Soviet Footballer of the Year
The award Soviet Footballer of the Year was awarded to the best footballer of the
Football (Football-Hockey).[1] Each journalist named his own top three player every year. Each place carried a point weight such as 1st place was worth 3 pts., 2nd - 2, and 3rd - 1.[citation needed
]
The idea for the award appeared right after Lev Yashin has received Ballon d'Or award in 1963.[citation needed] The honours were awarded along with several other prizes and awards at the end of the competition season. For goalkeepers being not limited from 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".[citation needed] Before becoming an official award before 1964, in 1950s Moskovskij Komsomolets and Komsomolskaya Pravda were conducting own polls to honour the best footballer of the country.[citation needed]
List of winners
| Year | Place | Player | Club | Points | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 1st | Valery Voronin | Torpedo Moscow |
186 |
|
| 2nd | Valentin Ivanov |
Torpedo Moscow |
85
| ||
| 3rd | Slava Metreveli | Dinamo Tbilisi | 80
| ||
| 1965 | 1st | Valery Voronin | Torpedo Moscow |
? |
Only the winners were announced; it was later established that Streltsov finished 2nd. |
| 2nd | Eduard Streltsov | Torpedo Moscow |
?
| ||
| 1966 | 1st | Andriy Biba | Dynamo Kyiv | 94 |
Yashin and Shesternev obtained an equal number points, but Yashin was ranked higher for having more 1st place votes. |
| 2nd | Lev Yashin | Dynamo Moscow | 75
| ||
| 3rd | Albert Shesternev |
CSKA Moscow | 75
| ||
| 1967 | 1st | Eduard Streltsov | Torpedo Moscow |
155 |
|
| 2nd | Murtaz Khurtsilava | Dinamo Tbilisi | 84
| ||
| 3rd | Anatoliy Byshovets | Dynamo Kyiv | 31
| ||
| 1968 | 1st | Eduard Streltsov | Torpedo Moscow |
206 |
|
| 2nd | Murtaz Khurtsilava | Dinamo Tbilisi | 107
| ||
| 3rd | Albert Shesternev |
CSKA Moscow | 41
| ||
| 1969 | 1st | Vladimir Muntyan |
Dynamo Kyiv | 223 |
|
| 2nd | Anzor Kavazashvili | Spartak Moscow | 170
| ||
| 3rd | Albert Shesternev |
CSKA Moscow | 76
| ||
| 1970 | 1st | Albert Shesternyov | CSKA Moscow | 298 |
|
| 2nd | Vladimir Fedotov | CSKA Moscow | 159
| ||
| 3rd | Viktor Bannikov | Dynamo Kyiv | 73
| ||
| 1971 | 1st | Evhen Rudakov |
Dynamo Kyiv | 298 |
|
| 2nd | Viktor Kolotov | Dynamo Kyiv | 200
| ||
| 3rd | Eduard Markarov | Ararat Yerevan | 61
| ||
| 1972 | 1st | Yevgeny Lovchev |
Spartak Moscow | 188 |
|
| 2nd | Evhen Rudakov |
Dynamo Kyiv | 156
| ||
| 3rd | Murtaz Khurtsilava | Dinamo Tbilisi | 140
| ||
| 1973 | 1st | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 207 |
|
| 2nd | Arkady Andriasyan |
Ararat Yerevan | 156
| ||
| 3rd | Vladimir Pilguy | Dynamo Moscow | 82
| ||
| 1974 | 1st | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 236 |
|
| 2nd | Vladimir Veremeev |
Dynamo Kyiv | 62
| ||
| 3rd | Aleksandr Prokhorov | Spartak Moscow | 60
| ||
| 1975 | 1st | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 362 |
|
| 2nd | Vladimir Veremeev |
Dynamo Kyiv | 108
| ||
| 3rd | Yevgeni Lovchev |
Spartak Moscow | 99
| ||
| 1976 | 1st | Vladimir Astapovskiy |
CSKA Moscow | 256 |
|
| 2nd | David Kipiani | Dinamo Tbilisi | 136
| ||
| 3rd | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 116
| ||
| 1977 | 1st | David Kipiani | Dinamo Tbilisi | 323 |
|
| 2nd | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 198
| ||
| 3rd | Yuriy Dehteryov | Shakhter Donetsk | 171
| ||
| 1978 | 1st | Ramaz Shengelia | Dinamo Tbilisi | 235 |
|
| 2nd | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 156
| ||
| 3rd | Georgi Yartsev | Spartak Moscow | 135
| ||
| 1979 | 1st | Vitali Starukhin |
Shakhter Donetsk | 248 |
|
| 2nd | Vagiz Khidiyatullin | Spartak Moscow | 175
| ||
| 3rd | Yuri Gavrilov | Spartak Moscow | 172
| ||
| 1980 | 1st | Aleksandr Chivadze |
Dinamo Tbilisi | 259 |
|
| 2nd | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 187
| ||
| 3rd | Vagiz Khidiyatullin | Spartak Moscow | 103
| ||
| 1981 | 1st | Ramaz Shengelia | Dinamo Tbilisi | 360 |
|
| 2nd | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 217
| ||
| 3rd | Leonid Buryak | Dynamo Kyiv | 112
| ||
| 1982 | 1st | Rinat Dasaev |
Spartak Moscow | 400 |
|
| 2nd | Anatoliy Demyanenko | Dynamo Kyiv | 120
| ||
| 3rd | Andrei Yakubik | Pakhtakor Tashkent |
117
| ||
| 1983 | 1st | Fyodor Cherenkov | Spartak Moscow | 442 |
|
| 2nd | Rinat Dasaev |
Spartak Moscow | 181
| ||
| 3rd | Aleksandr Chivadze |
Dinamo Tbilisi | 91
| ||
| 1984 | 1st | Hennadiy Litovchenko |
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
397 |
|
| 2nd | Mikhail Biryukov |
FC Zenit Leningrad | 222
| ||
| 3rd | Yuri Gavrilov | Spartak Moscow | 75
| ||
| 1985 | 1st | Anatoliy Demyanenko | Dynamo Kyiv | 409 |
|
| 2nd | Oleg Protasov | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
393
| ||
| 3rd | Fyodor Cherenkov | Spartak Moscow | 306
| ||
| 1986 | 1st | Aleksandr Zavarov |
Dynamo Kyiv | 357 |
In 1986 Igor Belanov won the Ballon D’Or but could not become the best player in USSR. |
| 2nd | Igor Belanov | Dynamo Kyiv | 313
| ||
| 3rd | Oleg Blokhin | Dynamo Kyiv | 81
| ||
| 1987 | 1st | Oleg Protasov | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
256 |
|
| 2nd | Alexei Mikhailichenko |
Dynamo Kyiv | 144
| ||
| 3rd | Rinat Dasaev |
Spartak Moscow | 120
| ||
| 1988 | 1st | Alexei Mikhailichenko |
Dynamo Kyiv | 482 |
|
| 2nd | Rinat Dasaev |
Spartak Moscow | 109
| ||
| 3rd | Fyodor Cherenkov | Spartak Moscow | 81
| ||
| 1989 | 1st | Fyodor Cherenkov | Spartak Moscow | 345 |
|
| 2nd | Stanislav Cherchesov | Spartak Moscow | 172
| ||
| 3rd | Vladimir Bessonov |
Dynamo Kyiv | 164
| ||
| 1990 | 1st | Igor Dobrovolski | Dynamo Moscow | 259 |
|
| 2nd | Sergei Yuran | Dynamo Kyiv | 115
| ||
| 3rd | Aleksandr Mostovoi | Spartak Moscow | 68
| ||
| 1991 | 1st | Igor Kolyvanov | Dynamo Moscow | 229 |
|
| 2nd | Aleksandr Mostovoi | Spartak Moscow | 153
| ||
| 3rd | Igor Korneev | CSKA Moscow | 148
|
Most wins by club
| Club | Winners | Winning years |
|---|---|---|
Dynamo Kyiv
|
9
|
1966, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1985, 1986, 1988 |
Dynamo Tbilisi
|
4
|
1977, 1978, 1980, 1981 |
| Spartak Moscow | 4
|
1972, 1982, 1983, 1989 |
Torpedo Moscow
|
4
|
1964, 1965, 1967, 1968 |
| CSKA Moscow | 2
|
1970, 1976 |
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
|
2
|
1984, 1987 |
| FC Dynamo Moscow | 2
|
1990, 1991 |
| Shakhter Donetsk | 1
|
1979 |
Most wins by player
| Name | Wins | Winning years |
|---|---|---|
| Oleg Blokhin | 3
|
1973, 1974, 1975 |
| Fyodor Cherenkov | 2
|
1983, 1989 |
| Ramaz Shengelia | 2
|
1978, 1981 |
| Eduard Streltsov | 2
|
1967, 1968 |
| Valery Voronin | 2
|
1964, 1965 |
See also
After the Soviet Union dissolved most of the new independent countries created their own awards to the best footballer of the year. A few countries including Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania had been awarding their own awards even before the collapse of Soviet Union.
- Armenian Footballer of the Year
- Azerbaijani Footballer of the Year
- Belarusian Footballer of the Year
- Estonian Footballer of the Year
- Georgian Footballer of the Year
- Kazakhstani Footballer of the Year
- Latvian Footballer of the Year
- Lithuanian Footballer of the Year
- Moldovan Footballer of the Year
- Footballer of the Year in Russia (Futbol)
- Footballer of the Year in Russia (Sport-Express)
- Ukrainian Footballer of the Year
- Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year
- Footballer of the Year in Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States
References
National Men's Footballer of the Year award | |
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| UEFA |
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| AFC | |
| CAF |
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| CONMEBOL | |
| CONCACAF | |
