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The 1936 season was the first season of the Soviet Top League. The season was split into two championships with a cup competition between them that took place in August 1936. The first part (considered spring) started in late May and finished by mid of July with a single match played by each participant against each other. The same format was resumed in the fall that started in September finishing before November. The main contenders for the title appeared to be the Moscow's Spartak and Dynamo.
Spring Overview The first championship started on May 22, 1936 with the game FC Dynamo Leningrad - FC Lokomotiv Moscow 3:1 on the Dynamo Stadium in Leningrad.[1] The spring half finished on July 17, 1936 with two games in Moscow and Leningrad. During the season each team played another team once. The points were awarded in the following manner: three for a win, two for a draw, one for a loss, and none for no appearance. No teams were relegated to the B Group, instead it was extended to eight teams in the autumn championship. League Standings Note: Classification is done by points and then goal difference. Please, also note that FC Krasnaya Zaria won a match against their city-mates FC Dynamo 1:0 at Dynamo Stadium (Leningrad) on June 5, 1936. The decisive game that guaranteed the title for Dynamo Moscow took place on July 11, 1936 when they beat Spartak 1:0 at Dynamo Stadium (Moscow). The host team for that game was considered to be Spartak.[2] Round by Round The following table is a historic representation of the team's position in the standings after the completion of each round. Top scorers - 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) | 1. FC Dynamo Moscow | Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Kvasnikov (5 / -2), Yevgeniy Fokin (2 / -3).
Defenders: Lev Korchebokov (5), Viktor Teterin (5).
Midfielders: Yevgeniy Yeliseyev (6), Aleksandr Riomin (6), Aleksey Lapshyn (5), Pavel Korotkov (4), Viktor Dubinin (1).
Forwards: Mikhail Semichastny (6 / 6), Vasiliy Smirnov (6 / 5), Vasiliy Pavlov (6 / 5), Sergey Ilyin (6 / 4), Mikhail Yakushyn (5 / 1), Aleksey Ponomariov (1), Nikolai Postavnin. One own goal scored by Ivan Andreyev (FC Lokomotiv Moscow) Manager: Konstantin Kvashnin. Transferred in during the season: Nikalay Postavnin (from FC Krylya Sovetov Moscow). | | 2. FC Dynamo Kyiv | Goalkeepers: Mykola Trusevych (5 / -6), Anton Idzkovsky (2 / -5).
Defenders: Mykhailo Volin (6), Vasyl Pravovierov (4), Kostiantyn Fomin (3).
Midfielders: Volodymyr Greber (6 / 2), Ivan Kuzmenko (6 / 2), Iosif Livshyts (2), Oleksiy Klymenko (1), Mykhailo Pustinin (1).
Forwards: Kostiantyn Shchehodsky (6 / 4), Mykola Makhinia (6 / 3), Fedir Tiutchev (6), Viktor Shylovsky (6), Makar Honcharenko (5 / 4), Pavlo Komarov (5 / 3), Petro Parovyshnikov (3), Mykola Korotkykh (1). Manager: Moisey Tovarovsky. Transferred out during the season: . | | 3. FC Spartak Moscow | Goalkeepers: Anatoliy Akimov (4 / -5), Ivan Ryzhov (3 / -2).
Defenders: Stanislav Leuta (6 / 2), Aleksandr Mikhaylov (6), Gavriil Putilin (6), Aleksandr Starostin (4), Viktor Sokolov (2).
Midfielders: Andrey Starostin (6), Sergey Artemyev (3), Pyotr Starostin (2).
Forwards: Vladimir Stepanov (6 / 1), Georgiy Glazkov (5 / 4), Pyotr Nikiforov (5 / 3), Matvey Zaytsev (4 / 2), Nikolai Zhygalin (2), Leonid Rumiantsev (2), Vladimir Yegorov (1), Boris Stepanov (1), Nikolai Glazkov (1), Nikolai Starostin (1). Manager: Mikhail Kozlov. Transferred out during the season: . |
Stadiums Note: Balitsky was Narkom of NKVD, later was executed during the Great Purge. Autumn Overview This tournament was exact replica of the spring championship by the format of the competition, including the nomination of points. The Georgian FC Dynamo Tbilisi was admitted to the League expending it to eight teams. The defending champion was FC Dynamo Moscow. It opened with two games in Leningrad and Moscow on September 5, 1936 soon after the Soviet Cup final that took place just week prior to that on August 28. The season concluded on October 30, 1936 with three games in Moscow, Leningrad, and Tbilisi. It was then when Spartak Moscow by beating CDKA at their home turf (CSKA Stadium)[3] passed Dinamo Moscow in rankings to obtain the first place and with it the first national title. League Standings - Lokomoyiv Moscow beat Dinamo Tbilisi in the Cup final 2:0. The first Soviet Cup edition took place exactly between the spring and the fall parts of 1936 seasons.
Round by Round The following table is a historic representation of the team's position in the standings after the completion of each round. Top scorers - 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
Medal squads (league appearances and goals listed in brackets) | 1. FC Spartak Moscow | Goalkeepers: Anatoliy Akimov (6 / -6), Ivan Ryzhov (2 / -4).
Defenders: Stanislav Leuta (7), Aleksandr Mikhaylov (7), Aleksandr Starostin (7), Viktor Sokolov.
Midfielders: Andrey Starostin (7 / 2), Pyotr Starostin (7), Sergey Artemyev (1).
Forwards: Georgiy Glazkov (7 / 7), Vladimir Stepanov (7 / 6), Boris Shchibrov (7 / 2), Valentin Liventsev (4 / 1), Stepan Kustylkin (4), Leonid Rumiantsev (4), Pyotr Nikiforov (3 / 1), Aleksey Yeriomin (1), Nikolai Zhygalin, Boris Stepanov. Manager: Mikhail Kozlov. Transferred out during the season: . | | 2. FC Dynamo Moscow | Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Kvasnikov (6 / -11), Nikolai Sokolov (1 / -1), Yevgeniy Fokin.
Defenders: Lev Korchebokov (7), Viktor Teterin (2).
Midfielders: Yevgeniy Yeliseyev (7 / 2), Aleksey Lapshyn (7), Aleksandr Riomin (7), Pavel Korotkov (5), Gavriil Kachalin (2), Arkadiy Chernyshev (1).
Forwards: Sergey Ilyin (7 / 6), Vasiliy Smirnov (7 / 5), Mikhail Yakushyn (7 / 4), Mikhail Semichastny (7 / 1), Vasiliy Pavlov (4 / 2), Aleksey Ponomariov (3 / 1), Nikolai Postavnin. Manager: Konstantin Kvashnin. Transferred out during the season: . | | 3. FC Dynamo Tbilisi | Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Dorokhov (7 / -9).
Defenders: Shota Shavgulidze (7), Eduard Nikolayshvili (6).
Midfielders: Vladimir Dzhorbenadze (7), Nikolay Anikin (6), Mikhail Minayev (6), Grigoriy Gagua (3), Vladimir Berdzenishvili (1).
Forwards: Mikhail Berdzenishvili (7 / 6), Boris Paichadze (7 / 6), Nikolay Somov (7 / 1), Ilya Panin (6), Vladimir Berdzenishvili (5 / 1), Mikhail Aslamazov (2), Aleksandr Eliava (1). Manager: Gyula Limbek (until October), Grigoriy Pachuliya (since October). Transferred out during the season: . | Stadiums References - ↑ Report of the first Soviet League game
- ↑ 1936 spring Calendar
- ↑ Report on CDKA-Spartak Oct. 30, 1936
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