1937 Soviet Top League
| Season | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Dates | July 23 – October 30 |
| Champions | Dynamo Moscow 2nd All-Union league title |
| Relegated | none (reorganization) |
| Matches played | 72 |
| Goals scored | 224 (3.11 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Vasili Smirnov Leonid Rumyantsev Boris Paichadze 8 goals |
| Biggest home win | Metallurg 5–0 CDKA (August 12) |
| Biggest away win | Spartak 0–4 Metallurg (August 28) Krasnaya Zarya 2–6 Dynamo K. (August 28) Dynamo Tb. 0–4 Dynamo M. (September 18) CDKA 1–5 Dynamo M. (October 24) |
| Highest scoring | Krasnaya Zarya 2–6 Dynamo K. (August 28) Dynamo Tb. 5–3 Dynamo K. (October 10) |
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The 1937 Soviet Top League was the third season of the top-tier all-Union league competitions (Gruppa A). The league competition started a week after conculusion of the 1937 Soviet Cup.
Before the start of the season, two sports societies Dynamo and Spartak were awarded the order of Lenin on resolution of the USSR Central Executive Committee of 22 July 1937. Beside the sports societies, many awards were given to individual athletes among which were 12 footballers.
The defending champion for this edition was FC Spartak Moscow. The season started somewhat late on July 23, 1937, with the game in Kyiv where the League newcomer Metallurg surprisingly defeated the local Dynamo 2:0. The conclusion of the season came on October 30, 1937, with the games in Tbilisi and Moscow's Sokolniki. That game on CSKA Stadium became a culminating as the Army team hold the defending champions to a draw that left Spartak without their title. Interesting is the fact that less than a week prior to that Dynamo Moscow was able to defeat CDKA 5:1 setting them three points ahead of Spartak.