Soviet Union Olympic football team

The Soviet Union Olympic football team was the national Olympic football team of the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1992. 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 Selection (Olimpiyskaya sbornaya) (Олимпийская сборная)
Association	Football Federation of the Soviet Union
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
Soviet Union 1–1 Bulgaria (Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR; 27 June 1959)
Biggest win
Soviet Union 8–0 Cuba (Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR; 24 July 1980)
Biggest defeat
East Germany 4–1 Soviet Union (Warsaw, Poland; 28 June 1964)
Summer Olympic Games
Appearances	2 (first in 1980)
Best result	Gold Medal, 1988

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

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

Qualification

Further information: Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

In order to defend their Olympic title at the Rome Games, the Soviet Union national team had to go through a "selection sieve". According to the territorial principle, the team got into the third European group, along with the teams of Bulgaria and Romania. This time it was decided to create an Olympic team separate from the main one, which included players from the nearest reserve of the main team. Of the players who took part in the qualifying games, only goalkeeper Boris Razinsky represented the team that won the Melbourne gold. Boris Arkadiev was appointed as the head coach. The coaching council also included M. I. Yakushin and A. S. Ponomarev.

The calendar of games was drawn up in such a way that the Soviet Union national team took part in all the first four games, and the national teams of Bulgaria and Romania had to fight each other in the last two.

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

29 June 1959

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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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19 July 1959

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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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2 August 1959

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Romania	0 – 0	Soviet Union
	[ Report]

August 23 Stadium, Bucharest

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Grzegorz Alexandrowicz (Poland)

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13 September 1959

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Bulgaria	1 – 0	Soviet Union
Kolev 11'	[ Report]

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Josef Stoll (Austria)

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Bulgaria qualified for the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Roster

• Head coach – Boris Arkadyev (CSK MO Moscow)
• Coaching council staff members: Mikhail Yakushin (Dynamo Moscow) and Aleksandr Ponomarev

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Boris Razinsky	(1933-07-12)12 July 1933 (aged 26)	4	-2	CSK MO Moscow
	2DF	Dmitriy Bagrich	(1936-03-26)26 March 1936 (aged 23)	4	0	CSK MO Moscow
	2DF	Anatoliy Soldatov	(1931-07-11)11 July 1931 (aged 28)	3	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Mikhail Yermolayev	(1935-11-04)4 November 1935 (aged 24)	3	0	CSK MO Moscow
	2DF	Nikolai Linyaev	(1933-07-17)17 July 1933 (aged 26)	3	0	CSK MO Moscow
	2DF	Anatoly Krutikov	(1933-09-21)21 September 1933 (aged 26)	1	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Ivan Morgunov	(1929-01-01)1 January 1929 (aged 30)	1	0	Lokomotiv Moscow
	3MF	Stanislav Zavidnov	(1934-10-14)14 October 1934 (aged 25)	3	0	Zenit Leningrad
	3MF	Yury Kovalyov	(1934-02-06)6 February 1934 (aged 25)	3	0	Lokomotiv Moscow
	3MF	Boris Batanov	(1934-07-15)15 July 1934 (aged 25)	2	0	Zenit Leningrad
	3MF	Valery Korolenkov	(1939-03-17)17 March 1939 (aged 20)	2	1	Dynamo Moscow
	3MF	Aleksandr Sokolov	(1930-02-26)26 February 1930 (aged 29)	1	0	Dynamo Moscow
	3MF	Shota Yamanidze	(1937-03-15)15 March 1937 (aged 22)	1	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	4FW	Slava Metreveli	(1936-03-30)30 March 1936 (aged 23)	4	1	Torpedo Moscow
	4FW	Zaur Kaloyev	(1931-03-24)24 March 1931 (aged 28)	3	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	4FW	Valeri Urin	(1934-08-10)10 August 1934 (aged 25)	2	1	Dynamo Moscow
	4FW	Avtandil Gogoberidze	(1922-08-03)3 August 1922 (aged 37)	1	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	4FW	Igor Zaitsev	(1934-04-21)21 April 1934 (aged 25)	1	0	Lokomotiv Moscow
	4FW	Viktor Voroshilov	(1926-08-15)15 August 1926 (aged 33)	1	0	Lokomotiv Moscow
	4FW	Viktor Sokolov	(1936-09-28)28 September 1936 (aged 23)	1	0	Lokomotiv Moscow

Notes:

• Age on 12 December 1959.

1964 Olympics

Qualification

Further information: Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

According to the results of the draw, the USSR national team got into the third European group of the qualifying tournament for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The country was represented by the Olympic team, but in reality, the second team: the players of the first team (Glotov, Korneev, Mudrik) played together with the players of the nearest (Anichkin, Lobanovsky, Urushadze) and deep (Biba, Sevidov, Fadeev) reserve of the main team. There were no age restrictions for the players; for example, the goalkeeper Kotrikadze at the time of the first meeting with the Finns was 27 years old. The team was headed by Vyacheslav Solovyov, who combined this post with a similar job at CSKA. Assistant - E. I. Lyadin.

The tournament regulations did not provide for a group round-robin tournament. The teams had to play two-legged knockout matches. In the preliminary round, the East Germany Olympic football team knocked out the team of another Germany – West (payback for the last qualification). At the next stage, they had to challenge the Dutch, and the Soviet Union Olympic team challenged their access to the next round in the play-off with Finland.

Group 3

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Soviet Union	11–0	Finland	7–0	4–0

22 July 1963

Soviet Union	7–0	Finland
Serebrianikov 16', 46' Kazakov 27', 39' Biba 38' Matveyev 61' (pen.), 89'	Report

Tsentralny Stadion, Kiev

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Stanislav Fenzl (Czechoslovakia)

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1 August 1963

Finland	0–4	Soviet Union
	Report	Serebrianikov 23' Biba 25' Kazakov 48' Matveyev 75'

Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Bertil Lööf (Sweden)

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
United Team of Germany	2–2	Soviet Union	1–1	1–1

31 May 1964

United Team of Germany	1–1	Soviet Union
Frenzel 10'	Report	Sevidov 88'

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Joseph Heymann (Switzerland)

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7 June 1964

Soviet Union	1–1	United Team of Germany
Kopayev 14'	Report	Kleiminger 62'

Tsentralny Stadion imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 82,000

Referee: Hans Karlsson (Sweden)

According to the rules of the tournament, the teams had to play the third decisive game on a neutral field. The arena for the match picked was the Warsaw Stadium of the Decade.

Second round third match

in Warsaw, Poland

Team 1	Score	Team 2
United Team of Germany	4–1	Soviet Union

28 June 1964

United Team of Germany	4–1	Soviet Union
Kleiminger 16' Urbanczyk 39' Vogel 82' Fräßdorf 87'	Report	Serebrianikov 55'

Stadion Dziesięciolecia, Warsaw

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Eduard Babauczek (Austria)

United Team of Germany qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Roster

• Head coach – Vyacheslav Solovyov (CSKA Moscow)
• Assistant – Yevgeny Lyadin

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Sergo Kotrikadze	(1936-08-09)9 August 1936 (aged 27)	2	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	1GK	Ramaz Urushadze	(1939-08-17)17 August 1939 (aged 24)	2	-2	Torpedo Kutaisi
	1GK	Vladimir Lisitsin	(1938-08-20)20 August 1938 (aged 25)	1	-4	Kairat Alma-Ata
	2DF	Albert Shesternyov	(1941-06-20)20 June 1941 (aged 22)	5	0	CSKA Moscow
	2DF	Eduard Mudrik	(1939-07-18)18 July 1939 (aged 24)	4	0	Dinamo Moscow
	2DF	Vladimir Ponomaryov	(1940-02-18)18 February 1940 (aged 23)	3	0	CSKA Moscow
	2DF	Murtaz Khurtsilava	(1943-01-05)5 January 1943 (aged 20)	3	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	2DF	Vladimir Glotov	(1937-01-23)23 January 1937 (aged 26)	2	0	Dinamo Moscow
	2DF	Viktor Anichkin	(1941-12-08)8 December 1941 (aged 22)	2	0	Dinamo Moscow
	2DF	Aleksei Korneyev	(1939-02-06)6 February 1939 (aged 24)	2	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Anatoly Krutikov	(1933-09-21)21 September 1933 (aged 30)	1	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Gennady Logofet	(1942-04-15)15 April 1942 (aged 21)	1	0	Spartak Moscow
	3MF	Viktor Serebryanikov	(1940-03-29)29 March 1940 (aged 23)	5	4	Dinamo Kiev
	3MF	Andriy Biba	(1937-08-10)10 August 1937 (aged 26)	4	2	Dinamo Kiev
	3MF	Valery Maslov	(1940-04-28)28 April 1940 (aged 23)	3	0	Dinamo Moscow
	4FW	Yury Sevidov	(1942-08-24)24 August 1942 (aged 21)	3	1	Spartak Moscow
	4FW	Gennadi Matveyev	(1937-08-22)22 August 1937 (aged 26)	2	3	SKA Rostov-on-Don
	4FW	Boris Kazakov	(1940-11-06)6 November 1940 (aged 23)	2	3	Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
	4FW	Valeriy Lobanovskyi	(1939-01-06)6 January 1939 (aged 24)	2	0	Dinamo Kiev
	4FW	Lev Burchalkin	(1939-01-09)9 January 1939 (aged 24)	2	0	Zenit Leningrad
	4FW	Eduard Malofeyev	(1942-06-02)2 June 1942 (aged 21)	1	0	Dinamo Minsk
	4FW	Oleg Kopayev	(1937-11-28)28 November 1937 (aged 26)	1	1	SKA Rostov-on-Don
	4FW	Oleg Sergeyev	(1940-01-30)30 January 1940 (aged 23)	1	0	Torpedo Moscow
	4FW	Valeriy Fadeyev	(1939-07-20)20 July 1939 (aged 24)	1	0	Dinamo Moscow

Notes:

• Age on 31 December 1963.

1972 Olympics

Qualification

Further information: Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's European Qualifiers

Play-off stage

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Soviet Union	4–0	Netherlands	4–0	0–0

2 June 1971

Soviet Union	4–0	Netherlands
Kozynkevych 44', 64' Troshkin 54' Shalimov 74'	Report

Tsentralnyi Stadion "Dinamo", Moscow

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Aurelio Agnonese (Italy)

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16 June 1971

Netherlands	0–0	Soviet Union
	Report

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		URS	FRA	AUT
1	Soviet Union	4	4	0	0	13	2	+11	8	1972 Summer Olympics finals		—	5–1	4–0
2	France	4	2	0	2	10	9	+1	4			1–3	—	5–1
3	Austria	4	0	0	4	1	13	−12	0			0–1	0–3	—

Source: [ FIFA]

13 October 1971

Soviet Union	4–0	Austria
Zanazanyan 13', 69' Kozynkevych 36' Kopeykin 87'	Report

Stadion "Druzhba", Lviv

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Petar Kostovski (Yugoslavia)

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3 November 1971

Soviet Union	5–1	France
Zanazanyan 12' Andreasyan 21', 29' Ishtoyan 36' Hreshchak 51'	Report	Riefa 69'

Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Bertil Lööw (Sweden)

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18 November 1971

Austria	0–1	Soviet Union
	Report	Andreasyan 74'

Bundesstadion Südstadt, Maria Enzersdorf, Lower Austria

Attendance: 300

Referee: Franz Geluck (Belgium)

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25 May 1972

France	1–3	Soviet Union
Tonnel 59'	Report	Machaidze 42' Blokhin 49', 87'

Parc des Princes, Paris

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: David Smith (England)

Roster

In bold are players and coaches that actually went to Munich, see Olympic team squad for more information.

• Head coach – Aleksandr Ponomarev (away game with France Boris Nabokov)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Lev Kudasov	(1943-06-24)24 June 1943 (aged 28)	1	0	SKA Rostov-on-Don
	1GK	Oleksandr Tkachenko	(1947-01-24)24 January 1947 (aged 25)	1	0	Zaria Voroshilovgrad
	1GK	Aleksandr Prokhorov	(1946-06-18)18 June 1946 (aged 25)	1	-1	Dinamo Kiev
	1GK	Vladimir Oleinik	(1950-03-10)10 March 1950 (aged 22)	2	-1	Spartak Ordzhonikidze
	1GK	Vladimir Pilguy	(1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 24)	1	0	Dinamo Moscow
	2DF	Nikolay Abramov	(1950-01-05)5 January 1950 (aged 22)	1	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Vyacheslav Bulavin	(1946-04-18)18 April 1946 (aged 26)	2	0	Zenit Leningrad
	2DF	Vadim Ivanov	(1943-01-17)17 January 1943 (aged 29)	2	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Valeri Zykov	(1944-02-24)24 February 1944 (aged 28)	2	0	Dinamo Moscow
	2DF	Nikolai Khudiyev	(1949-05-15)15 May 1949 (aged 23)	1	0	Spartak Ordzhonikidze
	2DF	Sergei Dotsenko	(1947-09-07)7 September 1947 (aged 24)	1	0	Dinamo Kiev
	2DF	Vadym Sosnykhin	(1942-08-10)10 August 1942 (aged 29)	3	0	Dinamo Kiev
	2DF	Stefan Reshko	(1947-03-24)24 March 1947 (aged 25)	3	0	Dinamo Kiev
	2DF	Norair Mesropyan	(1946-04-30)30 April 1946 (aged 26)	3	0	Ararat Yerevan
	2DF	Viktor Matviyenko	(1948-10-26)26 October 1948 (aged 23)	2	0	Dinamo Kiev
	2DF	Boris Serostanov	(1949-10-17)17 October 1949 (aged 22)	1	0	SKA Rostov-on-Don
	2DF	Rostyslav Potochnyak	(1948-01-26)26 January 1948 (aged 24)	1	0	Karpaty Lvov
	2DF	Vladimir Golubev	(1950-04-16)16 April 1950 (aged 22)	1	0	Zenit Leningrad
	2DF	Viktor Zvyahintsev	(1950-10-22)22 October 1950 (aged 21)	1	0	CSKA Moscow
	3MF	Serhiy Bondarenko	(1948-11-09)9 November 1948 (aged 23)	4	0	Ararat Yerevan
	3MF	Volodymyr Troshkin	(1947-09-28)28 September 1947 (aged 24)	5	1	Dinamo Kiev
	3MF	Volodymyr Veremeyev	(1948-11-08)8 November 1948 (aged 23)	4	0	Dinamo Kiev
	3MF	Manuchar Machaidze	(1949-03-25)25 March 1949 (aged 23)	2	1	Dinamo Tbilisi
	3MF	Leonid Buryak	(1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 18)	1	0	Chernomorets Odessa
	3MF	Khasan Mirikov	(1950-06-03)3 June 1950 (aged 21)	1	0	Neftianik Baku
	3MF	Arkady Andreasyan	(1947-08-11)11 August 1947 (aged 24)	5	3	Ararat Yerevan
	3MF	Oganes Zanazanyan	(1946-12-10)10 December 1946 (aged 25)	6	3	Ararat Yerevan
	4FW	Vladimir Goncharov	(1946-11-21)21 November 1946 (aged 25)	1	0	Zenit Leningrad
	4FW	Gennadiy Shalimov	(1947-11-29)29 November 1947 (aged 24)	2	1	Torpedo Moscow
	4FW	Eduard Kozynkevych	(1949-05-23)23 May 1949 (aged 23)	4	3	Karpaty Lvov
	4FW	Yuri Avrutskiy	(1944-05-10)10 May 1944 (aged 28)	2	0	Dinamo Moscow
	4FW	Boris Kopeykin	(1946-03-27)27 March 1946 (aged 26)	2	1	CSKA Moscow
	4FW	Bohdan Hreshchak	(1949-03-31)31 March 1949 (aged 23)	3	1	Karpaty Lvov
	4FW	Levon Ishtoyan	(1947-09-03)3 September 1947 (aged 24)	1	1	Ararat Yerevan
	4FW	Anatoliy Vasilyev	(1944-08-25)25 August 1944 (aged 27)	1	0	Dinamo Minsk
	4FW	Givi Nodia	(1948-01-02)2 January 1948 (aged 24)	1	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	4FW	Vladimir Gutsaev	(1952-12-21)21 December 1952 (aged 19)	1	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	4FW	Oleh Blokhin	(1952-11-05)5 November 1952 (aged 19)	1	2	Dinamo Kiev

Notes:

• Age on 31 May 1972.

1976 Olympics

Qualification

Further information: Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Preliminary stage

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Yugoslavia	1–4	Soviet Union	1–1	0–3

7 May 1975

Yugoslavia	1–1	Soviet Union
Eftić 76'	Report	Bulgakov 78'

Gradski stadion, Banja Luka

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

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21 May 1975

Soviet Union	3–0	Yugoslavia
Buryak 57' (pen.), 61' Hatzipanagis 87'	Report

Tsentralnyi stadion imeni V.I.Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Constantin Petrea (Romania)

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		URS	NOR	ISL
1	Soviet Union	4	4	0	0	10	1	+9	8	1976 Summer Olympics finals		—	4–0	1–0
2	Norway	4	1	1	2	5	10	−5	3			1–3	—	3–2
3	Iceland	4	0	1	3	3	7	−4	1			0–2	1–1	—

Source: [ FIFA]

30 July 1975

Iceland	0–2	Soviet Union
	Report	Minayev 53', 76'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 9,666

Referee: John Gordon (Scotland)

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28 August 1975

Norway	1–3	Soviet Union
Skuseth 14'	Report	Sakharov 7', 52' Fyodorov 8'

Ullevaal, Oslo

Attendance: 15,790

Referee: Georg Krutelew (Finland)

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10 September 1975

Soviet Union	1–0	Iceland
Minayev 40'	Report

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: László Hámori (Hungary)

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24 November 1975

Soviet Union	4–0	Norway
Sakharov 67' Kipiani 76', 86' Minayev 79'	Report

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 9,137

Referee: Marian Kustoń (Poland)

Roster

In bold are players and coaches that actually went to Montreal, see Olympic team squad for more information.

• Head coach – Konstantin Beskov

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Aleksandr Prokhorov	(1946-06-18)18 June 1946 (aged 29)	5	-2	Spartak Moscow
	1GK	Vladimir Astapovsky	(1946-07-16)16 July 1946 (aged 29)	1	0	CSKA Moscow
	2DF	Nikolai Khudiyev	(1949-05-15)15 May 1949 (aged 26)	1	0	CSKA Moscow
	2DF	Sergei Olshansky	(1948-05-28)28 May 1948 (aged 27)	2	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Nikolai Osyanin	(1941-12-12)12 December 1941 (aged 34)	5	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Evgeny Lovchev	(1949-01-29)29 January 1949 (aged 26)	6	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Valentin Utkin	(1947-03-02)2 March 1947 (aged 28)	4	0	CSKA Moscow
	2DF	Sergei Nikulin	(1951-01-01)1 January 1951 (aged 24)	1	0	Dinamo Moscow
	2DF	Yuri Saukh	(1951-09-14)14 September 1951 (aged 24)	1	0	SKA Rostov-on-Don
	2DF	Volodymyr Troshkin	(1947-09-28)28 September 1947 (aged 28)	4	0	Dinamo Kiev
	2DF	Viktor Zvyahintsev	(1950-10-22)22 October 1950 (aged 25)	4	0	Dinamo Kiev
	3MF	Viktor Papayev	(1947-03-02)2 March 1947 (aged 28)	1	0	Spartak Moscow
	3MF	Mikhail Bulgakov	(1951-10-12)12 October 1951 (aged 24)	2	1	Spartak Moscow
	3MF	Manuchar Machaidze	(1949-03-25)25 March 1949 (aged 26)	2	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
	3MF	Aleksandr Maksimenkov	(1952-08-17)17 August 1952 (aged 23)	6	0	Torpedo Moscow
	3MF	Valeri Gladilin	(1951-10-19)19 October 1951 (aged 24)	3	0	Spartak Moscow
	3MF	Valeri Filatov	(1950-11-18)18 November 1950 (aged 25)	2	0	Torpedo Moscow
	3MF	David Kipiani	(1951-11-18)18 November 1951 (aged 24)	2	2	Dinamo Tbilisi
	3MF	Aleksandr Minayev	(1954-08-11)11 August 1954 (aged 21)	6	4	Dynamo Moscow
	3MF	Leonid Buryak	(1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 22)	3	2	Dynamo Kyiv
	4FW	Vadim Nikonov	(1948-08-09)9 August 1948 (aged 27)	1	0	Torpedo Moscow
	4FW	Vasilis Hatzipanagis	(1954-10-26)26 October 1954 (aged 21)	4	1	Pakhtakor Tashkent
	4FW	Vladimir Sakharov	(1948-02-05)5 February 1948 (aged 27)	3	3	Torpedo Moscow
	4FW	Vladimir Fyodorov	(1955-01-05)5 January 1955 (aged 20)	3	1	Pakhtakor Tashkent

Notes:

• Age on 31 December 1975.

1980 Olympics

Qualification

Further information: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Final tournament

Further information: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

First round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	15	1	+14	6
Cuba	3	2	0	1	3	9	−6	4
Venezuela	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4	2
Zambia	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

Source: FIFA

20 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	4–0	Venezuela
Andreyev 3' Cherenkov 25' Gavrilov 34' Hovhannisyan 51'	Report

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Franz Woehrer (Austria)

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22 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	3–1	Zambia
Khidiyatullin 9', 51' Cherenkov 87'	Report	Chitalu 13'

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Marwan Arafat (Syria)

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24 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	8–0	Cuba
Andreyev 8', 27', 44' Romantsev 20' Shavlo 43' Cherenkov 55' Gavrilov 75' Bessonov 77'	Report

Tsentralnyi Dinamo, Moscow

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)

Quarter-finals

27 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	2–1	Kuwait
Cherenkov 30' Gavrilov 51'	Report	Yaqoub 59'

Tsentralnyi Dinamo, Moscow

Attendance: 48,000

Referee: Mario Rubio Vázquez (Mexico)

Semi-finals

29 July 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	0–1	East Germany
	Report	Netz 16'

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 95,000

Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

Bronze Medal match

1 August 1980
12:00

Soviet Union	2–0	Yugoslavia
Hovhannisyan 67' Andreyev 82'	Report

Tsentralnyi Dinamo, Moscow

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Great Britain)

Roster

Further information: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Head coach: Konstantin Beskov

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB	Age	Caps	Club	Tournament games	Tournament goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on	Cards yellow/red
1	GK	Rinat Dasaev	13 June 1957	22	7	Spartak Moscow	6	0	514	1	0	0
2	DF	Tengiz Sulakvelidze	27 July 1956	23	4	Dynamo Tbilisi	6	0	540	0	0	1Y
3	DF	Aleksandr Chivadze	8 April 1955	25	4	Dynamo Tbilisi	6	0	540	0	0	1Y
4	DF	Vagiz Khidiyatullin	3 March 1959	21	21	Spartak Moscow	6	0	540	0	0	0
5	DF	Oleg Romantsev	4 January 1954	26	5	Spartak Moscow	6	1	540	0	0	2Y
6	MD	Sergei Shavlo	4 September 1956	23	10	Spartak Moscow	5	1	450	0	0	0
7	MD	Sergei Andreev	17 May 1956	24	7	SKA Rostov-on-Don	6	5	540	0	0	0
8	MD	Volodymyr Bezsonov	5 March 1958	22	24	Dynamo Kiev	6	1	540	0	0	0
9	FW	Yuri Gavrilov	3 May 1953	27	15	Spartak Moscow	5	3	387	2	0	0
10	FW	Fedor Cherenkov	25 July 1959	20	6	Spartak Moscow	6	4	432	2	1	0
11	FW	Valery Gazzaev	8 August 1954	25	7	Dynamo Moscow	6	0	372	2	1	0
12	GK	Vladimir Pilguy	26 January 1948	32	12	Dynamo Moscow	1	0	26	0	1	0
13	DF	Sergei Baltacha	3 March 1958	22	1	Dynamo Kiev	2	0	108	0	1	0
14	DF	Sergei Nikulin	1 January 1951	29	3	Dynamo Moscow	1	0	45	0	1	0
15	MD	Khoren Hovhannisyan	10 January 1955	25	7	Ararat Yerevan	3	2	143	0	3	0
16	MD	Aleksandr Prokopenko	16 November 1953	26	1	Dinamo Minsk	2	0	117	0	1	0
17	FW	Revaz Chelebadze	2 October 1955	24	7	Dynamo Tbilisi	2	0	108	2	0	0

1984 Olympics

Qualification

Further information: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		URS	HUN	BUL	GRE	TUR
1	Soviet Union	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	8	withdrew from final tournament		—	0–1	0–0	3–0	—
2	Hungary	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	8			0–1	—	1–1	3–1	—
3	Bulgaria	6	1	5	0	7	5	+2	7			2–2	1–1	—	0–0	—
4	Greece	6	0	1	5	4	14	−10	1			1–3	1–2	1–3	—	—
5	Turkey	0	-	-	-	-	-	—	0	withdrew		—	—	—	—	—

Source: [ FIFA]

18 May 1983

Bulgaria	2–2	Soviet Union
Yordanov 53' Valchev 66'	Report	Gazzayev 16', 82'

9ti Semptevri, Plovdiv

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Paolo Bergamo (Italy)

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26 May 1983

Soviet Union	3–0	Greece
Grachev 9' Aleynikov 29' Larionov 9'	[ Report]

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 21,600

Referee: Osmo Orankangas (Finland)

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7 September 1983

Hungary	0–1	Soviet Union
	[ Report]	Cherenkov 89'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 34,000

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

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5 October 1983

Greece	1–3	Soviet Union
Mitsibonas 74'	[ Report]	Kuznetsov 29' Cherenkov 84' Klementyev 90'

Olympiakó, Athens

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

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12 October 1983

Soviet Union	0–0	Bulgaria
	[ Report]

Tsentralnyi Dynamo, Moscow

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Volker Roth (West Germany)

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25 April 1984

Soviet Union	0–1	Hungary
	[ Report]	Mészáros 76'

Tsentralnyi imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

Roster

• Head coach – Eduard Malofeyev (first 2 games in May of 1983 Vladimir Salkov)

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Vyacheslav Chanov	(1951-10-23)23 October 1951 (aged 32)	5	-3	Torpedo Moscow
	1GK	Valeri Novikov	(1957-11-01)1 November 1957 (aged 26)	1	-1	CSKA Moscow
	2DF	Viktor Yanushevsky	(1960-01-23)23 January 1960 (aged 24)	4	0	Dinamo Minsk
	2DF	Vasili Zhupikov	(1954-01-16)16 January 1954 (aged 30)	4	0	FC Torpedo Moscow
	2DF	Viktor Shishkin	(1955-02-08)8 February 1955 (aged 29)	4	0	Dinamo Minsk
	2DF	Yevgeny Mileshkin	(1960-09-03)3 September 1960 (aged 23)	3	0	Spartak Moscow → Dynamo Moscow
	2DF	Boris Pozdnyakov	(1962-05-31)31 May 1962 (aged 22)	3	0	Spartak Moscow
	2DF	Mustafa Belyalov	(1957-06-04)4 June 1957 (aged 26)	2	0	Pakhtakor Tashkent
	2DF	Oleksandr Sorokalet	(1957-04-16)16 April 1957 (aged 27)	2	0	Dinamo Kiev → Zorya Voroshilovgrad
	2DF	Sergei Vedeneyev	(1957-08-05)5 August 1957 (aged 26)	1	0	Zenit Leningrad
	2DF	Sashik Keropyan	(1956-05-26)26 May 1956 (aged 28)	1	0	Ararat Yerevan
	2DF	Viktor Kaplun	(1958-05-05)5 May 1958 (aged 26)	1	0	Metalist Kharkiv
	2DF	Nikolay Larionov	(1957-01-19)19 January 1957 (aged 27)	1	1	Zenit Leningrad
	2DF	Valdas Kasparavičius	(1958-01-17)17 January 1958 (aged 26)	1	0	Žalgiris Vilnius
	2DF	Andrei Zygmantovich	(1962-12-02)2 December 1962 (aged 21)	1	0	Dinamo Minsk
	2DF	Yuri Pudyshev	(1954-04-03)3 April 1954 (aged 30)	1	0	Dinamo Minsk
	3MF	Sergey Gotsmanov	(1959-03-27)27 March 1959 (aged 25)	6	0	Dinamo Minsk
	3MF	Sergei Aleinikov	(1961-11-07)7 November 1961 (aged 22)	4	1	Dinamo Minsk
	3MF	Fyodor Cherenkov	(1959-07-25)25 July 1959 (aged 24)	4	2	Spartak Moscow
	3MF	Vyacheslav Melnikov	(1954-03-07)7 March 1954 (aged 30)	3	0	Zenit Leningrad
	3MF	Yevgeni Kuznetsov	(1953-07-10)10 July 1953 (aged 30)	3	1	Spartak Moscow
	3MF	Viktor Kuznetsov	(1961-01-08)8 January 1961 (aged 23)	2	0	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
	3MF	Hennadiy Lytovchenko	(1963-09-11)11 September 1963 (aged 20)	2	0	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
	3MF	Yuri Zheludkov	(1959-03-08)8 March 1959 (aged 25)	1	0	Zenit Leningrad
	4FW	Viktor Hrachov	(1956-09-17)17 September 1956 (aged 27)	6	1	Shakhtar Donetsk
	4FW	Valery Gazzaev	(1954-08-07)7 August 1954 (aged 29)	5	2	Dynamo Moscow
	4FW	Igor Belanov	(1960-09-25)25 September 1960 (aged 23)	2	0	Chornomorets Odesa
	4FW	Vladimir Klementyev	(1956-01-04)4 January 1956 (aged 28)	2	1	Zenit Leningrad
	4FW	Ihar Hurynovich	(1960-03-05)5 March 1960 (aged 24)	1	0	Dinamo Minsk
	4FW	Sergei Stukashov	(1959-11-12)12 November 1959 (aged 24)	1	0	Kairat Almaty

Notes:

• Age on 31 May 1984.

1988 Olympics

Qualification

Further information: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		URS	BUL	SUI	NOR	TUR
1	Soviet Union	8	6	2	0	12	2	+10	14	1988 Summer Olympics finals		—	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0
2	Bulgaria	8	4	2	2	13	5	+8	10			0–1	—	2–0	4–0	3–1
3	Switzerland	8	2	3	3	8	10	−2	7			2–4	1–1	—	1–0	2–0
4	Norway	8	0	5	3	1	7	−6	5			0–0	0–0	0–0	—	1–1
5	Turkey	8	1	2	5	5	15	−10	4			0–2	0–3	3–2	0–0	—

Source: [ FIFA]

14 October 1986

Norway	0–0	Soviet Union
	[ Report]

Ullevaal, Oslo

Attendance: 7,500

Referee: John Kinsella (Ireland)

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15 April 1987 (1987-04-15)

Turkey	0–2	Soviet Union
	[ Report]	Lyutyi 23' Dobrovolski 70'

Alsancak Mustafa Denizli, Izmir

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

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7 May 1987 (1987-05-07)

Bulgaria	0–1	Soviet Union
	[ Report]	Mykhailychenko 63'

Natsionalen Vasil Levski, Sofia

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)

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12 August 1987 (1987-08-12)

Soviet Union	1–0	Norway
Lyutyi 48'	Report

Tsentralnyi Dynamo, Moscow

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Rune Larsson (Sweden)

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28 October 1987 (1987-10-28)

Switzerland	2–4	Soviet Union
Türkyilmaz 16' Kundert 55'	[ Report]	Lyutyi 36' Dobrovolski 65' (pen.) Baranauskas 79', 83'

Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Joe Worrall (England)

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6 April 1988 (1988-04-06)

Soviet Union	2–0	Turkey
Savichev 36' Borodyuk 86'	[ Report]

Lokomotiv, Simferopol

Attendance: 23,650

Referee: Timo Keltanen (Finland)

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27 April 1988 (1988-04-27)

Soviet Union	2–0	Bulgaria
Mykhailychenko 41' Kuznetsov 72'	[ Report]

Lokomotiv, Simferopol

Attendance: 23,600

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

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10 May 1988 (1988-05-10)

Soviet Union	0–0	Switzerland
	[ Report]

Tsentralnyi Dynamo, Moscow

Attendance: 10,500

Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)

Final tournament

Group stage

Group C

Main article: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	5
2	Argentina	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
3	South Korea	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
4	United States	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2

Source: FIFA

18 September 1988

South Korea	0–0	Soviet Union
	Report

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Tullio Lanese (Italy)

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20 September 1988

Argentina	1–2	Soviet Union
Alfaro 77'	Report	Dobrovolski 7' Mikhailichenko 22'

Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)

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22 September 1988

United States	2–4	Soviet Union
Goulet 65' Doyle 85'	Report	Mikhailichenko 7', 48' Narbekovas 19' Dobrovolski 45'

Daegu Civic Stadium, Daegu

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (Brazil)

Quarter-finals

25 September 1988

Soviet Union	3–0	Australia
Dobrovolski 50', 54' Mikhailichenko 62'	Report	Mitchell  70'

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Juan Daniel Cardellino (URU)

Semi-finals

27 September 1988

Soviet Union	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Italy
Dobrovolski 78' Narbekovas 92' Mikhailichenko 106'	Report	Virdis 50' Ferrara  94'  96' Carnevale 118'

Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Jamal Al Sharif (SYR)

Gold medal match

1988 Summer Olympics Football Final

1 October 1988

Soviet Union	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Brazil
Dobrovolski 61' (pen.) Savichev 103' Tatarchuk  78'  110'	Report	Romário 30' Edmar  112'

Olympic Stadium, Seoul

Attendance: 74,000

Referee: Gérard Biguet (FRA)

Roster

Further information: Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

• Head coach: Anatoliy Byshovets, assistants: Vladimir Salkov, Gadzhi Gadzhiyev

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Dmitry Kharin	(1968-08-16)16 August 1968 (aged 20)	14	-8	Torpedo Moscow → Dynamo Moscow
16	1GK	Aleksei Prudnikov	(1960-03-20)20 March 1960 (aged 28)	0	0	Dynamo Moscow → Torpedo Moscow
2	2DF	Gela Ketashvili	(1965-09-27)27 September 1965 (aged 22)	11	0	Dinamo Tbilisi
3	2DF	Igor Sklyarov	(1966-08-31)31 August 1966 (aged 22)	9	0	SKA Rostov-na-Donu → Dynamo Moscow
4	2DF	Oleksiy Cherednyk	(1960-09-15)15 September 1960 (aged 27)	8	0	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
5	2DF	Arvydas Janonis	(1960-11-06)6 November 1960 (aged 27)	2	0	Žalgiris Vilnius
12	2DF	Evgeniy Yarovenko	(1962-08-17)17 August 1962 (aged 26)	9	0	Kairat Alma-Ata
13	2DF	Sergei Fokin	(1961-07-26)26 July 1961 (aged 27)	4	0	CSKA Moscow
17	2DF	Viktor Losev	(1959-01-25)25 January 1959 (aged 29)	12	0	Dynamo Moscow
18	2DF	Sergei Gorlukovich	(1961-11-18)18 November 1961 (aged 26)	9	0	Lokomotiv Moscow
	2DF	Valeri Panchik	(1963-07-10)10 July 1963 (aged 25)	1	0	Neftchi Baku
	2DF	Arkadiy Afanasyev	(1959-03-20)20 March 1959 (aged 29)	1	0	Zenit Leningrad
	2DF	Dmitri Kuznetsov	(1965-08-28)28 August 1965 (aged 23)	1	0	CSKA Moscow
6	3MF	Vadym Tyshchenko	(1963-03-24)24 March 1963 (aged 25)	4	0	SKA Karpaty Lviv → Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
7	3MF	Yevgeni Kuznetsov	(1961-08-30)30 August 1961 (aged 27)	11	1	Spartak Moscow
8	3MF	Igor Ponomaryov	(1960-02-24)24 February 1960 (aged 28)	1	0	Neftchi Baku
10	3MF	Igor Dobrovolski	(1967-08-27)27 August 1967 (aged 21)	14	8	Dynamo Moscow
15	3MF	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	(1963-03-30)30 March 1963 (aged 25)	14	7	Dynamo Kyiv
20	3MF	Arminas Narbekovas	(1965-11-28)28 November 1965 (aged 22)	7	2	Žalgiris Vilnius
	3MF	Aleksandr Vorobyov	(1962-03-28)28 March 1962 (aged 26)	1	0	SKA Rostov-na-Donu
	3MF	Valeri Broshin	(1962-10-19)19 October 1962 (aged 25)	2	0	CSKA Moscow
	3MF	Valdas Ivanauskas	(1966-07-31)31 July 1966 (aged 22)	3	0	Žalgiris Vilnius
9	4FW	Aleksandr Borodyuk	(1962-11-30)30 November 1962 (aged 25)	6	1	Dynamo Moscow
11	4FW	Volodymyr Lyutyi	(1962-04-20)20 April 1962 (aged 26)	12	3	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
14	4FW	Vladimir Tatarchuk	(1966-04-25)25 April 1966 (aged 22)	10	0	CSKA Moscow
19	4FW	Yuri Savichev	(1965-02-13)13 February 1965 (aged 23)	9	2	Torpedo Moscow
	4FW	Oleg Morozov	(1961-10-13)13 October 1961 (aged 26)	1	0	Chornomorets Odesa → Dynamo Kyiv
	4FW	Sergey Dmitriyev	(1964-03-19)19 March 1964 (aged 24)	1	0	Zenit Leningrad
	4FW	Nikolai Savichev	(1965-02-13)13 February 1965 (aged 23)	1	0	Torpedo Moscow
	4FW	Stasys Baranauskas	(1962-05-07)7 May 1962 (aged 26)	2	2	Žalgiris Vilnius

Notes:

• Age on 31 August 1988.

Summer Olympics record

Source:

Olympic Games record										Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	→	Outcome
1952	National team									N/A							Qualified directly
1956										National team						1956	Won over Israel in play-off
1960	Did not qualify									4	1	2	1	3	2	1960	2nd in Qualifying group 3
1964										5	2	2	1	14	3	1964	Lost to Germany in play-off
1968										National team						1968	Lost to Czechoslovakia in play-off
1972	National team									6	5	1	0	17	2	1972	1st in Qualifying group 1
1976										6	5	1	0	14	2	1976	1st in Qualifying group 1
1980	3rd place	3rd	6	5	0	1	19	3		Host nation						1980	Qualified as host nation
1984	Withdrew									6	3	2	1	9	4	1984	1st in Qualifying group A
1988	Final	Champion	6	5	1	0	14	6		8	6	2	0	12	2	1988	1st in Qualifying group 1
1992	Did not qualify									Under-21 team						1992	3rd in Qualifying group 3
Total	2/11		12	10	1	1	33	9		37	24	10	3	76	16

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 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	1972
Konstantin Beskov		1975	6	5	1	0	14	2	83.33	1976	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

Notes:

• The USSR Olympic team withdrew from the football tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
• Since 1991, UEFA nations qualify for the Olympics via continental under-21 tournaments.

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