1981 Soviet Top League

44th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

Football league season

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1981 season.

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship.

League standings

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. 4 points deducted (10 draw limit)
2. 3 points deducted (10 draw limit)
3. 2 points deducted (10 draw limit)
4. Pakhtakor Tashkent avoided relegation as it received a three year guarantee of no relegation after the 1979 airplane crash.

Results

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

23 goals

• Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

21 goals

• Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow)

19 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

16 goals

• Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit)

15 goals

• Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow)

14 goals

• Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat)
• Pyotr Vasilevsky (Dinamo Minsk)

13 goals

• Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor)

12 goals

• Viktor Grachyov (Shakhtar)
• Aleksandr Pogorelov (Dnipro)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
• 1981. Higher League. (1981. Высшая лига.) Luhansk Our Futbol portal.
• 44th USSR Championship, 1981 Higher League (44-й чемпионат СССР, 1981г. Высшая лига). Wildstat website.