List of Soviet and Russian football champions

Football had been played in Russia since the Russian Empire days in the early 1900s, but it was not until 1936, 19 years after the Russian Revolution, that the Soviet Union established a national championship of clubs. Before then local leagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg/Leningrad were the only prominent league competitions in the country, with some national championships held intermittently from 1912 to 1933, made up of city selections.

FIFA considers the Russian Premier League to be the successor of the former Soviet Top League. Spartak Moscow holds the record for most league titles won, 21 titles. The Soviet League was for most of its existence amateur, at least in theory (see shamateurism), but the Russian League has been professional since its inception.

Teams in bold indicates doubles won with the Soviet Cup before 1992 and with the Russian Cup thereafter. Teams in italics include Cup winners between the 2nd and 3rd league places.

Soviet League (1936–1991)

Main article: Soviet Top League

Soviet Group A

SeasonChampionRunner-Up3rd PositionTop ScorerGoals
1936 (spring) Dynamo Moscow Dynamo Kiev Spartak Moscow Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow) 6
1936 (autumn) Spartak Moscow Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Georgy Glazkov (Spartak Moscow) 7
1937 Dynamo Moscow (2) Spartak Moscow Dynamo Kiev Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Leonid Rumyantsev (Spartak Moscow)
Vasily Smirnov (Dynamo Moscow)		 8
1938 Spartak Moscow (2) CDKA Moscow Metallurg Moscow Makar Goncharenko (Dinamo Kiev) 19
1939 Spartak Moscow (3) Dinamo Tbilisi CDKA Moscow Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow) 21
1940 Dynamo Moscow (3) Dinamo Tbilisi Spartak Moscow Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)
Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)		 21
1941 Cancelled on 24 June due to World War II (Dynamo Moscow had the best record at that time)
1942-44 Cancelled due to World War II

Soviet First Group

SeasonChampionRunner-Up3rd PositionTop ScorerGoals
1945 Dynamo Moscow (4) CDKA Moscow Torpedo Moscow Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow) 24
1946 CDKA Moscow Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Aleksandr Ponomaryov (Torpedo Moscow) 18
1947 CDKA Moscow (2) Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow)
Valentin Nikolayev (CDKA Moscow)
Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)		 14
1948 CDKA Moscow (3) Dynamo Moscow Spartak Moscow Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow) 25
1949 Dynamo Moscow (5) CDKA Moscow Spartak Moscow Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow) 26

Soviet Class A

SeasonChampionRunner-up3rd positionTop scorerGoals
1950 CDKA Moscow (4) Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow) 34
1951 CDSA Moscow (5) Dinamo Tbilisi Shakhter Stalino Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi) 16
1952 Spartak Moscow (4) Dynamo Kiev Dynamo Moscow Andrey Zazroyev (Dynamo Kyiv) 11
1953 Spartak Moscow (5) Dinamo Tbilisi Torpedo Moscow Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow) 14
1954 Dynamo Moscow (6) Spartak Moscow Spartak Minsk Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow)
Vladimir Ilyin (Dynamo Moscow)
Antonin Sochnev (Trudovye Reservy Leningrad)		 11
1955 Dynamo Moscow (7) Spartak Moscow CDSA Moscow Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moscow) 15
1956 Spartak Moscow (6) Dynamo Moscow CDSA Moscow Vasily Buzunov (ODO Sverdlovsk) 17
1957 Dynamo Moscow (8) Torpedo Moscow Spartak Moscow Vasily Buzunov (CSK MO Moscow) 16
1958 Spartak Moscow (7) Dynamo Moscow CSK MO Moscow Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow) 19
1959 Dynamo Moscow (9) Lokomotiv Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi) 16
1960 Torpedo Moscow Dynamo Kiev Dynamo Moscow Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Gennady Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow)		 20
1961 Dynamo Kiev Torpedo Moscow Spartak Moscow Gennady Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow) 22
1962 Spartak Moscow (8) Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Mikhail Mustygin (Belarus Minsk) 17

Soviet Class A, 1st Group

SeasonChampionRunner-Up3rd PositionTop ScorerGoals
1963 Dynamo Moscow (10) Spartak Moscow Dinamo Minsk Oleg Kopaev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) 27
1964 Dinamo Tbilisi Torpedo Moscow CSKA Moscow Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow) 16
1965 Torpedo Moscow (2) Dynamo Kiev CSKA Moscow Oleg Kopaev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) 18
1966 Dynamo Kiev (2) SKA Rostov-on-Don Neftchi Baku Ilya Datunashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi) 20
1967 Dynamo Kiev (3) Dynamo Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Mikhail Mustygin (Dinamo Minsk) 19
1968 Dynamo Kiev (4) Torpedo Moscow Spartak Moscow Georgi Gavasheli (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor Tashkent)		 22
1969 Spartak Moscow (9) Dynamo Kiev Dinamo Tbilisi Nikolai Osyanin (Spartak Moscow)
Vladimir Proskurin (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
Dzhemal Kherhadze (Torpedo Kutaisi)		 16

Soviet Supreme League (Soviet Top League)

SeasonChampionRunner-Up3rd PositionTop ScorerGoals
1970 CSKA Moscow (6) Dynamo Moscow Spartak Moscow Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi) 17
1971 Dynamo Kiev (5) Ararat Yerevan Dinamo Tbilisi Eduard Malofeev (Dinamo Minsk) 16
1972 Zorya Voroshilovgrad Dynamo Kiev Dinamo Tbilisi Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) 14
1973 Ararat Yerevan Dynamo Kiev Dynamo Moscow Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) 18
1974 Dynamo Kiev (6) Spartak Moscow Chornomorets Odessa Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) 20
1975 Dynamo Kiev (7) Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Moscow Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) 18
1976 (spring) Dynamo Moscow (11) Ararat Yerevan Dinamo Tbilisi Arkady Andreasian (Ararat Yerevan) 8
1976 (autumn) Torpedo Moscow (3) Dynamo Kiev Dinamo Tbilisi Aleksandr Markin (Zenit Leningrad) 13
1977 Dynamo Kiev (8) Dinamo Tbilisi Torpedo Moscow Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv) 17
1978 Dinamo Tbilisi (2) Dynamo Kiev Shakhtar Donetsk Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow) 19
1979 Spartak Moscow (10) Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kiev Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar Donetsk) 26
1980 Dynamo Kiev (9) Spartak Moscow Zenit Leningrad Sergey Andreev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) 20
1981 Dynamo Kiev (10) Spartak Moscow Dinamo Tbilisi Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi) 23
1982 Dinamo Minsk Dynamo Kiev Spartak Moscow Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor Tashkent) 23
1983 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Spartak Moscow Dinamo Minsk Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow) 18
1984 Zenit Leningrad Spartak Moscow Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Sergey Andreev (SKA Rostov-on-Don) 20
1985 Dynamo Kiev (11) Spartak Moscow Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Oleg Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) 35
1986 Dynamo Kiev (12) Dynamo Moscow Spartak Moscow Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow) 21
1987 Spartak Moscow (11) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Žalgiris Vilnius Oleg Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) 18
1988 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2) Dynamo Kiev Torpedo Moscow Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)		 16
1989 Spartak Moscow (12) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Kiev Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow) 16
1990 Dynamo Kiev (13) CSKA Moscow Dynamo Moscow Oleg Protasov (Dynamo Kiev)
Valery Shmarov (Spartak Moscow)		 12
1991 CSKA Moscow (7) Spartak Moscow Torpedo Moscow Igor Kolyvanov (Dynamo Moscow) 18

Russian League (1992–present)

Russian Top League

Season Champion Runner-up 3rd position Top Scorer Goals
1992 Spartak Moscow (13) Alania Vladikavkaz Dynamo Moscow Azerbaijan Vali Gasimov (Dinamo Moscow, 1-8 place)
Russia Yuri Matveyev (Uralmash, 9-20 place)		 16
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1993 Spartak Moscow (14) Rotor Volgograd Dynamo Moscow Russia Victor Panchenko (KamAZ Naberezhnye Chelny) 21
1994 Spartak Moscow (15) Dynamo Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Russia Igor Simutenkov (Dinamo Moscow) 21
1995 Alania Vladikavkaz Lokomotiv Moscow Spartak Moscow Russia Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd) 25
1996 Spartak Moscow (16) Alania Vladikavkaz Rotor Volgograd Russia Aleksandr Maslov (Rostselmash) 23
1997 Spartak Moscow (17) Rotor Volgograd Dynamo Moscow Russia Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd) 22

Russian Top Division

Season Champion Runner-up 3rd position Top scorer Goals
1998 Spartak Moscow (18) CSKA Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Russia Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd) 22
1999 Spartak Moscow (19) Lokomotiv Moscow CSKA Moscow Georgia (country) Georgi Demetradze (Alania Vladikavkaz) 21
2000 Spartak Moscow (20) Lokomotiv Moscow Torpedo Moscow Russia Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow) 18
2001 Spartak Moscow (21) Lokomotiv Moscow Zenit Saint Petersburg Russia Dmitri Vyazmikin (Torpedo Moscow) 18

Russian Premier League

Season Champion Runner-up 3rd position Top Scorer Goals
2002 Lokomotiv Moscow CSKA Moscow Spartak Moscow Russia Rolan Gusev (CSKA Moscow)
Russia Dmitri Kirichenko (CSKA Moscow)		 15
2003 CSKA Moscow (8) Zenit Saint Petersburg Rubin Kazan Russia Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow) 14
2004 Lokomotiv Moscow (2) CSKA Moscow Krylya Sovetov Samara Russia Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St. Petersburg) 18
2005 CSKA Moscow (9) Spartak Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Russia Dmitri Kirichenko (FC Moscow) 14
2006 CSKA Moscow (10) Spartak Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Russia Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow) 18
2007 Zenit Saint Petersburg (2) Spartak Moscow CSKA Moscow Russia Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow)
Russia Roman Adamov (FC Moscow)		 14
2008 Rubin Kazan CSKA Moscow Dynamo Moscow Brazil Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow) 20
2009 Rubin Kazan (2) Spartak Moscow Zenit Saint Petersburg Brazil Welliton (Spartak Moscow) 21
2010 Zenit Saint Petersburg (3) CSKA Moscow Rubin Kazan Brazil Welliton (Spartak Moscow) 19
2011–12 Zenit Saint Petersburg (4) Spartak Moscow CSKA Moscow Ivory Coast Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow) 28
2012–13 CSKA Moscow (11) Zenit Saint Petersburg Anzhi Makhachkala Armenia Yura Movsisyan (Spartak Moscow)

Brazil Wánderson (FC Krasnodar)

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2013–14 CSKA Moscow (12) Zenit Saint Petersburg Lokomotiv Moscow Ivory Coast Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow) 18
2014–15 Zenit Saint Petersburg (5) CSKA Moscow Krasnodar Brazil Hulk (Zenit Saint Petersburg) 15
2015–16 CSKA Moscow (13) Rostov Zenit Saint Petersburg Russia Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar) 20

Total wins

14 clubs have won the league title, but only eight still compete in the Russian football league system and are eligible for the title. Lokomotiv, Rubin and Alania have never been Soviet Top League champions. Non-Russian clubs now compete in their own leagues. Years in italics indicate Soviet seasons.

Club Winners Runners-up Winning seasons
Spartak Moscow 21 16 1936 (a), 1938, 1939, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1969, 1979, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
CSKA Moscow 13 10 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16
Ukraine FC Dynamo Kyiv 13 11 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990
Dynamo Moscow 11 12 1936 (s), 1937, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1976 (s)
Zenit St. Petersburg 5 3 1984, 2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15
Torpedo Moscow 3 4 1960, 1965, 1976 (a)
Lokomotiv Moscow 2 5 2002, 2004
Ukraine FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2 2 1983, 1988
Rubin Kazan 2 0 2008, 2009
Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi 2 5 1964, 1978
Alania Vladikavkaz 1 2 1995
Armenia Ararat Yerevan 1 2 1973
Belarus Dinamo Minsk 1 0 1982
Ukraine Zorya Luhansk 1 0 1972
Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk 0 2
Rotor Volgograd 0 2
SKA Rostov-on-Don 0 1
Rostov 0 1

References

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