Football at the 1986 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR

1986 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR football tournament
Tournament details
Host country	Ukrainian SSR
Dates	9 July – 27 July
Teams	17
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Ukrainian SSR (1st title)
Runners-up	Uzbek SSR
Third place	Moscow
Fourth place	Moldavian SSR
Tournament statistics
Matches played	44
Goals scored	150 (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

Preliminary games

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
RSFSR	4	4	0	0	14	2	+12	8
Leningrad	4	2	1	1	7	2	+5	5
Estonia	4	2	1	1	7	8	−1	5
Armenia	4	1	0	3	3	6	-3	2
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	3	1	2	0	8	0	+8	4
Kazakhstan	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4	4
Georgia	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
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
Ukraine	3	3	0	0	4	1	+3	6
Uzbekistan	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	3
Belorussia	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	2
Azerbaijan	3	0	1	2	1	3	-2	1

Group 4 (Kharkiv)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Latvia	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	4
Moldavia	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	3
Lithuania	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
Turkmenia	3	1	0	2	1	4	-3	2

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

Semifinals groups

Group A (Nikopol and Ordzhonikidze)

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ukraine	3	3	0	10	2	+8	6
Moldavia	3	2	1	4	2	+2	4
RSFSR	3	1	2	4	2	+2	2
Kazakhstan	3	0	3	2	14	-12	0

Group B (Zaporizhia)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Uzbekistan	3	2	1	0	7	0	+7	5
Moscow	3	1	2	0	8	1	+7	4
Latvia	3	1	0	2	3	14	−11	2
Leningrad	3	0	1	2	2	5	-3	1

Final playoffs

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

Ukrainian SSR

Head coach – Viktor Kolotov, assistant coaches – Volodymyr Troshkin, Ye.Kotelnykov
Andriy Kovtun (SKA Kiev), Volodymyr Tsytkin, Volodymyr Horilyi (Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Shmatovalenko (SKA Odessa), Oleh Derevinsky (Dynamo Kyiv), A.Dyuldyn, A.Enei, R.Kolokolov, Oleksandr Nefyodov, Oleksandr Rolevych (SKA Odessa), Serhiy Kovalets (Zirka Berdychiv), Syarhey Herasimets (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Yesipov (Metalist Kharkiv), Oleksandr Ivanov (Metalist Kharkiv), S.Khudozhylov, A.Mareyev, V.Marchuk, A.Gushchin, Andriy Sydelnykov (Dynamo Kyiv), Vasyl Storchak (Torpedo Lutsk), O.Serdyuk

Competition

Preliminary games

Semifinals groups

Final playoffs

Ukrainian SSR

Further reading