1963 Soviet Top League

The 1963 Class A, Pervaya Gruppa (Russian: класс «А», первая группа) was the 25th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union. Due to reorganization of the Soviet Union football competition by adding an extra tier, this season the top tier was renamed as Class A, Pervaya Gruppa compared to previously named as Class A.

Class A, Pervaya Gruppa
Season1963
Dates31 March – 29 November 1963
ChampionsDynamo Moscow
10th Soviet top-tier title
RelegatedDynamo Leningrad
Lokomotiv Moscow
Ararat Yerevan
Avangard Kharkov
Pakhtakor Tashkent
Top goalscorerOleg Kopayev (27)
1962
1964

20 teams took part in the league with FC Dynamo Moscow winning the championship. Spartak Moscow were the defending champions and came second trailing three points behind.

Team changes

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Both Baltic clubs Daugava Rīga and Žalgiris Vilnius were relegated the last season to the Class A, Vtoraya Gruppa after finishing in the last two places. There were no new teams promoted to the league due to the reorganization and number of participants was reduced from 22 to 20.

Belarus Minsk changed its name to Dinamo Minsk, Spartak Yerevan changed its name to Ararat Yerevan.

League standings

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

Results

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Home \ Away ARA AVA CSK DYK DLE DMN DYN DTB KAI KRY LOK MOL NEF PAK SHA SKA SPA TKU TOR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 0–0 0–1 1–3 1–1 3–0 0–3 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 3–1 1–2 5–1 0–0 0–3 0–3 2–0 0–1 3–4
Avangard Kharkov 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 0–0 1–2 1–1 3–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–4 1–1 2–0 1–1
CSKA Moscow 0–0 0–0 3–2 4–0 0–2 0–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 0–1 0–0 0–1
Dynamo Kyiv 5–0 2–0 0–0 3–2 1–0 0–1 5–1 4–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–1 3–1 2–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–0
Dynamo Leningrad 4–1 3–2 1–1 1–5 0–0 0–0 2–0 0–0 4–1 1–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 0–2 5–0 0–0 1–1
Dinamo Minsk 3–1 2–1 1–1 1–4 2–0 2–0 3–0 3–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 6–1 0–0 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–0
Dynamo Moscow 1–0 4–0 1–2 1–1 1–0 0–2 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 0–0 3–1 2–0 0–0 3–2 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–0
Dinamo Tbilisi 2–2 4–0 0–0 1–0 3–0 0–0 0–0 3–1 1–0 2–2 3–0 2–0 4–2 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 4–0
Kairat Alma-Ata 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 2–1 0–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–1
Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev 2–0 2–0 4–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 4–0 1–0 3–3 0–1 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–3 3–0 0–2 0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 0–2 0–2 2–3 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–4 2–0 2–2 1–5 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–3
Moldova Chisinau 2–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–0 1–3 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–2 1–0 2–3 0–3 0–0 1–1 1–0
Neftyanik Baku 2–0 1–0 0–1 3–2 2–1 0–4 0–2 1–3 2–1 1–0 3–3 4–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent 2–2 0–0 1–6 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–4 2–2 1–1 5–2 5–2 1–2 1–5 0–1 0–0 2–2 0–0 0–0 2–4
Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 1–0 0–3 3–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–1 3–2 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–0
SKA Rostov-on-Don 0–1 7–1 1–1 3–3 4–0 3–1 0–0 3–0 4–0 4–1 2–2 2–0 1–0 4–0 3–2 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–3
Spartak Moscow 1–0 2–0 3–0 3–1 3–1 2–2 0–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–3 3–0 4–2 4–4 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–2 0–0
Torpedo Kutaisi 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–4 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 2–1 0–0
Torpedo Moscow 0–1 3–1 1–1 7–1 1–1 0–0 0–3 1–4 3–0 3–2 0–0 2–2 0–2 3–2 3–1 2–1 2–2 1–1 3–2
Zenit Leningrad 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–2 3–0 2–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 0–2 3–1 2–1 2–2 0–0
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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27 goals
21 goals
17 goals
16 goals
15 goals
14 goals

References

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