Football at the 1983 Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR explained

Tourney Name:1983 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR football tournament
Size:150px
Country:Russian SFSR
Dates:16 July – 3 August
Num Teams:17
Venues:4
Cities:4 (Moscow, Ryazan, Tula, Ivanovo)
Champion Other: Lithuanian SSR
Count:1
Second Other: Russian SFSR
Third Other: Moscow
Fourth Other: Ukrainian SSR
Matches:58
Goals:177
Prevseason:1979
Nextseason:1986

See also: Football at the Spartakiads of Peoples of the USSR. The football tournament at the 1983 Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR was a preparatory competition for the Soviet Union Olympic football team among the Olympic reserves and the third football tournament at the Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR. The competition took place on July 16 through August 3, 1983 as part of the Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR. The football team of Moscow were the two-times defending champions.

The competition included footballers under 20 years of age (U-20, born between 1963 and 1965). All participating teams at first were split in four groups with top two team in each of them advancing to the next round forming two semifinal groups of four in each. Depending on their standing in their groups, teams would play off with another team that placed the same place in another group.

Competition

Preliminary games

All times local (UTC+3)

Key to colours in group tables
Team progressed to the semifinals
Team progressed to the tournament of third places
Team progressed to the tournament of last places
Group 1 (Moscow)

Team
Moscow321060+65
RSFSR312030+34
Kazakhstan311162+43
Kyrgyzia3003114-130
Group 2 (Ryazan)
Team
Ukraine3300111+106
Armenia320135-24
Uzbekistan310236-32
Azerbaijan300305-50
Group 3 (Tula)
Team
Lithuania421183+55
Byelorussia421165+15
Turkmenia420246−24
Estonia420276+14
Latvia410338-52

Lithuania finished first ahead of Byelorussia based on their goal difference.
Turkmenia finished third ahead of Estonia based on their head-to-head match up.

Group 4 (Ivanovo)
Team
Moldavia321053+24
Georgia320143+13
Leningrad31112203
Tajikistan300325-32

Semifinals groups

Group A (Moscow)
Team
Lithuania321052+35
Moscow312085+34
Georgia302156-12
Armenia301227-51
Group B (Ryazan)
Team
RSFSR321031+25
Ukraine320172+54
Byelorussia311124−23
Moldavia300316-50

Final playoffs

Teams composition

Moscow

Russian SFSR

Kyrgyz SSR

Kazakh SSR

Ukrainian SSR

Belarusian SSR

Georgian SSR

Further reading

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