1961 Soviet Top League

22 teams took part in the league with FC Dynamo Kyiv winning the championship (the first Soviet champion from outside Moscow).

Round 1

Group A

Table

Results

Group B

Table

Results

Round 2

Places 1–10

Table

Results

Places 11–22

Table

Results

Top scorers

22 goals

• Gennadi Gusarov (Torpedo Moscow)

20 goals

• Gennadi Krasnitsky (Pakhtakor Tashkent)
• Viktor Voroshilov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

18 goals

• Viktor Kanevskyi (Dynamo Kyiv)
• Aleksei Mamykin (CSKA Moscow)

15 goals

• Igor Chislenko (Dynamo Moscow)
• Sergey Kvochkin (Kairat Alma-Ata)

14 goals

• Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Galimzyan Khusainov (Spartak Moscow)
• Yuri Zakharov (Shakhtyor Stalino)

Promotion/relegation Tournament

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)