1972 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League
Season	1972
	← 1971 1973 →

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1972 season.

Overview

Sixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Zarya Voroshilovgrad (C)	30	15	10	5	52	30	+22	40	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Kyiv	30	12	11	7	52	38	+14	35	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Dinamo Tbilisi	30	12	11	7	41	34	+7	35	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Ararat Yerevan	30	12	10	8	38	29	+9	34
5	CSKA Moscow	30	15	4	11	37	33	+4	34
6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	12	10	8	37	37	0	34
7	Zenit Leningrad	30	11	11	8	44	30	+14	33
8	Dinamo Minsk	30	10	11	9	27	28	−1	31
9	Torpedo Moscow	30	11	9	10	31	33	−2	31	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
10	Dynamo Moscow	30	12	6	12	39	35	+4	30
11	Spartak Moscow	30	8	10	12	29	30	−1	26
12	SKA Rostov-on-Don	30	8	10	12	31	35	−4	26
13	Kairat Alma-Ata	30	6	14	10	23	27	−4	26
14	Karpaty Lviv	30	8	8	14	27	43	−16	24
15	Lokomotiv Moscow (R)	30	6	9	15	29	48	−19	21	Relegation to First League
16	Neftchi Baku (R)	30	6	8	16	28	55	−27	20	Relegation to First League

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Home \ Away	ARA	CSK	DNI	DYK	DMN	DYN	DTB	KAI	KAR	LOK	NEF	SKA	SPA	TOR	ZAR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		2–0	2–3	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	4–2	0–1	1–1	5–0	1–2	4–2
CSKA Moscow	0–1		2–0	3–2	0–3	0–0	3–2	3–1	3–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	0–0	2–1		2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–0	5–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–3
Dynamo Kyiv	2–2	2–0	2–1		4–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	6–1	3–2	4–1	0–0	3–3	1–1
Dinamo Minsk	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1		0–3	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–0
Dynamo Moscow	0–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–1		1–1	1–1	3–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–4	1–4	0–1	1–4
Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–0		0–0	5–1	0–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	1–0
Kairat Alma-Ata	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–2		1–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–0
Karpaty Lviv	1–0	1–3	0–1	2–3	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0		3–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–3	2–2	0–1
Lokomotiv Moscow	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–3	2–2	0–2	4–1		1–0	2–4	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–6
Neftçi Baku	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–4	1–0	2–5	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–2		2–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–1
SKA Rostov-on-Don	1–1	1–2	4–0	0–2	0–0	0–3	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–1		0–1	1–0	3–1	0–0
Spartak Moscow	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	5–0	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–0	0–0		0–0	1–1	1–2
Torpedo Moscow	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–4	0–3	2–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–2	2–1		2–4	0–0
Zarya Voroshilovgrad	4–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–1		2–1
Zenit Leningrad	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	0–2	1–0	5–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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League cups	England Scotland
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