Soviet Union Olympic football team

Soviet Union Olympic team

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	The Olympic Assembled (Olimpiyskaya sbornaya) (Олимпийская сборная)
Association	Football Federation of USSR
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
First international
Bulgaria 1–1 Soviet Union (Moscow, USSR; 27 June 1959)
Summer Olympic Games
Appearances	6 (First in 1952)
Best result	Gold Medal, 1956, 1988

Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
	1980 Moscow	Team
	1988 Seoul	Team

The Soviet Union Olympic football team was the national football team of USSR from 1959 to 1990 in the Soviet Union. The team participated in most of qualification football tournaments for Summer Olympics. Until 1984 when age restriction was officially introduced, the Soviet Union was fielding its reserves in qualification tournaments, while in the finals participated the first team. Starting from 1990 in the Olympic competitions participated the Soviet Union national under-21 football team.

History

Officially the Olympic national team was found in 1959 after the FIFA adopted its decision in 1958 prohibiting participation in the Olympics players who also played in the World Cup finals. The Soviet Union did not participate in the World Cup until 1958 (see 1958 World Cup (qualifications)), instead it allowed its first team (base team) to compete at the Olympics (since 1952). Upon introducing the first team to the World Cup, the Olympic football team of USSR was created. Under 23 years old restriction was introduced for the 1992 Summer Olympics.

1960 Olympics

As the Olympic champions the team started out in the UEFA 3rd group along with football teams of Bulgaria and Romania (geographical principle of seeding). The Olympic team was created out of the players of immediate reserve to senior team. Out of all the players only the goalkeeper Boris Razinsky represented the team in Melbourne 1956. The coach of the team was appointed Boris Arkadyev who led the Soviet team in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, while in the couching council were included Mikhail Yakushin and Aleksandr Ponomarev.

The playing calendar was composed that the USSR team played all its games first, particularly all its home games.

Qualification

3rd Group

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
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

Soviet Union v Bulgaria

29 June 1959 ?:?

Soviet Union	1 – 1	Bulgaria
Korolenkov  68'	Report	Milanov  26'

Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 102,000 Referee: Bengt Lundell (Sweden)

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Soviet Union v Romania

19 July 1959 ?:?

Soviet Union	2 – 0	Romania
Urin  10' Metreveli  61'	Report

Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 102,000 Referee: Erio Pattiniemi (Finland)

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Roster

No. Pos. Player DoB/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 is based on December 12, 1959.

Olympic Record

Since 1992 the olympic roster may consist out of under-23 year old players, plus three over the age players.

Host Nation(s) - Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
before 1920	preceded with Russia
1920 - 1948	Did not enter
1952	Round 1	3	1	1	1	8	9
1956	Champion	5	4	1	0	9	2
1960	Did not qualify
1964
1968
1972	3rd place	7	5	2	0	17	6
1976	3rd place	5	4	0	1	10	4
1980	3rd place	6	5	0	1	19	3
1984	Boycotted	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	Champion	6	5	1	0	14	6
1992	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
after 1992	seceded to Russia
Total	6/20	32	24	5	3	77	30

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
Totals		1956-1991	29	21	6	2	74	13	2.38

Soviet managers

The list does not include games of the senior team such as participation at the early 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:

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

See also

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

External links

• URSS national football team website