1989 in Soviet football

The 1989 Soviet football championship was the 56th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union. Spartak Moscow won the Top League championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the twelfth time.

Football in the Soviet Union

Season	1989
Men's football
Top League	Spartak Moscow
First League	CSKA Moscow
Second League	Lokomotiv Gorkiy (Finals 1) Tekstilschik Tiraspol (Finals 2) Dinamo Sukhumi (Finals 3)
Soviet Cup	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
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Honours

Competition		Winner	Runner-up
Top League		Spartak Moscow (12)	Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
First League		CSKA Moscow (2)	Guria Lanchkhuti
Second League	Finals 1	Lokomotiv Gorkiy	Irtysh Omsk
	Group 2	Tekstilschik Tiraspol	Volyn Lutsk
	Group 3	Dinamo Sukhumi	Neftianik Fergana
Soviet Cup		Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk (1)	Torpedo Moscow

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

Soviet Union football championship

Main article: 1989 Soviet Top League

Top League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	30	17	10	3	49	19	+30	44	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	30	18	6	6	47	27	+20	42	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Dynamo Kyiv	30	13	12	5	44	27	+17	38	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
4	Žalgiris Vilnius (X)	30	14	8	8	39	29	+10	36	Surrendered its qualification for UEFA competitions
5	Torpedo Moscow	30	11	13	6	40	26	+14	35	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
6	Chornomorets Odesa	30	11	9	10	40	41	−1	31	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round[a]
7	Metalist Kharkiv	30	10	10	10	30	33	−3	30
8	Dinamo Moscow	30	9	12	9	31	26	+5	30
9	Dinamo Minsk	30	11	7	12	35	33	+2	29
10	Rotor Volgograd	30	9	9	12	28	35	−7	27
11	Dinamo Tbilisi (X)	30	6	13	11	27	32	−5	25	Withdrew
12	Ararat Yerevan	30	8	8	14	25	41	−16	24
13	Pamir Dushanbe	30	7	10	13	20	38	−18	24
14	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	9	5	16	24	36	−12	23
15	Lokomotiv Moscow (R)	30	7	9	14	20	32	−12	23	Relegation to First League
16	Zenit Leningrad (R)	30	5	9	16	24	48	−24	19

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated; (X) Quit the USSR Football Federation after this season and joined the leagues of their native countries. For the following season, the league was reduced to 13 teams as Žalgiris would quit after their first game of the new season.
Notes:

1. Qualified to Europe instead of Žalgiris Vilnius

First League

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

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (X) Quit the USSR Football Federation after this season and joined the leagues of the native country.

Second League (finals)

Further information: 1989 Soviet Second League, Finals

Group 1

Pos	Rep	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	RUS	Lokomotiv Gorkiy	4	2	1	1	6	3	+3	5	Promoted
2	RUS	Irtysh Omsk	4	2	0	2	4	3	+1	4
3	RUS	Cement Novorossiysk	4	1	1	2	4	8	−4	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Pos	Rep	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	MDA	Textilshchik Tiraspol	4	3	1	0	7	2	+5	7	Promoted
2	UKR	Volyn Lutsk	4	0	3	1	2	5	−3	3
3	RUS	Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev	4	0	2	2	4	6	−2	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3

Pos	Rep	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	GEO	Dinamo Sukhumi	4	3	0	1	5	1	+4	6	Promoted
2	UZB	Neftyanik Fergana	4	2	0	2	2	5	−3	4
3	KAZ	Traktor Pavlodar	4	1	0	3	3	4	−1	2

Source: rsssf.com

Top goalscorers

Top League

• Sergei Rodionov (Spartak Moscow) – 16 goals

First League

• Valeriy Masalitin (CSKA Moscow) – 32 goals