54th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union
Football league season
Soviet Top League
Season
1991
Dates
10 March – 2 November 1991
Champions
CSKA Moscow (7th title)
Relegated
none (7 clubs withdrew)
Champions League
CSKA Moscow (for Russia)
Cup Winners' Cup
Spartak Moscow (for Russia)
UEFA Cup
Dynamo Moscow Torpedo Moscow (for Russia)
Top goalscorer
(18) Igor Kolyvanov (Dynamo Moscow)
Biggest home win
Spartak – Dynamo M. 7–1 (26th)
Biggest away win
Dynamo M. – Torpedo 1–4 (18th) Metalurh – Chornomorets 1–4 (16th)
Highest scoring
Spartak – Dynamo M. 7–1 (26th) Dynamo M. – Dnipro 6–2 (28th)
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1992 →
The 1991 Soviet Top League season (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу 1991 (высшая лига)) was 22nd in the Top League and the 54th since the establishment of nationwide club competition, also the last one. Dynamo Kyiv were the defending 13-times champions and came fifth this season. A total of sixteen teams participated in the league, twelve of them have contested in the 1990 season while the remaining four were promoted from the Soviet First League due to withdrawals. The representatives of the Baltic states as well as Georgia chose not to take part in the competition.
The season began on 10 March and lasted until 2 November 1991. The season was won by PFC CSKA Moscow that returned to the top league prior to the last season while winning the Soviet Cup competition as well. The season's culmination occurred in its final rounds, when the army team managed to overtake Spartak, while with four rounds left in the season, Spartak was leading the table a point ahead of CSKA and a recent thrashing of Dynamo Moscow 7 to 1.
Due to participants withdrawal in the preceding season four new teams entered the league. Upon the conclusion of the season no clubs were relegated and 12 out of its 16 participants formed a base for either the Russian or the Ukrainian competitions, while other four participants joined their own newly formed national leagues. If the Soviet Union had remained intact, Metalist Kharkiv and Lokomotiv Moscow would have been relegated to the Soviet First League for the next season, while FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Tiligul Tiraspol would have been promoted to the Top League for 1992.
The top six clubs of the league later entered European competitions for their respective nations. The Ukrainian clubs chose to qualify through a separate national competition.
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