Soviet Footballer of the Year

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 sport newspaper 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.

The idea for the award appeared right after Lev Yashin has received Ballon d'Or award in 1963 (Ballon d'Or 1963).

List of winners

Year Place Player Club Points Notes
1964
 1st Valery VoroninTorpedo Moscow
186
2nd Valentin IvanovTorpedo Moscow
85
3rd Slava MetreveliDinamo Tbilisi
80
1965
 1st Valery VoroninTorpedo Moscow
?
Only the winners were announced; it was later established that
Streltsov finished 2nd.
2nd Eduard StreltsovTorpedo Moscow
?
1966
 1st Andriy BibaDynamo Kyiv
94
Yashin and Shesternev obtained an equal number points,
but Yashin was ranked higher for having more 1st place votes.
2nd Lev YashinDynamo Moscow
75
3rd Albert ShesternevCSKA Moscow
75
1967
 1st Eduard StreltsovTorpedo Moscow
155
2nd Murtaz KhurtsilavaDinamo Tbilisi
84
3rd Anatoliy ByshovetsDynamo Kyiv
31
1968
 1st Eduard StreltsovTorpedo Moscow
206
2nd Murtaz KhurtsilavaDinamo Tbilisi
107
3rd Albert ShesternevCSKA Moscow
41
1969
 1st Vladimir MuntyanDynamo Kyiv
223
2nd Anzor KavazashviliSpartak Moscow
170
3rd Albert ShesternevCSKA Moscow
76
1970
 1st Albert ShesternyovCSKA Moscow
298
2nd Vladimir FedotovCSKA Moscow
159
3rd Viktor BannikovDynamo Kyiv
73
1971
 1st Evhen RudakovDynamo Kyiv
298
2nd Viktor KolotovDynamo Kyiv
200
3rd Eduard MarkarovArarat Yerevan
61
1972
 1st Yevgeny LovchevSpartak Moscow
188
2nd Evhen RudakovDynamo Kyiv
156
3rd Murtaz KhurtsilavaDinamo Tbilisi
140
1973
 1st Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
207
2nd Arkady AndriasyanArarat Yerevan
156
3rd Vladimir PilguyDynamo Moscow
82
1974
 1st Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
236
2nd Vladimir VeremeevDynamo Kyiv
62
3rd Aleksandr ProkhorovSpartak Moscow
60
1975
 1st Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
362
2nd Vladimir VeremeevDynamo Kyiv
108
3rd Yevgeni LovchevSpartak Moscow
99
1976
 1st Vladimir AstapovskiyCSKA Moscow
256
2nd David KipianiDinamo Tbilisi
136
3rd Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
116
1977
 1st David KipianiDinamo Tbilisi
323
2nd Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
198
3rd Yuriy DehteryovShakhter Donetsk
171
1978
 1st Ramaz ShengeliaDinamo Tbilisi
235
2nd Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
156
3rd Georgi YartsevSpartak Moscow
135
1979
 1st Vitali StarukhinShakhter Donetsk
248
2nd Vagiz KhidiyatullinSpartak Moscow
175
3rd Yuri GavrilovSpartak Moscow
172
1980
 1st Aleksandr ChivadzeDinamo Tbilisi
259
2nd Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
187
3rd Vagiz KhidiyatullinSpartak Moscow
103
1981
 1st Ramaz ShengeliaDinamo Tbilisi
360
2nd Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
217
3rd Leonid BuryakDynamo Kyiv
112
1982
 1st Rinat DasaevSpartak Moscow
400
2nd Anatoliy DemyanenkoDynamo Kyiv
120
3rd Andrei YakubikPakhtakor Tashkent
117
1983
 1st Fyodor CherenkovSpartak Moscow
442
2nd Rinat DasaevSpartak Moscow
181
3rd Aleksandr ChivadzeDinamo Tbilisi
91
1984
 1st Hennadiy LitovchenkoDnipro Dnipropetrovsk
397
2nd Mikhail BiryukovFC Zenit Leningrad
222
3rd Yuri GavrilovSpartak Moscow
75
1985
 1st Anatoliy DemyanenkoDynamo Kyiv
409
2nd Oleg ProtasovDnipro Dnipropetrovsk
393
3rd Fyodor CherenkovSpartak Moscow
306
1986
 1st Aleksandr ZavarovDynamo Kyiv
357
In 1986 Igor Belanov won the Ballon D’Or
but could not become the best player in USSR.
2nd Igor BelanovDynamo Kyiv
313
3rd Oleg BlokhinDynamo Kyiv
81
1987
 1st Oleg ProtasovDnipro Dnipropetrovsk
256
2nd Alexei MikhailichenkoDynamo Kyiv
144
3rd Rinat DasaevSpartak Moscow
120
1988
 1st Alexei MikhailichenkoDynamo Kyiv
482
2nd Rinat DasaevSpartak Moscow
109
3rd Fyodor CherenkovSpartak Moscow
81
1989
 1st Fyodor CherenkovSpartak Moscow
345
2nd Stanislav CherchesovSpartak Moscow
172
3rd Vladimir BessonovDynamo Kyiv
164
1990
 1st Igor DobrovolskiDynamo Moscow
259
2nd Sergei YuranDynamo Kyiv
115
3rd Aleksandr MostovoiSpartak Moscow
68
1991
 1st Igor KolyvanovDynamo Moscow
229
2nd Aleksandr MostovoiSpartak Moscow
153
3rd Igor KorneevCSKA 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Statistics from RSSSF".
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