Soviet Class A First Group
# Soviet Class A First Group

The Soviet Class A First Group (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу (Класс А. Первая группа), Soviet football championship (Class A First Group)) was the top and for a season second highest division of Soviet football, below the 1970 Soviet Class A Top Group. The league was formed in 1950 in place of the First Group of the Soviet football championship and initially was called as Class A of the Soviet football championship.

In 1963 the Class A was expanded into two divisions the Class A First Group and the Class A Second Group, latter becoming the second tier. In 1970 the Soviet Class A was expanded even further adding additional tier to the top and downgrading now the Soviet Class A First Group to the second tier. In 1971 it was replaced with the Soviet First League.

## Winners

### Top tier

| Season | Champion | Runner-up | 3rd position | Top goalscorer |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1950 | CSKA Moscow | Dynamo Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow, 34 goals) |
| 1951 | CSKA Moscow (2) | Dinamo Tbilisi | Shakhter Stalino | Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi, 16 goals) |
| 1952 | Spartak Moscow | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Moscow | Andrey Zazroyev (Dynamo Kyiv, 11 goals) |
| 1953 | Spartak Moscow (2) | Dinamo Tbilisi | Torpedo Moscow | Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow, 14 goals) |
| 1954 | Dynamo Moscow | Spartak Moscow | Spartak Minsk | Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow, 11 goals) Vladimir Ilyin (Dynamo Moscow, 11 goals) Antonin Sochnev (Trudovye Reservy Leningrad, 11 goals) |
| 1955 | Dynamo Moscow (2) | Spartak Moscow | CDSA Moscow | Eduard Streltsov (Torpedo Moscow, 15 goals) |
| 1956 | Spartak Moscow (3) | Dynamo Moscow | CDSA Moscow | Vasily Buzunov (ODO Sverdlovsk, 17 goals) |
| 1957 | Dynamo Moscow (3) | Torpedo Moscow | Spartak Moscow | Vasily Buzunov (CSK MO Moscow, 16 goals) |
| 1958 | Spartak Moscow (4) | Dynamo Moscow | CSK MO Moscow | Anatoli Ilyin (Spartak Moscow, 19 goals) |
| 1959 | Dynamo Moscow (4) | Lokomotiv Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi, 16 goals) |
| 1960 | Torpedo Moscow | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Moscow | Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi, 20 goals) Gennady Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow, 20 goals) |
| 1961 | Dynamo Kyiv | Torpedo Moscow | Spartak Moscow | Gennady Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow, 22 goals) |
| 1962 | Spartak Moscow (5) | Dynamo Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Mikhail Mustygin (Belarus Minsk, 17 goals) |
| 1963 | Dynamo Moscow (5) | Spartak Moscow | Dinamo Minsk | Oleg Kopayev (SKA Rostov-on-Don, 27 goals) |
| 1964 | Dinamo Tbilisi | Torpedo Moscow | CSKA Moscow | Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow, 16 goals) |
| 1965 | Torpedo Moscow (2) | Dynamo Kyiv | CSKA Moscow | Oleg Kopayev (SKA Rostov-on-Don, 18 goals) |
| 1966 | Dynamo Kyiv (2) | SKA Rostov-on-Don | Neftyanik Baku | Ilya Datunashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi, 20 goals) |
| 1967 | Dynamo Kyiv (3) | Dynamo Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Mikhail Mustygin (Dinamo Minsk, 19 goals) |
| 1968 | Dynamo Kyiv (4) | Spartak Moscow | Torpedo Moscow | Georgi Gavasheli (Dinamo Tbilisi, 22 goals) Berador Abduraimov (Pakhtakor Tashkent, 22 goals) |
| 1969 | Spartak Moscow (6) | Dynamo Kyiv | Dinamo Tbilisi | Nikolai Osyanin (Spartak Moscow, 16 goals) Vladimir Proskurin (SKA Rostov-on-Don, 16 goals) Dzhemal Kherhadze (Torpedo Kutaisi, 16 goals) |

### Second tier

| Season | Winner | Runners-up | Third |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1970 | Karpaty Lviv | Kairat Alma-Aty | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
