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THE BEST SCOREPERS OF THE USSR AND RUSSIA FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

CLUB GRIGORY FEDOTOV

The Grigory Fedootov Club is a symbolic club that unites Soviet and Russian football players who have scored 100 or more goals in their careers. The club also includes foreign players who have scored 100 goals for Russian clubs. Created on the initiative of the famous football statistician Konstantin Yesenin and the weekly "Football" in November 1967. The club is named after the footballer, Grigory Fedotov, who was the first to overcome the milestone of 100 goals scored in the championship, cup and national team of the USSR.

 

The goals counting for Grigory Fedotov's club include the goals of Russian and Soviet football players scored in the championships (top league, top division, premier league), cups (starting from the stage where teams of the elite division participate) of the USSR and Russia ( including the matches of these tournaments, later recognized as invalid), the first teams of the USSR, the CIS and Russia, European cups, as well as national championships and cups of other countries and sports and athletics of the peoples of the USSR, which are not inferior in strength to the level of domestic football. For foreign players, only goals scored by them for Russian clubs count towards the club.

As of April 25, 2019, Eduard Markarov, since 1973, has dropped from 9th place to only 13th!

HEAD COUNTING PROCEDURE

At present, the Football weekly has adopted the following procedure for counting goals in the Grigory Fedotov Club:

  1. Championship - balls scored in the championships of the USSR and Russia, in the main league of the country at that time, including in matches with teams that later withdrew or were withdrawn from the championship, are taken into account.

  2. Cup - goals scored in the games for the Cup and Super Cup of the USSR and Russia from the stage when the teams of the major league enter the fight.

  3. Eurocups - goals scored in the Cup and Champions League, UEFA Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, Super Cup, Intertoto Cup in matches for both Soviet and Russian, and for foreign clubs.

  4. National team - goals scored in the national team and in official matches of the Olympic teams of the USSR and Russia are taken into account.

  5. Spartakiads - balls scored at the Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR (1956 and 1979).

  6. Foreign clubs - goals scored in the championships and cups of the following foreign countries are taken into account: group A (Italy, Spain, Germany, England, France, Brazil, Argentina), group B (Holland, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Scotland (excluded) in No. 36, 2012), Ukraine (starting from the 2007/2008 season), Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Mexico).
     

STORY

The list of football players who scored 100 or more goals in the games of the USSR football championships and for the USSR national team and united in the Grigory Fedotov Club first appeared in the Football-Hockey weekly in 1967 in No. 48 thanks to the initiative of Konstantin Yesenin.

Initially, the list included 13 players: Nikita Simonyan, Valentin Ivanov, Alexander Ponomarev, Sergei Solovyov, Grigory Fedotov, Avtandil Gogoberidze, Zaur Kaloev, Sergei Salnikov, Oleg Kopaev, Konstantin Beskov, Viktor Voroshilov, Vsevolod Bobrov and Eduard Streltsov.

In September 1969, Boris Kazakov, Gennady Krasnitsky, Galimzyan Khusainov fulfilled the club standard.

Since the beginning of 1970, a record of goals scored in canceled matches of the USSR championship, in matches of European cups and in Olympic tournaments began to be kept. Thanks to this, Boris Paichadze and Anatoly Ilyin were included in the club.

Also in 1970, a decision was made to take into account the goals scored in matches for the USSR Cup in football. But at the same time, a number of restrictions were set: matches were to be held between teams of the major leagues, all results were taken into account only from the 1/4 finals (in 1976, it was proposed to keep records from the games of the 1/8 finals). In 1979, it was clarified: to count all the goals scored against the teams of the major leagues, as well as the participants in the 1/8 finals of the previous and current Cup.

In October 1971, Eduard Markarov fulfilled the club standard, in November - Eduard Malofeev.

In October 1976, Oleg Blokhin was admitted to the club, in May 1977 - Givi Nodia, in October 1978 - Anatoly Banishevsky.

On July 1, 1979, new players were officially included in the club, who fulfilled the standard of 100 goals due to the goals scored in the Cup games: Alexei Grinin, Nikolai Dementiev, Slava Metreveli, Valentin Nikolaev, Gennady Gusarov, Berador Abduraimov, Vladimir Demin, Vladimir Fedotov .

In October 1979 Viktor Kolotov joined the club.

Since the beginning of 1980, Oleg Blokhin has taken the leading position in the club, replacing the leader from the moment of its foundation - Nikita Simonyan. November 13 Blokhin, according to the position of the club, reached the "top" of 200 goals.

In September 1980, Vitaly Starukhin was admitted to the club. Since May 1981 in the club David Kipiani, since May 1982 - Ramaz Shengelia.

Since July 1983, Andrey Yakubik has been enrolled in the club, since September 1983 - Yuri Gavrilov.

In February 1984, Khoren Hovhannisyan scored the 100th goal for the club. In November, Valery Gazzaev and Sergey Andreev fulfilled the standard.

Since 1985, the USSR Cup section began to take into account goals scored in games for the Season Cup. Thanks to this, since June 1986, Mikhail Sokolovsky appeared in the club.

In addition, from the middle of 1986, journalist Pavel Alyoshin began to keep statistics on the club.

In November 1986, Sergey Rodionov joined the club, in June 1987 - Oleg Protasov, in July 1987 - Fedor Cherenkov, in November 1987 - Leonid Buryak.

October 4, 1987 Oleg Blokhin reached the mark of 300 goals.

In March 1990 Georgy Kondratiev joined the club.

In 1996, thanks to the initiative of Axel Vartanyan and other football statisticians, a number of changes were made to the regulation: in the "Cup" section, all goals scored from the stage when top league clubs began to play began to be taken into account. Additionally, the sections "Spartakiads" (two Spartakiads of 1956 and 1979 were taken into account) and "Inoclubs" (goals in the major league and cup games from the stage when top division clubs enter the tournament) were added.

As a result of innovations in the club appeared: Vladimir Kazachenok, Yuri Chesnokov, Alexander Zavarov, Yuri Savichev, Gennady Litovchenko, Vadim Yevtushenko.

In August 1996, Oleg Veretennikov fulfilled the standard of 100 balls.

In the period from 1996 to 2003, the list of players included in the club was never published, which gave other sports publications a reason to talk about his “death” (moreover, this was stated by Pavel Alyoshin, who supervised the publication of the club’s list in Football, who went over to these years in Sport-Express and became one of the founders of the Club 100 [1]). The reason for the new publication of the list was the achievement of the standard of 100 goals by Andrey Tikhonov in March 2003.

Simultaneously with Tikhonov, players who had previously fulfilled the standard due to goals scored in foreign clubs were enrolled in the club: Igor Kolyvanov, Alexander Mostovoy, Valery Karpin, Vladimir Beschastnykh.

Since 2003, Vladimir Kalinkovich began to supervise the club's publications in the Futbol weekly.

In September 2003, Oleg Terekhin was enrolled in the club (he fulfilled the norm due to goals in domestic competitions) and Alexander Borodyuk (accepted 2 years after the end of his career, since the data on goals in football tournaments in Germany were clarified for him).

On November 1, 2003, Dmitry Loskov reached the milestone of 100 goals.

In 2005, the regulations on the club in the "Foreign clubs" section were clarified: according to the rating data, the division of foreign championships and football cups into group "A" and group "B" was adopted. The goals of Russian football players who scored in these tournaments were now also taken into account.

On April 15, 2006, Alexander Kerzhakov scored the hundredth goal for the club, on September 20 - Dmitry Kirichenko, and on November 18 - Yegor Titov.

April 22, 2007 Sergey Semak joined the club, February 21, 2008 - Roman Pavlyuchenko.

Since November 29, 2009, Dmitry Sychev has been a part of the club, since December 5 - Andrey Arshavin.

On September 26, 2010, for the first time, a foreigner, the Brazilian Vagner Love, who scored the 100th goal in matches for CSKA, became a member of the club.

Since July 24, 2011, Igor Semshov has been a member of the club.

Since February 19, 2012 - Dmitry Bulykin.

On April 21, 2012, Pavel Pogrebnyak became a member of the club.

In April 2012, in special issue No. 2, Oleg Salenko (114 goals) was added to the club, and data on several players was also adjusted.

On April 9, 2016, Artyom Dzyuba became a member of the club.

On June 8, 2019, Fedor Smolov became a member of the club.

On June 19, 2020, Alexander Kokorin became a member of the club

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