1959 Soviet Football Championship, Class A

12 teams took part in the league with FC Dynamo Moscow winning the championship.

Soviet Top League

Season	1959
← 1958 1960 →

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dynamo Moscow (C)	22	13	5	4	42	21	+21	31
2	Lokomotiv Moscow	22	12	5	5	42	25	+17	29
3	Dynamo Tbilisi	22	12	3	7	48	33	+15	27
4	SKA Rostov-on-Don	22	11	4	7	37	31	+6	26
5	Torpedo Moscow	22	11	3	8	27	23	+4	25
6	Spartak Moscow	22	8	8	6	32	28	+4	24
7	Dynamo Kiev	22	6	8	8	26	33	−7	20
8	Zenit Leningrad	22	8	4	10	29	38	−9	20
9	CSK MO Moscow	22	8	3	11	29	27	+2	19
10	Moldova Kishinyov	22	6	5	11	22	45	−23	17
11	Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	22	6	1	15	26	37	−11	13
12	Shakhtyor Stalino	22	4	5	13	24	43	−19	13

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	CSK	DYK	DYN	DTB	KRY	LOK	MOL	SHA	SKA	SPA	TOR	ZEN
CSK MO Moscow		3–0	2–3	0–2	1–2	1–0	7–0	2–0	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–0
Dynamo Kiev	2–0		0–0	2–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–3	1–2
Dynamo Moscow	3–0	0–0		1–2	3–1	7–1	2–1	3–3	3–1	1–3	2–1	4–1
Dynamo Tbilisi	4–1	4–2	1–3		3–2	2–0	5–1	4–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	5–1
Krylia Sovetov Kuybyshev	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–2		0–1	3–0	0–1	1–2	4–2	3–1	2–0
Lokomotiv Moscow	2–0	3–0	1–1	4–1	5–2		3–0	2–2	2–0	1–2	4–0	0–0
Moldova Chisinau	1–0	2–2	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–1		1–1	1–3	1–1	1–0	3–2
Shakhtyor Stalino	2–1	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–2	2–0		2–3	1–1	0–3	2–4
SKA Rostov-on-Don	2–0	2–3	1–0	2–1	4–2	1–2	1–2	4–2		1–3	3–1	2–1
Spartak Moscow	1–1	0–1	0–1	4–5	1–0	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–0		1–1	3–1
Torpedo Moscow	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–0		2–0
Zenit Leningrad	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–4	3–1	3–2	1–1	2–0	2–0

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

Top scorers

16 goals

• Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi)

14 goals

• Viktor Sokolov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

11 goals

• Tengiz Melashvili (Dinamo Tbilisi)

10 goals

• Valentin Bubukin (Lokomotiv Moscow)

9 goals

• German Apukhtin (CSK MO Moscow)
• Yuri Korotkov (Moldova Kishinyov)
• Viktor Ponedelnik (SKVO Rostov-on-Don)

8 goals

• Genrikh Fedosov (Dynamo Moscow)
• Anatoli Isayev (Spartak Moscow)
• Dmitri Shapovalov (Dynamo Moscow)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)