League | Champions | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts |
USSR Leagues | ||||||||
Supreme League | CSKA Moscow | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 57 | 32 | 43 |
First League | Rotor Volgograd | 42 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 79 | 44 | 59 |
Second League | ||||||||
Central Zone | Asmaral Moscow | 42 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 86 | 32 | 62 |
Eastern Zone | Okean Nakhodka | 42 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 68 | 33 | 61 |
Western Zone | Karpaty Lvov | 42 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 47 | 27 | 59 |
Third League | ||||||||
1st Zone (Ukraine) | Neftyanik Akhtyrka | 50 | 29 | 17 | 4 | 87 | 34 | 75 |
2nd Zone (Armenia) | Syunik Kapan | 38 | 32 | 2 | 4 | 107 | 40 | 66 |
3rd Zone (Azerbaijan) | Khazar Sumgait | 38 | 28 | 5 | 5 | 112 | 24 | 61 |
4th Zone (South Euro Russia) | Zhemchyuzhina Sochi | 42 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 91 | 33 | 64 |
5th Zone (Central Euro Russia) | Spartak Anapa | 42 | 28 | 7 | 7 | 79 | 26 | 63 |
6th Zone (West Euro Russia) | Prometey Dynamo St Peterburg | 42 | 29 | 7 | 6 | 72 | 25 | 65 |
7th Zone (East Euro Russia) | Rubin Kazan | 42 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 79 | 20 | 68 |
8th Zone (Kazakh/Kirghiz) | Aktyubinets Aktyubinsk | 38 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 63 | 23 | 59 |
9th Zone (Uzbek/Turkmen/Tadzhik) | Traktor Tashkent | 50 | 33 | 9 | 8 | 103 | 43 | 75 |
10th Zone (Siberia) | Lokomotiv Chita | 34 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 46 | 12 | 52 |
Independent League | ||||||||
Georgia | Iberiya | 38 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 115 | 41 | 87 |
Report
With the USSR already breaking up, CSKA Moscow won the Supreme League in 1991, and Rotor Volgograd the First League. The Second League was broken up into three zones, the winners being Asmaral Moscow (Central), Okean Nakhodka (East) and Karpaty Lvov (West). The Third League was divided into 10 Zones – The Last winners of Armenia (Syunik Kapan), Azerbaijan (Kazar Sumgait) and Ukraine (Neftyanik Aktyrka) as parts of the USSR or Russia were decided that year.
There were also two Central Asian Zones which would soon gain independence as five separate countries: Uzbek/Turkmen/Tadzhik Zone won by Traktor Tashkent and a Kazakh/Kirghiz Zone won by Aktyubinets Aktybinsk. The Siberian Zone was won by Lokomotiv Chita and the four European Russia Zones won by Zhemchuzhina Sochi, Spartak Anapa Rubin Kazan and Prometey Dynamo Sankt Peterburg.
With Georgia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania already independent and running their own leagues, the USSR Football system would break up fully at the end of the year along with Communist Europe itself. The only league which geographically belongs here of those Nations is Georgia, which was won by Iberiya.
References
Bibliography
[2] Soccer International (1992) “USSR Final Results” Soccer International May 1992 Central Pages Supplement i-iv. Articulate Publishing, Hampshire
[3] World Soccer (1992) “How they finished 1991-92” Euro Fixtures Guide 1992-93 pg. 31. Presented Free with World Soccer.
Images
[3] Pinterest (2019) UEFA Logo [Internet] Available from: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f6/c4/ae/f6c4ae32d00050ac7826d3d9b5d8ef87.png [Accessed 26 December 2019]
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Conor Moran, Cathal Gallagher, Gabriel McCloyne, Peter Lemass & Emerson Callender.
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