1953 Soviet Top League

11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spartak Moscow (C)	20	11	7	2	47	15	+32	29	League champions
2	Dynamo Tbilisi	20	11	5	4	39	24	+15	27
3	Torpedo Moscow	20	11	3	6	34	34	0	25
4	Dynamo Moscow	20	8	7	5	34	19	+15	23
5	Zenit Leningrad	20	11	1	8	25	21	+4	23
6	Lokomotiv Moscow	20	6	6	8	21	28	−7	18
7	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	20	6	5	9	22	25	−3	17
8	Dynamo Kiev	20	6	5	9	22	26	−4	17
9	Lokomotiv Kharkov	20	6	4	10	19	34	−15	16
10	Dynamo Leningrad (R)	20	5	4	11	20	33	−13	14	Relegation to Class B
11	Spartak Vilnius (R)	20	2	7	11	10	33	−23	11

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	DYK	DLE	DYN	DTB	KRY	LKH	LOK	SPA	SVL	TOR	ZEN
Dynamo Kiev		3–3	1–0	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	3–1	1–0
Dynamo Leningrad	1–1		1–3	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	1–2	0–1
Dynamo Moscow	2–0	2–0		2–2	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–2	0–0	0–1	2–0
Dynamo Tbilisi	3–0	5–0	3–2		2–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	4–0	3–1
Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–2		5–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	0–2	1–2
Lokomotiv Kharkov	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	5–2		1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow	1–2	2–1	0–3	4–2	1–1	4–1		3–3	2–0	1–0	0–4
Spartak Moscow	3–1	2–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	3–0	1–1		7–0	7–1	3–0
Spartak Vilnius	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–4		3–1	1–0
Torpedo Moscow	3–2	2–1	3–8	4–1	5–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0		2–1
Zenit Leningrad	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	5–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

14 goals

• Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow)
• Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

9 goals

• Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow)

8 goals

• Georgi Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kharkov)
• Pyotr Katrovsky (Zenit Leningrad)
• Boris Tatushin (Spartak Moscow)

7 goals

• Aleksandr Gulevsky (Zenit Kuybyshev)
• Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Mykhaylo Koman (Dynamo Kiev)
• Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)