1990 Soviet First League

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Soviet First League

Season	1990
Champions	FC Spartak Vladikavkaz
Promoted	FC Spartak Vladikavkaz FC Pakhtakor Tashkent FC Metalurh Zaporizhia FC Lokomotiv Moscow
Relegated	FC Kuzbass Kemerevo
Top goalscorer	(37) Igor Shkvyrin (Pakhtakor Tashkent)
← 1989 1991 →

1990 Soviet First League was part of the Soviet football competition in the second league division. After the fall of the Soviet Union some clubs left the Soviet competitions and the league was reduced.

• Dinamo Sukhumi – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of 28 seasons)
• Tiras Tiraspol – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of 28 seasons)
• Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod – Winner of the Second League finals (debut)

• Lokomotiv Moscow – (Returning after 2 seasons)
• Zenit Leningrad – (Returning after 48 seasons)

• Prior to the start of the season Textilshchik Tiraspol was renamed to Tiras Tiraspol.

Prior to the start of the season all Georgian clubs (with the exception of Dinamo Sukhumi, a majority-Russian club from Abkhazia) withdrew from Soviet competitions. This included two First League clubs, FC Torpedo Kutaisi and FC Dinamo Batumi. Because of that the league was reduced to 20 as compared to the previous season of 22 participants.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Spartak Vladikavkaz (C, P)	38	24	9	5	73	30	+43	57	Promotion to Top League
2	Pakhtakor Tashkent (P)	38	23	8	7	80	45	+35	54
3	Metalurh Zaporizhzhia (P)	38	19	14	5	58	30	+28	52
4	Lokomotiv Moscow (P)	38	19	9	10	52	34	+18	47	Qualification for Promotion play-off
5	Dynamo Stavropol	38	20	6	12	56	42	+14	46
6	Shinnik Yaroslavl	38	19	8	11	55	39	+16	46
7	Nistru Chisinau	38	14	12	12	50	44	+6	40
8	Neftchi Baku	38	14	10	14	52	51	+1	38
9	Tavriya Simferopol	38	11	16	11	40	38	+2	38
10	Fakel Voronezh	38	14	9	15	43	45	−2	37
11	Geolog Tyumen	38	14	9	15	38	45	−7	37
12	Dinamo Sukhumi	38	14	8	16	36	41	−5	36
13	Tiras Tiraspol	38	10	15	13	32	45	−13	35
14	Kotayk Abovyan	38	12	9	17	44	52	−8	33
15	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	38	11	9	18	39	56	−17	31
16	Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod	38	10	11	17	39	58	−19	31
17	Kairat Almaty	38	10	10	18	35	50	−15	30
18	Zenit Leningrad	38	8	14	16	35	41	−6	30
19	Kuban Krasnodar	38	11	6	21	34	60	−26	28
20	Kuzbass Kemerevo (R)	38	4	6	28	21	66	−45	14	Relegation to Second League

Notes:

• The city of Ordzhonikidze was renamed to Vladikavkaz.
• The city of Gorkiy was renamed to Nizhniy Novgorod.
• Kotayk Abovyan played all its home games in the neighboring Yerevan.

(13th team of the Top League and 4th team of the First League)

• Lokomotiv Moscow – Rotor Volgograd 3–1 0–1

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Lokomotiv Moscow won the promotion on 3–2 aggregate

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Igor Shkvyrin	Pakhtakor Tashkent	37
2	Bakhva Tedeyev	Spartak Vladikavkaz	23
3	Vali Gasimov	Neftchi Baku	22
4	Sergei Volgin	Metalurh Zaporizhia	19
5	Vyacheslav Protsenko	Nistru Chisinau	18
6	Vladimir Sushiy	Dynamo Stavropol	16
7	Robert Kocharyan	Kotayk Abovian	15
8	Georgiy Chaligava	Dinamo Sukhumi	12
	Viktor Leonenko	Geolog Tyumen	12

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	11	Spartak Vladikavkaz, Lokomotiv Moscow, Dinamo Stavropol, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Fakel Voronezh, Geolog Tyumen, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod, Zenit Saint Petersburg, Kuban Krasnodar, Kuzbass Kemerovo
2	Moldavian SSR	2	Tiligul Tiraspol, Nistru Kishenev
	Ukrainian SSR		Metallurg Zaporozhye, Tavriya Simferopol
5	Armenian SSR	1	Kotaik Abovian
	Uzbek SSR		Pakhtakor Tashkent
	Azerbaijan SSR		Neftchi Baku
	Georgian SSR / ( Abkhazia)		Dinamo Sukhumi
	Kazakh SSR		Kairat Alma-Ata

• 1990 Soviet Top League
• 1990 Soviet Second League
• 1990 Soviet Second League B

• 1990 Soviet First League at rsssf.com