1953 Soviet Top League

11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.

Soviet Top League

Season	1953
← 1952 1954 →

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	20	11	7	2	47	15	3.133	29	League champions
2	Dynamo Tbilisi	20	11	5	4	39	24	1.625	27
3	Torpedo Moscow	20	11	3	6	34	34	1.000	25
4	Dynamo Moscow	20	8	7	5	34	19	1.789	23
5	Zenit Leningrad	20	11	1	8	25	21	1.190	23
6	Lokomotiv Moscow	20	6	6	8	21	28	0.750	18
7	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	20	6	5	9	22	25	0.880	17
8	Dynamo Kiev	20	6	5	9	21	26	0.808	17
9	Lokomotiv Kharkov	20	6	4	10	19	34	0.559	16
10	Dynamo Leningrad (W)	20	5	4	11	20	33	0.606	14	Replaced with Trudovye Rezervy Leningrad
11	Spartak Vilnius (R)	20	2	7	11	10	33	0.303	11	Relegation to Class B

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated; (W) ?

Results

Home \ Away	DYK	DLE	DYN	DTB	KRY	LKH	LOK	SPA	SVL	TOR	ZEN
Dynamo Kiev		3–3	1–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	3–1	1–0
Dynamo Leningrad	1–1		1–3	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	1–2	0–1
Dynamo Moscow	2–0	2–0		2–2	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–2	0–0	0–1	2–0
Dynamo Tbilisi	3–0	5–0	3–2		2–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	4–0	3–1
Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–2		5–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	0–2	1–2
Lokomotiv Kharkov	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	5–2		1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow	1–2	2–1	0–3	4–2	1–1	4–1		3–3	2–0	1–0	0–4
Spartak Moscow	3–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	3–0	1–1		7–0	7–1	3–0
Spartak Vilnius	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–4		3–1	1–0
Torpedo Moscow	3–2	2–1	3–8	4–1	5–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0		2–1
Zenit Leningrad	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	5–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

14 goals

• Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
• Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

9 goals

• Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow)

8 goals

• Georgi Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kharkov)
• Pyotr Katrovsky (Zenit Leningrad)
• Boris Tatushin (Spartak Moscow)

7 goals

• Aleksandr Gulevsky (Zenit Kuybyshev)
• Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Mykhaylo Koman (Dynamo Kiev)
• Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow)