1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1

The 1972 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 42nd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 1. The season started on 6 April 1972.

Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR

Season	1972
Champions	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
Promoted	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
Relegated	Mayak Kharkiv
Top goalscorer	24 – Viktor Baihuzov (Shakhtar Kadiivka)
← 1971 1973 →

The 1972 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk.

Teams

Location map

Dynamo

Avtomobilist

Frunzenets

Hoverla

Lokomotyv V.

Avanhard

Chernihiv

Lutsk

Bukovyna

Lokomotyv Kh.

Avanhard

Tavriya

Metalurh

Zirka

Kolos

Sudnobudivnyk

Spartak

Mayak

Budivelnyk

Shakhtar H.

Lokomotyv D.

Khimik

Shakhtar M.

Shakhtar K.

Locations of teams in Second League, Zone 6

Relegated teams

• none

Promoted teams

• FC Shakhtar Makiivka – (debut)
• FC Mayak Kharkiv – (debut)

Relocated and renamed teams

• SKA Odessa was moved away from the Ukrainian championship, relocated to Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR and changed its name to FC Zvezda Tiraspol.
• SKA Kiev was relocated to Chernihiv and changed its name to SC Chernihiv.
• SKA Lvov was relocated to Lutsk (in place of the relegated Torpedo Lutsk) and changed its name to SC Lutsk.

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk (C, P)	46	23	17	6	51	28	+23	63	Promoted
2	Hoverla Uzhhorod	46	25	8	13	70	44	+26	58
3	Tavriya Simferopol	46	25	7	14	62	32	+30	57
4	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv	46	20	17	9	48	25	+23	57
5	Shakhtar Kadiivka	46	22	11	13	61	35	+26	55
6	Dynamo Khmelnytskyi	46	18	18	10	56	39	+17	54
7	Lokomotyv Vinnytsia	46	19	16	11	49	36	+13	54
8	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	46	19	15	12	44	31	+13	53
9	Metalurh Zhdanov	46	20	13	13	56	45	+11	53
10	SC Chernihiv	46	19	14	13	56	41	+15	52
11	Kolos Poltava	46	17	17	12	44	45	−1	51
12	Shakhtar Makiivka	46	16	18	12	47	40	+7	50
13	Avanhard Sevastopol	46	15	17	14	33	31	+2	47
14	Zirka Kirovohrad	46	13	18	15	40	51	−11	44
15	Budivelnyk Ternopil	46	14	15	17	50	55	−5	43
16	Khimik Severodonetsk	46	15	13	18	37	49	−12	43
17	Shakhtar Horlivka	46	9	22	15	43	44	−1	40
18	Avanhard Rovno	46	13	14	19	41	52	−11	40
19	Frunzenets Sumy	46	16	8	22	36	51	−15	40
20	Lokomotyv Kherson	46	15	7	24	55	82	−27	37
21	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	46	10	16	20	32	62	−30	36
22	SC Lutsk	46	8	17	21	30	52	−22	33
23	Lokomotyv Donetsk	46	8	13	25	32	71	−39	29
24	Mayak Kharkiv	46	2	11	33	15	47	−32	15	Relegated

Source:
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted.

Top goalscorers

The following were the top goalscorers.

#	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Viktor Baihuzov	24	Shakhtar Kadiivka
2	Mykola Rusyn	21	Hoverla Uzhhorod
3	Anatoliy Lebid	19	Lokomotyv Kherson
4	Volodymyr Dzyuba	17	Lokomotyv Vinnytsia
5	Yuriy Nesmiyan	16	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
	Viktor Polokhov	16	Metalurh Zhdanov
7	Andriy Cheremysin	15	Tavriya Simferopol
	Valentyn Prylepskyi	15	Tavriya Simferopol
	Volodymyr Fursov	15	Shakhtar Kadiivka
10	Yevhen Biloborodov	14	Frunzenets Sumy

See also

• Soviet Second League

Notes

References

External links

• 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 (Ukrainian SSR football championship). Luhansk football portal
• 1972 Soviet championships (all leagues) at helmsoccer.narod.ru