1989 Soviet First League

The 1989 Soviet First League was the 50th season of the second-tier round-robin competitions of association football in the Soviet Union.

Teams

FC Fakel Voronezh – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of a season)
FC Nistru Chisinau
– Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of 2 seasons)
FC Torpedo Kutaisi – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of a season)

Metalurh

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	CSKA Moscow (C, P)	42	24	11	7	79	44	+35	59	Promotion to Top League
2	Guria Lanchkhuti (X)	42	22	10	10	64	45	+19	54	Withdrew from the league
3	Kairat Almaty	42	21	9	12	68	40	+28	51
4	Dynamo Stavropol	42	20	10	12	47	39	+8	50
5	Fakel Voronezh	42	20	8	14	56	49	+7	48
6	Tavriya Simferopol	42	19	10	13	64	56	+8	48
7	Metalurh Zaporizhia	42	21	5	16	54	56	−2	47
8	Neftchi Baku	42	17	13	12	46	35	+11	47
9	Kotayk Abovyan	42	19	7	16	60	53	+7	45
10	Nistru Chisinau	42	16	11	15	50	50	0	43
11	Geolog Tyumen	42	15	13	14	56	52	+4	43
12	Pakhtakor Tashkent	42	17	7	18	57	59	−2	41
13	Torpedo Kutaisi (X)	42	17	7	18	45	50	−5	41	Withdrew from the league
14	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	42	17	6	19	58	52	+6	40
15	Kuzbass Kemerevo	42	17	5	20	60	58	+2	39
16	Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	14	11	17	50	54	−4	39
17	Spartak Ordjonikidze	42	15	7	20	30	48	−18	37
18	Dinamo Batumi (X)	42	11	14	17	44	50	−6	36	Withdrew from the league
19	Kuban Krasnodar	42	11	13	18	36	49	−13	35
20	SKA Rostov-on-Don (R)	42	11	13	18	32	47	−15	35	Relegation to Second League
21	Daugava Riga (R)	42	8	10	24	40	68	−28	26
22	SKA Karpaty Lviv (R)	42	7	6	29	31	73	−42	20

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Valeriy Masalitin	CSKA Moscow	32
2	Merab Megreladze	Torpedo Kutaisi	29
3	Aleksandr Gaydash	Tavriya Simferopol	27
4	Seiran Osipov	Dynamo Stavropol	25
4	Merab Zhordania	Guria Lanchkhuti	25
6	Gia Guruli	Guria Lanchkhuti	18
7	Vitaliy Papadopulo	SKA Rostov-on-Don	17
8	Vali Gasimov	Neftchi Baku	16
8	Oleh Taran	Metalurh Zaporizhia	16

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	10	SKA Rostov-na-Donu
2	Georgian SSR	3	Guria Lanchkhuti, Torpedo Kutaisi, Dinamo Batumi
2	Ukrainian SSR	3	SKA Karpaty Lvov
4	Moldavian SSR	1	Nistru Kishenev
	Armenian SSR		Kotaik Abovian
	Uzbek SSR		Pakhtakor Tashkent
	Azerbaijan SSR		Neftchi Baku
	Kazakh SSR		Kairat Alma-Ata
	Latvian SSR		Daugava Riga

v t e Second level Soviet football championship seasons
Group B	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Second Group	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Class B	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Second Group (Class A)	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
First Group (Class A)	1970
First League	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991

v t e 1989 in Soviet football
« 1988 1990 »
Domestic leagues	Supreme League First League Second League (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Finals)
Domestic cups	Soviet Cup 1988–89 1989–90 Federation Cup Super Cup
European competitions	European Cup 1988–89 1989–90 Cup Winners' Cup 1988–89 1989–90 UEFA Cup 1988–89 1989–90
Related to national team	Senior Youth U-18 Juniors
Club seasons
Supreme League	CSKA Moscow Spartak Moscow Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Dinamo Kiev Chernomorets Odessa Torpedo Moscow Dinamo Moscow Metallist Kharkov Metallurg Zaporozhie Ararat Yerevan Dinamo Minsk Pamir Dushanbe Spartak Vladikavkaz Pakhtakor Tashkent Shakhter Donetsk Lokomotiv Moscow
Winter 1989–90 transfers