1966 Soviet Top League

• 19 teams took part in the league with FC Dynamo Kyiv winning the championship.
• FC Dynamo Kyiv qualified for Champions Cup 1967–68 and FC Torpedo Moscow qualified for CWC 1967–68 as runners-up of the Soviet Cup 1965-66.
• The top 3 team with the most wins qualified for the World Cup.

  League standings

Top scorers

• Ilya Datunashvili

• Anatoliy Byshovets

• Boris Kazakov
• Nikolai Osyanin

• Kazbek Tuaev
• Oleg Kopayev
• Vladimir Kozlov
• Gennadi Matveyev

• Anatoliy Banishevskiy
• Eduard Markarov
• Eduard Streltsov