1991 Soviet First League

Football league season

Soviet First LeagueSeason| 1991

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Champions| Rotor Volgograd
Relegated| none
Top goalscorer| (25) Serhiy Husyev (Tiligul Tiraspol)

← 1990

1992 Russia →

Soviet First League 1991 was the last season of the Soviet First League. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the football structure was reformed. All of its participants have entered the Top Divisions of the republics of their origin, except of Dinamo Sukhumi that because of the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia was dissolved.

Due to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, a process of dissolution of the Soviet Union accelerated as well as a process of decommunization in former union republics. Number of cities changed their names returning to their original names.

## Teams

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### Promoted teams

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* FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone Center (returning after an absence of 10 seasons)
* FC Bukovina Chernovtsy – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone West (debut)
* FC Neftianik Fergona – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone East (debut)
* FC Novbakhor Namangan – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone East (debut)
* FC Textilshchik Kamyshin – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone Center (debut)
* FC Daugava Riga – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone West (debut)

### Relegated teams

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* Rotor Volgograd – (Returning after 2 seasons)

### Renamed teams

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* Prior to the start of the season Tiras Tiraspol was renamed to Tiligul Tiraspol.
* Prior to the start of the season Nistru Kishenev was renamed to Zimbrul Kishinev.

### Replaced or withdrawn teams

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With fall of the Soviet Union, the promoted FC Daugava Riga was dissolved and replaced with FC Pardaugava Riga that was based on the junior squad of the Latvia national U-21 football team and took part in the 1990 Baltic League placing only 15th out 17 teams.

### Locations

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Rotor

Tiligul

Uralmash

Rostselmash

Bukovyna

Tavriya

Neftiannik

Lokomotiv

Novbahor

Dinamo Sukh

Tekstilschik

Shinnik

Fakel

Kairat

Neftchi

Dinamo Stav

Kotayk

Zenit

Zimbru

Geolog

Kuban

Pardaugava

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Location of teams in the 1991 Soviet First League.

## League standings

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Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation

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1  |  Rotor Volgograd (C) | 42  | 24  | 11  | 7  | 79  | 44  | +35  | 59  | Promoted to the 1992 Soviet Top League
2  |  Tiligul Tiraspol | 42  | 22  | 10  | 10  | 64  | 45  | +19  | 54
3  |  Uralmash Yekaterinburg/Sverdlovsk | 42  | 21  | 9  | 12  | 68  | 40  | +28  | 51
4  |  Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don | 42  | 20  | 10  | 12  | 47  | 39  | +8  | 50
5  |  Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 42  | 20  | 8  | 14  | 56  | 49  | +7  | 48  | Withdrew
6  |  Tavriya Simferopol | 42  | 19  | 10  | 13  | 64  | 56  | +8  | 48
7  |  Neftiannik Fergona | 42  | 21  | 5  | 16  | 54  | 56  | −2  | 47  | Promoted to the 1992 Soviet Top League
8  |  Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod | 42  | 17  | 13  | 12  | 46  | 35  | +11  | 47
9  |  Novbahor | 42  | 19  | 7  | 16  | 60  | 53  | +7  | 45
10  |  Dinamo Sukhumi | 42  | 16  | 11  | 15  | 50  | 50  | 0  | 43
11  |  Textilschik Kamyshin | 42  | 15  | 13  | 14  | 56  | 52  | +4  | 43  |
12  |  Shinnik Yaroslavl | 42  | 17  | 7  | 18  | 57  | 59  | −2  | 41
13  |  Fakel Voronezh | 42  | 17  | 7  | 18  | 45  | 50  | −5  | 41
14  |  Kairat Almaty | 42  | 17  | 6  | 19  | 58  | 52  | +6  | 40  | Promoted to the 1992 Soviet Top League
15  |  Neftchi Baku | 42  | 17  | 5  | 20  | 60  | 58  | +2  | 39
16  |  Dinamo Stavropol | 42  | 14  | 11  | 17  | 50  | 54  | −4  | 39  |
17  |  Kotayk Abovyan | 42  | 15  | 7  | 20  | 30  | 48  | −18  | 37  | Withdrew
18  |  Zenit St. Petersburg/Leningrad | 42  | 11  | 14  | 17  | 44  | 50  | −6  | 36  | Promoted to the 1992 Soviet Top League
19  |  Zimbru Chisinau | 42  | 11  | 13  | 18  | 36  | 49  | −13  | 35  |
20  |  Geolog Tyumen | 42  | 11  | 13  | 18  | 32  | 47  | −15  | 35
21  |  Kuban Krasnodar | 42  | 8  | 10  | 24  | 40  | 68  | −28  | 26
22  |  Pardaugava Riga | 42  | 7  | 6  | 29  | 31  | 73  | −42  | 20  | Withdrew

Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions

Notes:

* On 6 September 1991, the city of Leningrad was renamed into Saint Petersburg
* On 4 September 1991, the city of Sverdlovsk was renamed into Yekaterinburg

## Number of teams by union republic

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Rank  | Union republic | Number of teams  | Club(s)

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1  |  RSFSR | 11  | Dinamo Stavropol, Fakel Voronezh, Geolog Tyumen, Kuban Krasnodar, Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Rotor Volgograd, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Tekstilschik Kamyshin, Uralmash Yekaterinburg, Zenit Saint Petersburg
2  |  Moldavian SSR | 2  | Tiligul Tiraspol, Zimbru Kishenev
Ukrainian SSR | Bukovina Chernovtsy, Tavriya Simferopol
Uzbek SSR | Navbahor Namangan, Neftiannik Fergana
5  |  Armenian SSR | 1  | Kotaik Abovian
Azerbaijan SSR | Neftchi Baku
Georgian SSR / ( Abkhazia)  | Dinamo Sukhumi
Kazakh SSR | Kairat Alma-Ata
Latvian SSR | Pardaugava Riga

## Top scorers

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# | Player | Club | Goals | Games

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1 | Serhiy Husyev | «Tiligul Tiraspol» | 25 | 36
2 | Serhiy Shevchenko | «Tavriya Simferopol» | 21 | 40
3 | Valeri Shushlyakov | «Uralmash Yekaterinburg» | 20 | 38
4 | Vladislav Lemish | «Kuban Krasnodar» | 20 | 42
5 | Rustam Zabirov | «Navbahor Namangan» | 19 | 35
6 | Yuri Kalitvintsev | «Rotor Volgograd» | 18 | 37
7 | Aleksandr Tikhonov | «Rostselmash Rostov» | 17 | 40
8 | Yunis Hüseynov | «Neftchi Baku» | 16 | 34
9 | Vəli Qasımov | «Neftchi Baku» | 16 | 38
10 | Rustem Shaymukhametov | «Textilshchik Kamyshin» | 15 | 38
11 | Yuriy Hudymenko | «Rotor Volgograd» | 15 | 39

## Managers

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Club | Head coach

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FC Rotor Volgograd | Leonid Koltun
SC Tiligul Tiraspol | Vladimir Veber
FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk

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FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg | Korney Shperling (until July)

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Nikolai Agafonov (from July)
FC Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu | Enver Yulgushov
FC Bukovina Chernovtsy | Yukhym Shkolnykov
SC Tavriya Simferopol | Anatoliy Zayaev
FC Neftiannik Fergona | Yuriy Sarkisyan
FC Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod | Valeri Ovchinnikov
FC Navbakhor Namangan | Igor Volchok
FC Dinamo Sukhumi | Oleg Dolmatov
FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin | Sergei Pavlov
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl | Stanislav Vorotilin
FC Fakel Voronezh | Sergei Savchenkov (until June)

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Fyodor Novikov (from July)
FC Kairat Alma-Ata | Boris Stukalov
FC Neftchi Baku | Ruslan Abdullaev (until April)

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Kazbek Tuaev (from May)
FC Dinamo Stavropol | Viktor Nosov (until July)

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Vladimir Kitin (from July, interim)
FC Kotayk Abovyan | Arkady Andreasyan
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg | Yury Morozov
FC Zimbru Kishinev | Ion Caras
FC Geolog Tyumen | Rudolf Atamalyan

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Serhiy Morozov (from July)
FC Kuban Krasnodar | Vladimir Brazhnikov (until July)

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Yuri Marushkin (from July)
FK Pārdaugava Riga | Jānis Skredelis

## See also

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* 1991 Soviet Top League
* 1991 Soviet Second League
* 1991 Soviet Second League B

## External links

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* 1990 First League at the RSSSF

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*[Pos]: Position
*[Pld]: Played
*[W]: Won
*[D]: Drawn
*[L]: Lost
*[GF]: Goals for
*[GA]: Goals against
*[GD]: Goal difference
*[Pts]: Points
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