1985 Soviet First League Explained

Season:	1985
Nextseason:	1986

The 1985 Soviet First League (Russian: Чемпионат СССР 1985 года в первой лиге, Chempionat SSSR 1985 goda v pervoi lige) was a fifteenth season of the Soviet First League.

First stage

Group East

Second stage

Group B

Transitional tournaments

Higher League Promotion

Promotion tournament took place in Moscow on 27 November — 15 December 1985.

Second League Relegation

Group V

Top scorers

	Player	Club	Goals
1	Valeri Shmarov	CSKA Moscow	29 (1)
2	Aleksandrs Starkovs	Daugava Riga	25
3	Avtandil Gorgiladze	Dinamo Batumi	23 (4)
	Jevgeņijs Miļevskis	Daugava Riga	23 (4)
5	Aleksandr Nikitin	Rotor Volgograd	22
6	Sergei Berezin	SKA Khabarovsk	19 (1)
7	Heorhiy Koliadyuk	Metallurg Zaporozhye	18
8	Viktor Rafalchuk	SKA Karpaty Lvov	16 (6)
9	Eduard Veranyan	FC Kotayk	15 (1)
	Vitaly Razdayev	Kuzbass Kemerevo	15 (3)

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1		11	CSKA Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Rotor Volgograd, SKA Khabarovsk, Dinamo Stavropol, Kuzbass Kemerovo, Spartak Ordzhonikidze, Kuban Krasnodar, Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev, Iskra Smolensk
2		3	SKA Karpaty Lvov, Kolos Nikopol, Metallurg Zaporozhye
3		2	Guria Lanchkhuti, Dinamo Batumi
	Pakhtakor Tashkent, Zvezda Dzhizak
5		1	Daugava Riga
	Pamir Dushanbe
	Kotaik Abovian
	Nistru Kishinev
	Atlantas Klapeida

See also

• Soviet First League

External links

• 1985. First League. (1985. Первая лига.) Luhansk Nash Futbol.