1970 Soviet Top League

17 teams took part in the league with PFC CSKA Moscow winning the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	PFC CSKA Moscow	32	20	5	7	46	17	45
2.	FC Dynamo Moscow	32	19	7	6	50	22	45
3.	FC Spartak Moscow	32	12	14	6	43	25	38
4.	FC Dinamo Tbilisi	32	14	8	10	43	30	36
5.	FC Zorya Luhansk	32	10	14	8	27	25	34
6.	FC Torpedo Moscow	32	12	10	10	36	38	34
7.	FC Dynamo Kyiv	32	14	5	13	36	32	33
8.	FC SKA Rostov-on-Don	32	9	15	8	28	29	33
9.	FC Dinamo Minsk	32	11	10	11	33	29	32
10.	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	32	11	8	13	35	50	30
11.	PFC Neftchi Baku	32	9	11	12	27	28	29
12.	FC Ararat Yerevan	32	10	9	13	31	34	29
13.	FC Pakhtakor Tashkent	32	8	12	12	28	46	28
14.	Zenit Leningrad	32	10	7	15	30	40	27
15.	FC Chornomorets Odessa	32	8	10	14	25	38	26
16.	FC Torpedo Kutaisi	32	6	11	15	24	42	23
17.	Spartak Ordzhonikidze	32	7	8	17	31	48	22

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points

Top scorers

17 goals

• Givi Nodia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

15 goals

• Boris Kopeikin (CSKA Moscow)
• Vladimir Kozlov (Dynamo Moscow)

14 goals

• Vladimir Fedotov (CSKA Moscow)

12 goals

• Galimzyan Khusainov (Spartak Moscow)

10 goals

• Valeriy Porkujan (Chornomorets)
• Gennadi Unanov (Zenit)

9 goals

• Yuri Avrutskiy (Dynamo Moscow)
• Eduard Kozinkevich (Shakhtar)
• Anatoli Vasilyev (Dinamo Minsk)