B | Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russia Group 4) | Vulkan Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (Russia Group 4) |
| Class B | Khimik Severodonetsk (Ukraine) | Lokomotiv Vinnitsa (Ukraine) |
| Class B | Tsementnik Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan) | Traktor Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) |
| Class B | Zarafshan Navoi (Central Asia) | Yangiyer (Central Asia) |
| Soviet Cup | Dinamo Moscow (4) | Dinamo Tbilisi |
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

## Soviet Union football championship
### Class A Top Group

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | CSKA Moscow (C) | 32 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 46 | 17 | +29 | 45 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
| 2 | Dynamo Moscow | 32 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 50 | 22 | +28 | 45 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 3 | Spartak Moscow | 32 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 43 | 25 | +18 | 38 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 32 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 43 | 30 | +13 | 36 | |
| 5 | Zarya Voroshilovgrad | 32 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 27 | 25 | +2 | 34 | |
| 6 | Torpedo Moscow | 32 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 36 | 38 | −2 | 34 | |
| 7 | Dynamo Kyiv | 32 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 36 | 32 | +4 | 33 | |
| 8 | SKA Rostov-on-Don | 32 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 28 | 29 | −1 | 33 | |
| 9 | Dinamo Minsk | 32 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 33 | 29 | +4 | 32 | |
| 10 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 32 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 35 | 50 | −15 | 30 | |
| 11 | Neftchi Baku | 32 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 27 | 28 | −1 | 29 | |
| 12 | Ararat Yerevan | 32 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 31 | 34 | −3 | 29 | |
| 13 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 32 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 28 | 46 | −18 | 28 | |
| 14 | Zenit Leningrad | 32 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 40 | −10 | 27 | |
| 15 | Chornomorets Odessa (R) | 32 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 25 | 38 | −13 | 26 | Relegation to First League |
| 16 | Torpedo Kutaisi (R) | 32 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 24 | 42 | −18 | 23 | Relegation to First League |
| 17 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze (R) | 32 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 31 | 48 | −17 | 22 | Relegation to First League |

#### Replay
### Class A First Group

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | UKR | Karpaty Lvov | 42 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 70 | 22 | +48 | 63 | Promoted |
| 2 | KAZ | Kayrat Alma-Ata | 42 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 71 | 29 | +42 | 61 | Promoted |
| 3 | UKR | Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk | 42 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 58 | 25 | +33 | 61 | |
| 4 | RUS | Lokomotiv Moskva | 42 | 20 | 10 | 12 | 53 | 39 | +14 | 50 | |
| 5 | UKR | Metallist Kharkov | 42 | 15 | 19 | 8 | 43 | 26 | +17 | 49 | |
| 6 | RUS | Dinamo Leningrad | 42 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 62 | 49 | +13 | 47 | |
| 7 | RUS | Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev | 42 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 43 | 32 | +11 | 47 | |
| 8 | RUS | Rubin Kazan | 42 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 36 | 42 | −6 | 46 | |
| 9 | KAZ | Shakhtyor Karaganda | 42 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 49 | 43 | +6 | 45 | |
| 10 | LTU | Žalgiris Vilnius | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 46 | 40 | +6 | 41 | |
| 11 | MDA | Moldova Kishinev | 42 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 40 | 34 | +6 | 41 | |
| 12 | RUS | Textilshchik Ivanovo | 42 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 36 | 51 | −15 | 40 | |
| 13 | RUS | Volgar Astrakhan | 42 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 38 | 45 | −7 | 39 | |
| 14 | RUS | UralMash Sverdlovsk | 42 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 37 | 49 | −12 | 38 | |
| 15 | GEO | Lokomotiv Tbilisi | 42 | 14 | 9 | 19 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 37 | |
| 16 | RUS | Kuban Krasnodar | 42 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 27 | 45 | −18 | 37 | |
| 17 | LVA | Daugava Riga | 42 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 36 | 50 | −14 | 33 | |
| 18 | TJK | Pamir Dushanbe | 42 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 41 | 62 | −21 | 33 | |
| 19 | UKR | SKA Kiev | 42 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 39 | 50 | −11 | 32 | |
| 20 | KGZ | Alga Frunze | 42 | 10 | 12 | 20 | 34 | 45 | −11 | 32 | |
| 21 | RUS | SKA Khabarovsk | 42 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 41 | −19 | 32 | |
| 22 | TKM | Stroitel Ashkhabad | 42 | 6 | 8 | 28 | 22 | 77 | −55 | 20 | |
* 1 2 3 4 -
* ↑ Pamir Dushanbe was called Energetik.

### Class A Second Group
#### Subgroup 1

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Metalurh Zaporizhia (C, P) | 42 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 73 | 33 | +40 | 62 | Promoted |
| 2 | Tavriya Simferopol | 42 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 70 | 36 | +34 | 57 | |
| 3 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 42 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 61 | 27 | +34 | 55 | |
| 4 | Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | 42 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 58 | 53 | +5 | 50 | |
| 5 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv | 42 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 47 | 36 | +11 | 48 | |
| 6 | Azovets Zhdanov | 42 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 44 | 34 | +10 | 48 | |
| 7 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 42 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 48 | 41 | +7 | 47 | |
| 8 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 42 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 45 | 39 | +6 | 46 | |
| 9 | Shakhtar Kadiivka | 42 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 49 | 37 | +12 | 45 | |
| 10 | Lokomotyv Kherson | 42 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 60 | 50 | +10 | 44 | |
| 11 | Desna Chernihiv | 42 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 43 | 45 | −2 | 44 | Dissolved |
| 12 | Shakhtar Horlivka | 42 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 42 | 47 | −5 | 41 | |
| 13 | Budivelnyk Poltava | 42 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 33 | 34 | −1 | 39 | |
| 14 | SKA Lviv | 42 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 30 | 41 | −11 | 39 | |
| 15 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 42 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 52 | 48 | +4 | 38 | |
| 16 | Spartak Brest | 42 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 32 | 48 | −16 | 37 | |
| 17 | Avanhard Ternopil | 42 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 38 | 47 | −9 | 36 | |
| 18 | Neman Grodno | 42 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 27 | 48 | −21 | 35 | |
| 19 | Baltika Kaliningrad | 42 | 10 | 11 | 21 | 24 | 51 | −27 | 31 | |
| 20 | SKA Odessa | 42 | 12 | 6 | 24 | 34 | 56 | −22 | 30 | |
| 21 | Spartak Sumy | 42 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 31 | 57 | −26 | 28 | |
| 22 | Gomselmash Gomel | 42 | 7 | 10 | 25 | 22 | 55 | −33 | 24 | |

#### Subgroup 2

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | RUS | Shinnik Yaroslavl | 42 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 66 | 31 | +35 | 62 | Promoted |
| 2 | RUS | Avtomobilist Nalchik | 42 | 22 | 15 | 5 | 58 | 17 | +41 | 59 | |
| 3 | RUS | Volga Kalinin | 42 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 57 | 31 | +26 | 55 | |
| 4 | RUS | Metallurg Tula | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 80 | 38 | +42 | 53 | |
| 5 | RUS | Mashuk Pyatigorsk | 42 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 52 | 36 | +16 | 50 | |
| 6 | RUS | Dinamo Stavropol | 42 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 37 | 38 | −1 | 46 | |
| 7 | RUS | Metallurg Lipetsk | 42 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 51 | 48 | +3 | 44 | |
| 8 | RUS | Lokomotiv Kaluga | 42 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 47 | 56 | −9 | 44 | |
| 9 | RUS | Trud Voronezh | 42 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 56 | 43 | +13 | 43 | |
| 10 | GEO | Dinamo Batumi | 42 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 35 | 40 | −5 | 43 | |
| 11 | RUS | Druzhba Maykop | 42 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 36 | 34 | +2 | 42 | |
| 12 | RUS | Salyut Belgorod | 42 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 46 | 45 | +1 | 42 | |
| 13 | ARM | Shirak Leninakan | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 44 | 43 | +1 | 41 | |
| 14 | RUS | Torpedo Taganrog | 42 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 41 | |
| 15 | RUS | Volga Gorkiy | 42 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 47 | 46 | +1 | 39 | |
| 16 | RUS | Saturn Rybinsk | 42 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 44 | 56 | −12 | 39 | |
| 17 | RUS | Dinamo Makhachkala | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 45 | 55 | −10 | 37 | |
| 18 | GEO | Dila Gori | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 43 | 56 | −13 | 37 | |
| 19 | RUS | Stal Volgograd | 42 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 34 | |
| 20 | AZE | Dinamo Kirovabad | 42 | 12 | 8 | 22 | 37 | 46 | −9 | 32 | |
| 21 | RUS | Dinamo Bryansk | 42 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 34 | 79 | −45 | 25 | |
| 22 | AZE | Polad Sumgait | 42 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 19 | 82 | −63 | 16 | |
* 1 2 3 +
* ↑ Spartak Belgorod changed name to Salyut.
* ↑ Traktor Volgograd changed name to Stal.

#### Subgroup 3

| Pos | Rep | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | RUS | Kuzbass Kemerovo | 42 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 61 | 37 | +24 | 57 | Promoted |
| 2 | RUS | Spartak Yoshkar-Ola | 42 | 24 | 7 | 11 | 46 | 30 | +16 | 55 | |
| 3 | RUS | Irtysh Omsk | 42 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 63 | 28 | +35 | 54 | |
| 4 | RUS | TomLes Tomsk | 42 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 36 | 28 | +8 | 50 | |
| 5 | KAZ | Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk | 42 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 51 | 39 | +12 | 49 | |
| 6 | RUS | SKA Chita | 42 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 56 | 35 | +21 | 48 | |
| 7 | UZB | Politotdel Tashkent Region | 42 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 48 | 44 | +4 | 48 | |
| 8 | RUS | Zvezda Perm | 42 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 49 | 37 | +12 | 47 | |
| 9 | RUS | Dinamo Barnaul | 42 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 60 | 44 | +16 | 45 | |
| 10 | RUS | Luch Vladivostok | 42 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 35 | 33 | +2 | 45 | |
| 11 | UZB | Neftyanik Fergana | 42 | 19 | 7 | 16 | 56 | 55 | +1 | 45 | |
| 12 | RUS | Selenga Ulan-Ude | 42 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 41 | 39 | +2 | 44 | |
| 13 | KAZ | Metallurg Chimkent | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 44 | 46 | −2 | 41 | |
| 14 | RUS | Torpedo Togliatti | 42 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 39 | 38 | +1 | 40 | |
| 15 | RUS | Sokol Saratov | 42 | 16 | 5 | 21 | 47 | 51 | −4 | 37 | |
| 16 | RUS | Volga Ulyanovsk | 42 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 35 | 50 | −15 | 36 | |
| 17 | RUS | Stroitel Ufa | 42 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 36 | 53 | −17 | 35 | |
| 18 | RUS | Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk | 42 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 29 | 37 | −8 | 34 | |
| 19 | RUS | Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk | 42 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 40 | 45 | −5 | 32 | |
| 20 | RUS | Aeroflot Irkutsk | 42 | 11 | 9 | 22 | 28 | 64 | −36 | 31 | |
| 21 | RUS | Zenit Izhevsk | 42 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 35 | 58 | −23 | 28 | |
| 22 | UZB | Traktor Tashkent | 42 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 27 | 71 | −44 | 23 | |
* ↑ Khimik Togliatti changed name to Torpedo.
* 1 2 +
* ↑ Rassvet Krasnoyarsk changed name to Avtomobilist.
* ↑ TashAvtoMash Tashkent changed name to Traktor.

### Ranking 1-14th

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | FC Khimik Severodonetsk (C, P) | 40 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 66 | 20 | +46 | 61 | Promoted |
| 2 | FC Lokomotyv Vinnytsia (P) | 40 | 22 | 15 | 3 | 60 | 17 | +43 | 59 | Promoted |
| 3 | FC Lokomotyv Donetsk (P) | 40 | 23 | 9 | 8 | 66 | 30 | +36 | 55 | Promoted |
| 4 | FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi (P) | 40 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 49 | 24 | +25 | 51 | Promoted |
| 5 | FC Karpaty Mukacheve | 40 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 51 | 36 | +15 | 51 | |
| 6 | FC Avanhard Antratsyt | 40 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 30 | 33 | −3 | 46 | |
| 7 | FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod (P) | 40 | 19 | 7 | 14 | 36 | 29 | +7 | 45 | Promoted |
| 8 | FC Torpedo Lutsk (P) | 40 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 35 | 32 | +3 | 44 | Promoted |
| 9 | FC Horyn Rovno (P) | 40 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 48 | 41 | +7 | 42 | Promoted |
| 10 | FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk | 40 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 35 | 34 | +1 | 39 | |
| 11 | FC Avanhard Makiivka | 40 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 33 | 41 | −8 | 37 | |
| 12 | FC Avanhard Kramatorsk | 40 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 43 | 54 | −11 | 37 | |
| 13 | FC Komunarets Komunarsk | 40 | 13 | 10 | 17 | 38 | 42 | −4 | 36 | |
| 14 | FC Avanhard Rovenky | 40 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 35 | 57 | −22 | 32 | |

### Ranking 15-27th

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 15 | FC Dnipro Cherkasy (P) | 40 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 49 | 42 | +7 | 44 | Promoted |
| 16 | FC Avanhard Zhovti Vody | 40 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 34 | 26 | +8 | 42 | |
| 17 | FC Shakhtar Chervonohrad | 40 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 35 | 33 | +2 | 41 | |
| 18 | FC Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka | 40 | 16 | 9 | 15 | 43 | 43 | 0 | 41 | |
| 19 | FC Shakhtar Kirovsk | 40 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 34 | 47 | −13 | 41 | |
| 20 | FC Naftovyk Drohobych | 40 | 15 | 8 | 17 | 40 | 51 | −11 | 38 | |
| 21 | FC Trubnyk Nikopol | 40 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 26 | 32 | −6 | 37 | |
| 22 | FC Torpedo Berdyansk | 40 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 28 | 41 | −13 | 37 | |
| 23 | SKCF Sevastopol | 40 | 13 | 9 | 18 | 33 | 43 | −10 | 35 | |
| 24 | FC Shakhtar Oleksandriya | 40 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 33 | 46 | −13 | 34 | |
| 25 | FC Shakhtar Krasnyi Luch | 40 | 9 | 13 | 18 | 19 | 52 | −33 | 31 | |
| 26 | FC Podillya Kamianets-Podilskyi | 40 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 48 | −19 | 30 | |
| 27 | FC Shakhtar Torez | 40 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 16 | 44 | −28 | 26 | |

#### Central Asia
### Top goalscorers

Class A Top Group
* Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi) – 17 goals
Class A First Group
* Yanosh Gobovda (Karpaty Lvov) – 24 goals