1938 Soviet Top League

4th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union
Football league season
Group A
Season1938
ChampionsFC Spartak Moscow
Relegated12 teams
Matches played325
Goals scored1,175 (3.62 per match)
Top goalscorer(20) Makar Honcharenko (Dynamo K.)
Biggest home winMetallurg 8–1 Burevestnik (August 28)
Biggest away winBurevestnik 1–9 Dynamo L. (May 25)
Highest scoringBurevestnik 1–9 Dynamo L. (May 25)
← 1937
1939 →

The 1938 Soviet Top League combined all the Groups into one Super League.

The season started on May 10 with the game between FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Spartak Kharkiv in Moscow. The last game was played on November 14 between FC Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu and FC Dynamo Odessa in Rostov-na-Donu. Each team played once with every other. The point system changed as well and stayed this way to the end of the competition in 1991: 2 for win, 1 for draw, and none for loss. This all-National championship was experimental and was disbanded next year. A half of the League was relegated at the end of the season.

Spartak beside becoming the champion in the League format won the national cup competition, defeating a surprise team Elektrik from Leningrad, that last year was called Krasnaya Zarya.

Standings

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts
1  Russian SFSR Spartak Moscow 25 18 3 4 74 19 3.895 39
2  Russian SFSR CDKA Moscow 25 17 3 5 52 24 2.167 37
3  Russian SFSR Metallurg Moscow 25 16 5 4 57 29 1.966 37
4  Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Kiev 25 15 6 4 76 35 2.171 36
5  Russian SFSR Dynamo Moscow 25 14 4 7 69 34 2.029 32
6  Georgian SSR Dynamo Tbilisi 25 11 9 5 54 39 1.385 31
7  Russian SFSR Dynamo Leningrad 25 12 6 7 52 32 1.625 30
8  Russian SFSR Lokomotiv Moscow 25 12 6 7 44 37 1.189 30
9  Russian SFSR Torpedo Moscow 25 9 11 5 51 38 1.342 29
10  Ukrainian SSR Dynamo Odessa 25 9 11 5 39 35 1.114 29
11  Ukrainian SSR Stakhanovets Stalino 25 11 7 7 56 51 1.098 29
12  Russian SFSR Traktor Stalingrad 25 12 3 10 53 48 1.104 27
13  Russian SFSR Elektrik Leningrad 25 8 8 9 42 44 0.955 24
14  Russian SFSR Stalinets Leningrad[a] 25 7 10 8 38 57 0.667 24
15  Ukrainian SSR Silmash Kharkiv (R) 25 8 6 11 34 45 0.756 22
16  Russian SFSR Stalinets Moscow (R) 25 8 5 12 36 44 0.818 21
17  Ukrainian SSR Lokomotyv Kiev (R) 25 8 5 12 43 64 0.672 21
18  Russian SFSR Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu (R) 25 7 6 12 39 43 0.907 20
19  Azerbaijan SSR Temp Baku (R) 25 6 8 11 33 40 0.825 20
20  Russian SFSR Spartak Leningrad (R) 25 6 8 11 30 39 0.769 20
21  Ukrainian SSR Spartak Kharkiv (R) 25 5 7 13 43 63 0.683 17
22  Russian SFSR Zenit Leningrad (R) 25 7 3 15 35 57 0.614 17
23  Russian SFSR Pishchevik Moscow (R) 25 5 6 14 25 53 0.472 16
24  Georgian SSR Lokomotiv Tbilisi (R) 25 5 5 15 44 62 0.710 15
25  Russian SFSR Krylia Sovetov Moscow (R) 25 4 7 14 28 56 0.500 15
26  Russian SFSR Burevestnik Moscow (R) 25 4 4 17 28 87 0.322 12
Source: rsssf.com
(R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Stalinets Leningrad merged with Zenit in 1939.

Results

Home \ Away BUR CDK DYK DLE DYN DOD DRD DTB ELE KSM LOK LTB LKY MTM PSH SKH SPK SPL SPA STS STL STM TBK TOR TRA ZEN
Burevestnik Moscow 0–6 1–9 2–6 2–2 1–2 3–1 3–2 1–1 0–6 0–5 2–3 1–0
CDKA Moscow 2–0 1–0 2–2 3–0 0–1 2–0 3–0 1–0 6–0 2–1 1–0 2–1
Dynamo Kiev 2–1 0–1 3–0 4–1 4–1 1–1 4–2 3–0 7–0 2–0 6–0 3–3
Dynamo Leningrad 2–0 1–1 3–2 2–1 3–2 2–2 1–1 7–0 3–4 1–0 0–0 1–2 2–1
Dynamo Moscow 7–1 2–3 3–0 6–2 4–2 4–1 5–2 7–1 1–1 4–0 1–4 2–0 2–2
Dynamo Odessa 1–0 1–1 3–1 0–0 3–1 2–1 2–0 0–1 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–0
Dynamo Rostov-na-Donu 4–0 5–3 0–1 4–0 1–1 1–0 2–3 0–0 2–2 0–2 0–2 0–0
Dynamo Tbilisi 2–0 2–2 2–2 2–0 5–3 2–0 4–1 4–3 3–2 1–1 7–1 1–6 2–1
Elektrik Leningrad 1–1 2–1 2–1 0–4 1–3 2–0 4–1 2–3 2–0 0–1 0–3 6–0 1–1
Krylia Sovetov Moscow 0–3 1–2 1–4 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 2–1 0–1 2–2 1–0 0–1
Lokomotiv Moscow 2–2 1–1 2–1 0–1 2–0 2–1 3–3 0–0 4–3 3–1 2–3
Lokomotiv Tbilisi 3–4 2–1 3–1 3–3 1–1 4–1 2–1 2–2 1–3 3–3 1–3 1–1
Lokomotyv Kiev 2–5 2–2 0–1 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–3 0–3 4–2 3–2 2–6 1–1 2–3 3–2
Metallurg Moscow 8–1 0–2 3–2 6–2 1–1 4–2 2–1 1–0 4–2 2–1 2–2 2–1 3–0
Pishchevik Moscow 0–6 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–5 3–0 2–1 2–2 0–2 2–2 1–0 0–2
Silmash Kharkiv 1–0 0–4 1–2 1–0 2–2 3–0 0–2 5–2 0–1 0–0 2–0 0–2 1–0
Spartak Kharkiv 2–2 2–1 2–2 2–6 2–2 5–1 1–3 0–1 2–0 0–2 1–4 5–1 0–3
Spartak Leningrad 6–0 1–2 2–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 3–0 0–3 2–1
Spartak Moscow 1–2 1–1 0–4 7–1 0–0 6–1 5–0 3–0 5–0 5–0 5–1 2–3 5–1
Stakhanovets Stalino 4–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–3 5–2 3–2 2–2 2–2 2–0 1–1 2–2 5–2
Stalinets Leningrad 1–1 2–7 1–2 3–2 2–2 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–4 5–1 1–5 1–1
Stalinets Moscow 1–3 3–2 2–1 0–0 0–1 1–3 4–1 1–1 1–2 2–3 3–2 0–1 2–2
Temp Baku 0–1 1–0 0–2 2–2 2–2 5–2 3–0 1–1 0–0 1–3 3–0 2–0
Torpedo Moscow 2–2 5–1 0–3 3–3 0–2 3–5 1–0 2–2 2–2 1–1 1–1 5–2
Traktor Stalingrad 6–2 0–1 3–2 2–4 4–0 2–1 6–2 2–0 1–2 4–0 2–1 4–3
Zenit Leningrad 3–2 1–2 0–6 2–3 1–4 3–2 1–2 0–1 4–3 3–2 0–1 2–6 +:-
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

20 goals
19 goals
18 goals
  • Sergei Kapelkin (Metallurg Moscow)
  • Aleksei Sokolov (Spartak Moscow)
15 goals
  • Pyotr Petrov (Torpedo Moscow)
  • Aleksandr Sinyakov (Torpedo Moscow)
14 goals

References

  • Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)
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