Lev Yashin Club Explained
Lev Yashin Club (Russian: Клуб имени Льва Яшина) is an unofficial list of Soviet and Russian football goalkeepers that have achieved 100 or more clean sheets during their professional career.[1] This club is named after the first Soviet goalkeeper to achieve 100 clean sheets: Lev Yashin. The list was created and maintained by journalist and statistician Konstantin Yesenin.[2]
Which clean sheets are counted
Traditionally, Yesenin counted goals and clean sheets in the following matches:
- Championship - goals scored in top leagues of Soviet and Russian football competitions.
- Cup - goals in Russian and Soviet Cup and Supercup scored in the stages where top league teams participate.
- European cups - goals scored in European Champion Clubs Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Cup Winners Cup and Intertoto Cup for both home and foreign clubs. The UEFA Europa League, successor to the UEFA Cup, is currently included in the count.
- National team - goals scored for national and olympic teams in the official matches.
The Lev Yashin Club [3]
Players in bold still active.
| Rank | Nationality | Name | Club(s) | Total clean sheets | National league | National cup(s) | European cup(s) | National team |
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| 1 | | Igor Akinfeev | | 363 | 250 | 26 | 39 | 48 |
| 2 | | Rinat Dasayev | FC Spartak Moscow | 229 | 147 | 19 | 19 | 44 |
| 3 | | Yevhen Rudakov | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 206 | 143 | 14 | 25 | 24 |
| 4 | | Lev Yashin | FC Dynamo Moscow | 203 | 160 | 18 | 0 | 25 |
| 5 | | Vyacheslav Malafeev | FC Zenit St. Petersburg | 179 | 121 | 18 | 25 | 15 |
| 6 | | Sergei Ovchinnikov | FC Lokomotiv Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow | 166 | 136 | 14 | 9 | 7 |
| 7 | | Anzor Kavazashvili | FC Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Zenit Leningrad, FC Torpedo Moscow, FC Spartak Moscow | 163 | 129 | 12 | 7 | 15 |
| 8 | | Aleksandr Filimonov | FC Fakel Voronezh, FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin, FC Spartak Moscow, FC Uralan Elista, FC Moscow, FC Arsenal Tula | 153 | 117 | 14 | 15 | 7 |
| 9 | | Viktor Chanov | FC Shakhtar Donetsk, FC Dynamo Kyiv | 150 | 106 | 13 | 15 | 16 |
| 10 | | Yuriy Dehteryov | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | 147 | 110 | 24 | 3 | 10 |
| 11 | | Oleksandr Tkachenko | FC Zorya Luhansk, FC Zenit Leningrad | 145 | 119 | 22 | 3 | 1 |
| 12 | | Sergey Ryzhikov | FC Saturn Ramenskoye, FC Anzhi Makhachkala, FC Tom Tomsk, FC Rubin Kazan | 190 | 152 | 14 | 26 | 0 |
| 13 | | Viktor Bannikov | FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Torpedo Moscow | 138 | 107 | 24 | 2 | 5 |
| 14 | | Alyosha Abrahamyan | FC Ararat Yerevan | 138 | 116 | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| 15 | | Vladimir Maslachenko | FC Spartak Moscow, FC Lokomotiv Moscow | 133 | 113 | 15 | 1 | 4 |
| 16 | | Sergey Kramarenko | Neftchi PFK Baku, FC Chernomorets Odessa | 133 | 116 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | | Stanislav Cherchesov | FC Spartak Moscow, FC Lokomotiv Moscow | 131 | 82 | 10 | 17 | 22 |
| 18 | | Otar Gabelia | FC Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Torpedo Kutaisi | 130 | 102 | 16 | 12 | 0 |
| 19 | | Vyacheslav Chanov | FC Shakhtar Donetsk, FC Torpedo Moscow, Neftchi PFK Baku, PFC CSKA Moscow | 129 | 103 | 25 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | | Ramaz Urushadze | FC Torpedo Kutaisi, FC Dinamo Tbilisi | 121 | 113 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | | Vladimir Pilguy | FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Kuban Krasnodar | 120 | 84 | 27 | 4 | 5 |
| 22 | | Yuri Pshenichnikov | Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, PFC CSKA Moscow | 110 | 96 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 23 | | Roman Berezovsky | FC Zenit St. Petersburg, FC Torpedo Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Khimki | 107 | 103 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | | Vladimir Gabulov | FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Alania Vladikavkaz, PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Kuban Krasnodar, FC Amkar Perm, FC Anzhi Makhachkala | 107 | 75 | 8 | 18 | 6 |
| 25 | | Ruslan Nigmatullin | FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny, FC Spartak Moscow, FC Lokomotiv Moscow, PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Terek Grozny | 103 | 72 | 8 | 11 | 12 |
| 26 | | Aleksandr Podshivalov | FC Ararat Yerevan, FC Torpedo Moscow | 101 | 93 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 27 | | Jonas Bauža | FK Vilnius Spartakas, PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Dynamo Moscow, FC Spartak Moscow, FC Chornomorets Odesa | 100 | 89 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | | Nikolai Gontar | FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok, FC Dynamo Moscow | 100 | 77 | 12 | 6 | 5 |
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See also
Notes and References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110718090532/http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/105671 Клуб Яшина мечта вратаря «Динамо» Романа Березовского
- http://footballplayers.ru/players/Esenin_Konstantin.html Константин Есенин / Konstantin Esenin
- http://footbik.narod.ru/clubs_chempionat/RF_cub_yashina.htm Клуб Льва Яшина
