The best 33 football players of the Soviet Union


The List of 33 Best Football Players of the Year was an annual award list of the former Soviet Union which ran from 1948-1991. It was compiled after each football season by the Presidium of the USSR Football Federation, following the proposal of the National Coaches' Council, which approved the list of the 33 best football players. The award was not related to the independent Soviet Footballer of the Year 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 instituted a similar list in 1992 for the Russian league. The Ukrainian newspaper Komanda also instituted a similar list for List of 33 Best Football Players of the Year in the Ukraine.