The Soviet Class A First Group (, Soviet football championship (Class A First Group)) was the top and for a season second highest division of Soviet football, below the 1970 Soviet Class A Top Group.Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футболу) . History of Soviet football championships. Volume 1 (1936–1969). Litres, 2019 The league was formed in 1950 in place of the First Group of the Soviet football championship and initially was called as Class A of the Soviet football championship.
In 1963 the Class A was expanded into two divisions the Class A First Group and the Class A Second Group, latter becoming the second tier. In 1970 the Soviet Class A was expanded even further adding additional tier to the top and downgrading now the Soviet Class A First Group to the second tier. In 1971 it was replaced with the Soviet First League.
Winners Top tier SeasonChampionRunner-up3rd positionTop goalscorer1950CSKA MoscowDynamo MoscowDinamo TbilisiNikita Simonyan(Spartak Moscow, 34 goals)1951CSKA Moscow (2)Dinamo TbilisiShakhter StalinoAvtandil Gogoberidze(Dinamo Tbilisi, 16 goals)1952Spartak MoscowDynamo KyivDynamo MoscowAndrey Zazroyev(Dynamo Kyiv, 11 goals)1953Spartak Moscow (2)Dinamo TbilisiTorpedo MoscowNikita Simonyan(Spartak Moscow, 14 goals)1954Dynamo MoscowSpartak MoscowSpartak MinskAnatoli Ilyin(Spartak Moscow, 11 goals)Vladimir Ilyin(Dynamo Moscow, 11 goals)Antonin Sochnev(Trudovye Reservy Leningrad, 11 goals)1955Dynamo Moscow (2)Spartak MoscowCDSA MoscowEduard Streltsov(Torpedo Moscow, 15 goals)1956Spartak Moscow (3)Dynamo MoscowCDSA MoscowVasily Buzunov(ODO Sverdlovsk, 17 goals)1957Dynamo Moscow (3)Torpedo MoscowSpartak MoscowVasily Buzunov(CSK MO Moscow, 16 goals)1958Spartak Moscow (4)Dynamo MoscowCSK MO MoscowAnatoli Ilyin(Spartak Moscow, 19 goals)1959Dynamo Moscow (4)Lokomotiv MoscowDinamo TbilisiZaur Kaloyev(Dinamo Tbilisi, 16 goals)1960Torpedo MoscowDynamo KyivDynamo MoscowZaur Kaloyev(Dinamo Tbilisi, 20 goals)Gennady Gusarov(Torpedo Moscow, 20 goals)1961Dynamo KyivTorpedo MoscowSpartak MoscowGennady Gusarov(Torpedo Moscow, 22 goals)1962Spartak Moscow (5)Dynamo MoscowDinamo TbilisiMikhail Mustygin(Belarus Minsk, 17 goals)1963Dynamo Moscow (5)Spartak MoscowDinamo MinskOleg Kopayev(SKA Rostov-on-Don, 27 goals)1964Dinamo TbilisiTorpedo MoscowCSKA MoscowVladimir Fedotov(CSKA Moscow, 16 goals)1965Torpedo Moscow (2)Dynamo KyivCSKA MoscowOleg Kopayev(SKA Rostov-on-Don, 18 goals)1966Dynamo Kyiv (2)SKA Rostov-on-DonNeftyanik BakuIlya Datunashvili(Dinamo Tbilisi, 20 goals)1967Dynamo Kyiv (3)Dynamo MoscowDinamo TbilisiMikhail Mustygin(Dinamo Minsk, 19 goals)1968Dynamo Kyiv (4)Spartak MoscowTorpedo MoscowGeorgi Gavasheli(Dinamo Tbilisi, 22 goals)Berador Abduraimov(Pakhtakor Tashkent, 22 goals)1969Spartak Moscow (6)Dynamo KyivDinamo TbilisiNikolai Osyanin(Spartak Moscow, 16 goals)Vladimir Proskurin(SKA Rostov-on-Don, 16 goals)Dzhemal Kherhadze(Torpedo Kutaisi, 16 goals)
Second tier SeasonWinnerRunners-upThird1970Karpaty LvivKairat Alma-AtyDnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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