The football tournament at the 1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR was a preparatory competition for the Soviet Union national football team for the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics. The competition took place on August 2 – 16, 1956 as part of the Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR.
Competition
Main tournament
Qualification round
Latvia - Azerbaijan 1:5
Estonia - Lithuania 0:1
Round of 16
Armenia - Tajikistan 3:0
Belarus - Kyrgyzstan 1:0
Azerbaijan - Karelia 5:1
Georgia - Moldova 4:0
Russia - Uzbekistan 3:1
Leningrad - Turkmenistan 2:0
Ukraine - Kazakhstan 2:1
Moscow - Lithuania 2:0
Quarterfinals
Russia - Leningrad 0:2
Georgia - Armenia 4:2
Ukraine - Azerbaijan 4:1
Moscow - Belarus 5:1
Semifinals
Georgia - Ukraine 3:1
Moscow - Leningrad 3:2
Final
Moscow - Georgia 2:1
For 3rd place
Ukraine - Leningrad 2:1
Consolation tournament for quarterfinalists
Semifinals
Azerbaijan - Armenia 0:3
Russia - Belarus 4:2
For 7th place
Azerbaijan - Belarus 0:2
For 5th place
Armenia - Russia 2:1
Consolation tournament
Quarterfinals
Latvia - Kazakhstan 2:1
Moldova - Tajikistan 6:0
Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan 3:0
Estonia - Kyrgyzstan 2:1
Karelia - bye
Lithuania - bye
Semifinals
Karelia - Latvia 0:5
Moldova - Uzbekistan 4:3
Estonia - Lithuania 0:2
For 10th place
Moldova - Lithuania 4:1
For 9th place
Latvia - Moldova 2:1
For 12th place
Uzbekistan - Karelia 2:1
Uzbekistan - Estonia 2:0
Tournament for losing teams
Semifinals
Kazakhstan - Tajikistan 3:0
Turkmenistan - Kyrgyzstan 0:1
For 15th place
Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan 2:1
For 17th place
Tajikistan - Turkmenistan 2:3
External links
First Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR (I СПАРТАКИАДА НАРОДОВ СССР 1956 года ). Vladimir Glubokov website. 1956 season at FootballFacts.ru