Viktor Serebryanikov

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Serebryanikov.

Viktor Serebryanikov

Personal information
Full name	Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov
Date of birth	(1940-03-29)29 March 1940
Place of birth	Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death	12 November 2014(2014-11-12) (aged 74)
Place of death	Kyiv, Ukraine
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder, Inside-right
Youth career
1956–1958	FC Metalurh Zaporizhya
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1959	FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	39	(10)
1959–1971	FC Dynamo Kyiv	299	(70)
Total		338	(80)
International career
1963–1964	Soviet Union (Olympic)	5	(4)
1964–1970	Soviet Union	21	(3)
Managerial career
1973	FC Frunzenets Sumy
1977–1978	Nyva Pidhaitsi
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov (Russian: Виктор Петрович Серебряников; Ukrainian: Віктор Петрович Серебряников, 29 March 1940 – 12 November 2014) also spelled Serebryannikov, was a Soviet association football player from Ukraine (at that time Ukrainian SSR). Serebrianikov was a member of the Dynamo's squad that for the first time won the Soviet championship title in 1961 becoming the first non-Moscow team to achieve that feat, so called "the first height".

In 1960s, Serebrianikov became admired in the Soviet football for his "ball's arc" (Russian: дуга Серебряникова) when the football after being hit was spinning in two planes. Later in interview he explained that the trick he picked in Brazil when the Soviet team was on tour.

After retiring from his playing career, Serebryanikov became the first head coach of Nyva Ternopil that started out from the collective farm "Path to the Communism" in the city of Pidhaitsi, Berezhany Raion in Ternopil Oblast in 1978.

He is considered as the first who received the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year award.

Career statistics

Dynamo

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo	1959	7	0	-	-	-	-	7	0
	1960	18	8	-	-	-	-	18	8
	1961	29	4	1	0	-	-	30	4
	1962	20	7	-	-	-	-	20	7
	1963	37	11	2	1	-	-	39	12
	1964	29	3	5	1	-	-	34	4
	1965	29	11	2	1	6	2	37	14
	1966	15	2	2	0	-	-	17	2
	1967	35	8	2	0	4	0	41	8
	1968	34	7	-	-	-	-	34	7
	1969	30	8	2	1	4	2	36	11
	1970	15	1	1	0	-	-	16	1
	1971	1	0	4	1	-	-	5	1
Total		299	70	21	5	14	4	334	79

• The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

International

National team	Year
		Apps	Goals
Soviet Union	1964	3	1
	1965	–	–
	1966	6	1
	1967	–	–
	1968	–	–
	1969	4	0
	1970	8	1
Career total		21	3

Honours

• Soviet Top League winner: 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971.
• Soviet Cup winner: 1964, 1966.

International career

Serebryanikov was a key player on the Soviet Olympic team during their 1964 Summer Olympics qualifications scoring 4 goals, yet the team did not qualify for the finals in Tokyo.

Serebryanikov made his debut for USSR senior squad on 11 October 1964 in a friendly against Austria (he was selected for the 1962 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play in any games at the tournament). He played in the 1966 and 1970 World Cup tournaments.

He is statistically remembered as the first substituted player in the history of the World Cup, in 1970, the first World Cup where substitutions were allowed. He was substituted at half-time in the opening game of the tournament, between USSR and hosts Mexico, when he was replaced by Anatoliy Puzach.

External links

• RussiaTeam biography Archived 30 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
• Viktor Petrovich Serebryannikov at KLISF.ru at archive.today (archived 2013-09-06)
• DynamoFan75. Viktor Serebrianikov (Серебряников Виктор). Football in the USSR. 2 March 2016.