1974 in Soviet football explained

Country:	the Soviet Union
Season:	1974
Division1:	Top League
Champions1:	Dinamo Kiev
Division2:	First League
Champions2:	Lokomotiv Moscow
Division3:	Second League
Champions3:	Alga Frunze
Domestic:	USSR Cup
Dchampions:	Dinamo Kiev
Domestic2:	Amateur Cup
Dchampions2:	Metalurgi Rustavi
Prevseason:	1973
Nextseason:	1975
Flagicon:	yes

Soviet Amateur CupThe 1974 Soviet football championship was the 42nd seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 36th among teams of sports societies and factories. Dinamo Kiev won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the sixth time.

Honours

Competition	Winner	Runner-up
Top League	Dinamo Kiev (6)	Spartak Moscow
First League	Lokomotiv Moscow (3)	SKA Rostov-na-Donu
Second League	Alga Frunze	Rubin Kazan
Soviet Cup	Dinamo Kiev (4)	Zaria Voroshilovgrad

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

See main article: 1974 Soviet Top League.

Second League (finals)

[Nov 20-30, Sochi]

Top goalscorers

Top League

• Oleg Blokhin (Dinamo Kiev) – 20 goals

First League

• Nikolay Klimov (Tavriya Simferopol), Aleksandr Markin (Zvezda Perm) – 25 goals

Republican (union republics) level competitions

• Ukrainian SSR – Lokomotiv Zhdanov
• Estonian SSR – Narva Baltika
• Russian SFSR – none
• Latvian SSR – VEF Factory Riga
• Lithuanian SSR – Tauras Siauliai
• Belarusian SSR – BATE Borisov
• Moldavian SSR – Dinamo Chisinau
• Armenian SSR – SKIF Yerevan (Sports Club of the Physical Culture Institute)
• Georgian SSR – Metalurgi Rustavi
• Azerbaijan SSR – Araz Baku
• Kazakh SSR – Gornyak Nikolsky
• Uzbek SSR – Pakhtachi Gulistan
• Kirghiz SSR – Tekstilschik Osh
• Tajik SSR – SKIF Dushanbe (Sports Club of the Physical Culture Institute)
• Turkmen SSR – Avtomobilist Ashgabat

External links

• 1974 Soviet football championship. RSSSF
• 1974 год. regional-football.ru