1988 Soviet First League

The 1988 Soviet First League was the 49th season of the second tier of association football in the Soviet Union.

Soviet First League

Season	1988
Champions	Pamir Dushanbe
Promoted	Pamir Dushanbe Rotor Volgograd
Relegated	Zorya Voroshylovhrad Zvezda Perm Kolos Nikopol
Top goalscorer	(22) Mukhsin Mukhamadiyev (Pamir Dushanbe) and Aleksandr Nikitin (Rotor Volgograd)
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Teams

Promoted teams

• SC Tavriya Simferopol – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of 3 seasons)
• FC Kuban Krasnodar – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of a season)
• FC Zvezda Perm – Winner of the Second League finals (returning after an absence of 8 seasons)

Relegated teams

• CSKA Moscow – (Returning after a season)
• FC Guria Lanchkhuti – (Returning after a season)

Locations

Kuzbass

SKA Karpaty

Rostov- on- Don
Rostselmash
SKA

Spartak

Tavriya

Pakhtakor

Zvezda

Dinamo B

CSKA

Shinnik

Rotor

Pamir

Zorya

Dynamo S

Kotayk

Daugava

Kolos

Geolog

Kuban

Metalurh

Guria

Location of teams in the 1988 Soviet First League.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Pamir Dushanbe (C, P)	42	24	10	8	78	44	+34	58	Promotion to Top League
2	Rotor Volgograd (P)	42	25	7	10	76	37	+39	57
3	CSKA Moscow	42	23	10	9	69	35	+34	56
4	Guria Lanchkhuti	42	23	7	12	71	44	+27	53
5	Pakhtakor Tashkent	42	21	10	11	64	38	+26	52
6	Dynamo Stavropol	42	18	11	13	59	46	+13	47
7	SKA Karpaty Lviv	42	18	8	16	51	39	+12	44
8	Daugava Riga	42	18	7	17	56	54	+2	43
9	SKA Rostov-on-Don	42	16	10	16	57	64	−7	42
10	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	42	16	8	18	59	67	−8	40
11	Shinnik Yaroslavl	42	16	8	18	48	48	0	40
12	Geolog Tyumen	42	17	5	20	46	58	−12	39
13	Spartak Ordjonikidze	42	15	9	18	57	60	−3	39
14	Tavriya Simferopol	42	13	14	15	34	43	−9	38
15	Kuzbass Kemerevo	42	13	14	15	38	39	−1	38
16	Dinamo Batumi	42	15	6	21	40	53	−13	36
17	Metalurh Zaporizhia	42	12	13	17	30	43	−13	36
18	Kotayk Abovyan	42	14	7	21	55	83	−28	35
19	Kuban Krasnodar	42	12	11	19	41	56	−15	35
20	Zarya Voroshylovhrad (R)	42	11	10	21	44	59	−15	32	Relegation to Second League
21	Zvezda Perm (R)	42	10	12	20	37	69	−32	32
22	Kolos Nikopol (R)	42	10	7	25	31	62	−31	27

Source: RSSSF
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mukhsin Mukhamadiyev	Pamir Dushanbe	22
	Aleksandr Nikitin	Rotor Volgograd	22
3	Viktor Khlus	Guria Lanchkhuti	21
4	Valeriy Korneyev	Dynamo Stavropol	19
	Merab Zhordania	Guria Lanchkhuti	19
6	Sergei Andreyev	Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don	18
	Jevgenijs Milevskis	Daugava Riga	18
	Hamlet Mkhitaryan	Kotayk Abovian	18
9	Oleksandr Malyshenko	Zorya Voroshylovhrad	17

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	11	Rotor Volgograd, CSKA Moscow, Dinamo Stavropol, SKA Rostov-na-Donu, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Geolog Tyumen, Spartak Vladikavkaz, Kuzbass Kemerovo, Kuban Krasnodar, Zvezda Perm
2	Ukrainian SSR	5	Metallurg Zaporozhye, Tavriya Simferopol, SKA Karpaty Lvov, Zaria Voroshilovgrad, Kolos Nikopol
3	Georgian SSR	2	Guria Lanchkhuti, Dinamo Batumi
4	Uzbek SSR	1	Pakhtakor Tashkent
	Latvian SSR		Daugava Riga
	Tajik SSR		Pamir Dushanbe
	Armenian SSR		Kotaik Abovian

Attendances

No.	Club	Average	Highest
1	Paxtakor	35,581	50,000
2	Pamir	20,000	20,000
3	Rotor	16,429	29,000
4	Guria	15,795	20,000
5	Stavropol	14,848	18,500
6	Zarya	13,129	30,600
7	Spartak Vladikavkaz	12,586	22,500
8	Rostov-on-Don	9,981	32,000
9	Batumi	9,576	14,000
10	Tyumen	9,229	15,000
11	Kuzbass	9,176	25,000
12	Zvezda Perm	8,248	20,000
13	Karpaty	7,924	37,000
14	Rostselmash	7,605	16,000
15	Kuban	7,267	18,000
16	Tavriya	6,562	10,100
17	PFC CSKA	5,500	11,500
18	Shinnik	4,967	13,000
19	Metalurh	4,952	18,000
20	Kotayk	4,619	7,000
21	Kolos Nikopol	2,324	7,000
22	Daugava	2,233	5,800

Source:

See also

• Soviet First League

External links

• 1988. First League. (1988. Первая лига. ) Luhansk Nash Futbol