Soviet Union Olympic football team

National football team from 1952 to 1990

Soviet Union Olympic team

Nickname(s)| The Olympic Assembled (Olimpiyskaya sbornaya) (Олимпийская сборная)
Association| Football Federation of the Soviet Union
Most caps| Igor Dobrovolski, Yevgeni Kuznetsov, Alexei Mikhailichenko, Dmitri Kharine, Volodymyr Troshkin (14)
Top scorer| Igor Dobrovolski (8)
FIFA code| URS

First colours

Second colours

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First international
Bulgaria 1-1 Soviet Union
(Moscow, USSR; 27 June 1959)
Biggest win
Soviet Union 8-0 Cuba
(Moscow, USSR; 24 July 1980)
Biggest defeat
East Germany 4-1 Soviet Union
(Warsaw, Poland; 28 June 1964)
Summer Olympic Games
Appearances| 2 (first in 1980)
Best result| Gold Medal, 1988
Olympic medal record

Men’s Football
| 1980 Moscow | Team
| 1988 Seoul | Team

The Soviet Union Olympic football team was the national Olympic football team of the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1990. Until 1980 it was rather the Soviet Union national football B team. The team participated in all of the qualification football tournaments for Summer Olympics (except for 1980 when it qualified as hosts). Until 1992, when age restrictions were officially introduced, the Soviet Union used the first team both in qualification tournaments and finals except for 1960 and 1964 when the second national team was used for the qualification tournaments (the first team succeeded it in the finals in those years).

## History[edit]

Officially the Olympic national team was founded in 1959 after the FIFA adopted its decision in 1958 prohibiting players who played in the World Cup finals from participation in the Olympics. The Soviet Union did not participate in the World Cup until 1958 (see 1958 World Cup (qualifications)); instead, it used its first team (base team) to compete at the Olympics (since 1952) as it deemed that tournament more important. The USSR continued to use its best players in the Olympics after 1958 despite the FIFA ruling, with the branding "Olympic team" being rather formal, with all the players being part of the national team and competing both at the World Cup and Olympics.

## 1960 Olympics[edit]

### Qualification[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

In order to defend their Olympic title at the Rome Games, the Soviet Union national team had to go through a "selection sieve". According to the territorial principle, the team got into the 3rd European group, along with the teams of Bulgaria and Romania. This time it was decided to create an Olympic team separate from the main one, which included players from the nearest reserve of the main team. Of the players who took part in the qualifying games, only goalkeeper Boris Razinsky represented the team that won the Melbourne gold. Boris Arkadiev was appointed as the head coach. The coaching council also included M. I. Yakushin and A. S. Ponomarev.

The calendar of games was drawn up in such a way that the Soviet Union national team took part in all the first four games, and the national teams of Bulgaria and Romania had to fight each other in the last two.

#### 3rd Group[edit]

Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts

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Bulgaria | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 5
Soviet Union | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4
Romania | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 3

#### Games[edit]

29 June 1959

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Soviet Union | 1 – 1|  Bulgaria

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Korolenkov 68' | Report | Milanov 26'

Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 102,000

Referee: Bengt Lundell (Sweden)

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19 July 1959

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Soviet Union | 2 – 0|  Romania

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Urin 10'
Metreveli 61' | Report |

Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 102,000

Referee: Erio Pattiniemi (Finland)

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2 August 1959

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Romania | 0 – 0|  Soviet Union

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August 23 Stadium, Bucharest

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Grzegorz Alexandrowicz (Poland)

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13 September 1959

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Bulgaria | 1 – 0|  Soviet Union

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Kolev 11' | [ Report] |

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Josef Stoll (Austria)

* * *

Bulgaria qualified for the 1960 Summer Olympics.

#### Roster[edit]

* Head coach – Boris Arkadyev (CSK MO Moscow)
* Coaching council staff members: Mikhail Yakushin (Dynamo Moscow) and Aleksandr Ponomarev

No.  | Pos.  | Player  | Date of birth (age)  | Caps  | Club

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| 1GK | Boris Razinsky |  (1933-07-12)12 July 1933 (aged 26)  | 4  |  CSK MO Moscow
| 2DF | Dmitriy Bagrich |  (1936-03-26)26 March 1936 (aged 23)  | 4  |  CSK MO Moscow
| 2DF | Anatoliy Soldatov |  (1931-07-11)11 July 1931 (aged 28)  | 3  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Mikhail Yermolayev |  (1935-11-04)4 November 1935 (aged 24)  | 3  |  CSK MO Moscow
| 2DF | Nikolai Linyaev |  (1933-07-17)17 July 1933 (aged 26)  | 3  |  CSK MO Moscow
| 2DF | Anatoly Krutikov |  (1933-09-21)21 September 1933 (aged 26)  | 1  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Ivan Morgunov |  (1929-01-01)1 January 1929 (aged 30)  | 1  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 3MF | Stanislav Zavidnov |  (1934-10-14)14 October 1934 (aged 25)  | 3  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 3MF | Yury Kovalyov |  (1934-02-06)6 February 1934 (aged 25)  | 3  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 3MF | Boris Batanov |  (1934-07-15)15 July 1934 (aged 25)  | 2  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 3MF | Valery Korolenkov |  (1939-03-17)17 March 1939 (aged 20)  | 2  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 3MF | Aleksandr Sokolov |  (1930-02-26)26 February 1930 (aged 29)  | 1  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 3MF | Shota Yamanidze |  (1937-03-15)15 March 1937 (aged 22)  | 1  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Slava Metreveli |  (1936-03-30)30 March 1936 (aged 23)  | 4  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Zaur Kaloyev |  (1931-03-24)24 March 1931 (aged 28)  | 3  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Valeri Urin |  (1934-08-10)10 August 1934 (aged 25)  | 2  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 4FW | Avtandil Gogoberidze |  (1922-08-03)3 August 1922 (aged 37)  | 1  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Igor Zaitsev |  (1934-04-21)21 April 1934 (aged 25)  | 1  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 4FW | Viktor Voroshilov |  (1926-08-15)15 August 1926 (aged 33)  | 1  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 4FW | Viktor Sokolov |  (1936-09-28)28 September 1936 (aged 23)  | 1  |  Lokomotiv Moscow

Notes:

* Age on 12 December 1959.

## 1964 Olympics[edit]

### Qualification[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

According to the results of the draw, the USSR national team got into the third European group of the qualifying tournament for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The country was represented by the Olympic team, but in reality, the second team: the players of the first team (Glotov, Korneev, Mudrik) played together with the players of the nearest (Anichkin, Lobanovsky, Urushadze) and deep (Biba, Sevidov, Fadeev) reserve of the main team. There were no age restrictions for the players, for example, the goalkeeper Kotrikadze at the time of the first meeting with the Finns was less than 27 years old. The team was headed by Vyacheslav Solovyov, who combined this post with a similar job at CSKA. Assistant - E. I. Lyadin.

The tournament regulations did not provide for a group round-robin tournament. The teams had to play two-legged knockout matches. In the preliminary round, the East Germany Olympic football team knocked out the team of another Germany – West (payback for the last qualification). At the next stage, they had to challenge the Dutch, and the Soviet Union Olympic team challenged their access to the next round in the play-off with Finland.

#### Group 3[edit]

##### First round[edit]

Team 1  | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2  | 1st leg  | 2nd leg

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Soviet Union | 11–0  |  Finland | 7–0  | 4–0

22 July 1963

Soviet Union | 7–0|  Finland

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Serebrianikov 16', 46'
Kazakov 27', 39'
Biba 38'
Matveyev 61' (pen.), 89' | Report |

Tsentralny Stadion, Kiev

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Stanislav Fenzl (Czechoslovakia)

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1 August 1963

Finland | 0–4|  Soviet Union

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| Report | Serebrianikov 23'
Biba 25'
Kazakov 48'
Matveyev 75'

Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Bertil Lööf (Sweden)

##### Second round[edit]

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United Team of Germany | 2–2  |  Soviet Union | 1–1  | 1–1

31 May 1964

United Team of Germany | 1–1|  Soviet Union

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Frenzel 10' | Report | Sevidov 88'

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Joseph Heymann (Switzerland)

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7 June 1964

Soviet Union | 1–1|  United Team of Germany

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Kopayev 14' | Report | Kleiminger 62'

Tsentralny Stadion imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 82,000

Referee: Hans Karlsson (Sweden)

According to the rules of the tournament, the teams had to play the third decisive game on a neutral field. The arena of the match was picked the Warsaw Stadium of the Decade.

##### Second round third match[edit]

in Warsaw, Poland

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United Team of Germany | 4–1  |  Soviet Union

28 June 1964

United Team of Germany | 4–1|  Soviet Union

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Kleiminger 16'
Urbanczyk 39'
Vogel 82'
Fräßdorf 87' | Report | Serebrianikov 55'

Stadion Dziesięciolecia, Warsaw

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Eduard Babauczek (Austria)

United Team of Germany qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

#### Roster[edit]

* Head coach – Vyacheslav Solovyov (CSKA Moscow)
* Assistant – Yevgeny Lyadin

No.  | Pos.  | Player  | Date of birth (age)  | Caps  | Club

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| 3MF | Viktor Serebryanikov |  (1940-03-29)29 March 1940 (aged 23)  | 5  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Albert Shesternyov |  (1941-06-20)20 June 1941 (aged 22)  | 5  |  CSKA Moscow
| 2DF | Eduard Mudrik |  (1939-07-18)18 July 1939 (aged 24)  | 4  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 3MF | Andriy Biba |  (1937-08-10)10 August 1937 (aged 26)  | 4  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Vladimir Ponomaryov |  (1940-02-18)18 February 1940 (aged 23)  | 3  |  CSKA Moscow
| 2DF | Murtaz Khurtsilava |  (1943-01-05)5 January 1943 (aged 20)  | 3  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 3MF | Valery Maslov |  (1940-04-28)28 April 1940 (aged 23)  | 3  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 4FW | Yury Sevidov |  (1942-08-24)24 August 1942 (aged 21)  | 3  |  Spartak Moscow
| 1GK | Sergo Kotrikadze |  (1936-08-09)9 August 1936 (aged 27)  | 2  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Gennadi Matveyev |  (1937-08-22)22 August 1937 (aged 26)  | 2  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 4FW | Boris Kazakov |  (1940-11-06)6 November 1940 (aged 23)  | 2  |  Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
| 4FW | Valeriy Lobanovskyi |  (1939-01-06)6 January 1939 (aged 24)  | 2  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 1GK | Ramaz Urushadze |  (1939-08-17)17 August 1939 (aged 24)  | 2  |  Torpedo Kutaisi
| 2DF | Vladimir Glotov |  (1937-01-23)23 January 1937 (aged 26)  | 2  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 2DF | Viktor Anichkin |  (1941-12-08)8 December 1941 (aged 22)  | 2  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 2DF | Aleksei Korneyev |  (1939-02-06)6 February 1939 (aged 24)  | 2  |  Spartak Moscow
| 4FW | Lev Burchalkin |  (1939-01-09)9 January 1939 (aged 24)  | 2  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 4FW | Eduard Malofeyev |  (1942-06-02)2 June 1942 (aged 21)  | 1  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 4FW | Oleg Kopayev |  (1937-11-28)28 November 1937 (aged 26)  | 1  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 1GK | Vladimir Lisitsin |  (1938-08-20)20 August 1938 (aged 25)  | 1  |  Kairat Alma-Ata
| 2DF | Anatoly Krutikov |  (1933-09-21)21 September 1933 (aged 30)  | 1  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Gennady Logofet |  (1942-04-15)15 April 1942 (aged 21)  | 1  |  Spartak Moscow
| 4FW | Oleg Sergeyev |  (1940-01-30)30 January 1940 (aged 23)  | 1  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Valeriy Fadeyev |  (1939-07-20)20 July 1939 (aged 24)  | 1  |  Dinamo Moscow

Notes:

* Age on 31 December 1963.

## 1972 Olympics[edit]

### Qualification[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's European Qualifiers

#### Play-off stage[edit]

Team 1  | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2  | 1st leg  | 2nd leg

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Soviet Union | 4–0  |  Netherlands | 4–0  | 0–0

2 June 1971

Soviet Union | 4–0|  Netherlands

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Kozynkevych 44', 64'
Troshkin 54'
Shalimov 74' | Report |

Tsentralnyi Stadion "Dinamo", Moscow

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Aurelio Agnonese (Italy)

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16 June 1971

Netherlands | 0–0|  Soviet Union

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Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

#### Group 1[edit]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification  |  | URS  | FRA  | AUT

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1  |  Soviet Union | 4  | 4  | 0  | 0  | 13  | 2  | +11  | 8  | 1972 Summer Olympics finals  |  | -- | 5–1  | 4–0
2  |  France | 4  | 2  | 0  | 2  | 10  | 9  | +1  | 4  |  |  | 1–3  | -- | 5–1
3  |  Austria | 4  | 0  | 0  | 4  | 1  | 13  | −12  | 0  |  | 0–1  | 0–3  | --

Source: [ FIFA]

13 October 1971

Soviet Union | 4–0|  Austria

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Zanazanyan 13', 69'
Kozynkevych 36'
Kopeykin 87' | Report |

Stadion "Druzhba", Lviv

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Petar Kostovski (Yugoslavia)

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3 November 1971

Soviet Union | 5–1|  France

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Zanazanyan 12'
Andreasyan 21', 29'
Ishtoyan 36'
Hreshchak 51' | Report | Riefa 69'

Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Bertil Lööw (Sweden)

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18 November 1971

Austria | 0–1|  Soviet Union

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| Report | Andreasyan 74'

Bundesstadion Südstadt, Maria Enzersdorf, Lower Austria

Attendance: 300

Referee: Franz Geluck (Belgium)

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25 May 1972

France | 1–3|  Soviet Union

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Tonnel 59' | Report | Machaidze 42'
Blokhin 49', 87'

Parc des Princes, Paris

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: David Smith (England)

#### Roster[edit]

In bold are players and coaches that actually went to Munich, see Olympic team squad for more information.

* Head coach – Aleksandr Ponomarev (away game with France Boris Nabokov)

No.  | Pos.  | Player  | Date of birth (age)  | Caps  | Club

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| 1GK | Vladimir Oleinik |  (1950-03-10)10 March 1950 (aged 21)  | 2  |  Spartak Ordzhonikidze
| 1GK | Vladimir Pilguy |  (1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 23)  | 1  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 1GK | Lev Kudasov |  (1943-06-24)24 June 1943 (aged 28)  | 1  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 1GK | Oleksandr Tkachenko |  (1947-01-24)24 January 1947 (aged 24)  | 1  |  Zaria Voroshilovgrad
| 1GK | Aleksandr Prokhorov |  (1946-06-18)18 June 1946 (aged 25)  | 1  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Vadym Sosnykhin |  (1942-08-10)10 August 1942 (aged 29)  | 3  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Stefan Reshko |  (1947-03-24)24 March 1947 (aged 24)  | 3  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Norair Mesropyan |  (1946-04-30)30 April 1946 (aged 25)  | 3  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 2DF | Vyacheslav Bulavin |  (1946-04-18)18 April 1946 (aged 25)  | 2  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 2DF | Vadim Ivanov |  (1943-01-17)17 January 1943 (aged 28)  | 2  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Valeri Zykov |  (1944-02-24)24 February 1944 (aged 27)  | 2  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 2DF | Viktor Matviyenko |  (1948-10-26)26 October 1948 (aged 23)  | 2  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Nikolay Abramov |  (1950-01-05)5 January 1950 (aged 21)  | 1  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Nikolai Khudiyev |  (1949-05-15)15 May 1949 (aged 22)  | 1  |  Spartak Ordzhonikidze
| 2DF | Sergei Dotsenko |  (1947-09-07)7 September 1947 (aged 24)  | 1  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Boris Serostanov |  (1949-10-17)17 October 1949 (aged 22)  | 1  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 2DF | Rostyslav Potochnyak |  (1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 23)  | 1  |  Karpaty Lvov
| 2DF | Vladimir Golubev |  (1950-04-16)16 April 1950 (aged 21)  | 1  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 2DF | Viktor Zvyahintsev |  (1950-10-22)22 October 1950 (aged 21)  | 1  |  CSKA Moscow
| 3MF | Oganes Zanazanyan |  (1946-12-10)10 December 1946 (aged 25)  | 6  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 3MF | Arkady Andreasyan |  (1947-08-11)11 August 1947 (aged 24)  | 5  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 3MF | Volodymyr Troshkin |  (1947-09-28)28 September 1947 (aged 24)  | 5  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 3MF | Serhiy Bondarenko |  (1948-11-09)9 November 1948 (aged 23)  | 4  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 3MF | Volodymyr Veremeyev |  (1948-11-08)8 November 1948 (aged 23)  | 4  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 3MF | Leonid Buryak |  (1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 18)  | 1  |  Chernomorets Odessa
| 3MF | Khasan Mirikov |  (1950-06-03)3 June 1950 (aged 21)  | 1  |  Neftianik Baku
| 4FW | Eduard Kozynkevych |  (1949-05-23)23 May 1949 (aged 22)  | 4  |  Karpaty Lvov
| 4FW | Bohdan Hreshchak |  (1949-03-31)31 March 1949 (aged 22)  | 3  |  Karpaty Lvov
| 4FW | Gennadiy Shalimov |  (1947-11-29)29 November 1947 (aged 24)  | 2  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Yuri Avrutskiy |  (1944-05-10)10 May 1944 (aged 27)  | 2  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 4FW | Boris Kopeykin |  (1946-03-27)27 March 1946 (aged 25)  | 2  |  CSKA Moscow
| 4FW | Vladimir Goncharov |  (1946-11-21)21 November 1946 (aged 25)  | 1  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 4FW | Levon Ishtoyan |  (1947-09-03)3 September 1947 (aged 24)  | 1  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 4FW | Anatoliy Vasilyev |  (1944-08-25)25 August 1944 (aged 27)  | 1  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 4FW | Givi Nodia |  (1948-01-02)2 January 1948 (aged 23)  | 1  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Vladimir Gutsaev |  (1952-12-21)21 December 1952 (aged 19)  | 1  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Oleh Blokhin |  (1952-11-05)5 November 1952 (aged 19)  | 1  |  Dinamo Kiev

Notes:

* Age on 31 December 1971.

## 1976 Olympics[edit]

### Qualification[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

#### Play-off stage[edit]

Team 1  | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2  | 1st leg  | 2nd leg

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Yugoslavia | 1–4  |  Soviet Union | 1–1  | 0–3

7 May 1975

Yugoslavia | 1–1|  Soviet Union

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Eftić 76' | Report | Bulgakov 78'

Gradski stadion, Banja Luka

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

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21 May 1975

Soviet Union | 3–0|  Yugoslavia

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Buryak 57' (pen.), 61'
Hatzipanagis 87' | Report |

Tsentralnyi stadion imeni V.I.Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Constantin Petrea (Romania)

## Summer Olympics record[edit]

Note:[1][2] Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

Olympic Games record  |  | Qualification record

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Year  | Round  | Position  | Pld | W | D*  | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D*  | L | GF | GA | → | Outcome
1952 | National team | N/A | Qualified directly
1956 | 2  | 2  | 0  | 0  | 7  | 1  | 1956 | Won over Israel in play-off
1960 | did not qualify | 4  | 1  | 2  | 1  | 3  | 2  | 1960 | 2nd in Qualifying group 3
1964 | 5  | 2  | 2  | 1  | 14  | 3  | 1964 | Lost to Germany in play-off
1968 | National team | 1968 | Lost to Czechoslovakia in play-off
1972 | National team | 6  | 5  | 1  | 0  | 17  | 2  | 1972 | 1st in Qualifying group 1
1976 | 6  | 5  | 1  | 0  | 14  | 2  | 1976 | 1st in Qualifying group 1
1980 | 3rd place  | 3rd  | 6  | 5  | 0  | 1  | 19  | 3  | Host nation | 1980 | Qualified as host nation
1984 | Boycotted | 6  | 3  | 2  | 1  | 9  | 4  | 1984 | 1st in Qualifying group A
1988 | Final  | Champion  | 6  | 5  | 1  | 0  | 14  | 6  | 8  | 6  | 2  | 0  | 12  | 2  | 1988 | 1st in Qualifying group 1
1992 | did not qualify | Under-21 team | 1992 | 3rd in Qualifying group 3
Total | 2/11 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 9  | 37 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 76 | 16 |

## Venues[edit]

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Central Lenin Stadium | Moscow | 1959-1984  | 13  | 9  | 2  | 2  | 27  | 8  | 2.23
Central Dynamo Stadium | Moscow | 1956-1991  | 9  | 7  | 2  | 0  | 24  | 1  | 2.56
Lokomotiv Stadium | Simferopol | 1988-1991  | 3  | 2  | 1  | 0  | 5  | 1  | 2.33
Central Stadium | Kiev | 1963  | 1  | 1  | 0  | 0  | 7  | 0  | 3
Druzhba Stadium | Lvov | 1971  | 1  | 1  | 0  | 0  | 4  | 0  | 3
Hrazdan Stadium | Yerevan | 1971  | 1  | 1  | 0  | 0  | 5  | 1  | 3
Central Lokomotiv Stadium | Moscow | 1990  | 1  | 0  | 1  | 0  | 2  | 2  | 1
Totals | 1956-1991 | 29 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 74 | 13 | 2.38

## Soviet managers[edit]

The list does not include games of the senior team such as participation at the Olympic tournaments finals (1952–1980).

Manager  | Nation  | Years  | Played  | Won  | Drawn  | Lost  | GF  | GA  | Win %  | Qualifying cycle  | Final tour

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Boris Arkadiev |  | 1959  | 4  | 1  | 2  | 1  | 3  | 2  | 25  | 1960  |
Vyacheslav Solovyov |  | 1963-1964  | 5  | 2  | 2  | 1  | 14  | 6  | 40  | 1964  |
Aleksandr Ponomarev |  | 1971  | 5  | 4  | 1  | 0  | 14  | 1  | 80  | 1972  |
Konstantin Beskov |  | 1975  | 6  | 5  | 1  | 0  | 14  | 2  | 83.33  | 1976  |
Konstantin Beskov |  | 1980  | 6  | 5  | 0  | 1  | 19  | 3  | 83.33  |  | 1980
Vladimir Salkov |  | 1983  | 2  | 1  | 1  | 0  | 5  | 2  | 50  | 1984  |
Eduard Malofeyev |  | 1983-1984  | 4  | 2  | 1  | 1  | 4  | 2  | 50  | 1984  | 1984*
Anatoly Byshovets |  | 1986-1988  | 14  | 11  | 3  | 0  | 26  | 8  | 78.57  | 1988  | 1988

Notes:

* The USSR Olympic team withdrew from the football tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
* Since 1991 UEFA qualifies a national under-21 football team to the Olympics.

## See also[edit]

* Football in the Soviet Union
* Soviet Union national football team
* Soviet Union national under-21 football team
* Soviet Union national under-19 football team

## References[edit]

1. ^ Olympic tournaments
2. ^ Soviet Union Olympic team

## External links[edit]

* URSS national football team website

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Soviet Union national football team

General|

* Football Federation
* History
* CIS
* Managers

Results|

* 1924–1972
* 1972–1992
* unofficial matches
* all-time record

Venues|

* Central Dynamo Stadium
* Central Lenin Stadium

Players|

* Ukrainians

International|

* FIFA World Cup
* UEFA European Championship
* Olympics

FIFA World Cup Finals|

* 1958
* 1962
* 1966
* 1970
* 1982
* 1986
* 1990

UEFA Euro Finals|

* 1960
* 1964
* 1968
* 1972
* 1988
* 1992

Other Soviet teams|

* Men's team
* Olympic team
* U-21
* U-19
* U-17
* Women's team

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Football in the Soviet Union

Football Federation of USSR

National teams|

| Men|

* National team
* CIS
* Olympic
* U-21
* U-20
* U-18
* U-16

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Women|

* Women's National team

League system|

| Men|

| Professional|

* Top League
* First League
* Second League (9 zones)
* Second League B (10 zones)

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Amateurs|

* Republican competitions
* Competitions in regions and cities of union republics

Women|

* Women's Championship
* Competitions in regions and cities of union republics

Youth|

* Top League Youth Championship
* First League Youth Championship
* "Leather Ball" tournament

Domestic cups|

* Soviet Cup
* Federation Cup
* Soviet Cup among KFK
* Super Cup
* All-Union Committee of Physical Culture and Sports Tournament

Awards|

* Soviet Footballer of the Year
* The best 33 players
* Grigory Fedotov club
* Lev Yashin Club

Lists|

* Soviet and Russian football champions
* List of clubs

Categories|

* Men's clubs
* Men's players
* Expatriate footballers
* Managers
* Referees
* Venues

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National sports teams of the Soviet Union

* Olympics
* Paralympics
* Deaflympics
* Universiade

* Badminton
* Bandy
* M
* M-U17
* M-U19
* M-U23
* W
* Basketball
* M
* M-U19
* M-U16
* W
* W-U19
* W-U16
* Field hockey
* M
* W
* Football
* M
* M U-23
* M U-21
* M U-20
* M U-18
* M U-16
* W
* Gymnastics
* Handball
* M
* W
* Ice hockey
* M
* M U-20
* M U-18
* Rugby union
* M
* W
* Softball
* Speedway
* M
* Tennis
* M
* W
* X
* Volleyball
* M
* M-U21
* M-U19
* W
* W-U20
* W-U18
* Water Polo
* M

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Summer Olympics men's football tournament winners

List of Olympic medalists

* 1900: Upton Park (Great Britain) (GBR)
* 1904: Galt (Canada) (CAN)
* 1908: Great Britain (GBR)
* 1912: Great Britain (GBR)
* 1920: Belgium (BEL)
* 1924: Uruguay (URU)
* 1928: Uruguay (URU)
* 1936: Italy (ITA)
* 1948: Sweden (SWE)
* 1952: Hungary (HUN)
* 1956: Soviet Union (URS)
* 1960: Yugoslavia (YUG)
* 1964: Hungary (HUN)
* 1968: Hungary (HUN)
* 1972: Poland (POL)
* 1976: East Germany (GDR)
* 1980: Czechoslovakia (TCH)
* 1984: France (FRA)
* 1988: Soviet Union (URS)
* 1992: Spain (ESP)
* 1996: Nigeria (NGR)
* 2000: Cameroon (CMR)
* 2004: Argentina (ARG)
* 2008: Argentina (ARG)
* 2012: Mexico (MEX)
* 2016: Brazil (BRA)
* 2020: Brazil (BRA)

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National men's under-23 football teams of Europe (UEFA)

* Albania
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Croatia
* Estonia
* France
* Germany
* Great Britain
* Greece
* Italy
* Northern Ireland
* Poland
* Portugal
* Republic of Ireland
* Romania
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine

* Former nations:
* Czechoslovakia
* East Germany
* USSR
* Yugoslavia

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*[GD]: Goal difference
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*[Agg.]: Aggregate score
*[Pos]: Position
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