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Soviet Footballer of the Year

Football award in the Soviet Union

Football award in the Soviet Union

The award Soviet Footballer of the Year was awarded to the best footballer of the Soviet Union from 1964 until 1991. The poll was conducted among journalists by the weekly sports newspaper Football (Football-Hockey). Each journalist named his own top three players every year. Each place carried a point weight such as 1st place was worth 3 pts., 2nd - 2, and 3rd - 1.

The idea for the award appeared right after Lev Yashin had received the Ballon d'Or award in 1963. The honours were awarded along with several other prizes and awards at the end of the competition season. For goalkeepers, not limited to the Soviet Footballer of the Year, also were awarded separate honours, the "Best Goalkeeper of the Year". The best goal-scorer of the Soviet Top League was awarded with the "Best Topscorer of the Year". Before becoming an official award in 1964, in the 1950s Moskovskij Komsomolets and Komsomolskaya Pravda were conducting their own polls to honour the best footballer of the country.

List of winners

YearPlacePlayerClubPointsNotes
19641stValery VoroninTorpedo Moscow
2ndValentin IvanovTorpedo Moscow
3rdSlava MetreveliDinamo Tbilisi
19651stValery VoroninTorpedo MoscowOnly the winners were announced; it was later established that
Streltsov finished 2nd.
2ndEduard StreltsovTorpedo Moscow
19661stAndriy BibaDynamo KyivYashin and Shesternev obtained an equal number points,
but Yashin was ranked higher for having more 1st place votes.
2ndLev YashinDynamo Moscow
3rdAlbert ShesternevCSKA Moscow
19671stEduard StreltsovTorpedo Moscow
2ndMurtaz KhurtsilavaDinamo Tbilisi
3rdAnatoliy ByshovetsDynamo Kyiv
19681stEduard StreltsovTorpedo Moscow
2ndMurtaz KhurtsilavaDinamo Tbilisi
3rdAlbert ShesternevCSKA Moscow
19691stVladimir MuntyanDynamo Kyiv
2ndAnzor KavazashviliSpartak Moscow
3rdAlbert ShesternevCSKA Moscow
19701stAlbert ShesternyovCSKA Moscow
2ndVladimir FedotovCSKA Moscow
3rdViktor BannikovDynamo Kyiv
19711stEvhen RudakovDynamo Kyiv
2ndViktor KolotovDynamo Kyiv
3rdEduard MarkarovArarat Yerevan
19721stYevgeny LovchevSpartak Moscow
2ndEvhen RudakovDynamo Kyiv
3rdMurtaz KhurtsilavaDinamo Tbilisi
19731stOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
2ndArkady AndriasyanArarat Yerevan
3rdVladimir PilguyDynamo Moscow
19741stOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
2ndVladimir VeremeevDynamo Kyiv
3rdAleksandr ProkhorovSpartak Moscow
19751stOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
2ndVladimir VeremeevDynamo Kyiv
3rdYevgeni LovchevSpartak Moscow
19761stVladimir AstapovskiyCSKA Moscow
2ndDavid KipianiDinamo Tbilisi
3rdOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
19771stDavid KipianiDinamo Tbilisi
2ndOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
3rdYuriy DehteryovShakhter Donetsk
19781stRamaz ShengeliaDinamo Tbilisi
2ndOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
3rdGeorgi YartsevSpartak Moscow
19791stVitali StarukhinShakhter Donetsk
2ndVagiz KhidiyatullinSpartak Moscow
3rdYuri GavrilovSpartak Moscow
19801stAleksandr ChivadzeDinamo Tbilisi
2ndOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
3rdVagiz KhidiyatullinSpartak Moscow
19811stRamaz ShengeliaDinamo Tbilisi
2ndOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
3rdLeonid BuryakDynamo Kyiv
19821stRinat DasaevSpartak Moscow
2ndAnatoliy DemyanenkoDynamo Kyiv
3rdAndrei YakubikPakhtakor Tashkent
19831stFyodor CherenkovSpartak Moscow
2ndRinat DasaevSpartak Moscow
3rdAleksandr ChivadzeDinamo Tbilisi
19841stHennadiy LitovchenkoDnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2ndMikhail BiryukovFC Zenit Leningrad
3rdYuri GavrilovSpartak Moscow
19851stAnatoliy DemyanenkoDynamo Kyiv
2ndOleg ProtasovDnipro Dnipropetrovsk
3rdFyodor CherenkovSpartak Moscow
19861stAleksandr ZavarovDynamo KyivIn 1986 Igor Belanov won the Ballon d'Or
but could not become the best player in USSR.
2ndIgor BelanovDynamo Kyiv
3rdOleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
19871stOleg ProtasovDnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2ndAlexei MikhailichenkoDynamo Kyiv
3rdRinat DasaevSpartak Moscow
19881stAlexei MikhailichenkoDynamo Kyiv
2ndRinat DasaevSpartak Moscow
3rdFyodor CherenkovSpartak Moscow
19891stFyodor CherenkovSpartak Moscow
2ndStanislav CherchesovSpartak Moscow
3rdVladimir BessonovDynamo Kyiv
19901stIgor DobrovolskiDynamo Moscow
2ndSergei YuranDynamo Kyiv
3rdAleksandr MostovoiSpartak Moscow
19911stIgor KolyvanovDynamo Moscow
2ndAleksandr MostovoiSpartak Moscow
3rdIgor KorneevCSKA Moscow

Most wins by club

ClubWinnersWinning years
Dynamo Kyiv1966, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1985, 1986, 1988
Dynamo Tbilisi1977, 1978, 1980, 1981
Spartak Moscow1972, 1982, 1983, 1989
Torpedo Moscow1964, 1965, 1967, 1968
CSKA Moscow1970, 1976
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk1984, 1987
FC Dynamo Moscow1990, 1991
Shakhter Donetsk1979

Most wins by player

NameWinsWinning years
Oleg Blokhin1973, 1974, 1975
Fyodor Cherenkov1983, 1989
Ramaz Shengelia1978, 1981
Eduard Streltsov1967, 1968
Valery Voronin1964, 1965

References

References

  1. "Statistics from RSSSF".
  2. [https://dzen.ru/a/XRynNv0HaQCufNVY Самые титулованные футболисты, чаще всего получавшие премию футболист года, за всю историю чемпионата СССР]. dzen.ru. 3 July 2019
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