1988 Soviet First League

The 1988 Soviet First League was the 49th season of the second tier of association football in the Soviet Union.

Soviet First League

Season	1988
Champions	Pamir Dushanbe
Promoted	Pamir Dushanbe Rotor Volgograd
Relegated	Zorya Voroshylovhrad Zvezda Perm Kolos Nikopol
Top goalscorer	(22) Mukhsin Mukhamadiyev (Pamir Dushanbe) and Aleksandr Nikitin (Rotor Volgograd)
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Teams

Promoted teams

• SC Tavriya Simferopol – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of 3 seasons)
• FC Kuban Krasnodar – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of a season)
• FC Zvezda Perm – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of 8 seasons)

Relegated teams

• CSKA Moscow – (Returning after a season)
• FC Guria Lanchkhuti – (Returning after a season)

Locations

Kuzbass

SKA Karpaty

Rostov- on- Don
Rostselmash
SKA

Spartak

Tavriya

Pakhtakor

Zvezda

Dinamo B

CSKA

Shinnik

Rotor

Pamir

Zorya

Dynamo S

Kotayk

Daugava

Kolos

Geolog

Kuban

Metalurh

Guria

Location of teams in the 1988 Soviet First League.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Pamir Dushanbe (C, P)	42	24	10	8	78	44	+34	58	Promotion to Top League
2	Rotor Volgograd (P)	42	25	7	10	76	37	+39	57
3	CSKA Moscow	42	23	10	9	69	35	+34	56
4	Guria Lanchkhuti	42	23	7	12	71	44	+27	53
5	Pakhtakor Tashkent	42	21	10	11	64	38	+26	52
6	Dynamo Stavropol	42	18	11	13	59	46	+13	47
7	SKA Karpaty Lviv	42	18	8	16	51	39	+12	44
8	Daugava Riga	42	18	7	17	56	54	+2	43
9	SKA Rostov-on-Don	42	16	10	16	57	64	−7	42
10	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	42	16	8	18	59	67	−8	40
11	Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	16	8	18	48	48	0	40
12	Geolog Tyumen	42	17	5	20	46	58	−12	39
13	Spartak Ordjonikidze	42	15	9	18	57	60	−3	39
14	Tavriya Simferopol	42	13	14	15	34	43	−9	38[lower-alpha 1]
15	Kuzbass Kemerevo	42	13	14	15	38	39	−1	38[lower-alpha 1]
16	Dinamo Batumi	42	15	6	21	40	53	−13	36
17	Metalurh Zaporizhia	42	12	13	17	30	43	−13	36[lower-alpha 1]
18	Kotayk Abovyan	42	14	7	21	55	83	−28	35
19	Kuban Krasnodar	42	12	11	19	41	56	−15	35
20	Zarya Voroshylovhrad (R)	42	11	10	21	44	59	−15	32	Relegation to Second League
21	Zvezda Perm (R)	42	10	12	20	37	69	−32	32
22	Kolos Nikopol (R)	42	10	7	25	31	62	−31	27

Source: RSSSF
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. There was a draw limit for the draws earned, 12. Only twelve draws earn a point, in contrast, over the limit draws earn no points.

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mukhsin Mukhamadiyev	Pamir Dushanbe	22
	Aleksandr Nikitin	Rotor Volgograd	22
3	Viktor Khlus	Guria Lanchkhuti	21
4	Valeriy Korneyev	Dynamo Stavropol	19
	Merab Zhordania	Guria Lanchkhuti	19
6	Sergei Andreyev	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	18
	Jevgenijs Milevskis	Daugava Riga	18
	Hamlet Mkhitaryan	Kotayk Abovian	18
9	Oleksandr Malyshenko	Zorya Voroshylovhrad	17

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	11	Rotor Volgograd, CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Stavropol, SKA Rostov-na-Donu, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Geolog Tyumen, Spartak Vladikavkaz, Kuzbass Kemerovo, Kuban Krasnodar, Zvezda Perm
2	Ukrainian SSR	5	Metallurg Zaporozhye, Tavriya Simferopol, SKA Karpaty Lvov, Zaria Voroshilovgrad, Kolos Nikopol
3	Georgian SSR	2	Guria Lanchkhuti, Dinamo Batumi
4	Uzbek SSR	1	Pakhtakor Tashkent
	Latvian SSR		Daugava Riga
	Tajik SSR		Pamir Dushanbe
	Armenian SSR		Kotaik Abovian

See also

• Soviet First League

External links

• 1988. First League. (1988. Первая лига. ) Luhansk Nash Futbol