Soviet Union Olympic football team

Soviet Union Olympic
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)The Olympic Selection (Olimpiyskaya sbornaya) (Олимпийская сборная)
AssociationFootball Federation of the Soviet Union
Most capsIgor Dobrovolski
Yevgeni Kuznetsov
Alexei Mikhailichenko
Dmitri Kharine
Volodymyr Troshkin (14)
Top scorerIgor Dobrovolski (8)
FIFA codeURS
First colours
Second colours
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
Appearances2 (first in 1980)
Best resultGold Medal, 1988
Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place 1980 Moscow Team
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul 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).