With the ongoing armed conflicts throughout the former Soviet Union (Moldova, Georgia, Tajikistan), the Army main football team, CSKA Moscow, won the Top League championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the seventh time.

It became de facto the last full-scale season of the falling apart Soviet Union.

Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour.

* indicates new record for competition Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour.

The final stage included all winners of the four groups.