1939 Soviet Top League

1939 Soviet Top League was the fifth season of the Soviet Top League known at that time as Group A.

Group A
Season1939
ChampionsFC Spartak Moscow
RelegatedFC Elektrik Leningrad
FC Dynamo Odessa
Matches played182
Goals scored649 (3.57 per match)
Top goalscorer(21) Grigory Fedotov (CDKA)
Biggest home winSpartak 8–0 Dynamo Od. (July 8)
Biggest away winDynamo Od. 0–6 Dynamo M. (October 12)
Highest scoringDynamo L. 3–7 CDKA (June 15)
← 1938
1940 →

It started on May 12 with six games of the first round. The main calendar was scheduled to be finished on October 19 with the Moscow derby between Lokomotiv and Dynamo. However, due to numerous protests and postponed games the championship finished on November 30 in Tbilisi with game between Dynamo Tbilisi and Dynamo Odessa. The new champions became Spartak Moscow with two teams being relegated: Elektrik Leningrad and Dynamo Odessa. This was the first full season championship with each team playing over 25 games.

The last year defending champions were Spartak Moscow. There were no newly promoted teams and initially was decided to conduct the championship with 12 teams. However the Soviet sport committee allowed for two Leningrad teams Stalinets and Elektrik to remain in the league.

Spartak once again won the cup competition that started in summer with final played in mid-September. That was the last edition of the cup before World War II.

Representation by republic

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Spartak Moscow (C) 26 14 9 3 58 23 +35 37
2 Dynamo Tbilisi 26 14 5 7 60 41 +19 33
3 CDKA Moscow 26 14 4 8 68 43 +25 32
4 Traktor Stalingrad 26 13 4 9 50 39 +11 30
5 Lokomotiv Moscow 26 12 6 8 42 39 +3 30
6 Metallurg Moscow 26 12 5 9 53 50 +3 29
7 Dynamo Moscow 26 12 4 10 60 46 +14 28
8 Dynamo Kiev 26 9 8 9 39 44 −5 26
9 Torpedo Moscow 26 8 7 11 51 51 0 23
10 Dynamo Leningrad 26 8 6 12 41 56 −15 22
11 Stalinets Leningrad 26 7 7 12 30 46 −16 21
12 Stakhanovets Stalino 26 5 10 11 40 55 −15 20
13 Elektrik Leningrad (R) 26 6 5 15 32 49 −17 17
14 Dynamo Odessa (R) 26 7 2 17 25 67 −42 16
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results
Home \ Away CDK DYK DLE DYN DOD DTB ELE LOK MTM STS STL SPA TOR TRA
CDKA Moscow 0–2 2–2 6–2 3–2 4–5 6–1 3–0 6–1 2–2 3–1 0–1 2–2 2–0
Dinamo Kiev 1–1 4–5 3–1 2–1 3–2 1–0 2–1 2–2 1–1 0–0 2–2 0–2 0–2
Dinamo Leningrad 3–7 1–1 0–3 3–2 3–2 2–2 1–2 1–0 2–2 1–2 1–3 5–3 2–1
Dinamo Moscow 4–1 2–1 1–3 5–1 3–2 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–2 4–2 1–1 4–1 2–3
Dynamo Odessa 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–6 3–2 0–2 1–4 1–1 2–3 1–0 0–0 2–1 1–3
Dinamo Tbilisi 2–1 2–2 4–1 4–1 1–0 0–1 3–0 3–1 3–2 3–1 0–0 3–0 1–1
Elektrik Leningrad 2–0 1–2 1–0 3–1 6–0 2–5 0–3 1–2 2–2 2–2 1–2 0–0 0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow 1–0 1–2 1–1 1–6 2–0 3–1 2–0 4–3 2–2 0–0 2–2 4–0 1–4
Metallurg Moscow 2–3 4–1 1–2 3–4 6–2 0–3 3–2 2–1 3–2 3–0 3–3 4–3 1–1
Stakhanovets Stalino 0–2 3–1 1–1 1–3 0–2 2–4 2–1 1–2 2–3 1–0 1–1 3–3 2–3
Stalinets Leningrad 1–5 1–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–2 3–0 2–2 0–1 1–1 1–4 1–5 3–0
Spartak Moscow 0–1 3–1 2–0 0–0 8–0 3–0 3–1 2–0 0–1 5–0 4–0 2–2 3–1
Torpedo Moscow 4–3 2–1 4–1 2–2 0–1 0–1 4–0 0–1 1–1 2–2 3–1 1–3 4–1
Traktor Stalingrad 2–4 2–3 2–0 3–1 6–0 2–2 1–0 1–1 0–2 3–0 0–1 3–1 3–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers
21 goals
19 goals
18 goals
16 goals
  • Ivan Mitronov (Metallurg Moscow)
15 goals
14 goals
13 goals

References
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