1990 in Soviet football

The 1990 Soviet football championship was the 59th seasons of competitive football in the Soviet Union. Dinamo Kiev won the Top League championship becoming the Soviet domestic champions for the thirteenth time.

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

Promotion/relegation play-off
(13th team of the Top League and 4th team of the First League)

Lokomotiv Moscow won the promotion on 3–2 aggregate

First League
Notes:
 * The city of Ordzhonikidze was renamed to Vladikavkaz.
 * The city of Gorkiy was renamed to Nizhniy Novgorod.
 * Kotayk Abovyan played all its home games in the neighboring Yerevan.

West

 * Representation
 * Ukrainian SSR: 11
 * Russian SFSR 4
 * Byelorussian SSR: 3
 * Armenian SSR 2
 * Latvian SSR: 1
 * Moldavian SSR 1

Center

 * Representation
 * Russian SFSR 20
 * Azerbaijan SSR 2

East

 * Representation


 * Kazakh SSR: 7
 * Uzbek SSR 7
 * Russian SFSR: 5
 * Turkmen SSR: 1
 * Kyrgyz SSR: 1
 * Tajik SSR: 1

Baltic

 * ASK Fosforit Tallinn quit the competition after 14 games

Top goalscorers
Top League
 * Oleh Protasov (Dinamo Kiev) – 12 goals

First League
 * Igor Shkvyrin (Pakhtakor Tashkent) – 37 goals