1988 Soviet Top League

The 1988 season was the 51st completed season of the USSR Football Championship: Top League. Spartak Moscow, the defending 11-times champions, placed fourth this season.

Teams

Promoted teams

• FC Chernomorets Odessa – champion (returning after a season)
• FC Lokomotiv Moscow – 2nd place (returning after seven seasons)

Location

Final standings

Promotion

• Pamir Dushanbe ()
• Rotor Volgograd ()

Results

Top scorers

16 goals

• Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)
• Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

15 goals

• Mikhail Rusyayev (Lokomotiv Moscow)

12 goals

• Sergei Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)

11 goals

• Oleh Protasov (Dynamo Kyiv)

10 goals

• Mashalla Akhmedov (Neftchi)
• Ihor Petrov (Shakhtar Donetsk)

9 goals

• Sergei Dmitriyev (Zenit)
• Vladimir Grechnev (Torpedo Moscow)
• Gija Guruli (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Volodymyr Lyutyi (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
• Arminas Narbekovas (Žalgiris)
• Andrei Rudakov (Torpedo Moscow)

Clean sheets

14 matches

• Valeri Sarychev (Torpedo Moscow)

12 matches

• Valeriy Horodov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

11 matches

• Stanislav Cherchesov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
• Aleksandr Podshivalov (Ararat Yerevan)
• Viktor Chanov (Dynamo Kyiv)

10 matches

• Rinat Dasayev (Spartak Moscow)

9 matches

• Otar Gabelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Andrei Satsunkevich (Dinamo Minsk)

7 matches

• Mikhail Biryukov (Zenit Leningrad)

Medal squads

(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)

Number of teams by union republic

Attendances

Source:

See also

• 1988 Soviet First League
• 1988 Soviet Second League

References

External links

• 1988 season at RSSSF