See also: Football at the Spartakiads of Peoples of the USSR.
| Tourney Name: | 1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR football tournament |
| Size: | 150px |
| Country: | Moscow |
| Dates: | 2 August – 16 August |
| Num Teams: | 18 |
| Venues: | 5 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champion Other: | Moscow |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second Other: | Georgian SSR |
| Third Other: | Ukrainian SSR |
| Fourth Other: | Leningrad |
| Matches: | 37 |
| Goals: | 134 |
| Nextseason: | 1979 |
The football tournament at the 1956 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR was a preparatory competition for the Soviet Union national football team for the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics. The competition took place on August 2 - 16, 1956 as part of the Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR. The Soviet team has already qualified for the Olympic tournament by winning a play-off match up against Israel national football team earlier in July 1956 (Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification). The Soviet team competed under the name of the Moscow city team.
Before the tournament, on 16 July 1956 Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was annexed by the Russian SFSR by changing its status from a union republic to an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. Nonetheless, the team of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was still participating at the tournament.
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Head coach: Gavriil Kachalin, assistant: Nikolay Gulyayev (Spartak Moscow)
Head coach: Gaioz Jejelava (Dinamo Tbilisi), assistant: Archil Kiknadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Head coach: Oleg Oshenkov (Dynamo Kyiv), assistant: Anton Idzkovsky (FShM Kyiv)
Head coach: Arkadi Alov (Zenit Leningrad)
Head coach: Abram Dangulov (Spartak Yerevan)
Head coach: Aleksandr Starostin (President of the RSFSR Football Federation)
Head coach: Mikhail Bozenenkov (Spartak Minsk)
Head coach: Victor Panyukov (FShM Tbilisi)