1963 in Soviet football

Football in the Soviet Union

Season	1963
Men's football
Class A 1. Group	Dinamo Moscow
Class A 2. Group	Shinnik Yaroslavl
Class B	Volga Kalinin (Russia) SKA Odessa (Ukraine) Lokomotiv Tbilisi (Union republics)
Soviet Cup	Spartak Moscow
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The 1963 Soviet football championship was the 31st seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 25th among teams of sports societies and factories. Dinamo won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the tenth time.

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dynamo Moscow (C)	38	21	13	4	47	14	+33	55	League champions
2	Spartak Moscow	38	22	8	8	65	33	+32	52
3	Dinamo Minsk	38	18	12	8	47	27	+20	48
4	SKA Rostov-on-Don	38	20	7	11	73	40	+33	47
5	Dinamo Tbilisi	38	17	13	8	56	42	+14	47
6	Zenit Leningrad	38	14	17	7	45	32	+13	45
7	CSKA Moscow	38	14	17	7	39	27	+12	45
8	Neftyanik Baku	38	18	9	11	48	44	+4	45
9	Dynamo Kyiv	38	16	12	10	68	48	+20	44
10	Torpedo Moscow	38	12	16	10	46	41	+5	40
11	Shakhtar Donetsk	38	11	14	13	29	33	−4	36
12	Torpedo Kutaisi	38	6	21	11	22	37	−15	33
13	Moldova Chisinau	38	8	16	14	27	43	−16	32
14	Kairat Alma-Ata	38	10	12	16	28	47	−19	32
15	Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev	38	11	7	20	45	53	−8	29
16	Dynamo Leningrad (R)	38	7	15	16	37	51	−14	29	Relegation to Class A Second Group
17	Lokomotiv Moscow (R)	38	5	19	14	37	54	−17	29
18	Ararat Yerevan (R)	38	9	8	21	34	57	−23	26
19	Avangard Kharkov (R)	38	6	13	19	25	56	−31	25
20	Pakhtakor Tashkent (R)	38	4	13	21	44	83	−39	21

Pos	Republic	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Russian SFSR	Shinnik Yaroslavl	34	16	13	5	42	19	+23	45
2	Russian SFSR	Volga Gorkiy	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0
3	Russian SFSR	Trud Voronezh	34	15	12	7	43	26	+17	42
4	Ukrainian SSR	Metallurg Zaporozhie	34	12	17	5	36	17	+19	41
5	Ukrainian SSR	Trudovye rezervy Lugansk	34	15	11	8	41	26	+15	41
6	Ukrainian SSR	Chernomorets Odessa	34	13	13	8	39	31	+8	39
7	Ukrainian SSR	Karpaty Lvov	34	14	11	9	28	22	+6	39
8	Ukrainian SSR	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk	34	13	10	11	36	34	+2	36
9	Latvian SSR	Daugava Riga	34	13	9	12	38	40	−2	35
10	Russian SFSR	Kuban Krasnodar	34	8	18	8	26	21	+5	34
11	Russian SFSR	Uralmash Sverdlovsk	34	12	8	14	31	40	−9	32
12	Kazakh SSR	Shakhter Karaganda	34	9	12	13	37	46	−9	30
13	Russian SFSR	Lokomotiv Cheliabinsk	34	7	15	12	23	36	−13	29
14	Lithuanian SSR	Zalgiris Vilnius	34	9	10	15	36	42	−6	28
15	Kyrgyz SSR	Alga Frunze	34	8	12	14	28	40	−12	28
16	Russian SFSR	Traktor Volgograd	34	9	9	16	25	40	−15	27
17	Russian SFSR	SKA Novosibirsk	34	2	16	16	15	37	−22	20
18	Byelorussian SSR	Lokomotiv Gomel	34	4	12	18	13	46	−33	14[a]

Each team played against the same ranking team from the other zone. Only the two top pairs that really mattered concerning promotion are listed next. No teams were relegated. SKA Odessa obtained the promotion from the Ukraine zone. They were classified as the Republican champions and were promoted to the Inter-Republican level, the Class A.

Dinamo Batumi  0-1 1-5  Lokomotiv Tbilisi 

Class A First Group

• Oleg Kopayev (SKA Rostov-na-Donu) – 27 goals

Class A Second Group

• Anatoliy Isayev (Shinnik Yaroslavl), Viktor Korolkov (Shakhter Karaganda) – 13 goals

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