Viktor Serebryanikov

Viktor Serebryanikov

Personal information
Full name	Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov
Date of birth	(1940-03-29)29 March 1940
Place of birth	Zaporizhia, USSR
Date of death
Place of death	Kiev, Ukraine
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	FC Metalurh Zaporizhya
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958–1959	FC Metalurh Zaporizhya	39	(10)
1959–1971	FC Dynamo Kyiv	299	(70)
International career
1964–1970	USSR	21	(3)
Managerial career
1973	FC Frunzenets Sumy
1977–1978	Nyva Pidhaitsi
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov (Russian: Виктор Петрович Серебряников; Ukrainian: Віктор Петрович Серебряников) (29 March 1940 – 12 November 2014) was a Soviet Ukrainian footballer. He was the first player to be awarded the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year award.

Serebryanikov was the first coach of the today Nyva Ternopil that started out in the collective farm "Path to the Communism" from Pidhaitsi, Berezhany Raion in Ternopil region in 1978.

Statistics for Dynamo

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo	1959	7	0	-	-	-	-	7	0
	1960	18	8	-	-	-	-	18	8
	1961	29	4	1	0	-	-	30	4
	1962	20	7	-	-	-	-	20	7
	1963	37	11	2	1	-	-	39	12
	1964	29	3	5	1	-	-	34	4
	1965	29	11	2	1	6	2	37	14
	1966	15	2	2	0	-	-	17	2
	1967	35	8	2	0	4	0	41	8
	1968	34	7	-	-	-	-	34	7
	1969	30	8	2	1	4	2	36	11
	1970	15	1	1	0	-	-	16	1
	1971	1	0	4	1	-	-	5	1
Total		299	70	21	5	14	4	334	79

• The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

Honours

• Soviet Top League winner: 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971.
• Soviet Cup winner: 1964, 1966.

International career

Serebryanikov made his debut for USSR on 11 October 1964 in a friendly against Austria (he was selected for the 1962 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play in any games at the tournament). He played in the 1966 and 1970 World Cup tournaments.

He is statistically remembered as the first substituted player in the history of the World Cup, in 1970, the first World Cup where substitutions were allowed. He was substituted at half-time in the opening game of the tournament, between USSR and hosts Mexico, when he was replaced by Anatoliy Puzach.

External links

• (Russian) RussiaTeam biography
• Viktor Serebryanikov career stats by KLISF