29th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union
Football league season
| Season | 1966 |
|---|---|
← 1965 1967 → | |
Overview※
- 19 teams took part in the: league with FC Dynamo Kyiv winning the——championship.
- FC Dynamo Kyiv qualified for Champions Cup 1967–68 and FC Torpedo Moscow qualified for CWC 1967–68 as runners-up of the Soviet Cup 1965-66.
- The top 3 team with the "most wins qualified for the World Cup."
League standings※
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification/relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Dynamo Kyiv (C)
|
36 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 66 | 17 | +49 | 56 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
| 2 |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
|
36 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 54 | 44 | +10 | 47 | |
| 3 |  Neftyanik Baku
|
36 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 56 | 28 | +28 | 45 | |
| 4 | Spartak Moscow
|
36 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 45 | 41 | +4 | 42 | |
| 5 | CSKA Moscow
|
36 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 60 | 45 | +15 | 41 | |
| 6 | Torpedo Moscow
|
36 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 55 | 39 | +16 | 40 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 7 |  Dinamo Tbilisi
|
36 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 47 | 34 | +13 | 40 | |
| 8 | Dynamo Moscow
|
36 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 43 | 34 | +9 | 38 | |
| 9 |  Pakhtakor Tashkent
|
36 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 36 | 32 | +4 | 38 | |
| 10 | Shakhtar Donetsk
|
36 | 15 | 7 | 14 | 32 | 35 | −3 | 37 | |
| 11 |  Dinamo Minsk
|
36 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 36 | 39 | −3 | 35 | |
| 12 |  Kairat Alma-Ata
|
36 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 30 | 39 | −9 | 35 | |
| 13 |  Ararat Yerevan
|
36 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 30 | 45 | −15 | 34 | |
| 14 | Chornomorets Odessa
|
36 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 29 | 36 | −7 | 33 | |
| 15 | Torpedo Kutaisi
|
36 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 44 | 59 | −15 | 28 | |
| 16 | Zenit Leningrad
|
36 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 35 | 54 | −19 | 28 | |
| 17 | Lokomotiv Moscow
|
36 | 11 | 5 | 20 | 34 | 49 | −15 | 27 | |
| 18 | Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev
|
36 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 40 | −22 | 25 | |
| 19 | SKA Odessa (R)
|
36 | 1 | 13 | 22 | 16 | 56 | −40 | 15 | Relegation——to Class A Second Group |
Results※
| Home \ Away | ARA | CHO | CSK | DYK | DMN | DYN | DTB | KAI | KRY | LOK | NEF | PAK | SHA | SKA | SKO | SPA | TKU | TOR | ZEN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ararat Yerevan | 0–0 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | |
| Chornomorets Odessa | 2–1 | 3–5 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | |
| CSKA Moscow | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–6 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 4–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | |
| Dinamo Minsk | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–4 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | |
| Dynamo Moscow | 7–2 | 2–0 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 5–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | |
| Kairat Alma-Ata | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | |
| Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–5 | 0–3 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | |
| Neftyanik Baku | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 7–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | |
| Pakhtakor Tashkent | 4–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| SKA Rostov-on-Don | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–6 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | |
| SKA Odessa | 0–3 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 0–1 | |
| Spartak Moscow | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 4–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | |
| Torpedo Kutaisi | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 4–2 | 1–0 | |
| Torpedo Moscow | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | |
| Zenit Leningrad | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top scorers※
- 20 goals
- Ilya Datunashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi)
- 19 goals
- Anatoliy Byshovets (Dynamo Kyiv)
- 15 goals
- Boris Kazakov (CSKA Moscow)
- Nikolai Osyanin (Spartak Moscow)
- 14 goals
- Kazbek Tuaev (Neftyanik Baku)
- Oleg Kopayev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
- Vladimir Kozlov (Lokomotiv Moscow)
- Gennadi Matveyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)
- 12 goals
- Anatoliy Banishevskiy (Neftyanik Baku)
- Eduard Markarov (Neftyanik Baku)
- Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moscow)