The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (Russian: ????? ??????????????????? ????????????, ????? ??????????????????????????????????????????? ? ) is a regional regional football tournament that is not working, recognized by FIFA.
The tournament was originally founded for football clubs of former Soviet republics in 1993 (a year later since the fall). On several occasions, some national soccer organizations from former Soviet republics as well as individual clubs refused participation in the tournament for different reasons. Usually the invitations are sent to the best clubs in the member states of the Commonwealth of States, as well as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the champions or second champions, while in subsequent editions of the Cup (before 2012) see club participation from Serbia and Finland.
In 2012, the CIS Cup becomes a national youth team competition. Previously only Russian U-21 teams competed in the competition.
The competition was endorsed in 2016.
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Histori
The Commonwealth of the Independent States Cup started in 1993 as an open tournament for champions from the USSR substitute countries (The Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania).
Ukraine boycotted the first two competitions, but joined in 1995.
In 1995-2006 the Russian U-21 national team participated in this tournament as the 16th team, but in 2007 and 2008 Serbia replaced it as the 17th country that sent the team to play in it, and became the first non-former Soviet nation participate in the tournament. Unlike other states, who sent their last champions to play in the tournament, Serbia has sent OFK Beograd to play in the tournament.
In the first years of this tournament popular in the former Soviet Union, including the most famous team of the old Soviet Top League. Spartak Moscow of Russia and Dynamo Kyiv of Ukraine each won trophies several times but, after less than a decade, teams from Russia and Ukraine hesitated to send their best players to play on artificial turf at the Olympic Stadium, so they sent players Their reserves instead or sometimes runner-up leagues participate in their place. This has resulted in a decline in the popularity of tournaments in these countries in particular and in the overall value of the tournament as a whole.
In 2006, a new tournament, Channel One Cup, started and attracted the attention of Russian and Ukrainian teams, which even degraded the popularity of the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup tournament.
The big scandal came in 2006, when the Armenian champions FC Pyunik refused to play Azerbaijan's PFC Neftchi team due to the collapse of diplomatic relations between the governments of the two countries at that time around the Nagorno-Karabakh War. FC Pyunik beat Ukraine's FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 in the quarter-finals, earning a place in the semi-final against PFC Neftchi. However, FC Pyunik announced that they would not play against Azerbaijan's team, and flew home from Moscow the same night. The Russian Football Union gave FC Shakhtar Donetsk a 3-0 technical triumph so they could play in the semi-finals instead of FC Pyunik, but FC Shakhtar Donetsk declined the offer stating that "... we really want to play in the semi-finals, but we do not want to get there any other way than sports ". Finally, PFC Neftchi was given goodbye to the final, where they beat Lithuania FBK Kaunas 4-2 club.
In 2007 talks began about changing the format of the trophy, and incorporating it with the Channel One Cup to restore the interest of the Russian and Ukrainian teams, and in 2007 the game was even visited by representatives of FIFA, however, nothing came out of the talks and efforts.
In October 2009, Bunyodkor coach Luis Felipe Scolari announced that his Uzbek team would not go into the 2010 tournament because of its focus on the Asian Champions League.
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Final
Competition among the national team junior teams
Club competition
Top scorer of all time
Top scorer by year
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Recordings
- The biggest victory ever in the tournament came in 1998, when Spartak Moscow (Russia) defeated Vakhsh Qurghonteppa (Tajikistan) 19-0.
- The player who holds the record of the tournament appearance is Mihails Zem? inscription from FC Skonto Riga who performed 46 times in the tournament.
- The record for most titles won by a player is four and is held by Oleksandr Holovko from Dynamo Kyiv and Dmitri Khlestov from Spartak Moscow.
- The greatest number for the team to win consecutive trophies is three, and the team that has done so where Spartak Moscow (Russia, twice, in 1993, 1994, 1995, and in 1999, 2000, 2001) and Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine 1996, 1997, 1998).
See also
- United Tournament
- One Cup Channel
- Football in Spartakiads of Peoples of USSR
References
External links
- Official Site
- Official Statistics and Information About Tournaments Of The Football Football Foundation Record
- The fan site. Contains information only since 1999
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