# 1983 Soviet Top League

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1983 season.

## Teams
### Promoted teams

* Zhalgiris Vilnius – champion (returning after 21 seasons)
* Nistru Kishinev – 2nd place (returning after nine seasons)

### Location
## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (C) | 34 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 63 | 36 | +27 | 49 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
| 2 | Spartak Moscow | 34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 60 | 25 | +35 | 45 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 3 | Dinamo Minsk | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 51 | 34 | +17 | 43 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Zenit Leningrad | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 42 | 32 | +10 | 40 | |
| 5 | Žalgiris Vilnius | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 39 | |
| 6 | Torpedo Moscow | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 40 | 34 | +6 | 38 | |
| 7 | Dynamo Kyiv | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 34 | +16 | 38 | |
| 8 | Chornomorets Odesa | 34 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 44 | 46 | −2 | 37 | |
| 9 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 34 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 48 | 40 | +8 | 37 | |
| 10 | Pakhtakor Tashkent | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 37 | 34 | +3 | 35 | |
| 11 | Metalist Kharkiv | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 38 | 40 | −2 | 32 | |
| 12 | CSKA Moscow | 34 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 37 | 33 | +4 | 32 | |
| 13 | Neftchi Baku | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 32 | 38 | −6 | 30 | |
| 14 | Ararat Yerevan | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 29 | 47 | −18 | 29 | |
| 15 | Dynamo Moscow | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 30 | 37 | −7 | 28 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 16 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 41 | 48 | −7 | 27 | |
| 17 | Torpedo Kutaisi (R) | 34 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 58 | −32 | 18 | Relegation to First League |
| 18 | Nistru Kishinev (R) | 34 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 73 | −54 | 10 | Relegation to First League |
* 1 2 3 1 point deducted (10 draw limit)
* ↑ 2 points deducted (10 draw limit)

## Results

| Home \ Away | ARA | CHO | CSK | DNI | DYK | DMN | DYN | DTB | MKH | NEF | NIS | PAK | SHA | SPA | TKU | TOR | ŽAL | ZEN |
| Ararat Yerevan | | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Chornomorets Odesa | 2–0 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| CSKA Moscow | 1–2 | 1–2 | | 0–2 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 |
| Dnipro | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 3–0 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 8–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 2–2 |
| Dinamo Minsk | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Dynamo Moscow | 2–1 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 |
| Metalist Kharkiv | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–3 | | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Neftçi Baku | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–5 |
| Nistru Chișinău | 2–4 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–6 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Pakhtakor Tashkent | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 6–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 6–2 | 0–1 | | 0–4 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 |
| Spartak Moscow | 3–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Torpedo Kutaisi | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–6 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–4 | | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 |
| Torpedo Moscow | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 4–1 | | 1–1 | 0–2 |
| Žalgiris Vilnius | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 0–1 |
| Zenit Leningrad | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | |

## Top scorers
### 18 goals

* Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow)

### 17 goals

* Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk)

### 15 goals

* Volodymyr Fink (Chornomorets)
* Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
* Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar)
* Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)

### 14 goals

* Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris)

### 13 goals

* Viktor Kolyadko (CSKA Moscow)
* Oleh Taran (Dnipro)

### 11 goals

* Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow)
* Valeriy Petrakov (Torpedo Moscow)
* Igor Ponomaryov (Neftchi)
* Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
* Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA Moscow)
* Vadym Yevtushenko (Dynamo Kyiv)

## Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
* 1. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
* Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (34).
* Defenders: Mykola Pavlov (33 / 3), Petro Kutuzov (27), Oleksandr Lysenko (17 / 1), Yuriy Mirhorodskyi (17), Serhiy Puchkov (13), Oleksandr Chervonyi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (7), Volodymyr Ustinov (6), Anatoliy Nazarenko (5), Valeriy Zuyev (2).
* Midfielders: Andriy Dilay (34 / 2), Vyktor Kuznetsov (31 / 7), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (30 / 5), Oleh Serebryanskyi (26 / 1), Hennadiy Lytovchenko (24 / 5), Mykola Fedorenko (17 / 3), Volodymyr Bahmut (6), Volodymyr Kobzarev (5).
* Forwards: Oleh Taran (30 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (24 / 9), Oleh Protasov (21 / 7), Aleksandr Pogorelov (21 / 5).
* Manager: Volodymyr Yemets.
* Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustinov (to FC Kolos Nikopol), Valeriy Zuyev (retired).
* 2. FC Spartak Moscow
* Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Andrei Mikhalychev (1).
* Defenders: Sergei Bazulev (30), Gennady Morozov (30), Yevgeni Mileshkin (29 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (25 / 3), Boris Pozdnyakov (25), Oleg Romantsev (17), Aleksandr Bubnov (13), Sergei Savchenkov (3), Sergei Shulgin (1).
* Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 18), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Valeri Gladilin (26 / 9), Yuri Reznik (25 / 4), Edgar Gess (18 / 2), Sergei Shvetsov (8), Mikhail Dubinin (5 / 2), Vladimir Korolyov (1), Sergei Nikitin (1).
* Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (16 / 5), Sergei Argudyayev (6), Mikhail Rusyayev (5), Oleg Kuzhlev (2), Oleg Smirnov (1).
* Manager: Konstantin Beskov.
* Transferred out during the season: Oleg Romantsev (retired), Mikhail Dubinin (to FC Metallurg Aldan).
* 3. FC Dinamo Minsk
* Goalkeepers: Yury Kurbyko (30), Mikhail Vergeyenko (4), Arkadi Batalov (1).
* Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (32 / 1), Sergei Borovsky (32), Viktor Yanushevsky (30), Viktor Shishkin (24), Liudas Rumbutis (22 / 3), Oļegs Aleksejenko (18), Igor Belov (10), Yury Trukhan (5).
* Midfielders: Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 1), Sergey Gotsmanov (29 / 5), Sergei Aleinikov (29 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (26 / 1), Aleksandr Prokopenko (12 / 2), Valeri Melnikov (9 / 1).
* Forwards: Igor Gurinovich (28 / 17), Georgi Kondratyev (28 / 8), Viktor Sokol (18 / 9), Pyotr Vasilevsky (17 / 1).
* Manager: Eduard Malofeyev.
* Transferred out during the season: Aleksandr Prokopenko (released).

## Number of teams by union republic

| Rank | Union republic | Number of teams | Club(s) |
| 1 | RSFSR | 5 | CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad |
| 1 | Ukrainian SSR | 5 | Chernomorets Odesa, Dinamo Kyiv, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk |
| 3 | Georgian SSR | 2 | Dinamo Tbilisi, Torpedo Kutaisi |
| 4 | Armenian SSR | 1 | Ararat Yerevan |
| 4 | Azerbaijan SSR | 1 | Neftchi Baku |
| 4 | Belarusian SSR | 1 | Dinamo Minsk |
| 4 | Moldavian SSR | 1 | Nistru Kishinev |
| 4 | Lithuanian SSR | 1 | Zhalgiris Vilnius |
| 4 | Uzbek SSR | 1 | Pakhtakor Tashkent |