1989_Soviet_First_League

Soviet First League
Season	1989
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Promoted	CSKA Moscow
Relegated	SKA Rostov-on-Don; Daugava Riga; SKA Karpaty Lviv
Top goalscorer	(32) Valeriy Masalitin (CSKA Moscow)
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1989 Soviet First League

Football league season

The 1989 Soviet First League was the 50th season of the second-tier round-robin competitions of association football in the Soviet Union.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	CSKA Moscow (C, P)	42	24	11	7	79	44	+35	59	Promotion to Top League
2	Guria Lanchkhuti (X)	42	22	10	10	64	45	+19	54	Withdrew from the league
3	Kairat Almaty	42	21	9	12	68	40	+28	51
4	Dynamo Stavropol	42	20	10	12	47	39	+8	50
5	Fakel Voronezh	42	20	8	14	56	49	+7	48
6	Tavriya Simferopol	42	19	10	13	64	56	+8	48
7	Metalurh Zaporizhia	42	21	5	16	54	56	−2	47
8	Neftchi Baku	42	17	13	12	46	35	+11	47
9	Kotayk Abovyan	42	19	7	16	60	53	+7	45
10	Nistru Chisinau	42	16	11	15	50	50	0	43
11	Geolog Tyumen	42	15	13	14	56	52	+4	43
12	Pakhtakor Tashkent	42	17	7	18	57	59	−2	41
13	Torpedo Kutaisi (X)	42	17	7	18	45	50	−5	41	Withdrew from the league
14	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	42	17	6	19	58	52	+6	40
15	Kuzbass Kemerevo	42	17	5	20	60	58	+2	39
16	Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	14	11	17	50	54	−4	39
17	Spartak Ordjonikidze	42	15	7	20	30	48	−18	37
18	Dinamo Batumi (X)	42	11	14	17	44	50	−6	36	Withdrew from the league
19	Kuban Krasnodar	42	11	13	18	36	49	−13	35
20	SKA Rostov-on-Don (R)	42	11	13	18	32	47	−15	35	Relegation to Second League
21	Daugava Riga (R)	42	8	10	24	40	68	−28	26
22	SKA Karpaty Lviv (R)	42	7	6	29	31	73	−42	20

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Valeriy Masalitin	CSKA Moscow	32
2	Merab Megreladze	Torpedo Kutaisi	29
3	Aleksandr Gaydash	Tavriya Simferopol	27
4	Seiran Osipov	Dynamo Stavropol	25
4	Merab Zhordania	Guria Lanchkhuti	25
6	Gia Guruli	Guria Lanchkhuti	18
7	Vitaliy Papadopulo	SKA Rostov-on-Don	17
8	Vali Gasimov	Neftchi Baku	16
8	Oleh Taran	Metalurh Zaporizhia	16

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	10	CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Stavropol, Fakel Voronezh, Geolog Tyumen, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Kuzbass Kemerovo, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Spartak Vladikavkaz, Kuban Krasnodar, SKA Rostov-na-Donu
2	Georgian SSR	3	Guria Lanchkhuti, Torpedo Kutaisi, Dinamo Batumi
2	Ukrainian SSR	3	Metallurg Zaporozhye, Tavriya Simferopol, SKA Karpaty Lvov
4	Moldavian SSR	1	Nistru Kishenev
	Armenian SSR		Kotaik Abovian
	Uzbek SSR		Pakhtakor Tashkent
	Azerbaijan SSR		Neftchi Baku
	Kazakh SSR		Kairat Alma-Ata
	Latvian SSR		Daugava Riga

1989 Soviet First League