1970 Soviet Top League

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	CSKA Moscow (C)	32	20	5	7	46	17	+29	45	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dynamo Moscow	32	19	7	6	50	22	+28	45	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Spartak Moscow	32	12	14	6	43	25	+18	38	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Dinamo Tbilisi	32	14	8	10	43	30	+13	36
5	Zarya Voroshilovgrad	32	10	14	8	27	25	+2	34
6	Torpedo Moscow	32	12	10	10	36	38	−2	34
7	Dynamo Kyiv	32	14	5	13	36	32	+4	33
8	SKA Rostov-on-Don	32	9	15	8	28	29	−1	33
9	Dinamo Minsk	32	11	10	11	33	29	+4	32
10	Shakhtar Donetsk	32	11	8	13	35	50	−15	30
11	Neftchi Baku	32	9	11	12	27	28	−1	29
12	Ararat Yerevan	32	10	9	13	31	34	−3	29
13	Pakhtakor Tashkent	32	8	12	12	28	46	−18	28
14	Zenit Leningrad	32	10	7	15	30	40	−10	27
15	Chornomorets Odessa (R)	32	8	10	14	25	38	−13	26	Relegation to First League
16	Torpedo Kutaisi (R)	32	6	11	15	24	42	−18	23
17	Spartak Ordzhonikidze (R)	32	7	8	17	31	48	−17	22

• Note: On 5 January 1970 the city of Luhansk was officially renamed again as Voroshilovgrad, therefore Zorya Luhansk became known as Zorya Voroshilovgrad.^[1]

On December 5 and 6 in Tashkent (RSSSF)

• CSKA Moscow – Dynamo Moscow 0:0 and 4:3

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)

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)