1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR football tournament Host country Moscow Dates 2 August – 16 August Teams 18 Venue(s) 5 (in 1 host city) Champions Moscow (2nd title) Runners-up Georgian SSR Third place Ukrainian SSR Fourth place Leningrad Matches played 37 Goals scored 134 (3.62 per match)
International football competition
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
MATCH OFFICIALS
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
For 5th place
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
For 9th place
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[ a] )
Belarusian SSR
Head coach: Mikhail Bozenenkov (Spartak Minsk )
Azerbaijan SSR
Head coach: Victor Panyukov (FShM Tbilisi)
Notes
^ former convict of the Soviet GULAG system released in 1954 through the so-called "rehabilitation "
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