Soviet Union Olympic football team

The Soviet Union Olympic football team was the national 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
1980 MoscowTeam
1988 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 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.

Olympic Record

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Host Nation(s) - Year Result GP W D* L GS GA
1952Round 1311189
1956Champion541092
1960Did not qualify
1964
1968
19723rd place7520176
19763rd place5401104
19803rd place6501193
1984Boycotted
1988Champion6510146
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 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
Boris Ignatyev 1990-1991 6 2 3 1 6 4 33.33 1992

Notes:

See also

References
  1. Olympic tournaments
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