Soviet Footballer of the Year

The award Soviet Footballer of the Year was awarded to the best footballer of the Soviet Union from 1964 until 1991. The poll was conducted among journalists by the weekly sport newspaper Football (Football-Hockey).[1] Each journalist named his own top three player every year. Each place carried a point weight such as 1st place was worth 3 pts., 2nd - 2, and 3rd - 1.

The idea for the award appeared right after Lev Yashin has received Ballon d'Or award in 1963. The honours were awarded along with several other prizes and awards at the end of the competition season. For goalkeepers being not limited from the Soviet Footballer of the Year, also were awarded separate honours the "Best Goalkeeper of the Year". The best goal-scorer of the Soviet Top League was awarded with the "Best Topscorer of the Year". Before becoming an official award before 1964, in 1950s Moskovskij Komsomolets and Komsomolskaya Pravda were conducting own polls to honour the best footballer of the country.

List of winners
0Year00Place00Player00Club00Points00Notes0
1964 01st0Valery Voronin00Torpedo Moscow0
186
02nd0Valentin Ivanov00Torpedo Moscow0
85
03rd0Slava Metreveli00Dinamo Tbilisi
80
1965 01st0Valery Voronin00Torpedo Moscow0
?
0Only the winners were announced; it was later established that0
0Streltsov finished 2nd.0
02nd0Eduard Streltsov00Torpedo Moscow0
?
1966 01st0Andriy Biba00Dynamo Kyiv0
94
0Yashin and Shesternev obtained an equal number points,0
0but Yashin was ranked higher for having more 1st place votes.0
02nd0Lev Yashin00Dynamo Moscow 0
75
03rd0Albert Shesternev00CSKA Moscow
75
1967 01st0Eduard Streltsov00Torpedo Moscow0
155
02nd0Murtaz Khurtsilava00Dinamo Tbilisi 0
84
03rd0Anatoliy Byshovets00Dynamo Kyiv 0
31
1968 01st0Eduard Streltsov00Torpedo Moscow0
206
02nd0Murtaz Khurtsilava00Dinamo Tbilisi 0
107
03rd0Albert Shesternev00CSKA Moscow 0
41
1969 01st0Vladimir Muntyan00Dynamo Kyiv0
223
02nd0Anzor Kavazashvili00Spartak Moscow 0
170
03rd0Albert Shesternev00CSKA Moscow 0
76
1970 01st0Albert Shesternyov00CSKA Moscow0
298
02nd0Vladimir Fedotov00CSKA Moscow 0
159
03rd0Viktor Bannikov00Dynamo Kyiv 0
73
1971 01st0Evhen Rudakov00Dynamo Kyiv0
298
02nd0Viktor Kolotov00Dynamo Kyiv 0
200
03rd0Eduard Markarov00Ararat Yerevan 0
61
1972 01st0Yevgeny Lovchev00Spartak Moscow0
188
02nd0Evhen Rudakov00Dynamo Kyiv 0
156
03rd0Murtaz Khurtsilava00Dinamo Tbilisi 0
140
1973 01st0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
207
02nd0Arkady Andriasyan00Ararat Yerevan0
156
03rd0Vladimir Pilguy00Dynamo Moscow0
82
1974 01st0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
236
02nd0Vladimir Veremeev00Dynamo Kyiv0
62
03rd0Aleksandr Prokhorov00Spartak Moscow0
60
1975 01st0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
362
02nd0Vladimir Veremeev00Dynamo Kyiv0
108
03rd0Yevgeni Lovchev00Spartak Moscow0
99
1976 01st0Vladimir Astapovskiy00CSKA Moscow0
256
02nd0David Kipiani00Dinamo Tbilisi0
136
03rd0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
116
1977 01st0David Kipiani00Dinamo Tbilisi0
323
02nd0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
198
03rd0Yuriy Dehteryov00Shakhter Donetsk0
171
1978 01st0Ramaz Shengelia00Dinamo Tbilisi0
235
02nd0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
156
03rd0Georgi Yartsev00Spartak Moscow0
135
1979 01st0Vitali Starukhin00Shakhter Donetsk0
248
02nd0Vagiz Khidiyatullin00Spartak Moscow0
175
03rd0Yuri Gavrilov00Spartak Moscow0
172
1980 01st0Aleksandr Chivadze00Dinamo Tbilisi0
259
02nd0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
187
03rd0Vagiz Khidiyatullin00Spartak Moscow0
103
1981 01st0Ramaz Shengelia00Dinamo Tbilisi0
360
02nd0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
217
03rd0Leonid Buryak00Dynamo Kyiv0
112
1982 01st0Rinat Dasaev00Spartak Moscow0
400
02nd0Anatoliy Demyanenko00Dynamo Kyiv0
120
03rd0Andrei Yakubik00Pakhtakor Tashkent0
117
1983 01st0Fyodor Cherenkov00Spartak Moscow0
442
02nd0Rinat Dasaev00Spartak Moscow0
181
03rd0Aleksandr Chivadze00Dinamo Tbilisi0
91
1984 01st0Hennadiy Litovchenko00Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk0
397
02nd0Mikhail Biryukov00FC Zenit Leningrad0
222
03rd0Yuri Gavrilov00Spartak Moscow0
75
1985 01st0Anatoliy Demyanenko00Dynamo Kyiv0
409
02nd0Oleg Protasov00Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk0
393
03rd0Fyodor Cherenkov00Spartak Moscow0
306
1986 01st0Aleksandr Zavarov00Dynamo Kyiv0
357
0In 1986 Igor Belanov won the Ballon D’Or0
0but could not become the best player in USSR.0
02nd0Igor Belanov00Dynamo Kyiv0
313
03rd0Oleg Blokhin00Dynamo Kyiv0
81
1987 01st0Oleg Protasov00Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk0
256
02nd0Alexei Mikhailichenko00Dynamo Kyiv0
144
03rd0Rinat Dasaev00Spartak Moscow0
120
1988 01st0Alexei Mikhailichenko00Dynamo Kyiv0
482
02nd0Rinat Dasaev00Spartak Moscow0
109
03rd0Fyodor Cherenkov00Spartak Moscow0
81
1989 01st0Fyodor Cherenkov00Spartak Moscow0
345
02nd0Stanislav Cherchesov00Spartak Moscow0
172
03rd0Vladimir Bessonov00Dynamo Kyiv0
164
1990 01st0Igor Dobrovolski00Dynamo Moscow0
259
02nd0Sergei Yuran00Dynamo Kyiv0
115
03rd0Aleksandr Mostovoi00Spartak Moscow0
68
1991 01st0Igor Kolyvanov00Dynamo Moscow0
229
02nd0Aleksandr Mostovoi00Spartak Moscow0
153
03rd0Igor Korneev00CSKA Moscow0
148

Most wins by club
Club 0Winners0 0Winning years0
0Dynamo Kyiv
9
 01966, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1985, 1986, 19880
0Dynamo Tbilisi
4
 01977, 1978, 1980, 1981
0Spartak Moscow
4
 01972, 1982, 1983, 1989
0Torpedo Moscow
4
 01964, 1965, 1967, 1968
0CSKA Moscow
2
 01970, 1976
0Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk0
2
 01984, 1987
0FC Dynamo Moscow
2
 01990, 1991
0Shakhter Donetsk
1
 01979

Most wins by player
Name 0Wins0 0Winning years0
0Oleg Blokhin
3
 01973, 1974, 19750
0Fyodor Cherenkov0
2
 01983, 19890
0Ramaz Shengelia0
2
 01978, 19810
0Eduard Streltsov
2
 01967, 19680
0Valery Voronin
2
 01964, 19650

See also

After the Soviet Union dissolved most of the new independent countries created their own awards to the best footballer of the year. A few countries including Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania had been awarding their own awards even before the collapse of Soviet Union.

  • Armenian Footballer of the Year
  • Azerbaijani Footballer of the Year
  • Belarusian Footballer of the Year
  • Estonian Footballer of the Year
  • Georgian Footballer of the Year
  • Kazakhstani Footballer of the Year
  • Latvian Footballer of the Year
  • Lithuanian Footballer of the Year
  • Moldovan Footballer of the Year
  • Footballer of the Year in Russia (Futbol)
  • Footballer of the Year in Russia (Sport-Express)
  • Ukrainian Footballer of the Year
  • Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year
  • Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States

References
  1. "Statistics from RSSSF".
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