Football at the 1986 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR

1986 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR football tournament
Tournament details
Host countryUkrainian SSR
Dates9 July – 27 July
Teams17
Venue(s)6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
ChampionsUkrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Ukrainian SSR (1st title)
Runners-upUzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbek SSR
Third placeMoscow Moscow
Fourth placeMoldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldavian SSR
Tournament statistics
Matches played44
Goals scored150 (3.41 per match)
1983
1991

The football tournament at the 1986 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR was a preparatory competition for the Soviet Union Olympic football team among the Olympic reserves. The competition took place on July 9 through July 27, 1986 as part of the Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR.

The competition included footballers under 21 years of age (born between 1965 and 1968). All participating teams at first were split in four groups with top two team in each of them advancing to the next round forming two semifinal groups of four in each. Depending on their standing in their groups, teams would play off with another team that placed the same place in another group.

Competition[edit]

Preliminary games[edit]

All times local (UTC+3)

Key to colours in group tables
Team progressed to the semifinals
Group 1 (Nikopol and Ordzhonikidze)
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic RSFSR 4 4 0 0 14 2 +12 8
Saint Petersburg Leningrad 4 2 1 1 7 2 +5 5
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic Estonia 4 2 1 1 7 8 −1 5
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Armenia 4 1 0 3 3 6 -3 2
Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Kyrgyzia 4 0 0 4 2 15 -13 0

Leningrad finished second ahead of Estonia based on their goal difference.

Group 2 (Zaporizhia)
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Moscow Moscow 3 1 2 0 8 0 +8 4
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kazakhstan 3 1 2 0 6 2 +4 4
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Georgia 3 0 3 0 3 3 0 3
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic Tajikistan 3 0 1 2 3 15 -12 1

Moscow finished first ahead of Kazakhstan based on their goal difference.

Group 3 (Donetsk)
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Ukraine 3 3 0 0 4 1 +3 6
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbekistan 3 1 1 1 7 4 +3 3
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Belorussia 3 1 0 2 4 8 −4 2
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaijan 3 0 1 2 1 3 -2 1
Group 4 (Kharkiv)
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Latvia 3 2 0 1 4 4 0 4
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldavia 3 1 1 1 4 2 +2 3
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Lithuania 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 3
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Turkmenia 3 1 0 2 1 4 -3 2

Moldavia finished second ahead of Lithuania based on their goal difference.

Semifinals groups[edit]

Group A (Nikopol and Ordzhonikidze)
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Ukraine 3 3 0 0 10 2 +8 6
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldavia 3 2 0 1 4 2 +2 4
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic RSFSR 3 1 0 2 4 2 +2 2
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kazakhstan 3 0 0 3 2 14 -12 0
Group B (Zaporizhia)
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbekistan 3 2 1 0 7 0 +7 5
Moscow Moscow 3 1 2 0 8 1 +7 4
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Latvia 3 1 0 2 3 14 −11 2
Saint Petersburg Leningrad 3 0 1 2 2 5 -3 1

Final playoffs[edit]

  • 7th place playoff (Nikopol). Leningrad – Kazakh SSR 2:0
  • 5th place playoff (Ordzhonikidze). RSFSR – Latvian SSR 5:2
  • 3rd place playoff (Kiev). Moscow – Moldavian SSR 3:1
  • 1st place playoff (Kiev). Ukraine – Uzbek SSR 1:0

1986 Champions – Ukrainian SSR[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Football-87: Handbook-calendar / compiled by N.Kiselyov — "Lenizdat", 1987
  • Football-87: Handbook-calendar — Moscow: Luzhniki, 1987.
  • "Football-Hockey". No. 31, 3 August 1986

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