1980 Soviet Second League, Zone 5

Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR
Season	1980
Champions	SKA Kiev
Promoted	SKA Kiev
Relegated	none
Top goalscorer	25 - Volodymyr Chyrkov (Avanhard)
	← 1979 1981 →

1980 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 50th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 5. The season started on 5 April 1981. This season the Soviet Second League went through minor reorganization and Ukrainian Championship was moved from the Zone 2 to Zone 5. The Moldavian Avtomobilist Tiraspol was removed from the competition and placed in different zone.

The 1980 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by SKA Kiev. Qualified for the interzonal playoffs, the team from Kiev managed to gain promotion by placing first in its group.

The "Ruby Cup" of Molod Ukrayiny newspaper (for the most scored goals) was received by SKA Kiev.

Teams

Location map

Locations of teams in Second League, Zone 5

Promoted teams

Stakhanovets Stakhanov – Champion of the Fitness clubs competitions (KFK) (debut)

Renamed teams

Stakhanovets Stakhanov was called Shakhtar Stakhanov

Realigned teams

Avtomobilist Tiraspol was moved to Zone VIII

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	SKA Kiev (C, Q)	44	28	9	7	83	33	+50	65	Qualified for interzonal competitions among other Zone winners
2	Bukovyna Chernivtsi	44	26	9	9	70	35	+35	61
3	SKA Lviv	44	24	12	8	64	32	+32	60
4	Avanhard Rivne	44	22	15	7	54	30	+24	59
5	Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv	44	22	11	11	54	27	+27	55
6	Zirka Kirovohrad	44	20	13	11	52	44	+8	53
7	Spartak Zhytomyr	44	17	17	10	55	43	+12	51
8	Desna Chernihiv	44	18	13	13	50	29	+21	49
9	Atlantyka Sevastopol	44	18	11	15	53	49	+4	47
10	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	44	16	15	13	55	47	+8	47
11	Krystal Kherson	44	15	16	13	37	37	0	46
12	Frunzenets Sumy	44	13	18	13	46	39	+7	44
13	Nyva Vinnytsia	44	17	8	19	50	46	+4	42
14	Okean Kerch	44	13	12	19	40	49	−9	38
15	Hoverla Uzhhorod	44	12	14	18	38	44	−6	38
16	Podillia Khmelnytskyi	44	13	9	22	32	64	−32	35
17	Dnipro Cherkasy	44	13	9	22	43	50	−7	35
18	Metalurh Dniprodzerzhynsk	44	11	11	22	47	58	−11	33
19	Novator Zhdanov	44	11	11	22	38	62	−24	33
20	Torpedo Lutsk	44	9	14	21	43	76	−33	32
21	Kolos Poltava	44	9	13	22	37	61	−24	31
22	Stakhanovets Stakhanov	44	11	8	25	22	56	−34	30
23	Shakhtar Horlivka	44	11	6	27	40	92	−52	28	Avoided relegation

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Top goalscorers

The following were the top ten goalscorers.

#	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Volodymyr Chyrkov	25	Avanhard Rivno
2	Ivan Hamaliy	20	SKA Lviv
3	Mykola Pinchuk	19	SKA Kiev
4	Viktor Nastashevsky	18	SKA Kiev
	Oleksandr Martyshov		Metalurh Dniprodzerzhynsk
	Yuriy Kerman		Novator Zhdanov
7	Oleksandr Mykha	17	Atlantyka Sevastopol
8	Volodymyr Sakalov	16	Bukovyna Chernivtsi