1987–88 Soviet League season
# 1987–88 Soviet League season

The 1987–88 Soviet Championship League season was the 42nd season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Fourteen teams participated in the league, and CSKA Moscow won the championship.

## First round

| R | Team | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | CSKA Moscow | 26 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 149 | 67 | 44 |
| 2 | Krylya Sovetov Moscow | 26 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 102 | 80 | 33 |
| 3 | Spartak Moscow | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 89 | 78 | 31 |
| 4 | Dynamo Moscow | 26 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 111 | 91 | 30 |
| 5 | Traktor Chelyabinsk | 26 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 77 | 67 | 27 |
| 6 | Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 88 | 96 | 26 |
| 7 | Sokol Kiev | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 107 | 96 | 25 |
| 8 | Khimik Voskresensk | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 90 | 100 | 25 |
| 9 | SKA Leningrad | 26 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 82 | 91 | 24 |
| 10 | Dinamo Riga | 26 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 88 | 92 | 24 |
| 11 | Torpedo Yaroslavl | 26 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 81 | 100 | 24 |
| 12 | Torpedo Gorky | 26 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 89 | 109 | 22 |
| 13 | Izhstal Izhevsk | 26 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 85 | 141 | 16 |
| 14 | Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk | 26 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 91 | 121 | 13 |

## Final round

| R | Team | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | CSKA Moscow | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 81 | 44 | 27 |
| 2 | Dynamo Moscow | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 67 | 45 | 26 |
| 3 | Dinamo Riga | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 66 | 46 | 25 |
| 4 | Krylya Sovetov Moscow | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 63 | 43 | 23 |
| 5 | Spartak Moscow | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 63 | 46 | 21 |
| 6 | Sokol Kiev | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 77 | 68 | 18 |
| 7 | Traktor Chelyabinsk | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 49 | 55 | 16 |
| 8 | Khimik Voskresensk | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 60 | 72 | 13 |
| 9 | SKA Leningrad | 18 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 47 | 88 | 6 |
| 10 | Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk | 18 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 42 | 106 | 3 |

## Playoffs

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| CSKA Moscow | 2 |
| Krylya Sovetov Moscow | 1 | | |
| Krylya Sovetov Moscow | 1 | CSKA Moscow | 3 |
| | | Dinamo Riga | 1 |
| Dynamo Moscow | 1 | Dinamo Riga | 1 |
| Dinamo Riga | 2 | | |
| Dinamo Riga | 2 | Third place | Third place |
| | | Dynamo Moscow | 2 |
| | | Krylya Sovetov Moscow | 0 |

## Relegation

| R | Team | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Torpedo Gorky | 36 | 23 | 3 | 10 | 157 | 99 | 49 |
| 2 | Torpedo Yaroslavl | 36 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 151 | 102 | 48 |
| 3 | Dinamo Minsk | 36 | 22 | 2 | 12 | 148 | 116 | 46 |
| 4 | Dinamo Kharkiv | 36 | 21 | 2 | 13 | 138 | 107 | 44 |
| 5 | Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk | 36 | 19 | 4 | 13 | 172 | 135 | 42 |
| 6 | Izhstal Izhevsk | 36 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 131 | 156 | 33 |
| 7 | SK Uritskogo Kazan | 36 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 102 | 103 | 31 |
| 8 | Sibir Novosibirsk | 36 | 12 | 3 | 21 | 126 | 171 | 27 |
| 9 | Torpedo Togliatti | 36 | 12 | 3 | 21 | 96 | 154 | 27 |
| 10 | Salavat Yulaev Ufa | 36 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 92 | 171 | 13 |
