1991 Soviet First League

Soviet Top League

Season	1991
Champions	Rotor Volgograd
Relegated	none
Top goalscorer	(25) Serhiy Husyev (Tiligul Tiraspol)
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Soviet First League 1991 was the last season of the Soviet First League. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the football structure was reformed. All of its participants have entered the Top Divisions of the republics of their origin, except of Dinamo Sukhumi that because of the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia was dissolved.

Teams

Promoted teams

• FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg – Winner of the Second League, Zone East (returning after an absence of 10 seasons)
• FC Bukovina Chernovtsy – Winner of the Second League, Zone West (debut)
• FC Neftianik Fergona – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
• FC Novbakhor Namangan – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
• FC Textilshchik Kamyshin – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)
• FC Daugava Riga – Winner of the Second League, Zone West (debut)

Relegated teams

• Rotor Volgograd – (Returning after 2 seasons)

Renamed teams

• Prior to the start of the season Tiras Tiraspol was renamed to Tiligul Tiraspol.
• Prior to the start of the season Nistru Kishenev was renamed to Zimbrul Kishinev.

Replaced or withdrawn teams

With fall of the Soviet Union, the promoted FC Daugava Riga was dissolved and replaced with FC Pardaugava Riga that was based on the junior squad of the Latvian national football team (U-21) and took part in the 1990 Baltic League placing only 15th out 17 teams.

League standings

  

– participants that left the Soviet/Russian competitions.

No	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF-GA	Pts	Republic
1	FC Rotor Volgograd (C)	42	24	11	7	79-44	59	Russian Vysshaya Liga
2	FC Tiligul Tiraspol	42	22	10	10	64-45	54	Moldovan Divizia Naţională
3	FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg	42	21	9	12	68-40	51	Russian Vysshaya Liga
4	FC Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu	42	20	10	12	47-39	50	Russian Vysshaya Liga
5	FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi	42	20	8	14	56-49	48	Ukraine Vyscha Liha
6	SC Tavriya Simferopol	42	19	10	13	64-56	48	Ukraine Vyscha Liha
7	FC Neftiannik Fergona	42	21	5	16	54-56	47	Uzbek League
8	FC Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod	42	17	13	12	46-35	47	Russian Vysshaya Liga
9	FC Novbahor	42	19	7	16	60-53	45	Uzbek League
10	FC Dinamo Sukhumi	42	16	11	15	50-50	43	dissolved
11	FC Textilschik Kamyshin	42	15	13	14	56-52	43	Russian Vysshaya Liga
12	FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	17	7	18	57-59	41	Russian Vysshaya Liga
13	FC Fakel Voronezh	42	17	7	18	45-50	41	Russian Vysshaya Liga
14	FC Kairat Almaty	42	17	6	19	58-52	40	Kazakh SSR
15	PFC Neftchi Baku	42	17	5	20	60-58	39	Azerbaijan SSR
16	FC Dinamo Stavropol	42	14	11	17	50-54	39	Russian Vysshaya Liga
17	FC Kotaik Abovian	42	15	7	20	30-48	37	Armenian SSR
18	FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	42	11	14	17	44-50	36	Russian Vysshaya Liga
19	FC Zimbru Chisinau	42	11	13	18	36-49	35	Moldovan Divizia Naţională
20	FC Geolog Tyumen	42	11	13	18	32-47	35	Russian Vysshaya Liga
21	FC Kuban Krasnodar	42	8	10	24	40-68	26	Russian Vysshaya Liga
22	FC Pardaugava Riga	42	7	6	29	31-73	20	Latvian Virs Liga

Notes:

• The city of Leningrad was renamed into Saint Petersburg
• The city of Sverdlovsk was renamed into Yekaterinburg

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals	Games
1	Serhiy Husyev	«Tiligul Tiraspol»	25	36
2	Serhiy Shevchenko	«Tavriya Simferopol»	21	40
3	Valeri Shushlyakov	«Uralmash Yekaterinburg»	20	38
4	Vladislav Lemish	«Kuban Krasnodar»	20	42
5	Rustam Zabirov	«Navbahor Namangan»	19	35
6	Yuri Kalitvintsev	«Rotor Volgograd»	18	37
7	Aleksandr Tikhonov	«Rostselmash Rostov»	17	40
8	Yunis Hüseynov	«Neftchi Baku»	16	34
9	Vəli Qasımov	«Neftchi Baku»	16	38
10	Rustem Shaymukhametov	«Textilshchik Kamyshin»	15	38
11	Yuriy Hudymenko	«Rotor Volgograd»	15	39

See also

• 1991 Soviet Top League
• 1991 Soviet Second League
• 1991 Soviet Second League B

External links

• 1990 First League at the RSSSF