Football in the Soviet Union
Season1963
Men's football
Class A 1. GroupDinamo Moscow
Class A 2. GroupShinnik Yaroslavl
Class BVolga Kalinin (Russia)
SKA Odessa (Ukraine)
Lokomotiv Tbilisi (Union republics)
Soviet CupSpartak Moscow
Soviet Union

The 1963 Soviet football championship was the 31st seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union and the 25th among teams of sports societies and factories. Dinamo won the championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the tenth time.

Honours

CompetitionWinnerRunner-up
Class A 1. GroupDinamo Moscow (10*)Spartak Moscow
Class A 2. GroupShinnik Yaroslavl (1)Volga Gorkiy
Class BVolga Kalinin (Russia)Dinamo Kirov (Russia)
SKA Odessa (Ukraine)Lokomotiv Vinnitsa (Ukraine)
Lokomotiv Tbilisi (Union republics)Dinamo Batumi (Union republics)
Soviet Cup Spartak Moscow (7*) Shakhter Donetsk

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

Soviet Union football championship

Class A First Group

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Moscow (C) 38 21 13 4 47 14 +33 55 League champions
2 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Moscow 38 22 8 8 65 33 +32 52
3 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Minsk 38 18 12 8 47 27 +20 48
4 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic SKA Rostov-on-Don 38 20 7 11 73 40 +33 47
5 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Tbilisi 38 17 13 8 56 42 +14 47
6 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zenit Leningrad 38 14 17 7 45 32 +13 45
7 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic CSKA Moscow 38 14 17 7 39 27 +12 45
8 Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Neftyanik Baku 38 18 9 11 48 44 +4 45
9 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv 38 16 12 10 68 48 +20 44
10 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Torpedo Moscow 38 12 16 10 46 41 +5 40
11 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk 38 11 14 13 29 33 4 36
12 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Torpedo Kutaisi 38 6 21 11 22 37 15 33
13 Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldova Chisinau 38 8 16 14 27 43 16 32
14 Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kairat Alma-Ata 38 10 12 16 28 47 19 32
15 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 38 11 7 20 45 53 8 29
16 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Leningrad (R) 38 7 15 16 37 51 14 29 Relegation to Class A Second Group
17 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Lokomotiv Moscow (R) 38 5 19 14 37 54 17 29
18 Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Ararat Yerevan (R) 38 9 8 21 34 57 23 26
19 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Avangard Kharkov (R) 38 6 13 19 25 56 31 25
20 Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Pakhtakor Tashkent (R) 38 4 13 21 44 83 39 21
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Class A Second Group

Pos Republic Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Russian SFSR Shinnik Yaroslavl 34 16 13 5 42 19 +23 45
2  Russian SFSR Volga Gorkiy 0 0
3  Russian SFSR Trud Voronezh 34 15 12 7 43 26 +17 42
4  Ukrainian SSR Metallurg Zaporozhie 34 12 17 5 36 17 +19 41
5  Ukrainian SSR Trudovye rezervy Lugansk 34 15 11 8 41 26 +15 41
6  Ukrainian SSR Chernomorets Odessa 34 13 13 8 39 31 +8 39
7  Ukrainian SSR Karpaty Lvov 34 14 11 9 28 22 +6 39
8  Ukrainian SSR Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 34 13 10 11 36 34 +2 36
9  Latvian SSR Daugava Riga 34 13 9 12 38 40 2 35
10  Russian SFSR Kuban Krasnodar 34 8 18 8 26 21 +5 34
11  Russian SFSR Uralmash Sverdlovsk 34 12 8 14 31 40 9 32
12  Kazakh SSR Shakhter Karaganda 34 9 12 13 37 46 9 30
13  Russian SFSR Lokomotiv Cheliabinsk 34 7 15 12 23 36 13 29
14  Lithuanian SSR Zalgiris Vilnius 34 9 10 15 36 42 6 28
15  Kyrgyz SSR Alga Frunze 34 8 12 14 28 40 12 28
16  Russian SFSR Traktor Volgograd 34 9 9 16 25 40 15 27
17  Russian SFSR SKA Novosibirsk 34 2 16 16 15 37 22 20
18  Byelorussian SSR Lokomotiv Gomel 34 4 12 18 13 46 33 14[lower-alpha 1]
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Notes:
  1. 6 points deducted?

Class B

Russian Federation finals

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Volga Kalinin 3 2 1 0 7 3 +4 5
2 Dynamo Kirov 3 0 3 0 4 4 0 3
3 Zvezda Serpukhov 3 1 1 1 3 5 2 3
4 Zenit Izhevsk 3 0 1 2 5 7 2 1
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Ukraine (playoffs)

Each team played against the same ranking team from the other zone. Only the two top pairs that really mattered concerning promotion are listed next. No teams were relegated. SKA Odessa obtained the promotion from the Ukraine zone. They were classified as the Republican champions and were promoted to the Inter-Republican level, the Class A.

Union republics finals

Dinamo Batumi  0-1 1-5  Lokomotiv Tbilisi 

Top goalscorers

Class A First Group

Class A Second Group

References

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