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Football at the 1956 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR

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

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Final

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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

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