The 1963 Soviet football championship was the 31st seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 25th among teams of sports societies and factories. Dinamo won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the tenth time.
Honours CompetitionWinnerRunner-upClass A 1. GroupDinamo Moscow (10*)Spartak MoscowClass A 2. GroupShinnik Yaroslavl (1)Volga GorkiyClass BVolga Kalinin (Russia)Dinamo Kirov (Russia)SKA Odessa (Ukraine)Lokomotiv Vinnitsa (Ukraine)Lokomotiv Tbilisi (Union republics)Dinamo Batumi (Union republics)Soviet CupSpartak Moscow (7*)Shakhter Donetsk
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition
Soviet Union football championship
Class A First Group
Class A Second Group
Class B
Russian Federation finals
Ukraine (playoffs) Each team played against the same ranking team from the other zone. Only the two top pairs that really mattered concerning promotion are listed next. No teams were relegated. SKA Odessa obtained the promotion from the Ukraine zone. They were classified as the Republican champions and were promoted to the Inter-Republican level, the Class A.
FC Lokomotiv Vinnitsa - SKA Odessa 0:2 0:1 FC Azovstal Zhdanov - SKA Lvov 0:0 1:0 FC Zirka Kirovograd - FC Torpedo Kharkov 1:1 0:2 FC Burevestnik Melitopol - FC Polesie Zhitomir 1:0 1:3 FC Avangard Ternopol - FC Shakhter Gorlovka 1:1 0:0 FC Kolgospnik Cherkassy - FC Khimik Severodonetsk 2:1 0:2 FC Lokomotiv Donetsk - SKA Kiev 0:2 1:2 FC Stroitel Kherson - FC Shakhter Kadeevka 3:2 0:2 FC Dynamo Khmelnitskiy - FC Kolgospnik Poltava 5:1 0:1 FC Arsenal Kiev - FC Dneprovets Dneprodzerzhinsk 3:2 1:2 FC Desna Chernigov - FC Metallurg Kommunarsk 3:1 1:2 SCF Sevastopol - FC Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk 2:1 1:4 FC Verkhovina Uzhgorod - FC Trubnik Nikopol 0:0 1:2 FC Avangard Zheltye Vody - FC Sudostroitel Nikolaev 1:1 1:0 FC Avangard Chernovtsy - SC Tavriya Simferopol 6:0 0:1 FC Avangard Kramatorsk - FC Shakhter Aleksandriya 1:1 0:2 FC Volyn Lutsk - FC Gornyak Krivoy Rog 0:0 0:3 FC Kolgospnik Rovno - FC Metallurg Yenakievo 3:1 2:2 FC Metallurg Kerch - FC Neftyanik Drogobich 0:1 0:0 FC Dnepr Kremenchug - FC Spartak Sumy 0:0 0:2
Union republics finals Dinamo Batumi 0-1 1-5 Lokomotiv Tbilisi
Top goalscorers
Class A First Group Oleg Kopayev (SKA Rostov-na-Donu) – 27 goals
Class A Second Group Anatoliy Isayev (Shinnik Yaroslavl), Viktor Korolkov (Shakhter Karaganda) – 13 goals
References
External links 1963 Soviet football championship. RSSSF