1973 Soviet Union Football Season

1973 Soviet Premier League (First Level)

# Teams 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 W SW L GS-GA PT
1 Ararat Yerevan 3-1 1-3 1-0 1-1 2-2 3-1 0-0 3-0 3-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-1 4-1 4-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 3-2 4-0 3-2 1-3 1-0 3-0 0-3 0-1 2-1 2-0 2-2 18 3 9 52-26 39
2 Dynamo Kyiv 1-3 3-1 2-2 3-0 1-1 1-2 1-0 2-1 2-0 2-1 0-1 1-0 0-1 5-2 3-1 0-0 1-0 0-3 1-2 2-0 3-0 1-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 4-0 1-1 1-1 16 4 10 44-23 36
3 Dinamo Moskva 0-1 1-1 2-2 0-3 0-1 0-0 3-0 4-1 1-1 2-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 3-2 0-1 1-1 3-0 1-1 3-2 1-1 0-2 1-1 0-1 1-1 2-0 5-3 1-1 1-2 2-0 1-0 13 7 10 43-30 33
4 Spartak Moskva 2-2 1-3 1-1 2-1 1-0 0-0 3-1 0-1 1-2 0-0 0-2 0-2 3-1 1-0 2-1 1-0 2-1 2-2 2-0 0-0 0-1 4-0 0-2 1-1 2-3 1-0 1-0 2-0 1-1 1-0 14 3 13 37-28 31
5 Dinamo Tbilisi 0-0 0-3 0-1 1-2 0-3 1-4 1-3 1-0 1-0 0-0 1-1 0-3 2-0 0-0 0-1 3-0 1-1 3-1 1-1 0-1 2-2 4-0 0-1 4-2 3-0 3-1 1-0 4-0 2-0 3-2 13 5 12 42-33 31
6 Shakhtar Donetsk 0-3 0-0 0-2 1-2 1-1 0-2 2-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-2 3-1 1-2 2-1 0-2 0-0 1-0 4-1 3-1 0-3 1-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 3-1 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 3-0 14 3 13 32-26 31
7 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-1 0-1 1-0 0-1 1-2 0-1 2-0 2-0 1-1 3-0 2-1 1-3 0-0 0-2 1-0 1-1 0-1 1-0 0-0 2-3 3-1 2-1 3-0 0-0 2-0 4-1 0-2 2-1 0-1 3-1 14 1 15 38-26 29
8 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-1 1-1 1-0 2-5 0-1 2-3 1-3 0-1 0-2 0-0 2-1 1-2 0-0 2-0 2-0 2-2 4-1 0-0 3-1 0-0 1-1 1-4 1-3 2-0 1-1 2-3 1-0 0-2 2-2 2-0 9 8 13 36-40 26
9 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-4 0-4 1-3 0-0 1-0 1-1 1-2 0-1 1-0 0-3 2-0 0-0 0-1 1-1 0-2 2-2 0-1 1-1 1-1 0-0 1-4 1-1 1-1 3-1 1-0 2-1 1-0 0-1 0-0 2-1 8 10 12 25-37 26
10 CSKA Moskva 0-1 0-1 0-1 3-0 0-3 1-1 1-2 2-2 1-1 1-3 0-1 1-4 1-0 0-1 1-4 0-0 1-0 1-1 2-1 0-0 3-0 0-1 3-2 2-2 0-0 1-0 3-2 1-1 1-0 3-1 10 5 15 33-36 25
11 Zenit Leningrad 1-0 2-3 2-1 0-2 2-3 1-1 0-2 0-0 1-1 1-0 1-3 3-0 0-0 3-2 1-3 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-5 1-0 3-1 2-2 3-0 0-0 1-1 3-0 0-2 9 3 18 33-35 21
12 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0-4 2-3 0-3 0-1 2-0 1-1 1-0 0-4 2-2 0-4 0-1 0-1 1-3 1-2 1-1 4-1 4-1 1-1 0-3 1-0 0-0 5-0 1-2 0-1 1-2 3-1 4-0 1-0 0-1 1-1 9 2 19 37-44 20
13 Torpedo Moskva 3-1 0-1 0-0 0-2 1-0 1-1 2-0 1-1 1-0 2-4 0-1 0-2 0-3 0-0 3-1 0-2 1-1 1-3 2-3 2-2 0-1 1-3 2-1 1-0 1-1 0-1 0-1 1-1 1-0 1-0 9 1 20 28-37 19
14 Karpaty Lviv 0-3 3-0 0-1 0-0 0-2 3-5 3-2 0-1 0-3 1-3 1-3 0-1 0-2 1-4 1-1 3-2 0-1 1-2 0-0 0-1 2-2 0-3 2-1 1-3 1-1 1-0 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 8 3 19 28-48 19
15 Dinamo Minsk 1-0 1-2 0-0 0-4 1-1 2-1 0-1 0-2 0-1 0-4 0-1 0-0 2-0 1-2 0-1 2-0 0-1 1-0 2-3 1-1 0-0 1-1 0-4 0-1 1-0 1-1 1-1 0-1 2-1 1-1 7 4 20 21-36 17
16 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-2 2-2 1-1 1-1 0-2 0-1 1-1 0-1 0-2 2-3 0-0 0-3 1-0 1-3 2-2 0-2 0-0 1-2 0-1 1-3 0-3 2-0 1-0 1-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-2 1-1 3 5 22 19-43 11
1 - Teams received 1 point for a shootout win (SW) and no points for a shootout loss (included in the loss column).
2 - SKA Rostov-na-Donu and Dinamo Minsk are relegated to play in 1974 First League.

Round 1

04/07/1973 Ararat Yerevan 3-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Arkadiy Andriasyan 34, 84, Nikolai Kazaryan 42 - Oleg Blokhin 6. Att: 64,000]
04/07/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 1-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [pen 4-3] [Manuchar Machaidze 18 – Viktor Kuznetsov 62. Att: 35,000]
04/07/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4-1 CSKA Moskva [Valeriy Porkuyan 6, Alexei Khristyan 9, 85, Stanislav Yevseyenko 25 – Vladimir Dorofeyev 8. Att: 32,000]
04/07/1973 Karpaty Lviv 2-2 Zenit Leningrad [pen 5-4] [Lev Brovarskiy 27p, Mikhail Lokhov (Z) 54og – Alexandr Deryomov 47, Alexandr Nikolayev 83. Att: 38,000]
04/07/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-0 Dinamo Moskva [Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 18 pen. Att: 25,000]
04/07/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-2 Torpedo Moskva [Berador Abduraimov 17 – Gennadiy Shalimov 3, Anatoliy Degtyaryov 76. Att: 35,000]
04/07/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 Spartak Moskva [Vitaliy Starukhin 24, Vladimir Safonov 58 – Valeriy Zenkov 33. Att: 40,000]
04/07/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-2 Dinamo Minsk [Alexei Yeskov 17 – Gennadiy Voronin 30, Igor Grigoryev 35. Att: 12,000]

Round 2

04/14/1973 Ararat Yerevan 1-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [pen 4-3] [Arkadiy Andriasyan 70p - Yuriy Yeliseyev 64. Att: 70,000]
04/14/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 0-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Oleg Blokhin 7. Att: 35,000]
04/14/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3-1 Zenit Leningrad [Valeriy Porkuyan 16, Anatoliy Pilipchuk 76, Vasiliy Lyabik 82 – Alexandr Nikolayev 77. Att: 30,000]
04/14/1973 Karpaty Lviv 0-0 CSKA Moskva [pen 4-5] [Att: 26,000]
04/14/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 Torpedo Moskva [pen 4-3] [Vladislav Markin 19 – Yuriy Smirnov 7. Att: 17,000]
04/14/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2-0 Dinamo Moskva [Andrei Yakubik (D) 29og, Viktor Varyukhin 66. Att: 21,000]
04/14/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 Dinamo Minsk [Alexandr Vasin 15. Att: 33,000]
04/14/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 Spartak Moskva [pen 6-5] [Alexei Yeskov 7p – Mikhail Bulgakov 2. Att: 8,000]

Round 3

04/21/1973 CSKA Moskva 3-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Vladimir Dorofeyev 4, 85, Vladimir Polikarpov 52. Att: 20,000]
04/21/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 Karpaty Lviv [Vladimir Veremeyev 71. Att: 45,000]
04/21/1973 Spartak Moskva 2-2 Ararat Yerevan [pen 4-5] [Yevgeniy Lovchev 12, Alexandr Piskaryov 61 - Sergei Pogosov 17, 53. Att: 20,000]
04/22/1973 Dinamo Minsk 0-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Piruz Rekhviashvili 84. Att: 45,000]
04/22/1973 Dinamo Moskva 2-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Viktor Tsybin (S) 46og, Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 74. Att: 15,000]
04/22/1973 Torpedo Moskva 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vitaliy Starukhin 65. Att: 15,000]
04/22/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 0-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [pen 3-4] [Att: 37,000]
04/22/1973 Zenit Leningrad 1-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [pen 3-4] [Alexandr Nikolayev 13 – Alexandr Deryomov (Z) 25og. Att: 50,000]

Round 4

04/28/1973 CSKA Moskva 1-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Vladimir Polikarpov 26. Att: 13,000]
04/28/1973 Dinamo Minsk 1-0 Ararat Yerevan [Valeriy Slovak 48. Att: 37,000]
04/28/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-0 Dynamo Kyiv [Vasiliy Lyabik 6. Att: 36,000]
04/28/1973 Karpaty Lviv 0-2 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Viktor Kuznetsov 17, 26. Att: 18,000]
04/28/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 1-1 Dinamo Moskva [pen 4-3] [Vitaliy Starukhin 73 – Alexandr Makhovikov 37. Att: 31,000]
04/28/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-1 Torpedo Moskva [Vadim Nikonov 57. Att: 2,000]
04/28/1973 Spartak Moskva 3-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Alexandr Piskaryov 15, 87, Mikhail Bulgakov 70p - Kakhi Asatiani 34. Att: 16,000]
04/28/1973 Zenit Leningrad 0-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [pen 3-4] [Att: 20,000]

Round 5

05/02/1973 Ararat Yerevan 1-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Arkadiy Andriasyan 65. Att: 55,000]
05/02/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 1-1 Spartak Moskva [pen 3-2] [Vladimir Veremeyev 90 – Mikhail Bulgakov 29. Att: 20,000]
05/02/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 3-0 Karpaty Lviv [Zurab Tsereteli 54, David Kipiani 60, Murtaz Khurtsilava 81. Att: 20,000]
05/02/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [pen 5-4] [Att: 10,000]
05/02/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladimir Zakharov 24. Att: 28,000]
05/02/1973 Torpedo Moskva 1-0 Dinamo Moskva [Vadim Nikonov 70. Att: 40,000]
05/02/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 0-2 Dinamo Minsk [Igor Grigoryev 50, 77. Att: 30,000]
05/02/1973 Zenit Leningrad 1-2 CSKA Moskva [Alexandr Deryomov 73 – Vladimir Dorofeyev 10, Vladimir Polikarpov 79. Att: 45,000]

Round 6

05/05/1973 Torpedo Moskva 0-1 Zenit Leningrad [Georgiy Vyun 87. Att: 10,000]
05/06/1973 Ararat Yerevan 3-0 Karpaty Lviv [Oganes Zanazanyan 54p, Nikolai Kazaryan 64, Arkadiy Andriasyan 84. Att: 61,000]
05/06/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 CSKA Moskva [Viktor Kolotov 3 pen. Att: 40,000]
05/06/1973 Dinamo Moskva 1-1 Dinamo Minsk [pen 5-4] [Alexei Petrushin 71 – Valeriy Slovak 78. Att: 13,000]
05/06/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Zorbeg Ebralidze 73, Zurab Tsereteli 80. Att: 35,000]
05/06/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 2-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladislav Markin 17, Vladimir Chebotaryov 52. Att: 25,000]
05/06/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Valeriy Filatov 72. Att: 19,000]
05/06/1973 Spartak Moskva 0-2 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Viktor Kuznetsov 67, Vladimir Starkov 68. Att: 27,000]

Round 7

05/12/1973 Dinamo Minsk 1-0 Torpedo Moskva [Anatoliy Vasilyev 65. Att: 14,000]
05/12/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [pen 5-3] [Roman Schneidermann 37 - Berador Abduraimov 83. Att: 20,000]
05/12/1973 Karpaty Lviv 0-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Vladimir Yakubov 29. Att: 12,000]
05/12/1973 Zenit Leningrad 1-0 Ararat Yerevan [Georgiy Vyun 89. Att: 15,000]
05/15/1973 Spartak Moskva 1-0 Dinamo Moskva [Mikhail Bulgakov 6 pen. Att: 30,000]
05/16/1973 CSKA Moskva 1-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [pen 5-4] [Wilhelm Tellinger 50 – Piruz Rekhviashvili 29. Att: 15,000]
05/16/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 0-2 Dynamo Kyiv [Vladimir Muntyan 38, Alexandr Damin 88. Att: 42,000]
05/16/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Alexei Yeskov 33. Att: 17,500]

Round 8

05/19/1973 Ararat Yerevan 1-3 Torpedo Moskva [Nazar Petrosyan 65 – Yuriy Smirnov 2, Vadim Nikonov 21, 71. Att: 55,000]
05/19/1973 CSKA Moskva 3-2 Dinamo Minsk [Vladimir Dudarenko 9, Vladimir Dorofeyev 64, Wilhelm Tellinger 76 – Anatoliy Vasilyev 42, Valeriy Slovak 45. Att: 15,000]
05/19/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 0-3 Dinamo Moskva [Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 25, 34, Vladimir Kozlov 89 pen. Att: 22,000]
05/19/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Viktor Nazarov 51, Viktor Romanyuk 80. Att: 20,000]
05/19/1973 Karpaty Lviv 2-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Roman Khizhak 5, 39 – Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 71. Att: 11,000]
05/19/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [pen 2-4] [Att: 18,000]
05/19/1973 Spartak Moskva 2-0 Zenit Leningrad [Vladimir Redin 35, Mikhail Bulgakov 65 pen. Att: 10,000]
05/19/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-0 Dynamo Kyiv [Vladimir Belousov 51. Att: 25,000]

Round 9

05/27/1973 Dinamo Minsk 0-0 Zenit Leningrad [pen 4-5] [Att: 17,000]
05/27/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-4 Ararat Yerevan [Sergei Rozhkov 36 – Nikolai Kazaryan 2, 51, Sergei Bondarenko 61, Oganes Zanazanyan 78. Att: 20,000]
05/27/1973 Torpedo Moskva 3-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Anatoliy Degtyaryov 30, Vladimir Yurin 44, Anatoliy Fetisov 60 – Roman Schneidermann 9 pen. Att: 14,000]
05/28/1973 Dinamo Moskva 2-0 Karpaty Lviv [Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 32, Mikhail Gershkovich 75. Att: 20,000]
05/29/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 1-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [pen 7-8] [Oleg Blokhin 75 – Nikolai Ivanov 89. Att: 15,000]
05/29/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2-2 Dinamo Tbilisi [pen 2-5] [Nikolai Golikov 26, 31p – Vissarion Mchedlishvili 8, David Kipiani 16 pen. Att: 18,000]
05/29/1973 Spartak Moskva 2-1 CSKA Moskva [Mikhail Bulgakov 70p, Alexandr Piskaryov 84 – Vladimir Dorofeyev 10. Att: 42,000]
05/29/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladimir Onischenko 50, Sergei Morozov 70 - Alexandr Vasin 83. Att: 28,000]

Round 10

06/02/1973 Ararat Yerevan 4-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Arkadiy Andriasyan 39p, 67p, Eduard Markarov 73, Sergei Bondarenko 79. Att: 45,000]
06/02/1973 Dinamo Moskva 2-2 Dynamo Kyiv [pen 5-4] [Vladimir Veremeyev (DK) 24og, Alexandr Makhovikov 37 – Vladimir Muntyan 11, Oleg Blokhin 41. Att: 20,000]
06/02/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-0 Dinamo Minsk [Viktor Romanyuk 29. Att: 15,000]
06/02/1973 Karpaty Lviv 3-2 Spartak Moskva [Lev Brovarskiy 43, Gennadiy Likhachov 64, Roman Shpodarunok 69 – Alexandr Kokorev 32, Viktor Papayev 54. Att: 16,000]
06/02/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 15. Att: 13,000]
06/02/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 Zenit Leningrad [Anatoliy Konkov 32p, Vladimir Safonov 53, Yuriy Dudinskiy 59 – Vladimir Goncharov 54. Att: 28,000]
06/02/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-1 CSKA Moskva [Wilhelm Tellinger 68. Att: 10,000]
06/02/1973 Torpedo Moskva 0-3 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Vladimir Onischenko 60, Anatoliy Kuksov 64, Viktor Kuznetsov 86. Att: 30,000]

Round 11

06/13/1973 Ararat Yerevan 3-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Eduard Markarov 10, Nikolai Kazaryan 84, Levon Ishtoyan 90. Att: 56,000]
06/13/1973 CSKA Moskva 3-2 Torpedo Moskva [Vladimir Dudarenko 42, Wilhelm Tellinger 62p, Vladimir Polikarpov 81 – Anatoliy Fetisov 21, Yuriy Smirnov 55. Att: 25,000]
06/13/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 3-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Vladimir Muntyan 44p, Viktor Matviyenko 57, Oleg Blokhin 64 – Vladimir Likhosherstnykh 39. Att: 30,000]
06/13/1973 Dinamo Minsk 1-1 Karpaty Lviv [pen 4-5] [Vladimir Kurnev 58 – Lev Brovarskiy 24. Att: 25,000]
06/13/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Piruz Rekhviashvili 6, 60. Att: 25,000]
06/13/1973 Spartak Moskva 3-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Mikhail Bulgakov 16p, Alexandr Piskaryov 56, 63 – Viktor Maslov 25. Att: 19,000]
06/13/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 3-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Viktor Kuznetsov 10, Sergei Morozov 68, Vladimir Onischenko 79 – Berador Abduraimov 71. Att: 27,000]
06/13/1973 Zenit Leningrad 2-3 Dinamo Moskva [Georgiy Vyun 16, Pavel Sadyrin 73p – Yevgeniy Zhukov 26, Alexei Petrushin 27, Yuriy Pudyshev 67. Att: 25,000]

Round 12

06/16/1973 Dinamo Moskva 1-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 81. Att: 9,500]
06/17/1973 CSKA Moskva 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Anzor Chikhladze 17. Att: 26,000]
06/17/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 3-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Oleg Blokhin 10, Vladimir Veremeyev 33, Anatoliy Puzach 90. Att: 35,000]
06/17/1973 Dinamo Minsk 0-1 Spartak Moskva [Mikhail Bulgakov 61 pen. Att: 14,000]
06/17/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 0-0 Ararat Yerevan [pen 4-3] [Att: 40,000]
06/17/1973 Torpedo Moskva 1-1 Karpaty Lviv [pen 3-4] [Yuriy Smirnov 67 – Roman Khizhak 27. Att: 14,000]
06/17/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Valeriy Kopiy 3. Att: 27,000]
06/17/1973 Zenit Leningrad 3-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Anatoliy Zinchenko 10, Georgiy Vyun 27, Pavel Sadyrin 36. Att: 6,000]

Round 13

06/24/1973 Dinamo Minsk 0-0 Dynamo Kyiv [pen 4-5] [Att: 30,000]
06/24/1973 Dinamo Moskva 3-0 CSKA Moskva [Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 6, Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 75, 85. Att: 28,000]
06/24/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-1 Karpaty Lviv [pen 4-3] [Roman Schneidermann 19 – Roman Shpodarunok 32. Att: 15,000]
06/24/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Vladimir Fyodorov 4, Nikolai Golikov 35, Berador Abduraimov 51, Mikhail An 69 – Nikolai Osyanin 17. Att: 16,000]
06/24/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 0-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Givi Nodia 13. Att: 40,000]
06/24/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-2 Ararat Yerevan [Levon Ishtoyan 2, Oganes Zanazanyan 60. Att: 16,000]
06/24/1973 Torpedo Moskva 2-0 Spartak Moskva [Vadim Nikonov 22, Yuriy Smirnov 33. Att: 46,000]
06/24/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 0-0 Zenit Leningrad [pen 2-4] [Att: 31,000]

Round 14

06/30/1973 CSKA Moskva 1-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Vladimir Dorofeyev 76. Att: 18,000]
07/01/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 0-0 Torpedo Moskva [pen 5-3] [Att: 35,000]
07/01/1973 Dinamo Moskva 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Eduard Markarov 40. Att: 35,000]
07/01/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 1-1 Zenit Leningrad [pen 6-5] [Murtaz Khurtsilava 29 – Pavel Sadyrin 20p. Att: 20,000]
07/01/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Anatoliy Pilipchuk 42, Roman Schneidermann 65 – Yuriy Gubich 79. Att: 28,000]
07/01/1973 Karpaty Lviv 1-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Roman Shpodarunok 9. Att: 31,000]
07/01/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-2 Spartak Moskva [Seilda Bayshakov 15 – Nikolai Kiselyov 10, Alexandr Piskaryov 32. Att: 16,000]
07/01/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4-0 Dinamo Minsk [Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 17, 27, Berador Abduraimov 51, Nikolai Golikov 73. Att: 20,000]

Round 15

07/07/1973 Torpedo Moskva 1-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Anatoliy Degtyaryov 5. Att: 15,000]
07/08/1973 Ararat Yerevan 1-0 CSKA Moskva [Eduard Markarov 51. Att: 66,000]
07/08/1973 Dinamo Moskva 2-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Yuriy Pudyshev 29, Vladimir Dolbonosov 90 - Viktor Kuznetsov 30. Att: 27,000]
07/08/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-0 Dinamo Minsk [Nikolai Osyanin 40. Att: 14,000]
07/08/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-0 Spartak Moskva [Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 13. Att: 30,000]
07/08/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 Karpaty Lviv [Alexandr Vasin 46, 86, Vitaliy Starukhin 75 – Roman Shpodarunok 89. Att: 19,000]
07/08/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 2-2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [pen 6-5] [Viktor Churkin 17, Viktor Maslov (D) 70og – Viktor Romanyuk 19, Valeriy Porkuyan 54. Att: 12,000]
07/08/1973 Zenit Leningrad 2-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Anatoliy Zinchenko 34, 35 – Viktor Kolotov 51. Att: 52,000]

Round 16

07/14/1973 Spartak Moskva 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [pen 5-1] [Att: 25,000]
07/15/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 5-2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Oleg Blokhin 15, 43, Vladimir Muntyan 35p, Vladimir Troshkin 59, Viktor Kolotov 86 – Stanislav Yevseyenko 16, Anatoliy Grinko 42. Att: 55,000]
07/15/1973 Dinamo Minsk 1-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [pen 5-4] [Vladimir Krasnov 6 – Anatoliy Maslyayev 13. Att: 26,000]
07/15/1973 Dinamo Moskva 1-1 Zenit Leningrad [pen 5-4] [Vladimir Eshtrekov 39 – Vladimir Goncharov 80. Att: 21,000]
07/15/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 3-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Murtaz Khurtsilava 9, Vladimir Gutsayev 11, Givi Nodia 51. Att: 20,000]
07/15/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 2-3 Ararat Yerevan [Anatoliy Lisakovskiy 17, Berador Abduraimov 30 - Sergei Pogosov 11, Arkadiy Andriasyan 76, 87. Att: 36,000]
07/15/1973 Torpedo Moskva 2-2 CSKA Moskva [pen 3-4] [Valeriy Abramov 24, Anatoliy Fetisov 41 - Vladimir Fedotov 2, Vladimir Dorofeyev 87. Att: 27,000]
07/15/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 4-1 Karpaty Lviv [Vladimir Belousov 15, Yuriy Yeliseyev 58, Viktor Kuznetsov 71, Anatoliy Kuksov 73 – Lev Brovarskiy 76. Att: 25,000]

Round 17

07/21/1973 Spartak Moskva 1-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Alexandr Piskaryov 22. Att: 28,000]
07/22/1973 Ararat Yerevan 3-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Eduard Markarov 49, Oganes Zanazanyan 70, Levon Ishtoyan 72. Att: 70,000]
07/22/1973 CSKA Moskva 0-0 Zenit Leningrad [pen 8-7] [Att: 21,000]
07/22/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 1-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Oleg Blokhin 39. Att: 55,000]
07/22/1973 Dinamo Minsk 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [pen 8-9] [Att: 19,000]
07/22/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-0 Torpedo Moskva [Valeriy Porkuyan 66, 79. Att: 20,000]
07/22/1973 Karpaty Lviv 3-5 Dinamo Moskva [Eduard Kozinkevich 20, Roman Shpodarunok 34, Gennadiy Likhachov 75 - Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 17, 19, 25, 85, Vladimir Kozlov 41. Att: 27,000]
07/22/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [pen 5-4] [Sergei Rozhkov 44 – Berador Abduraimov 62 pen. Att: 20,000]

Round 18

07/28/1973 Torpedo Moskva 1-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Anatoliy Degtyaryov 65. Att: 15,000]
07/29/1973 CSKA Moskva 2-2 Spartak Moskva [pen 5-3] [Vladimir Dudarenko 20, Wilhelm Tellinger 26p – Vitaliy Mirzoyev 5, Vladimir Bukiyevskiy 52 pen. Att: 43,000]
07/29/1973 Dinamo Moskva 1-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [pen 3-4] [Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 21 – Anatoliy Ionkin 30. Att: 25,000]
07/29/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-1 Ararat Yerevan [pen 5-4] [Anatoliy Grinko 44p – Eduard Markarov 29. Att: 36,000]
07/29/1973 Karpaty Lviv 1-3 Dinamo Tbilisi [Alexandr Andryuschenko 78 – Zorbeg Ebralidze 3, 73, Givi Nodia 18. Att: 23,000]
07/29/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Alexandr Vasin 26, Vitaliy Starukhin 48, Anatoliy Konkov 76p – Viktor Kuznetsov 61 pen. Att: 29,000]
07/29/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 Dynamo Kyiv [pen 10-9] [Yevgeniy Khrabrostin 30 – Vladimir Muntyan 86. Att: 23,000]
07/29/1973 Zenit Leningrad 1-1 Dinamo Minsk [pen 7-6] [Pavel Sadyrin 34 – Nikolai Timofeyev 78. Att: 25,000]

Round 19

08/04/1973 Karpaty Lviv 3-0 Ararat Yerevan [Roman Khizhak 2, Fyodor Chorba 9, Roman Shpodarunok 42. Att: 26,000]
08/04/1973 Torpedo Moskva 1-3 Kairat Alma-Ata [Yuriy Smirnov 89 – Sergei Rozhkov 3, Vladimir Chebotaryov 11, Yuriy Syomin 66. Att: 15,000]
08/04/1973 Zenit Leningrad 3-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladimir Goncharov 23, 88, Viktor Trembach 90. Att: 30,000]
08/08/1973 CSKA Moskva 3-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Wilhelm Tellinger 29, 67, Vladimir Dorofeyev 81 – Yevgeniy Khrabrostin 80. Att: 15,000]
08/08/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 4-0 Dinamo Minsk [Oleg Blokhin 27, Vladimir Muntyan 38p, Viktor Kolotov 89, Vladimir Troshkin 90. Att: 30,000]
08/08/1973 Dinamo Moskva 1-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [pen 6-5] [Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 17p – Yuriy Ivanov 29. Att: 20,000]
08/08/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [pen 4-2] [Att: 10,000]
08/08/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 2-0 Spartak Moskva [Anatoliy Shakun 77, Nikolai Pinchuk 82. Att: 27,000]

Round 20

08/12/1973 Ararat Yerevan 2-2 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [pen 4-5] [Arkadiy Andriasyan 1, 79 - Alexei Yeskov 34, Gennadiy Antonov 57. Att: 38,000]
08/12/1973 Dinamo Minsk 1-1 CSKA Moskva [pen 5-3] [Gennadiy Voronin 60 – Vladimir Fedotov 65. Att: 12,000]
08/12/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 0-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [pen 6-5] [Att: 20,000]
08/12/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 2-1 Karpaty Lviv [Vladislav Markin 32, Sergei Rozhkov 75 – Roman Khizhak 41. Att: 25,000]
08/12/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 4-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Alexandr Korchonov 23, Berador Abduraimov 35, Vassilis Hatzipanagis 41, Yuriy Belov 47 – Viktor Romanyuk 29. Att: 24,000]
08/12/1973 Torpedo Moskva 0-2 Dynamo Kyiv [Vladimir Troshkin 23, Viktor Kolotov 52 pen. Att: 21,000]
08/12/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 0-1 Dinamo Moskva [Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 70. Att: 23,000]
08/12/1973 Zenit Leningrad 0-0 Spartak Moskva [pen 4-5] [Att: 30,000]

Round 21

08/18/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 3-1 Karpaty Lviv [Vassilis Hatzipanagis 28, 37, Berador Abduraimov 62 – Eduard Kozinkevich 82. Att: 27,000]
08/19/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 2-2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [pen 4-5] [Yuriy Syomin 5, Anatoliy Ionkin 39 – Viktor Romanyuk 61, 64. Att: 28,000]
08/19/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 4-1 CSKA Moskva [Vitaliy Starukhin 20, Alexandr Vasin 30, 42, Anatoliy Konkov 61 – Vladimir Polikarpov 65. Att: 31,000]
08/19/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 2-0 Zenit Leningrad [Viktor Churkin 54, 65. Att: 17,500]

08/20/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 3-1 Ararat Yerevan [Oleg Blokhin 52, 78, Leonid Buryak 66 – Eduard Markarov 84. Att: 90,000]
08/26/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 3-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Alexandr Zhuravlyov 51p, Sergei Morozov 80, Vladimir Onischenko 84. Att: 26,000]
09/11/1973 Torpedo Moskva 1-1 Dinamo Minsk [pen 3-5] [Anatoliy Degtyaryov 86 – Vladimir Kurnev 72 pen. Att: 7,000]
10/03/1973 Dinamo Moskva 0-0 Spartak Moskva [pen 5-3] [Att: 19,000]

Round 22

08/25/1973 Spartak Moskva 2-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Alexandr Piskaryov 81, Nikolai Kiselyov 88 - Vladimir Veremeyev 71. Att: 60,000]
08/31/1973 CSKA Moskva 1-1 Dinamo Moskva [pen 4-5] [Vladimir Dudarenko 84 – Alexandr Makhovikov 41. Att: 34,000]
09/01/1973 Ararat Yerevan 4-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Sergei Bondarenko 26, Levon Ishtoyan 43, 65, Eduard Markarov 55. Att: 40,000]
09/01/1973 Dinamo Minsk 1-2 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Vladimir Kurnev 60 – Sergei Morozov 37, Vladimir Onischenko 85. Att: 24,000]
09/01/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Alexei Khristyan 6, Valeriy Porkuyan 67. Att: 15,000]
09/01/1973 Karpaty Lviv 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Yuriy Vankevich 78. Att: 16,000]
09/01/1973 Zenit Leningrad 3-1 Torpedo Moskva [Vladimir Zhigunov 18, Pavel Sadyrin 36, Anatoliy Zinchenko 73 – Vladimir Yurin 58. Att: 35,000]
09/12/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 4-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Vladimir Gutsayev 37, 52, Georgiy Gavasheli 59, Kakhi Asatiani 71. Att: 15,000]

Round 23

09/08/1973 CSKA Moskva 0-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [pen 3-5] [Att: 7,000]
09/08/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 2-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Vladimir Veremeyev 71, Leonid Buryak 78 – David Kipiani 8. Att: 55,000]
09/08/1973 Dinamo Minsk 2-1 Dinamo Moskva [Anatoliy Bogovik 7, Gennadiy Voronin 51p – Vladimir Kozlov 45 pen. Att: 22,000]
09/08/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Vitaliy Starukhin 20. Att: 32,000]
09/08/1973 Spartak Moskva 1-1 Torpedo Moskva [pen 5-4] [Alexandr Minayev 20 – Vadim Nikonov 70. Att: 9,100]
09/08/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Nazar Petrosyan 77. Att: 37,000]
09/08/1973 Zenit Leningrad 3-0 Karpaty Lviv [Viktor Trembach 78, 80, Pavel Sadyrin 85. Att: 7,000]
09/09/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-2 Kairat Alma-Ata [Viktor Bondarenko 15 – Anatoliy Ionkin 3, Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 72. Att: 20,000]

Round 24

09/15/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 3-0 Dinamo Moskva [Oleg Blokhin 4, 9, Vladimir Troshkin 81. Att: 55,000]
09/15/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 4-0 Dinamo Minsk [Givi Nodia 19, 40, 61, 82. Att: 20,000]
09/15/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 0-0 Torpedo Moskva [pen 5-3] [Att: 25,000]
09/16/1973 Ararat Yerevan 3-1 Spartak Moskva [Arkadiy Andriasyan 5, Levon Ishtoyan 43, Oganes Zanazanyan 50 – Vladimir Redin 37. Att: 48,000]
09/16/1973 CSKA Moskva 1-0 Karpaty Lviv [Vladimir Kislyakov 53. Att: 6,000]
09/16/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 0-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [pen 3-5] [Att: 28,000]
09/16/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [pen 4-5] [Boris Serostanov 21p - Alexandr Ivankov 68. Att: 23,000]
09/16/1973 Zenit Leningrad 0-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [pen 11-12] [Att: 10,000]

Round 25

09/29/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk [Oleg Blokhin 9, 57 – Vladimir Zakharov 77. Att: 40,000]
09/29/1973 Dinamo Moskva 4-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Oleg Dolmatov 40, Alexandr Makhovikov 48, Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 60, Alexei Petrushin 78 – David Kipiani 82. Att: 19,000]
09/29/1973 Torpedo Moskva 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Sergei Bondarenko 47. Att: 16,000]
09/29/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 3-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Alexandr Zhuravlyov 11, Yuriy Yeliseyev 65, 83 – Anatoliy Mogilny 82. Att: 23,000]
09/30/1973 Karpaty Lviv 3-2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Roman Khizhak 8, Gennadiy Likhachov 41, Eduard Kozinkevich 60 – Viktor Romanyuk 13, Anatoliy Grinko 89. Att: 21,000]
09/30/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-0 Zenit Leningrad [pen 5-2] [Att: 15,000]
09/30/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-0 CSKA Moskva [Tulyagan Isakov 16. Att: 12,000]
09/30/1973 Spartak Moskva 2-0 Dinamo Minsk [Alexandr Piskaryov 19, Mikhail Bulgakov 84. Att: 9,000]

Round 26

10/06/1973 Spartak Moskva 1-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Alexandr Piskaryov 44. Att: 10,000]
10/07/1973 Ararat Yerevan 1-1 Dinamo Moskva [pen 3-5] [Arkadiy Andriasyan 50 – Yuriy Kurnenin 3. Att: 55,000]
10/07/1973 CSKA Moskva 3-0 Dynamo Kyiv [Alexandr Kozlovskikh 17, 51, Vladimir Fedotov 42. Att: 12,000]
10/07/1973 Dinamo Minsk 0-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Yuriy Belov 75. Att: 27,000]
10/07/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Vitaliy Starukhin 7, Vladimir Safonov 20 - Valeriy Porkuyan 78. Att: 27,000]
10/07/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-1 Karpaty Lviv [Roman Khizhak 35. Att: 10,000]
10/07/1973 Zenit Leningrad 3-2 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Anatoliy Zinchenko 54, 63, Alexandr Nikolayev 90 – Vladimir Onischenko 5, Yuriy Yeliseyev 86. Att: 15,000]
10/09/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 4-2 Torpedo Moskva [Givi Nodia 23, 86, Manuchar Machaidze 39, David Kipiani 77 – Yuriy Smirnov 13, Anatoliy Fetisov 33. Att: 22,000]

Round 27

10/14/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 Zenit Leningrad [Viktor Kolotov 70, Oleg Blokhin 88. Att: 18,000]
10/14/1973 Dinamo Minsk 1-0 Kairat Alma-Ata [Alexandr Klimovich 38. Att: 17,000]
10/14/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-3 Dinamo Moskva [Valeriy Porkuyan 21, Viktor Maslov 52 - Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 11, 22, Oleg Dolmatov 65 pen. Att: 15,000]
10/14/1973 Karpaty Lviv 1-0 Torpedo Moskva [Vladimir Fursov 50. Att: 23,000]
10/14/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 0-0 Ararat Yerevan [pen 3-4] [Att: 45,000]
10/14/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 2-3 Dinamo Tbilisi [Viktor Churkin 45, 79 – Manuchar Machaidze 42, Yevgeniy Aleksandrov (S) 46og, Vladimir Gutsayev 61. Att: 2,500]
10/14/1973 Spartak Moskva 4-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Alexandr Piskaryov 29, Alexandr Minayev 62, Mikhail Bulgakov 75, 78. Att: 8,000]
10/14/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-0 CSKA Moskva [Anatoliy Kuksov 34. Att: 26,000]

Round 28

10/20/1973 Ararat Yerevan 2-1 Dinamo Minsk [Nikolai Kazaryan 73, Levon Ishtoyan 80 - Alexandr Prokopenko 24. Att: 60,000]
10/20/1973 Dinamo Moskva 1-1 Torpedo Moskva [pen 4-5] [Andrei Yakubik 44 – Vadim Nikonov 9 pen. Att: 16,000]
10/20/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 1-0 Spartak Moskva [Georgiy Gavasheli 10. Att: 25,000]
10/20/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Viktor Romanyuk 83, Anatoliy Grinko 88. Att: 12,000]
10/20/1973 Karpaty Lviv 0-0 Dynamo Kyiv [pen 4-5] [Att: 43,000]
10/20/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 CSKA Moskva [pen 4-3] [Vladislav Markin 86 – Vladimir Fedotov 82. Att: 20,000]
10/21/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 5-0 Zenit Leningrad [Berador Abduraimov 11, 48, 53, Viktor Varyukhin 76, Vassilis Hatzipanagis 85. Att: 25,000]
10/21/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 3-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Vitaliy Starukhin 33, 68, Anatoliy Konkov 43. Att: 21,000]

Round 29

10/28/1973 Ararat Yerevan 3-2 Zenit Leningrad [Oganes Zanazanyan 27, Eduard Markarov 47, 59 – Alexandr Nikolayev 48, Anatoliy Zinchenko 52. Att: 70,000]
10/28/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 3-1 CSKA Moskva [Givi Nodia 24, 67, Manuchar Machaidze 74 – Vladimir Fedotov 22. Att: 28,000]
10/28/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-1 Spartak Moskva [Vladimir Redin 22. Att: 12,000]
10/28/1973 Karpaty Lviv 1-0 Dinamo Minsk [Gennadiy Likhachov 50. Att: 36,000]
10/28/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 0-0 Dynamo Kyiv [pen 5-3] [Att: 24,000]
10/28/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-2 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Vladimir Fyodorov 56 – Vladimir Onischenko 15, Sergei Morozov 32. Att: 28,000]
10/28/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Torpedo Moskva [Anatoliy Konkov 33, Vladimir Safonov 73. Att: 19,000]
10/28/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-1 Dinamo Moskva [Andrei Yakubik 43. Att: 2,000]

Round 30

10/24/1973 CSKA Moskva 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Levon Ishtoyan 33. Att: 8,000]
11/01/1973 Dinamo Moskva 2-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Andrei Yakubik 58, Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 62. Att: 12,000]
11/01/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [pen 4-3] [Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 65 – Anatoliy Kuksov 89. Att: 20,000]
11/01/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Oleg Blokhin 4. Att: 26,000]
11/01/1973 Torpedo Moskva 1-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Yuriy Smirnov 14. Att: 1,500]
11/01/1973 Zenit Leningrad 1-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Anatoliy Zinchenko 10. Att: 12,000]
11/02/1973 Dinamo Minsk 2-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Anatoliy Vasilyev 29, Vladimir Sakharov 56. Att: 4,000]
11/02/1973 Spartak Moskva 1-0 Karpaty Lviv [Vladimir Bukiyevskiy 33 pen. Att: 8,000]

Top scorers:

1973 First League (Second Level)

# Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 W OT L GS-GA PT
1 Chornomorets Odesa                                         24 4/2 8 83-38 52
2 Nistru Kishinev                                         25 2/5 6 71-35 52
3 Lokomotiv Moskva                                         20 6/2 10 47-32 46
4 Neftchi Baku                                         17 5/3 13 58-43 39
5 Metallurg Lipetsketsk                                         14 7/5 12 42-38 35
6 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya                                         14 6/5 13 62-53 34
7 Shinnik Yaroslavl                                         16 2/6 14 48-41 34
8 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev                                         15 4/3 16 46-51 34
9 Torpedo Kutaisi                                         16 2/2 18 40-46 34
10 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk                                         14 5/2 17 40-54 33
11 Zvezda Perm                                         14 4/5 15 50-52 32
12 Tekstilschik Ivanovo                                         14 4/4 16 41-46 32
13 Stroitel Ashkhabad                                         14 4/3 17 46-58 32
14 Pamir Dushanbe                                         14 3/5 16 50-44 31
15 Kuzbass Kemerovo                                         14 2/7 15 42-46 30
16 Spartak Nalchik                                         12 6/2 18 46-61 30
17 Spartak Ordzhonikidze                                         13 4/3 18 29-44 30
18 Shakhtyor Karaganda                                         12 4/5 17 42-60 28
19 Metalist Kharkiv                                         11 5/4 18 34-50 27
20 Alga Frunze                                         6 2/8 22 49-54 14
1 - Avtomobilist Nalchik changed name to Spartak.
2 - Chornomorets Odesa, Nistru Kishinev are promoted to play in 1974 Premier League
3 - Shakhtyor Karaganda, Metalist Kharkiv, Alga Frunze are relegated to play in 1974 Second League.

Round 1

04/09/1973 Alga Frunze 0-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [pen 3-5]
04/09/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 0-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [Valeriy Shalnev 15]
04/09/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 0-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [pen 3-4]
04/09/1973 Neftchi Baku 1-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [pen 4-5] [Fizuli Javadov 64 – Pavel Shmelkov 50]
04/09/1973 Nistru Kishinev 1-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [pen 1-4] [Valeriy Zhuravlyov 62 – Yuriy Chesnokov 70]
04/09/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 0-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Vladimir Razdayev 23]
04/09/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 0-2 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Vladimir Korotkov 30, Anatoliy Napreyev 83]
04/09/1973 Spartak Nalchik 2-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Viktor Tlyarugov 13, Vasiliy Golovko 17]
04/09/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-0 Zvezda Perm [pen 5-4]
04/09/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Shota Okropirashvili 88]

Round 2

04/13/1973 Alga Frunze 1-0 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Vladimir Belov (K) 51og]
04/13/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 2-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Vladimir Nechayev 22p, Viktor Tomashevskiy 81]
04/13/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 0-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Valeriy Kleschov 52]
04/13/1973 Neftchi Baku 3-1 Zvezda Perm [Nikolai Smolnikov 46, Anatoliy Banishevskiy 54, 73 - Alexandr Kozlovskikh 57]
04/13/1973 Nistru Kishinev 1-0 Metallurg Lipetsk [Anatoliy Rybak 81]
04/13/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 1-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Leonid Kirilenko 63]
04/13/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 1-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Viktor Anistratov 52]
04/13/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 0-2 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Viktor Kutin 57, Viktor Yeryomenko 61]
04/13/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Vyacheslav Popov 26]

Round 3

04/20/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Anatoliy Piskunov 65]
04/22/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 0-0 Alga Frunze [pen 5-4]
04/22/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 2-2 Neftchi Baku [pen 10-11] [Vyacheslav Chistopolov 80, Vitaliy Razdayev 88 – Anatoliy Banishevskiy 3, 74]
04/22/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 3-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Vladimir Borodin 40, Valeriy Stafyorov 72, Viktor Nozdrin 89p]
04/22/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [pen 4-3] [Viktor Yeryomenko 55 – Roland Pestvenidze 80]
04/22/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Roman Davyd 66]
04/22/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 2-0 Chornomorets Odesa [Nikolai Smirnov 33p, Vladimir Korotkov 75]
04/22/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 0-0 Spartak Nalchik [pen 4-5]
04/22/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-0 Nistru Kishinev [pen 5-3]
04/22/1973 Zvezda Perm 3-2 Pamir Dushanbe [Alexandr Kozlovskikh 24, Alexandr Markin 25, 75 - Vladimir Makarov 32, Tolib Nabiyev 38]

Round 4

04/26/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 0-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Leonid Kirilenko 43]
04/26/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 3-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Viktor Shel 28, Vyacheslav Chistopolov 34, Vitaliy Razdayev 68]
04/26/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Vyacheslav Klykov 80p, Yuriy Ryzhov 84]
04/26/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 1-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Viktor Votolovskiy 61]
04/26/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 2-3 Neftchi Baku [Viktor Abgolts 3, Roman Davyd 8 – Nikolai Smolnikov 20p, 80, Anatoliy Banishevskiy 35]
04/26/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-2 Nistru Kishinev [Nikolai Smirnov 3p – Nikolai Mikhailov 6, Valeriy Zhuravlyov 59]
04/26/1973 Spartak Nalchik 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Viktor Tlyarugov 42]
04/26/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-2 Chornomorets Odesa [Viktor Tomashevskiy 24, Anatoliy Shepel 46]
04/26/1973 Zvezda Perm 1-0 Alga Frunze [Yevgeniy Sesyunin 76]

Round 5

05/02/1973 Alga Frunze 0-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [pen 3-4]
05/02/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 3-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Viktor Zubkov 13, Anatoliy Shepel 22, Grigoriy Sapozhnikov 29 – Valeriy Kuzmin (C) 40og]
05/02/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 3-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Viktor Yeryomenko 4, Emil Gubaniy 5, Nikolai Kulichenkov 86]
05/02/1973 Neftchi Baku 0-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [Alexandr Borodin 67]
05/02/1973 Nistru Kishinev 3-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Valeriy Pavlov 39, 75, Valeriy Zhuravlyov 54]
05/02/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 0-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Alexandr Shulyakov 51]
05/02/1973 Spartak Nalchik 0-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [pen 4-3] Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-0 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Vladimir Belov (K)og, Igor Zazroyev p]
05/02/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Sergei Fomin 57, Nikolai Maslov (L) 79og]
05/02/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 3-0 Zvezda Perm [Vladimir Shelia 58, Roland Pestvenidze 65, Jemal Kherkhadze 88]

Round 6

05/07/1973 Alga Frunze 1-2 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Boris Streltsov 55 – Alexandr Shulyakov 24, Stanislav Lyubavin 62p]
05/07/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 0-1 Nistru Kishinev [Nikolai Mikhailov 55]
05/07/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 3-0 Zvezda Perm [Emil Gubaniy 26, Anatoliy Sizov 28, Viktor Kutin 79]
05/07/1973 Neftchi Baku 1-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Fizuli Javadov 87]
05/07/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 2-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Edgar Gess 4, Georgiy Martyan 40 – Boris Rybin 85]
05/07/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 1-0 Chornomorets Odesa [Ivan Volik 35]
05/07/1973 Spartak Nalchik 3-3 Kuzbass Kemerovo [pen 5-3] [Ruslan Shabatukov, Yevgeniy Deryomov, Kazbek Tlyarugov –    Vitaliy Razdayev, Vasiliy Ryashin, Viktor Shel]
05/07/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Georgiy Kaishauri 37, Hasan Mirikov 80]
05/07/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [pen 4-3] [Yakub Urazsahatov 73 – Viktor Votolovskiy 32]
05/07/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 0-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Sergei Krayev 60]

Round 7

05/14/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-0 Spartak Nalchik [Pavel Shmelkov 45, Sergei Krayev 65]
05/14/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Vyacheslav Chistopolov 75 – Emil Gubaniy 12]
05/14/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-1 Alga Frunze [Yuriy Chesnokov 4, 67 – Zufar Gayfulin 45]
05/14/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 2-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Valeriy Stafyorov 30, Yevgeniy Eskov 62]
05/14/1973 Nistru Kishinev 2-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Igor Nadein 51p, Rudolf Atamalyan 66 - Anatoliy Shepel 29]
05/14/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 3-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Alexandr Savchenkov 75, Roman Davyd 77, Serikbek Iskakov 78 – Roland Pestvenidze 30]
05/14/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vladimir Korotkov 15, Anatoliy Napreyev 17, 67 – Igor Dzagoyev 22]
05/14/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-0 Neftchi Baku [Stanislav Lyubavin 37p, Valeriy Gornushkin 68]
05/14/1973 Zvezda Perm 0-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [pen 4-2]

Round 8

05/18/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Valeryan Panfilov 39]
05/18/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 2-2 Torpedo Kutaisi [pen 2-4] [Vitaliy Razdayev 18, Vladimir Razdayev 56 – Vladimir Shelia 5, Badri Parulava 25]
05/18/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-2 Pamir Dushanbe [pen 6-5] [Yuriy Chesnokov 7, Anatoliy Piskunov 36 - Shuhrat Azamov 12, Georgiy Martyan 85]
05/18/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 2-3 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Vladislav Gunko 19, Mikhail Smirnov 75 - Viktor Kozin 17, 90, Ivan Volik 50]
05/18/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 2-0 Alga Frunze [Viktor Yevlentyev 43, Vladimir Silokhin 88]
05/18/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [pen 3-4]
05/18/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-1 Neftchi Baku [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 30]
05/18/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Yuriy Pyanov 29, Ivan Ponomaryov 56]
05/18/1973 Zvezda Perm 3-0 Spartak Nalchik [Yevgeniy Sesyunin 16, 30, Alexandr Kozlovskikh 80]

Round 9

05/24/1973 Alga Frunze 0-1 Nistru Kishinev [Ivan Karas 43]
05/24/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 3-1 Zvezda Perm [Alexandr Kupriyanov 23, Boris Leonov 32, 40 - Nikolai Kulbyakin (KS) 34og]
05/24/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Emil Gubaniy 41p, Mikhail Sokolovskiy 79]
05/24/1973 Neftchi Baku 4-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 3, Fizuli Javadov 6, Tofik Abbasov 27, Nikolai Smolnikov 45]
05/24/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 1-0 Chornomorets Odesa [Edgar Gess 70]
05/24/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 3-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Alexandr Savchenkov 28, Nikolai Bushuyev 64, Viktor Abgolts 86 – Vitaliy Razdayev 30]
05/24/1973 Spartak Nalchik 2-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Vasiliy Golovko 4, 47 – Mikhail Potapov 84]
05/24/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 0-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Boris Rybin 69]
05/24/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-0 Metalist Kharkiv [pen 3-5]
05/24/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-0 Metallurg Lipetsk [Badri Parulava 73]

Round 10

05/28/1973 Alga Frunze 2-4 Chornomorets Odesa [Almaz Chokmorov 86, Alexandr Kantsurov 90 - Anatoliy Shepel 13, 28, 55, Viktor Borovikov 49]
05/28/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 0-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [Valeriy Stafyorov 83]
05/28/1973 Neftchi Baku 4-2 Metalist Kharkiv [Yuriy Stekolnikov 18p, 38, 73, Samed Kurbanov 27 - Anatoliy Demchenko 32, Alexandr Rozalyev 70]
05/28/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 1-2 Nistru Kishinev [Alexandr Pogorelov 65 – Nikolai Mikhailov 6, Valeriy Zhuravlyov 40]
05/28/1973 Spartak Nalchik 0-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Valeriy Reingold 80]
05/28/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [pen 5-4] [Vladimir Mozzhukhin 69 - Valeriy Gornushkin 66]
05/28/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-1 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Igor Dzagoyev 72p, Sergei Fomin 80 - Stepan Chopei 73]
05/28/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 0-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [pen 6-5]
05/28/1973 Zvezda Perm 1-0 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Yevgeniy Pavlov 18]

Round 11

06/04/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-0 Spartak Nalchik [Yuriy Chesnokov 65, 69]
06/04/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 2-0 Alga Frunze [Anatoliy Demchenko 49, 70]
06/04/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 2-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Alexandr Borodin 76, Yevgeniy Eskov 82]
06/04/1973 Nistru Kishinev 3-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Anatoliy Rybak 7, Rudolf Atamalyan 46, 65]
06/04/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Anatoliy Novikov 16]
06/04/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [pen 3-5] [Vladimir Pankov 26 – Anatoliy Sizov 10]
06/04/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 1-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Taras Shulyatitskiy 25p]
06/04/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Sergei Venkov 16, 71]
06/12/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 1-1 Neftchi Baku [pen 5-1] [Igor Ivanenko 50 – Rashid Uzbekov 62]

Round 12

06/08/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 3-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Viktor Zubkov 35, Leonid Baranovskiy 82, Viktor Tomashevskiy 87 – Igor Dzagoyev 27]
06/08/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 3-2 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Vitaliy Razdayev 30, Viktor Shel 80, 87 - Valeryan Panfilov 50, Alexandr Kupriyanov 61]
06/08/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Viktor Davydov 30]
06/08/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 3-2 Pamir Dushanbe [Anatoliy Demchenko 11, 74, 76 – Alexandr Pogorelov 13, Vladimir Makarov 38]
06/08/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 2-1 Spartak Nalchik [Vladimir Silokhin 10, Valeriy Stafyorov 31 – Murat Baziyev 65]
06/08/1973 Nistru Kishinev 3-1 Neftchi Baku [Igor Nadein 44p, Ivan Karas 57, Anatoliy Teslev 86 - Yuriy Stekolnikov 39]
06/08/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 4-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Valeriy Reingold 12, 28, Vladimir Korotkov 21, Boris Gavrilov 50]
06/08/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2-1 Alga Frunze [Taras Shulyatitskiy 9p, Stepan Chopei 13 - Boris Streltsov 87]
06/08/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 3-2 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Vladimir Butov 37, Sergei Venkov 40, Stanislav Lyubavin 82p – Emil Gubaniy 7, Mikhail Sokolovskiy 57]
06/08/1973 Zvezda Perm 2-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Yevgeniy Pavlov 33, Vladimir Murin 34]

Round 13

06/15/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 0-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Anatoliy Piskunov 6]
06/15/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Vladimir Belov 37]
06/15/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-1 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [pen 5-6] [Emil Gubaniy 43 – Viktor Kozin 57]
06/15/1973 Neftchi Baku 0-0 Pamir Dushanbe [pen 5-6]
06/15/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Leongard Podlikh (S)og]
06/15/1973 Spartak Nalchik 0-3 Chornomorets Odesa [Vladimir Butenko 49, Anatoliy Shepel 70, 80]
06/15/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 0-2 Nistru Kishinev [Valeriy Zhuravlyov 34, Igor Nadein 65]
06/15/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Vladimir Shelia 30]
06/15/1973 Zvezda Perm 1-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [pen 5-4] [Vladimir Murin 23 – Valeriy Stafyorov 25]

Round 14

06/19/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [Alexandr Kupriyanov 29p, Ravil Aryapov 71 – Yevgeniy Eskov 5]
06/19/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Vitaliy Razdayev 79]
06/19/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 4-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Emil Gubaniy 25p, Valeriy Rud 30, Anatoliy Sizov 83, Yuriy Petrov 88]
06/19/1973 Neftchi Baku 5-1 Alga Frunze [Nikolai Smolnikov 12, 77, Anatoliy Banishevskiy 35, 55, 88 – Boris Streltsov 89]
06/19/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Georgiy Martyan 19, Tolib Nabiyev 90]
06/19/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 2-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Viktor Abgolts 27, Anatoliy Novikov 74 - Valeriy Kleschov 3]
06/19/1973 Spartak Nalchik 1-0 Nistru Kishinev [Anatoliy Tkachenko 44]
06/19/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-2 Chornomorets Odesa [Vladimir Titov 37 – Anatoliy Shepel 29, Vladimir Butenko 54]
06/19/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-2 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Shota Okropirashvili 89 – Taras Shulyatitskiy 25, Mikhail Gnatyshin 70]
06/19/1973 Zvezda Perm 1-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [pen 4-3] [Yevgeniy Sesyunin 57 – Yuriy Chesnokov 51]

Round 15

06/26/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 4-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Anatoliy Shepel 23, 57, Grigoriy Sapozhnikov 55, Igor Sokolovskiy 82]
06/26/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Gennadiy Khizun 9, Yuriy Chesnokov 47 – Vitaliy Razdayev 89]
06/26/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 1-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [pen 5-4] [Alexandr Borisenko 73 – Vladimir Mozzhukhin 90]
06/26/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 2-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Valeriy Stafyorov 43, Vladimir Bugakov 60 - Roman Davyd 82]
06/26/1973 Nistru Kishinev 3-3 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [pen 4-3] [Igor Nadein 3, Valeriy Pavlov 45, Nikolai Mikhailov 55 – Viktor Kutin 54, Emil Gubaniy 58p, Nikolai Penzin 70]
06/26/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-0 Zvezda Perm [Valeriy Kleschov 57]
06/26/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 1-1 Spartak Nalchik [pen 5-4] [Igor Dyriv 53 – Yevgeniy Deryomov 47]
06/26/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 3-1 Alga Frunze [Pyotr Karlov 7, 34, Sergei Fomin 10 – Boris Streltsov 44]
06/26/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-3 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Stanislav Lyubavin 36p, 71 – Gennadiy Platonov 46, Pavel Shmelkov 75, Yuriy Starkov 80]

Round 16

07/01/1973 Alga Frunze 1-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Mars Chokmorov 13]
07/01/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 3-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Viktor Tomashevskiy 13, Vyacheslav Leschuk 58, Anatoliy Shepel 66 – Nikolai Kulichenkov 9]
07/01/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 3-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Yuriy Ryzhov 15, Viktor Davydov 26, Anatoliy Piskunov 28 – Anatoliy Novikov 70]
07/01/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 2-1 Spartak Nalchik [Alexandr Shopin 43, Mikhail Smirnov 80 – Kazbek Tlyarugov 64]
07/01/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 1-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo [pen 3-2] [Vladimir Silokhin 73 – Vladimir Razdayev 60]
07/01/1973 Nistru Kishinev 2-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Valeriy Zhuravlyov 43, Vyacheslav Katkov 68]
07/01/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 4-2 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Boris Gavrilov 23, Vladimir Korotkov 25, 38, Alexandr Smirnov 57 – Sergei Krayev 51, 87]
07/01/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Stepan Chopei 44, Igor Dyriv 51]
07/01/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-3 Neftchi Baku [Yuriy Stekolnikov 18, 64, Nikolai Smolnikov 62]
07/01/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-1 Zvezda Perm [Mikhail Potapov 26, Ivan Ponomaryov 52 – Alexandr Kozlovskikh 8]

Round 17

07/06/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-1 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Sergei Krayev 27, Yuriy Starkov 82 – Bogdan Gorichok 85p]
07/06/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-0 Chornomorets Odesa [Vitaliy Razdayev 90]
07/06/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Emil Gubaniy 47, 52 – Anatoliy Tsygankov 68]
07/06/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 2-2 Nistru Kishinev [pen 3-2] [Viktor Abgolts 15, Anatoliy Novikov 60 - Igor Nadein 10, Rudolf Atamalyan 43]
07/06/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Boris Gavrilov 56, Valeriy Reingold 64, Vladimir Korotkov 68]
07/06/1973 Spartak Nalchik 2-2 Stroitel Ashkhabad [pen 5-4] [Viktor Batarin 36, Ruslan Shabatukov 38 – Kurban Berdyyev 26, Vyacheslav Vovk 81]
07/06/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 0-1 Neftchi Baku [Nikolai Hudiyev (S) 37og]
07/06/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-1 Alga Frunze [Shota Okropirashvili 25, Revaz Choladze 60p – Alexandr Kantsurov 35]
07/06/1973 Zvezda Perm 1-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Yevgeniy Sesyunin 40]

Round 18

07/10/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Sergei Krayev 17, Ravil Aryapov 54]
07/10/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 0-1 Nistru Kishinev [Rudolf Atamalyan 12]
07/10/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 1-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Alexandr Borodin 87]
07/10/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-0 Alga Frunze [Yuriy Petrov 13]
07/10/1973 Spartak Nalchik 3-0 Neftchi Baku [Yevgeniy Deryomov 56, Ruslan Shabatukov 62, Kazbek Tlyarugov 71]
07/10/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 3-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vladimir Mozzhukhin 7, Georgiy Kaishauri 21, Nodar Papelishvili 65]
07/10/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Vyacheslav Klykov 35p]
07/10/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 4-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Revaz Burkadze 30, Merab Chakhunashvili 38, Jemal Kherkhadze 65, Badri Parulava 80 – Leonid Kirilenko 10]
07/10/1973 Zvezda Perm 4-2 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Yevgeniy Sesyunin 34, Alexandr Markin 37, Alexandr Kozlovskikh 50, 64 – Bogdan Gorichok 52p, Viktor Kozin 64]
10/05/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-1 Chornomorets Odesa [pen 5-6] [Viktor Abgolts 74 - Anatoliy Shepel 28]

Round 19

07/17/1973 Alga Frunze 1-2 Spartak Nalchik [Stanislav Komlev 68p – Viktor Tlyarugov 19, 36]
07/17/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 3-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Vladimir Butenko 15, 33, Viktor Tomashevskiy 37]
07/17/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 4-2 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Yuriy Tsymbalyuk 5, Anatoliy Demchenko 12, 67, Mikhail Smirnov 28 – Vladimir Razdayev 20, Vitaliy Razdayev 88]
07/17/1973 Neftchi Baku 4-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Yuriy Stekolnikov 15p, 40, Anatoliy Banishevskiy 60, 80]
07/17/1973 Nistru Kishinev 2-2 Zvezda Perm [pen 5-2] [Igor Nadein 61p, Valeriy Pavlov 77 - Yevgeniy Sesyunin 18, Alexandr kozlovskikh 32]
07/17/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 5-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Georgiy Martyan 9, 36, Arsen Petrosov 14, Anatoliy Tsygankov 65, Edgar Gess 74]
07/17/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2-2 Shakhtyor Karaganda [pen 3-4] [Mikhail Gnatyshin 71, Viktor Anistratov 77 – Anatoliy Novikov 14, Yuriy Drobitko 50]
07/17/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-3 Torpedo Kutaisi [Vladimir Konstantinov 15, Vasiliy Karpov 61 - Jemal Kherkhadze 21, Badri Parulava 78, Vladimir Shelia 85]
07/17/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-0 Metallurg Lipetsk [pen 6-7]

Round 20

07/22/1973 Alga Frunze 3-3 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [pen 5-6] [Almaz Chokmorov 18, 37, Alexandr Kantsurov 44 – Georgiy Kaishauri 5, Valeriy Gazzayev 48, Nikolai Hudiyev 77]
07/22/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 1-0 Zvezda Perm [Viktor Tomashevskiy 79]
07/22/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 3-2 Metallurg Lipetsk [Yuriy Chesnokov 17, Viktor Davydov 55, Vyacheslav Klykov 89p – Yevgeniy Eskov 18, Oleg Shvetsov 45p]
07/22/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 0-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Yuriy Drobitko 14]
07/22/1973 Neftchi Baku 4-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 44, 60, 88, 89]
07/22/1973 Nistru Kishinev 3-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Rudolf Atamalyan 60, 65, Igor Nadein 69]
07/22/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 6-1 Spartak Nalchik [Georgiy Martyan 3, 12, Edgar Gess 4, Vladimir Makarov 38p, 48p, Arsen Petrosov 51 – Viktor Tlyarugov 90]
07/22/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [pen 5-6] [Vladimir Korotkov 67 – Ivan Ponomaryov 62]
07/22/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 0-3 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Vitaliy Razdayev 7, 65, Vladimir Pashkovskiy 61]
07/22/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Sergei Fomin 31, Ravil Menzeleyev 57 - Emil Gubaniy 62]

Round 21

07/28/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 0-0 Neftchi Baku [pen 5-4]
07/28/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Vitaliy Razdayev 75]
07/28/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-2 Nistru Kishinev [Vladimir Utkin 72 – Anatoliy Teslev 48, Rudolf Atamalyan 55]
07/28/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 1-3 Chornomorets Odesa [Oleg Shvetsov 57 – Viktor Tomashevskiy 28, 58, Anatoliy Shepel 83]
07/28/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-0 Spartak Nalchik [Emil Gubaniy 2, Vyacheslav Yegorovich 58]
07/28/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-0 Alga Frunze [pen 3-2]
07/28/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 2-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Boris Gavrilov 30, Vladimir Korotkov 46]
07/28/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Valeriy Gazzayev 48]
07/28/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-2 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [pen 5-4] [Valeriy Gornushkin 15, Alexandr Tulbin 28 – Viktor Kozin 73, 77]
07/28/1973 Zvezda Perm 2-3 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Alexandr Markin 7, 38 – Sergei Fomin 35, 84, Igor Dzagoyev 59]

Round 22

08/01/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Valeryan Panfilov 55, Alexandr Kupriyanov 77]
08/01/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 0-0 Alga Frunze [pen 5-4]
08/01/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-3 Chornomorets Odesa [Vladimir Utkin 64 – Igor Ivanenko 4, Vladimir Butenko 10, Grigoriy Sapozhnikov 35]
08/01/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 2-0 Nistru Kishinev [Vladimir Bugakov 7, Vladimir Silokhin 35]
08/01/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-4 Pamir Dushanbe [Gennadiy Cherevchenko 10, Vladimir Makarov 46, 70, Arsen Petrosov 71]
08/01/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-1 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [pen 5-6] [Boris Gavrilov 15 – Ivan Volik 60]
08/01/1973 Spartak Nalchik 3-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Yevgeniy Deryomov 24, 67, 90]
08/01/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Viktor Bespalko 10]
08/01/1973 Zvezda Perm 2-3 Neftchi Baku [Alexandr Markin 17, 72 – Anatoliy Banishevskiy 52, Yuriy Stekolnikov 59, Nikolai Smolnikov 83]

Round 23

08/07/1973 Alga Frunze 1-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [pen 3-1] [Boris Podkorytov 75 - Sergei Krayev 64]
08/07/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 0-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [pen 4-5]
08/07/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 2-2 Metallurg Lipetsk [pen 13-12] [Viktor Aristov 43, Yuriy Tsymbalyuk 84 – Viktor Yevlentyev 7, Valeriy Stafyorov 71]
08/07/1973 Neftchi Baku 2-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 81p, Nikolai Smolnikov 88 - Vitaliy Razdayev 61]
08/07/1973 Nistru Kishinev 6-3 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Nikolai Tabachuk 14, Nikolai Mikhailov 21, Anatoliy Teslev 37, Valeriy Pavlov 48, Vyacheslav Dryzhenko 66, Valeriy Zhuravlyov 79 – Valeriy Gornushkin 42, Vladimir Butov 58, Stanislav Lyubavin 81p]
08/07/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 0-0 Zvezda Perm [pen 3-2]
08/07/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 0-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Viktor Davydov 1]
08/07/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 3-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Igor Dzagoyev 33p, Ruchil Shaulov 45, Yakub Urazsahatov 56 – Viktor Abgolts 16]
08/07/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 4-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Shota Okropirashvili 3, 64, Georgiy Gabichvadze 68, Jemal Kherkhadze 62p – Emil Gubaniy 67]

Round 24

08/11/1973 Alga Frunze 0-1 Zvezda Perm [Alexandr Markin 20]
08/11/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 2-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Vladimir Nechayev 46p, Anatoliy Shepel 53 - Alexandr Shulyakov 48]
08/11/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 0-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [pen 3-5]
08/11/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [pen 3-4] [Emil Gubaniy 72 – Ruslan Kadiyev 61]
08/11/1973 Neftchi Baku 2-2 Shakhtyor Karaganda [pen 7-6] [Tofik Abbasov 20, Anatoliy Banishevskiy 29 – Alexandr Mirzoyan (N) 3og, Anatoliy Novikov 32]
08/11/1973 Nistru Kishinev 2-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Vyacheslav Dryzhenko 30, Nikolai Tabachuk 39]
08/11/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 2-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Georgiy Martyan 23, Arsen Petrosov 73 - Alexandr Kupriyanov 39]
08/11/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 1-0 Metallurg Lipetsk [Bogdan Gorichok 70p]
08/11/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-0 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Vladimir Konstantinov 39]
08/11/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Spartak Nalchik [Jemal Kherkhadze 23, Badri Parulava 56]

Round 25

08/17/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-0 Nistru Kishinev [Valeryan Panfilov 57]
08/17/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Vladimir Pashkovskiy 37]
08/17/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 3-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Anatoliy Piskunov 23, Vyacheslav Klykov 56, Vladimir Malinin 77 –    Vyacheslav Yemelyanov 89]
08/17/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-0 Neftchi Baku [Emil Gubaniy 48]
08/17/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Anatoliy Demchenko 66]
08/17/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-0 Metallurg Lipetsk [pen 2-5]
08/17/1973 Spartak Nalchik 1-0 Alga Frunze [Yevgeniy Deryomov 80]
08/17/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Pamir Dushanbe [Vladimir Kopin 66]
08/17/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Georgiy Gabichvadze 62, Roland Pestvenidze 66 - Yakub Urazsahatov 35]
08/17/1973 Zvezda Perm 1-3 Chornomorets Odesa [Alexandr Ivanov 44 – Viktor Tomashevskiy 47, Viktor Borovikov 49, Vyacheslav Leschuk 53]

Round 26

08/21/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-2 Chornomorets Odesa [pen 3-4] [Vladimir Dudko 28, 80p – Vladimir Butenko 26, Anatoliy Shepel 29]
08/21/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Boris Skvortsov 62]
08/21/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 3-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Yuriy Chesnokov 22, Yuriy Ryzhov 44, 85 - Anatoliy Napreyev 71]
08/21/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 4-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vyacheslav Yegorovich 25, Emil Gubaniy 44, 62, 79 – Ruchil Shaulov 43]
08/21/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 4-2 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Anatoliy Novikov 11, 73, Serikbek Iskakov 24, Vladimir Salov 45 – Stepan Chopei 75, Mikhail Gnatyshin 76]
08/21/1973 Spartak Nalchik 0-0 Pamir Dushanbe [pen 5-2]
08/21/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-0 Alga Frunze [Georgiy Kaishauri 20, Vladimir Mozzhukhin 86p]
08/21/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 0-1 Neftchi Baku [Nikolai Smolnikov 75]
08/21/1973 Zvezda Perm 0-1 Nistru Kishinev [Anatoliy Teslev 79]

Round 27

08/27/1973 Alga Frunze 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Georgiy Sidorenkov 75]
08/27/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 5-2 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Viktor Borovikov 1, Viktor Tomashevskiy 24, Anatoliy Shepel 42, 90p, Vitaliy Feidman 79 – Serikbek Iskakov 34, 60]
08/27/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 2-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Iosif Bordash 70, Alexandr Pollak 77 - Pavel Shmelkov 88]
08/27/1973 Neftchi Baku 1-2 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Anatoliy Banishevskiy 23 – Valeriy Gazzayev 45, Garnik Tarasyan 47]
08/27/1973 Nistru Kishinev 4-0 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Rudolf Atamalyan 4, 19, Igor Nadein 68, Valeriy Pavlov 86]
08/27/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 2-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Arsen Petrosov 16, Vladimir Makarov 80p - Yuriy Petrov 55]
08/27/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 0-3 Zvezda Perm [Alexandr Markin 33, Alexandr Kozlovskikh 72, Yevgeniy Pavlov 86]
08/27/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 6-2 Spartak Nalchik [Vladimir Konstantinov 4, 25, 78, Vasiliy Karpov 48, Sergei Fomin 57, Kurban Berdyyev 80 – Viktor Batarin 74, Ruslan Shabatukov 77]
08/27/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Nikolai Smirnov 90]
09/24/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 1-3 Lokomotiv Moskva [Vladimir Borodin 79 – Yuriy Ryzhov 25, 68, Yuriy Chesnokov 81]

Round 28

08/31/1973 Alga Frunze 0-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [pen 3-4]
08/31/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 3-0 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Vladimir Nechayev 51, Anatoliy Shepel 58, 77]
08/31/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 0-0 Zvezda Perm [pen 5-4]
08/31/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 0-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Ivan Ponomaryov 51]
08/31/1973 Neftchi Baku 1-0 Spartak Nalchik [Rafik Ali-Zade 80]
08/31/1973 Nistru Kishinev 3-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Nikolai Mikhailov 12, 28, Igor Nadein 37]
08/31/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 0-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Vladimir Shelia 75]
08/31/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2-2 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [pen 5-4] [Viktor Anistratov 48p, 56 – Ravil Aryapov 29, 70]
08/31/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 4-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Vasiliy Karpov 26, 33, 60, Sergei Fomin 57]

Round 29

09/06/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Yuriy Starkov 47, Sergei Krayev 88]
09/06/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [pen 4-5] [Vladimir Razdayev 85 – Pyotr Dvurechenskiy 71]
09/06/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 2-3 Chornomorets Odesa [Vyacheslav Yegorovich 29, Mikhail Sokolovskiy 64 – Anatoliy Shepel 4, 63, Vitaliy Feidman 41]
09/06/1973 Neftchi Baku 1-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Nuretdin Aliyev 47]
09/06/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [pen 3-5] [Vladimir Salov 60 – Vladimir Malinin 17]
09/06/1973 Spartak Nalchik 0-0 Metalist Kharkiv [pen 4-3]
09/06/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Valeriy Gazzayev 6]
09/06/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Nistru Kishinev [Roland Pestvenidze 25, Georgiy Gabichvadze 90]
09/06/1973 Zvezda Perm 3-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Yevgeniy Sesyunin 49, Alexandr Ivanov 63, 82 - Mikhail Potapov 8]

Round 30

09/10/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Yuriy Starkov 27, Vladimir Dudko 69p – Mikhail Potapov 32]
09/10/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 0-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [pen 5-6]
09/10/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 3-2 Nistru Kishinev [Vyacheslav Yegorovich 9, Emil Gubaniy 23p, Mikhail Sokolovskiy 72 – Igor Nadein 17p, Rudolf Atamalyan 79]
09/10/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 1-1 Alga Frunze [pen 5-4] [Vladimir Makarov 13 – Mikhail Taranzhin 80]
09/10/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-0 Metallurg Lipetsk [Anatoliy Novikov 86]
09/10/1973 Spartak Nalchik 3-2 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Yevgeniy Deryomov 10, 18, Shamil Nastayev 44 – Viktor Anistratov 26, Maryan Gumenilovich 55]
09/10/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 2-1 Metalist Kharkiv [Yuriy Abayev 11, Nodar Papelishvili 41 - Viktor Bespalko 36]
09/10/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Roland Pestvenidze 22, Shota Okropirashvili 55 - Anatoliy Shepel 75]
09/10/1973 Zvezda Perm 3-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Alexandr Markin 6, Nikolai Kargatyev 11, Vladimir Solovyov 12 – Valeriy Frolov 41]

Round 31

09/17/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 5-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Anatoliy Shepel 10, 26, 28, 50p, Viktor Tomashevskiy 12 – Munir Salihov 75]
09/17/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 2-0 Zvezda Perm [Vladimir Pashkovskiy 34, Vladimir Razdayev 41]
09/17/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Vladimir Malinin 49, Vladimir Utkin 72]
09/17/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 1-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Anatoliy Demchenko 26]
09/17/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 0-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [pen 8-7]
09/17/1973 Nistru Kishinev 4-2 Alga Frunze [Igor Nadein 38, 86p, Vyacheslav Katkov 44, Nikolai Tabachuk 88 – Alexandr Kantsurov 52, Vladimir Oreshin 64]
09/17/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 2-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Boris Gavrilov 61, Valeriy Reingold 78 - Valeriy Gazzayev 71]
09/17/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 1-0 Neftchi Baku [Rafik Kuliyev (N) 62og]
09/17/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 1-0 Spartak Nalchik [Ivan Ponomaryov 86]

Round 32

09/21/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 5-1 Alga Frunze [Viktor Borovikov 5, Anatoliy Shepel 12, Grigoriy Sapozhnikov 38, Viktor Tomashevskiy 74, Vyacheslav Leschuk 79 - Mikhail Taranzhin 8]
09/21/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-0 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Vladimir Dudko 42p]
09/21/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Yuriy Ryzhov 86]
09/21/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 3-2 Neftchi Baku [Iosif Bordash 3, 59, 73 – Anatoliy Banishevskiy 19, Nuretdin Aliyev 55]
09/21/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 2-2 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [pen 4-5] [Valeriy Stafyorov 2, Pyotr Dvurechenskiy 65 – Emil Gubaniy 50, Nikolai Kulichenkov 70]
09/21/1973 Nistru Kishinev 3-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Nikolai Mikhailov 14, Igor Nadein 42, Rudolf Atamalyan 63 – Shuhrat Azamov 4]
09/21/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-5 Zvezda Perm [Vladimir Solovyov 2, Alexandr Markin 30, 62, Yevgeniy Pavlov 42, Pyotr Logunov 73]
09/21/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 4-2 Spartak Nalchik [Valeriy Kleschov 7, 84, Valeriy Reingold 28, Vladimir Pankov 40 – Viktor Tlyarugov 33, 80]
09/21/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Stepan Chopei, Viktor Anistratov]
09/21/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [pen 4-5]

Round 33

09/27/1973 Alga Frunze 0-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Yuriy Chesnokov 44]
09/27/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 2-2 Chornomorets Odesa [pen 5-4] [Anatoliy Demchenko 84, Yuriy Tsymbalyuk 85 – Anatoliy Shepel 6, 59]
09/27/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo [pen 5-3] [Vladimir Belov (K) 90og – Vladimir Razdayev 29]
09/27/1973 Neftchi Baku 2-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Tofik Abbasov 36, Rafik Ali-Zade 40]
09/27/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 4-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [Arsen Petrosov 27, Vladimir Makarov 34, 43, Anatoliy Tsygankov 68 – Alexandr Borodin 58]
09/27/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 1-1 Nistru Kishinev [pen 5-4] [Vyacheslav Katkov (N) 12og – Anatoliy Teslev 83]
09/27/1973 Spartak Nalchik 2-2 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [pen 3-5] [Shamil Nastayev 53, Viktor Tlyarugov 77 – Ravil Aryapov 58, Vladimir Dudko 69]
09/27/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Zvezda Perm [Georgiy Kaishauri 4]
09/27/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Yakub Urazsahatov 56, Sergei Fomin 62]
09/27/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Georgiy Gabichvadze 85]

Round 34

10/01/1973 Alga Frunze 0-1 Metallurg Lipetsk [Viktor Yevlentyev 58]
10/01/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 2-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Anatoliy Shepel 45p, Viktor Tomashevskiy 52]
10/01/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 1-2 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Nikolai Kulichenkov 81 – Nikolai Bushuyev 14, Anatoliy Novikov 76]
10/01/1973 Neftchi Baku 1-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [pen 5-4] [Alekper Rahmanov 68 – Alexandr Smirnov 58]
10/01/1973 Nistru Kishinev 1-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Igor Nadein 80]
10/01/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 0-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [pen 3-4]
10/01/1973 Spartak Nalchik 4-0 Zvezda Perm [Shamil Nastayev 23, 26, Viktor Tlyarugov 65, Yevgeniy Deryomov 74]
10/01/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Georgiy Kaishauri 57]
10/01/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [pen 4-3]
10/01/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-0 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Badri Parulava 50, 52]

Round 35

10/08/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 3-2 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Gennadiy Platonov 12, Vladimir Dudko 30p, Ravil Aryapov 37 – Nikolai Kulichenkov 47, Viktor Malakhovskiy 82]
10/08/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 2-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Vitaliy Razdayev 51, Vasiliy Ryashin 70]
10/08/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 0-1 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vladimir Konstantinov]
10/08/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 1-1 Neftchi Baku [pen 3-5] [Valeriy Stafyorov 55 – Anatoliy Banishevskiy 44]
10/08/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 2-1 Spartak Nalchik [Anatoliy Novikov 36, Viktor Abgolts 58 – Ruslan Shabatukov 60]
10/08/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 1-1 Alga Frunze [pen 5-6] [Valeriy Reingold 62 – Stanislav Komlev 90]
10/08/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Bogdan Kopytchak 62, Stepan Rybak 87]
10/08/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 3-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Alexandr Tulbin 10, Sergei Venkov 75, Vladimir Butov 90 – Anatoliy Rodionov 18]
10/08/1973 Zvezda Perm 2-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Nikolai Kargatyev 36, Alexandr Markin 70]

Round 36

10/12/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 1-1 Nistru Kishinev [pen 4-3] [Viktor Borovikov 34 – Igor Nadein 49]
10/12/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 2-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Ravil Aryapov 7, Alexandr Kupriyanov 23 – Avtandil Tsverava 70]
10/12/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-0 Spartak Nalchik [Vitaliy Razdayev 84]
10/12/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Neftchi Baku [Anatoliy Piskunov 86]
10/12/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 2-2 Stroitel Ashkhabad [pen 5-4] [Valeriy Stafyorov 15, Vladimir Silokhin 60 – Sergei Fomin 56, Kurban Berdyyev 90]
10/12/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 3-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Roman Davyd 74, Anatoliy Novikov 76, Alexandr Krivulin 80 – Vladimir Mozzhukhin 60]
10/12/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Alexandr Pogorelov 2]
10/12/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 1-2 Alga Frunze [Stanislav Lyubavin 35p – Almaz Chokmorov 5, Boris Streltsov 61]
10/12/1973 Zvezda Perm 3-3 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [pen 7-6] [Vladimir Murin 3, 75, Alexandr Markin 70 – Nikolai Penzin 15, Nikolai Kulichenkov 36, Stanislav Chumak 60]

Round 37

10/18/1973 Alga Frunze 1-2 Metalist Kharkiv [Paramonov 44 – Anatoliy Demchenko 53, 66]
10/18/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 3-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Vitaliy Razdayev 3, Sergei Sobolev 53, Vladimir Razdayev 88 – Viktor Abgolts 16]
10/18/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 3-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Mikhail Sokolovskiy 13, Viktor Malakhovskiy 49, Valeriy Chernykh 88 – Alexandr Tulbin 14]
10/18/1973 Neftchi Baku 1-3 Chornomorets Odesa [Tofik Abbasov 29 – Vladimir Butenko 42, Anatoliy Shepel 60, 77]
10/18/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 2-0 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Alexandr Pogorelov 21, Georgiy Martyan 26]
10/18/1973 Spartak Nalchik 2-0 Metallurg Lipetsk [Viktor Batarin 49, Yevgeniy Deryomov 81]
10/18/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Lokomotiv Moskva [Valeriy Gazzayev 54]
10/18/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 1-0 Nistru Kishinev [Igor Dzagoyev 64p]
10/18/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 2-1 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Jemal Kherkhadze 55, 57 – Boris Gavrilov 17]
10/18/1973 Zvezda Perm 2-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Yevgeniy Sesyunin 43, Pyotr Logunov 50 – Valeryan Panfilov 40]

Round 38

10/22/1973 Alga Frunze 0-1 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk [Stepan Rybak 37]
10/22/1973 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-2 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Vladimir Dudko 30 – Vladimir Salov 86, 90]
10/22/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 4-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl [Emil Gubaniy 6, Nikolai Kulichenkov 32p, Nikolai Penzin 60, 73]
10/22/1973 Neftchi Baku 2-3 Nistru Kishinev [Tofik Abbasov 8, Rafik Ali-Zade 69 – Nikolai Mikhailov 54, Anatoliy Teslev 66, Valeriy Pavlov 88]
10/22/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 0-0 Metalist Kharkiv [pen 3-2]
10/22/1973 Spartak Nalchik 2-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Ruslan Shabatukov 50p, 63 – Vladimir Malinin 42]
10/22/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 1-0 Metallurg Lipetsk [Georgiy Kaishauri 51]
10/22/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-1 Chornomorets Odesa [Ravil Menzeleyev 25, 37 – Anatoliy Shepel 76p]
10/22/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 1-2 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Jemal Kherkhadze 60 – Sergei Venkov 80, Alexandr Shulyakov 85]

Round 39

10/29/1973 Alga Frunze 4-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad [Vladimir Oreshin 4, Alexandr Kantsurov 32, Georgiy Sidorenkov 36, Boris Streltsov 88]
10/29/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 1-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Anatoliy Shepel 42]
10/29/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 4-0 Zvezda Perm [Vladimir Malinin 17, 56, Yuriy Chesnokov 83, Anatoliy Piskunov 88]
10/29/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Alexei Bildyuk 41]
10/29/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 3-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Pyotr Dvurechenskiy 54, Vladimir Bugakov 62, Yevgeniy Eskov 83 – Nikolai Martynov 75]
10/29/1973 Nistru Kishinev 3-2 Spartak Nalchik [Vladimir Kutsev 8, Rudolf Atamalyan 17, Anatoliy Teslev 40 – Ruslan Shabatukov 57, Yevgeniy Deryomov 74]
10/29/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 2-0 Neftchi Baku [Leonid Kirilenko 15, Georgiy Martyan 87]
10/29/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Valeriy Reingold 56, Nikolai Smirnov 58p, Vladimir Korotkov 69 – Serik Ashirbekov 79]
10/29/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Mikhail Gnatyshin 48, Stepan Rybak 60 – Nikolai Penzin 13]
10/29/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 2-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Stanislav Lyubavin 72p, Mikhail Potapov 80 – Sergei Sobolev 10]

Round 40

11/02/1973 Alga Frunze 1-0 Neftchi Baku [Boris Streltsov 66]
11/02/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 5-2 Spartak Nalchik [Anatoliy Shepel 14, 22, 26, Leonid Baranovskiy 61, Viktor Zubkov 90 – Kazbek Tlyarugov 65, 82]
11/02/1973 Lokomotiv Moskva 2-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Gennadiy Platonov (KS) 27og, Yuriy Chesnokov 51]
11/02/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 1-2 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Vladimir Khurchuk 11 – Emil Gubaniy 47, Yuriy Petrov 79]
11/02/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 1-1 Zvezda Perm [pen 7-6] [Alexandr Borodin 34 – Alexandr Markin 15]
11/02/1973 Nistru Kishinev 1-0 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Nikolai Mikhailov 28]
11/02/1973 Shinnik Yaroslavl 3-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo [Vladimir Pankov 21, Valeriy Kleschov 55, Vladimir Korotkov 85 – Vladimir Pashkovskiy 70]
11/02/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [Stepan Chopei 62]
11/02/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 2-2 Pamir Dushanbe [pen 5-4] [Sergei Fomin 43, Ravil Menzeleyev 48 – Alexandr Pogorelov 25, Mikhail Khristich 86]
11/02/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 1-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Sergei Zernov 16]

Top scorers:

  • Anatoliy Shepel (Chornomorets) - 38

    • 1973 Second League (Third Level)

    Zone I (Ukraine)

    # Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 W OT L GS-GA PT
    1 Tavriya Symferopol  

    2-1

    		 2-0 1-0 1-0 4-2 4-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 0+0 3-1 1+1 2-0 1+1 1-0 3-1 3-0 0-1 3-0 2-0 3-1 7-1 25 6/4 8 75-36 58
    2 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr 2-1   2-0 2-0 2-1 3-0 2-0 3-1 4-0 1-2 2-1 1-0 2-1 5-0 3-1 1-0 2-1 1-1 0-0 1-0 2-0 3-0 2-0 25 3/2 14 62-36 53
    3 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolayiv 2-0

    2-1

    		   3-1 0-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 1-4 0-0 2-1 2-0 5-1 2-0 2-1 1+1 2-0 2-0 5-0 1+1 1-0 6-1 1-0 23 6/7 8 69-35 52
    4 Hoverla Uzhgorod 1-0

    2-1

    		 1-0   3-2 2-1 2-1 6-2 2-0 0-1 3-1 2-1 2-1 1-0 0+0 1-0 1-0 3-1 2-1 4-1 1-2 2-1 4-0 24 3/5 12 65-52 51
    5 Lokomotyv Vinnytsya 0+0

    0-1

    		 0-2 1-1   1-0 4-0 0+0 0+0 1-0 2-0 4-1 3-0 1+1 1-0 2-0 3-1 3-1 3-0 0+0 1-1 4-0 6-0 18 11/5 11 64-33 47
    6 Shakhtar Gorlivka 2-2

    0-2

    		 0+0 4-0 1+1   0-1 0-2 1-2 1+1 3-1 1-0 0+0 2-0 3-1 2-0 1-0 2-1 2-0 3-2 3-0 3-0 1-0 18 9/3 14 58-47 45
    7 Avanhard Sevastopol 1-2

    0-0

    		 0+0 0-2 2-0 3-1   1+1 1-0 0+0 2-0 0+0 2-0 0+0 0+0 1+1 4-1 1-0 1-0 3-0 1-0 2-1 2+2 16 13/3 12 44-40 45
    8 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 2-1

    3-1

    		 2-1 0+0 0-3 0+0 1-1   3-1 0+0 2-1 1-1 1+1 2-0 3-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 1-1 3-1 1-0 2-0 3-1 18 6/10 10 53-45 42
    9 Dynamo Khmelnytskyi 2-3

    1-0

    		 1-1 1-0 1-0 0+0 0-0 0-0   2-1 3-0 0+0 2-2 0-0 1-1 2-1 1-0 2-1 4-0 1+1 2-0 3+3 5-1 18 5/10 11 57-45 41
    10 Lokomotyv Kherson 1-4

    1-2

    		 0-0 4-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 3-1   1-1 2-0 1-0 1-0 3-0 2+2 3-0 5-1 0+0 0+0 3-1 0-1 2-0 17 5/10 12 49-33 39
    11 SK Chernyhiv 2-2

    1-2

    		 1-1 2+2 0-1 1-2 1-0 3-0 0-0 0-4   0-1 3-2 1-1 4-0 0-0 4-0 1-2 0-1 4-0 3-2 3-0 3-0 18 2/6 18 63-56 38
    12 Zirka Kirovohrad 2-0

    0-0

    		 1-2 3-2 2-2 2-1 1-3 2-3 1+1 0+0 2-0   3-2 1-0 5-1 1-0 4-0 2-2 0-1 0+0 2-0 4-0 5-3 16 4/6 18 63-57 36
    13 Shakhtar Makiyivka 0-1

    2-0

    		 0-0 3-0 0-1 3-1 1-0 0+0 1-2 3-0 0-2 2-1   1-0 0-0 2-0 2-0 0-1 0-0 2+2 2-0 1-0 1-2 15 5/9 15 50-48 35
    14 Bukovyna Chernivtsi 0+0

    1-0

    		 3-2 2+2 1+1 1-0 2-1 2-0 1-2 1-1 2-0 2-3 2+2   1-2 2-1 3-1 2-0 1-0 2-0 3-0 1-1 1-0 14 7/5 18 44-52 35
    15 Khimik Severodonetsk 1+1

    0-1

    		 1+1 0-2 2-1 2-2 1-0 1-2 3-2 0+0 1-2 3+3 0-0 2-1   2-0 1-2 3-1 2-1 0-2 2-0 7-1 0+0 12 7/7 18 51-64 33
    16 Frunzenets Sumy 1-2

    3-1

    		 1+1 2-3 3-2 0-1 1-2 1-0 1-0 3-0 3-2 1-0 0+0 2-1 1-1   4-0 5-1 4-0 1-2 2-0 2-1 1-0 14 4/7 19 49-47 32
    17 Shakhtar Kadiyivka 2-1

    1-0

    		 1-2 2-0 1-1 3-3 2-0 0-1 1+1 1-0 0-1 0-2 3-1 4-2 0-2 1-0   2-0 2-1 0-3 0-1 0-2 1-0 15 2/3 24 42-70 32
    18 Kolos Poltava 0-2

    1-0

    		 1+1 2-3 0-0 1-2 1+1 0-1 0+0 1-2 1-2 2-1 2-3 0+0 2-0 2-0 2-1   1-0 1-0 3-1 2+2 1-2 12 7/1 24 44-68 31
    19 SK Lutsk 0-1

    1-0

    		 1-3 0+0 1-0 1-3 0-2 0+0 2-1 1-2 1-2 1-0 0-1 0-1 1-2 2-0 0+0 1-0   0+0 1+1 1-0 2-0 11 8/3 22 25-50 30
    20 Budivelnyk Ternopil 3-2

    0-0

    		 0-2 0-1 1-1 0-0 1+1 1-2 1-2 1-0 1-2 2-1 2-2 2-1 4-2 1+1 4-2 1-0 1-0   1-0 0-0 1-0 13 3/13 15 45-55 29
    21 Avanhard Rivne 0-2

    1-0

    		 3-2 0-0 2+2 1-1 1-1 1-1 2-1 0-1 0-1 2-1 1-2 0-0 2-1 0+0 1-2 1-0 1+1 0-0   2-0 3-2 11 5/7 21 34-57 27
    22 Lokomotyv Donetsk 1-1

    1-2

    		 1-0 0+0 0-3 2-1 0-1 1-3 1-2 1-0 1-2 3-0 0+0 2-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 1-2 0+0 1+1 0-0   2-0 9 6/5 24 35-72 24
    23 Metalurh Zhdanov 0+0

    3-1

    		 1-3 3-1 1-1 0-2 2-2 2+2 0-1 1+1 1-4 0-3 0-2 2-0 2-1 0+0 1-2 2-1 1-0 3-1 0-1 2-1   11 4/4 26 41-84 24
    1 - Stroitel Poltava changed name to Kolos Poltava.
    2 - Tavriya Symferopol qualified for 1973 Second League Final.

    Zone II

    # Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 W OT L GS-GA PT
    1 Iskra Smolensk   3-1 2-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 3-0 1+1 2-1 4-0 3-0 2-1 2-0 4-1 2-0 1-0 1-0 25 1/4 2 53-14 51
    2 Daugava Riga 1-0   3-1 3-1 3-1 1-0 1-0 5-2 1-0 3-1 3-0 4-0 4-1 4-0 4-0 3-0 4-1 23 3/1 5 64-20 49
    3 Žalgiris Vilnius 0-2 0-1   1-0 4-1 1-0 1+1 2-0 1-0 2-1 3-0 4-0 2-0 2-0 1+1 2-0 2-0 18 5/2 7 48-23 41
    4 Atlantas Klaipeda 0+0 2-0 0-2   1-3 3-1 1-0 2-0 2-0 2-1 3-1 0+0 2-2 3-0 4-0 4-0 1-0 15 7/2 8 46-29 37
    5 Volga Kalinin 0-1 0-0 1-1 2-0   3-0 3-0 1-0 1-1 0+0 3-0 2-0 2-0 3-1 2-0 3-0 3-0 15 2/5 10 44-28 32
    6 Dinamo Leningrad 1+1 0-1 0-1 0-1 3-0   3-1 2-1 5-1 0+0 4-1 2-2 2-0 3-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 13 5/2 12 43-32 31
    7 Mashinostroitel Pskov 0-1 2-1 0-1 2-2 2-1 0-1   2-1 2+2 1-0 1-2 1-1 0-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 12 3/5 12 31-34 27
    8 Baltika Kaliningrad 1-3 0-3 1-1 2-2 1-2 1-0 1-0   3-2 3-2 1+1 3-1 4-1 0-0 2-0 1-0 0-2 11 3/4 14 41-48 25
    9 Mashinostroitel Podolsk 0-1 2-2 0-2 1-1 1-0 2-1 0-0 3-2   1-0 1-1 2-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 2-1 4-1 11 2/8 11 31-34 24
    10 Zvejnieks Liepaja 0+0 0+0 0+0 2-0 0-1 1-0 0-1 1-0 0-0   3-1 3-2 2-1 1-0 2-0 0+0 4-1 10 4/6 12 29-35 24
    11 Bug Brest 1-2 1-0 2-2 1-1 1-0 4-4 1-3 1-2 2-0 4-0   0+0 1-1 2-1 2-0 1-0 2-0 10 3/6 13 35-46 23
    12 GomSelMash Gomel 2-0 1-4 0-2 1-2 2-1 2-1 1-3 2-2 0+0 4-0 0+0   1-1 2-0 1-0 1-2 1-2 7 5/4 16 32-49 19
    13 Dvina Vitebsk 0+0 0-0 1-0 0-2 0+0 1-2 0+0 1-1 0+0 1+1 1-0 1-1   0+0 1-0 1-3 1-0 4 11/5 12 38-36 19
    14 Khimik Grodno 1-2 0-3 1+1 3-1 1-0 0-0 1-1 2-0 0+0 1+1 0-1 1-0 1+1   2-0 1+1 3-0 6 7/4 15 24-42 19
    15 Electron Novgorod 1-2 0-1 1-4 0-0 1-2 1+1 2-1 1-0 1-2 0+0 3-1 2-0 0+0 1+1   1-0 4-2 7 5/2 18 22-45 19
    16 Dnepr Mogilyov 0-2 1-0 2-1 0+0 1-1 0-0 1-0 2-4 1-0 2-0 0-0 0-2 1-1 1-1 1-1   0+0 7 3/8 14 21-38 17
    17 Sever Murmansk 0-2 -:+ 2-1 0-3 1+1 1-2 1-2 0-1 0-1 0-3 1-0 2-1 1-0 2-1 1-0 0-0   8 1/2 21 21-50 17
    1 - Spartak Brest changed name to Bug Brest.
    2 - Neman Grodno changed name to Khimik Grodno.
    3 - Spartak Mogilyov changed name to Dnepr Mogilyov.
    4 - Iskra Smolensk qualified for 1973 Second League Final.

    Zone III

    # Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 W OT L GS-GA PT
    1 Kuban Krasnodar 4-2 2-0 1+1 2-0 2-1 2-0 3-1 2-0 5-0 2-0 3-0 2-1 1-0 2-1 5-0 1-0 3-1 23 3/1 7 61-26 49
    2 Terek Grozny 1-0 2-1 5-1 1+1 4-1 4-1 1-1 1-2 2-0 3-0 2-1 2+2 7-0 3-0 7-1 3-0 1-0 19 3/3 9 73-37 41
    3 Druzhba Maikop 0-3 2-0 2-0 4-1 0-1 1-0 +:- 1-0 3-0 2-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 4-1 18 3/3 10 39-25 39
    4 Dinamo Stavropol 1-1 1+1 2-0 1-0 2-0 4-0 1-0 2-1 2-0 1-0 2-0 4-0 3-0 3-0 4-1 1-0 2-1 17 4/5 8 52-31 38
    5 Dinamo Kirovabad 1-0 1-0 2-0 2-1 1-0 2-1 1+1 1-0 0+0 1-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 3-1 4-2 3-0 5-0 17 2/4 11 40-30 36
    6 Uralan Elista 0-2 0-2 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 3-0 2+2 1-0 2-0 5-1 5-1 2-0 2-1 3-0 0+0 2-0 16 4/2 12 43-35 36
    7 Mashuk Pyatigorsk 0-1 2-1 0-0 1-0 2-1 2-1 2-1 3-1 2-0 2-0 3-1 2-1 1-1 3+3 3-0 1-0 3-0 16 2/4 12 45-41 34
    8 Stal Oryol 2-1 3-1 0+0 3-2 2-1 3-0 1+1 1-0 2-1 1+1 1+1 1+1 2-0 0+0 4-1 1+1 3-1 12 8/4 10 44-36 32
    9 Dinamo Makhachkala 3-0 1-2 2-3 1-1 1-0 3-2 2-4 1-0 2-1 3-1 6-1 1-0 3-1 0-0 1-0 1+1 4-1 15 2/3 14 49-44 32
    10 Salyut Belgorod 0-3 1+1 1-0 0+0 1-0 0-1 1-0 2-1 3-0 3-2 3-2 3-0 1-0 5-0 2-0 1-0 4-1 14 3/3 14 35-36 31
    11 Shirak Leninakan 0-2 0-0 0+0 1+1 0+0 2-1 4-1 1+1 3-0 0+0 2-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 3-1 1-0 2-0 11 5/4 14 33-36 27
    12 Kalitva Belaya Kalitva 1-3 2-0 2-0 0-1 0+0 2-1 2-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 2-0 4-1 4-3 2-0 2-0 4-1 3-0 13 1/2 18 40-51 27
    13 Avangard Kursk 1-1 3-1 2-1 2-2 0+0 1+1 1-1 1+1 1-0 1-0 3-1 3-0 3-1 0-1 2-1 2-0 2-1 11 4/7 12 39-49 26
    14 Khimik Novomoskovsk 3-0 1-2 1-1 2-0 3-1 1-1 1-3 1-0 1-0 0-1 2-1 3-1 0-0 +:- 0+0 1-0 1-0 11 2/3 18 32-50 24
    15 Lori Kirovakan 2-1 1-0 0-1 2-2 0-1 1+1 1-0 1-2 0-0 1-0 0-2 2-0 1+1 1-0 1-1 3-1 2-1 9 5/5 15 28-44 23
    16 Metallurg Tula 3-0 0-4 2-2 2-0 3-0 2-0 0-1 1+1 1-2 1+1 1+1 2-0 1-2 1-2 0-0 3-0 5-1 7 5/3 19 37-61 19
    17 Volgar Astrakhan 0+0 1-4 0-3 0+0 1-0 0-0 0+0 0-4 2-1 2-0 0+0 1-0 1+1 2-1 0-0 2-1 2-0 7 5/5 17 18-45 19
    18 Polad Sumgait 0-1 2-3 0-1 1-4 2-3 -:+ 2-0 3-0 2-4 1-0 1-0 0-1 3-0 3-2 5-2 1-0 3-0 9 0/0 25 38-69 18
    1 - Spartak Oryol changed name to Stal Oryol.
    2 - Trudoviye Rezervy Kursk changed name to Avangard Kursk.
    3 - Kuban Krasnodar qualified for 1973 Second League Final.

    Zone IV

    # Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 W OT L GS-GA PT
    1 Spartak Kostroma   3-3 1-0 2-0 1-0 0+0 0+0 5-1 4-0 2-0 3-1 0+0 2-0 1-0 4-0 2-0 2-0 4-0 21 4/4 5 63-27 46
    2 Lokomotiv Kaluga 3-2   0+0 1-0 2-1 2-1 0+0 2-0 2-0 4-0 3+3 2-0 2-1 2-0 3-0 2-1 1-0 2-1 18 8/2 6 51-30 44
    3 Torpedo Vladimir 2+2 1+1   5-2 0+0 5-1 2-1 4-0 4-1 5-1 3-0 7-0 1-2 2-1 3-1 3-0 3-0 1-0 19 3/3 9 65-32 41
    4 Dinamo Vologda 2-2 3-3 3+3   1-0 2-0 1-1 2-0 1-0 3-2 1-0 2-0 4-1 3-1 4-1 2-1 2-0 2-0 17 6/4 7 49-32 40
    5 Zvezda Tiraspol 1-0 1-0 3-1 2-0   5-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 2-0 3-2 2-0 1-1 1-0 2-1 3-1 18 2/3 11 43-32 38
    6 Mertskhali Makharadze 2+2 1-0 2-1 1-1 1+1   2-1 2-0 0-2 0-0 0+0 3-1 2-0 1+1 5-0 3-0 1-0 4-1 14 5/3 12 46-43 33
    7 Volga Gorkiy 0+0 2-2 2-0 0-0 2-2 1-2   6-0 1-0 3-0 1+1 2-1 2-1 2-1 4-1 2-0 2-0 3-1 14 4/6 10 51-35 32
    8 Guria Lanchkhuti 0-1 2-1 0-1 1+1 4-0 3-2 4-3   3-0 1-1 2-0 7-3 4-1 1-0 6-1 1-0 0-1 3-1 13 5/2 14 52-52 31
    9 Trud Voronezh 1-2 3-1 3-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 2-4 0-0   3-0 1-0 4-0 2-0 3-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 3-1 15 0/3 16 43-42 30
    10 Kolkhida Poti 0-2 0+0 1-0 0-1 3-1 2-1 1-0 1+1 1-0   0-1 2-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 3-1 1-1 1-0 12 4/2 16 32-49 28
    11 Dinamo Batumi 1-2 1-0 1-0 0-2 2-1 1-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-2   1-4 2-0 2-0 4-1 2-1 1-1 3-1 13 1/5 15 36-39 27
    12 Lokomotiv Samtredia 3-2 1-1 0-2 1-0 2-0 1-0 2-0 1-1 1+1 3-2 2-1   1-0 0-2 1-0 0-2 1-1 4-0 12 3/4 15 39-61 27
    13 Spartak Ryazan 2-1 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-2 1-0 0-1 4-2 3-2 1-0 1-0 5-0   2-1 3-0 2-1 3-0 0-1 13 0/2 19 44-52 26
    14 Dila Gori 2-1 1-2 0-1 0-1 3-1 2-1 2-1 3-1 2-0 1-0 1-0 2-2 5-2   2-1 2-2 3-2 2-1 13 0/3 18 41-54 26
    15 Revtrud Tambov 0-2 1-0 0+0 1-1 1-0 2-0 3-1 0-2 2-0 2-1 1-1 1-1 2-3 3-1   3-2 2-0 2-1 10 2/5 17 35-61 22
    16 Saturn Rybinsk 0-1 0-0 0-2 1-2 0-0 0-1 1+1 1-0 2+2 2-0 1-0 3-1 2-1 1-0 2+2   1-0 1+1 8 5/3 18 30-47 21
    17 Dinamo Sukhumi 0-1 0-1 0-1 1-0 0-1 4-5 2-1 1-1 3-2 3+3 0-2 0-1 3-2 4-0 1-0 1+1   2-0 8 5/1 20 32-53 21
    18 Dinamo Bryansk 3-4 0-2 3-1 0-0 2-1 0-1 0-0 1-1 3-1 5-0 0-1 3-1 1+1 4-0 0+0 3-0 4-0   9 2/4 19 43-54 20
    1 - Motor Vladimir changed name to Torpedo Vladimir.
    2 - Spartak Kostroma qualified for 1973 Second League Final.

    Zone V (Russian Federation)

    # Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 W OT L GS-GA PT
    1 UralMash Sverdlovsk   1-0 3-0 2-0 2-0 3-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 4-0 4-1 1-0 2-0 3-0 4-0 1-0 24 2/4 2 61-15 50
    2 Rubin Kazan 0+0   0-3 1+1 3-1 3-2 2-0 4-1 3-1 3-0 3-1 3-0 2-1 3-1 1-0 5-0 2-0 21 5/0 6 58-26 47
    3 Kord Balakovo 4-2 1-0   1-0 3-0 1-1 0-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 4-0 3-2 3-2 1-0 3-1 4-0 1-0 23 0/4 5 62-25 46
    4 Khimik Dzerzhinsk 1+1 1-0 0-3   1+1 1+1 2-1 0-1 1-0 4-2 3-1 0+0 1-0 6-0 4-0 1-0 4-2 16 6/3 7 47-32 38
    5 Spartak Yoshkar-Ola 1-2 0-3 2+2 3-0   3-1 1-0 2-1 2-1 1-0 1-0 4-1 1-0 3-0 1-1 2-0 1-0 15 2/2 13 40-34 32
    6 Sokol Saratov 1-1 0-0 1-2 0-2 1-0   1+1 2-0 0-3 3-2 0-0 2-1 3-0 2+2 3-1 0-0 4-0 14 3/5 10 44-38 31
    7 Barrikady Volgograd 1-2 1-1 1-0 2+2 1-0 1-3   3-1 2-0 2-0 3-0 1-0 1-1 3-1 1+1 3-0 3-1 12 4/5 11 38-31 28
    8 Torpedo Togliatti 1+1 0-2 1-0 1-0 2-0 3-0 2-1   5-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-0 4-1 0+0 0-2 5-1 13 2/3 14 35-29 28
    9 Energiya Cheboksary 0-1 0-1 3-2 0-1 1-0 1-0 2-1 1-0   1-0 2-0 3-2 0+0 0+0 0+0 1-0 1-0 12 4/3 13 29-37 28
    10 Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk 1-1 1-3 0-1 0-0 0-4 0-2 1-3 1-0 2-0   3-2 2-0 0+0 3-1 2-0 2-1 2-0 10 3/2 17 33-43 23
    11 Metallurg Magnitogorsk 2-1 2-1 1-3 1-3 1-0 1-2 1-0 3-1 1-1 1-1   3-1 2+2 2-0 1-2 1+1 2-1 9 4/3 16 34-54 22
    12 Zenit Izhevsk 1-3 0-1 0-2 2+2 2-1 0-1 0-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 0-1   1-1 2-0 0+0 1-0 2-1 8 5/4 15 22-33 21
    13 Uralets NizhniyTagil 0-2 0-1 0-1 0-1 3-1 0-1 1+1 0-2 1+1 0-0 1-0 2-0   2-0 0+0 1-0 1-0 9 3/4 16 30-45 21
    14 Lokomotiv Orenburg 0-2 2-2 0+0 6-3 0-0 3-1 2-1 1-0 1+1 1-0 4-1 0-1 3-0   0-1 1-1 2-0 9 2/5 16 35-51 20
    15 Volga Ulyanovsk 0-2 0-1 2-4 0-1 0-2 1-0 1-0 0+0 1+1 1-5 2-0 0-1 0-0 2-1   1+1 2-0 7 5/5 15 21-41 19
    16 Dinamo Kirov 1+1 0-2 3-2 0-1 1-0 2-3 0+0 0+0 3-4 1-0 1-1 2-1 2-3 1-0 0-0   1+1 6 6/4 16 25-48 18
    17 Stroitel Ufa 0-3 5-2 0-4 0-0 1-2 0-3 0-1 1-0 1-0 1-2 2+2 2+2 1-0 1-2 3-1 2-1   6 2/2 22 27-59 14
    1 - UralMash Sverdlovsk qualified for 1973 Second League Final.

    Zone VI

    # Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 W OT L GS-GA PT
    1 Traktor Pavlodar   0-0 3-1 4-0 3-1 2-0 0-0 3-0 2-1 1-0 4-1 1-0 2-0 1-0 3-1 2-1 19 0/5 6 51-25 38
    2 Alatau Jambul 2-1   2-0 2-1 2-1 3-0 1-0 2-0 3-2 4-1 1-0 1-0 3-1 0+0 0-0 2-0 18 2/5 5 43-23 38
    3 Dinamo Tselinograd 4-1 1-0   2-0 3-0 2-0 2-1 1-2 6-0 2-1 3-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 3-0 17 1/2 10 43-25 35
    4 Avtomobilist Termez 0+0 0+0 2-0   1-1 2-1 3-0 4-0 3-0 3-0 4-1 3-0 1-0 2-0 4-1 1-0 13 4/4 9 41-26 30
    5 FK Yangiyer 2-0 1-2 1-1 1-1   2-0 3-0 1-0 0-1 4-0 4-1 1-0 1-0 3-0 2-0 3-1 14 2/4 10 44-30 30
    6 Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk 2+2 1-0 2-0 2-0 3-2   2-1 3-0 1+1 2-2 1-0 1-0 0+0 3-0 3-2 4-0 12 5/5 8 36-29 29
    7 Spartak Semipalatinsk 1-2 3-1 0-1 2-0 2-1 0+0   1-0 3-2 1-0 3-1 1+1 2-1 3-1 2-0 3-1 12 4/0 14 32-37 28
    8 Avtomobilist Kzyl-Orda 2-0 2-1 0+0 1-0 2-2 2+2 2-0   2-1 0+0 0-0 2-0 3-2 1-0 1-0 2-0 12 4/3 11 33-41 28
    9 Trud Jizak 0-2 1-2 1-0 1-0 0+0 1-1 4-0 2-1   4-1 2-0 1-1 1-0 3-0 2-0 2-0 13 1/5 11 41-38 27
    10 FK Yangiaryk 0+0 1+1 1+1 2+2 2-1 0+0 2-0 3-0 2-1   3-0 1-0 1-0 0+0 1-0 2-0 10 7/3 10 30-36 27
    11 Neftyannik Tyumen 1-2 1+1 3-1 1+1 0-1 1-0 +:- 1+1 4-1 1+1   0+0 2-0 3-2 2-0 1-0 9 7/0 14 27-44 25
    12 Yenbek Jezkazgan 0-2 1+1 1-0 2-0 1-0 1+1 0-2 3-2 0-2 1-0 2-0   3-2 1-0 2-0 2-0 10 4/2 14 23-34 24
    13 Andizhanets Andizhan 1-0 1-2 2-1 0-2 1+1 1-0 2-1 1-1 2-1 2-1 3-0 4-0   1-1 1+1 2-1 9 2/4 15 33-41 20
    14 Zauralets Kurgan 2-3 1-2 1-0 0-0 2-1 0-1 2-0 4-1 0+0 1-2 0-0 1-0 0+0   0+0 4-1 7 4/4 15 24-36 18
    15 Neftyannik Fergana 2-1 0-2 0-1 1-0 1-2 0-0 2-0 4-2 1+1 4-0 0-2 3-0 6-2 0-1   3-4 7 2/3 18 32-44 16
    16 Neftyannik Leninskiy Rayon 0-4 2-0 0-2 1+1 0-1 2-0 0-0 0-1 1-2 0+0 3-0 1-1 1-0 3-1 2-0   7 2/2 19 25-49 16
    1 - Traktor Pavlodar qualified for 1973 Second League Final.

    Zone VII (Russian Federation)

    # Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 W OT L GS-GA PT
    1 Sibiryak Bratsk   1-0 2-0 0-1 1-0 1+1 2-1 1-0 2-1 1-0 0+0 2-1 0-0 2-0 3-0 0+0 15 4/2 9 25-19 34
    2 Dinamo Barnaul 1-0   0-0 4-0 1-0 2-0 3-2 3-1 3-1 2-1 4-0 1+1 1-0 2-1 6-1 1-0 16 1/5 8 44-28 33
    3 Vulkan Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 1-0 3-1   +:- 1+1 4-2 2-0 2+2 1-0 1-0 0-1 3-1 0-1 2-0 0+0 3-1 12 6/4 8 31-26 33
    4 Amur Blagoveschensk 2-0 1-0 0-1   1-0 2-0 3-1 1-0 0+0 1-0 1-0 1-0 3-1 2-0 0+0 1-1 15 3/2 10 25-20 33
    5 Selenga Ulan-Ude 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1   1-0 2-0 0+0 1-1 0+0 1-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 2-1 15 2/5 8 29-21 32
    6 Irtysh Omsk 2-0 2-0 3-0 1-0 2-0   1-0 1+1 0-0 0-0 3-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 2-0 5-1 14 2/5 9 38-26 30
    7 Avtomobilist Krasnoyarsk 0-0 4-0 1-0 1-0 1+1 3-2   1-0 1-0 4-0 0-1 1-0 2+2 3-2 5-0 1+1 13 4/3 10 39-32 30
    8 Luch Vladivostok 3-0 1-0 0-0 2-1 1+1 1-0 0-1   3-0 4-1 1-0 1-0 3-0 3-1 1-0 2-0 14 1/6 9 37-26 29
    9 Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 2-0 0-1 0-1 2-0 3-0 1-1 1-0 2-0   1-0 1+1 4-1 2-0 2-0 0-1 0+0 12 5/3 10 30-21 29
    10 Start Angarsk 1-0 0+0 1-1 0-0 1+1 0+0 5-0 5-2 1-0   0+0 3-0 0+0 4-0 3-0 3-2 11 6/4 9 39-29 28
    11 TomLes Tomsk 0-1 1-0 0-0 2-1 2-1 1-0 1-3 0-1 1-0 0-1   0-1 3-0 3-1 2-0 1-0 12 1/6 11 22-23 25
    12 SKA Khabarovsk 0+0 3+3 1+1 0-1 1-2 6-2 0+0 2+2 0+0 4-1 0+0   2-0 3-0 1+1 2-0 7 9/1 13 31-36 23
    13 Aeroflot Irkutsk 0-1 1-2 3-1 2-0 0-2 0-1 0+0 1-0 2-2 1+1 2-1 1-0   4-1 2-1 2-1 9 3/3 15 26-41 21
    14 Chkalovets Novosibirsk 0-1 1-2 2-1 1+1 2-1 2-1 2-1 1+1 0-1 1-0 0-1 2-0 4-0   1+1 1-1 7 3/2 18 26-49 17
    15 Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk 1-2 1+1 2-2 1-0 0-2 0+0 1-1 1-0 0-2 3-5 0+0 0-1 2-0 0+0   1-1 4 5/7 14 18-44 13
    16 SKA Chita 0-2 0+0 0-0 -:+ 1-2 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-2 0-0 0-0 2-1 4-0 0-0   2 4/7 17 17-36 8
    1 - Sibiryak Bratsk qualified for 1973 Second League Final.

    Second League Final (11/04/1973 – 11/20/1973, Sochi]

    # Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 W WO L GS-GA PT
    1 UralMash Sverdlovsk   2-1 0+0 2-3 4-2 2-0 4-1 4 1/0 1 14-7 9
    2 Tavriya Symferopol 1-2   1-1 3-1 3-1 3-0 2-0 4 0/1 1 13-5 8
    3 Kuban Krasnodar 0-0 1+1   1+1 4-0 4-1 1+1 2 3/1 0 11-4 7
    4 Iskra Smolensk 3-2 1-3 1-1   2-3 2-1 3-1 3 0/1 2 12-11 6
    5 Spartak Kostroma 2-4 1-3 0-4 3-2   1-0 2-1 3 0/0 3 9-14 6
    6 Sibiryak Bratsk 0-2 0-3 1-4 1-2 0-1   0+0 0 1/0 5 2-12 1
    7 Traktor Pavlodar 1-4 0-2 1-1 1-3 1-2 0-0   0 0/2 4 4-12 0
    1 - UralMash Sverdlovsk, Tavriya Symferopol, Kuban Krasnodar are promoted to play in 1974 First League

    1973 Soviet Union Cup

    Preliminary Round

    03/04/1973 Kuzbass Kemerovo 0-0 Metalist Kharkiv
    03/04/1973 Metallurg Lipetsk 1-1 Spartak Nalchik
    03/04/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 3-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad
    03/04/1973 Tekstilschik Ivanovo 3-2 Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk
    03/10/1973 Metalist Kharkiv 2-1 Kuzbass Kemerovo
    03/10/1973 Spartak Nalchik 2-0 Metallurg Lipetsk
    03/10/1973 Stroitel Ashkhabad 0-1 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya
    03/10/1973 Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 0-1 Tekstilschik Ivanovo

    First Round

    03/14/1973 (Sochi) Spartak Moskva 0-0 Nistru Kishinev [Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)]
    03/15/1973 (Pyatigorsk) Dinamo Minsk 1-0 Zvezda Perm [Anatoliy Vasilyev 43. Att: 3,000]
    03/15/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 2-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Givi Nodia 30, Kakhi Asatiani 85 pen. Att: 25,000]
    03/15/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [Yuriy Solovyov 65 – Anatoliy Piskunov 40. Att: 20,000]
    03/15/1973 (Sevastopol) Metalist Kharkiv 0-3 Dynamo Kyiv [Viktor Kolotov 60, Oleg Blokhin 67, Anatoliy Puzach 71. Att: 10,000 (in Sevastopol)]
    03/15/1973 (Adler) Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-0 Dinamo Moskva [Att: 1,000 (in Adler)]
    03/15/1973 (Sochi) Tekstilschik Ivanovo 0-0 Pakhtakor Tashkent
    03/15/1973 (Sochi) Torpedo Moskva 1-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Yuriy Smirnov 35 – Anatoliy Novikov 50. Att: 3,000]
    03/16/1973 Ararat Yerevan 1-0 Alga Frunze
    03/16/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 2-0 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Grigoriy Sapozhnikov 74, Vladimir Nechayev 85 pen. Att: 25,000]
    03/16/1973 Karpaty Lviv 1-1 Neftchi Baku [Lev Brovarskiy 7 - ?] 03/16/1973 Pamir Dushanbe 0-2 Kairat Alma-Ata [Vladimir Chebotaryov 7, Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 44]
    03/16/1973 Torpedo Kutaisi 0-3 CSKA Moskva [Vladimir Fedotov 24, 41, Boris Kopeikin 80]
    03/16/1973 (Sochi) Zenit Leningrad 1-1 Spartak Nalchik [Georgiy Khromchenkov 61 – Nugzar Chitauri 86. Att: 3,000]
    03/17/1973 (Sochi) Zorya Voroshilovhrad 2-1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze [Yuriy Vasenin 5, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 56 - Nodar Papelishvili 8. Att: 300]
    03/31/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya [Vitaliy Starukhin 3, 26]
    04/01/1973 Nistru 1-2 Spartak Moskva [Valeriy Zhuravlyov 80 - Alexandr Piskaryov 17, 39. Att: 18,000]
    04/01/1973 (Sochi) Zvezda Perm 0-0 Dinamo Minsk [Att: 2,000]
    04/01/1973 (Stavropol) Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 0-0 Dinamo Tbilisi [Att: 16,000]
    04/01/1973 (Hosta) Lokomotiv Moskva 0-1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Alexei Khristyan 76. Att: 2,000 (in Hosta)]
    04/01/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 3-0 Metalist Kharkiv [Anatoliy Puzach 4, Vladimir Muntyan 77, Oleg Blokhin 84. Att: 20,000]
    04/01/1973 (Samarkand) Dinamo Moskva 2-0aet Shinnik Yaroslavl [Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 91p, Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 108. Att: 10,000]
    04/01/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-0 Tekstilschik Ivanovo [Vassilis Hatzipanagis 85]
    04/01/1973 (Leninabad) Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-0 Torpedo Moskva [Att: 10,000]
    04/01/1973 Alga Frunze 0-1 Ararat Yerevan
    04/01/1973 SKA Rostov-na-Donu 2-2 Chornomorets Odesa [Alexei Yeskov 45p, 89 - Leonid Baranovskiy 70, Anatoliy Shepel 71. Att: 30,000]
    04/01/1973 Neftchi Baku 0-0 Karpaty Lviv
    04/01/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 Pamir Dushanbe [Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 13 - Shuhrat Azamov ?]
    04/01/1973 (Symferopol) CSKA Moskva 2-1 Torpedo Kutaisi [Vladimir Dorofeyev 75, 79 - Merab Chakhunashvili 4]
    04/01/1973 Spartak Nalchik 0-2 Zenit Leningrad [Yuriy Zagumennykh 50, Georgiy Vyun 81. Att: 18,000]
    04/01/1973 Spartak Ordzhonikidze 0-1 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Vladimir Belousov 20. Att: 10,000]
    04/03/1973 Metalurh Zaporizhzhya 3-2 Shakhtar Donetsk [? - Vitaliy Starukhin, Alexandr Vasin]

    Second Round

    05/31/1973 Shakhtyor Karaganda 0-2 Chornomorets Odesa [Anatoliy Shepel 25, Viktor Tomashevskiy 33]
    06/05/1973 Dinamo Minsk 2-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Nikolai Litvinov 13, Vladimir Sakharov 36. Att: 15,000]
    06/05/1973 Kairat Alma-Ata 1-1 Dynamo Kyiv [Vladislav Markin 73 – Anatoliy Puzach 8. Att: 10,000]
    06/05/1973 Neftchi Baku 0-1 Ararat Yerevan
    06/05/1973 Spartak Moskva 2-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [Yevgeniy Lovchev 11, Alexandr Piskaryov 67 - Zurab Tsereteli 87. Att: 15,000]
    06/05/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 2-0 Shakhtar Donetsk [Vladimir Onischenko 7, Viktor Kuznetsov 23. Att: 25,000]
    06/05/1973 Zenit Leningrad 1-1 Dinamo Moskva [Anatoliy Zinchenko 57 – Vladimir Kozlov 27. Att: 20,000]
    06/06/1973 CSKA Moskva 3-1 Pakhtakor Tashkent [Vladimir Dorofeyev 30, Wilhelm Tellinger 58p, Vladimir Fedotov 87 – Berador Abduraimov 71]
    06/22/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 3-1 Shakhtyor Karaganda [Vladimir Nechayev 37p, Valeriy Kuzmin 77, Vitaliy Feidman 79 - Nikolai Bushuyev 81.]
    06/27/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3-0aet Dinamo Minsk [Viktor Romanyuk 17p, Valeriy Porkuyan 73, Yuriy Solovyov 119. Att: 20,000]
    06/27/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 2-1 Kairat Alma-Ata [Vladimir Muntyan 21p, Viktor Kolotov 63 - Valeriy Yerkovich 69]
    06/27/1973 Ararat Yerevan 3-1 Neftchi Baku
    06/27/1973 Dinamo Tbilisi 1-1 Spartak Moskva [Vissarion Mchedlishvili 16 - Nikolai Kiselyov 72. Att: 21,000]
    06/27/1973 Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Yuriy Gubich 12. Att: 20,000]
    06/27/1973 Dinamo Moskva 1-1, 5-3pk Zenit Leningrad [Mikhail Gershkovich 3 - Pavel Sadyrin 13. Att: 25,000]
    06/27/1973 Pakhtakor Tashkent 1-1 CSKA Moskva [Yuriy Belov 55 - Vladimir Dorofeyev 22]

    Quarterfinals

    07/11/1973 Ararat Yerevan 2-0 Zorya Voroshilovhrad [Levon Ishtoyan ?, Eduard Markarov 33. Att: 41,300]
    07/11/1973 CSKA Moskva 0-2 Dynamo Kyiv [Viktor Kolotov 67, Vladimir Veremeyev 88. Att: 25,000]
    07/11/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-0 Spartak Moskva [Att: 25,000]
    07/12/1973 Dinamo Moskva 3-0 Chornomorets Odesa [Yuriy Pudyshev 19, 62, Vladimir Kozlov 61. Att: 31,000]
    07/25/1973 Zorya Voroshilovhrad 1-0 Ararat Yerevan [Nikolai Pinchuk 87. Att: 25,000]
    07/25/1973 Dynamo Kyiv 3-0 CSKA Moskva [Vyacheslav Semyonov 7, Viktor Kolotov 44, Oleg Blokhin 49. Att: 30,000]
    07/25/1973 Spartak Moskva 1-2 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Alexandr Kokorev 80 - Anatoliy Grinko 48, Valeriy Porkuyan 74. Att: 23,000]
    07/25/1973 Chornomorets Odesa 2-3 Dinamo Moskva [Anatoliy Shepel 39p, Igor Ivanenko 55 - Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 9, 30, 85. Att: 15,000]

    Semifinals

    08/01/1973 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0-1 Ararat Yerevan [Eduard Markarov]
    08/15/1973 Ararat Yerevan 1-0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk [Eduard Markarov]
    08/16/1973 Dinamo Kyiv 1-1 Dinamo Moskva [Viktor Kolotov 66p – Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 14. Att: 40,000]
    09/12/1973 Dinamo Moskva 1-1, 5-6pk Dynamo Kyiv [Vladimir Kozlov 39 - Oleg Blokhin 3. Att: 35,000]

    Final

    10/10/1973 (in Moskva) Ararat Yerevan 2-1aet Dinamo Kyiv [Levon Ishtoyan 89, 103 – Viktor Kolotov 61p. Att: 60,000]
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