Soviet Union Olympic football team
| Nickname(s) | The Olympic Selection (Olimpiyskaya sbornaya) (Олимпийская сборная) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Association | Football Federation of the Soviet Union | ||
| Most caps | Igor Dobrovolski Yevgeni Kuznetsov Alexei Mikhailichenko Dmitri Kharine Volodymyr Troshkin (14) | ||
| Top scorer | Igor Dobrovolski (8) | ||
| FIFA code | URS | ||
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| First international | |||
| Soviet Union 1–1 Bulgaria (Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR; 27 June 1959) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
| Soviet Union 8–0 Cuba (Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR; 24 July 1980) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| East Germany 4–1 Soviet Union (Warsaw, Poland; 28 June 1964) | |||
| Summer Olympic Games | |||
| Appearances | 2 (first in 1980) | ||
| Best result | Gold Medal, 1988 | ||
| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Football | ||
| 1956 Melbourne | Team | |
| 1988 Seoul | Team | |
| 1972 Munich | Team | |
| 1976 Montreal | Team | |
| 1980 Moscow | Team | |
The Soviet Union Olympic football team was the national Olympic football team of the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1992. The team participated in all of the qualification football tournaments for Summer Olympics (except for 1980 when it qualified as hosts). Until 1992, when age restrictions were officially introduced, the Soviet Union used the first team both in qualification tournaments and finals except for 1960 and 1964 when the second national team was used for the qualification tournaments (the first team succeeded it in the finals in those years).