| Competition: | Soviet Top League |
| Season: | 1982 |
| Winners: | Dinamo Minsk |
| Relegated: | Kuban Krasnodar, Kairat Alma-Ata |
| Continentalcup1: | European Cup |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Dinamo Minsk |
| Continentalcup2: | Cup Winners' Cup |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Shakhter Donetsk |
| Continentalcup3: | UEFA Cup |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Spartak Moscow Dinamo Kiev |
| League Topscorer: | (23) Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor) |
| Matches: | 306 |
| Total Goals: | 776 |
| Prevseason: | 1981 |
| Nextseason: | 1983 |
Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1982 season.
It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.
The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
| 1. FC Dinamo Minsk | |
| Goalkeepers: Mikhail Vergeyenko (28 / 1), Yury Kurbyko (7). Defenders: Yuri Kurnenin (31 / 7), Yury Trukhan (29), Viktor Yanushevsky (27), Sergei Borovsky (25), Viktor Shishkin (18), Liudas Rumbutis (17), Igor Belov (12). Midfielders: Aleksandr Prokopenko (31 / 11), Sergey Gotsmanov (31 / 2), Andrei Zygmantovich (30 / 2), Yuri Pudyshev (29 / 3), Sergei Aleinikov (21 / 8), Valeri Melnikov (18), Alyaksandr Vanyushkin (1). Forwards: Georgi Kondratyev (32 / 10), Igor Gurinovich (28 / 13), Pyotr Vasilevsky (20 / 5), Viktor Sokol (2 / 1). Manager: Eduard Malofeyev. Transferred out during the season: none. | |
| 2. FC Dynamo Kyiv | |
| Goalkeepers: Viktor Chanov (24), Mykhaylo Mykhaylov (12). Defenders: Anatoliy Demyanenko (32 / 5), Oleksandr Sorokalet (29), Volodymyr Lozynskyi (28 / 1), Sergei Baltacha (26 / 1), Mykhaylo Olefirenko (25 / 2), Volodymyr Bezsonov (18 / 4), Oleksandr Boyko (12), Yuriy Makhynya (2). Midfielders: Andriy Bal (31 / 5), Yaroslav Dumanskyi (29 / 2), Leonid Buryak (21 / 3), Aleksandr Khapsalis (14 / 2), Vasyl Rats (11 / 1), Volodymyr Veremeyev (10), Pavlo Yakovenko (4). Forwards: Viktor Khlus (31 / 10), Vadym Yevtushenko (25 / 9), Oleg Blokhin (24 / 10), Hryhoriy Pasechnyi (4 / 1). Manager: Valeriy Lobanovskyi. Transferred out during the season: none. | |
| 3. FC Spartak Moscow | |
| Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (28), Aleksei Prudnikov (12). Defenders: Oleg Romantsev (33 / 1), Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (27), Vladimir Shcherbak (24), Boris Pozdnyakov (19), Vladimir Bukiyevskiy (4), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (2), Alexander Mirzoyan (2). Midfielders: Sergey Shavlo (34 / 11), Fyodor Cherenkov (33 / 10), Yuri Gavrilov (31 / 6), Edgar Gess (30 / 5), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (17), Sergei Nikitin (2). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (30 / 9), Aleksandr Kalashnikov (26 / 5), Sergei Shvetsov (24 / 9), Viktor Hrachov (5 / 1), Mikhail Rusyayev (3), Vladimir Nikonov (1), Oleg Smirnov (1). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: Viktor Hrachov (to FC Shakhtar Donetsk). |