Vysshaya League (Soviet Union) 1973
Vysschaya League 1973 | |
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master | Ararat Yerevan (1st title) |
European Cup of National Champions |
Ararat Yerevan |
Uefa cup | Dynamo Moscow , Spartak Moscow |
Cup winners | Ararat Yerevan |
European Cup Winners' Cup |
Dynamo Kiev |
Relegated | Locomotive Moscow , Zenit Leningrad |
Teams | 16 |
Games | 240 |
Gates | 548 (ø 2.28 per game) |
Top scorer | Oleg Blochin ( Dynamo Kiev ) |
← Vysschaya League 1972 | |
The Vysschaya League 1973 was the 35th season of the highest Soviet football league. It lasted from April 7 to November 2, 1973. In this season, the Armenian club Ararat Yerevan was able to win its first and only Soviet championship, which is still considered one of the greatest successes in the club's history, especially since they also won the 1973 Soviet Football Cup .
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The 16 teams each played against each other twice. The last two teams were relegated. Tied games were decided by a penalty shoot-out, only the winner received one point.
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In the 1973 season, last year's fourth Ararat Yerevan sat unexpectedly at the top of the table under coach Nikita Simonjan . Yerevan had been in the top half of the table in previous years, but had never won a Soviet title in the club's history. On the first day of the match, Ararat defeated last year's runner-up, Dynamo Kiev, 3-1. After some teething problems in the following games, Yerevan established itself as the top team in the course of the season. A direct encounter between Ararat and Kiev took place again on matchday 21, which Dynamo now won 3-1 thanks to the good performance of the future star striker Oleg Blochin . Nevertheless, at the end of the season, Ararat was clearly the champion and Kiev had to be satisfied with the position as runner-up again. Last year's champion Sarja Voroshilovgrad landed only in seventh place in the table.
At the end of the season, the far behind FK SKA Rostov and Dinamo Minsk were relegated .
Although Ararat also won the Soviet Cup in 1973, the starting place for the 1974/75 European Cup Winners' Cup went to Dynamo Kiev, as Yerevan had already qualified for participation in the 1974/75 European Cup .
Closing table
Pl. | society | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points | republic |
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1. | FC Ararat Yerevan | 30th | 18th | 3 + 4 | 5 | 52:26 | +26 | 39:17 |
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2. | Dynamo Kiev | 30th | 16 | 4 + 4 | 6th | 44:23 | +21 | 36:20 |
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3. | Dynamo Moscow | 30th | 13 | 7 + 3 | 7th | 43:30 | +13 | 33:24 |
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4th | Spartak Moscow | 30th | 14th | 3 + 5 | 8th | 37:28 | +9 | 31:24 |
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5. | Dinamo Tbilisi | 30th | 13 | 5 + 2 | 10 | 42:33 | +9 | 31:27 |
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6th | Shakhtar Donetsk (N) | 30th | 14th | 3 + 4 | 9 | 32:26 | +6 | 31:25 |
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7th | Zarya Voroshilovgrad (M) | 30th | 14th | 1 + 5 | 10 | 38:26 | +12 | 29:26 |
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8th. | Dnieper Dnipropetrovsk | 30th | 9 | 8 + 1 | 12 | 36:40 | −4 | 26:33 |
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9. | Kairat Alma-Ata | 30th | 8th | 10 + 1 | 11 | 25:37 | −12 | 26:33 |
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10. | CSKA Moscow | 30th | 10 | 5 + 4 | 11 | 33:36 | −3 | 25:31 |
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11. | Zenith Leningrad | 30th | 9 | 3 + 9 | 9 | 33:35 | −2 | 21:30 |
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12. | Pachtakor Tashkent (N) | 30th | 9 | 2 + 4 | 15th | 37:44 | −7 | 20:36 |
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13. | Torpedo Moscow (P) | 30th | 9 | 1 + 7 | 13 | 28:37 | −9 | 19:34 |
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14th | Karpaty Lvov | 30th | 8th | 3 + 3 | 16 | 28:48 | −20 | 19:38 |
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15th | FK Dinamo Minsk | 30th | 7th | 3 + 6 | 14th | 21:36 | −15 | 17:37 |
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16. | SKA Rostov | 30th | 3 | 5 + 4 | 18th | 19:43 | −24 | 11:45 |
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- Tied games decided by penalty shootouts: z. B. 3 + 4 = won 3 times, lost 4 times.
(M) | reigning master |
(P) | reigning cup winner |
(N) | Newcomers |
Crosstab
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1. | FC Ararat Yerevan | 3: 1 | 1: 1 (3: 5) | 3: 1 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 1: 1 (4: 3) | 1-0 | 4-0 | 1-0 | 3: 2 | 4-0 | 1: 3 | 3-0 | 2: 1 | 2: 2 (4: 5) | |
2. | Dynamo Kiev | 3: 1 | 3-0 | 1: 1 (3: 2) | 2: 1 | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 5: 2 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 3-0 | 0: 0 (5: 3) | 1-0 | 4-0 | 1: 1 (7: 8) | |
3. | Dynamo Moscow | 0: 1 | 2: 2 (5: 4) | 0: 0 (5: 3) | 4: 1 | 2-0 | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 1: 1 (3: 4) | 3-0 | 1: 1 (5: 4) | 1: 1 (6: 5) | 1: 1 (4: 5) | 2-0 | 1: 1 (5: 4) | 2-0 | |
4th | Spartak Moscow | 2: 2 (4: 5) | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 3: 1 | 0: 0 (5: 1) | 0: 2 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 2: 1 | 2-0 | 4-0 | 1: 1 (5: 4) | 1-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 | |
5. | Dinamo Tbilisi | 0: 0 (4: 3) | 0: 1 | 0: 3 | 1-0 | 0: 0 (6: 5) | 1: 1 (4: 3) | 2-0 | 3-0 | 3: 1 | 1: 1 (6: 5) | 4-0 | 4: 2 | 3-0 | 4-0 | 2-0 | |
6th | Shakhtar Donetsk | 0: 0 (3: 4) | 0: 2 | 1: 1 (4: 3) | 2: 1 | 0: 1 | 3: 1 | 2: 1 | 0: 0 (3: 5) | 4: 1 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 3: 1 | 1-0 | 3-0 | |
7th | Zarya Voroshilovgrad | 0: 1 | 1-0 | 0: 1 | 2-0 | 3-0 | 2: 1 | 0: 0 (3: 4) | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0: 0 (2: 4) | 3: 1 | 0: 0 (5: 3) | 4: 1 | 0: 2 | 3: 1 | |
8th. | Dnieper Dnipropetrovsk | 1: 1 (5: 4) | 1-0 | 2: 3 | 0: 1 | 0: 0 (4: 2) | 2: 1 | 2-0 | 2-0 | 4: 1 | 3: 1 | 1: 1 (5: 3) | 2-0 | 1: 1 (4: 3) | 1-0 | 2-0 | |
9. | Kairat Alma-Ata | 1: 4 | 0: 0 (5: 3) | 1-0 | 1: 2 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 1: 1 (4: 3) | 2: 2 (4: 5) | 1: 1 (4: 3) | 0: 0 (5: 2) | 1: 1 (5: 4) | 1: 1 (4: 3) | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 0: 0 (5: 4) | |
10. | CSKA Moscow | 0: 1 | 3-0 | 1: 1 (4: 5) | 2: 2 (5: 3) | 1: 1 (5: 4) | 0: 1 | 1-0 | 0: 0 (3: 5) | 1-0 | 0: 0 (8: 7) | 3-0 | 3: 2 | 1-0 | 3: 2 | 3: 1 | |
11. | Zenith Leningrad | 1-0 | 2: 1 | 2: 3 | 0: 0 (4: 5) | 1-0 | 3-0 | 3: 2 | 0: 0 (11:12) | 1: 1 (3: 4) | 1: 2 | 0: 0 (3: 4) | 3: 1 | 3-0 | 1: 1 (7: 6) | 3-0 | |
12. | Pachtakor Tashkent | 2: 3 | 0: 1 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 2: 2 (2: 5) | 0: 1 | 1: 2 | 4: 1 | 4: 1 | 1-0 | 5-0 | 1: 2 | 3: 1 | 4-0 | 0: 1 | |
13. | Torpedo Moscow | 0: 1 | 0: 2 | 1-0 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 0: 1 | 0: 3 | 3: 1 | 1: 3 | 2: 2 (3: 4) | 0: 1 | 1-0 | 1: 1 (3: 4) | 1: 1 (3: 5) | 1-0 | |
14th | Karpaty Lvov | 3-0 | 0: 0 (4: 5) | 3: 5 | 3: 2 | 1: 3 | 0: 1 | 0: 2 | 3: 2 | 0: 1 | 0: 0 (4: 5) | 2: 2 (5: 4) | 2: 1 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 1-0 | |
15th | FK Dinamo Minsk | 1-0 | 0: 0 (4: 5) | 2: 1 | 0: 1 | 0: 1 | 0: 0 (8: 9) | 1: 2 | 2-0 | 1-0 | 1: 1 (5: 3) | 0: 0 (4: 5) | 0: 1 | 1-0 | 1: 1 (4: 5) | 1: 1 (5: 4) | |
16. | SKA Rostov | 0: 2 | 1: 1 (10: 9) | 0: 1 | 1: 1 (6: 5) | 2: 3 | 0: 0 (2: 4) | 1-0 | 2: 2 (6: 5) | 1: 2 | 0: 1 | 2-0 | 1: 1 (4: 5) | 0: 1 | 0: 1 | 1: 2 |
After the season
From Pervaya league in 1973 rose Nistru Kishinev in Moldova and FC Chornomorets Odesa in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa on. Through the championship in 1973 Ararat Yerevan was qualified for the European Cup of National Champions 1974/75 . There they failed in the quarter-finals at Bayern Munich . At the 1974/75 European Cup Winners' Cup , Dynamo Kiev took part as a Soviet participant, who ultimately won the tournament when they defeated Ferencváros Budapest 3-0 in the final . The participation of Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Moscow in the UEFA Cup 1974/75 ended for the two clubs in the 1st and 2nd round.
The Ararat Yerevan championship team
1. | Ararat Yerevan |
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Web links
- Table of Honor on soccerlibrary.free.fr
- Soviet Union 1973 on rsssf.com
- Championship 1973 on footballfacts.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 1973 season . In: wildstat.com. Retrieved December 24, 2018 .