1989 Soviet Top League
The Wysschaja League 1989 was the 52nd and so third last season of Wysschaja League, the highest Soviet football league. It was also the last season in which even competed teams from Georgia and Lithuania, as both countries in 1990 called declared independent and own leagues to life. Champion Spartak Moscow with his then-new coach Oleg Romanzew, and thus drove the twelfth title in the club's history. As runner-up was Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk, title winners of the previous year, fixed. The National Cup winner this year was Dynamo Kiev.
Begin the descent had to Zenit Leningrad and Lokomotiv Moscow. While Leningrad was knocked off in last place, the gear decided in the second division for locomotive until the final day, when they lost head to head against the akkut also relegation-threatened Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0.
The first game of the season took place on 11 March, the season ended with the last game on October 27.
Ending table
Legend:
Cross Table
After the season
As the Lithuanian and Georgian Soviet Republic insisted more and more on state independence, kicked football clubs from these republics from the 1990 season, no longer the Soviet football championships. In the Wysschaja League this concerned Zalgiris Vilnius, Dinamo Tbilisi and Gurija Lantschchuti ( promoted from the league Perwaja 1989), which all had athletic qualified for the Wysschaja League 1990. Now playing instead in their own national leagues, in the Lithuanian A Lyga or in the Georgian Umaghlessi league. In the 1990 season, therefore, played only 13 teams in the league Wysschaja, but it should then be given three direct climbers from the Perwaja league.
After the season
International Competitions
Relegated to the Perwaja League
Up in the Wysschaja League
- CSKA Moscow
- Gurija Lantschchuti (but no longer occurred in the Soviet league in )
- Football in 1989
- Football competition in the Soviet Union