1968 Soviet Top League

The 1968 Class A – Pervaya Gruppa was the 30th season of the first-tier football competition in the Soviet Union. 20 teams took part in the league with FC Dynamo Kyiv winning the championship.

Class A – Pervaya Gruppa
Season1968
← 1967
1969 →

Last season placing dead last Zenit Leningrad was spared from relegation to the 50th Anniversary of the "Great October" being the cradle of the Bolshevik coup-d'etat.[1] The league composition was increased from 19 to 20 keeping the Leningrad team at the top.

League standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv (C) 38 21 15 2 58 25 +33 57 Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Moscow 38 21 10 7 64 43 +21 52
3 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Torpedo Moscow 38 18 14 6 60 32 +28 50
4 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic CSKA Moscow 38 20 10 8 50 30 +20 50
5 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Moscow 38 19 9 10 58 32 +26 47
6 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Minsk 38 17 12 9 52 36 +16 46 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round
7 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Tbilisi 38 16 13 9 53 29 +24 45
8 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Chornomorets Odessa 38 11 16 11 47 49 −2 38
9 Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Neftchi Baku 38 13 12 13 42 48 −6 38
10 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Lokomotiv Moscow 38 10 17 11 35 39 −4 37
11 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zenit Leningrad 38 10 14 14 35 49 −14 34
12 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic SKA Rostov-on-Don 38 11 11 16 44 48 −4 33
13 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Zarya Voroshilovgrad 38 10 13 15 23 41 −18 33
14 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk 38 9 14 15 38 42 −4 32
15 Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kairat Alma-Ata 38 12 8 18 33 42 −9 32
16 Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Ararat Yerevan 38 11 9 18 34 46 −12 31
17 Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Pakhtakor Tashkent 38 9 11 18 42 61 −19 29
18 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 38 9 11 18 24 45 −21 29
19 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Torpedo Kutaisi 38 9 10 19 27 48 −21 28
20 Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kirovobad (R) 38 5 9 24 25 59 −34 19 Relegation to Class A Second Group
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results
Home \ Away ARA CHO CSK DKB DYK DMN DYN DTB KAI KRY LOK NEF PAK SHA SKA SPA TKU TOR ZAR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 0–2 1–1 1–0 0–1 2–2 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 4–1 1–0 2–0 2–2 1–1 1–0 1–1 3–0 3–0
Chornomorets Odessa 1–0 1–0 4–0 2–4 2–2 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–2 4–1 1–1 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–2 4–0 1–1
CSKA Moscow 1–0 2–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 3–2 3–0 1–0 2–0 1–2 3–1 3–2 2–0 1–1 2–1 0–2 4–0 1–0
Dynamo Kirovobad 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–3 1–1 2–0 2–4 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–4 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–3
Dynamo Kyiv 0–0 2–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 4–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 5–2
Dinamo Minsk 1–0 3–2 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 2–0 4–1 2–0 2–2 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 4–0 0–3 2–1 2–1
Dynamo Moscow 3–0 1–1 1–1 6–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 5–1 6–2 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 3–0 3–5 1–0 3–0
Dinamo Tbilisi 5–3 4–0 2–0 2–0 1–1 3–2 0–0 3–0 7–2 0–1 4–0 2–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 2–2 2–0 1–0
Kairat Alma-Ata 0–0 2–0 0–2 1–0 0–1 2–1 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 3–0 4–1 3–1 1–0 1–2 2–0 1–0 2–0 0–2
Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 0–1 1–0 0–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–2 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 0–2 1–1 0–2 1–0 0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–2 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–3 1–0 1–0 1–1 5–0 2–2 4–1 0–2 5–2 1–1 1–1 0–0
Neftçi Baku 2–0 4–0 0–1 1–3 0–0 2–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 2–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent 4–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–2 1–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 2–2 2–1 2–2 0–0 0–0 1–0 5–0
Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 0–2 0–0 3–0 2–3 0–0 0–1 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 3–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 3–0 0–2
SKA Rostov-on-Don 4–0 4–0 0–1 3–1 2–2 2–2 0–3 1–2 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 5–2 1–0 1–1 1–1 3–1
Spartak Moscow 3–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–3 2–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 4–3 4–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 1–5 1–1 4–0
Torpedo Kutaisi 1–0 1–0 0–4 2–1 0–2 0–1 1–0 4–2 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–2 2–1 1–0 2–0 3–4 0–2 0–1
Torpedo Moscow 2–0 2–0 3–0 3–0 1–1 1–1 1–2 0–2 3–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 3–3 0–0 1–0 1–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad 1–0 1–1 0–2 1–0 0–2 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 1–0 1–3 0–1 1–0 0–0
Zenit Leningrad 2–1 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 3–0 1–1 2–2 2–2 0–2 0–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–1
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers
22 goals
21 goals
14 goals
13 goals
12 goals
11 goals

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

1. FC Dynamo Kyiv[2]

Goalkeepers: Viktor Bannikov (19), Yevhen Rudakov (19).
Defenders: Vasyl Turyanchyk (36 / 3), Volodymyr Levchenko (34 / 1), Vadym Sosnikhin (34), Serhiy Krulykovskyi (26 / 1).
Midfielders: Volodymyr Muntyan (36 / 5), Fedir Medvid (33 / 3), Yozhef Sabo (29 / 6).
Forwards: Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi (37 / 10), Viktor Serebryanikov (34 / 7), Anatoliy Puzach (32 / 11), Anatoliy Pylypchuk (20 / 2), Valeriy Porkuyan (20 / 2), Anatoliy Byshovets (15 / 4).

Manager: Viktor Maslov, Assistants: Mykhailo Koman, Viktor Terentyev.

Transferred out during the season: Yuriy Vankevych (DF, 11), Serhiy Shklyar (MF, 8), Viktor Nazarov (MF, 6/1), Leonid Ostrovskyi (DF, 6), Viktor Kashchey (FW, 4/1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (FW, 3), Anatoliy Bohovyk (MF, 2), Vyacheslav Semenov (MF, 2), Oleksandr Shpakov (DF, 1), Viktor Horoza (MF, 1).

References
  1. Команда эпохи застоя. fc-zenit.ru
  2. Перемога у чемпіонаті СРСР-1968. fcdynamo.com
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