1964 Soviet Top League

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Class A First Group
Season1964
Dates27 March–8 November
18 November–22 November (playoffs)
ChampionsDinamo Tbilisi (1st title)
RelegatedVolga Gorky
Kairat Alma-Ata
Shinnik Yaroslavl
Moldova Chisinau
European Cupnone
Cup Winners' CupDynamo Kyiv
Matches played274
Goals scored544 (1.99 per match)
Best PlayerValery Voronin (Torpedo M)
Top goalscorerVladimir Fedotov (CSKA)
Best goalkeeperViktor Bannikov (Dynamo Kv)
1963
1965

The 1964 Class A First Group was the 26th season of the Soviet football championship at top division and the 15th for Class A. The season started on 27 March 1964 and finished on 8 November 1964. Upon conclusion of the regular season, at the end of November in warmer Tashkent took place additional play-offs for the first place and the 13th place.

  • 17 teams took part in the league with FC Dinamo Tbilisi winning the championship.
  • Volga Gorky and Shinnik Yaroslavl were the newly promoted clubs.
  • According to the rules, if two teams had the equal number of points the winner was decided by the final match between them. The game between Dinamo and Torpedo took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan SSR with FC Dinamo Tbilisi winning 4-1 after extra time.
  • FC Dynamo Kyiv qualified for CWC 1965–66 by beating Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 1–0 in the national cup this year becoming the first Soviet football club in European competitions.
  • The defending champions Dynamo Moscow placed seventh.

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Tbilisi (C) 32 18 10 4 48 30 +18 46 League champions
2 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Torpedo Moscow 32 19 8 5 52 19 +33 46
3 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic CSKA Moscow 32 16 11 5 49 23 +26 43
4
SKA Rostov-on-Don
32 16 6 10 40 28 +12 38
5 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtyor Donetsk 32 13 11 8 35 26 +9 37
6 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Kiev 32 10 16 6 42 29 +13 36 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
7 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dinamo Moscow 32 12 10 10 33 31 +2 34
8 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Moscow 32 12 8 12 34 32 +2 32
9 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Minsk 32 7 17 8 24 21 +3 31
10
Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev
32 7 14 11 24 35 −11 28
11 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zenit Leningrad 32 9 9 14 30 35 −5 27
12
Neftyanik Baku
32 8 11 13 25 30 −5 27
13 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Torpedo Kutaisi 32 10 7 15 20 37 −17 27
14 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Volga Gorky (R) 32 7 13 12 19 38 −19 27 Relegation to Class A Second Group
15 Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kairat Alma-Ata (R) 32 8 10 14 23 27 −4 26
16 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Shinnik Yaroslavl (R) 32 6 9 17 20 48 −28 21
17 Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldova Chisinau (R) 32 6 6 20 15 44 −29 18
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away CSK DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI
KRY
MOL
NEF
TOR SHA SHI
SKA
SPA TKU VOL ZEN
CSKA Moscow 1–2 0–0 1–1 4–1 2–0 4–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–2 10–2 1–0 2–0 4–0 5–2 0–0
Dinamo Kiev 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 3–1 0–0 4–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–0 0–1 2–2 3–0 1–1 1–0
Dinamo Minsk 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 4–0 0–2 0–3 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–1
Dinamo Moscow 1–2 1–1 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–2 2–1 0–2 0–1 0–1
Dinamo Tbilisi 3–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–2 1–1 1–0 4–3 3–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–0
Kairat Alma-Ata 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–0 1–2 2–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 2–2
Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev
0–0 1–1 0–0 4–0 3–3 0–2 3–1 0–0 0–4 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–1
Moldova Chisinau 0–0 1–3 0–0 0–3 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–1
Neftyanik Baku
1–1 1–0 0–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 2–0 3–1 3–1 0–0 0–1 0–4 2–0 1–0 2–1
Torpedo Moscow 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 0–0 3–1 0–0 5–0 1–1 1–0 2–0
Shakhtyor Donetsk 0–0 0–0 0–5 1–2 2–1 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–2 3–0 3–0 2–0 2–1
Shinnik Yaroslavl 1–2 2–2 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–4 0–2 1–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–0
SKA Rostov-on-Don
1–0 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–2 1–0 2–0 0–1 7–0 0–1 2–1
Spartak Moscow 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 2–1 2–1 2–2 0–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 2–1
Torpedo Kutaisi 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 4–1 0–3 3–0 0–2
Volga Gorky 0–1 0–3 1–1 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–1 3–2 0–4 1–4 1–0 0–0
Zenit Leningrad 0–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 4–1 3–0 1–0 0–4 1–1 4–0 2–0 0–4 0–1 0–0
Source:[citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

16 goals
15 goals
14 goals
  • Valentin Ivanov
    (Torpedo Moscow)
13 goals
  • Ilya Datunashvili
    (Dinamo Tbilisi)
12 goals
10 goals
9 goals

References