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1991 Soviet First League

Field	Value
competition	Soviet First League
season	1991
winners	Rotor Volgograd
relegated	none
league topscorer	(25) Serhiy Husyev (Tiligul Tiraspol)
prevseason	[1990](1990-soviet-first-league)
nextseason	[1992 Russia](1992-russian-first-league)

Soviet First League 1991 was the last season of the Soviet First League. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the football structure was reformed. All of its participants have entered the Top Divisions of the republics of their origin, except of Dinamo Sukhumi that because of the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia was dissolved.

Due to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, a process of dissolution of the Soviet Union accelerated as well as a process of decommunization in former union republics. Number of cities changed their names returning to their original names.

Teams

Promoted teams

FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone Center (returning after an absence of 10 seasons)
FC Bukovina Chernovtsy – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone West (debut)
FC Neftianik Fergona – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone East (debut)
FC Novbakhor Namangan – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone East (debut)
FC Textilshchik Kamyshin – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone Center (debut)
FC Daugava Riga – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone West (debut)

Relegated teams

Rotor Volgograd – (Returning after 2 seasons)

Renamed teams

Prior to the start of the season Tiras Tiraspol was renamed to Tiligul Tiraspol.
Prior to the start of the season Nistru Kishenev was renamed to Zimbrul Kishinev.

Replaced or withdrawn teams

With fall of the Soviet Union, the promoted FC Daugava Riga was dissolved and replaced with FC Pardaugava Riga that was based on the junior squad of the Latvia national U-21 football team and took part in the 1990 Baltic League placing only 15th out 17 teams.

Locations

League standings

Notes:

On 6 September 1991, the city of Leningrad was renamed into Saint Petersburg
On 4 September 1991, the city of Sverdlovsk was renamed into Yekaterinburg

Number of teams by union republic

Rank	Union republic	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	RSFSR	11	Dinamo Stavropol, Fakel Voronezh, Geolog Tyumen, Kuban Krasnodar, Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod, Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu, Rotor Volgograd, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Tekstilschik Kamyshin, Uralmash Yekaterinburg, Zenit Saint Petersburg
2	Moldavian SSR	2	Tiligul Tiraspol, Zimbru Kishenev
Ukrainian SSR	Bukovina Chernovtsy, Tavriya Simferopol
Uzbek SSR	Navbahor Namangan, Neftiannik Fergana
5	Armenian SSR	1	Kotaik Abovian
Azerbaijan SSR	Neftchi Baku
Georgian SSR / (Abkhazia)	Dinamo Sukhumi
Kazakh SSR	Kairat Alma-Ata
Latvian SSR	Pardaugava Riga

Top scorers

#	Player	Club	Goals	Games
1	Serhiy Husyev	«Tiligul Tiraspol»	25	36
2	Serhiy Shevchenko	«Tavriya Simferopol»	21	40
3	Valeri Shushlyakov	«Uralmash Yekaterinburg»	20	38
4	Vladislav Lemish	«Kuban Krasnodar»	20	42
5	Rustam Zabirov	«Navbahor Namangan»	19	35
6	Yuri Kalitvintsev	«Rotor Volgograd»	18	37
7	Aleksandr Tikhonov	«Rostselmash Rostov»	17	40
8	Yunis Hüseynov	«Neftchi Baku»	16	34
9	Vəli Qasımov	«Neftchi Baku»	16	38
10	Rustem Shaymukhametov	«Textilshchik Kamyshin»	15	38
11	Yuriy Hudymenko	«Rotor Volgograd»	15	39

Managers

Club	Head coach
FC Rotor Volgograd	Leonid Koltun
SC Tiligul Tiraspol	Vladimir Veber
FC Uralmash SverdlovskFC Uralmash Yekaterinburg	Korney Shperling (until July)Nikolai Agafonov (from July)
FC Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu	Enver Yulgushov
FC Bukovina Chernovtsy	Yukhym Shkolnykov
SC Tavriya Simferopol	Anatoliy Zayaev
FC Neftiannik Fergona	Yuriy Sarkisyan
FC Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod	Valeri Ovchinnikov
FC Navbakhor Namangan	Igor Volchok
FC Dinamo Sukhumi	Oleg Dolmatov
FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin	Sergei Pavlov
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl	Stanislav Vorotilin
FC Fakel Voronezh	Sergei Savchenkov (until June)Fyodor Novikov (from July)
FC Kairat Alma-Ata	Boris Stukalov
FC Neftchi Baku	Ruslan Abdullaev (until April)Kazbek Tuaev (from May)
FC Dinamo Stavropol	Viktor Nosov (until July)Vladimir Kitin (from July, interim)
FC Kotayk Abovyan	Arkady Andreasyan
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	Yury Morozov
FC Zimbru Kishinev	Ion Caras
FC Geolog Tyumen	Rudolf AtamalyanSerhiy Morozov (from July)
FC Kuban Krasnodar	Vladimir Brazhnikov (until July)Yuri Marushkin (from July)
FK Pārdaugava Riga	Jānis Skredelis

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