Most caps Dmitri Kharine (11) Home stadium Various Appearances 1 (first in 1992) Head coach Anatoliy Byshovets | Top scorer Sergei Kiriakov (4) FIFA code CIS Best result Round 1, 1992 | |
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Location Commonwealth of Independent States, San José, Costa Rica Association Football Federation of the Soviet Union | ||
Cis national football team
The CIS national football team was a provisional national team of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union in 1992. It was accepted that the team would represent the Commonwealth of Independent States. The CIS team was created as part of transformation that was planned to take place. As the USSR national team had already booked a spot in Euro 1992 through the 1991 qualification tournament, the only way to preserve the spot for the post-Soviet team was to take part in the competition as a unified team.
Contents
- Cis national football team
- Situation
- National federations of the CIS association
- UEFA Euro 1992 squad
- References
With the end of Euro 1992, the team was transformed into the Russia national football team.
Situation
As the Soviet Union has formally ceased to exist on 1 January 1992, so did all its organizations including the football federation. The Association of Football Federations of CIS was formed on 11 January 1992 and was approved by FIFA two days later. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 was adopted as its anthem. Along with the Association, national federations of its members started to form and apply for international recognition.
The CIS national football team, previously known as the USSR national football team, completed its participation in the Euro 1992 in June 1992. It was disbanded soon thereafter and all its results were transferred to the Russia national football team that played its first game in August 1992.
The CIS national football team was coached by Anatoly Byshovets. The team failed to achieve success in the 1992 European Football Championship, finishing last in the group, but achieved two notable draws with Germany and the Netherlands, before being beaten 3–0 by Scotland in what turned out to be their last match.
National federations of the CIS association
1. ^ Kazakhstan were affiliated with the AFC from 1994 until 2002, when they joined UEFA.
UEFA Euro 1992 squad
Head coach: Anatoliy Byshovets
In total, the CIS squad contained eight Russians, six Ukrainians (one born in Germany), a Georgian, a Belarusian, an Abkhazian, a Circassian, and an Ossetian. Caps included games played for the Soviet team as well as the CIS. Some players simultaneously played for other national teams such as Kakhaber Tskhadadze (Georgia) and Akhrik Tsveiba (Ukraine).
Practically all the players (marked in bold) played later for the Russia national football team, which qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States. Due to the incident with the Letter of fourteeners in November 1993 (because of the team's poor performance), Igor Shalimov, Igor Dobrovolsky, Igor Kolyvanov, Sergei Kiriakov, Vasili Kulkov, and Andrei Kanchelskis were excluded from the national team. Oleg Salenko and Andrei Ivanov, who also signed the letter, eventually withdrew their signatures. Tsveiba and Chernyshov were later called to the Russia national football team.
Although almost one third of the team were from Ukraine, only two Ukrainian players and an Abkhazian (Akhrik Tsveiba) ever played for the Ukraine national football team, while another four chose to play for the Russian national team.