List of Soviet and Russian football champions

Football had been played in Russia since the Russian Empire days in the early 1900s, but it was not until 1936, 19 years after the Russian Revolution, that the Soviet Union established a national championship of clubs. Before then local leagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg/Leningrad were the only prominent league competitions in the country, with some national championships held intermittently from 1912 to 1933, made up of city selections.

FIFA considers the Russian Premier League to be the successor of the former Soviet Top League. Spartak Moscow holds the record for most league titles won, 21 titles. The Soviet League was for most of its existence amateur, at least in theory (see shamateurism), but the Russian League has been professional since its inception.

Teams in bold indicates doubles won with the Soviet Cup before 1992 and with the Russian Cup thereafter. Teams in italics include Cup winners between the 2nd and 3rd league places.

Soviet League (1936–1991)

Main article: Soviet Top League

Soviet Group A

Season	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Position	Top Scorer	Goals
1936 (spring)	Dynamo Moscow	Dynamo Kiev	Spartak Moscow	Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow)	6
1936 (autumn)	Spartak Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Georgy Glazkov (Spartak Moscow)	7
1937	Dynamo Moscow (2)	Spartak Moscow	Dynamo Kiev	Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi) Leonid Rumyantsev (Spartak Moscow) Vasily Smirnov (Dynamo Moscow)	8
1938	Spartak Moscow (2)	CDKA Moscow	Metallurg Moscow	Makar Goncharenko (Dinamo Kiev)	19
1939	Spartak Moscow (3)	Dinamo Tbilisi	CDKA Moscow	Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)	21
1940	Dynamo Moscow (3)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Spartak Moscow	Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow) Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)	21
1941	Cancelled on 24 June due to World War II (Dynamo Moscow had the best record at that time)
1942-44	Cancelled due to World War II

Soviet First Group

Season	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Position	Top Scorer	Goals
1945	Dynamo Moscow (4)	CDKA Moscow	Torpedo Moscow	Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow)	24
1946	CDKA Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Aleksandr Ponomaryov (Torpedo Moscow)	18
1947	CDKA Moscow (2)	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Vsevolod Bobrov (CDKA Moscow) Valentin Nikolayev (CDKA Moscow) Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)	14
1948	CDKA Moscow (3)	Dynamo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)	25
1949	Dynamo Moscow (5)	CDKA Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)	26

Soviet Class A

Season	Champion	Runner-up	3rd position	Top scorer	Goals
1950	CDKA Moscow (4)	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)	34
1951	CDSA Moscow (5)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Shakhter Stalino	Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)	16
1952	Spartak Moscow (4)	Dynamo Kiev	Dynamo Moscow	Andrey Zazroyev (Dynamo Kyiv)	11
1953	Spartak Moscow (5)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Torpedo Moscow	Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)	14
1954	Dynamo Moscow (6)	Spartak Moscow	Spartak Minsk	Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow) Vladimir Ilyin (Dynamo Moscow) Antonin Sochnev (Trudovye Reservy Leningrad)	11
1955	Dynamo Moscow (7)	Spartak Moscow	CDSA Moscow	Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moscow)	15
1956	Spartak Moscow (6)	Dynamo Moscow	CDSA Moscow	Vasily Buzunov (ODO Sverdlovsk)	17
1957	Dynamo Moscow (8)	Torpedo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Vasily Buzunov (CSK MO Moscow)	16
1958	Spartak Moscow (7)	Dynamo Moscow	CSK MO Moscow	Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow)	19
1959	Dynamo Moscow (9)	Lokomotiv Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)	16
1960	Torpedo Moscow	Dynamo Kiev	Dynamo Moscow	Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi) Gennady Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow)	20
1961	Dynamo Kiev	Torpedo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Gennady Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow)	22
1962	Spartak Moscow (8)	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Mikhail Mustygin (Belarus Minsk)	17

Soviet Class A, 1st Group

Season	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Position	Top Scorer	Goals
1963	Dynamo Moscow (10)	Spartak Moscow	Dinamo Minsk	Oleg Kopaev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)	27
1964	Dinamo Tbilisi	Torpedo Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow)	16
1965	Torpedo Moscow (2)	Dynamo Kiev	CSKA Moscow	Oleg Kopaev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)	18
1966	Dynamo Kiev (2)	SKA Rostov-on-Don	Neftchi Baku	Ilya Datunashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi)	20
1967	Dynamo Kiev (3)	Dynamo Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Mikhail Mustygin (Dinamo Minsk)	19
1968	Dynamo Kiev (4)	Torpedo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Georgi Gavasheli (Dinamo Tbilisi) Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor Tashkent)	22
1969	Spartak Moscow (9)	Dynamo Kiev	Dinamo Tbilisi	Nikolai Osyanin (Spartak Moscow) Vladimir Proskurin (SKA Rostov-on-Don) Dzhemal Kherhadze (Torpedo Kutaisi)	16

Soviet Supreme League (Soviet Top League)

Season	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd Position	Top Scorer	Goals
1970	CSKA Moscow (6)	Dynamo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)	17
1971	Dynamo Kiev (5)	Ararat Yerevan	Dinamo Tbilisi	Eduard Malofeev (Dinamo Minsk)	16
1972	Zorya Voroshilovgrad	Dynamo Kiev	Dinamo Tbilisi	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)	14
1973	Ararat Yerevan	Dynamo Kiev	Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)	18
1974	Dynamo Kiev (6)	Spartak Moscow	Chornomorets Odessa	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)	20
1975	Dynamo Kiev (7)	Shakhtar Donetsk	Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)	18
1976 (spring)	Dynamo Moscow (11)	Ararat Yerevan	Dinamo Tbilisi	Arkady Andreasian (Ararat Yerevan)	8
1976 (autumn)	Torpedo Moscow (3)	Dynamo Kiev	Dinamo Tbilisi	Aleksandr Markin (Zenit Leningrad)	13
1977	Dynamo Kiev (8)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Torpedo Moscow	Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)	17
1978	Dinamo Tbilisi (2)	Dynamo Kiev	Shakhtar Donetsk	Georgi Yartsev (Spartak Moscow)	19
1979	Spartak Moscow (10)	Shakhtar Donetsk	Dynamo Kiev	Vitali Starukhin (Shakhtar Donetsk)	26
1980	Dynamo Kiev (9)	Spartak Moscow	Zenit Leningrad	Sergey Andreev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)	20
1981	Dynamo Kiev (10)	Spartak Moscow	Dinamo Tbilisi	Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)	23
1982	Dinamo Minsk	Dynamo Kiev	Spartak Moscow	Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor Tashkent)	23
1983	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Spartak Moscow	Dinamo Minsk	Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow)	18
1984	Zenit Leningrad	Spartak Moscow	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Sergey Andreev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)	20
1985	Dynamo Kiev (11)	Spartak Moscow	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Oleg Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)	35
1986	Dynamo Kiev (12)	Dynamo Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)	21
1987	Spartak Moscow (11)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Žalgiris Vilnius	Oleg Protasov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)	18
1988	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2)	Dynamo Kiev	Torpedo Moscow	Yevhen Shakhov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) Aleksandr Borodyuk (Dynamo Moscow)	16
1989	Spartak Moscow (12)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Dynamo Kiev	Sergey Rodionov (Spartak Moscow)	16
1990	Dynamo Kiev (13)	CSKA Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Protasov (Dynamo Kiev) Valery Shmarov (Spartak Moscow)	12
1991	CSKA Moscow (7)	Spartak Moscow	Torpedo Moscow	Igor Kolyvanov (Dynamo Moscow)	18

Russian League (1992–present)

Main article: Russian Football Premier League

Russian Top League

Season	Champion	Runner-up	3rd position	Top Scorer	Goals
1992	Spartak Moscow (13)	Alania Vladikavkaz	Dynamo Moscow	Vali Gasimov (Dinamo Moscow, 1-8 place) Yuri Matveyev (Uralmash, 9-20 place)	16 20
1993	Spartak Moscow (14)	Rotor Volgograd	Dynamo Moscow	Victor Panchenko (KamAZ Naberezhnye Chelny)	21
1994	Spartak Moscow (15)	Dynamo Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Igor Simutenkov (Dinamo Moscow)	21
1995	Alania Vladikavkaz	Lokomotiv Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)	25
1996	Spartak Moscow (16)	Alania Vladikavkaz	Rotor Volgograd	Aleksandr Maslov (Rostselmash)	23
1997	Spartak Moscow (17)	Rotor Volgograd	Dynamo Moscow	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)	22

Russian Top Division

Season	Champion	Runner-up	3rd position	Top scorer	Goals
1998	Spartak Moscow (18)	CSKA Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Oleg Veretennikov (Rotor Volgograd)	22
1999	Spartak Moscow (19)	Lokomotiv Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Georgi Demetradze (Alania Vladikavkaz)	21
2000	Spartak Moscow (20)	Lokomotiv Moscow	Torpedo Moscow	Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)	18
2001	Spartak Moscow (21)	Lokomotiv Moscow	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Dmitri Vyazmikin (Torpedo Moscow)	18

Russian Premier League

Season	Champion	Runner-up	3rd position	Top Scorer	Goals
2002	Lokomotiv Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Spartak Moscow	Rolan Gusev (CSKA Moscow) Dmitri Kirichenko (CSKA Moscow)	15
2003	CSKA Moscow (8)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Rubin Kazan	Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)	14
2004	Lokomotiv Moscow (2)	CSKA Moscow	Krylya Sovetov Samara	Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St. Petersburg)	18
2005	CSKA Moscow (9)	Spartak Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Dmitri Kirichenko (FC Moscow)	14
2006	CSKA Moscow (10)	Spartak Moscow	Lokomotiv Moscow	Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow)	18
2007	Zenit Saint Petersburg (2)	Spartak Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow) Roman Adamov (FC Moscow)	14
2008	Rubin Kazan	CSKA Moscow	Dynamo Moscow	Vágner Love (CSKA Moscow)	20
2009	Rubin Kazan (2)	Spartak Moscow	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Welliton (Spartak Moscow)	21
2010	Zenit Saint Petersburg (3)	CSKA Moscow	Rubin Kazan	Welliton (Spartak Moscow)	19
2011–12	Zenit Saint Petersburg (4)	Spartak Moscow	CSKA Moscow	Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow)	28
2012–13	CSKA Moscow (11)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Anzhi Makhachkala	Yura Movsisyan (Spartak Moscow) Wánderson (FC Krasnodar)	13
2013–14	CSKA Moscow (12)	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Lokomotiv Moscow	Seydou Doumbia (CSKA Moscow)	18
2014–15	Zenit Saint Petersburg (5)	CSKA Moscow	Krasnodar	Hulk (Zenit Saint Petersburg)	15
2015–16	CSKA Moscow (13)	Rostov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Fyodor Smolov (Krasnodar)	20

Total wins

14 clubs have won the league title, but only eight still compete in the Russian football league system and are eligible for the title. Lokomotiv, Rubin and Alania have never been Soviet Top League champions. Non-Russian clubs now compete in their own leagues. Years in italics indicate Soviet seasons.

Club	Winners	Winning seasons
Spartak Moscow	21	1936 (a), 1938, 1939, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1969, 1979, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
FC Dynamo Kyiv	13	1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990
CSKA Moscow	13	1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16
Dynamo Moscow	11	1936 (s), 1937, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1976 (s)
Zenit St. Petersburg	5	1984, 2007, 2010, 2011–12, 2014–15
Torpedo Moscow	3	1960, 1965, 1976 (a)
Dinamo Tbilisi	2	1964, 1978
Lokomotiv Moscow	2	2002, 2004
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2	1983, 1988
Rubin Kazan	2	2008, 2009
Ararat Yerevan	1	1973
Alania Vladikavkaz	1	1995
FC Zorya Luhansk	1	1972
Dinamo Minsk	1	1982

References

• Soviet champions at RSSSF
• Russian champions at RSSSF