1970 Soviet Second Group (Class A), Zone 1


The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 40th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Second Group of Soviet Class A in Zone 1. It was the eighth and last season in the Second Group of Soviet Class A.
The season started on 11 April 1970.
The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Metalurh Zaporizhia.

Reorganization

In 1970–1971 the Soviet football league structure went through reformation. The Soviet Class A introduced an extra tier expanding from two to three in total. To the previous First and Second groups, there was introduced Higher group. With this, many clubs that previously competed at the second tier were relegated to lower third tier. Because of that, many clubs also moved two tiers either up the league's ladder.

Teams

Location map





Relegated teams

18 clubs were relegated from the 1969 Second Group.

Promoted teams

All four teams technically were never promoted as they stayed at the third tier. Three clubs were moved from the 1969 Ukrainian Class B, one more from the 1969 Russian Class B, Zone 1.

Relocated and renamed teams

  • none

Final standings


Top goalscorers

The following were the top goalscorers.
#ScorerGoals
Team
1Valentyn Prylepskyi20Tavriya Simferopol
2Viktor Kutin19Metalurh Zaporizhia
2Anatoliy Lebid19Lokomotyv Kherson
4Yuriy Nesmiyan17Polissya Zhytomyr
5Volodymyr Bystrov15Tavriya Simferopol
5Roman Shpondarunok15Avanhard Ternopil
7Vyacheslav Portnov13Metalurh Zaporizhia
7Viktor Kozyn13Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
7Stepan Chopei13Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
7Roman Khyzhak13SKA Lviv
7Volodymyr Tovchykh13Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih