| Competition: | Soviet Top League |
| Season: | 1984 |
| Winners: | Zenit Leningrad (1st title) |
| Relegated: | Pakhtakor Tashkent, CSKA Moscow |
| Continentalcup1: | European Cup |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Zenit Leningrad |
| Continentalcup2: | Cup Winners' Cup |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Dinamo Kiev |
| Continentalcup3: | UEFA Cup |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Spartak Moscow Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Chernomorets Odessa |
| League Topscorer: | (19) Sergey Andreyev (SKA) |
| Matches: | 306 |
| Total Goals: | 767 |
| Prevseason: | 1983 |
| Nextseason: | 1985 |
The 1984 Soviet Top League was the 15th season of the Soviet Top League and 47th since the start of the Soviet top-tier club competitions. It started on March 10 and continued until November 24.
Zenit Leningrad won their first league title, while the defending champion Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk finished third. The league was composed of 18 teams and draw limit was implemented this season of 10 games. There were only allowed two substitutions. Footballers who were on a team list for one team, during the season were not allowed to compete for another except for those who were demobilized from the Soviet Army (sic)[1] and returned to their home club. Those athletes transferred during the season were not allowed to play against the team for which they played earlier.
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
| 1. FC Zenit Leningrad | |
| Goalkeepers: Mikhail Biryukov (34). Defenders: Aleksei Stepanov (32 / 2), Sergei Vedeneyev (28 / 1), Anatoli Davydov (27 / 1), Vladimir Dolgopolov (27), Sergey Kuznetsov (22), Valeri Zolin (13), Nikolai Vorobyov (8), Gennadi Timofeyev (6). Midfielders: Valeri Broshin (32 / 4), Yuri Zheludkov (31 / 17), Arkadi Afanasyev (28 / 1), Vyacheslav Melnikov (21 / 3), Dmitri Barannik (19), Nikolay Larionov (9 / 2), Igor Komarov (5 / 2). Forwards: Sergey Dmitriev (30 / 8), Vladimir Klementyev (29 / 10), Boris Chukhlov (28 / 7), Yuri Gerasimov (7 / 1), Aleksandr Zakharikov (6). Manager: Pavel Sadyrin. Transferred out during the season: none. | |
| 2. FC Spartak Moscow | |
| Goalkeepers: Rinat Dasayev (34), Stanislav Cherchesov (2), Andrei Mikhalychev (1). Defenders: Vladimir Sochnov (33 / 2), Aleksandr Bubnov (33 / 1), Gennady Morozov (31), Boris Pozdnyakov (30 / 2), Sergei Bazulev (16), Sergei Shvetsov (11), Sergei Shulgin (3), Almir Kayumov (1). Midfielders: Yuri Gavrilov (34 / 8), Yevgeni Kuznetsov (34 / 5), Sergey Shavlo (32 / 5), Yevgeni Sidorov (26 / 4), Fyodor Cherenkov (25 / 8), Guram Adzhoyev (13 / 1), Valeri Gladilin (12 / 3), Oleksandr Baranov (2). Forwards: Sergey Rodionov (32 / 13), Mikhail Rusyayev (6 / 1), Jevgeņijs Miļevskis (6), Oleg Kuzhlev (5). Manager: Konstantin Beskov. Transferred out during the season: none. | |
| 3. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | |
| Goalkeepers: Serhiy Krakovskyi (31 / 3), Viktor Konsevich (3). Defenders: Sergei Bashkirov (32), Serhiy Puchkov (29 / 2), Oleksandr Lysenko (28 / 2), Mykola Pavlov (19 / 1), Ivan Vyshnevskyi (17), Petro Kutuzov (17), Petro Chylibi (9), Andriy Bobrikov (1), Anatoliy Nazarenko (1), Oleksandr Chervonyi (1). Midfielders: Hennadiy Lytovchenko (33 / 7), Vyktor Kuznetsov (30 / 2), Andriy Dilay (30 / 1), Volodymyr Bahmut (25 / 2), Oleksiy Cherednyk (19 / 2), Oleh Serebryanskyi (13 / 2), Mykola Fedorenko (9), Serhiy Khudozhylov (3), Anatoli Zagrebayev (2), Volodymyr Ustymchyk (2). Forwards: Oleh Protasov (34 / 17), Volodymyr Lyutyi (30 / 8), Oleh Taran (20 / 7). One own goal scored by Yuri Lykov (FC SKA Rostov-on-Don). Manager: Volodymyr Yemets. Transferred out during the season: Volodymyr Ustymchyk (retired). |
| Rank | Union republic | Number of teams | Club(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Moscow, SKA Rostov-na-Donu, Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow, Zenit Leningrad | |
| 2 | 5 | Chernomorets Odessa, Dinamo Kiev, Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, Metallist Kharkov, Shakhter Donetsk | |
| 3 | 1 | Ararat Yerevan | |
| Neftchi Baku | |||
| Dinamo Minsk | |||
| Dinamo Tbilisi | |||
| Kairat Alma-Ata | |||
| Zhalgiris Vilnius | |||
| Pakhtakor Tashkent | |||