The Commonwealth of Independent States national football team (russian: Сборная СНГ по футболу, ''Sbornaya SNG po futbolu'') was a transitional 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 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of and has an estimated population of 239,796,010 ...
.
The CIS team was created to allow the
Soviet national team further participation as it had already booked a spot in
Euro 1992
The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship was hosted by Sweden between 10 and 26 June 1992. It was the ninth UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA.
Denmark national football team, Denmark won the 19 ...
through the
1990–91 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. Players had an option either to play for the team or to play for a team of their country.
With the end of Euro 1992, the
Russia national team was recognized as the only successor of the CIS team.
Situation
As the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
formally
ceased to exist on 26 December 1991, 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
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
'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
The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship was hosted by Sweden between 10 and 26 June 1992. It was the ninth UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and supported by UEFA.
Denmark national football team, Denmark won the 19 ...
in June 1992. It was disbanded soon thereafter and all its results were transferred to the
Russia national football team
The Russia national football team (russian: Сборная России по футболу, Sbornaya Rossii po futbolu) represents the Russian Federation in men's international association football. It is controlled by the Russian Football Un ...
that played its first game in August 1992.
The CIS national football team was coached by
Anatoly Byshovets
Anatoliy Fyodorovich Byshovets (russian: Анатолий Фёдорович Бышовец, uk, Анато́лій Фе́дорович Бишове́ць; born 23 April 1946) is a Soviet and Russian football manager of Ukrainian origin and for ...
. The team failed to achieve success in the 1992 European Football Championship, finishing last in the group, but achieved two notable draws with
Germany
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and the
Netherlands
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, before being beaten 3–0 by
Scotland
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in what turned out to be their last match.
European Championship record
Results
Post-Soviet national federations
National federation members of the CIS association
1. Kazakhstan were affiliated with the AFC from 1994 until 2002, when they joined UEFA.
National federations outside the CIS association
UEFA Euro 1992 squad
Head coach:
Anatoliy Byshovets
Anatoliy Fyodorovich Byshovets (russian: Анатолий Фёдорович Бышовец, uk, Анато́лій Фе́дорович Бишове́ць; born 23 April 1946) is a Soviet and Russian football manager of Ukrainian origin and for ...
In total, the CIS squad contained eight Russians, eight Ukrainians (one born in Germany), a Georgian, a Belarusian, an Abkhazian, and a Circassian. 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
Kakhaber Tskhadadze ( ka, კახაბერ ცხადაძე; born 7 September 1968) is a Georgian football manager and former player. He is the manager of Kazakhstani club Caspiy.
As a player he was defender who notably played in t ...
(Georgia) and
Akhrik Tsveiba
Akhrik Sokratovich Tsveiba (russian: Ахрик Сократович Цвейба; born 10 September 1966) is a former Soviet association footballer.
Career
Tsveiba started his career at FC Dinamo Sukhumi before playing regularly for FC Dinamo T ...
(Ukraine).
With the exception of
Volodymyr Lyutyi
Volodymyr Ivanovych Lyutyi ( uk, Володимир Іванович Лютий; born 20 April 1962) is a football coach and a former player from Ukraine.
Career
Lyutyi was born in Dnipropetrovsk. After playing for the Soviet FC Dnipro Dnipropetr ...
, all the players resumed their international careers with their respective individual nations.
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...
qualified for the
1994 FIFA World Cup
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in the
United States
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with the bulk of the Euro 1992 CIS squad but due to the incident with the ''Letter of fourteeners'' in November 1993,
Igor Shalimov
Igor Mihailovich Shalimov (russian: Игорь Михайлович Шалимов; born 2 February 1969) is a Russian football manager and former player. During his playing career, he played as a midfielder, primarily in the wide position.
Pl ...
,
Igor Dobrovolsky,
Igor Kolyvanov
Igor Vladimirovich Kolyvanov (russian: Игорь Владимирович Колыванов; born 6 March 1968) is a Russian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. During his playing career, he play ...
,
Sergei Kiriakov
Sergei Vyacheslavovich Kiriakov (russian: Серге́й Вячеславович Кирьяков; born 1 January 1970) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He is the manager of FC Leningradets Leningrad Oblast.
Career
Kiriakov ...
,
Vasili Kulkov
Vasili Sergeyevich Kulkov (; 11 June 1966 – 10 October 2020) was a Russian footballer.
Either a central defender or defensive midfielder, he was best known for his spells at Spartak Moscow and Benfica. Having retired as a player, he contin ...
, and
Andrei Kanchelskis
Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis ( uk, Андрій Антанасович Канчельскіс; russian: Андрей Антанасович Канчельскис; born 23 January 1969) is a professional football manager and former player. He ...
were excluded from the national team.
Oleg Salenko
Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko (russian: Олег Анатольевич Саленко, uk, Олег Анатолійович Саленко; born 25 October 1969) is a Russian-Ukrainian former footballer who played as a forward. He scored a recor ...
and
Andrei Ivanov, who also signed the letter, eventually withdrew their signatures. Tsveiba and Chernyshov were later called to the
Russia national football team
The Russia national football team (russian: Сборная России по футболу, Sbornaya Rossii po futbolu) represents the Russian Federation in men's international association football. It is controlled by the Russian Football Un ...
.
Although almost one third of the team were from Ukraine, only two Ukrainian players ever played for the
Ukraine national football team
The Ukraine national football team ( uk, Збірна України з футболу) represents Ukraine in men's international football and is governed by the Ukrainian Association of Football, the governing body for football in Ukraine. Ukr ...
, while another four chose to play for the Russian national team.
See also
*
Unified Team at the Olympics
The Unified Team (russian: Объединённая команда) was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union
(except the Baltic states) at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelon ...
, the Olympic counterpart
**
Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics
The Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics (russian: Объединённая команда на летних Олимпийских играх 1992) in Barcelona, Spain, was a joint team consisting of twelve of the fifteen former Soviet Union ...
**
Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics
The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was a joint team consisting of five of the fifteen former Soviet republics: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Uzbekistan that made a decision to collaborate and created a united te ...
*
, the Paralympic counterpart
**
Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
The Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain, was a joint team consisting of seven of the fifteen former Soviet republics. It competed under the IOC country code
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses three-letter ...
**
Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Paralympics
Unified Team competed at the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes/Albertville, France. 21 competitors from Unified Team won 21 medals including 10 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze and finished 2nd in the medal table.
See also
* Unified Team at the Paral ...
Notes
References
External links
USSR National Football Team(in Russian)
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Former national association football teams in Europe
Sport in the Commonwealth of Independent States
CIS
Cis or cis- may refer to:
Places
* Cis, Trentino, in Italy
* In Poland:
** Cis, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central
** Cis, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, north
Math, science and biology
* cis (mathematics) (cis(''θ'')), a trigonome ...
National sports teams established in 1992