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Soviet Union
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Red Army
AssociationFootball Federation of USSR
Head coach-
Most capsOleg Blokhin (112)
Top scorerOleg Blokhin (42)
FIFA codeURS
First colours
Second colours
First international
Estonia Estonia 2 - 4 RSFSR Soviet Union
(Tallinn, Estonia; 18 September, 1923)
Soviet Union USSR 3 - 0 Turkey Turkey
(Moscow, USSR; 16 November, 1924)
Last International
Cyprus Cyprus 0 - 3 USSR Soviet Union
(Larnaca, Cyprus; 13 November, 1991)
Scotland Scotland 3 - 0 CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
(Norrköping, Sweden; 18 June, 1992)
Biggest win
Soviet Union USSR 11 - 1 India India
(Moscow, USSR; 16 September, 1955)
Finland Finland 0 - 10 USSR Soviet Union
(Helsinki, Finland; 15 August, 1957)
Biggest defeat
England England 5 - 0 USSR Soviet Union
(London, England; 22 October, 1958)
World Cup
Appearances7 (first in 1958)
Best resultFourth place, 1966
European Championship
Appearances6 (first in 1960)
Best resultWinners, 1960
Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
Gold medal – first place 1956 Melbourne Team
Bronze medal – third place 1972 Munich Team
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Montreal Team
Bronze medal – third place 1980 Moscow Team
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul Team

The USSR national football team was the national football team of the Soviet Union. It ceased to exist on the break up of the Union. FIFA considers the Russia national football team as its successor team(see [1]) allocating its former records to them; nevertheless, a large percentage of the team's former players came from outside Russian SFSR, mainly from Ukrainian SSR, and following the break up of the Soviet Union, some such as Oleg Salenko and Andrei Kanchelskis from the former Ukrainian SSR continued to serve in the new Russia national football team.

The Soviet Union failed to qualify for the World Cup only once, in 1978, and attended seven finals tournaments in total. Their best finish was fourth in 1966, when they lost to West Germany in the semifinals, 2-1. The USSR qualified for seven European Championships, winning the inaugural competition in 1960 when they beat Yugoslavia in the final, 2-1. They finished second three times (1964, 1972, 1988), and fourth once (1968), when, having drawn with Italy in the semi-final, they were sent to the third place playoff match by the loss of a coin toss. The Soviet Union also won the gold medal in the 1956 and 1988 Summer Olympics, the inaugural World Youth Championship in 1977, and the Under-16 World Championship in 1987.

Famous players


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World Cup record

Year Round Position P W D L GF GA Scorers
1930
Did not enter
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1934
Did not enter
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1938
Did not enter
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1950
Did not enter
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1954
Did not enter
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1958
Quarter-finals
6th
5
2
1
2
5
6
Simonyan, A. Ivanov, Ilyin (2), V. Ivanov
1962
Quarter-finals
6th
4
2
1
1
9
7
V. Ivanov (4), Ponedelnik (2), Chislenko (2), Mamykin,
1966
Fourth place
4th
6
4
0
2
10
6
Porkuyan (4), Malofeev (2), Chislenko (2), Banishevskiy, Mamykin, Metreveli
1970
Quarter-finals
5th
4
2
1
1
6
2
Byshovets (4), Asatiani, Khmelnitsky
1974
Disqualified[1]
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1978
Did not qualify
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1982
Round 2
7th
5
2
2
1
7
4
Bal, Gavrilov, Blokhin, Baltacha, Chivadze, Shengelia, Oganesian
1986
Round 2
10th
4
2
1
1
12
5
Belanov (4), Yaremchuk (2), Yakovenko, Aleinikov, Rodionov, Rats, Blokhin, Zavarov
1990
Round 1
17th
3
1
0
2
4
4
Protasov, Zygmantovich, Zavarov, Dobrovolski
1994
Represented by Russia
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Total
Best: Semi-finals
Best: 4th
30
14
6
10
52
34
Top scorer: V. Ivanov (5)

European Championship record

Notes

  1. ^ Refused to play the return leg of a play-off in Chile in the aftermath of that country's 1973 military coup

See also


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