1985 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season	1985
Champions	FC Dynamo Kyiv
Relegated	FC Fakel Voronezh, FC SKA Rostov-na-Donu
Champions League	Dynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' Cup	Torpedo Moscow
UEFA Cup	FC Dinamo Minsk Spartak Moscow Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Top goalscorer	(35) Oleh Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
← 1984 1986 →

No	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF-GA	Pts	Rpblc	Notes
1	Dynamo Kyiv	34	20	8	6	64-26	48	Ukrainian SSR
2	Spartak Moscow	34	18	10	6	72-28	46	Russian SFSR
3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	34	16	11	7	71-41	42	Ukrainian SSR	-1
4	Dinamo Minsk	34	16	9	9	40-31	41	Byelorussian SSR
5	Torpedo Moscow	34	13	10	11	42-40	36	Russian SFSR
6	Zenit Leningrad	34	14	7	13	48-38	35	Russian SFSR
7	Žalgiris Vilnius	34	12	11	11	43-49	34	Lithuanian SSR	-1
8	Dinamo Tbilisi	34	11	10	13	34-39	32	Georgian SSR
9	Kairat Almaty	34	11	13	10	43-46	32	Kazakh SSR	-3
10	Metalist Kharkiv	34	12	7	15	39-55	31	Ukrainian SSR
11	Torpedo Kutaisi	34	11	9	14	40-51	31	Georgian SSR
12	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	10	12	12	46-45	30	Ukrainian SSR	-2
13	Ararat Yerevan	34	10	12	12	42-46	30	Armenian SSR	-2
14	Dinamo Moscow	34	11	7	16	37-50	29	Russian SFSR
15	Chornomorets Odessa	34	11	7	16	44-65	29	Ukrainian SSR	Relegation play-off
16	Neftçi Baku	34	9	11	14	30-40	28	Azerbaijan SSR	-1; Relegation play-off
17	Fakel Voronezh	34	9	9	16	24-45	27	Russian SFSR	Relegated
18	SKA Rostov-na-Donu	34	7	7	20	36-60	21	Russian SFSR	Relegated

Draw limit - teams only receive points for the first 10 draws.
For the following season the League was reduced to 16 members. The teams that finished 15th and 16th played a mini-tournament with the two best out of the Soviet First League. Out of this tournament the two best teams continued on in the Soviet Top League.

No	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF-GA	Pts	Rpblc	Notes
1	Chornomorets Odessa	6	3	3	0	6-3	9	Ukrainian SSR
2	Neftçi Baku	6	2	3	1	9-4	7	Azerbaijan SSR
3	Daugava Riga	6	1	3	2	7-7	5	Latvian SSR
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	1	4	3-11	3	Russian SFSR

For the 1986 season there was no promotion out of the Soviet First League.

Top scorers

35 goals

Oleh Protasov (Dnipro)

14 goals

Vladimir Klementyev (Zenit)
Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)

13 goals

Fyodor Cherenkov (Spartak Moscow)
Oleh Taran (Dnipro)

12 goals

Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)
Viktor Grachyov (Shakhtar)
Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris)

11 goals

Georgi Kondratyev (Dinamo Minsk)
Sergei Volgin (Kairat)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv
Goalkeepers: Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (34), Viktor Chanov (1). Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (34 / 8), Oleh Kuznetsov (29 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Volodymyr Bezsonov (25), Vasyl Yevseyev (19), Ivan Palamar (2), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (1), Vadym Karatayev (1). Midfielders: Vasyl Rats (34 / 6), Ivan Yaremchuk (33 / 3), Oleksandr Zavarov (31 / 9), Andriy Bal (31 / 1), Pavlo Yakovenko (29), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (20 / 2). Forwards: Ihor Belanov (31 / 10), Oleg Blokhin (29 / 12), Vadym Yevtushenko (22 / 10), Oleksandr Hushchyn (2), Viktor Khlus (2). Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Transferred out during the season: Viktor Khlus (to FC Chornomorets Odesa).
2. FC Spartak Moscow
Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2). Defenders: Aleksandr Bubnov (34), Boris Kuznetsov (34), Gennady Morozov (31 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (24 / 2), Almir Kayumov (14), Aleksandr Shibayev (4). Midfielders: Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 13), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (33 / 7), Sergei Novikov (31 / 7), Yuri Gavrilov (26 / 6), Sergey Shavlo (25 / 6), Yevgeni Sidorov (24 / 4), Guram Adzhoyev (7 / 1). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (29 / 14), Andrei Rudakov (23 / 8), Vladimir Kapustin (13 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (5 / 2), Oleg Kuzhlev (5). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: none.
3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (32), Valeriy Horodov (6). Defenders: Serhiy Puchkov (32 / 1), Oleksandr Lysenko (31 / 2), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (31), Sergei Bashkirov (29 / 1), Oleksandr Sorokalet (11), Sergey Kulinich (3), Anatoliy Nazarenko (3), Volodymyr Gerashchenko (2), Petro Kutuzov (2), Ihor Deli (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (34 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (33 / 3), Oleksiy Cherednyk (28 / 1), Andriy Dilay (27), Volodymyr Bahmut (20 / 1), Borys Shurshin (12 / 2), Mykola Kudrytsky (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (2), Mykola Fedorenko (1). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (33 / 35), Oleh Taran (27 / 13), Volodymyr Lyutyi (22 / 4), Volodymyr Mozolyuk (1), Andriy Sydelnykov (1). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Serhiy Khudozhylov, Mykola Fedorenko (both to FC Kolos Nikopol).

References

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