1940 Soviet Top League

Following are the results of the 1940 Soviet Top League football championship.

The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Supreme League (Russian: Высшая лига) served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.

Standings

No	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF-GA	Pts	Rpblc	Notes
1	Dynamo Moscow	24	16	4	4	74-30	36	Russian SFSR
2	Dynamo Tbilisi	24	15	4	5	56-30	34	Georgian SSR
3	Spartak Moscow	24	13	5	6	54-35	31	Russian SFSR
4	CDKA Moscow	24	10	9	5	46-35	29	Russian SFSR
5	Dynamo Leningrad	24	11	5	8	47-44	27	Russian SFSR
6	Lokomotiv Moscow	24	10	5	9	36-52	25	Russian SFSR
7	Traktor Stalingrad	24	8	7	9	38-37	23	Russian SFSR
8	Dynamo Kiev	24	6	9	9	32-49	21	Ukrainian SSR
9	Krylia Sovetov Moscow	24	6	7	11	26-34	19	Russian SFSR
10	Zenit Leningrad	24	6	6	12	37-42	18	Russian SFSR
11	Torpedo Moscow	24	6	6	12	36-50	18	Russian SFSR
12	Stakhanovets Stalino	24	6	4	14	32-43	16	Ukrainian SSR
13	Metallurg Moscow	24	5	5	14	37-70	15	Russian SFSR
14	Lokomotiv Tbilisi	0	0	0	0	0-0	0	Georgian SSR

Top scorers

21 goals

• Grigory Fedotov (CDKA Moscow)
• Sergei Solovyov (Dynamo Moscow)

15 goals

• Nikolay Dementyev (Dynamo Moscow)

14 goals

• Aleksandr Ponomarev (Traktor Stalingrad)

13 goals

• Gayoz Dzhedzhelava (Dinamo Tbilisi)
• Pavel Kornilov (Spartak Moscow)
• Viktor Semyonov (Spartak Moscow)
• Mikhail Semichastny (Dynamo Moscow)

12 goals

• Boris Paichadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

11 goals

• Viktor Berezhnoy (Dinamo Tbilisi)