| Tourney Name: | 1979 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR football tournament |
| Size: | 150px |
| Country: | Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belarusian SSR |
| Dates: | 20 July – 5 August |
| Num Teams: | 16 |
| Venues: | 4 |
| Cities: | 3 |
| Champion Other: | Moscow |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second Other: | Georgian SSR |
| Third Other: | Ukrainian SSR |
| Fourth Other: | Russian SFSR |
| Matches: | 52 |
| Goals: | 161 |
| Prevseason: | 1956 |
| Nextseason: | 1983 |
The football tournament at the 1979 Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR was a preparatory competition for the Soviet Union Olympic football team for the upcoming 1980 Summer Olympics. The competition took place on July 20 through August 5, 1979 as part of the Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR.
Out of all the union republics, the Estonian SSR was not participating, while Russia was represented with 3 teams: Moscow City, Leningrad City and Russian Federation.
The competition took place during the mid-season break of the 1979 Soviet Union football championship. Less than a week later after the tournament, an aircraft with Pakhtakor Tashkent players who were traveling to the away game against Dinamo Minsk crashed in the sky over Dniprodzerzhynsk.
All times local (UTC+3)
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Head coach: Vyacheslav Kirichenko (Nistru Kishinev), assistant: Vladimir Gasperskiy[1] (Avtomobilist Tiraspol)[2]
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Nistru Kishinev.[3]
Head coach: Igor Volchok (Kairat Alma-Ata), assistant: Leonid Ostroushko (Kairat Alma-Ata)
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Kairat Alma-Ata.
Head coach: Valery Nepomnyashchy (Kolkhozchi Ashkhabad), assistant: Viktor Savenkov
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Kolkhozchi Ashkhabad.
Head coach: Konstantin Beskov (Spartak Moscow), assistant: Nikolai Starostin (Spartak Moscow)
Head coach: Rivgat Bibayev (Alga Frunze), assistant: Anatoliy Kolmykov
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Alga Frunze.
Head coach: Ahmad Alasgarov (Neftchi Baku), assistant: Vladimir Shuvalov
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Neftchi Baku.
Head coach: Nodar Akhalkatsi (Dinamo Tbilisi), assistant: Kakhi Asatiani (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Dinamo Tbilisi.
Head coach: Benjaminas Zelkevičius (Žalgiris Vilnius), assistant: Stanislovas Ramjalis (Žalgiris Vilnius)
Except for one player (see the roster), whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Žalgiris Vilnius.
Head coach: Vladimir Ivashkov, assistant: Nikolai Samarin (SKA Rostov-na-Donu)
Head coach: Oleh Bazylevych (Pakhtakor Tashkent), assistant: Idgai Tazetdinov (Pakhtakor Tashkent)
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Pakhtakor Tashkent.
Head coach: Valeriy Lobanovskyi (Dynamo Kyiv), assistant: Volodymyr Bohdanovych
Head coach: Mark Tunis (Pamir Dushanbe), assistant: Sharif Nazarov (Pamir Dushanbe)
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Pamir Dushanbe.
Head coach: Eduard Malofeyev (Dinamo Minsk), assistant: Leonid Harai (Dinamo Minsk)
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Dinamo Minsk.
Head coach: Gennadi Bondarenko (Daugava Riga), assistant: Boris Reingold
Head coach: Yozhef Betsa (Ararat Yerevan), assistant: Grachik Khachmanukyan
Whole squad was based on the senior team of FC Ararat Yerevan.
Head coach: Yury Morozov (Zenit Leningrad), assistant: Vadim Kharovitskiy (Zenit Leningrad)