CIS national football team

This article is about the Commonwealth of Independent States soccer team. For the Canadian university Canadian football team, see Canadian Interuniversity Sport Football All-Canadian Team.

CIS

Association	Association Football Federation of CIS
Head coach	Anatoly Byshovets
Most caps	Dmitri Kharine (11)
Top scorer	Sergei Kiriakov (4)
Home stadium	Various
FIFA code	CIS
First colours Second colours
First international
United States 0–1 CIS (Miami, USA; 25 January 1992) Last international Scotland 3–0 CIS (Norrköping, Sweden; 18 June 1992)
European Championship
Appearances	1 (First in 1992)
Best result	Round 1, 1992

The CIS national football team was a provisional national team of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union in 1992. It was accepted that the team would represent the Commonwealth of Independent States. The CIS team was created as part of transformation that was planned to take place. As the USSR national team had already booked a spot in Euro 1992 through the 1991 qualification tournament, the only way to preserve the spot for the post-Soviet team was to take part in the competition as a unified team.

With the end of Euro 1992, the team was transformed into the Russia national football team.

Situation

Flag used by the CIS team at Euro 1992.

As the Soviet Union has formally ceased to exist on 1 January 1992, so did all its organizations including the football federation. The Association of Football Federations of CIS was formed on 11 January 1992 and was approved by FIFA two days later. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 was adopted as its anthem. Along with the Association, national federations of its members started to form and apply for international recognition.

The CIS national football team, previously known as the USSR national football team, completed its participation in the Euro 1992 in June 1992. It was disbanded soon thereafter and all its results were transferred to the Russia national football team that played its first game in August 1992.

The CIS national football team was coached by Anatoly Byshovets. The team failed to achieve success in the 1992 European Football Championship, finishing last in the group, but achieved two notable draws with Germany and the Netherlands, before being beaten 3–0 by Scotland in what turned out to be their last match.

European Championship record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1992	Group stage	8th	3	0	2	1	1	4
Total	1/1	8th	3	0	2	1	1	4

Post Soviet National Federations creation (reinstatement)

National Federations of the CIS Association

Armenia	18 January 1992	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Azerbaijan	March 1992	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Belarus	1989	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Georgia	15 February 1936	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Kazakhstan	1992	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Kyrgyzstan	25 February 1992	National team	U-23 team	AFC
Moldova	14 April 1990	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Russia	8 February 1992	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Tajikistan	1936	National team	U-23 team	AFC
Turkmenistan	1992	National team	U-23 team	AFC
Ukraine	13 December 1991	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Uzbekistan	1946	National team	U-23 team	AFC

National Federations outside of the CIS Association

Estonia	14 December 1921	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Latvia	1921	National team	U-21 team	UEFA
Lithuania	9 December 1922	National team	U-21 team	UEFA

UEFA Euro 1992 squad

Head coach: Anatoliy Byshovets

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Dmitri Kharine (1968-08-16)16 August 1968 (aged 23) 12 CSKA Moscow 2 2DF Andrey Chernyshov (1968-01-07)7 January 1968 (aged 24) 23 Spartak Moscow 3 2DF Kakhaber Tskhadadze (1968-09-07)7 September 1968 (aged 23) 5 Spartak Moscow 4 2DF Akhrik Tsveiba (1966-09-10)10 September 1966 (aged 25) 22 Dynamo Kiev 5 2DF Oleh Kuznetsov (1963-03-22)22 March 1963 (aged 29) 60 Rangers 6 3MF Igor Shalimov (1969-02-02)2 February 1969 (aged 23) 23 Foggia 7 3MF Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (1963-03-30)30 March 1963 (aged 29) 38 Rangers 8 4FW Andrei Kanchelskis (1969-01-23)23 January 1969 (aged 23) 20 Manchester United 9 3MF Sergei Aleinikov (1961-11-07)7 November 1961 (aged 30) 75 Lecce 10 3MF Igor Dobrovolski (1967-08-27)27 August 1967 (aged 24) 26 Servette 11 4FW Sergei Yuran (1969-06-11)11 June 1969 (aged 22) 13 Benfica 12 1GK Stanislav Cherchesov (1963-09-02)2 September 1963 (aged 28) 10 Spartak Moscow 13 4FW Sergei Kiriakov (1970-01-01)1 January 1970 (aged 22) 8 Dynamo Moscow 14 4FW Volodymyr Lyutyi (1962-04-20)20 April 1962 (aged 30) 5 MSV Duisburg 15 4FW Igor Kolyvanov (1968-03-06)6 March 1968 (aged 24) 22 Foggia 16 3MF Dmitri Kuznetsov (1965-08-28)28 August 1965 (aged 26) 17 Espanyol 17 3MF Igor Korneev (1967-09-04)4 September 1967 (aged 24) 5 Espanyol 18 2DF Viktor Onopko (1969-10-14)14 October 1969 (aged 22) 1 Spartak Moscow 19 3MF Igor Lediakhov (1968-05-22)22 May 1968 (aged 24) 7 Spartak Moscow 20 2DF Andrei Ivanov (1967-04-06)6 April 1967 (aged 25) 3 Spartak Moscow

In total, the CIS squad contained eight Russians, six Ukrainians (one born in Germany), a Georgian, a Belarusian, an Abkhazian, a Circassian, and an Ossetian. Caps included games played for the Soviet team as well as the CIS. Some players simultaneously played for other national teams such as Kakhaber Tskhadadze (Georgia) and Akhrik Tsveiba (Ukraine).

Practically all the players (marked in bold) played later for the Russia national football team, which qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States. Due to the incident with the Letter of fourteeners in November 1993 (because of the team's poor performance), Igor Shalimov, Igor Dobrovolsky, Igor Kolyvanov, Sergei Kiriakov, Vasili Kulkov, and Andrei Kanchelskis were excluded from the national team. Oleg Salenko and Andrei Ivanov, who also signed the letter, eventually withdrew their signatures. Tsveiba and Chernyshov were later called to the Russia national football team.

Although almost one third of the team were from Ukraine, only two Ukrainian players and an Abkhazian (Akhrik Tsveiba) ever played for the Ukraine national football team, while another four chose to play for the Russian national team.

External links

• USSR National Football Team (in Russian)