1973 Soviet Top League

The Wysschaja League 1973 was the 35th season of the Wysschaja League, the highest Soviet football league. It lasted from 7 April to 2 November 1973. During this season of the Armenian club Ararat Yerevan was able to win his first and only Soviet Championship title, which is still regarded as one of the greatest successes of the club's history, especially since you also in 1973 won the Soviet football Cup.

Overview

In the 1973 season, the previous Fourth Ararat Yerevan sat unexpectedly under coach Nikita Simonyan top of the table. Yerevan had indeed already in the previous part of the upper half of the table, but had never been able to win a Soviet title in the club's history. On the very first match defeated Ararat the runner-up from the previous year, Dynamo Kiev, 3-1. After a few teething problems in the following games to Yerevan established then in the course of the season as the top team. To a direct encounter between Arrat and Kiev, there was again 21 on game day, the Dynamo now thanks to the good performance of the subsequent Star striker Oleg Blokhin 3:1 chose for themselves. Still standing at the end of the season Ararat clearly than their masters, and Kiev had to again be satisfied with the position as runner-up. Last year's champion Sarja Woroschilowgrad finished only seventh place in the table.

As were relegated at the end of the season laid the severed FK SKA Rostov far and Dinamo Minsk.

Although Ararat in 1973 also won the Soviet Cup, the starting place for the European Cup Winners' Cup 1974/75 went to Dynamo Kyiv because Yerevan had already qualified for participation in the European Cup of Champions 1974/75.

Ending table

Legend:

After the season

In the Perwaja League season 1973 Nistru Kishinev Moldova and Chernomorets Odessa got out to from the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa. Due to the championship in 1973 Ararat Yerevan was qualified for the European Cup of Champions 1974/75. There you failed in the quarterfinals at Bayern Munich. At the European Cup Winners' Cup 1974/75 took as a Soviet participants Dynamo Kiev some who ultimately decide the tournament for themselves, when they defeated in the final Ferencvaros Budapest with 0:3. The participation of Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Moscow in the UEFA Cup 1974/75 ended for the two clubs already in the 1st or 2nd round.

Cross Table

The champion team of Ararat Yerevan

  • Goal: Alyosha Abramjan; Norair Demirchian; Vartan Arslanjan
  • Defense: Sanasar Gevorkyan; Alexander Kovalenko; Nowair Mesropjan; Suren Martirosyan; Arkadi Arutjunjan; Armenak Sarkisian
  • Midfielders: Arkadi Andriasjan; Sergei Bondarenko; Oganes Sanasanjan; Sergei Pogosjan
  • Attack: Levon Ischtojan; Eduard Markarow; Nikolai Kasarjan
  • Coach Nikita Simonyan
  • Football in 1973
  • Football competition in the Soviet Union
FC SKVO Rostov-on-Don 1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup 1974–75 European Cup 1974–75 UEFA Cup FC Dinamo Tbilisi FC Chornomorets Odesa FC Shakhtar Donetsk
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