1974 Soviet Top League


The 1974 Soviet Top League was the 36th season of the Soviet top tier football competitions. It also was the 4th season since the establishing of Vysshaya Liga in place of the Soviet Class A competition.
The league's title was contested by 16 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship which was their sixth title. The last season's champions Ararat placed fifth trailing 8 points. The newly promoted Chernomorets placed third qualifying for the continental competitions for the first time.

Teams

Pre-season promotion

Teams promoted from the 1973 Soviet First League:

Pre-season relegation

Teams relegated to the 1974 Soviet First League:

Managers

ClubHead coach
Ararat YerevanNikita Simonyan
Dynamo KyivValeriy Lobanovskyi
Dynamo MoscowGavriil Kachalin
Spartak MoscowNikolay Gulyayev
Dinamo TbilisiGivi Chokheli
Mikhail Yakushin
Shakhter DonetskYuriy Zakharov
Vladimir Salkov
Zaria VoroshilovgradVsevolod Blinkov
Yevhen Pestov
Dnepr DnepropetrovskViktor Kanevsky
Kairat Alma-AtaArtem Falyan
CSKA MoscowVladimir Agapov
Zenit LeningradGerman Zonin
Pakhtakor TashkentVyacheslav Solovyov
Torpedo MoscowValentin Ivanov
Karpaty LvovValentin Babukin
Ernest Yust
Chernomorets OdessaAkhmed Aleskerov
Nistru KishenevViktor Korolkov

Top scorers

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;16 goals
;13 goals
;12 goals
;11 goals
;10 goals

Attendances

Source:
No.ClubAverage
1Dynamo Kyiv42,267
2Ararat37,513
3Zenit36,533
4Chornomorets29,600
5Paxtakor28,933
6Shakhtar Donetsk25,733
7Dynamo Moscow24,333
8Spartak Moscow24,033
9Karpaty21,533
10Kairat21,433
11Dinamo Tbilisi20,600
12Nistru20,000
13Torpedo Moscow18,467
14PFC CSKA18,467
15Dnipro16,467
16Zorya15,533