Soviet Union Olympic football team

National football team from 1952 to 1992

Soviet Union Olympic

Nickname(s)| The Olympic Selection (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
Soviet Union 1-1 Bulgaria
(Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR; 27 June 1959)
Biggest win
Soviet Union 8-0 Cuba
(Moscow, Russian SFSR, 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
| 1956 Melbourne | Team
| 1988 Seoul | Team
| 1972 Munich | Team
| 1976 Montreal | Team
| 1980 Moscow | Team

The Soviet Union Olympic football team was the national Olympic football team of the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1992. 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

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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

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### Qualification

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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 third 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

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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

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29 June 1959

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)

* * *

19 July 1959

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

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

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

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* 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  | Goals  | Club

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| 1GK | Boris Razinsky |  (1933-07-12)12 July 1933 (aged 26)  | 4  | –2  |  CSK MO Moscow

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| 2DF | Dmitriy Bagrich |  (1936-03-26)26 March 1936 (aged 23)  | 4  | 0  |  CSK MO Moscow
| 2DF | Anatoliy Soldatov |  (1931-07-11)11 July 1931 (aged 28)  | 3  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Mikhail Yermolayev |  (1935-11-04)4 November 1935 (aged 24)  | 3  | 0  |  CSK MO Moscow
| 2DF | Nikolai Linyaev |  (1933-07-17)17 July 1933 (aged 26)  | 3  | 0  |  CSK MO Moscow
| 2DF | Anatoly Krutikov |  (1933-09-21)21 September 1933 (aged 26)  | 1  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Ivan Morgunov |  (1929-01-01)1 January 1929 (aged 30)  | 1  | 0  |  Lokomotiv Moscow

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| 3MF | Stanislav Zavidnov |  (1934-10-14)14 October 1934 (aged 25)  | 3  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 3MF | Yury Kovalyov |  (1934-02-06)6 February 1934 (aged 25)  | 3  | 0  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 3MF | Boris Batanov |  (1934-07-15)15 July 1934 (aged 25)  | 2  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 3MF | Valery Korolenkov |  (1939-03-17)17 March 1939 (aged 20)  | 2  | 1  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 3MF | Aleksandr Sokolov |  (1930-02-26)26 February 1930 (aged 29)  | 1  | 0  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 3MF | Shota Yamanidze |  (1937-03-15)15 March 1937 (aged 22)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi

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| 4FW | Slava Metreveli |  (1936-03-30)30 March 1936 (aged 23)  | 4  | 1  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Zaur Kaloyev |  (1931-03-24)24 March 1931 (aged 28)  | 3  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Valeri Urin |  (1934-08-10)10 August 1934 (aged 25)  | 2  | 1  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 4FW | Avtandil Gogoberidze |  (1922-08-03)3 August 1922 (aged 37)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Igor Zaitsev |  (1934-04-21)21 April 1934 (aged 25)  | 1  | 0  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 4FW | Viktor Voroshilov |  (1926-08-15)15 August 1926 (aged 33)  | 1  | 0  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 4FW | Viktor Sokolov |  (1936-09-28)28 September 1936 (aged 23)  | 1  | 0  |  Lokomotiv Moscow

Notes:

* Age on 12 December 1959.

## 1964 Olympics

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### Qualification

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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 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

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##### First round

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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

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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 for the match picked was the Warsaw Stadium of the Decade.

##### Second round third match

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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

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

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

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| 1GK | Sergo Kotrikadze |  (1936-08-09)9 August 1936 (aged 27)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 1GK | Ramaz Urushadze |  (1939-08-17)17 August 1939 (aged 24)  | 2  | –2  |  Torpedo Kutaisi
| 1GK | Vladimir Lisitsin |  (1938-08-20)20 August 1938 (aged 25)  | 1  | –4  |  Kairat Alma-Ata

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| 2DF | Albert Shesternyov |  (1941-06-20)20 June 1941 (aged 22)  | 5  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow
| 2DF | Eduard Mudrik |  (1939-07-18)18 July 1939 (aged 24)  | 4  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 2DF | Vladimir Ponomaryov |  (1940-02-18)18 February 1940 (aged 23)  | 3  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow
| 2DF | Murtaz Khurtsilava |  (1943-01-05)5 January 1943 (aged 20)  | 3  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 2DF | Vladimir Glotov |  (1937-01-23)23 January 1937 (aged 26)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 2DF | Viktor Anichkin |  (1941-12-08)8 December 1941 (aged 22)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 2DF | Aleksei Korneyev |  (1939-02-06)6 February 1939 (aged 24)  | 2  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Anatoly Krutikov |  (1933-09-21)21 September 1933 (aged 30)  | 1  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Gennady Logofet |  (1942-04-15)15 April 1942 (aged 21)  | 1  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow

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| 3MF | Viktor Serebryanikov |  (1940-03-29)29 March 1940 (aged 23)  | 5  | 4  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 3MF | Andriy Biba |  (1937-08-10)10 August 1937 (aged 26)  | 4  | 2  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 3MF | Valery Maslov |  (1940-04-28)28 April 1940 (aged 23)  | 3  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow

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| 4FW | Yury Sevidov |  (1942-08-24)24 August 1942 (aged 21)  | 3  | 1  |  Spartak Moscow
| 4FW | Gennadi Matveyev |  (1937-08-22)22 August 1937 (aged 26)  | 2  | 3  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 4FW | Boris Kazakov |  (1940-11-06)6 November 1940 (aged 23)  | 2  | 3  |  Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
| 4FW | Valeriy Lobanovskyi |  (1939-01-06)6 January 1939 (aged 24)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 4FW | Lev Burchalkin |  (1939-01-09)9 January 1939 (aged 24)  | 2  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 4FW | Eduard Malofeyev |  (1942-06-02)2 June 1942 (aged 21)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 4FW | Oleg Kopayev |  (1937-11-28)28 November 1937 (aged 26)  | 1  | 1  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 4FW | Oleg Sergeyev |  (1940-01-30)30 January 1940 (aged 23)  | 1  | 0  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Valeriy Fadeyev |  (1939-07-20)20 July 1939 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow

Notes:

* Age on 31 December 1963.

## 1972 Olympics

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### Qualification

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

#### Play-off stage

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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

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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

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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  | Goals  | Club

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| 1GK | Lev Kudasov |  (1943-06-24)24 June 1943 (aged 28)  | 1  | 0  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 1GK | Oleksandr Tkachenko |  (1947-01-24)24 January 1947 (aged 25)  | 1  | 0  |  Zaria Voroshilovgrad
| 1GK | Aleksandr Prokhorov |  (1946-06-18)18 June 1946 (aged 25)  | 1  | –1  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 1GK | Vladimir Oleinik |  (1950-03-10)10 March 1950 (aged 22)  | 2  | –1  |  Spartak Ordzhonikidze
| 1GK | Vladimir Pilguy |  (1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow

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| 2DF | Nikolay Abramov |  (1950-01-05)5 January 1950 (aged 22)  | 1  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Vyacheslav Bulavin |  (1946-04-18)18 April 1946 (aged 26)  | 2  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 2DF | Vadim Ivanov |  (1943-01-17)17 January 1943 (aged 29)  | 2  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Valeri Zykov |  (1944-02-24)24 February 1944 (aged 28)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 2DF | Nikolai Khudiyev |  (1949-05-15)15 May 1949 (aged 23)  | 1  | 0  |  Spartak Ordzhonikidze
| 2DF | Sergei Dotsenko |  (1947-09-07)7 September 1947 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Vadym Sosnykhin |  (1942-08-10)10 August 1942 (aged 29)  | 3  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Stefan Reshko |  (1947-03-24)24 March 1947 (aged 25)  | 3  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Norair Mesropyan |  (1946-04-30)30 April 1946 (aged 26)  | 3  | 0  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 2DF | Viktor Matviyenko |  (1948-10-26)26 October 1948 (aged 23)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Boris Serostanov |  (1949-10-17)17 October 1949 (aged 22)  | 1  | 0  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 2DF | Rostyslav Potochnyak |  (1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Karpaty Lvov
| 2DF | Vladimir Golubev |  (1950-04-16)16 April 1950 (aged 22)  | 1  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 2DF | Viktor Zvyahintsev |  (1950-10-22)22 October 1950 (aged 21)  | 1  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow

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| 3MF | Serhiy Bondarenko |  (1948-11-09)9 November 1948 (aged 23)  | 4  | 0  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 3MF | Volodymyr Troshkin |  (1947-09-28)28 September 1947 (aged 24)  | 5  | 1  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 3MF | Volodymyr Veremeyev |  (1948-11-08)8 November 1948 (aged 23)  | 4  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 3MF | Manuchar Machaidze |  (1949-03-25)25 March 1949 (aged 23)  | 2  | 1  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 3MF | Leonid Buryak |  (1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 18)  | 1  | 0  |  Chernomorets Odessa
| 3MF | Khasan Mirikov |  (1950-06-03)3 June 1950 (aged 21)  | 1  | 0  |  Neftianik Baku
| 3MF | Arkady Andreasyan |  (1947-08-11)11 August 1947 (aged 24)  | 5  | 3  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 3MF | Oganes Zanazanyan |  (1946-12-10)10 December 1946 (aged 25)  | 6  | 3  |  Ararat Yerevan

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| 4FW | Vladimir Goncharov |  (1946-11-21)21 November 1946 (aged 25)  | 1  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 4FW | Gennadiy Shalimov |  (1947-11-29)29 November 1947 (aged 24)  | 2  | 1  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Eduard Kozynkevych |  (1949-05-23)23 May 1949 (aged 23)  | 4  | 3  |  Karpaty Lvov
| 4FW | Yuri Avrutskiy |  (1944-05-10)10 May 1944 (aged 28)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 4FW | Boris Kopeykin |  (1946-03-27)27 March 1946 (aged 26)  | 2  | 1  |  CSKA Moscow
| 4FW | Bohdan Hreshchak |  (1949-03-31)31 March 1949 (aged 23)  | 3  | 1  |  Karpaty Lvov
| 4FW | Levon Ishtoyan |  (1947-09-03)3 September 1947 (aged 24)  | 1  | 1  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 4FW | Anatoliy Vasilyev |  (1944-08-25)25 August 1944 (aged 27)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 4FW | Givi Nodia |  (1948-01-02)2 January 1948 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Vladimir Gutsaev |  (1952-12-21)21 December 1952 (aged 19)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 4FW | Oleh Blokhin |  (1952-11-05)5 November 1952 (aged 19)  | 1  | 2  |  Dinamo Kiev

Notes:

* Age on 31 May 1972.

## 1976 Olympics

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### Qualification

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

#### Preliminary stage

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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)

#### Group 1

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Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification  |  | URS  |  NOR |  ISL

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1  |  Soviet Union | 4  | 4  | 0  | 0  | 10  | 1  | +9  | 8  | 1976 Summer Olympics finals  |  | -- | 4–0  | 1–0
2  |  Norway | 4  | 1  | 1  | 2  | 5  | 10  | −5  | 3  |  |  | 1–3  | -- | 3–2
3  |  Iceland | 4  | 0  | 1  | 3  | 3  | 7  | −4  | 1  |  | 0–2  | 1–1  | --

Source: [ FIFA]

30 July 1975

Iceland | 0–2|  Soviet Union

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| Report | Minayev 53', 76'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 9,666

Referee: John Gordon (Scotland)

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28 August 1975

Norway | 1–3|  Soviet Union

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* Skuseth 14'

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* Sakharov 7', 52'
* Fyodorov 8'

Ullevaal, Oslo

Attendance: 15,790

Referee: Georg Krutelew (Finland)

* * *

10 September 1975

Soviet Union | 1–0|  Iceland

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* Minayev 40'

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Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: László Hámori (Hungary)

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24 November 1975

Soviet Union | 4–0|  Norway

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* Sakharov 67'
* Kipiani 76', 86'
* Minayev 79'

| Report |

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 9,137[1]

Referee: Marian Kustoń (Poland)

#### Roster

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

* Head coach: Konstantin Beskov

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

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| 1GK | Aleksandr Prokhorov |  (1946-06-18)18 June 1946 (aged 29)  | 5  | –2  |  Spartak Moscow
| 1GK | Vladimir Astapovsky |  (1946-07-16)16 July 1946 (aged 29)  | 1  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow

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| 2DF | Nikolai Khudiyev |  (1949-05-15)15 May 1949 (aged 26)  | 1  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow
| 2DF | Sergei Olshansky |  (1948-05-28)28 May 1948 (aged 27)  | 2  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Nikolai Osyanin |  (1941-12-12)12 December 1941 (aged 34)  | 5  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Evgeny Lovchev |  (1949-01-29)29 January 1949 (aged 26)  | 6  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Valentin Utkin |  (1947-03-02)2 March 1947 (aged 28)  | 4  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow
| 2DF | Sergei Nikulin |  (1951-01-01)1 January 1951 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Moscow
| 2DF | Yuri Saukh |  (1951-09-14)14 September 1951 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  SKA Rostov-on-Don
| 2DF | Volodymyr Troshkin |  (1947-09-28)28 September 1947 (aged 28)  | 4  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev
| 2DF | Viktor Zvyahintsev |  (1950-10-22)22 October 1950 (aged 25)  | 4  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev

* * *

| 3MF | Viktor Papayev |  (1947-03-02)2 March 1947 (aged 28)  | 1  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 3MF | Mikhail Bulgakov |  (1951-10-12)12 October 1951 (aged 24)  | 2  | 1  |  Spartak Moscow
| 3MF | Manuchar Machaidze |  (1949-03-25)25 March 1949 (aged 26)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 3MF | Aleksandr Maksimenkov |  (1952-08-17)17 August 1952 (aged 23)  | 6  | 0  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 3MF | Valeri Gladilin |  (1951-10-19)19 October 1951 (aged 24)  | 3  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 3MF | Valeri Filatov |  (1950-11-18)18 November 1950 (aged 25)  | 2  | 0  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 3MF | David Kipiani |  (1951-11-18)18 November 1951 (aged 24)  | 2  | 2  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 3MF | Aleksandr Minayev |  (1954-08-11)11 August 1954 (aged 21)  | 6  | 4  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 3MF | Leonid Buryak |  (1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 22)  | 3  | 2  |  Dynamo Kyiv

* * *

| 4FW | Vadim Nikonov |  (1948-08-09)9 August 1948 (aged 27)  | 1  | 0  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Vasilis Hatzipanagis |  (1954-10-26)26 October 1954 (aged 21)  | 4  | 1  |  Pakhtakor Tashkent
| 4FW | Vladimir Sakharov |  (1948-02-05)5 February 1948 (aged 27)  | 3  | 3  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Vladimir Fyodorov |  (1955-01-05)5 January 1955 (aged 20)  | 3  | 1  |  Pakhtakor Tashkent

Notes:

* Age on 31 December 1975.

## 1980 Olympics

[edit]

### Qualification

[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

### Final tournament

[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

#### First round

[edit]

Group A

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

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Soviet Union | 3  | 3  | 0  | 0  | 15  | 1  | +14  | 6
Cuba | 3  | 2  | 0  | 1  | 3  | 9  | −6  | 4
Venezuela | 3  | 1  | 0  | 2  | 3  | 7  | −4  | 2
Zambia | 3  | 0  | 0  | 3  | 2  | 6  | −4  | 0

Source: FIFA

20 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union | 4–0|  Venezuela

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Andreyev 3'
Cherenkov 25'
Gavrilov 34'
Hovhannisyan 51' | Report |

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)

* * *

22 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union | 3–1|  Zambia

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Khidiyatullin 9', 51'
Cherenkov 87' | Report | Chitalu 13'

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Marwan Arafat (Syria)

* * *

24 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union | 8–0|  Cuba

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Andreyev 8', 27', 44'
Romantsev 20'
Shavlo 43'
Cherenkov 55'
Gavrilov 75'
Bessonov 77' | Report |

Tsentralnyi Dinamo, Moscow

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)

#### Quarter-finals

[edit]

27 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union | 2–1|  Kuwait

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Cherenkov 30'
Gavrilov 51' | Report | Yaqoub 59'

Tsentralnyi Dinamo, Moscow

Attendance: 48,000

Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)

#### Semi-finals

[edit]

29 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union | 0–1|  East Germany

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| Report | Netz 16'

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 95,000

Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

#### Bronze Medal match

[edit]

1 August 1980
12:00

Soviet Union | 2–0|  Yugoslavia

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Hovhannisyan 67'
Andreyev 82' | Report |

Tsentralnyi Dinamo, Moscow

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)

#### Roster

[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Head coach: Konstantin Beskov

No.  | Pos.  | Player  | DoB  | Age  | Caps  | Club  | Tournament
games | Tournament
goals | Minutes
played | Sub off | Sub on | Cards
yellow/red

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1 | GK | Rinat Dasaev | 13 June 1957 | 22 | 7 |  Spartak Moscow | 6 | 0 | 514 | 1 | 0 | 0
2 | DF | Tengiz Sulakvelidze | 27 July 1956 | 23 | 4 |  Dynamo Tbilisi | 6 | 0 | 540 | 0 | 0 | 1Y
3 | DF | Aleksandr Chivadze | 8 April 1955 | 25 | 4 |  Dynamo Tbilisi | 6 | 0 | 540 | 0 | 0 | 1Y
4 | DF | Vagiz Khidiyatullin | 3 March 1959 | 21 | 21 |  Spartak Moscow | 6 | 0 | 540 | 0 | 0 | 0
5 | DF | Oleg Romantsev | 4 January 1954 | 26 | 5 |  Spartak Moscow | 6 | 1 | 540 | 0 | 0 | 2Y
6 | MD | Sergei Shavlo | 4 September 1956 | 23 | 10 |  Spartak Moscow | 5 | 1 | 450 | 0 | 0 | 0
7 | MD | Sergei Andreev | 17 May 1956 | 24 | 7 |  SKA Rostov-on-Don | 6 | 5 | 540 | 0 | 0 | 0
8 | MD | Volodymyr Bezsonov | 5 March 1958 | 22 | 24 |  Dynamo Kiev | 6 | 1 | 540 | 0 | 0 | 0
9 | FW | Yuri Gavrilov | 3 May 1953 | 27 | 15 |  Spartak Moscow | 5 | 3 | 387 | 2 | 0 | 0
10 | FW | Fedor Cherenkov | 25 July 1959 | 20 | 6 |  Spartak Moscow | 6 | 4 | 432 | 2 | 1 | 0
11 | FW | Valery Gazzaev | 8 August 1954 | 25 | 7 |  Dynamo Moscow | 6 | 0 | 372 | 2 | 1 | 0
12 | GK | Vladimir Pilguy | 26 January 1948 | 32 | 12 |  Dynamo Moscow | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0
13 | DF | Sergei Baltacha | 3 March 1958 | 22 | 1 |  Dynamo Kiev | 2 | 0 | 108 | 0 | 1 | 0
14 | DF | Sergei Nikulin | 1 January 1951 | 29 | 3 |  Dynamo Moscow | 1 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 0
15 | MD | Khoren Hovhannisyan | 10 January 1955 | 25 | 7 |  Ararat Yerevan | 3 | 2 | 143 | 0 | 3 | 0
16 | MD | Aleksandr Prokopenko | 16 November 1953 | 26 | 1 |  Dinamo Minsk | 2 | 0 | 117 | 0 | 1 | 0
17 | FW | Revaz Chelebadze | 2 October 1955 | 24 | 7 |  Dynamo Tbilisi | 2 | 0 | 108 | 2 | 0 | 0

## 1984 Olympics

[edit]

### Qualification

[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

#### Group 1

[edit]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification  |  | URS  | HUN  | BUL  | GRE  | TUR

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1  |  Soviet Union | 6  | 3  | 2  | 1  | 9  | 4  | +5  | 8  | withdrew from final tournament  |  | -- | 0–1  | 0–0  | 3–0  | --
2  |  Hungary | 6  | 3  | 2  | 1  | 8  | 5  | +3  | 8  |  |  | 0–1  | -- | 1–1  | 3–1  | --
3  |  Bulgaria | 6  | 1  | 5  | 0  | 7  | 5  | +2  | 7  |  | 2–2  | 1–1  | -- | 0–0  | --
4  |  Greece | 6  | 0  | 1  | 5  | 4  | 14  | −10  | 1  |  | 1–3  | 1–2  | 1–3  | -- | --
5  |  Turkey | 0  | —  | —  | —  | —  | —  | -- | 0  | withdrew  |  | -- | -- | -- | -- | --

Source: [ FIFA]

18 May 1983

Bulgaria | 2–2|  Soviet Union

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* Yordanov 53'
* Valchev 66'

| Report |

* Gazzayev 16', 82'

9ti Semptevri, Plovdiv

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Paolo Bergamo (Italy)

* * *

26 May 1983[2]

Soviet Union | 3–0|  Greece

|
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* Grachev 9'
* Aleynikov 29'
* Larionov 9'

| [ Report] |

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 21,600

Referee: Osmo Orankangas (Finland)

* * *

7 September 1983

Hungary | 0–1|  Soviet Union

|
|

| [ Report] |

* Cherenkov 89'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 34,000

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

* * *

5 October 1983

Greece | 1–3|  Soviet Union

|
|

* Mitsibonas 74'

| [ Report] |

* Kuznetsov 29'
* Cherenkov 84'
* Klementyev 90'

Olympiakó, Athens

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

* * *

12 October 1983

Soviet Union | 0–0|  Bulgaria

|
|

| [ Report] |

Tsentralnyi Dynamo, Moscow

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Volker Roth (West Germany)

* * *

25 April 1984

Soviet Union | 0–1|  Hungary

|
|

| [ Report] |

* Mészáros 76'

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

#### Roster

[edit]

* Head coach: Eduard Malofeyev (first 2 games in May of 1983 Vladimir Salkov)

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

|
|
|
|
|
|

| 1GK | Vyacheslav Chanov |  (1951-10-23)23 October 1951 (aged 32)  | 5  | –3  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 1GK | Valeri Novikov |  (1957-11-01)1 November 1957 (aged 26)  | 1  | –1  |  CSKA Moscow

* * *

| 2DF | Viktor Yanushevsky |  (1960-01-23)23 January 1960 (aged 24)  | 4  | 0  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 2DF | Vasili Zhupikov |  (1954-01-16)16 January 1954 (aged 30)  | 4  | 0  |  FC Torpedo Moscow
| 2DF | Viktor Shishkin |  (1955-02-08)8 February 1955 (aged 29)  | 4  | 0  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 2DF | Yevgeny Mileshkin |  (1960-09-03)3 September 1960 (aged 23)  | 3  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow → Dynamo Moscow
| 2DF | Boris Pozdnyakov |  (1962-05-31)31 May 1962 (aged 22)  | 3  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Mustafa Belyalov |  (1957-06-04)4 June 1957 (aged 26)  | 2  | 0  |  Pakhtakor Tashkent
| 2DF | Oleksandr Sorokalet |  (1957-04-16)16 April 1957 (aged 27)  | 2  | 0  |  Dinamo Kiev → Zorya Voroshilovgrad
| 2DF | Sergei Vedeneyev |  (1957-08-05)5 August 1957 (aged 26)  | 1  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 2DF | Sashik Keropyan |  (1956-05-26)26 May 1956 (aged 28)  | 1  | 0  |  Ararat Yerevan
| 2DF | Viktor Kaplun |  (1958-05-05)5 May 1958 (aged 26)  | 1  | 0  |  Metalist Kharkiv
| 2DF | Nikolay Larionov |  (1957-01-19)19 January 1957 (aged 27)  | 1  | 1  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 2DF | Valdas Kasparavičius |  (1958-01-17)17 January 1958 (aged 26)  | 1  | 0  |  Žalgiris Vilnius
| 2DF | Andrei Zygmantovich |  (1962-12-02)2 December 1962 (aged 21)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 2DF | Yuri Pudyshev |  (1954-04-03)3 April 1954 (aged 30)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Minsk

* * *

| 3MF | Sergey Gotsmanov |  (1959-03-27)27 March 1959 (aged 25)  | 6  | 0  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 3MF | Sergei Aleinikov |  (1961-11-07)7 November 1961 (aged 22)  | 4  | 1  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 3MF | Fyodor Cherenkov |  (1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 24)  | 4  | 2  |  Spartak Moscow
| 3MF | Vyacheslav Melnikov |  (1954-03-07)7 March 1954 (aged 30)  | 3  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 3MF | Yevgeni Kuznetsov |  (1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 30)  | 3  | 1  |  Spartak Moscow
| 3MF | Viktor Kuznetsov [ru] |  (1961-01-08)8 January 1961 (aged 23)  | 2  | 0  |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
| 3MF | Hennadiy Lytovchenko |  (1963-09-11)11 September 1963 (aged 20)  | 2  | 0  |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
| 3MF | Yuri Zheludkov |  (1959-03-08)8 March 1959 (aged 25)  | 1  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad

* * *

| 4FW | Viktor Hrachov |  (1956-09-17)17 September 1956 (aged 27)  | 6  | 1  |  Shakhtar Donetsk
| 4FW | Valery Gazzaev |  (1954-08-07)7 August 1954 (aged 29)  | 5  | 2  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 4FW | Igor Belanov |  (1960-09-25)25 September 1960 (aged 23)  | 2  | 0  |  Chornomorets Odesa
| 4FW | Vladimir Klementyev |  (1956-01-04)4 January 1956 (aged 28)  | 2  | 1  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 4FW | Ihar Hurynovich |  (1960-03-05)5 March 1960 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Dinamo Minsk
| 4FW | Sergei Stukashov |  (1959-11-12)12 November 1959 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Kairat Almaty

Notes:

* Age on 31 May 1984.

## 1988 Olympics

[edit]

### Qualification

[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

#### Group D

[edit]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification  |  | URS  | BUL  | SUI  | NOR  | TUR

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1  |  Soviet Union | 8  | 6  | 2  | 0  | 12  | 2  | +10  | 14  | 1988 Summer Olympics finals  |  | -- | 2–0  | 0–0  | 1–0  | 2–0
2  |  Bulgaria | 8  | 4  | 2  | 2  | 13  | 5  | +8  | 10  |  |  | 0–1  | -- | 2–0  | 4–0  | 3–1
3  |  Switzerland | 8  | 2  | 3  | 3  | 8  | 10  | −2  | 7  |  | 2–4  | 1–1  | -- | 1–0  | 2–0
4  |  Norway | 8  | 0  | 5  | 3  | 1  | 7  | −6  | 5  |  | 0–0  | 0–0  | 0–0  | -- | 1–1
5  |  Turkey | 8  | 1  | 2  | 5  | 5  | 15  | −10  | 4  |  | 0–2  | 0–3  | 3–2  | 0–0  | --

Source: [ FIFA]

14 October 1986

Norway | 0–0|  Soviet Union

|
|

| [ Report] |

Ullevaal, Oslo

Attendance: 7,500

Referee: John Kinsella (Ireland)

* * *

15 April 1987 (1987-04-15)

Turkey | 0–2|  Soviet Union

|
|

| [ Report] |

* Lyutyi 23'
* Dobrovolski 70'

Alsancak Mustafa Denizli, Turkezmir

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

* * *

7 May 1987 (1987-05-07)

Bulgaria | 0–1|  Soviet Union

|
|

| [ Report] |

* Mykhailychenko 63'

Natsionalen Vasil Levski, Sofia

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)

* * *

12 August 1987 (1987-08-12)

Soviet Union | 1–0|  Norway

|
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* Lyutyi 48'

| Report |

Tsentralnyi Dynamo, Moscow

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Rune Larsson (Sweden)

* * *

28 October 1987 (1987-10-28)

Switzerland | 2–4|  Soviet Union

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* Türkyilmaz 16'
* Kundert 55'

| [ Report] |

* Lyutyi 36'
* Dobrovolski 65' (pen.)
* Baranauskas 79', 83'

Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Joe Worrall (England)

* * *

6 April 1988 (1988-04-06)

Soviet Union | 2–0|  Turkey

|
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* Savichev 36'
* Borodyuk 86'

| [ Report] |

Lokomotiv, Simferopol

Attendance: 23,650

Referee: Timo Keltanen (Finland)

* * *

27 April 1988 (1988-04-27)

Soviet Union | 2–0|  Bulgaria

|
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* Mykhailychenko 41'
* Kuznetsov 72'

| [ Report] |

Lokomotiv, Simferopol

Attendance: 23,600

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

* * *

10 May 1988 (1988-05-10)

Soviet Union | 0–0|  Switzerland

|
|

| [ Report] |

Tsentralnyi Dynamo, Moscow

Attendance: 10,500

Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)

### Final tournament

[edit]

#### Group stage

[edit]

Group C

Main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Group C

Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

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

|
|
|
|
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|
|

1  |  Soviet Union | 3  | 2  | 1  | 0  | 6  | 3  | +3  | 5
2  |  Argentina | 3  | 1  | 1  | 1  | 4  | 4  | 0  | 3
3  |  South Korea (H) | 3  | 0  | 2  | 1  | 1  | 2  | −1  | 2
4  |  United States | 3  | 0  | 2  | 1  | 3  | 5  | −2  | 2

Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts

18 September 1988

South Korea | 0–0|  Soviet Union

|
|

| Report |

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

* * *

20 September 1988

Argentina | 1–2|  Soviet Union

|
|

Alfaro 77' | Report | Dobrovolski 7'
Mikhailichenko 22'

Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)

* * *

22 September 1988

United States | 2–4|  Soviet Union

|
|

Goulet 65'
Doyle 85' | Report | Mikhailichenko 7', 48'
Narbekovas 19'
Dobrovolski 45'

Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)

#### Quarter-finals

[edit]

25 September 1988

Soviet Union | 3–0|  Australia

|
|

Dobrovolski 50', 54'
Mikhailichenko 62' | Report |

* Mitchell 70'

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (URU)

#### Semi-finals

[edit]

27 September 1988

Soviet Union | 3–2 (a.e.t.)|  Italy

|
|

Dobrovolski 78'
Narbekovas 92'
Mikhailichenko 106' | Report | Virdis 50'
Ferrara 94' 96'
Carnevale 118'

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Jamal Al Sharif (SYR)

### Gold medal match

[edit]

1988 Summer Olympics Football Final

1 October 1988

Soviet Union | 2–1 (a.e.t.)|  Brazil

|
|

Dobrovolski 61' (pen.)
Savichev 103'
Tatarchuk 78' 110' | Report | Romário 30'
Edmar 112'

Olympic Stadium, Seoul

Attendance: 74,000

Referee: Gérard Biguet (FRA)

### Roster

[edit]

Further information: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

* Head coach: Anatoliy Byshovets, assistants: Vladimir Salkov, Gadzhi Gadzhiyev

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

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1  | 1GK | Dmitry Kharin |  (1968-08-16)16 August 1968 (aged 20)  | 14  | –8  |  Torpedo Moscow → Dynamo Moscow
16  | 1GK | Aleksei Prudnikov |  (1960-03-20)20 March 1960 (aged 28)  | 0  | 0  |  Dynamo Moscow → Torpedo Moscow

* * *

2  | 2DF | Gela Ketashvili |  (1965-09-27)27 September 1965 (aged 22)  | 11  | 0  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
3  | 2DF | Igor Sklyarov |  (1966-08-31)31 August 1966 (aged 22)  | 9  | 0  |  SKA Rostov-na-Donu → Dynamo Moscow
4  | 2DF | Oleksiy Cherednyk |  (1960-09-15)15 September 1960 (aged 27)  | 8  | 0  |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
5  | 2DF | Arvydas Janonis |  (1960-11-06)6 November 1960 (aged 27)  | 2  | 0  |  Žalgiris Vilnius
12  | 2DF | Evgeniy Yarovenko |  (1962-08-17)17 August 1962 (aged 26)  | 9  | 0  |  Kairat Alma-Ata
13  | 2DF | Sergei Fokin |  (1961-07-26)26 July 1961 (aged 27)  | 4  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow
17  | 2DF | Viktor Losev |  (1959-01-25)25 January 1959 (aged 29)  | 12  | 0  |  Dynamo Moscow
18  | 2DF | Sergei Gorlukovich |  (1961-11-18)18 November 1961 (aged 26)  | 9  | 0  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 2DF | Valeri Panchik |  (1963-07-10)10 July 1963 (aged 25)  | 1  | 0  |  Neftchi Baku
| 2DF | Arkadiy Afanasyev |  (1959-03-20)20 March 1959 (aged 29)  | 1  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 2DF | Dmitri Kuznetsov |  (1965-08-28)28 August 1965 (aged 23)  | 1  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow

* * *

6  | 3MF | Vadym Tyshchenko |  (1963-03-24)24 March 1963 (aged 25)  | 4  | 0  |  SKA Karpaty Lviv → Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
7  | 3MF | Yevgeni Kuznetsov |  (1961-08-30)30 August 1961 (aged 27)  | 11  | 1  |  Spartak Moscow
8  | 3MF | Igor Ponomaryov |  (1960-02-24)24 February 1960 (aged 28)  | 1  | 0  |  Neftchi Baku
10  | 3MF | Igor Dobrovolski |  (1967-08-27)27 August 1967 (aged 21)  | 14  | 8  |  Dynamo Moscow
15  | 3MF | Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko |  (1963-03-30)30 March 1963 (aged 25)  | 14  | 7  |  Dynamo Kyiv
20  | 3MF | Arminas Narbekovas |  (1965-11-28)28 November 1965 (aged 22)  | 7  | 2  |  Žalgiris Vilnius
| 3MF | Aleksandr Vorobyov |  (1962-03-28)28 March 1962 (aged 26)  | 1  | 0  |  SKA Rostov-na-Donu
| 3MF | Valeri Broshin |  (1962-10-19)19 October 1962 (aged 25)  | 2  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow
| 3MF | Valdas Ivanauskas |  (1966-07-31)31 July 1966 (aged 22)  | 3  | 0  |  Žalgiris Vilnius

* * *

9  | 4FW | Aleksandr Borodyuk |  (1962-11-30)30 November 1962 (aged 25)  | 6  | 1  |  Dynamo Moscow
11  | 4FW | Volodymyr Lyutyi |  (1962-04-20)20 April 1962 (aged 26)  | 12  | 3  |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
14  | 4FW | Vladimir Tatarchuk |  (1966-04-25)25 April 1966 (aged 22)  | 10  | 0  |  CSKA Moscow
19  | 4FW | Yuri Savichev |  (1965-02-13)13 February 1965 (aged 23)  | 9  | 2  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Oleg Morozov |  (1961-10-13)13 October 1961 (aged 26)  | 1  | 0  |  Chornomorets Odesa → Dynamo Kyiv
| 4FW | Sergey Dmitriyev |  (1964-03-19)19 March 1964 (aged 24)  | 1  | 0  |  Zenit Leningrad
| 4FW | Nikolai Savichev |  (1965-02-13)13 February 1965 (aged 23)  | 1  | 0  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Stasys Baranauskas |  (1962-05-07)7 May 1962 (aged 26)  | 2  | 2  |  Žalgiris Vilnius

Notes:

* Age on 31 August 1988.

## Summer Olympics record

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Source:[3][4]

Gold medalists Silver medalists Bronze medalists

Summer Olympics |  | Qualification

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Year  | Host  | Round  | Pld | W | D | L | F | A | Squad  | Pos. | Pld | W | D | L | F | A
1952 |  Finland | See Soviet Union national football team | See Soviet Union national football team
1956 |  Australia
1960 |  Italy | Did not qualify | 2nd | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2
1964 |  Japan | R2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 6
1968 |  Mexico | See Soviet Union national football team | See Soviet Union national football team
1972 |  West Germany | 1st | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2
1976 |  Canada | 1st | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2
1980 |  Soviet Union | Bronze medal | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | Squad | Qualified as hosts
1984 |  United States | Withdrew | 1st | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4
1988 |  South Korea | Gold medal | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | Squad | 1st | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2
Total  | Gold medal | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 9  | —  | 5/7 | 33 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 65 | 18

## Venues

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Venue  | City  |  | Played  | Won  | Drawn  | Lost  | GF  | GA  | Points per game

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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

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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  | 1972
Konstantin Beskov |  | 1975  | 6  | 5  | 1  | 0  | 14  | 2  | 83.33  | 1976  | 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 nations qualify for the Olympics via continental under-21 tournaments.

## See also

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* 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

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1. ^ Report in the Norway Arbeiderbladet of 25 November 1975, page 15 (digitized newspaper). www.nb.no.
2. ^ Match preview flyer. wildstat.ru
3. ^ Olympic tournaments
4. ^ Soviet Union Olympic team

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