1970 Soviet Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 40th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Second Group of Soviet Class A in Zone 1. It was the eighth and last season in the Second Group of Soviet Class A.

Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR
Season1970
ChampionsMetalurh Zaporizhia[1]
PromotedMetalurh Zaporizhia
RelegatedDesna Chernihiv (dissolved), Spartak Brest, Neman Grodno, Gomselmash Gomel, Baltika Kaliningrad (all four were moved to other Zone)
Top goalscorer20 – Valentyn Prylepskyi (Tavriya)
← 1969
1971 →

The season started on 11 April 1970.

The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Metalurh Zaporizhia.

Reorganization

In 1970–1971 the Soviet football league structure went through reformation. The Soviet Class A introduced an extra tier expanding from two to three in total. To the previous First and Second groups, there was introduced Higher (or Top) group. With this, many clubs that previously competed at the second tier (Second Group) were relegated to lower third tier (Second Group). Because of that, many clubs also moved two tiers either up the league's ladder.

Teams

Location map
Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1
Gomselmash
Spartak
Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1
Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

Relegated teams

18 clubs were relegated from the 1969 Second Group (Class A).

All four teams technically were never promoted as they stayed at the third tier. Three clubs were moved from the 1969 Ukrainian Class B, one more from the 1969 Russian Class B, Zone 1.

Relocated and renamed teams
  • none

Final standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Metalurh Zaporizhia (C, P) 42 26 10 6 73 33 +40 62 Promoted
2 Tavriya Simferopol 42 21 15 6 70 36 +34 57
3 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr 42 20 15 7 61 27 +34 55
4 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 42 18 14 10 58 53 +5 50
5 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv 42 17 14 11 47 36 +11 48
6 Azovets Zhdanov 42 15 18 9 44 34 +10 48
7 Zirka Kirovohrad 42 19 9 14 48 41 +7 47
8 Bukovyna Chernivtsi 42 17 12 13 45 39 +6 46
9 Shakhtar Kadiivka 42 16 13 13 49 37 +12 45
10 Lokomotyv Kherson 42 16 12 14 60 50 +10 44
11 Desna Chernihiv 42 17 10 15 43 45 −2 44 Dissolved[2]
12 Shakhtar Horlivka 42 14 13 15 42 47 −5 41
13 Budivelnyk Poltava 42 13 13 16 33 34 −1 39
14 SKA Lviv 42 12 15 15 30 41 −11 39
15 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 42 12 14 16 52 48 +4 38
16 Spartak Brest 42 12 13 17 32 48 −16 37
17 Avanhard Ternopil 42 12 12 18 38 47 −9 36
18 Neman Grodno 42 11 13 18 27 48 −21 35
19 Baltika Kaliningrad 42 10 11 21 24 51 −27 31
20 SKA Odessa 42 12 6 24 34 56 −22 30
21 Spartak Sumy 42 7 14 21 31 57 −26 28
22 Gomselmash Gomel 42 7 10 25 22 55 −33 24
Source:
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted.

Top goalscorers

The following were the top goalscorers.

# Scorer Goals
(Pen.)		 Team
1 Valentyn Prylepskyi 20 Tavriya Simferopol
2 Viktor Kutin 19 Metalurh Zaporizhia
Anatoliy Lebid 19 Lokomotyv Kherson
4 Yuriy Nesmiyan 17 Polissya Zhytomyr
5 Volodymyr Bystrov 15 Tavriya Simferopol
Roman Shpondarunok 15 Avanhard Ternopil
7 Vyacheslav Portnov 13 Metalurh Zaporizhia
Viktor Kozyn 13 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
Stepan Chopei 13 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
Roman Khyzhak 13 SKA Lviv
Volodymyr Tovchykh 13 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih

See also

Notes

    References
    1. Champions of the Ukrainian SSR 1936–1970 (Чемпіони УРСР 1936-1970). Kopanyi-myach.info
    2. Mukha, V. Anatomy of fall. How was perishing FC Desna Chernihiv (Анатомія падіння. Як гинула чернігівська «Десна»). Sport.ua (Ukrayinskyi Futbol). 10 July 2010
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