1972 Soviet Union Football Season

1972 Soviet Premier League (First Level)

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 3-0 3-3 1-2 2-2 2-1 4-0 1-0 1-2 3-0 2-1 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 4-2 1-1 1-0 2-0 3-1 1-1 1-1 1-3 1-0 2-1 4-1 2-2 0-0 1-1 1-3 3-0 15 10 5 52-30 40
2 Dynamo Kyiv 0-3 3-3 1-1 1-1 2-2 1-1 2-3 2-0 2-1 2-2 2-2 1-1 4-2 1-2 0-0 0-1 0-1 1-2 1-1 4-1 2-0 3-2 1-1 1-0 1-0 3-2 1-0 0-1 4-1 6-1 12 11 7 52-38 35
3 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-1 2-2 1-1 1-1 0-2 2-1 0-0 2-3 1-2 3-0 1-0 0-5 0-1 2-0 3-0 2-2 1-0 1-1 0-5 2-0 4-1 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 5-1 0-0 2-2 1-0 1-3 12 11 7 41-34 35
4 Ararat Yerevan 1-2 0-4 2-2 1-1 2-0 1-2 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-3 4-2 0-2 1-1 2-1 5-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 0-1 1-1 1-1 1-0 0-1 2-0 0-1 1-0 1-1 4-2 12 10 8 38-29 34
5 CSKA Moskva 0-1 2-1 3-2 0-2 0-0 3-2 0-2 0-1 1-2 2-0 1-1 2-1 0-3 1-2 1-0 1-2 0-1 0-0 0-1 1-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 3-1 3-1 3-1 3-2 1-2 1-0 1-1 15 4 11 37-33 34
6 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-3 1-2 1-2 2-2 2-1 0-3 0-0 3-2 2-1 0-2 3-3 2-2 0-0 1-0 1-1 2-1 1-1 0-3 1-1 1-0 0-4 1-0 4-0 0-2 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 5-0 2-1 12 10 8 37-37 34
7 Zenit Leningrad 1-2 0-0 2-2 1-1 0-1 5-0 2-4 2-0 1-1 1-2 3-3 2-2 0-2 0-2 0-1 0-0 1-0 4-1 0-0 2-1 2-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 1-0 0-1 3-1 6-1 3-1 1-0 11 11 8 44-30 33
8 Dinamo Minsk 0-0 1-0 2-4 2-1 1-0 0-2 1-1 1-2 3-0 2-1 0-0 0-1 2-0 2-0 0-1 0-2 1-0 0-3 0-2 2-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 2-2 2-1 0-1 1-1 10 11 9 27-28 31
9 Torpedo Moskva 2-4 1-1 0-0 1-0 0-3 2-2 0-5 0-0 0-1 2-1 1-1 1-2 1-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 4-1 1-4 2-1 0-0 0-2 0-1 1-1 2-1 0-2 3-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 3-0 11 9 10 31-33 31
10 Dinamo Moskva 0-1 0-2 1-0 2-1 0-1 1-1 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 1-1 3-0 0-1 1-4 0-1 3-0 1-4 4-1 1-4 0-1 2-0 3-0 1-1 0-2 3-2 0-1 3-1 1-1 2-1 5-2 12 6 12 39-35 30
11 Spartak Moskva 1-3 1-1 1-1 1-4 5-0 0-2 0-1 1-1 1-0 0-1 1-1 0-1 0-0 1-2 2-0 1-2 1-2 0-0 4-1 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 1-3 2-1 2-0 1-1 0-0 8 10 12 29-30 26
12 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 3-1 0-2 2-3 1-4 0-0 1-0 1-1 1-2 0-1 4-0 0-1 0-2 0-0 1-1 0-0 2-0 1-0 0-2 0-3 0-1 0-0 2-1 1-1 3-1 0-1 1-1 4-2 1-1 1-2 8 10 12 31-35 26
13 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-1 1-2 1-1 0-1 0-2 0-0 1-1 0-1 0-1 1-3 0-4 2-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-1 1-2 1-1 2-0 1-0 0-0 1-2 1-1 0-0 1-1 2-0 3-0 0-0 1-0 6 14 10 23-27 26
14 Karpaty Lviv 1-4 2-2 0-1 2-3 0-0 1-5 1-0 0-2 1-3 1-3 0-1 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-3 2-3 1-0 1-0 3-1 1-3 1-0 0-0 1-1 3-1 1-4 2-0 1-2 8 8 14 27-43 24
15 Lokomotiv Moskva 0-0 1-1 0-1 1-0 0-0 2-2 1-0 0-1 2-3 2-1 0-1 0-0 1-3 1-6 2-2 1-2 0-1 1-0 1-3 1-1 1-2 0-2 1-1 2-4 0-2 0-3 1-3 4-1 1-0 2-2 6 9 15 29-48 21
16 Neftchi Baku 3-1 0-3 1-4 1-6 0-1 3-1 1-1 2-4 0-1 1-1 0-5 1-2 1-3 0-1 1-0 1-1 1-0 0-3 1-2 2-5 1-1 0-0 1-1 2-1 0-0 0-1 0-2 2-1 0-1 2-2 6 8 16 28-55 20

Round 1

04/04/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 0-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Att: 22,000]
04/04/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-1 CSKA Moskva [Valeriy Porkuyan 24, Vasiliy Lyabik 28 - Vladimir Dorofeyev 43. Att: 35,000]
04/04/1972 Karpaty Lviv 0-1 Zenit Leningrad [Boris Kokh 26. Att: 40,000]
04/04/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 Torpedo Moskva [Vladislav Markin 4 - Gennadiy Shalimov 80. Att: 30,000]
04/04/1972 Neftchi Baku 1-0 Dinamo Minsk [Valeriy Gajiyev 43p. Att: 25,000]
04/04/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-1 Spartak Moskva [Vladimir Redin 38. Att: 17,000]
04/04/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 3-0 Dynamo Kyiv [Vyacheslav Semyonov 4, Yuriy Yeliseyev 43, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 69p. Att: 35,000]
07/02/1972 Ararat Yerevan 0-0 Dinamo Moskva [Att: 40,000]

Round 2

04/08/1972 Ararat Yerevan 0-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Nikolai Zudin 86. Att: 45,000]
04/08/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3-3 Zenit Leningrad [Vasiliy Lyabik 7, 77, Viktor Romanyuk 18 - Pavel Sadyrin 9p, Georgiy Khromchenkov 26, Anatoliy Zinchenko 69. Att: 36,000]
04/08/1972 Karpaty Lviv 1-3 CSKA Moskva [Eduard Kozinkevich 80 - Vladimir Polikarpov 9, Nikolai Dolgov 21, Vladimir Fedotov 32. Att: 26,000]
04/08/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-0 Dinamo Minsk [Att: 8,000]
04/08/1972 Neftchi Baku 1-0 Torpedo Moskva [Vyacheslav Lyogkiy 77. Att: 25,000]
04/08/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-2 Dynamo Kyiv [Anatoliy Byshovets 12, 36. Att: 15,000]
04/08/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 3-1 Spartak Moskva [Yuriy Yeliseyev 16, 58, Vladimir Onishchenko 81 - Nikolai Kiselyov 46. Att: 37,000]
04/10/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 1-0 Dinamo Moskva [Georgiy Gavasheli 9. Att: 30,000]

Round 3

04/15/1972 Ararat Yerevan 5-0 Torpedo Moskva [Oganes Zanazanyan 23, 89, Nikolai Kazaryan 50, 63, Eduard Markarov 83. Att: 40,000]
04/15/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 2-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Oleg Blokhin 65, Vitaliy Shevchenko 70 - Viktor Romanyuk 26. Att: 70,000]
04/15/1972 Dinamo Minsk 1-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Vladimir Sakharov 76. Att: 40,000]
04/15/1972 Karpaty Lviv 1-0 Spartak Moskva [Bogdan Greshchak 36. Att: 34,000]
04/15/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-1 CSKA Moskva [Farid Hisamutdinov 71. Att: 8,000]
04/15/1972 Zenit Leningrad 3-1 Neftchi Baku [Georgiy Khromchenkov 37, 38, Pavel Sadyrin 80p - Nikolai Smolnikov 89. Att: 65,000]
04/16/1972 (in Lviv) Dinamo Moskva 0-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Vladimir Onishchenko 52. Att: 24,000]
04/17/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Alexei Yeskov 24 - Yuriy Chesnokov 9. Att: 14,000]

Round 4

04/22/1972 CSKA Moskva 1-0 Neftchi Baku [Boris Kopeikin 11. Att: 25,000]
04/22/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 Karpaty Lviv [Oleg Blokhin 47. Att: 50,000]
04/22/1972 Dinamo Minsk 1-1 Ararat Yerevan [Anatoliy Vasilyev 76 - Sergei Bondarenko 60. Att: 38,000]
04/22/1972 Torpedo Moskva 0-3 Dinamo Tbilisi [Georgiy Gavasheli 15, Kakhi Asatiani 22, Givi Nodia 82. Att: 10,000]
04/22/1972 Zenit Leningrad 1-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Pavel Sadyrin 49p - Nikolai Osyanin 42. Att: 50,000]
04/23/1972 Dinamo Moskva 2-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Anatoliy Baidachny 47, Vladimir Kozlov 88. Att: 23,000]
04/23/1972 Spartak Moskva 1-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Mikhail Bulgakov 64 - Vasiliy Lyabik 74. Att: 30,000]
04/24/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 0-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Att: 18,000]

Round 5

05/02/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 1-0 Neftchi Baku [Givi Nodia 41. Att: 30,000]
05/02/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Roman Schneidermann 17. Att: 28,000]
05/02/1972 Torpedo Moskva 2-1 Spartak Moskva [Vadim Nikonov 10, Yuriy Smirnov 61 - Valeriy Andreyev 15. Att: 68,000]
05/02/1972 Zenit Leningrad 2-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Anatoliy Zinchenko 17, Pavel Sadyrin 74. Att: 90,000]
05/03/1972 Ararat Yerevan 1-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Oganes Zanazanyan 49 - Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 35p. Att: 45,000]
05/03/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 4-2 Dinamo Minsk [Oleg Blokhin 2, 31, Vladimir Muntyan 21p, Viktor Kolotov 37 - Vladimir Kurnev 4, Eduard Malofeyev 63p. Att: 20,000]
05/03/1972 Dinamo Moskva 3-2 Karpaty Lviv [Yevgeniy Zhukov 30, Vladimir Kozlov 32, Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 82 - Lev Brovarskiy 40, Rostislav Potochnyak 84. Att: 25,000]
05/03/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-0 CSKA Moskva [Vladimir Onishchenko 62. Att: 33,000]

Round 6

05/07/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 0-0 Torpedo Moskva [Att: 40,000]
05/07/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-1 Dinamo Moskva [Vitaliy Denezh 77 - Vladimir Kozlov 16. Att: 36,000]
05/07/1972 Karpaty Lviv 3-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Ostap Savka 25, 33, 53 - Valeriy Vashchenkov 51p. Att: 32,000]
05/07/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-2 Dinamo Tbilisi [Manuchar Machaidze 9, David Kipiani 64. Att: 18,000]
05/07/1972 Neftchi Baku 1-1 Ararat Yerevan [Nikolai Smolnikov 73 - Nikolai Kazaryan 55. Att: 35,000]
05/07/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-2 CSKA Moskva [Anatoliy Maslyayev 9 - Vladimir Fedotov 5, Wilhelm Tellinger 81. Att: 14,000]
05/07/1972 Spartak Moskva 2-0 Dinamo Minsk [Yevgeniy Lovchev 12, Viktor Papayev 90p. Att: 12,000]
05/07/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 2-1 Zenit Leningrad [Mikhail Lokhov (Ze) 6og, Viktor Kuznetsov 45 - Alexandr Deryomov 62. Att: 40,000]

Round 7

05/14/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Neftchi Baku [Yuriy Chesnokov 17. Att: 10,000]
05/15/1972 Spartak Moskva 1-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Viktor Papayev 36 - Anatoliy Puzach 44. Att: 31,000]
05/15/1972 Zenit Leningrad 1-1 CSKA Moskva [Pavel Sadyrin 78p - Wilhelm Tellinger 40. Att: 55,000]
05/16/1972 Ararat Yerevan 1-2 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Oganes Zanazanyan 82 - Vyacheslav Semyonov 32, Yuriy Vasenin 55. Att: 36,000]
05/16/1972 Dinamo Minsk 0-0 Karpaty Lviv [Att: 31,000]
05/16/1972 Dinamo Moskva 1-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Yozhef Sabo 17 - Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 10. Att: 30,000]
05/16/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 4-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Revaz Dzodzuashvili 24, Vladimir Gutsayev 33, Givi Nodia 75, Guram Petriashvili 88 - Anzor Chikhladze 3. Att: 35,000]
05/16/1972 Torpedo Moskva 1-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Yuriy Smirnov 34 - Vasiliy Lyabik 65. Att: 9,000]

Round 8

05/19/1972 CSKA Moskva 3-2 Dynamo Kyiv [Vladimir Polikarpov 27, 49, Wilhelm Tellinger 69 - Vladimir Muntyan 11, Oleg Blokhin 20. Att: 40,000]
05/20/1972 Ararat Yerevan 0-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Viktor Bondarenko 15. Att: 16,000]
05/20/1972 Dinamo Minsk 0-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Att: 20,000]
05/20/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Givi Nodia 20, Kakhi Asatiani 80 - Viktor Kuznetsov 60. Att: 40,000]
05/20/1972 Torpedo Moskva 0-0 Karpaty Lviv [Att: 20,000]
05/21/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 0-2 Kairat Alma-Ata [Sergei Rozhkov 30, Vladimir Chebotaryov 86. Att: 12,000]
06/17/1972 Zenit Leningrad 0-0 Spartak Moskva [Att: 45,000]
07/28/1972 Dinamo Moskva 2-1 Neftchi Baku [Andrei Yakubik 47, Vladimir Eshtrekov 48 - Anatoliy Banishevskiy 74p. Att: 19,000]

Round 9

05/29/1972 Dinamo Minsk 2-2 Lokomotiv Moskva [Anatoliy Vasilyev 29, Eduard Malofeyev 70 - Anatoliy Kozlov 56, Yuriy Popkov 76. Att: 20,000]
05/29/1972 Karpaty Lviv 0-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Stanislav Yevseyenko 35. Att: 38,000]
05/29/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-2 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Yuriy Syomin 64 - Gennadiy Antonov 23, Alexei Yeskov 77. Att: 20,000]
05/29/1972 Neftchi Baku 3-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 12, Yuriy Stekolnikov 29, Nikolai Smolnikov 38 - Vladimir Starkov 47. Att: 18,000]
05/29/1972 Spartak Moskva 1-0 CSKA Moskva [Galimzyan Husainov 59. Att: 45,000]
05/30/1972 Ararat Yerevan 2-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Arkadiy Andriasyan 44, Levon Ishtoyan 47. Att: 42,000]
05/30/1972 Dinamo Moskva 1-4 Torpedo Moskva [Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 30 - Yuriy Smirnov 41, Gennadiy Shalimov 68, Vadim Nikonov 84, 87p. Att: 33,000]
07/02/1972 Zenit Leningrad 2-2 Dynamo Kyiv [Georgiy Khromchenkov 43, Alexandr Nikolayev 60 - Viktor Kolotov 65, Oleg Blokhin 76. Att: 50,000]

Round 10

06/02/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-2 Spartak Moskva [Sergei Olshanskiy (S) 8 og - Galimzyan Husainov 19, Viktor Papayev 25p. Att: 31,000]
06/03/1972 CSKA Moskva 1-0 Torpedo Moskva [Leonid Pakhomov (T) 12og. Att: 30,000]
06/03/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 0-1 Dinamo Moskva [Mikhail Gershkovich 9. Att: 55,000]
06/03/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-0 Ararat Yerevan [Att: 35,000]
06/03/1972 Karpaty Lviv 0-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Att: 27,000]
06/03/1972 Neftchi Baku 0-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Att: 17,000]
06/03/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Vladimir Onishchenko 40 - Alexei Yeskov 87. Att: 38,000]
06/04/1972 Dinamo Minsk 2-0 Zenit Leningrad [Eduard Malofeyev 30, Alexandr Lomakin 76. Att: 32,000]

Round 11

06/11/1972 Karpaty Lviv 1-0 Ararat Yerevan [Gennadiy Likhachov 28. Att: 35,000]
06/11/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Yuriy Yeliseyev 15. Att: 13,000]
06/11/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 Neftchi Baku [Anatoliy Maslyayev 35 - Valeriy Gajiyev 46. Att: 18,000]
06/11/1972 Zenit Leningrad 0-1 Torpedo Moskva [Yuriy Smirnov 46. Att: 65,000]
07/15/1972 CSKA Moskva 0-3 Dinamo Minsk [Yevgeniy Toleiko 3, Anatoliy Vasilyev 32, Anatoliy Bogovik 58. Att: 10,000]
07/15/1972 Dinamo Moskva 1-4 Spartak Moskva [Alexei Petrushin 22 - Valeriy Andreyev 7, Mikhail Bulgakov 33, Vitaliy Mirzoyev 41, Gennadiy Logofet 57. Att: 35,000]
07/28/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Alexandr Damin 81. Att: 30,000]
07/28/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Viktor Romanyuk 79, Roman Schneidermann 85 - Revaz Dzodzuashvili 55. Att: 35,000]

Round 12

06/22/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 0-1 Torpedo Moskva [Vadim Nikonov 83. Att: 21,000]
06/23/1972 Ararat Yerevan 4-2 Zenit Leningrad [Levon Ishtoyan 14, Arkadiy Andriasyan 25, 89, Oganes Zanazanyan 40p - Boris Kokh 55, Anatoliy Zinchenko 87. Att: 23,000]
06/23/1972 Dinamo Moskva 0-1 Dinamo Minsk [Anatoliy Bogovik 13. Att: 15,000]
06/23/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 0-0 CSKA Moskva [Att: 28,000]
06/23/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Vyacheslav Matveyev 68 - Vladimir Muntyan 3. Att: 15,000]
06/23/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 4-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Yevgeniy Aleksandrov 5, Gennadiy Antonov 24, 48, Anzor Chikhladze 84. Att: 17,000]
06/23/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 4-1 Karpaty Lviv [Alexandr Zhuravlyov 30p, Vyacheslav Semyonov 51, 85, Yuriy Yeliseyev 70 - Eduard Kozinkevich 7. Att: 37,000]
11/15/1972 (in Dnipropetrovsk) Neftchi Baku 1-1 Spartak Moskva [Renat Kamaletdinov 28 - Vladimir Redin 52. Att: 3,000]

Round 13

06/27/1972 Torpedo Moskva 1-0 Dinamo Minsk [Yuriy Smirnov 47. Att: 15,300]
06/28/1972 Ararat Yerevan 2-0 CSKA Moskva [Sergei Pogosov 2, Nazar Petrosyan 89. Att: 25,000]
06/28/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 1-0 Zenit Leningrad [Vissarion Mchedlishvili 56. Att: 20,000]
06/28/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-0 Spartak Moskva [Nurlan Atantayev 74. Att: 10,000]
06/28/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-3 Dinamo Moskva [Dmitriy Dimitriadi 76 - Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 32p, Vladimir Eshtrekov 54, Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 74. Att: 25,000]
06/28/1972 Neftchi Baku 1-4 Dynamo Kyiv [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 54 - Vladimir Muntyan 19, 46, 53, Viktor Kolotov 68. Att: 20,000]
06/28/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 3-1 Karpaty Lviv [Viktor Bondarenko 14, Alexandr Pleshakov 15, Alexei Yeskov 17p - Lev Brovarskiy 81. Att: 25,000]
06/28/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 3-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Sergei Kuznetsov 9, 78, Vyacheslav Semyonov 14. Att: 35,000]

Round 14

07/06/1972 CSKA Moskva 3-2 Lokomotiv Moskva [Wilhelm Tellinger 49, Grigoriy Yanets 66, Boris Kopeikin 86 - Anatoliy Piskunov 33, Yuriy Popkov 72. Att: 13,000]
07/06/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 1-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Vladimir Muntyan 30p - David Kipiani 54. Att: 35,000]
07/06/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Viktor Romanyuk 2, 24, Anatoliy Pilipchuk 80, Roman Schneidermann 83. Att: 28,000]
07/06/1972 Karpaty Lviv 2-0 Neftchi Baku [Roman Zhuravskiy 15, Eduard Kozinkevich 36. Att: 28,000]
07/06/1972 Zenit Leningrad 1-0 Dinamo Moskva [Georgiy Khromchenkov 49. Att: 15,000]
07/07/1972 Spartak Moskva 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Arkadiy Andriasyan 57. Att: 24,000]
07/08/1972 Torpedo Moskva 0-2 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Gennadiy Antonov 7, Alexei Yeskov 48. Att: 16,000]
07/28/1972 Dinamo Minsk 0-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Att: 44,000]

Round 15

07/10/1972 Dinamo Moskva 1-0 CSKA Moskva [Andrei Yakubik 83. Att: 37,000]
07/11/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 2-2 Ararat Yerevan [Viktor Kolotov 25, Oleg Blokhin 30 - Furman Abramyan 57, Nikolai Kazaryan 60. Att: 50,000]
07/11/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 5-0 Neftchi Baku [Viktor Romanyuk 31, Roman Schneidermann 63, Anatoliy Pilipchuk 67, Anatoliy Grinko 72, Pyotr Slobodyan 79. Att: 35,000]
07/11/1972 Karpaty Lviv 0-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Att: 19,000]
07/11/1972 Spartak Moskva 5-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Sergei Olshanskiy 45, Valeriy Andreyev 51, 52, Vitaliy Mirzoyev 56, Galimzyan Husainov 86. Att: 38,000]
07/11/1972 Zenit Leningrad 3-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Mikhail Fokin 17, Georgiy Vyun 41, Georgiy Khromchenkov 52 - Yuriy Chesnokov 5. Att: 25,000]
07/12/1972 Dinamo Minsk 1-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Anatoliy Bogovik 14 - Gennadiy Antonov 52. Att: 22,000]
07/14/1972 Torpedo Moskva 2-4 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Yuriy Smirnov 64, 71 - Anatoliy Kuksov 20, Yuriy Yeliseyev 51, Vladimir Onishchenko 59, 90. Att: 26,000]

Round 16

07/18/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 0-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Att: 17,000]
07/19/1972 Dinamo Minsk 2-1 Spartak Moskva [Yuzef Yurgelevich 72, Anatoliy Vasilyev 83 - Vladimir Redin 21. Att: 38,000]
07/19/1972 Karpaty Lviv 1-0 Dinamo Moskva [Roman Khizhak 19. Att: 32,000]
07/19/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Oganes Zanazanyan 29. Att: 23,000]
07/19/1972 Neftchi Baku 3-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Rafik Kuliyev 43, Yuriy Stekolnikov 47, Anatoliy Banishevskiy 87 - David Kipiani 77. Att: 10,000]
07/19/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-0 Zenit Leningrad [Att: 30,000]
07/19/1972 Torpedo Moskva 1-0 Dynamo Kyiv [Gennadiy Shalimov 43. Att: 25,000]
07/20/1972 CSKA Moskva 2-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Vladimir Fedotov 16, Vladimir Polikarpov 90 - Yuriy Yeliseyev 49. Att: 28,000]

Round 17

07/23/1972 Spartak Moskva 0-0 Torpedo Moskva [Att: 49,300]
07/24/1972 Ararat Yerevan 4-2 Neftchi Baku [Oganes Zanazanyan 38p, 58p, Arkadiy Andriasyan 40, Sergei Bondarenko 76 - Anatoliy Banishevskiy 69, Nikolai Smolnikov 87. Att: 43,000]
07/24/1972 CSKA Moskva 1-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Vladimir Polikarpov 19. Att: 16,000]
07/24/1972 Dinamo Minsk 2-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Anatoliy Vasilyev 3, 16 - Oleg Blokhin 55. Att: 42,000]
07/24/1972 Dinamo Moskva 3-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Alexandr Makhovikov 45, Yevgeniy Zhukov 66, 83. Att: 20,000]
07/24/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 0-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Att: 20,000]
07/24/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 4-1 Karpaty Lviv [Anatoliy Piskunov 15, 45, Anatoliy Kozlov 38, 75 - Roman Khizhak 28. Att: 6,000]
07/24/1972 Zenit Leningrad 0-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Att: 80,000]

Round 18

07/31/1972 CSKA Moskva 2-1 Zenit Leningrad [Wilhelm Tellinger 23, Vladimir Dudarenko 87 - Pavel Sadyrin 89p. Att: 15,000]
08/01/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 4-1 Spartak Moskva [Vladimir Veremeyev 40, Viktor Kolotov 47, Oleg Blokhin 51, Anatoliy Puzach 90 - Viktor Papayev 22. Att: 43,000]
08/01/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-1 Ararat Yerevan [Vladimir Gutsayev 37, Guram Petriashvili 73 - Arkadiy Andriasyan 76. Att: 50,000]
08/01/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-0 Karpaty Lviv [Att: 35,000]
08/01/1972 Torpedo Moskva 1-4 Dinamo Moskva [Anatoliy Degtyaryov 27 - Vladimir Eshtrekov 1, 44, Andrei Yakubik 49, Yozhef Sabo 70. Att: 39,000]
08/01/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 3-0 Neftchi Baku [Anatoliy Kuksov 11, Yuriy Yeliseyev 43, Yuriy Vasenin 86. Att: 37,000]
08/02/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-2 Dinamo Minsk [Yuriy Chesnokov 2 - Boris Zhuravlyov (L) 51 og, Vladimir Sakharov 79. Att: 12,000]
08/02/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Gennadiy Antonov 38 - Seilda Bayshakov 88. Att: 20,000]

Round 19

08/09/1972 Ararat Yerevan 2-1 Dinamo Minsk [Oganes Zanazanyan 10p, Nikolai Kazaryan 46 - Igor Grigoryev 39. Att: 25,000]
08/09/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-2 Torpedo Moskva [Guram Petriashvili 79p, 84 - Anatoliy Fetisov 14, Gennadiy Shalimov 87. Att: 30,000]
08/09/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-2 Dynamo Kyiv [Valeriy Porkuyan 69, 86 - Anatoliy Puzach 37, Viktor Kolotov 63. Att: 35,000]
08/09/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-0 Zenit Leningrad [Att: 20,000]
08/09/1972 Neftchi Baku 1-1 CSKA Moskva [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 4 - Nikolai Dolgov 64. Att: 15,000]
08/09/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-3 Dinamo Moskva [Alexandr Makhovikov 2, Andrei Yakubik 36, Yevgeniy Zhukov 61. Att: 22,000]
08/09/1972 Spartak Moskva 1-3 Karpaty Lviv [Alexandr Minayev 19 - Roman Khizhak 42, 69, Gennadiy Likhachov 75. Att: 19,000]
08/09/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Vladimir Onishchenko 80 - Anatoliy Kozlov 71. Att: 40,000]

Round 20

08/13/1972 CSKA Moskva 3-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Farid Hisamutdinov 7, Nikolai Dolgov 82, Vladimir Babenko 84 - Anatoliy Ionkin 75. Att: 12,000]
08/13/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-4 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Yuriy Chesnokov 7, Anatoliy Kozlov 61 - Anatoliy Maslyayev 20, 34, Alexei Yeskov 32, 73. Att: 2,000]
08/13/1972 Neftchi Baku 0-1 Zenit Leningrad [Georgiy Khromchenkov 33. Att: 15,000]
09/26/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 2-0 Dinamo Moskva [Viktor Kuznetsov 28, Vladimir Starkov 43. Att: 40,000]
10/16/1972 Torpedo Moskva 0-0 Ararat Yerevan [Att: 9,000]
11/08/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-0 Dinamo Minsk [Vakhtang Chelidze 64, Georgiy Gavasheli 80. Att: 15,000]
11/12/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-0 Spartak Moskva [Viktor Romanyuk 28. Att: 20,000]
11/12/1972 Karpaty Lviv 2-3 Dynamo Kyiv [Vladimir Danilyuk 27, Roman Pokora 76 - Anatoliy Puzach 45, Oleg Blokhin 56, Vladimir Troshkin 77. Att: 32,000]

Round 21

09/02/1972 Torpedo Moskva 3-0 Neftchi Baku [Anatoliy Fetisov 4, Vadim Nikonov 73, 78. Att: 15,000]
09/03/1972 Dinamo Minsk 1-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Anatoliy Vasilyev 24 - Vladimir Chebotaryov 42. Att: 30,000]
09/03/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Suren Martirosyan 60. Att: 8,000]
09/03/1972 Zenit Leningrad 0-1 Karpaty Lviv [Vladimir Danilyuk 7. Att: 25,000]
09/04/1972 CSKA Moskva 2-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Vladimir Polikarpov 36, Wilhelm Tellinger 58. Att: 15,000]
09/07/1972 Spartak Moskva 0-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Att: 12,000]
10/25/1972 Dinamo Moskva 1-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Vladimir Kozlov 68 - Givi Nodia 82. Att: 8,000]
11/22/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 3-3 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Oleg Blokhin 22, Viktor Kolotov 55, 71 - Anatoliy Kuksov 30, Vyacheslav Semyonov 76, Vladimir Onishchenko 86. Att: 50,000]

Round 22

09/08/1972 Dinamo Minsk 1-1 Neftchi Baku [Vladimir Sakharov 56 - Samed Kurbanov 29. Att: 25,000]
09/08/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-2 Dinamo Tbilisi [Anatoliy Piskunov 11, Anatoliy Kozlov 89 - David Kipiani 58, Vladimir Gutsayev 64. Att: 10,000]
09/08/1972 Zenit Leningrad 2-2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Lev Burchalkin 55p, Anatoliy Zinchenko 74 - Stanislav Yevseyenko 32, Anatoliy Pilipchuk 83. Att: 8,000]
09/09/1972 CSKA Moskva 3-1 Karpaty Lviv [Valentin Utkin 2, Vladimir Dorofeyev 44, Alexandr Kuznetsov 84 - Gennadiy Likhachov 45. Att: 18,000]
10/25/1972 Torpedo Moskva 2-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Anatoliy Degtyaryov 35, Gennadiy Shalimov 41 - Sergei Rozhkov 25. Att: 800]
11/12/1972 Dinamo Moskva 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Oganes Zanazanyan 54. Att: 15,000]
11/16/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 3-2 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Vladimir Troshkin 12, Vladimir Muntyan 41, Viktor Kolotov 70 - Alexandr Pleshakov 28, Alexei Yeskov 66. Att: 20,000]
11/18/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-1 Spartak Moskva [Viktor Kuznetsov 66 - Alexandr Minayev 83. Att: 18,000]

Round 23

09/17/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 CSKA Moskva [Viktor Kolotov 49, Sergei Dotsenko 75. Att: 50,000]
09/17/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-1 Torpedo Moskva [Anatoliy Pilipchuk 26, 32 - Vladimir Buturlakin 85. Att: 20,000]
09/17/1972 Karpaty Lviv 0-0 Dinamo Minsk [Att: 31,000]
09/17/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 2-0 Dinamo Moskva [Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 19, Vladislav Markin 75. Att: 12,000]
09/17/1972 Neftchi Baku 2-2 Lokomotiv Moskva [Nikolai Smolnikov 15, Hasan Mirikov 85 - Anatoliy Piskunov 31, Yuriy Chesnokov 33. Att: 10,000]
09/17/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Att: 16,000]
09/17/1972 Spartak Moskva 1-2 Zenit Leningrad [Alexandr Piskaryov 9 - Georgiy Khromchenkov 52, Anatoliy Zinchenko 84. Att: 4,000]
09/18/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 4-0 Ararat Yerevan [Yuriy Yeliseyev 2, Viktor Kuznetsov 46, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 57p, Vyacheslav Semyonov 81. Att: 40,000]

Round 24

09/21/1972 CSKA Moskva 1-0 Spartak Moskva [Vladimir Dorofeyev 35. Att: 20,000]
09/22/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 1-1 Zenit Leningrad [Oleg Blokhin 57 - Georgiy Khromchenkov 7. Att: 30,000]
09/22/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-0 Dinamo Minsk [Alexandr Koshlatenko 42. Att: 20,000]
09/22/1972 Karpaty Lviv 0-3 Torpedo Moskva [Viktor Filippov 4, Yuriy Smirnov 38, Anatoliy Degtyaryov 80. Att: 24,000]
09/22/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 3-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Yuriy Syomin 13, 62, Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 78. Att: 15,000]
09/22/1972 Neftchi Baku 2-5 Dinamo Moskva [Hasan Mirikov 1, Yuriy Stekolnikov 67 - Andrei Yakubik 8, Anatoliy Baidachny 34, 45, Alexandr Makhovikov 64, Alexei Petrushin 69. Att: 15,000]
09/22/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 Ararat Yerevan [Gennadiy Antonov 27 - Arkadiy Andriasyan 88. Att: 8,000]
09/22/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 2-2 Dinamo Tbilisi [Vladimir Onishchenko 65, Yuriy Vasenin 75 - David Kipiani 12, 66. Att: 29,000]

Round 25

09/30/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-0 Neftchi Baku [Sergei Rozhkov 68. Att: 18,000]
09/30/1972 Torpedo Moskva 0-0 Zenit Leningrad [Att: 1,000]
10/01/1972 Ararat Yerevan 2-0 Karpaty Lviv [Oganes Zanazanyan 58p, Levon Ishtoyan 88. Att: 22,000]
10/01/1972 Dinamo Minsk 2-1 CSKA Moskva [Anatoliy Vasilyev 14, 84 - Vladimir Dorofeyev 87. Att: 15,000]
10/01/1972 Dinamo Moskva 2-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Alexandr Makhovikov 64, Vladimir Kozlov 84 - Vladimir Veremeyev 39. Att: 20,000]
10/01/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 3-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [David Kipiani 48, Georgiy Gavasheli 56, Givi Nodia 77. Att: 10,000]
10/01/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 3-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Alexei Yeskov 44p, 80, Viktor Bondarenko 65 - Anatoliy Kuksov 9p. Att: 10,000]
10/02/1972 Spartak Moskva 2-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Yevgeniy Lovchev 30, Alexandr Piskaryov 69. Att: 6,000]

Round 26

10/05/1972 Torpedo Moskva 2-1 CSKA Moskva [Yuriy Smirnov 12, 79 - Vladimir Dorofeyev 81. Att: 6,000]
10/06/1972 Ararat Yerevan 2-3 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Arkadiy Andriasyan 8, Eduard Markarov 43 - Viktor Nazarov 18, Anatoliy Pilipchuk 44, Roman Schneidermann 78. Att: 20,000]
10/06/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 5-1 Karpaty Lviv [Georgiy Gavasheli 17, 75, Murtaz Khurtsilava 18, Givi Nodia 49, Vladimir Gutsayev 86 - Lev Brovarskiy 64. Att: 25,000]
10/06/1972 Neftchi Baku 2-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 44, 74p - Viktor Bondarenko 41. Att: 7,000]
10/06/1972 Spartak Moskva 1-0 Dinamo Moskva [Alexandr Piskaryov 75. Att: 6,500]
10/06/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 2-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Anatoliy Kuksov 51, 72 - Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 79. Att: 37,000]
10/06/1972 Zenit Leningrad 0-2 Dinamo Minsk [Vladimir Sakharov 87, 88. Att: 6,500]
10/07/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Dynamo Kyiv [Anatoliy Piskunov 84. Att: 6,000]

Round 27

10/10/1972 CSKA Moskva 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Oganes Zanazanyan 37. Att: 30,000]
10/10/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Vladimir Troshkin 32. Att: 20,000]
10/10/1972 Dinamo Minsk 0-2 Torpedo Moskva [Anatoliy Degtyaryov 10, Yuriy Smirnov 73. Att: 35,000]
10/10/1972 Dinamo Moskva 1-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Yevgeniy Zhukov 37 - Nikolai Timofeyev 41. Att: 15,000]
10/10/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Viktor Romanyuk 85. Att: 30,000]
10/10/1972 Karpaty Lviv 2-2 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Eduard Kozinkevich 23, Vladimir Malygin (Z) 40 og - Anatoliy Kuksov 4, Vladimir Onishchenko 60. Att: 32,000]
10/10/1972 Spartak Moskva 0-0 Neftchi Baku [Att: 9,300]
10/10/1972 Zenit Leningrad 5-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Pavel Sadyrin 28p, Viktor Trembach 62, Anatoliy Zinchenko 74, 89, Alexandr Nikolayev 84. Att: 7,000]

Round 28

10/20/1972 Spartak Moskva 0-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Att: 2,000]
10/21/1972 CSKA Moskva 3-2 Dinamo Tbilisi [Farid Hisamutdinov 9, Boris Kopeikin 50, 60 - Givi Nodia 17, Vladimir Gutsayev 36. Att: 14,000]
10/21/1972 Dynamo Kyiv 6-1 Neftchi Baku [Anatoliy Byshovets 14, 27, Oleg Blokhin 23, 55, Viktor Kolotov 32, Vladimir Troshkin 78 - Nikolai Smolnikov 35. Att: 30,000]
10/21/1972 Dinamo Minsk 0-3 Dinamo Moskva [Vladimir Kozlov 23, 78, Alexandr Makhovikov 54. Att: 26,000]
10/21/1972 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-2 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Stanislav Yevseyenko 85 - Vladimir Starkov 31, Viktor Kuznetsov 37. Att: 32,000]
10/21/1972 Karpaty Lviv 1-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Gennadiy Likhachov 71. Att: 14,000]
10/21/1972 Torpedo Moskva 0-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Yuriy Chesnokov 86. Att: 5,000]
10/21/1972 Zenit Leningrad 2-0 Ararat Yerevan [Alexandr Nikolayev 11, Pavel Sadyrin 57. Att: 12,000]

Round 29

10/29/1972 Dinamo Moskva 1-4 Zenit Leningrad [Andrei Yakubik 32 - Anatoliy Zinchenko 10, Alexandr Nikolayev 28, Georgiy Khromchenkov 38, Boris Kokh 82. Att: 7,800]
10/29/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 1-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Piruz Rekhviashvili 85 - Vladimir Muntyan 19. Att: 30,000]
10/29/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 Karpaty Lviv [Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 16 - Eduard Kozinkevich 28. Att: 17,000]
10/29/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-1 CSKA Moskva [Anatoliy Piskunov 41, Yuriy Chesnokov 54 - Boris Kopeikin 74. Att: 9,000]
10/29/1972 Neftchi Baku 1-2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 26p - Alexei Khristyan 48, Stanislav Yevseyenko 70. Att: 10,000]
10/29/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-0 Dinamo Minsk [Att: 12,000]
10/29/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-1 Torpedo Moskva [Viktor Kuznetsov 22 - Yuriy Smirnov 73. Att: 40,000]
10/30/1972 Ararat Yerevan 1-1 Spartak Moskva [Arkadiy Andriasyan 71 - Alexandr Piskaryov 58. Att: 20,000]

Round 30

11/02/1972 Ararat Yerevan 1-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Oganes Zanazanyan 28 - Anatoliy Puzach 3. Att: 16,200]
11/02/1972 CSKA Moskva 0-0 Dinamo Moskva [Att: 4,000]
11/02/1972 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-0 Spartak Moskva [Levan Nodia 8, Manuchar Machaidze 42. Att: 35,000]
11/03/1972 Kairat Alma-Ata 2-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Vladislav Markin 69, Sergei Rozhkov 80. Att: 9,000]
11/03/1972 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-6 Zenit Leningrad [Anatoliy Piskunov 23 - Viktor Trembach 24, 50, Georgiy Khromchenkov 41, 64, Pavel Sadyrin 45, Yuriy Zagumennykh 48. Att: 150]
11/03/1972 Neftchi Baku 2-1 Karpaty Lviv [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 10, Nikolai Smolnikov 81 - Ostap Savka 62. Att: 6,000]
11/03/1972 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-0 Torpedo Moskva [Gennadiy Antonov 4. Att: 2,000]
11/03/1972 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 0-1 Dinamo Minsk [Valeriy Slovak 30p. Att: 10,000]

Top scorers:

1972 Soviet First League (Second Level)

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Pakhtakor Tashkent                                         24 7 7 74-36 55
2 Shakhtar Donetsk                                         19 13 6 57-21 51
3 Chornomorets Odesa                                         20 8 10 67-36 48
4 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev                                         14 17 7 50-35 45
5 Torpedo Kutaisi                                         19 6 13 49-32 44
6 Zvezda Perm                                         14 16 8 41-35 44
7 Shinnik Yaroslavl                                         15 10 13 39-44 40
8 Pamir Dushanbe                                         13 13 12 52-51 39
9 Spartak Ordzhonikidze                                         14 10 14 49-50 38
10 Shakhtyor Karaganda                                         11 13 14 37-48 35
11 Alga Frunze                                         10 14 14 42-44 34
12 Nistru Kishinev                                         11 12 15 39-49 34
13 Tekstilschik Ivanovo                                         11 12 15 37-52 34
14 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya                                         13 7 18 45-49 33
15 Avtomobilist Nalchik                                         8 17 13 28-43 33
16 Metalist Kharkiv                                         10 12 16 33-42 32
17 Stroitel Ashkhabad                                         11 10 17 36-55 32
18 UralMash Sverdlovsk                                         11 9 18 38-58 31
19 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih                                         10 10 18 50-62 30
20 Dinamo Leningrad                                         7 14 17 32-53 28
1 - Pakhtakor Tashkent and Shakhtar Donetsk are promoted to 1973 Soviet Premier League
2 - UralMash Sverdlovsk, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, and Dinamo Leningrad are relegated to 1972 Soviet Second League
3 - Moldova Kishinev changed name to Nistru Kishinev.

Round 1

04/06/1972 Alga Frunze 1-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Ravil Yakubov 46 - Anatoliy Novikov 12. Att: 18,000]
04/06/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 1-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Sergei Krulikovskiy 85. Att: 30,000]
04/06/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 2-1 Dinamo Leningrad [Vladislav Ishchenko 59, Alexandr Gladyshev 77 - Vladimir Kondrashov 38. Att: 34,000]
04/06/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 0-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Att: 19,000]
04/06/1972 Nistru Kishinev 1-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Igor Nadein 66p. Att: 20,000]
04/06/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0-0 Zvezda Perm [Att: 20,000]
04/06/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 0-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Att: 10,000]
04/06/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Garnik Tarasyan 15 - Leonid Klyuchik 76. Att: 26,000]
04/06/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-1 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Viktor Litovkin 30, Igor Dzagoyev 60p - Rudolf Atamalyan 7. Att: 8,000]

Round 2

04/10/1972 Alga Frunze 1-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Ravil Yakubov 76 - Vladimir Dudko 50. Att: 18,000]
04/10/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 6-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Anatoliy Shepel 7, Vladimir Butenko 10p, 32, Vladimir Nechayev 50, Yevgeniy Derevyaga 65, Viktor Maslov 83 - Vyacheslav Yemelyanov 20. Att: 20,000]
04/10/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Stanislav Vovk 49 - Alexandr Borisenko 16. Att: 20,000]
04/10/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 0-1 Dinamo Leningrad [Yuriy Belov 80. Att: 15,000]
04/10/1972 Nistru Kishinev 0-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Vladimir Korotkov 22. Att: 10,000]
04/10/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Tulyagan Isakov 47, Berador Abduraimov 68p. Att: 15,000]
04/10/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 0-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Att: 10,000]
04/10/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Alexandr Vasin 33. Att: 35,000]
04/10/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-0 Zvezda Perm [Sergei Fomin 48. Att: 7,000]
04/10/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Demuri Vekua 15, 60. Att: 20,000]

Round 3

04/14/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 0-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Valeriy Reingold 78. Att: 12,000]
04/17/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Yevgeniy Deryomov 47 - Mikhail An 35p. Att: 20,000]
04/17/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-2 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Nikolai Martynov 75, Pavel Shmelkov 85 - Vladimir Tovchikh 4, Viktor Kolodin 10. Att: 20,000]
04/17/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 3-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Yevgeniy Kanana 28, Valeriy Yaremchenko 37, Vladimir Zakharov 55. Att: 20,000]
04/17/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Anatoliy Novikov 70. Att: 8,000]
04/17/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vladimir Titov 14, Georgiy Kaishauri 84 - Igor Dzagoyev 90. Att: 16,000]
04/17/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-0 Alga Frunze [Jemal Silagadze 47. Att: 20,000]
04/17/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Lev Kutashov ? - Sergei Zvenigorodskiy 78. Att: 9,000]
04/17/1972 Zvezda Perm 1-0 Nistru Kishinev [Viktor Zelenetskiy 63. Att: 18,000]

Round 4

04/21/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 2-2 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Yevgeniy Deryomov 44, Viktor Batarin 80 - Igor Dzagoyev 53, Kurban Berdyyev 63. Att: 7,000]
04/21/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-2 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Yuriy Kalashnikov 77, Ravil Aryapov 85 - Stanislav Chumak 15, Nikolai Penzin 65. Att: 9,000]
04/21/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 0-0 Alga Frunze [Att: 25,000]
04/21/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 2-2 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Nikolai Bushuyev 22, Anatoliy Novikov 43p - Yevgeniy Buchenko 17, Vladimir Tovchikh 68. Att: 15,000]
04/21/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-1 Dinamo Leningrad [Vladimir Korotkov 44, Anatoliy Napreyev 60, Vladimir Zotikov 80 - Vladimir Polyakov 58. Att: 25,000]
04/21/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 3-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Nodar Papelishvili 13, Georgiy Kaishauri 17, 86. Att: 10,000]
04/21/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Alexandr Tolstoi 52. Att: 9,000]
04/21/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 5-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan 15, Shota Okropirashvili 31, Demuri Vekua 47, 65, Jemal Kherkhadze 50 - Vyacheslav Dryzhenko 88. Att: 22,000]
04/21/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 3-0 Nistru Kishinev [Boris Yarkin, Rudolf Atamalyanp, Alexandr Zhuravlyov. Att: 6,000]
04/21/1972 Zvezda Perm 2-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Alexandr Markin 31, 37 - Vladimir Butenko 56. Att: 25,000]

Round 5

04/28/1972 Alga Frunze 0-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Att: 6,000]
04/28/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 2-2 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladimir Butenko 25, 82p - Viktor Prokopenko 47, Yuriy Sevidov 87. Att: 20,000]
04/28/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Viktor Abgolts 13. Att: 1,500]
04/28/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0-1 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Yevgeniy Deryomov 2. Att: 13,800]
04/28/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 2-2 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Gennadiy Gleb 62, Alexandr Borisenko 82 - Sergei Krayev 5, Valeryan Panfilov 52. Att: 12,000]
04/28/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Nikolai Kulichenkov 33, Fyodor Chorba 87. Att: 9,000]
04/28/1972 Nistru Kishinev 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Nikolai Mikhailov 73. Att: 12,000]
04/28/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Gennadiy Sannikov (U) 82og. Att: 25,000]
04/28/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 68. Att: 5,000]
04/28/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 1-1 Zvezda Perm [Yuriy Pyanov 45 - Alexandr Markin 59. Att: 10,000]

Round 6

05/02/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 0-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Demuri Vekua 53. Att: 18,000]
05/02/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Stanislav Vovk 69. Att: 6,300]
05/02/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 2-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Boris Pankov 72, Alexandr Borisenko 81 - Viktor Abgolts 85. Att: 6,000]
05/02/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-2 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Viktor Kutin 40p, Emil Gubaniy 54 - Alexandr Korchonov 16, Yevgeniy Deryomov 84. Att: 5,000]
05/02/1972 Nistru Kishinev 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Att: 5,000]
05/02/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-0 Alga Frunze [Viktor Varyukhin 26. Att: 7,500]
05/02/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vladimir Makarov 17, Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 61. Att: 8,000]
05/02/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-0 Zvezda Perm [Att: 23,000]
05/02/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-2 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Yuriy Pyanov 45, 88 - Alexandr Grebenozhko 30, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 81. Att: 8,000]
05/03/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Att: 1,000]

Round 7

05/08/1972 Alga Frunze 4-0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Almaz Chokmorov 13, 74, Boris Podkorytov 72, Mikhail Bitchutskiy 73. Att: 8,000]
05/08/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 0-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Att: 12,000]
05/08/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2-0 Nistru Kishinev [Berador Abduraimov 20, 78. Att: 10,000]
05/08/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 2-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Anatoliy Tsygankov 17, Vladimir Makarov 62 - Nikolai Kulichenkov 53. Att: 7,000]
05/08/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 4-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Anatoliy Konkov 75, Yuriy Sevidov 77p, 87p, Viktor Prokopenko 80. Att: 18,000]
05/08/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Georgiy Kaishauri 62, Nikolai Hudiyev 73 - Mikhail Potapov 32. Att: 10,000]
05/08/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-2 Chornomorets Odesa [Viktor Borovikov 39, 75. Att: 10,000]
05/08/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Alexandr Lenyov 65, Revaz Choladze 70. Att: 25,000]
05/08/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Viktor Konshinp - Nikolai Bushuyev. Att: 8,400]

Round 8

05/12/1972 Alga Frunze 1-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Alexandr Kantsurov 64 - Viktor Yeryomenko 90. Att: 18,000]
05/12/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 3-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Yevgeniy Deryomov 52, 88, Abdul Mustafin 78. Att: 10,000]
05/12/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 1-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladislav Gunko 25 - Alexandr Vasin 68. Att: 12,000]
05/12/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-3 Chornomorets Odesa [Berador Abduraimov 42 - Anatoliy Shepel 4, 6, Sergei Zvenigorodskiy 63. Att: 20,000]
05/12/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 2-0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 20p, Vladimir Makarov 80. Att: 12,000]
05/12/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 4-2 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Georgiy Kaishauri 14, Nodar Papelishvili 59, 65, 74 - Vladimir Korotkov 31, Valeriy Kleshchov 70. Att: 10,000]
05/12/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-2 Nistru Kishinev [Igor Dzagoyev 80p, 87p - Alexandr Belyayev 48, 69. Att: 5,000]
05/12/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Jemal Silagadze 13p. Att: 30,000]
05/12/1972 Zvezda Perm 0-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Att: 23,000]

Round 9

05/19/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 4-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vladimir Polyakov 38, 50, 90, Vladimir Kondrashov 65. Att: 1,000]
05/19/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Boris Leonov 41. Att: 20,000]
05/19/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 1-2 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Nikolai Konovalov 27 - Berador Abduraimov 43, Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 60. Att: 8,000]
05/19/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 3-1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Emil Gubaniy 65, Nikolai Kulichenkov 76, Yevgeniy Buchenko (K) 81 og - Oleg Usov 23. Att: 10,000]
05/19/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Alexandr Krivulin 27. Att: 20,000]
05/19/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-2 Pamir Dushanbe [Valeriy Kleshchov 47 - Leonid Kirilenko 24, Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 60. Att: 22,000]
05/19/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 1-1 Alga Frunze [Yuriy Pyanov 55 - Stanislav Lyubavin (T) 15og. Att: 10,000]
05/19/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 0-1 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Ruslan Ivanov 72. Att: 10,000]
05/19/1972 Zvezda Perm 3-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Alexandr Markin 59, 73, Oleg Ovechkin 79. Att: 21,000]

Round 10

05/23/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Att: 2,000]
05/23/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-2 Torpedo Kutaisi [Gennadiy Platonov 48p, 77p - Vladimir Shelia 34, Jemal Silagadze 57p. Att: 25,000]
05/23/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 4-2 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Valeriy Bokatov 1, 31, 49, Nikolai Konovalov 63 - Igor Dzagoyev 74, 80. Att: 5,000]
05/23/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Yuriy Sevidov 79. Att: 20,000]
05/23/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-0 Alga Frunze [Valeriy Reingold 87. Att: 16,000]
05/23/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Leonid Kirilenko 50. Att: 5,000]
05/23/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-2 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Viktor Konshin 65 - Ruslan Kadiyev 6, Kazbek Habalov 81. Att: 4,000]
05/23/1972 Zvezda Perm 1-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Nikolai Kargatyev 38. Att: 20,000]
06/29/1972 Nistru Kishinev 0-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Anatoliy Shepel 77. Att: 10,000]

Round 11

05/31/1972 Alga Frunze 1-1 Dinamo Leningrad [Ravil Yakubov 12 - Vladimir Kondrashov 3. Att: 8,000]
05/31/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-4 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Viktor Batarin 60 - Alexandr Krivulin 22, Anatoliy Novikov 34, Nikolai Bushuyev 52, Viktor Abgolts 78. Att: 15,000]
05/31/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 3-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Anatoliy Shepel 29, 65, Merab Asitashvili 83 - Fyodor Chorba 55. Att: 35,000]
05/31/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 3-0 Nistru Kishinev [Vladimir Tovchikh 49, Anatoliy Bytkin 68, Yuriy Novikov 80. Att: 15,000]
05/31/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 25, Berador Abduraimov 61. Att: 9,000]
05/31/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 1-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 60p. Att: 16,000]
05/31/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Zvezda Perm [David Pais 27, Sergei Shklyar 31. Att: 10,000]
05/31/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 0-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Att: 14,000]
05/31/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Igor Dzagoyev 85 - Yuriy Pyanov 72. Att: 5,000]
05/31/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 3-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Revaz Choladze 8, Jemal Silagadze 35, 65. Att: 20,000]

Round 12

06/04/1972 Alga Frunze 1-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Vladimir Oreshin. Att: 12,000]
06/04/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Yevgeniy Deryomov 22 - Boris Leonov 27. Att: 12,000]
06/04/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1-2 Chornomorets Odesa [Anatoliy Bytkin 15 - Leonid Buryak 6, Vladimir Butenko 24. Att: 15,000]
06/04/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 0-1 Nistru Kishinev [Alexandr Belyayev 44. Att: 5,000]
06/04/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Berador Abduraimov 27p 61, Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 45, 75 - Vyacheslav Yemelyanov 53. Att: 15,000]
06/04/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 4-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Vyacheslav Dryzhenko 15, 37, Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 60p, Georgiy Martyan 63. Att: 16,000]
06/04/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 1-1 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Viktor Kashchei 23 - Viktor Konshin 44. Att: 23,000]
06/04/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Georgiy Kaishauri 20. Att: 11,000]
06/04/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 3-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Igor Dzagoyev 58p, Oleg Chernyayev 68, Kazbek Pagiyev 74 - Anatoliy Napreyev 90. Att: 8,000]
06/04/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 4-0 Zvezda Perm [Jemal Kherkhadze 47, 50, 65, Jemal Silagadze 75. Att: 25,000]

Round 13

06/10/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 2-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Anatoliy Shepel 15, Vladimir Butenko 45p. Att: 36,000]
06/10/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Att: 1,000]
06/10/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1-2 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vyacheslav Gusarov 47 - Ravil Menzeleyev 8, Igor Dzagoyev 41. Att: 5,000]
06/10/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 1-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Vladimir Chaplygin 87 - Georgiy Kaishauri 16. Att: 2,000]
06/10/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-3 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Anatoliy Sizov 8, Nikolai Timoshenko 73 - Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 9, Viktor Varyukhin 84, Berador Abduraimov 87. Att: 5,000]
06/10/1972 Nistru Kishinev 1-2 Alga Frunze [Vladimir Gasperskiy 56p - Vladimir Oreshin 36, Mikhail Bitchutskiy 40. Att: 7,000]
06/10/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Viktor Abgolts 63 - Valeryan Panfilov 39. Att: 19,000]
06/10/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Att: 16,000]
06/10/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Sergei Venkov 20, Stanislav Lyubavin 67p - Jemal Silagadze 35p. Att: 8,000]
06/10/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 0-2 Zvezda Perm [Yevgeniy Pavlov 22, Yevgeniy Sesyunin 48. Att: 13,000]

Round 14

06/14/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 1-0 Alga Frunze [Viktor Zubkov 69. Att: 25,000]
06/14/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Att: 1,000]
06/14/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1-5 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Yuriy Novikov 29 - Berador Abduraimov 10, 67, 87, Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 53, Vyacheslav Kuzmin 81. Att: 10,000]
06/14/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Valeryan Panfilov 51. Att: 20,000]
06/14/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 1-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Valeriy Bokatov 30. Att: 7,000]
06/14/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 5-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Viktor Yeryomenko 10, Nikolai Penzin 32, Nikolai Kulichenkov 48, Viktor Kutin 82, Alexandr Tomakh 84. Att: 6,000]
06/14/1972 Nistru Kishinev 4-4 Pamir Dushanbe [Vyacheslav Kutsev 59, Anatoliy Teslev 61, 82, Nikolai Mikhailov 84 - Vladimir Makarov 35, Georgiy Martyan 42, Leonid Kirilenko 51, 88. Att: 7,000]
06/14/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Valeriy Kleshchov 62. Att: 22,000]
06/14/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Att: 15,000]
06/14/1972 Zvezda Perm 2-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Yevgeniy Sesyunin 69, Alexandr Markin 75 - Nikolai Bushuyev 63. Att: 20,000]

Round 15

06/21/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Vladimir Sanashokov 81 - Vladimir Butenko 8. Att: 10,000]
06/21/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Sergei Krayev 85. Att: 18,500]
06/21/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 1-2 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Georgiy Martyan 41 - Mikhail An 53, Vladimir Fyodorov 58. Att: 24,000]
06/21/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-2 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Alexandr Vasin 23, Yuriy Sevidov 36p - Oleg Usov 28, Viktor Kolodin 39. Att: 25,000]
06/21/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Alexei Kotov 77. Att: 12,000]
06/21/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-0 Nistru Kishinev [Georgiy Kaishauri 6, Valeriy Gazzayev 55. Att: 15,000]
06/21/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Alexandr Lenyov 18, Jemal Kherkhadze 48. Att: 17,000]
06/21/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 2-3 Dinamo Leningrad [Viktor Konshin 14, Darvis Hamadiyev 22 - Boris Govorunov 48, 87, Yuriy Belov 60. Att: 4,000]
06/21/1972 Zvezda Perm 2-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Alexandr Kozlovskikh 3, Vladimir Murin 60 - Gennadiy Gleb 85. Att: 20,000]

Round 16

06/25/1972 Alga Frunze 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Alexandr Kantsurov 61, Pyotr Shubin 81. Att: 11,000]
06/25/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-0 Nistru Kishinev [Yevgeniy Deryomov 54. Att: 8,000]
06/25/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Gennadiy Platonov 52, 70. Att: 18,000]
06/25/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Yuriy Sevidov 11, 60p, Viktor Prokopenko 42 - Emil Gubaniy 90. Att: 20,000]
06/25/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Att: 12,000]
06/25/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-2 Chornomorets Odesa [Viktor Zubkov (C) 4 og, Georgiy Kaishauri 40 - Anatoliy Shepel 35, Viktor Tomashevskiy 42. Att: 15,000]
06/25/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Jemal Silagadze 17, Shota Okropirashvili 83 - Yuriy Novikov 67. Att: 17,000]
06/25/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 0-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Valeriy Bokatov 53. Att: 3,000]
06/25/1972 Zvezda Perm 1-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Viktor Zelenetskiy 83. Att: 20,000]

Round 17

07/03/1972 Alga Frunze 2-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Mikhail Bitchutskiy 7, Ravil Yakubov 90 - Valeriy Gazzayev 4. Att: 9,000]
07/03/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 5-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Anatoliy Shepel 3, 43, Viktor Tomashevskiy 15, Vladimir Butenko 53, Leonid Buryak 62. Att: 35,000]
07/03/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Att: 3,000]
07/03/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 3-3 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Viktor kolodin, Oleg Usov, Vyacheslav Gusarov - Darvis Hamadiyev, Vyacheslav Vildyayev, Alexandr Zhuravlyov. Att: 8,000]
07/03/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-1 Zvezda Perm [Vladimir Zaitsev 37, Emil Gubaniy 82 - Vladimir Murin 48. Att: 10,000]
07/03/1972 Nistru Kishinev 0-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Att: 8,000]
07/03/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Vladimir Fyodorov 48. Att: 30,000]
07/03/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 2-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Georgiy Martyan 58, Vyacheslav Dryzhenko 85. Att: 10,000]
07/03/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Oleg Chernyayev 59. Att: 5,000]
07/03/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-3 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Vladimir Korotkov 30, 40, Alexandr Stenishchev 70. Att: 9,000]

Round 18

07/07/1972 Alga Frunze 2-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Zufar Gayfulin 28, Almaz Chokmorov 67. Att: 12,000]
07/07/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 2-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Anatoliy Shepel 17, 57. Att: 40,000]
07/07/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-2 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Vyacheslav Yemelyanov 45, 82. Att: 1,500]
07/07/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 2-2 Zvezda Perm [Oleg Usov 32, Anatoliy Zyuz 73 - Viktor Zelenetskiy 52, 88. Att: 5,000]
07/07/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Emil Gubaniy 43, Vladimir Zaitsev 72. Att: 5,000]
07/07/1972 Nistru Kishinev 2-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Nikolai Mikhailov 29, Anatoliy Rybak 75 - Ravil Aryapov 84. Att: 6,000]
07/07/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Viktor Varyukhin 59, Vyacheslav Kuzmin 70 - Anatoliy Konkov 56. Att: 20,000]
07/07/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 2-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov, Anatoliy Tsygankov - Garnik Tarasyan. Att: 20,000]
07/07/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Igor Dzagoyev 3 - Jemal Kherkhadze 50. Att: 6,000]

Round 19

07/14/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 1-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Yuriy Belov 64 - Anatoliy Shepel 20. Att: 3,500]
07/14/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 0-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Ravil Menzeleyev 72. Att: 9,000]
07/14/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 3-1 Nistru Kishinev [Boris Pankov 17, 20, Alexandr Borisenko 19 - Anatoliy Rybak 82. Att: 3,000]
07/14/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Att: 16,000]
07/14/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 2-1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Anatoliy Napreyev 20, Vladimir Korotkov 30 - Anatoliy Bytkin 67. Att: 20,000]
07/14/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Yuriy Pyanov 25, Sergei Venkov 50 - Viktor Yeryomenko 10. Att: 8,000]
07/14/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Jemal Kherkhadze 7. Att: 15,000]
07/14/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Vyacheslav Vildyayev 27 - Vladimir Makarov 69. Att: 3,000]
07/14/1972 Zvezda Perm 3-0 Alga Frunze [Alexandr Kozlovskikh 7, Vladimir Murin 60, 70. Att: 20,000]

Round 20

07/18/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Alexandr Korchonov 50 - Georgiy Kaishauri 65. Att: 25,000]
07/18/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-0 Nistru Kishinev [Att: 3,000]
07/18/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 0-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Vladimir Fyodorov 48. Att: 14,000]
07/18/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 1-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Nikolai Konovalov 67 - Yevgeniy Derevyaga 71. Att: 12,000]
07/18/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 3-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Leonid Klyuchik 9, Anatoliy Konkov 50, 57. Att: 18,000]
07/18/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 3-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Anatoliy Novikov 26p, 69, 83 - Vyacheslav Popov 43. Att: 13,000]
07/18/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Valeriy Kleshchov 30. Att: 21,000]
07/18/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Stanislav Lyubavin 30p, Vladimir Butov 55. Att: 11,000]
07/18/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-0 Alga Frunze [Viktor Konshin 15p. Att: 4,000]
07/18/1972 Zvezda Perm 4-2 Pamir Dushanbe [Vladimir Murin 30, Oleg Ovechkin 32, Viktor Zelenetskiy 64, 68 - Leonid Kirilenko 37, 75. Att: 18,000]

Round 21

07/25/1972 Alga Frunze 1-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Alexandr Kantsurov 68 - Roland Pestvenidze 58. Att: 18,000]
07/25/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 0-0 Zvezda Perm [Att: 40,000]
07/25/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 2-2 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Vasiliy Gladkikh 10p, Vladislav Ishchenko 84 - Viktor Abgolts 50, 83. Att: 8,000]
07/25/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 1-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Alexandr Borisenko 85 - Vladimir Butov 5. Att: 1,000]
07/25/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Nikolai Penzin 19 - Alexandr Kupriyanov 47. Att: 6,000]
07/25/1972 Nistru Kishinev 6-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Viktor Stroganov 16, 88, Anatoliy Rybak 29, Nikolai Siniy 62, Nikolai Mikhailov 70, Vladimir Kutsev 78. Att: 10,000]
07/25/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Vyacheslav Kuzmin 19, Vladimir Fyodorov 41, 83. Att: 25,000]
07/25/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk [Anatoliy Konkov 74, Alexandr Vasin 81. Att: 15,000]
07/25/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Att: 6,000]

Round 22

07/29/1972 Alga Frunze 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Att: 16,000]
07/29/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 3-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Vladimir Nechayev 14, Sergei Zvenigorodskiy 56, Leonid Buryak 76. Att: 27,000]
07/29/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 1-2 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Yuriy Belov 60 - Vladimir Korotkov 41, Valeriy Reingold 72. Att: 2,000]
07/29/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Valeryan Panfilov (KS) 62og. Att: 10,000]
07/29/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Nikolai Golikov 61, Emil Gubaniy 80 - Alexandr Savchenkov 23. Att: 8,000]
07/29/1972 Nistru Kishinev 3-0 Zvezda Perm [Viktor Stroganov 22, Anatoliy Rybak 51, Nikolai Mikhailov 80. Att: 10,000]
07/29/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Yuriy Ivanov 34, Berador Abduraimov 81, 85, Vyacheslav Kuzmin 89. Att: 25,000]
07/29/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 1-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Georgiy Martyan 3 - Roland Pestvenidze 66. Att: 18,000]
07/29/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Sergei Fomin 51 - Garnik Tarasyan 14. Att: 15,000]

Round 23

08/04/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 1-1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Yuriy Belov 32 - Oleg Usov 11. Att: 1,000]
08/04/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Stanislav Karasyov (P) 53 og - Shuhrat Azamov 8. Att: 8,000]
08/04/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 0-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Att: 2,000]
08/04/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-5 Alga Frunze [Boris Podkorytov 11, 42, Vladimir Oreshin 19, Alexandr Kantsurov 58, 60. Att: 12,000]
08/04/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Valeriy Kleshchov 52, Valeriy Reingold 56, Anatoliy Napreyev 87 - Viktor Tomashevskiy 50. Att: 25,000]
08/04/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Nikolai Hudiyev 66. Att: 15,000]
08/04/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-0 Nistru Kishinev [Att: 12,500]
08/04/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Boris Yarkin 3 - Yevgeniy Timoshenko 23. Att: 2,000]
08/04/1972 Zvezda Perm 1-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Viktor Zelenetskiy 40 - Berador Abduraimov 12p. Att: 27,000]

Round 24

08/08/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladimir Sanashokov 47. Att: 15,000]
08/08/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 2-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Vladimir Kondrashov 27, Boris Govorunov 50 - Nikolai Kulichenkov 68. Att: 3,000]
08/08/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-1 Alga Frunze [Gennadiy Platonov 62p - Alexandr Kantsurov 58. Att: 20,000]
08/08/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 3-0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Valeriy Bokatov 27, 69, Yevgeniy Buchenko (K) 37og. Att: 6,000]
08/08/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 4-2 Pamir Dushanbe [Viktor Abgolts 31, 73, Alexandr Savchenkov 33, Nikolai Bushuyev 54 - Georgiy Martyan 15, 62. Att: 7,000]
08/08/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-1 Nistru Kishinev [Vladimir Pankov 22 - Nikolai Tabachuk 66. Att: 24,000]
08/08/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 3-2 Chornomorets Odesa [Mikhail Potapov 15, Yuriy Pyanov 32, Stanislav Lyubavin 86p - Leonid Buryak 26p, Vladimir Butenko 79. Att: 18,000]
08/08/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Viktor Konshin 63. Att: 8,000]
08/08/1972 Zvezda Perm 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Alexandr Kozlovskikh 38, 86. Att: 18,000]

Round 25

08/15/1972 Alga Frunze 1-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Alexandr Kantsurov 60p - Alexandr Stenishchev 17. Att: 15,000]
08/15/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-1 Zvezda Perm [Ruslan Ashibokov 29 - Nikolai Kargatyev 21. Att: 20,000]
08/15/1972 Nistru Kishinev 3-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Igor Nadein 55p, 72, 80. Att: 15,000]
08/15/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Vyacheslav Solokho 10, Berador Abduraimov 54p, 87, Vassilis Hatzipanagis 61. Att: 30,000]
08/15/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 1-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Shuhrat Azamov 22 - Mikhail Potapov 48. Att: 12,000]
08/15/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Anatoliy Konkov 63, Yuriy Gubich 66. Att: 20,000]
08/15/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 0-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Att: 8,000]
08/15/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Ravil Menzeleyev 31, 51. Att: 5,000]
08/15/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 0-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Sergei Krayev 18. Att: 25,000]

Round 26

08/19/1972 Alga Frunze 0-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Mikhail Potapov 59. Att: 10,000]
08/19/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 2-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Viktor Batarin 27, Alexandr Korchonov 62. Att: 8,000]
08/19/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 2-1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Merab Asitashvili 82, Yevgeniy Derevyaga 87 - Vladimir Ustimchik 25. Att: 30,000]
08/19/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Vyacheslav Kuzmin 55, Berador Abduraimov 61, 90p. Att: 25,000]
08/19/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 0-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Att: 10,000]
08/19/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 0-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Att: 20,000]
08/19/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 3-0 Zvezda Perm [Nodar Papelishvili 11, Ruslan Kadiyev 33, Valeriy Gazzayev 79. Att: 13,000]
08/19/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-2 Dinamo Leningrad [Yuriy Belov 13, Vladimir Kondrashov 31. Att: 5,000]
08/19/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 3-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Alexandr Lenyov 15, 20, Jemal Kherkhadze 60 - Anatoliy Novikov 65. Att: 10,000]

Round 27

08/27/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 3-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Anatoliy Shepel 20, 69, Viktor Maslov 74 - Vyacheslav Kuzmin 24. Att: 40,000]
08/27/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan 20. Att: 4,000]
08/27/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Georgiy Martyan 67. Att: 10,000]
08/27/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 5-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Vladimir Dudko 27, Sergei Krayev 42, 83, 88, Alexandr Kupriyanov 77 - Anatoliy Novikov 56. Att: 19,000]
08/27/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-1 Alga Frunze [Emil Gubaniy 16, 36p - Alexandr Kantsurov 74. Att: 6,000]
08/27/1972 Nistru Kishinev 0-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Att: 14,000]
08/27/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Valeriy Yaremchenko 10, Vladimir Zakharov 11. Att: 22,000]
08/27/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 2-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Nikolai Smirnov 35p, Alexandr Stenishchev 85. Att: 25,000]
08/27/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-1 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Sergei Zernov 69, Sergei Venkov 75 - Ruslan Shabatukov 55. Att: 20,000]
08/27/1972 Zvezda Perm 2-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Alexandr Kozlovskikh 29, 84. Att: 18,000]

Round 28

08/31/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 2-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Anatoliy Shepel 5, Merab Asitashvili 55 - Yakub Urazsahatov 62. Att: 35,000]
08/31/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 0-3 Shakhtar Donetsk [Viktor Prokopenko 41, Vladimir Zakharov 43, Anatoliy Konkov 44. Att: 1,000]
08/31/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 3-0 Alga Frunze [Vladislav Ishchenko, Vasiliy Gladkikh, Vladimir Tovchikh. Att: 7,000]
08/31/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 0-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Jemal Kherkhadze 5. Att: 1,500]
08/31/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Emil Gubaniy 45. Att: 8,000]
08/31/1972 Nistru Kishinev 1-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Igor Nadein 24 - Berador Abduraimov 54. Att: 16,000]
08/31/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-1 Zvezda Perm [Nikolai Igamberdiyev 56 - Alexandr Kozlovskikh 84. Att: 10,000]
08/31/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Vladimir Korotkov 8, Vladimir Pankov 50, Anatoliy Napreyev 70. Att: 22,000]
08/31/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 3-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Vyacheslav Yemelyanov 23, Yuriy Pyanov 39, Mikhail Potapov 80. Att: 16,000]

Round 29

09/07/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Viktor Batarin 30p - Nikolai Penzin 33. Att: 8,000]
09/07/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 5-1 Dinamo Leningrad [Alexandr Kupriyanov 7, 86, Sergei Krayev 40, 59, Valeryan Panfilov 41 - Vladimir Kondrashov 31. Att: 9,000]
09/07/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 4-0 Nistru Kishinev [Leonid Klyuchik 28, Yuriy Gubich 54, Vladimir Zakharov 83, Viktor Prokopenko 85. Att: 18,000]
09/07/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Anatoliy Novikov 26. Att: 10,000]
09/07/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Georgiy Kaishauri 60 - Vladislav Ishchenko 69. Att: 10,000]
09/07/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 3-1 Alga Frunze [Igor Dzagoyev 76, 86p, Yakub Urazsahatov 81 - Zufar Gayfulin 87. Att: 7,000]
09/07/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Jemal Silagadze 59p, 75 - Vladimir Butenko 76p. Att: 20,000]
09/07/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 0-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Att: 1,000]
09/07/1972 Zvezda Perm 1-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Viktor Zelenetskiy 45 - Anatoliy Napreyev 34. Att: 18,000]

Round 30

09/11/1972 Alga Frunze 2-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Almaz Chokmorov 35, Alexandr Kantsurov 85 - Berador Abduraimov 65p. Att: 15,000]
09/11/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Viktor Batarin 20. Att: 6,000]
09/11/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Sergei Krayev 16. Att: 11,000]
09/11/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Yuriy Gubich 20, Viktor Prokopenko 40 - Sergei Zvenigorodskiy 30. Att: 35,000]
09/11/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Alexandr Savchenkov 13. Att: 8,000]
09/11/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 3-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Georgiy Kaishauri 12, 40p, Garnik Tarasyan 66 - Emil Gubaniy 75. Att: 8,000]
09/11/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Valeriy Fursov 2, Sergei Fomin 85 - Georgiy Martyan 25. Att: 4,000]
09/11/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Nistru Kishinev [Shota Okropirashvili 65, Roland Pestvenidze 70. Att: 18,000]
09/11/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 4-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Alexandr Zabyshny 10, Viktor Konshin 50p, Darvis Hamadiyev 59, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 78 - Valeriy Kleshchov 60. Att: 1,000]
09/11/1972 Zvezda Perm 0-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Vyacheslav Yemelyanov. Att: 12,000]

Round 31

09/17/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Berador Abduraimov 49, 65p. Att: 20,000]
09/19/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 4-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Leonid Buryak 23, 74, Merab Asitashvili 41, Anatoliy Shepel 81 - Georgiy Kaishauri 3. Att: 30,000]
09/19/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 2-2 Zvezda Perm [Georgiy Knyazev 55, 83 - Viktor Zelenetskiy 3, Alexandr Kozlovskikh 42. Att: 250]
09/19/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 3-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Viktor Kolodin 18, 34, Vladimir Ustimchik 68 - Jemal Kherkhadze 1. Att: 15,000]
09/19/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 0-2 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Anatoliy Zhos 7, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 29. Att: 1,000]
09/19/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Viktor Kutin 21, Nikolai Kulichenkov 58. Att: 10,000]
09/19/1972 Nistru Kishinev 0-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Att: 6,000]
09/19/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 2-2 Alga Frunze [Georgiy Martyan 1, Arsen Petrosov 55 - Zufar Gayfulin 14, Almaz Chokmorov 60. Att: 10,000]
09/19/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Vladimir Pankov 47. Att: 21,000]
09/19/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-2 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Alexandr Kupriyanov 8, Sergei Krayev 45. Att: 12,000]

Round 32

09/23/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 4-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Viktor Maslov 30, Vladimir Butenko 33, Viktor Tomashevskiy 74, Anatoliy Shepel 84p. Att: 20,000]
09/23/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 3-2 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Valeriy Pritulin 14, Yuriy Belov 48, Vladimir Kondrashov 56 - Anatoliy Zhos 76, Alexandr Grebenozhko 88. Att: 1,500]
09/23/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 2-2 Shakhtar Donetsk [Oleg Usov 4, 80 - Yuriy Gubich 63p, Sergei Miroshnichenko (K) 65og. Att: 20,000]
09/23/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 1-1 Zvezda Perm [Valeriy Bokatov 30 - Alexandr Markin 57. Att: 2,000]
09/23/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Viktor Yeryomenko 19. Att: 12,000]
09/23/1972 Nistru Kishinev 2-2 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Anatoliy Teslev 25, Anatoliy Rybak 45 - Yuriy Abayev 14, Garnik Tarasyan 35. Att: 5,500]
09/23/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-2 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Alexandr Kupriyanov 50, Pavel Shmelkov 54. Att: 18,000]
09/23/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Att: 10,000]
11/08/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3-2 Pamir Dushanbe [Berador Abduraimov 50, 82, Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 61 - Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 72, Leonid Kirilenko 86. Att: 25,000]

Round 33

09/30/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Georgiy Verbovskiy 82 - Leonid Kirilenko 70. Att: 3,000]
09/30/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 3-0 Nistru Kishinev [Alexandr Kupriyanov 28, Ravil Aryapov 46, 64. Att: 13,000]
09/30/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Alexandr Vasin 50, 53. Att: 10,000]
09/30/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-0 Chornomorets Odesa [Att: 10,000]
09/30/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Att: 10,000]
09/30/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 3-0 Alga Frunze [Nodar Papelishvili 9, Yuriy Abayev 33, Georgiy Kaishauri 44. Att: 2,000]
09/30/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Att: 5,000]
09/30/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 2-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Alexandr Grebenozhko 20, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 31 - Emil Gubaniy 81. Att: 2,000]
09/30/1972 Zvezda Perm 1-0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Viktor Zenin 71p. Att: 8,000]
11/11/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Roland Pestvenidze 35, Durmishkhan Kviria 50. Att: 4,000]

Round 34

10/04/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-1 Alga Frunze [Vladimir Sanashokov 16 - Nikolai Barannikov 68. Att: 4,000]
10/04/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Pavel Shmelkov 34, Alexandr Kupriyanov 42 - Sergei Zvenigorodskiy 75. Att: 28,000]
10/04/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 0-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Att: 800]
10/04/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Viktor Prokopenko 13, Vladimir Safonov 89. Att: 30,000]
10/04/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Nistru Kishinev [Viktor Abgolts 74. Att: 7,000]
10/04/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-2 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Anatoliy Napreyev 51, 75, Vladimir Pankov 61 - Vladimir Butov 18, Yuriy Pyanov 67. Att: 16,000]
10/04/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Nodar Papelishvili 20, 78. Att: 7,800]
10/04/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Jemal Kherkhadze 19, Roland Pestvenidze 55. Att: 14,000]
10/04/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Alexandr Grebenozhko 15. Att: 2,400]
10/04/1972 Zvezda Perm 1-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Viktor Zelenetskiy 83. Att: 11,500]

Round 35

10/10/1972 Alga Frunze 2-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Alexandr Kantsurov 23, Nikolai Barannikov 28. Att: 12,000]
10/10/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 2-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Anatoliy Shepel 37, Leonid Buryak 54p. Att: 25,000]
10/10/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 3-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Stanislav Vovk 52p, Viktor Kolodin 66, Yuriy Novikov 71. Att: 4,500]
10/10/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 3-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Viktor Yeryomenko 33, Viktor Kutin 39, 42. Att: 5,000]
10/10/1972 Nistru Kishinev 2-1 Dinamo Leningrad [Nikolai Mikhailov 67, 90 - Vladimir Polyakov 35. Att: 6,000]
10/10/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3-2 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Berador Abduraimov 2, 34, Vassilis Hatzipanagis 82 - Valeryan Panfilov 26, Sergei Krayev 29. Att: 20,000]
10/10/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 1-0 Zvezda Perm [Vladimir Makarov 65p. Att: 6,000]
10/10/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-2 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Alexandr Kochiyev 43p - Ruslan Shabatukov 30, Anatoliy Shapovalov 34. Att: 12,000]
10/10/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Sergei Fomin 20, Ruchil Shaulov 84 - Anatoliy Novikov 65. Att: 4,000]
10/10/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 0-2 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladimir Safonov 41, Viktor Prokopenko 54. Att: 15,000]

Round 36

10/14/1972 Alga Frunze 1-1 Zvezda Perm [Alexandr Kantsurov 89p - Viktor Zelenetskiy 58. Att: 10,000]
10/14/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 0-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Att: 9,000]
10/14/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 1-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Leonid Buryak 89. Att: 15,000]
10/14/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 4-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Vladislav Ishchenko 24, Stanislav Vovk 54p, Oleg Usov 61, Ivan Makhno 64 - Nikolai Smirnov 73p. Att: 7,000]
10/14/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Fyodor Chorba 58. Att: 6,000]
10/14/1972 Nistru Kishinev 2-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Nikolai Tabachuk 35, Vyacheslav Katkov 80 - Valeriy Bokatov 10. Att: 4,000]
10/14/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 5-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Vladimir Fyodorov 23, Berador Abduraimov 26, 77, Vassilis Hatzipanagis 66, Viktor Varyukhin 80 - Nikolai Bushuyev 57. Att: 18,000]
10/14/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 6-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Georgiy Martyan 9, Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 13, 51, 86p, Vladimir Makarov 88. Att: 6,000]
10/14/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Alexandr Vasin 4, 71. Att: 30,000]
10/14/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Ravil Menzeleyev 30 - Ravil Aryapov 47. Att: 3,000]

Round 37

10/20/1972 Chornomorets Odesa 0-1 Nistru Kishinev [Vyacheslav Katkov 80. Att: 17,000]
10/20/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 3-0 Alga Frunze [Vladimir Kondrashov 25, Vladimir Polyakov 71, Yuriy Belov 82. Att: 1,000]
10/20/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 2-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Vladimir Ustimchik 30, Stanislav Vovk 36 - Nikolai Kulichenkov 80. Att: 18,000]
10/20/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 3-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Alexandr Kupriyanov 21, Ravil Aryapov 35, 80 - Nodar Papelishvili 81. Att: 12,000]
10/20/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 3-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Vladislav Gunko 33, Viktor Aristov 47, Vladimir Babayev 65 - Alexandr Pogorelov 21. Att: 800]
10/20/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-1 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Viktor Abgolts 67 - Georgiy Verbovskiy 46. Att: 4,000]
10/20/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-3 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Alexandr Stenishchev 83 - Berador Abduraimov 60, 75, Vassilis Hatzipanagis 80. Att: 16,000]
10/20/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 1-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Ivan Ponomaryov 19. Att: 5,000]
10/20/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 3-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Alexandr Zhuravlyov 30, 72, Alexandr Zabyshny 60 - Yuriy Mironov 29. Att: 1,500]
10/20/1972 Zvezda Perm 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Att: 13,000]

Round 38

10/24/1972 Dinamo Leningrad 2-2 Pamir Dushanbe [Yuriy Belov 42, Boris Govorunov 63 - Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 28, Vladimir Makarov 57. Att: 500]
10/24/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [Rafik Batrayev (A) 67 og, Boris Leonov 81. Att: 12,000]
10/24/1972 Metalist Kharkiv 2-0 Alga Frunze [Yakov Nemirovskiy 30, 61. Att: 3,000]
10/24/1972 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-0 Chornomorets Odesa [Emil Gubaniy 58, Nikolai Kulichenkov 64. Att: 12,000]
10/24/1972 Nistru Kishinev 2-0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Vladimir Kutsev 2, Igor Nadein 71. Att: 10,000]
10/24/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 2-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Nikolai Igamberdiyev 62, Oleg Gunyayev 83. Att: 7,000]
10/24/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Att: 10,000]
10/24/1972 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 3-3 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Alexandr Tulbin 36, Valeriy Gornushkin 71, Mikhail Potapov 82 - Viktor Varyukhin 19, 52, Berador Abduraimov 65. Att: 15,000]
10/24/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 1-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Sergei Shklyar (S) 33og. Att: 5,000]
10/24/1972 Zvezda Perm 1-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Yevgeniy Pavlov 62 - Jemal Kherkhadze 11. Att: 20,000]

Round 39

10/31/1972 Alga Frunze 5-1 Nistru Kishinev [Alexandr Kantsurov 6p, 48, 70, Almaz Chokmorov 17, Stanislav Komlev 47 - Nikolai Tabachuk 77p. Att: 4,000]
10/31/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 0-0 Dinamo Leningrad [Att: 4,000]
10/31/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Vladimir Zaitsev (M) 11 og, Vladimir Fyodorov 13, Berador Abduraimov 55p, 68. Att: 10,000]
10/31/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 1-0 Chornomorets Odesa [Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 61. Att: 7,000]
10/31/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Viktor Prokopenko 12, 46, Anatoliy Konkov 22 - Mikhail Potapov 85. Att: 30,000]
10/31/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 3-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Georgiy Kaishauri 20, Ruslan Kadiyev 58, Nodar Papelishvili 88. Att: 3,000]
10/31/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-2 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Igor Dzagoyev 70p - Oleg Usov 43, 65. Att: 8,000]
10/31/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Jemal Silagadze 7, Roland Pestvenidze 8. Att: 10,000]
10/31/1972 UralMash Sverdlovsk 2-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Alexandr Zabyshny 5, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 14. Att: 1,000]

Round 40

11/04/1972 Alga Frunze 1-3 Chornomorets Odesa [Nikolai Barannikov - Anatoliy Shepel-2, Anatoliy Yegorov. Att: 10,000]
11/04/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 1-2 Metalist Kharkiv [Ruslan Ashibokov 60 - Valeriy Bokatov 18, Alexandr Borisenko 65. Att: 500]
11/04/1972 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-1 Zvezda Perm [Gennadiy Platonov 45 - Alexandr Kozlovskikh 12. Att: 4,000]
11/04/1972 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3-1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih [Viktor Varyukhin 1, 56, Vladimir Fyodorov 72 - Oleg Usov 71. Att: 15,000]
11/04/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 2-2 Nistru Kishinev [Georgiy Martyan 10, 65 - Igor Nadein 17, Nikolai Mikhailov 69. Att: 8,000]
11/04/1972 Shakhtar Donetsk 4-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Anatoliy Konkov 7, Viktor Kashchei 33, 53, Alexandr Vasin 69 - Valeriy Reingold 84. Att: 7,000]
11/04/1972 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-2 UralMash Sverdlovsk [Alexandr Savchenkov 62 - Alexandr Zhuravlyov 7, Yevgeniy Gerasimenko (S) 20og. Att: 4,000]
11/04/1972 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 4-2 Dinamo Leningrad [Nodar Papelishvili 1, 76, Georgiy Kaishauri 25, 33 - Yuriy Solovyov 14, Boris Govorunov 59. Att: 2,500]
11/04/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Ruchil Shaulov 29, Igor Dzagoyev 68. Att: 7,000]
11/04/1972 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-2 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Shota Okropirashvili 57 - Alexandr Tulbin 11, Mikhail Potapov 47. Att: 2,000]

Top scorers:

1972 Soviet Second League (Third Level)

Zone I (Ukraine)

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk   0-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-1 3-2 1-0 0-0 2-0 2-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 2-0 2-1 2-0 4-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 23 17 6 51-28 63
2 Hoverla Uzhgorod 2-0   2-0 1-1 1-0 3-0 2-0 2-1 2-1 2-1 2-1 2-0 3-0 4-1 5-1 0-0 4-0 0-0 1-0 4-0 1-2 4-0 1-1 1-0 25 8 13 70-44 58
3 Tavriya Symferopol 2-0 3-0   0-0 1-0 2-0 0-1 +:- 4-0 1-0 0-1 5-1 1-0 3-0 5-1 1-0 1-0 1-2 1-0 1-1 2-3 4-0 5-0 3-0 25 7 14 62-32 57
4 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolayiv 3-0 1-0 0-1   1-1 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-1 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 2-1 2-1 0-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 4-1 2-0 2-1 3-2 20 17 9 48-25 57
5 Shakhtar Kadiyivka 2-0 4-1 1-0 0-0   0-1 2-0 1-0 1-2 2-2 2-0 1-1 0-1 3-1 2-1 3-0 2-1 4-1 3-0 0-1 2-0 1-0 4-0 0-0 22 11 13 60-35 55
6 Dynamo Khmelnytskyi 2-2 4-1 3-1 0-0 3-2   0-2 0-0 2-2 3-0 1-0 1-1 0-0 1-2 0-1 4-0 2-1 2-0 2-0 5-1 4-1 1-0 2-0 1-1 18 18 10 56-39 54
7 Lokomotyv Vinnytsya 0-1 3-2 2-1 1-2 0-0 0-0   1-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 2-0 3-1 2-1 2-1 2-0 1-0 3-0 3-1 4-1 +:- 19 16 11 49-36 54
8 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr 2-0 1-1 0-1 1-0 0-0 1-1 0-0   2-0 5-2 0-0 3-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 2-1 0-1 3-1 1-0 2-1 3-0 +:- 19 15 12 44-31 53
9 Metalurh Zhdanov 4-0 1-1 0-0 1-2 0-2 2-1 2-1 1-1   1-0 1-1 2-0 2-1 1-0 3-4 2-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 4-0 1-1 3-2 +:- 20 13 13 56-45 53
10 SK Chernyhiv 1-1 1-2 2-2 1-1 3-0 4-1 0-0 1-0 0-2   1-1 3-1 1-0 1-0 2-1 3-1 3-1 1-1 -:+ 4-0 3-1 1-0 2-1 0-0 19 14 13 56-41 52
11 Budivelnyk Poltava 0-3 0-0 2-1 1-0 1-1 1-1 1-1 0-1 2-1 0-0   1-0 1-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-3 1-1 3-0 2-1 4-2 1-0 1-0 1-0 17 17 12 44-45 51
12 Shakhtar Makiyivka 1-1 2-1 0-1 1-1 2-1 1-1 0-0 0-1 3-1 0-0 2-0   1-0 4-0 3-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 2-2 1-1 4-0 2-0 2-1 +:- 16 18 12 46-39 50
13 Avanhard Sevastopol 0-0 3-0 3-1 1-1 0-1 0-0 1-2 2-1 2-0 1-0 1-1 0-0   1-0 2-2 1-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 15 17 14 33-31 47
14 Zirka Kirovohrad 1-1 2-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-3 1-1 3-1 1-1   1-0 2-0 2-1 1-3 1-0 3-3 1-1 2-2 2-2 3-0 13 18 15 40-51 44
15 Budivelnyk Ternopol 0-2 0-1 2-1 1-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-2 1-1 0-0 1-3 0-0 1-0 2-0   1-1 1-1 2-0 2-0 4-0 1-2 0-0 2-2 +:- 14 15 17 50-55 43
16 Khimik Severodonetsk 1-1 1-0 1-1 2-1 2-1 0-0 0-0 3-0 1-0 0-1 4-2 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-2   0-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 2-0 0-2 4-1 +:- 15 13 18 37-49 43
17 Shakhtar Gorlivka 0-1 3-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 0-1 3-1 1-1 2-2 0-0 2-2 0-1 0-0 1-1 1-2 1-1   3-1 0-2 3-1 0-0 3-0 4-0 +:- 9 22 15 43-44 40
18 Avanhard Rivne 0-0 2-1 0-1 1-0 0-2 0-1 0-0 3-1 0-1 1-1 0-0 1-0 0-3 1-1 1-1 1-0 0-0   2-2 5-1 1-0 1-1 3-0 2-0 13 14 19 41-52 40
19 Frunzenets Sumy 1-1 0-3 0-1 1-2 2-1 1-3 0-1 0-0 0-1 1-0 2-0 0-0 2-1 1-1 0-0 4-2 1-0 0-1   2-3 1-2 0-0 3-0 1-0 16 8 22 35-50 40
20 Lokomotyv Kherson 0-0 1-0 2-0 2-1 0-2 1-1 4-3 3-0 2-5 1-2 3-1 1-3 1-1 1-0 0-3 1-2 2-1 3-2 0-1   1-0 2-1 1-2 6-0 15 7 24 55-81 37
21 Bukovyna Chernivtsi 0-0 0-1 0-2 0-0 0-2 1-1 1-1 0-1 0-0 0-2 1-2 0-1 0-0 2-1 2-1 0-0 0-0 3-1 1-0 2-0   1-1 0-0 1-0 10 16 20 32-62 36
22 SK Lutsk 1-1 1-2 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-2 1-0 1-1 1-2 0-0 1-2 2-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-1 2-1 1-1   3-1 2-0 8 17 21 30-52 33
23 Lokomotyv Donetsk 0-0 1-2 0-1 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 0-2 0-2 0-0 1-1 0-1 2-1 1-1 1-2 0-0 0-1 2-1 0-0 2-1   1-1 8 13 25 32-71 29
24 Mayak Kharkiv 1-3 0-1 -:+ 0-1 -:+ -:+ 3-3 2-0 0-0 -:+ -:+ 1-1 -:+ 0-0 1-5 1-0 1-1 -:+ -:+ 0-1 1-1 -:+ 0-3   2 11 33 15-47 15
1 - Avanhard Ternopil changed name to Budivelnyk Ternopil.
2 - Horyn Rivne changed name to Avanhard Rivne.
3 - Spartak Moskva Sumy changed name to Frunzenets Sumy.
4 - Torpedo Lutsk changed name to SK Lutsk.
5 - Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk advance to 1972 Second League Promotion Play-Off.
6 - Mayak Kharkiv withdraws before the end of the season.

Zone II

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Daugava Riga   4-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 1-1 3-1 2-0 3-0 3-1 2-0 3-0 2-0 1-1 1-0 4-2 3-2 4-1 1-1 1-0 22 10 6 52-21 76
2 Electron Novgorod 1-0   1-1 1-1 2-0 1-1 0-0 1-1 1-0 6-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 3-0 3-0 1-0 2-0 0-1 4-1 +:- 21 12 5 53-28 75
3 Volga Kalinin 1-1 3-1   1-1 0-0 2-0 1-1 2-1 0-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 6-0 1-0 3-1 5-0 3-0 4-0 +:- 21 10 7 58-26 73
4 Lokomotiv Kaluga 0-1 0-0 2-1   4-0 1-0 3-0 3-2 0-0 3-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 2-0 1-1 1-0 2-0 1-1 0-0 +:- 18 12 8 49-27 66
5 Žalgiris Vilnius 1-0 1-1 1-0 2-0   1-1 3-1 1-1 1-2 0-1 2-0 1-1 2-1 1-1 3-0 3-0 2-1 1-0 3-1 1-0 16 13 9 44-34 61
6 Spartak Brest 0-1 1-1 2-3 3-1 2-2   4-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 1-1 1-1 2-0 4-1 1-1 14 15 9 44-32 57
7 Mashinostroitel Pskov 1-0 2-1 2-0 0-1 1-0 0-0   1-1 0-0 2-1 0-0 1-0 3-0 1-1 2-1 3-2 3-0 1-0 3-0 1-0 15 12 11 36-33 57
8 Sever Murmansk 0-0 0-1 0-2 2-1 4-2 1-2 0-0   1-0 1-0 3-0 1-0 1-2 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 1-1 15 10 13 32-30 55
9 Iskra Smolensk 1-0 0-1 2-0 1-0 2-0 0-0 1-0 0-1   3-0 1-1 0-3 1-2 0-1 2-2 2-1 1-1 4-1 2-0 2-0 15 9 14 37-36 54
10 GomSelMash Gomel 1-0 1-1 0-1 1-1 1-4 1-0 3-1 1-0 1-0   0-0 4-1 4-0 1-1 0-0 1-0 1-2 2-0 3-0 +:- 15 9 14 39-45 54
11 Baltika Kaliningrad 1-2 2-2 0-1 0-0 2-2 2-2 0-0 2-3 4-1 3-0   2-0 1-0 4-0 2-1 3-1 3-0 2-0 3-2 2-1 12 13 13 44-38 49
12 Metallurg Tula 1-3 0-1 0-0 0-1 2-1 1-4 1-0 0-0 3-4 1-1 4-2   6-1 4-2 1-0 5-1 2-1 0-0 0-0 +:- 12 10 16 48-52 46
13 Zvejnieks Liepaja 0-0 0-1 0-1 1-2 1-0 1-1 2-1 0-0 2-1 2-2 0-0 1-1   2-2 0-0 2-1 1-1 1-0 1-1 +:- 11 13 14 29-42 46
14 Dinamo Kirov 1-2 0-1 1-1 1-1 0-0 1-0 1-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 2-3 2-0 0-1   1-0 6-0 1-0 5-1 0-2 +:- 11 13 14 37-47 46
15 Dvina Vitebsk 0-0 2-0 2-1 1-0 0-1 1-2 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 4-0 0-1 4-1   1-2 0-0 0-1 3-0 1-0 12 8 18 31-35 44
16 Atlantas Klaipeda 0-2 2-2 1-1 1-4 0-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 2-2   0-0 1-0 1-0 +:- 11 11 16 32-54 44
17 Spartak Mogilyov 0-0 1-1 1-5 1-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 1-0 1-1 0-1 0-0 3-2 2-1 0-0 1-0 1-1   2-1 0-2 +:- 9 13 16 25-47 40
18 Neman Grodno 0-0 0-2 2-1 1-1 0-0 1-2 0-1 1-0 1-2 0-1 0-0 2-2 0-0 2-1 2-0 1-1 2-1   1-0 0-0 10 10 18 24-45 40
19 Spartak Petrozavodsk 2-0 1-3 0-1 0-5 1-1 1-1 1-1 0-2 0-1 4-2 1-0 1-1 0-2 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-1   0-1 6 10 22 23-58 28
20 Stroitel Syktyvkar -:+ 1-2 1-1 2-2 -:+ -:+ -:+ -:+ -:+ 1-1 0-0 0-3 1-0 1-2 0-1 3-0 1-0 -:+ -:+   4 7 27 15-22 19
1 - 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss.
2 - Daugava Riga advance to 1972 Second League Final.
3 - Stroitel Syktyvkar withdraws before the end of the season.

Zone III

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Metallurh Lipetsk   5-1 2-1 4-1 4-2 2-1 3-1 2-0 0-2 2-0 0-1 2-0 3-2 3-2 0-0 6-1 2-1 3-0 2-3 22 10 4 66-31 54
2 Kuban Krasnodar 3-0   2-2 0-0 3-1 1-1 2-1 3-2 3-0 3-1 4-1 1-0 0-0 1-1 3-0 1-0 4-0 6-0 4-0 19 10 7 58-24 48
3 Trud Voronezh 0-0 1-0   3-1 0-1 1-0 2-0 2-3 4-0 2-0 1-0 4-0 1-1 1-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 1-1 5-1 18 10 8 53-29 46
4 Mertskhali Makharadze 1-1 1-0 2-1   0-0 1-0 2-0 3-0 3-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 2-0 1-0 2-2 2-0 3-2 2-0 19 8 9 47-34 46
5 Dinamo Batumi 1-1 1-2 2-1 2-0   1-0 2-1 1-1 1-1 0-0 4-1 1-1 1-0 6-1 1-2 2-1 3-1 1-0 5-3 14 15 7 52-39 43
6 Zvezda Tiraspol 0-2 1-0 0-0 1-0 2-0   1-2 2-0 1-0 3-0 1-0 2-0 4-1 1-0 2-0 0-2 1-0 1-0 1-0 15 9 12 33-26 39
7 Druzhba Maikop 0-1 0-0 1-1 3-0 1-1 1-0   1-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 4-1 4-0 1-0 2-1 0-0 2-0 4-2 2-0 14 10 12 39-31 38
8 Dinamo Bryansk 1-2 0-1 2-1 1-0 1-1 2-0 1-1   1-0 3-1 3-0 3-1 2-0 2-1 0-1 1-0 2-0 1-0 4-1 16 6 14 47-48 38
9 Mashinostroitel Podolsk 1-3 0-0 1-0 1-2 1-0 1-1 0-0 3-1   0-0 2-1 3-1 1-0 0-1 1-1 2-0 3-0 0-0 3-0 14 9 13 35-34 37
10 Salyut Belgorod 1-1 1-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 2-1 0-1 4-0 2-0   2-1 0-0 1-0 1-1 2-1 2-0 0-0 3-0 2-0 12 12 12 35-37 36
11 Kolkhida Poti 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 2-1 3-0 1-0 2-1   2-1 2-1 1-1 2-0 4-2 4-1 0-0 3-2 13 9 14 37-42 35
12 Dila Gori 1-1 0-0 2-0 2-2 1-1 1-1 1-0 3-2 2-0 2-0 1-0   2-1 1-0 2-0 1-1 1-1 2-1 1-0 12 11 13 35-41 35
13 Guria Lanchhuti 0-2 1-0 1-1 2-3 0-1 2-0 1-0 4-2 1-0 2-0 2-3 2-1   7-0 1-1 3-2 1-0 2-1 2-0 12 7 17 46-49 31
14 Kalitva Belaya Kalitva -:+ 0-2 0-1 1-2 1-1 0-0 3-1 1-1 0-1 2-2 0-0 2-0 3-1   1-2 2-0 1-0 1-0 6-1 10 9 17 39-48 29
15 Khimik Novomoskovsk 0-1 1-3 0-2 3-2 1-2 2-1 2-0 2-0 0-2 1-1 2-0 0-0 1-1 2-4   0-0 2-1 1-1 0-0 9 11 16 33-47 29
16 Dinamo Sukhumi 2-2 0-0 1-3 1-1 2-2 0-0 1-1 1-1 3-1 0-2 1-1 1-0 1-1 2-1 1-1   2-1 2-0 1-0 7 15 14 35-51 29
17 Metallurg Rustavi 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 3-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2 2-2 3-0 1-0 1-1 0-1 2-1 3-1   1-2 6-2 8 9 19 31-48 25
18 Spartak Oryol 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-2 1-1 1-2 0-0 2-3 1-1 0-1 1-0 1-1 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 2-1   3-0 6 11 19 29-52 23
19 Trudovye Rezervy Kursk 0-3 0-3 2-2 1-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-1 0-2 2-0 2-0 0-2 2-1 1-1 3-1 3-1 0-1 2-1   9 5 22 33-72 23
1 - Metallurg Lipetsk advanced to 1972 Second League Finals.

Zone IV

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Terek Grozny   4-2 1-0 1-0 5-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 3-1 0-0 2-1 6-2 2-1 3-1 5-1 3-0 5-1 21 9 6 62-27 51
2 Dinamo Kirovabad 0-0   3-2 1-0 3-1 3-2 1-0 2-1 0-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 0-0 1-1 3-0 1-0 0-1 2-1 2-0 19 8 9 44-29 46
3 Volga Gorkiy 2-0 2-1   1-0 3-0 1-1 5-1 0-1 2-0 2-1 2-0 3-0 3-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 4-1 3-0 3-0 19 7 10 57-27 45
4 Shirak Leninakan 2-1 1-0 1-0   1-0 0-0 3-1 2-1 1-1 5-0 6-0 1-0 2-0 2-2 2-1 4-1 1-0 1-0 4-0 16 10 10 46-31 42
5 Mashuk Pyatigorsk 0-0 1-1 1-0 3-0   1-1 1-0 5-2 5-2 2-1 1-2 2-0 1-0 3-1 2-0 4-1 1-0 4-0 1-0 18 6 12 54-42 42
6 Barrikady Volgograd 2-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 2-1   2-1 1-0 2-2 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 4-0 3-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 3-1 15 12 9 45-35 42
7 Uralan Elista 0-0 0-1 2-0 3-0 2-1 2-0   1-0 1-1 2-1 0-1 1-0 1-1 2-0 1-1 4-0 2-1 2-0 1-0 15 8 13 39-38 38
8 Khimik Dzerzhinsk 0-3 2-0 0-2 1-1 1-0 1-1 0-0   2-2 2-1 3-1 0-2 1-0 4-0 0-1 4-1 0-0 3-1 5-0 14 9 13 47-37 37
9 Motor Vladimir 1-1 0-0 2-1 1-0 2-2 3-2 3-0 1-1   2-0 1-0 1-0 3-3 1-1 1-0 1-1 4-2 0-1 4-1 11 15 10 45-44 37
10 Dinamo Stavropol 0-0 2-0 2-2 0-0 2-4 2-0 2-1 3-2 3-2   3-0 2-1 3-0 3-0 0-0 1-0 4-0 1-2 1-0 15 6 15 48-44 36
11 Spartak Ryazan 1-2 1-0 1-0 1-1 3-1 1-1 1-1 0-0 2-1 1-0   2-1 0-0 4-2 0-1 1-1 1-2 1-0 3-2 14 7 15 36-45 35
12 Dinamo Makhachkala 1-2 1-2 1-1 1-0 0-1 3-0 3-0 1-2 3-1 2-1 0-0   2-1 2-1 1-0 3-0 2-1 4-0 2-1 13 8 15 42-41 34
13 Revtrud Tambov 3-2 2-1 0-0 2-0 0-1 0-0 4-0 0-3 0-1 1-0 1-0 0-0   3-1 1-0 2-1 2-1 3-3 2-0 12 10 14 37-43 34
14 Spartak Kostroma 0-0 0-2 0-1 3-0 0-1 4-3 2-0 2-1 1-0 0-0 1-0 4-0 2-2   1-0 2-1 0-0 2-2 1-0 12 10 14 41-53 34
15 Volgar Astrakhan 1-2 1-0 1-1 1-1 1-0 3-2 1-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 2-1 1-1 0-0 0-1   3-0 2-0 0-1 0-0 10 10 16 29-39 30
16 Lori Kirovakan 1-0 0-2 2-1 2-2 1-1 1-0 0-3 0-0 4-1 2-4 1-2 1-1 5-0 1-1 3-1   1-0 3-0 2-0 11 7 18 43-57 29
17 Saturn Rybinsk 1-0 0-2 2-1 1-0 1-1 1-2 0-1 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-1 5-2 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-0   0-0 2-0 11 6 19 28-44 28
18 Dinamo Vologda 1-3 1-1 2-2 0-0 3-1 1-0 1-1 0-2 0-0 1-2 0-1 1-1 0-2 1-1 3-2 1-3 1-0   0-0 7 12 17 29-57 26
19 Karabakh Stepanakert 0-0 1-3 0-2 0-1 1-0 0-2 0-1 1-1 0-0 3-0 2-1 1-1 2-1 1-2 1-1 0-2 1-0 1-1   5 8 23 21-60 18
1 - Stal Volgograd changed name to Barrikady Volgograd.
2 - Spartak Tambov changed name to Revtrud Tambov.
3 - Terek Grozny advanced to 1972 Second League Finals.

Zone V

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Sokol Saratov   2-1 3-0 0-0 3-1 3-0 1-0 3-1 5-1 0-1 5-0 4-0 1-0 3-0 8-0 +:- 6-0 19 9 4 56-21 47
2 Neftyannik Fergana 2-0   2-2 2-1 1-0 1-0 1-1 4-0 2-1 1-1 0-3 4-0 2-0 3-1 2-0 0-0 3-0 15 10 7 37-26 40
3 FK Yangiyer 2-2 2-0   1-1 1-0 0-0 1-1 0-2 2-0 4-0 2-1 1-0 2-1 3-0 2-0 1-0 +:- 15 10 7 32-23 40
4 Kord Balakovo 5-3 3-1 1-1   3-0 1-0 1-0 2-2 1-0 0-0 4-0 4-0 1-0 1-1 3-1 +:- 2-2 13 12 7 37-25 38
5 Avtomobilist Termez 1-1 2-0 0-1 2-0   1-2 2-0 3-0 3-0 3-1 1-0 1-0 3-2 4-0 4-1 3-1 2-0 16 4 12 39-29 36
6 FK Yangiaryk 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 2-1   0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 4-1 1-0 2-0 1-1 +:- 11 14 7 21-18 36
7 Rubin Kazan 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 0-0   1-0 1-1 1-1 1-0 3-1 1-0 1-0 6-2 3-1 2-2 11 14 7 24-22 36
8 Torpedo Togliatti 0-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 2-0 4-2   0-1 2-0 0-1 3-0 4-2 1-1 2-0 +:- 0-0 13 9 10 32-27 35
9 Zenit Izhevsk 0-1 3-1 0-0 2-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 1-2   2-1 1-0 1-1 2-0 1-2 1-0 2-0 2-1 14 6 12 28-32 34
10 Sura Penza 0-1 0-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-0 2-3   0-0 1-0 2-0 0-0 3-3 1-0 4-2 12 8 12 23-33 32
11 Spartak Yoshkar-Ola 0-1 1-2 2-1 1-2 0-1 2-0 0-0 2-0 2-1 0-1   1-0 2-1 1-0 2-1 2-0 2-0 14 2 16 23-31 30
12 Energiya Cheboksary 1-3 0-2 2-0 2-1 2-2 2-0 4-0 1-0 0-1 2-1 1-0   1-0 2-1 2-0 3-2 0-0 11 6 15 25-38 28
13 Zarafshan Navoi 3-1 1-1 2-2 0-0 2-0 2-2 0-1 0-0 2-0 3-1 1-2 2-0   3-2 2-0 1-1 +:- 10 6 16 33-40 26
14 Volga Ulyanovsk 2-2 0-2 0-1 1-1 0-1 0-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 1-0 2-0 1-0 2-1   0-0 +:- 2-1 9 8 15 19-34 26
15 Lokomotiv Orenburg 0-0 0-0 0-1 -:+ 2-1 2-2 0-1 1-2 1-3 5-1 1-0 1-1 1-2 1-0   +:- 1-0 6 6 20 23-53 18
16 Elektrosvet Saransk 1-3 1-1 0-0 1-1 -:+ 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 -:+ 3-1 4-0 0-2 1-1 3-2   2-0 4 10 18 22-30 -
17 Alay Osh 2-2 0-1 1-2 1-1 1-0 2-0 0-0 1-1 2-1 0-0 -:+ 0-0 2-0 5-2 2-0 1-0   7 10 15 28-38 -
1 - Khimmashevets Penza changed name to Sura Penza.
2 - Spartak Saransk changed name to Elektrosvet Saransk.
3 - Electrosvet Saransk and Alay Osh withdrew before the end of the season.
4 - Sokol Saratov advance to 1972 Second League Finals.

Zone VI

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Kuzbass Kemerovo   3-0 3-0 0-0 2-0 5-3 0-0 1-1 2-0 1-1 2-0 1-0 3-0 2-0 2-1 3-0 7-1 4-0 3-1 23 9 4 80-30 78
2 Irtysh Omsk 1-0   2-1 5-1 2-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 3-0 1-0 1-0 3-1 2-1 1-0 2-0 2-0 3-0 3-0 2-0 22 8 6 47-22 74
3 Spartak Semipalatinsk 3-1 1-0   2-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 2-0 1-0 2-1 1-1 2-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 4-0 3-0 22 5 9 45-27 71
4 Dinamo Tselinograd 0-0 1-1 2-1   0-0 1-2 0-1 3-0 1-0 3-1 3-0 3-0 2-0 3-0 2-1 2-0 1-0 3-1 2-0 18 8 10 47-32 62
5 Dinamo Barnaul 1-2 1-1 0-1 3-2   2-1 1-0 1-2 2-0 2-1 1-2 2-0 2-0 4-0 1-0 1-0 7-0 4-0 2-0 17 6 13 45-32 57
6 Uralets Nizhniy Tagil 2-1 2-0 0-0 2-0 2-0   0-0 0-0 4-0 1-0 2-0 1-3 0-1 1-0 0-0 2-0 4-0 4-0 2-2 16 7 13 46-33 55
7 TomLes Tomsk 1-2 0-0 2-1 2-0 2-0 2-0   0-0 1-1 2-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 4-1 3-0 1-0 1-1 14 13 9 33-23 55
8 Alatau Jambul 1-1 1-1 1-1 0-0 1-2 2-1 2-1   7-1 0-1 0-0 2-0 2-1 4-0 2-0 3-1 1-0 0-0 2-0 14 13 9 42-36 55
9 Yenbek Jezkazgan 4-3 2-0 2-1 1-0 2-0 2-3 1-0 1-2   4-0 2-1 1-1 2-1 2-0 4-0 1-0 3-0 4-0 2-0 16 7 13 47-45 55
10 Avtomobilist Kzyl-Orda 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-1   2-0 1-0 2-0 3-0 3-0 2-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 13 14 9 32-26 53
11 Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk 1-3 1-1 4-1 2-0 1-1 3-1 3-1 2-1 0-0 0-0   4-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 3-0 2-0 2-0 0-1 15 7 14 40-36 52
12 Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk 2-6 1-0 1-0 2-2 0-1 0-0 0-0 3-0 3-1 2-1 2-1   0-2 5-2 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 13 11 12 36-40 50
13 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 0-1 2-0 2-0 1-2 2-2 0-1 2-1 2-2 0-0 1-1 3-0 0-0   2-1 3-0 1-0 3-1 5-1 2-0 12 8 16 40-39 44
14 Neftyannik Tyumen 2-2 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-0 0-0 4-0 3-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 2-0   1-0 3-2 7-0 1-0 2-1 11 4 21 32-47 37
15 Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk 2-2 1-2 -:+ 1-2 0-0 0-0 3-1 5-0 1-2 0-0 2-2 1-1 1-1 1-0   1-1 1-0 2-1 3-1 9 9 18 31-42 36
16 Stroitel Ufa 2-3 1-1 1-2 0-1 2-0 2-1 0-0 1-1 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-0 2-0 3-0 0-1   1-0 3-1 2-1 8 11 17 28-43 35
17 Metallurg Chimkent 0-2 1-2 0-0 1-2 2-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 1-3 1-2 1-2 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-1   4-3 0-0 7 7 22 20-65 28
18 Zauralets Kurgan 0-2 0-1 0-2 1-1 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 1-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 1-0 1-1   2-1 6 9 21 19-59 27
19 Chkalovets Novosibirsk 0-5 -:+ 1-3 0-0 0-1 2-3 1-2 0-1 2-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 2-1 1-0 1-2 0-0 0-1 0-1   4 8 24 20-53 20
1 - 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss.
2 - Dzerzhinets Novosibirsk changed name to Chkalovets Novosibirsk.
3 - Kuzbass kemorov advance to 1972 Second League Finals.

Zone VII (Russian Federation)

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Amur Blagoveschensk   1-1 1-0 2-1 2-0 3-0 2-1 1-1 0-0 2-0 4-0 2-1 2-1 1-0 2-1 2-0 2-0 3-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 26 7 7 53-22 59
2 Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 1-0 2-0   1-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 2-0 4-2 2-1 6-1 2-0 3-0 2-0 1-0 2-0 3-1 1-0 3-1 2-0 7-1 23 8 9 61-39 54
3 Start Angarsk 1-2 0-1 4-0 4-0   1-0 2-0 3-1 3-0 1-3 3-2 2-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 2-1 3-1 1-0 1-1 2-1 20 6 14 47-35 46
4 Sibiryak Bratsk 2-0 1-3 1-0 1-0 2-0 2-0   1-1 1-0 0-0 2-0 2-1 3-0 1-0 2-1 1-2 3-1 4-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 16 11 13 39-33 43
5 Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk 1-0 1-2 3-0 7-1 1-2 2-2 1-0 2-2   0-1 1-0 3-1 1-1 1-0 5-1 5-1 3-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 0-0 15 10 15 53-43 40
6 SKA Chita 1-1 1-0 2-2 1-3 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 2-0 1-1   2-0 1-1 2-3 0-0 1-0 1-0 2-2 1-1 1-1 1-0 11 15 14 39-52 37
7 SKA Khabarovsk 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-1 4-1 2-2 0-0 1-0 2-0 2-2 0-1   2-0 2-1 2-0 1-0 3-0 2-0 5-0 2-0 13 10 17 45-44 36
8 Vulkan Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 1-1 0-1 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 1-1 0-5 2-0   1-1 2-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 12 12 16 30-41 36
9 Selenga Ulan-Ude 0-1 1-0 1-1 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 3-1 2-1 0-0 1-2 1-1 0-0 1-1 2-1   0-0 3-1 1-0 5-0 11 10 19 33-47 32
10 Luch Vladivostok 0-3 0-1 0-1 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-0 0-1 0-0 1-1 2-0 2-0 1-1 3-1 0-1 1-0 0-2   0-0 1-1 8 14 18 24-44 30
11 Aeroflot Irkutsk 0-1 1-0 0-0 1-1 2-0 0-1 2-0 0-1 0-2 0-1 2-1 5-2 2-1 3-0 2-1 0-1 0-1 1-1 0-0 0-1   8 11 21 27-51 27
1 - Amur Blagoveschensk Advance to 1972 Second League Final.

1972 Second League Final (11/04/1972 - 11/18/1972, Sochi)

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 W D L GS-GA PT
1 Kuzbass Kemerovo   0-0 0-0 1-0 3-1 3-2 3 2 0 7-3 8
2 Metallurg Lipetsk 0-0   0-0 1-0 2-1 2-2 2 3 0 5-3 7
3 Daugava Riga 0-0 0-0   2-0 4-1 0-1 2 2 1 6-2 6
4 Amur Blagoveschensk 0-1 0-1 0-2   1-1 3-1 1 1 3 4-6 3
5 Sokol Saratov 1-3 1-2 1-4 1-1   2-0 1 1 3 6-10 3
6 Terek Grozny 2-3 2-2 1-0 1-3 0-2   1 1 3 6-10 3
1 - Kuzbass Kemerovo and Metallurg Lipetsk are promoted to 1973 First League.
2 - Daugave Riga advance to 1972 Second league promotion Play-Off

1972 Second League Promotion Play-Off

11/22/1972 Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk 0-1 Daugava Riga
11/25/1972 Daugava Riga 1-3 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk

1972 Soviet Union Cup

Preliminary Round

02/21/1972 Alga Frunze 1-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad
02/21/1972 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 1-2Avtomobilist Nalchik
02/21/1972 Pamir Dushanbe 2-1 Nistru Kishinev
02/21/1972 Shinnik Yaroslavl 4-1 Zvezda Perm
02/25/1972 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-1 Alga Frunze
02/25/1972 Avtomobilist Nalchik 3-1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
02/25/1972 Nistru Kishinev 0-1 Pamir Dushanbe
02/25/1972 Zvezda Perm 0-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl

First Round

[Feb 26, Mar 5]
Torpedo Moskva 2-1 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [both legs in Sochi]
[1. Viktor Filippov, Vadim Nikonov - Shota Okropirashvili. Att: 4,000]
[2. Yuriy Smirnov 20. Att: 6,000]
[Feb 28, Mar 3]
Dinamo Moskva 3-1 0-0 Shakhtyor Donetsk
[1. Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 25, Andrei Yakubik 60, Anatoliy Baidachny 79 - Yuriy Gubich 88. Att: 8,000 (in Sochi)]
[2. Att: 20,000]
[Feb 28, Mar 4]
Dinamo Minsk 1-1 0-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda
[1. Eduard Malofeyev 85p - Anatoliy Novikov 65. Att: 8,000 (in Sukhumi)]
[2. Anatoliy Novikov 36. Att: 20,000]
[Feb 29, Mar 4]
Karpaty Lviv 1-0 3-1 Pamir Dushanbe
[1. Eduard Kozinkevich 78. Att: 30,000]
[2. ? - Rudik Yegiazaryan]
Neftchi Baku 1-0 0-3 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya
Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-1 w/o Kairat Alma-Ata
[1. Nikolai Osyanin 64]
SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-0 1-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik
[1. (in Adler)]
[2. Viktor Churkin 15]
Spartak Moskva 5-1 0-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [both legs in Sochi]
[1. Viktor Papayev 6, Gennadiy Logofet 11, ?, Vladimir Redin ?, Vyacheslav Yegorovich 67 - Alexandr Zhuravlyov ?. Att: 5,000]
[2. Att: 3,000]
Zorya Voroshilovhrad 0-0 0-0 Chornomorets Odessa [pen 3-5]
[1. Att: 5,000 (in Sukhumi)]
[2. Att: 15,000]
03/1, 5]
Ararat Yerevan 0-2 1-0 Dinamo Leningrad
Dinamo Kyiv 2-1 1-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [both legs in Sochi]
[1. Vitaliy Shevchenko 62, Vladimir Veremeyev 87p - Mikhail Potapov 86. Att: 3,000]
[2. Vitaliy Shevchenko 42 - Stanislav Lyubavin 22p. Att: 4,500]
03/01, 03/07]
Alga Frunze 0-1 0-4 Zenit Leningrad
[1. Georgiy Vyun 33. Att: 2,000 (in Hosta)]
[2. Georgiy Khromchenkov 6, Mikhail Fokin 34, Boris Kokh 38, Vyacheslav Bulavin 55. Att: 100 (in Sochi)]
03/2, 6]
CSKA Moskva 1-0 1-1 Avtomobilist Orjonikidze
[1. Vladimir Dudarenko 35. (in Sochi)]
[2. Vladimir Polikarpov - Vladimir Titov]
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-1 2-3 Pakhtakor Tashkent
[1. Viktor Romanyuk-2 - Berador Abduraimov]
[2. Viktor Nazarov, ?
(P) og - Berador Abduraimov, Tulyagan Isakov, Bohadyr Ibragimov]
03/4, 8]
Metalist Kharkiv 2-0 1-4 Dinamo Tbilisi
[1. Anatoliy Ignatenko 77, Zorbeg Ebralidze (D) 81 og]
[2. Levan Nodia 3, 44, 71p, Georgiy Gavasheli 89 - Vladimir Chaplygin 9]
03/4, 12]
Lokomotiv Moskva 1-1 3-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev
[1. Yuriy Chesnokov 57 - Ravil Aryapov 90. Att: 1,500 (in Hosta)]
[2. Nikolai Zudin ?, Yuriy Chesnokov ?, Nikolai Timofeyev 89. (in Sochi)]

Second Round

03/11, 15]
Zenit Leningrad 2-0 2-0 Dinamo Leningrad
[1. Boris Kokh 22, Pavel Sadyrin 44p. Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)]
[2. Pavel Sadyrin 63p, Vladimir Ivanov 83. Att: 1,000 (in Gagra)]
03/11, 16]
Spartak Moskva 1-0 1-2 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya
[1. Galimzyan Husainov 48. Att: 5,000 (in Sochi)]
[2. Nikolai Kiselyov 80 - Oleg Novikov 5, Viktor Kutin 55. Att: 20,000]
03/12, 15]
Torpedo Moskva 2-0 1-0 Dnipro Dnepropetrovsk
[1. Alexandr Grebnev 5, Yuriy Smirnov 44. Att: 5,000 (in Sochi)]
[2. Yuriy Smirnov 3. Att: 30,000]
03/12, 16]
Chornomorets Odesa 1-0 0-3 Karpaty Lviv
[1. Sergei Zvenigorodskiy 86. Att: 10,000]
[2. Roman Khizhak 47, Bogdan Greshchak 56, Eduard Kozinkevich 64. Att: 32,000]
Dinamo Kyiv 1-0 0-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [pen 8-9]
[1. Vladimir Muntyan 30p. Att: 15,000 (in Symferopol)]
[2. Anzor Chikhladze 30. Att: 26,000]
Dinamo Tbilisi 3-0 0-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda
[1. Givi Nodia 9, 31, 65]
[2. Att: 10,000]
03/13, 17]
CSKA Moskva 1-0 0-0 Dinamo Moskva
[1. Vladimir Zhigunov 88. Att: 5,500 (in Sochi)]
[2. Att: 25,000 (in Tashkent)]
03/15, 18]
Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 1-2 Lokomotiv Moskva
[1. Nikolai Osyanin 16 - Nikolai Timofeyev 13. Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)]
[2. Vladislav Markin 88 - Viktor Davydov 17, Valentin Spiridonov 84. Att: 1,800 (in Hosta)]

Quarterfinals

03/21, 25]
Karpaty Lviv 0-0 1-1 Dinamo Tbilisi
[1. Att: 32,000]
[2. Lev Brovarskiy 66 - Givi Nodia 50. Att: 50,000]
SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 0-3 CSKA Moskva
[1. Viktor Churkin 36 - Vladimir Dorofeyev 58. Att: 30,000]
[2. Boris Kopeikin 5, 29, 58. Att: 7,000 (in Sochi)]
Torpedo Moskva 0-0 2-0 Zenit Leningrad [both legs in Sochi]
[1. Att: 5,000]
[2. Yuriy Smirnov 36, 80. Att: 7,000]
03/22, 25]
Spartak Moskva 2-1 2-1 Lokomotiv Moskva
[1. Viktor Papayev 70, Vasiliy Kalinov 87 - Nikolai Zudin 52. Att: 4,000 (in Sochi)]
[2. Vyacheslav Yegorovich 40, 53 - Anatoliy Kozlov 8. Att: 1,500 (in Hosta)]

Semifinals

07/2, 28]
Spartak Moskva 2-0 2-0 Karpaty Lviv
[1. Alexandr Piskaryov 40, Galimzyan Husainov 50. Att: 55,000]
[2. Mikhail Bulgakov 41, Valeriy Andreyev 56. Att: 25,000]
Torpedo Moskva 0-0 4-1 CSKA Moskva
[2. Anatoliy Degtyaryov 16, 22, 44, Anatoliy Fetisov ? - Vladimir Polikarpov 31]

Final

08/12/1972 Torpedo Moskva 0-0 Spartak Moskva [Att: 102,000]
08/13/1972 (Replay) Torpedo Moskva 1-1, 5-1pk Spartak Moskva [Vadim Nikonov 5 - Viktor Papayev 9. Att: 35,000]
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