1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR football tournamentTournament details |
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Host country | Moscow |
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Dates | 2 August – 16 August |
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Teams | 18 |
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Venue(s) | 5 (in 1 host city) |
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Final positions |
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Champions | Moscow (2nd title) |
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Runners-up | Georgian SSR |
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Third place | Ukrainian SSR |
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Fourth place | Leningrad |
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Tournament statistics |
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Matches played | 37 |
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Goals scored | 134 (3.62 per match) |
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International football competition
The football tournament at the 1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR was a preparatory competition for the Soviet Union national football team for the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics. The competition took place on August 2 – 16, 1956 as part of the Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR. The Soviet team has already qualified for the Olympic tournament by winning a play-off match up against Israel national football team earlier in July 1956 (Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification). The Soviet team competed under the name of the Moscow city team.
Before the tournament, on 16 July 1956 Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was annexed by the Russian SFSR by changing its status from a union republic to an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. Nonetheless, the team of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was still participating at the tournament.
Competition
Main tournament
Qualification round
- Latvia - Azerbaijan 1:5
- Estonia - Lithuania 0:1
Round of 16
- Armenia - Tajikistan 3:0
- Belarus - Kyrgyzstan 1:0
- Azerbaijan - Karelia 5:1
- Georgia - Moldova 4:0
- Russia - Uzbekistan 3:1
- Leningrad - Turkmenistan 2:0
- Ukraine - Kazakhstan 2:1
- Moscow - Lithuania 2:0
Quarterfinals
- Russia - Leningrad 0:2
- Georgia - Armenia 4:2
- Ukraine - Azerbaijan 4:1
- Moscow - Belarus 5:1
Semifinals
- Georgia - Ukraine 3:1
- Moscow - Leningrad 3:2
For 3rd place
Ukraina | 2 – 1 | Leningrad |
- Boboshko 52'
- Voynov 54'
| [ Report] | - Denisov 62'
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Tsentralnyi stadion Dinamo, Moscow
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Nikolay Khlopotin (Moscow)
Final
Moskva | 2 – 1 | Grouzia |
| [ Report] | - Khasaya 38'
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MATCH OFFICIALS | MATCH RULES - 90 minutes.
- 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
- Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
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Consolation tournament for quarterfinalists
Semifinals
- Azerbaijan - Armenia 0:3
- Russia - Belarus 4:2
For 7th place
For 5th place
Consolation tournament
Quarterfinals
- Latvia - Kazakhstan 2:1
- Moldova - Tajikistan 6:0
- Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan 3:0
- Estonia - Kyrgyzstan 2:1
- Karelia - bye
- Lithuania - bye
Semifinals
- Karelia - Latvia 0:5
- Moldova - Uzbekistan 4:3
- Estonia - Lithuania 0:2
For 10th place
For 9th place
For 12th place
- Uzbekistan - Karelia 2:1
- Uzbekistan - Estonia 2:0
Tournament for losing teams
Semifinals
- Kazakhstan - Tajikistan 3:0
- Turkmenistan - Kyrgyzstan 0:1
For 15th place
- Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan 2:1
For 17th place
- Tajikistan - Turkmenistan 2:3
Squads composition
Moscow
Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin, assistant: Nikolay Gulyayev (Spartak Moscow)
Georgian SSR
Head coach: Gaioz Jejelava (Dinamo Tbilisi), assistant: Archil Kiknadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Ukrainian SSR
Head coach: Oleg Oshenkov (Dynamo Kyiv), assistant: Anton Idzkovsky (FShM Kyiv)
Leningrad
Head coach: Arkadi Alov (Zenit Leningrad)
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
1 | 1GK | Yury Trofimov | (1932-03-29)29 March 1932 (aged 24) | | | Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad |
2 | 2DF | Mark Gek | (1934-03-21)21 March 1934 (aged 22) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
3 | 2DF | Nikolay Samarin (ms) | (1924-12-04)4 December 1924 (aged 31) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
4 | 2DF | Pavlo Khudoyash | (1926-03-07)7 March 1926 (aged 30) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
5 | 3MF | Viktor Belkov | (1930-04-14)14 April 1930 (aged 26) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
6 | 3MF | Mikhail Rodin (ms) | (1927-04-27)27 April 1927 (aged 29) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
7 | 4FW | Aleksei Kolobov (ms) | 1929 (aged ~27) | | | Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad |
8 | 4FW | Aleksandr Tenyagin (ms) | (1927-08-22)22 August 1927 (aged 28) | | | Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad |
9 | 4FW | Oleksandr Hulevskyi (ms) | (1928-03-18)18 March 1928 (aged 28) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
10 | 4FW | Gennadi Bondarenko (ms) | (1929-02-04)4 February 1929 (aged 27) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
11 | 4FW | Aleksandr Ivanov (ms) | (1928-03-06)6 March 1928 (aged 28) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
12 | 2DF | Lev Shishkov | 1933 (aged ~23) | | | Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad |
13 | 3MF | Lazar Kravets (ms) | (1925-03-08)8 March 1925 (aged 31) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
14 | 3MF | Stanislav Zavidonov | (1934-10-14)14 October 1934 (aged 21) | | | Trudovyie Rezervy Leningrad |
15 | 4FW | Valentin Tsaritsyn | (1931-02-21)21 February 1931 (aged 25) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
16 | 4FW | Aleksandr Denisov | (1931-12-25)25 December 1931 (aged 24) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
17 | 1GK | Leonid Ivanov (mms) | (1921-07-25)25 July 1921 (aged 35) | | | Zenit Leningrad |
Armenian SSR
Head coach: Abram Dangulov (Spartak Yerevan)
RSFSR
Head coach: Aleksandr Starostin (President of the RSFSR Football Federation[a])
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
1 | 1GK | Vladimir Migalev | (1936-04-30)30 April 1936 (aged 20) | | | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
2 | 2DF | Yuriy Suetov | 1933 (aged ~23) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
3 | 2DF | Nikolay Linyayev | (1933-07-17)17 July 1933 (aged 23) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
4 | 2DF | Dmytro Bahrych | (1936-03-26)26 March 1936 (aged 20) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
5 | 3MF | Viktor Karpov (mms) | (1927-03-04)4 March 1927 (aged 29) | | | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
6 | 3MF | Eduard Dubinski | (1935-04-06)6 April 1935 (aged 21) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
7 | 4FW | Leonid Huzyk | (1933-02-21)21 February 1933 (aged 23) | | | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
8 | 4FW | Boris Repin | (1937-01-01)1 January 1937 (aged 19) | | | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
9 | 4FW | Vasily Buzunov (ms) | (1928-02-04)4 February 1928 (aged 28) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
10 | 4FW | German Neverov | 1935 (aged ~21) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
11 | 4FW | Igor Mikhin | (1933-11-18)18 November 1933 (aged 22) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
12 | 1GK | Yuriy Smirnov | (1923-09-09)9 September 1923 (aged 32) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
13 | 3MF | Nikolay Pozdnyakov | (1927-11-23)23 November 1927 (aged 28) | | | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
14 | 4FW | Vadim Redkin | (1933-04-16)16 April 1933 (aged 23) | | | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
15 | 3MF | Boris Ivanov | (1925-12-19)19 December 1925 (aged 30) | | | ODO Sverdlovsk |
16 | 4FW | Yuriy Korotkov (ms) | (1928-02-17)17 February 1928 (aged 28) | | | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
17 | 2DF | Anatoliy Mazepov | (1929-11-16)16 November 1929 (aged 26) | | | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev |
Belarusian SSR
Head coach: Mikhail Bozenenkov (Spartak Minsk)
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
1 | 1GK | Yuriy Mokhov | (1932-07-07)7 July 1932 (aged 24) | | | Spartak Minsk |
2 | 2DF | Mikhail Radunski | (1932-06-17)17 June 1932 (aged 24) | | | Spartak Minsk |
3 | 2DF | Aleksandr Ivanov | (1932-11-25)25 November 1932 (aged 23) | | | Spartak Minsk |
4 | 2DF | Gennady Abramovich (ms) | (1928-05-25)25 May 1928 (aged 28) | | | Spartak Minsk |
5 | 3MF | Vyacheslav Artyomov (ms) | (1931-02-07)7 February 1931 (aged 25) | | | Spartak Minsk |
6 | 3MF | Leonid Yerokhovets | (1935-05-01)1 May 1935 (aged 21) | | | Spartak Minsk |
7 | 4FW | Dmitry Korneev | (1934-07-04)4 July 1934 (aged 22) | | | Spartak Minsk |
8 | 4FW | Vladimir Goncharov | (1937-06-30)30 June 1937 (aged 19) | | | Spartak Minsk |
9 | 4FW | Yury Bachurin (ms) | (1928-01-13)13 January 1928 (aged 28) | | | Spartak Minsk |
10 | 4FW | Yakov Ruderman | (1937-05-07)7 May 1937 (aged 19) | | | Spartak Minsk |
11 | 4FW | Leonid Nikulenko | (1937-05-09)9 May 1937 (aged 19) | | | Spartak Minsk |
12 | 2DF | Pavel Mimrik (ms) | (1921-06-28)28 June 1921 (aged 35) | | | Spartak Minsk |
13 | 4FW | Gennady Khasin | (1935-08-25)25 August 1935 (aged 20) | | | Spartak Minsk |
14 | 4FW | Anatoliy Kovalyov | (1936-12-08)8 December 1936 (aged 19) | | | Spartak Minsk |
15 | 2DF | Leonid Dyomin | 1936 (aged ~20) | | | Spartak Minsk |
16 | 1GK | Vladimir Sobol | (1935-07-14)14 July 1935 (aged 21) | | | Spartak Minsk |
17 | 4FW | Anatoliy Yegorov (ms) | (1927-12-16)16 December 1927 (aged 28) | | | Spartak Minsk |
Azerbaijan SSR
Head coach: Victor Panyukov (FShM Tbilisi)
Notes
- ^ former convict of the Soviet GULAG system released in 1954 through the so-called "rehabilitation"
References
- ^ ГРУЗИЯ - РОССИЯ ПОДТЕКСТ - ФУТБОЛЬНЫЙ ВСЕ МАТЧИ НА УРОВНЕ СБОРНЫХ. http://www.sport-express.ru. 11 October 2002
External links
- First Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR (I СПАРТАКИАДА НАРОДОВ СССР 1956 года ). Vladimir Glubokov website.
- 1956 season at FootballFacts.ru