1960 Soviet Top League

Class A Soviet Football Championship
Season	1960
Dates	9 April – 24 October
Champions	Torpedo Moscow (1st title)
	← 1959 1961 →

The 1960 Soviet Football Championship, Class A (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу 1960 (класс «А»)) was the 22 season of the Soviet top tier football competition.

22 teams took part in the league with FC Torpedo Moscow winning the championship for the first time.

Round 1

Subgroup 1

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Torpedo Moscow	20	14	3	3	39	16	+23	31	Qualification for Places 1–6 group
2	SKA Rostov-on-Don	20	9	7	4	33	27	+6	25
3	Dynamo Moscow	20	9	6	5	32	15	+17	24
4	Dynamo Tbilisi	20	9	6	5	49	32	+17	24	Qualification for Places 7–12 group
5	Daugava Riga	20	8	7	5	25	18	+7	23
6	Ararat Yerevan	20	8	7	5	36	28	+8	23
7	Zenit Leningrad	20	9	4	7	34	25	+9	22	Qualification for Places 13–18 group
8	Pakhtakor Tashkent	20	7	4	9	25	35	−10	18
9	Avangard Kharkiv	20	4	6	10	17	30	−13	14
10	Moldova Kishinyov	20	4	5	11	18	34	−16	13	Qualification for Places 19–22 group
11	Kalev Tallinn	20	0	3	17	13	61	−48	3	Qualification for Places 19–22 group

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	AVA	DAU	DYN	DTB	KAL	MOL	PAK	SKA	SYE	TOR	ZEN
Avangard Kharkiv		2–0	2–1	0–2	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	0–0
Daugava Riga	0–0		0–2	2–1	4–0	2–1	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–1
Dynamo Moscow	1–2	2–2		5–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	2–2	2–1	0–1	3–0
Dynamo Tbilisi	2–0	0–0	0–1		9–2	1–1	4–1	7–2	7–4	0–0	2–2
Kalev Tallinn	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–5		0–2	2–3	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–1
Moldova Chisinau	3–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–1		2–5	0–0	1–3	1–2	2–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	3–1		1–1	0–0	0–1	0–5
SKA Rostov-on-Don	5–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	4–2		1–1	0–3	3–1
Spartak Yerevan	4–1	1–1	0–4	5–1	3–0	4–0	1–0	3–0		1–1	1–0
Torpedo Moscow	2–1	1–2	1–1	3–2	6–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–0		2–3
Zenit Leningrad	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–3	6–0	3–1	4–1	1–2	0–0	1–3

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Subgroup 2

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dynamo Kiev	20	13	2	5	46	23	+23	28	Qualification for Places 1–6 group
2	Lokomotiv Moscow	20	11	5	4	31	27	+4	27
3	CSKA Moscow	20	12	1	7	38	17	+21	25
4	Spartak Moscow	20	10	4	6	33	18	+15	24	Qualification for Places 7–12 group
5	Admiralteyets Leningrad	20	7	9	4	34	24	+10	23
6	Belarus Minsk	20	9	4	7	24	27	−3	22
7	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	20	6	6	8	22	26	−4	18	Qualification for Places 13–18 group
8	Shakhtyor Stalino	20	5	6	9	24	36	−12	16
9	Kairat Alma-Ata	20	6	4	10	19	29	−10	16
10	Neftyanik Baku	20	5	4	11	21	38	−17	14	Qualification for Places 19–22 group
11	Spartak Vilnius	20	1	5	14	12	39	−27	7	Qualification for Places 19–22 group

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	ADM	BEL	CSK	DYK	KAI	KRY	LOK	NEF	SHA	SPA	SVL
Admiralteyets Leningrad		1–1	0–0	5–1	0–0	2–2	1–2	6–1	4–3	1–1	1–1
Belarus Minsk	1–1		0–3	2–1	0–2	3–1	0–2	1–1	2–3	0–2	2–1
CSKA Moscow	1–4	2–1		–:+^[a]	0–1	0–1	5–1	4–1	4–0	2–0	2–0
Dynamo Kiev	2–0	1–2	2–0		3–0	0–3	3–1	3–0	4–1	3–3	6–1
Kairat Alma-Ata	0–0	6–1	0–2	0–5		1–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	0–1	1–0
Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	1–2	0–0	0–3	1–2	3–1		0–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–0
Lokomotiv Moscow	1–0	0–3	1–6	2–1	2–1	4–1		1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1
Neftyanik Baku	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–3	4–0	0–0	0–4		1–1	0–3	2–0
Shakhtyor Stalino	0–0	0–1	3–0	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–2	3–1		1–3	0–0
Spartak Moscow	4–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	5–0		3–0
Spartak Vilnius	2–3	0–1	0–3	0–3	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–3	1–1	2–3

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ Victory awarded to Dynamo Kiev.

Round 2

Places 1–6

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Torpedo Moscow (C)	10	6	2	2	17	9	+8	14
2	Dynamo Kiev	10	5	1	4	19	14	+5	11
3	Dynamo Moscow	10	5	1	4	12	10	+2	11
4	SKA Rostov-on-Don	10	2	6	2	13	12	+1	10
5	Lokomotiv Moscow	10	3	1	6	14	19	−5	7
6	CSKA Moscow	10	3	1	6	7	18	−11	7

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	CSK	DYK	DYN	LOK	SKA	TOR
CSKA Moscow		1–3	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–4
Dynamo Kiev	4–0		1–4	5–2	3–1	1–2
Dynamo Moscow	0–1	1–0		1–0	1–1	0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow	1–2	0–1	4–1		0–4	2–1
SKA Rostov-on-Don	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1		2–2
Torpedo Moscow	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–3	1–1

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Places 7–12

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
7	Spartak Moscow	10	5	3	2	19	14	+5	13
8	Dynamo Tbilisi	10	5	2	3	18	12	+6	12
9	Ararat Yerevan	10	4	3	3	11	12	−1	11
10	Admiralteyets Leningrad	10	4	1	5	17	15	+2	9
11	Belarus Minsk	10	4	1	5	8	12	−4	9
12	Daugava Riga	10	1	4	5	10	18	−8	6

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	ADM	BEL	DAU	DTB	SPA	SYE
Admiralteyets Leningrad		3–0	3–1	0–1	3–3	3–1
Belarus Minsk	2–1		1–0	1–0	1–2	0–0
Daugava Riga	3–1	1–2		1–1	0–0	0–0
Dynamo Tbilisi	3–2	1–0	6–2		1–2	3–0
Spartak Moscow	0–1	2–1	3–1	2–2		4–0
Spartak Yerevan	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	4–1

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Places 13–18

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
13	Avangard Kharkiv	10	4	4	2	11	5	+6	12
14	Pakhtakor Tashkent	10	4	3	3	11	9	+2	11
15	Zenit Leningrad	10	5	1	4	13	12	+1	11
16	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev^[a] (R)	10	4	2	4	15	13	+2	10	Relegation to Class B
17	Shakhtyor Stalino^[b] (O)	10	4	2	4	10	12	−2	10	Qualification for relegation play-off
18	Kairat Almaty	10	3	0	7	6	15	−9	6

Source: rsssf.com
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev were relegated because were been a worst ranked team from Russia.
^ Shakhtyor Stalino were played a relegation play-out match because were been a worst ranked team from Ukraine.

Results

Home \ Away	AVA	KAI	KRY	PAK	SHA	ZEN
Avangard Kharkiv		2–0	0–0	4–0	3–0	0–0
Kairat Alma-Ata	0–1		2–3	1–0	1–0	0–1
Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	3–0	0–1		1–0	4–2	0–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent	0–0	3–0	1–1		2–0	2–0
Shakhtyor Stalino	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–0		2–1
Zenit Leningrad	1–0	2–1	5–3	2–3	0–1

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Places 19–22

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
19	Kalev Tallinn	6	2	3	1	8	11	−3	7
20	Spartak Vilnius	6	1	4	1	8	8	0	6
21	Neftyanik Baku	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	6
22	Moldova Kishinyov	6	1	3	2	10	6	+4	5

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	KAL	MOL	NEF	SVL
Kalev Tallinn		2–2	1–0	2–2
Moldova Chisinau	6–0		0–1	1–1
Neftyanik Baku	0–2	1–1		2–1
Spartak Vilnius	1–1	1–0	2–2

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

20 goals

Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)

19 goals

Gennady Krasnitsky (Pakhtakor Tashkent)

17 goals

Viktor Sokolov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

13 goals

Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow)
Tengiz Melashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi)

12 goals

Feliks Arutyunyan (Spartak Yerevan)
Igor Chislenko (Dinamo Moscow)
Gennadi Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow)
Aleksei Levchenko (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
Valery Lobanovsky (Dynamo Kyiv)
Vladimir Streshny (CSKA Moscow)
Anatoli Vasilyev (Admiralteyets Leningrad)

Promotion/relegation play-off

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shakhtyor Stalino	2–1	Metalurh Zaporizhia	2–0	0–1

References

Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)

[table_note_1_CSK_DYK0.23950025357283-1] Victory awarded to Dynamo Kiev.

[table_note_KRY0.15287608194765-2] Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev were relegated because were been a worst ranked team from Russia.

[table_note_SHA0.15287608194765-3] Shakhtyor Stalino were played a relegation play-out match because were been a worst ranked team from Ukraine.

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