# 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1

The 1972 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 42nd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 1. The season started on 6 April 1972.
The 1972 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk.

## Teams
### Relegated teams

* none

### Promoted teams

* FC Shakhtar Makiivka – (debut)
* FC Mayak Kharkiv – (debut)

### Relocated and renamed teams

* SKA Odessa was moved away from the Ukrainian championship, relocated to Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR and changed its name to FC Zvezda Tiraspol (competed in Zone 3).
* SKA Kiev was relocated to Chernihiv and changed its name to SC Chernihiv.
* SKA Lvov was relocated to Lutsk (in place of the relegated Torpedo Lutsk) and changed its name to SC Lutsk.

## Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk (C, P) | 46 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 51 | 28 | +23 | 63 | Promoted |
| 2 | Hoverla Uzhhorod | 46 | 25 | 8 | 13 | 70 | 44 | +26 | 58 | |
| 3 | Tavriya Simferopol | 46 | 25 | 7 | 14 | 62 | 32 | +30 | 57 | |
| 4 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv | 46 | 20 | 17 | 9 | 48 | 25 | +23 | 57 | |
| 5 | Shakhtar Kadiivka | 46 | 22 | 11 | 13 | 61 | 35 | +26 | 55 | |
| 6 | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi | 46 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 56 | 39 | +17 | 54 | |
| 7 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia | 46 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 49 | 36 | +13 | 54 | |
| 8 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 46 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 44 | 31 | +13 | 53 | |
| 9 | Metalurh Zhdanov | 46 | 20 | 13 | 13 | 56 | 45 | +11 | 53 | |
| 10 | SC Chernihiv | 46 | 19 | 14 | 13 | 56 | 41 | +15 | 52 | |
| 11 | Kolos Poltava | 46 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 44 | 45 | −1 | 51 | |
| 12 | Shakhtar Makiivka | 46 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 47 | 40 | +7 | 50 | |
| 13 | Avanhard Sevastopol | 46 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 47 | |
| 14 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 46 | 13 | 18 | 15 | 40 | 51 | −11 | 44 | |
| 15 | Budivelnyk Ternopil | 46 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 50 | 55 | −5 | 43 | |
| 16 | Khimik Severodonetsk | 46 | 15 | 13 | 18 | 37 | 49 | −12 | 43 | |
| 17 | Shakhtar Horlivka | 46 | 9 | 22 | 15 | 43 | 44 | −1 | 40 | |
| 18 | Avanhard Rovno | 46 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 41 | 52 | −11 | 40 | |
| 19 | Frunzenets Sumy | 46 | 16 | 8 | 22 | 36 | 51 | −15 | 40 | |
| 20 | Lokomotyv Kherson | 46 | 15 | 7 | 24 | 55 | 82 | −27 | 37 | |
| 21 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 46 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 32 | 62 | −30 | 36 | |
| 22 | SC Lutsk | 46 | 8 | 17 | 21 | 30 | 52 | −22 | 33 | |
| 23 | Lokomotyv Donetsk | 46 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 32 | 71 | −39 | 29 | |
| 24 | Mayak Kharkiv | 46 | 2 | 11 | 33 | 15 | 47 | −32 | 15 | Relegated |

## Top goalscorers

The following were the top goalscorers.
| # | Scorer | Goals (Pen.) | Team |
| 1 | Viktor Baihuzov | 24 | Shakhtar Kadiivka |
| 2 | Mykola Rusyn | 21 | Hoverla Uzhhorod |
| 3 | Anatoliy Lebid | 19 | Lokomotyv Kherson |
| 4 | Volodymyr Dzyuba | 17 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia |
| 5 | Yuriy Nesmiyan | 16 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr |
| 5 | Viktor Polokhov | 16 | Metalurh Zhdanov |
| 7 | Andriy Cheremysin | 15 | Tavriya Simferopol |
| 7 | Valentyn Prylepskyi | 15 | Tavriya Simferopol |
| 7 | Volodymyr Fursov | 15 | Shakhtar Kadiivka |
| 10 | Yevhen Biloborodov | 14 | Frunzenets Sumy |