1972 Soviet Top League Explained

Season:	1972
Nextseason:	1973

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1972 season.

Overview

Sixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship.

Top scorers

14 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

13 goals

• Oganes Zanazanyan (Ararat)

12 goals

• Gennadi Khromchenkov (Zenit)
• Yuri Smirnov (Torpedo Moscow)

11 goals

• Viktor Kolotov (Dynamo Kyiv)

10 goals

• Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftchi)
• Vladimir Onischenko (Zorya)
• Aleksei Yeskov (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

9 goals

• Arkady Andreasyan (Ararat)
• Vladimir Muntyan (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Pavel Sadyrin (Zenit)
• Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk)
• Yuri Yeliseyev (Zorya)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)