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1982 Soviet Top League

44th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ2313781 ↗
Source-derived summary

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1982 season.

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Dinamo Minsk won the championship.

The rules stated that a team could only have a maximum of 10 draws; all points from matches draw since the eleventh wouldn't be counted.

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The public source identifies “1982 Soviet Top League” as 44th season of top-tier football league in Soviet Union. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Soviet, League and 44th.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Soviet, League and 44th providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2313781. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “1982 Soviet Top League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.