Football Player of the Year in the USSR is an annual award for the best football player in the USSR, which was awarded by the weekly Futbol from 1964 to 1991. The award was given according to the results of voting by journalists who named the top three players, for the first place in which 3 points were given, for the second and third - 2 and 1, respectively. The idea of the award appeared immediately after the goalkeeper of the USSR national team and Dynamo Moscow Lev Yashin was recognized as the best football player in Europe, while there were no such awards in the USSR itself (with the exception of lists of the best players by position).

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Eduard Markarov was recognized as the Football Player No. 3 of the Soviet Union in 1971 according to the annual poll of the weekly Futbol