List of Soviet and Russian football champions

Football had been played in Russia since the Russian Empire days in the early 1900s, but it was not until 1936, 19 years after the Russian Revolution, that the Soviet Union established a national championship of clubs. Before then local leagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg/Leningrad were the only prominent league competitions in the country, with some national championships held intermittently from 1912 to 1933, made up of city selections.^{[citation needed]}

Teams in bold indicates doubles won with the Soviet Cup before 1992 and with the Russian Cup thereafter. Teams in italics include Cup winners between the 2nd and 3rd league places.

Football championship of Russian Empire

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1912	Saint Petersburg	Moscow	Kharkov / Kiev
1913	Odessa	Saint Petersburg	Kharkov / Moscow
1914	cancelled due to World War I

Football championship of Russian SFSR among city teams

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1920	Moscow	MKS Tver	Samara / Mars Yaroslavl
1921	no championship
1922	Moscow	Kharkov	Perm / Kazan
1923	no championship
1924	Petrograd	Moscow	Viatka / Kazan
no championship in 1925-26
1927	Moscow	Western Oblast	North Caucasus Krai
1928	Moscow	Leningrad	Autonomous republics
no championship in 1929-30
1931	Moscow	Leningrad	North Caucasus Krai / Nizhniy Novgorod Krai
1932	Leningrad	Moscow	Samara / Sverdlovsk
1933	no championship
1934	Voronezh	Ivanovo	Sverdlovsk
1935	no championship

USSR championship

Note: according to Dynamo sports society, the first Soviet football championship took place in 1924,^[1] while other sources (megabook.ru) indicate that the first championship took place earlier in 1923. In Moscow it was decided to consider the football tournament of the 1924 All-Union festival of physical culture as the first national championship.^[2]

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1923	Moscow	Southern Railways (Kharkov)
1924	Kharkov	Petrograd		Yakov Alferov	2
1925	no championship
1926	no championship
1927	no championship
1928	Moscow	Ukrainian SSR
1929	no championship
1930	no championship
1931	Moscow	Russian SFSR	Transcaucasian SFSR
1932	Moscow	Leningrad		Vasily Smirnov	4
1933	no championship
1934	no championship
1935	Moscow	Leningrad	Kharkov	Mikhail Yakushev	6

Russian SFSR championship

Republican level competitions among teams from the Russian SFSR. Until 1960 it included teams that were considered amateurs, after 1960 the competition was conducted as part of the Soviet Second League.
Source: Footballfacts.ru

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1948	Dinamo Krasnodar	Dinamo Perm	Krasnoye Znamia Orekhovo-Zuyevo
1949	Dinamo Stavropol	Dinamo Gorkiy	Krasnoye Znamia Pavlovskiy posad
1950	MVO Moscow	SKA Khabarovsk	Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu
1951	ODO Sverdlovsk	Vympel Korolyov	Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu
1952	Vympel Korolyov	Dinamo Rostov-na-Donu	Zvezda Vyborg
1953	Torpedo Krasnoyarsk	Krylia Sovetov Voronezh	Zenit Stupino
1954	Trud Stupino	Torpedo Taganrog	SKA Khabarovsk
1955	Torpedo Taganrog	Zenit Izhevsk	Iskra Zelenodolsk
1956	Avangard Sormovo	Terek Groznyi	Lokomotiv Saratov
1957	Metallurg Volgograd	Sovetskiy Raion Krasnoyarsk	Torpedo Vladimir
1958	Trud Ramenskoye	SKVO Kuibyshev	Trud Tambov
1959	Admiralteyets Leningrad	Trudovye Rezervy Leningrad	Trud Voronezh
	ZIP-Energiya	Trud Zelenodolsk	SKA Novosibirsk
1960	Trud Voronezh	Irtysh Omsk	Volga Kalinin
1961	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev	Terek Groznyi	Dinamo Kirov
1962	Spartak Krasnodar	Trud Voronezh	Uralmash Sverdlovsk
1963	Volga Kalinin	Dinamo Kirov	Zvezda Serpukhov
1964	Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu	Terek Groznyi	Tekstilshchik Ivanovo
1965	Spartak Nalchik	Rubin Kazan	Sokol Saratov
1966	Lokomotiv Kaluga	Spartak Ordzhonikidze	Metallurg Tula
1967	Dinamo Makhachkala	Volga Ulyanovsk	Volgar Astrakhan
1968	Mashuk Pyatigorsk	Kalininets Sverdlovsk	Spartak Belgorod
1969	Druzhba Maykop	Saturn Rybinsk	Iskra Smolensk
1970	Avtomobilist Nalchik	Spartak Yoshkar-Ola	Kuzbass Kemerovo
1971	Zvezda Perm	Avtomobilist Nalchik	Iskra Smolensk
1972	Kuzbass Kemerovo	Metallurg Lipetsk	Amur Blagoveshchensk
1973	Kuban Krasnodar	Iskra Smolensk	Uralmash Sverdlovsk
1974	Terek Groznyi	Rubin Kazan
1975	Dinamo Makhachkala	Terek Groznyi
1976	Iskra Smolensk	Uralmash Sverdlovsk	Dinamo Leningrad
1977	Lokomotiv Kaluga	Fakel Voronezh	SKA Khabarovsk
1978	Voronezh Oblast	Stavropol Krai	Krasnodar Krai
1979	no competition / Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
1980	Rotor Volgograd	Zvezda Perm	Torpedo Tolyatti
1981	Dinamo Kirov	Tekstilshchik Ivanovo	Dinamo Barnaul
1982	no competition / Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
1983	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev	Spartak Ordzhonikidze	Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo
1984	Zorky Krasnogorsk	Baltika Kaliningrad	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
1985	Geolog Tyumen	Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu	Dinamo Bryansk
1986	Metallurg Lipetsk	Sokol Saratov	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
1987	Kuban Krasnodar	Zvezda Perm	Tekstilschik Ivanovo
1988	Tsement Novorossiysk	Uralmash Sverdlovsk	Dinamo Bryansk
1989	Dinamo Bryansk	Tsement Novorossiysk	Tekstilshchik Kamyshin
1990	no competition
1991	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev	Rotor Volgograd

Soviet League (1936–1991)

Main article: Soviet Top League

Soviet Group A

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1936 (spring)	Dynamo Moscow	Dynamo Kiev	Spartak Moscow	Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow)	6
1936 (autumn)	Spartak Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Georgy Glazkov (Spartak Moscow)	7
1937	Dynamo Moscow (2)	Spartak Moscow	Dynamo Kiev	Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi) Leonid Rumyantsev (Spartak Moscow) Vasily Smirnov (Dynamo Moscow)	8
1938	Spartak Moscow (2)	CDKA Moscow	Metallurg Moscow	Makar Goncharenko (Dinamo Kiev)	19
1939	Spartak Moscow (3)	Dinamo Tbilisi	CDKA Moscow	Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)	21
1940	Dynamo Moscow (3)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Spartak Moscow	Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow) Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)	21
1941	Cancelled on 24 June due to World War II (Dynamo Moscow had the best record at that time)
1942-44	Cancelled due to World War II

Soviet First Group

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1945	Dynamo Moscow (4)	CDKA Moscow	Torpedo Moscow	Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow)	24
1946	CDKA Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Aleksandr Ponomaryov (Torpedo Moscow)	18
1947	CDKA Moscow (2)	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow) Valentin Nikolayev (CDKA Moscow) Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)	14
1948	CDKA Moscow (3)	Dynamo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)	25
1949	Dynamo Moscow (5)	CDKA Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)	26

Soviet Class A

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1950	CDKA Moscow (4)	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)	34
1951	CDSA Moscow (5)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Shakhter Stalino	Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)	16
1952	Spartak Moscow (4)	Dynamo Kiev	Dynamo Moscow	Andrey Zazroyev (Dynamo Kiev)	11
1953	Spartak Moscow (5)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Torpedo Moscow	Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)	14
1954	Dynamo Moscow (6)	Spartak Moscow	Spartak Minsk	Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow) Vladimir Ilyin (Dynamo Moscow) Antonin Sochnev (Trudovye Reservy Leningrad)	11
1955	Dynamo Moscow (7)	Spartak Moscow	CDSA Moscow	Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moscow)	15
1956	Spartak Moscow (6)	Dynamo Moscow	CDSA Moscow	Vasily Buzunov (ODO Sverdlovsk)	17
1957	Dynamo Moscow (8)	Torpedo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Vasily Buzunov (CSK MO Moscow)	16
1958	Spartak Moscow (7)	Dynamo Moscow	CSK MO Moscow	Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow)	19
1959	Dynamo Moscow (9)	Lokomotiv Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)	16
1960	Torpedo Moscow	Dynamo Kiev	Dynamo Moscow	Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi) Gennady Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow)	20
1961	Dynamo Kiev	Torpedo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Gennady Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow)	22
1962	Spartak Moscow (8)	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Mikhail Mustygin (Belarus Minsk)	17

Soviet Class A, 1st Group

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1963	Dynamo Moscow (10)	Spartak Moscow	Dinamo Minsk	Oleg Kopaev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)	27
1964	Dinamo Tbilisi	Torpedo Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow)	16
1965	Torpedo Moscow (2)	Dynamo Kiev	CSKA Moscow	Oleg Kopaev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)	18
1966	Dynamo Kiev (2)	SKA Rostov-on-Don	Neftchi Baku	Ilya Datunashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi)	20
1967	Dynamo Kiev (3)	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Mikhail Mustygin (Dinamo Minsk)	19
1968	Dynamo Kiev (4)	Torpedo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Georgi Gavasheli (Dinamo Tbilisi) Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor Tashkent)	22
1969	Spartak Moscow (9)	Dynamo Kiev	Dinamo Tbilisi	Nikolai Osyanin (Spartak Moscow) Vladimir Proskurin (SKA Rostov-on-Don) Dzhemal Kherhadze (Torpedo Kutaisi)	16

Soviet Supreme League (Soviet Top League)

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1970	CSKA Moscow (6)	Dynamo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)	17
1971	Dynamo Kiev (5)	Ararat Yerevan	Dinamo Tbilisi	Eduard Malofeev (Dinamo Minsk)	16
1972	Zorya Voroshilovgrad	Dynamo Kiev	Dinamo Tbilisi	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kiev)	14
1973	Ararat Yerevan	Dynamo Kiev	Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kiev)	18
1974	Dynamo Kiev (6)	Spartak Moscow	Chornomorets Odessa	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kiev)	20
1975	Dynamo Kiev (7)	Shakhtar Donetsk	Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kiev)	18
1976 (spring)	Dynamo Moscow (11)	Ararat Yerevan	Dinamo Tbilisi	Arkady Andreasian (Ararat Yerevan)	8
1976 (autumn)	Torpedo Moscow (3)	Dynamo Kiev	Dinamo Tbilisi	Aleksandr Markin (Zenit Leningrad)	13
1977	Dynamo Kiev (8)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Torpedo Moscow	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kiev)	17
1978	Dinamo Tbilisi (2)	Dynamo Kiev	Shakhtar Donetsk	Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)	19
1979	Spartak Moscow (10)	Shakhtar Donetsk	Dynamo Kiev	Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar Donetsk)	26
1980	Dynamo Kiev (9)	Spartak Moscow	Zenit Leningrad	Sergey Andreev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)	20
1981	Dynamo Kiev (10)	Spartak Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)	23
1982	Dinamo Minsk	Dynamo Kiev	Spartak Moscow	Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor Tashkent)	23
1983	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Spartak Moscow	Dinamo Minsk	Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow)	18
1984	Zenit Leningrad	Spartak Moscow	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Sergey Andreev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)	20
1985	Dynamo Kiev (11)	Spartak Moscow	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Oleg Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)	35
1986	Dynamo Kiev (12)	Dynamo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)	21
1987	Spartak Moscow (11)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Žalgiris Vilnius	Oleg Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)	18
1988	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2)	Dynamo Kiev	Torpedo Moscow	Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)	16
1989	Spartak Moscow (12)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Dynamo Kiev	Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)	16
1990	Dynamo Kiev (13)	CSKA Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Protasov (Dynamo Kiev) Valery Shmarov (Spartak Moscow)	12
1991	CSKA Moscow (7)	Spartak Moscow	Torpedo Moscow	Igor Kolyvanov (Dynamo Moscow)	18

Russian League (1992–present)

Main article: Russian Premier League

Russian Top League

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1992	Spartak Moscow (13)	Spartak Vladikavkaz	Dynamo Moscow	Vali Gasimov (Dynamo Moscow, 1st–8th place) Yuri Matveyev (Uralmash, 9th–20th place)	16 20
1993	Spartak Moscow (14)	Rotor Volgograd	Dynamo Moscow	Viktor Panchenko (KamAZ Naberezhnye Chelny)	21
1994	Spartak Moscow (15)	Dynamo Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Igor Simutenkov (Dynamo Moscow)	21
1995	Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz	Lokomotiv Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)	25
1996	Spartak Moscow (16)	Alania Vladikavkaz	Rotor Volgograd	Aleksandr Maslov (Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don)	23
1997	Spartak Moscow (17)	Rotor Volgograd	Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)	22

Russian Top Division

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
1998	Spartak Moscow (18)	CSKA Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)	22
1999	Spartak Moscow (19)	Lokomotiv Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Georgi Demetradze (Alania Vladikavkaz)	21
2000	Spartak Moscow (20)	Lokomotiv Moscow	Torpedo Moscow	Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)	18
2001	Spartak Moscow (21)	Lokomotiv Moscow	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Dmitri Vyazmikin (Torpedo Moscow)	18

Russian Premier League

Year	Champions (number of titles)	Runners-up	Third place	Leading goalscorer	Goals
2002	Lokomotiv Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Rolan Gusev (CSKA Moscow) Dmitri Kirichenko (CSKA Moscow)	15
2003	CSKA Moscow (8)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Rubin Kazan	Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)	14
2004	Lokomotiv Moscow (2)	CSKA Moscow	Krylia Sovetov Samara	Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit Saint Petersburg)	18
2005	CSKA Moscow (9)	Spartak Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Dmitri Kirichenko (FC Moscow)	14
2006	CSKA Moscow (10)	Spartak Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow)	18
2007	Zenit Saint Petersburg (2)	Spartak Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow) Roman Adamov (FC Moscow)	14
2008	Rubin Kazan	CSKA Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow)	20
2009	Rubin Kazan (2)	Spartak Moscow	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Welliton (Spartak Moscow)	21
2010	Zenit Saint Petersburg (3)	CSKA Moscow	Rubin Kazan	Welliton (Spartak Moscow)	19
2011–12	Zenit Saint Petersburg (4)	Spartak Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow)	28
2012–13	CSKA Moscow (11)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Anzhi Makhachkala	Yura Movsisyan (Spartak Moscow) Wánderson (FC Krasnodar)	13
2013–14	CSKA Moscow (12)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Lokomotiv Moscow	Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow)	18
2014–15	Zenit Saint Petersburg (5)	CSKA Moscow	Krasnodar	Hulk (Zenit Saint Petersburg)	15
2015–16	CSKA Moscow (13)	Rostov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar)	20
2016–17	Spartak Moscow (22)	CSKA Moscow	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar)	18
2017–18	Lokomotiv Moscow (3)	CSKA Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow)	15
2018–19	Zenit Saint Petersburg (6)	Lokomotiv Moscow	Krasnodar	Fyodor Chalov (CSKA Moscow)	15
2019–20	Zenit Saint Petersburg (7)	Lokomotiv Moscow	Krasnodar	Artem Dzyuba (Zenit Saint Petersburg) Sardar Azmoun (Zenit Saint Petersburg)	17
2020–21	Zenit Saint Petersburg (8)	Spartak Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Artem Dzyuba (Zenit Saint Petersburg)	20
2021–22	Zenit Saint Petersburg (9)	Sochi	Dynamo Moscow	Gamid Agalarov (Ufa)	19
2022–23	Zenit Saint Petersburg (10)	CSKA Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Malcom (Zenit Saint Petersburg)	23
2023–24	Zenit Saint Petersburg (11)	Krasnodar	Dynamo Moscow	Mateo Cassierra (Zenit Saint Petersburg)	21

Performances by club

Spartak Moscow are the most successful club in the overall ranking, having won 22 national titles. They are followed by city rivals CSKA Moscow with thirteen. Dynamo Kiev also have thirteen titles, although the team no longer competes in the Russian football system, since it is now part of Ukraine. Fourth place is taken by Dinamo Moscow, who were the dominant team in Soviet Russia during the 1930s and 1950s. Dinamo Moscow has won eleven titles, although their last title came in 1976. Zenit Saint Petersburg is by far the most successful Russian team outside of Moscow. They have won seven titles, mostly in the 2000s and 2010s.

All clubs are included with all national titles:

Rank	Club	Winners	Runners-up
1	Spartak Moscow	22: 1936 (autumn), 1938, 1939, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1969, 1979, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2016–17	17: 1937, 1954, 1955, 1963, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1991, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011–12, 2020–21
2	CSKA Moscow	13: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16	13: 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2022–23
3	Dynamo Kiev	13: 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990	11: 1936 (spring), 1952, 1960, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1976 (autumn), 1978, 1982, 1988
4	Dynamo Moscow	11: 1936 (spring), 1937, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1976	11: 1936 (autumn), 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1986, 1994
5	Zenit Saint Petersburg	11: 1984, 2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24	3: 2003, 2012–13, 2013–14
6	Lokomotiv Moscow	3: 2002, 2004, 2017–18	7: 1959, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2018–19, 2019–20
7	Torpedo Moscow	3: 1960, 1965, 1976 (autumn)	3: 1957, 1961, 1964
8	Dinamo Tbilisi	2: 1964, 1978	5: 1939, 1940, 1951, 1953, 1977
9	Dnipro	2: 1983, 1988	2: 1987, 1989
10	Rubin Kazan	2: 2008, 2009
11	Spartak Vladikavkaz	1: 1995	2: 1992, 1996
	Ararat Yerevan	1: 1973	2: 1971, 1976 (spring)
13	Dinamo Minsk	1: 1982
	Zorya Voroshilovgrad	1: 1972
15	Rotor Volgograd		2: 1993, 1997
	Shakhtar Donetsk		2: 1975, 1979
17	FC Krasnodar		1: 2023–24
	FC Rostov		1: 2015–16
	PFC Sochi		1: 2021–22
	SKA Rostov-on-Don		1: 1966

Note: Teams in bold are teams from Russia, flags indicate a club based outside Russia, namely  Ukraine,  Georgia,  Armenia and  Belarus. These teams are no longer eligible for the championship as they play in their own leagues.

Best finish in Europe by club

Table shows best-finish achievements in major European competitions starting from 1965-66 season. For non-Russian teams it is provided the results for Soviet period only.

Club	European Cup / UEFA Champions League	UEFA Cup / Europa League	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	UEFA Super Cup	UEFA Intertoto Cup
Dynamo Kiev	Semi-finals (2) 1976–77; 1986–87	Round of 16 (2) 1979–80; 1989–90	Winner (2) 1974–75;1985–86	Winner 1975	–
Spartak Moscow	Semi-finals 1990–91	Semi-finals 1997–98	Semi-finals 1992–93	–	Round 3 2004
Dnipro	Quarter-finals (2) 1984–85; 1989–90	Runners-up 2014–15	–	–	–
CSKA Moscow	Quarter-finals 2009–10	Winner 2004–05	Round of 32 (2) 1991–92; 1994–95	Runners-up 2005	–
Dinamo Minsk	Quarter-finals 1983–84	Quarter-finals 1984–85	Quarter-finals 1987–88	–	–
Ararat Yerevan	Quarter-finals 1974–75	Round of 16 1972–73	Round of 16 1975–76	–	–
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Round of 16 (4) 1985–86; 2011–12; 2013–14; 2015–16	Winner 2007–08	–	Winner 2008	Runners-up 2000
Lokomotiv Moscow	Round of 16 (2) 2002–03; 2003–04	Round of 16 2017–18	Semi-finals (2) 1997–98; 1997–98	–	–
Dinamo Tbilisi	Round of 16 1979-80	Round of 16 (3) 1973–74; 1977–78; 1987–88	Winner 1980–81	–	–
Zorya Voroshilovgrad	Round of 16 1973–74	–	–	–	–
Torpedo Moscow	Round of 32 (2) 1966-67; 1977-78	Quarter-finals 1990–91	Quarter-finals (2) 1967-68; 1986-87	–	Semi-finals 1997
Rubin Kazan	Group Stage (2) 2009-10; 2010-11	Quarter-finals 2012-13	–	–	Round 3 2007
Krasnodar	Group Stage 2020-21	Round of 16 (2) 2016-17; 2016-17	-	–	–
Rostov	Group Stage 2016-17	Round of 16 2016-17	-	–	Semi-finals 1999
Dynamo Moscow	Qualifying Round 3 2009–10	Round of 16 (3) 1991–92; 1992–93; 2014–15	Runners-up 1971–72	–	Semi-finals 1997
Alania Vladikavkaz	Qualifying Round 1996-97	Play-off Round 2011–12	-	–	–

Table sorted by success at European Cup / UEFA Champions League first and foremost.

Further reading

• Afinogenov, V., Isaev, A. "Futbol-1988. Second half". Krasnodar, 1988. page 96. («Футбол-1988. Второй круг» (авторы-составители В.Афиногенов, А.Исаев. Краснодар. 1988, 96 с.))
• Gaidyshev, Yu.I. "Futbol-1992". Krasnodar, 1992. page 104. («Футбол-1992» (автор-составитель Ю. И. Гайдышев и др., Краснодар. 1992, 104 с.))