# 1973 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1973 season.

## Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Ararat Yerevan won the championship.

## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Ararat Yerevan (C) | 30 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 52 | 26 | +26 | 39 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
| 2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 30 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 44 | 23 | +21 | 36 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 3 | Dynamo Moscow | 30 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 43 | 30 | +13 | 33 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Spartak Moscow | 30 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 28 | +9 | 31 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 5 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 30 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 42 | 33 | +9 | 31 | |
| 6 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 30 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 31 | |
| 7 | Zarya Voroshilovgrad | 30 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 29 | |
| 8 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 30 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 26 | |
| 9 | Kairat Alma-Ata | 30 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 25 | 37 | −12 | 26 | |
| 10 | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 33 | 36 | −3 | 25 | |
| 11 | Zenit Leningrad | 30 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 35 | −2 | 21 | |
| 12 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 30 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 37 | 44 | −7 | 20 | |
| 13 | Torpedo Moscow | 30 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 28 | 37 | −9 | 19 | |
| 14 | Karpaty Lviv | 30 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 28 | 48 | −20 | 19 | |
| 15 | Dinamo Minsk (R) | 30 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 36 | −15 | 17 | Relegation to First League |
| 16 | SKA Rostov-on-Don (R) | 30 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 43 | −24 | 11 | Relegation to First League |

## Results

Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.
| Home \ Away | ARA | CSK | DNI | DYK | DMN | DYN | DTB | KAI | KAR | PAK | SHA | SKA | SPA | TOR | ZAR | ZEN |
| Ararat Yerevan | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–1$^{(3–5)}$ | 3–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–2$^{(4–5)}$ | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–1$^{(4–3)}$ | 3–2 |
| CSKA Moscow | 0–1 | | 0–0$^{(3–5)}$ | 3–0 | 3–2 | 1–1$^{(4–5)}$ | 1–1$^{(5–4)}$ | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 2–2$^{(5–3)}$ | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–0$^{(8–7)}$ |
| Dnipo Dnipropetrovsk | 1–1$^{(5–4)}$ | 4–1 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 0–0$^{(4–2)}$ | 2–0 | 1–1$^{(4–3)}$ | 1–1$^{(5–3)}$ | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 3–1 | 1–0 | 5–2 | | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1$^{(7–8)}$ | 1–1$^{(3–2)}$ | 0–0$^{(5–3)}$ | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Dinamo Minsk | 1–0 | 1–1$^{(5–3)}$ | 2–0 | 0–0$^{(4–5)}$ | | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1$^{(4–5)}$ | 0–1 | 0–0$^{(8–9)}$ | 1–1$^{(5–4)}$ | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0$^{(4–5)}$ |
| Dynamo Moscow | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–2$^{(5–4)}$ | 1–1$^{(5–4)}$ | | 4–1 | 1–1$^{(3–4)}$ | 2–0 | 1–1$^{(6–5)}$ | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0$^{(5–3)}$ | 1–1$^{(4–5)}$ | 2–1 | 1–1$^{(5–4)}$ |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 0–0$^{(4–3)}$ | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 0–3 | | 3–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 0–0$^{(6–5)}$ | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–1$^{(4–3)}$ | 1–1$^{(6–5)}$ |
| Kairat Alma-Ata | 1–4 | 1–1$^{(4–3)}$ | 2–2$^{(4–5)}$ | 0–0$^{(5–3)}$ | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 2–1 | 1–1$^{(5–4)}$ | 2–0 | 0–0$^{(5–4)}$ | 1–2 | 1–1$^{(4–3)}$ | 1–1$^{(4–3)}$ | 0–0$^{(5–2)}$ |
| Karpaty Lviv | 3–0 | 0–9 | 3–2 | 0–0$^{(4–5)}$ | 1–0 | 3–5 | 1–3 | 0–1 | | 2–1$^{(5–4)}$ | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–2$^{(4–5)}$ |
| Pakhtakor Tashkent | 2–3 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–2$^{(2–5)}$ | 4–1 | 3–1 | | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 5–0 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 0–0$^{(3–4)}$ | 4–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–1$^{(4–3)}$ | 0–1 | 0–0$^{(3–5)}$ | 3–1 | 1–0 | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 |
| SKA Rostov-on-Don | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–2$^{(6–5)}$ | 1–1$^{(10–9)}$ | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1$^{(4–5)}$ | 0–0$^{(2–4)}$ | | 1–1$^{(6–5)}$ | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Spartak Moscow | 2–2$^{(4–5)}$ | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–0$^{(5–1)}$ | 1–0 | | 1–1$^{(5–4)}$ | 0–2 | 2–0 |
| Torpedo Moscow | 0–1 | 2–2$^{(3–4)}$ | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–1$^{(3–5)}$ | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1$^{(3–4)}$ | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | | 0–3 | 0–1 |
| Zarya Voroshilovgrad | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0$^{(3–4)}$ | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–0$^{(5–3)}$ | | 0–0$^{(2–4)}$ |
| Zenit Leningrad | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0$^{(11–12)}$ | 2–1 | 1–1$^{(7–6)}$ | 2–3 | 1–0 | 1–1$^{(3–4)}$ | 3–0 | 0–0$^{(3–4)}$ | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–0$^{(4–5)}$ | 3–1 | 3–2 | |

## Top scorers
### 18 goals

* Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

### 16 goals

* Anatoli Kozhemyakin (Dynamo Moscow)

### 13 goals

* Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)

### 12 goals

* Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor)
* Aleksandr Piskaryov (Spartak Moscow)

### 11 goals

* Mikhail Bulgakov (Spartak Moscow)
* Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

### 10 goals

* Eduard Markarov (Ararat)
* Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar)

### 9 goals

* Vladimir Dorofeyev (CSKA)
* Viktor Kuznetsov (Zorya)