The ''List of 33 Best Football Players of the Year'' (Список 33 лучших футболистов сезона в СССР) was an annual award list of the former

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 national ...

which ran from 1948 to 1991. It was compiled after each football season by the Presidium of the

USSR Football Federation The Football Federation of the USSR (russian: Федерация футбола СССР) was a governing body of football in the Soviet Union and since 1972 the main governing body of football in the country. The Federation was created late i ...

, following the proposal of the National Coaches' Council, which approved the list of the 33 best football players.''Sport in the USSR'' 1989 Issues 310-321 - Page 63 "33 BEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS As usual, after each football season the Presidium of the USSR Football Federation, upon a proposal of the National Coaches' Council, approves the list of the 33 best football players. Below is the list for 1988" The award was not related to the independent ''

Soviet Footballer of the Year The award Soviet Footballer of the Year was awarded to the best footballer of the Soviet Union from 1964 until 1991. The poll was conducted among journalists by the weekly sport newspaper '' Football'' (Football-Hockey). Each journalist named his o ...

'' award which ran from 1964 until 1991 on a poll conducted among journalists, rather than among coaches.

After 1991

Following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the

Russian Football Federation The Russian Football Union (russian: Российский Футбольный Союз, ''Rossiyskiy Futbolnyy Soyuz'' or RFS) is the official governing body of association football in the Russia, Russian Federation. With headquarters in Moscow ...

instituted a similar list in 1992 for the Russian league ( :ru:Список 33 лучших футболистов чемпионата России). The Ukrainian newspaper ''Komanda'' also instituted a similar list for List of 33 Best Football Players of the Year in the Ukraine.

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