1941 Soviet Top League Explained

Season:	1941
Nextseason:	1945

The 1941 Soviet Top League was cancelled due to World War II. The last matches were played on June 24.

League standings as of June 24, 1941

• CDKA were renamed to Red Army (now CSKA)
• Out of Moscovite Lokomotiv, Torpedo, Metallurg, and Krylya Sovetov were formed teams Profsoyuzy-1 and Profsoyuzy-2.
• Out of Leningradis Avangard, Zenit, and Krasnaya Zaria were formed teams Profsoyuz of Leningrad which was renamed again into Zenit.
• As the Group B liquidated for the 1941 season FC Dinamo Minsk, FC Spartak Odessa, and FC Spartak Kharkiv were promoted along with SC Spartak Leningrad. Presumably FC Spartak Kharkiv was also a merger of Dynamo, and Silmash forming the reformed united city team Spartak, but evidence of that is yet to be found.

Top scorers

8 goals

• Viktor Matveyev (Traktor Stalingrad)
• Aleksei Sokolov (Spartak Moscow)

7 goals

• Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)

6 goals

• Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Viktor Panyukov (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Pyotr Shcherbakov (Spartak Odessa)

5 goals

• Aleksandr Fyodorov (Dynamo Leningrad)
• Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow)

4 goals

• Ilya Bizyukov (Dynamo Leningrad)
• Pavel Kornilov (Spartak Moscow)
• Ivan Mitronov (Profsoyuzy-2 Moscow)
• Konstantin Sazonov (Dynamo Leningrad)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)