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
Final
Moscow: GK 16Boris Razinsky DF 2Nikolai TishchenkoDF 3Anatoli BashashkinDF 4Mikhail OgonkovMF 5Aleksei ParamonovMF 6Anatoli MaslyonkinFW 7Boris Tatushin FW 8Valentin Ivanov FW 9Eduard StreltsovFW 10Sergei Salnikov (c) FW 15Ivan MozerSubstitutes:FW 11Anatoli Ilyin Manager:Gavriil KachalinGeorgian SSR: GK 1Mikhail PirayevMF 5Aleksandr KotrikadzeDF 3Niyazbey DzyapshipaDF 4Givi KhocholavaMF 14Shota IamanidzeMF 6Avtandil Gogoberidze (c)FW 7Boris Khasaya FW 8Konstantin GagnidzeFW 10Zaur KaloevFW 9Andrei ZazroyevFW 11Avtandil Ch'k'uaseliSubstitutes:Manager:Gaioz JejelavaГРУЗИЯ - РОССИЯ ПОДТЕКСТ - ФУТБОЛЬНЫЙ ВСЕ МАТЧИ НА УРОВНЕ СБОРНЫХ. http://www.sport-express.ru. 11 October 2002 MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees:MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Consolation tournament for quarterfinalists Semifinals Azerbaijan - Armenia 0:3 Russia - Belarus 4:2
For 7th place Azerbaijan - Belarus 0:2
For 5th place Armenia - Russia 2:1
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 Moldova - Lithuania 4:1
For 9th place Latvia - Moldova 2:1
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)
Armenian SSR Head coach: Abram Dangulov (Spartak Yerevan)
RSFSR Head coach: Aleksandr Starostin (President of the RSFSR Football Federation)
Belarusian SSR Head coach: Mikhail Bozenenkov (Spartak Minsk)
Azerbaijan SSR Head coach: Victor Panyukov (FShM Tbilisi)
Notes
References
External links First Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR (I СПАРТАКИАДА НАРОДОВ СССР 1956 года ). Vladimir Glubokov website. 1956 season at FootballFacts.ru