Soviet Union Olympic football team

The Soviet Union Olympic football team was the national Olympic football team of the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1990. 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).

Soviet Union Olympic team
Nickname(s)The Olympic Assembled (Olimpiyskaya sbornaya) (Олимпийская сборная)
AssociationFootball Federation of the Soviet Union
Most capsIgor Dobrovolski, Yevgeni Kuznetsov, Alexei Mikhailichenko, Dmitri Kharine, Volodymyr Troshkin (14)
Top scorerIgor Dobrovolski (8)
FIFA codeURS
First colours
Second colours
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
Appearances6 (first in 1952)
Best resultGold Medal, 1956, 1988
Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
Bronze medal – third place1980 MoscowTeam
Gold medal – first place1988 SeoulTeam

History

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

3rd Group
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Bulgaria 421143+15
 Soviet Union 412132+14
 Romania 411224-23

Games
Soviet Union 1 – 1 Bulgaria
Korolenkov 68' Report Milanov 26'
Attendance: 102,000
Referee: Bengt Lundell (Sweden)
Soviet Union 2 – 0 Romania
Urin 10'
Metreveli 61'		 Report
Attendance: 102,000
Referee: Erio Pattiniemi (Finland)

Roster
No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
1GK Boris Razinsky (1933-07-12)12 July 1933 (aged 26) 4 Soviet Union CSK MO Moscow
2DF Dmitriy Bagrich (1936-03-26)26 March 1936 (aged 23) 4 Soviet Union CSK MO Moscow
2DF Anatoliy Soldatov (1931-07-11)11 July 1931 (aged 28) 3 Soviet Union Spartak Moscow
2DF Mikhail Yermolayev (1935-11-04)4 November 1935 (aged 24) 3 Soviet Union CSK MO Moscow
2DF Nikolai Linyaev (1933-07-17)17 July 1933 (aged 26) 3 Soviet Union CSK MO Moscow
2DF Anatoly Krutikov (1933-09-21)21 September 1933 (aged 26) 1 Soviet Union Spartak Moscow
2DF Ivan Morgunov (1929-01-01)1 January 1929 (aged 30) 1 Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow
3MF Stanislav Zavidnov (1934-10-14)14 October 1934 (aged 25) 3 Soviet Union Zenit Leningrad
3MF Yury Kovalyov (1934-02-06)6 February 1934 (aged 25) 3 Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow
3MF Boris Batanov (1934-07-15)15 July 1934 (aged 25) 2 Soviet Union Zenit Leningrad
3MF Valery Korolenkov (1939-03-17)17 March 1939 (aged 20) 2 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
3MF Aleksandr Sokolov (1930-02-26)26 February 1930 (aged 29) 1 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
3MF Shota Yamanidze (1937-03-15)15 March 1937 (aged 22) 1 Soviet Union Dinamo Tbilisi
4FW Slava Metreveli (1936-03-30)30 March 1936 (aged 23) 4 Soviet Union Torpedo Moscow
4FW Zaur Kaloyev (1931-03-24)24 March 1931 (aged 28) 3 Soviet Union Dinamo Tbilisi
4FW Valeri Urin (1934-08-10)10 August 1934 (aged 25) 2 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
4FW Avtandil Gogoberidze (1922-08-03)3 August 1922 (aged 37) 1 Soviet Union Dinamo Tbilisi
4FW Igor Zaitsev (1934-04-21)21 April 1934 (aged 25) 1 Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow
4FW Viktor Voroshilov (1926-08-15)15 August 1926 (aged 33) 1 Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow
4FW Viktor Sokolov (1936-09-28)28 September 1936 (aged 23) 1 Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow

Notes:

  • Age on 12 December 1959.

Summer Olympics record

Note:[1]

Host Nation(s) - Year Result GP W D* L GS GA
Finland 1952Round 1311189
Australia 1956Champion541092
Italy 1960did not qualify
Japan 1964
Mexico 1968
West Germany 19723rd place7520176
Canada 19763rd place5401104
Soviet Union 19803rd place6501193
United States 1984Boycotted
South Korea 1988Champion6510146
Spain 1992did not qualify (the first age-restricted tournament)
Total 6/203224537730

Venues
Venue City Played Won Drawn Lost GF GA Points per game
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
Totals1956-199129216274132.38

Soviet managers

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
Boris Arkadiev Soviet Union 1959 4 1 2 1 3 2 25 1960
Vyacheslav Solovyov Soviet Union 1963-1964 5 2 2 1 14 6 40 1964
Aleksandr Ponomarev Soviet Union 1971 5 4 1 0 14 1 80 1972
Konstantin Beskov Soviet Union 1975 6 5 1 0 14 2 83.33 1976
Konstantin Beskov Soviet Union 1980 6 5 0 1 19 3 83.33 1980
Vladimir Salkov Soviet Union 1983 2 1 1 0 5 2 50 1984
Eduard Malofeyev Soviet Union 1983-1984 4 2 1 1 4 2 50 1984 1984*
Anatoly Byshovets Soviet Union 1986-1988 14 11 3 0 26 8 78.57 1988 1988
Boris Ignatyev Soviet Union 1990-1991 6 2 3 1 6 4 33.33 1992

Notes:

See also

References
  1. Olympic tournaments
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