1970 Soviet Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

See also: 1970 Soviet Second League

Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR

Season	1970
Champions	Metalurh Zaporizhia
Promoted	Metalurh Zaporizhia
Relegated	Desna Chernihiv (dissolved), Spartak Brest, Neman Grodno, Gomselmash Gomel, Baltika Kaliningrad (all four were moved to other Zone)
Top goalscorer	20 – Valentyn Prylepskyi (Tavriya)
← 1969 1971 →

The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 40th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Second Group of Soviet Class A in Zone 1. It was the eighth and last season in the Second Group of Soviet Class A.

The season started on 11 April 1970.

The 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Metalurh Zaporizhia.

Reorganization

In 1970–1971 the Soviet football league structure went through reformation. The Soviet Class A introduced an extra tier expanding from two to three in total. To the previous First and Second groups, there was introduced Higher (or Top) group. With this, many clubs that previously competed at the second tier (Second Group) were relegated to lower third tier (Second Group). Because of that, many clubs also moved two tiers either up the league's ladder.

Teams

Location map

Avtomobilist

Spartak

Metalurh

Bukovyna

Lokomotyv Kh.

Avanhard

Tavriya

Azovets

Zirka

Budivelnyk

Sudnobudivnyk

Spartak

Kryvbas

Avanhard

Shakhtar H.

Desna

SKA Odessa

Shakhtar K.

SKA Lviv

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Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

Neman

Gomselmash

Spartak

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Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

Baltika

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Locations of teams in Second Group (Class A), Zone 1

Relegated teams

18 clubs were relegated from the 1969 Second Group (Class A).

• FC Metalurh Zaporizhia
• SC Tavriya Simferopol
• FC Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
• FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
• FC Azovets Zhdanov
• FC Zirka Kirovohrad
• FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi
• FC Lokomotyv Kherson
• FC Desna Chernihiv
• FC Shakhtar Horlivka
• FC Budivelnyk Poltava
• SKA Lviv
• FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
• FC Spartak Brest
• FC Avanhard Ternopil
• FC Neman Grodno
• FC Baltika Kaliningrad
• SKA Odessa

Promoted teams

All four teams technically were never promoted as they stayed at the third tier. Three clubs were moved from the 1969 Ukrainian Class B, one more from the 1969 Russian Class B, Zone 1.

• FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
• FC Shakhtar Kadiivka
• FC Spartak Sumy
• FC Gomselmash Gomel

Relocated and renamed teams

• none

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Metalurh Zaporizhia (C, P)	42	26	10	6	73	33	40	62	Promoted
2	Tavriya Simferopol	42	21	15	6	70	36	34	57
3	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	42	20	15	7	61	27	34	55
4	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	42	18	14	10	58	53	5	50
5	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv	42	17	14	11	47	36	11	48
6	Azovets Zhdanov	42	15	18	9	44	34	10	48
7	Zirka Kirovohrad	42	19	9	14	48	41	7	47
8	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	42	17	12	13	45	39	6	46
9	Shakhtar Kadiivka	42	16	13	13	49	37	12	45
10	Lokomotyv Kherson	42	16	12	14	60	50	10	44
11	Desna Chernihiv	42	17	10	15	43	45	−2	44	Dissolved
12	Shakhtar Horlivka	42	14	13	15	42	47	−5	41
13	Budivelnyk Poltava	42	13	13	16	33	34	−1	39
14	SKA Lviv	42	12	15	15	30	41	−11	39
15	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	42	12	14	16	52	48	4	38
16	Spartak Brest	42	12	13	17	32	48	−16	37
17	Avanhard Ternopil	42	12	12	18	38	47	−9	36
18	Neman Grodno	42	11	13	18	27	48	−21	35
19	Baltika Kaliningrad	42	10	11	21	24	51	−27	31
20	SKA Odessa	42	12	6	24	34	56	−22	30
21	Spartak Sumy	42	7	14	21	31	57	−26	28
22	Gomselmash Gomel	42	7	10	25	22	55	−33	24

Source:
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Top goalscorers

The following were the top goalscorers.

#	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Valentyn Prylepskyi	20	Tavriya Simferopol
2	Viktor Kutin	19	Metalurh Zaporizhia
	Anatoliy Lebid	19	Lokomotyv Kherson
4	Yuriy Nesmiyan	17	Polissya Zhytomyr
5	Volodymyr Bystrov	15	Tavriya Simferopol
	Roman Shpondarunok	15	Avanhard Ternopil
7	Vyacheslav Portnov	13	Metalurh Zaporizhia
	Viktor Kozyn	13	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
	Stepan Chopei	13	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
	Roman Khyzhak	13	SKA Lviv
	Volodymyr Tovchykh	13	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih

See also

• Soviet Second League

External links

• 1970 season regulations. Luhansk football portal
• 1970 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 (Ukrainian SSR football championship). Luhansk football portal
• 1971 Soviet championships (all leagues) at helmsoccer.narod.ru
• Class "A" – Druha Hrupa (Zone 1) – 1970 (Клас "А" - Друга група (1 зона) - 1970). ukr-football.org