Lev Yashin Club

For the first time, the Lev Yashin Club appeared in 1980 on the pages of the Soviet sports magazine Start. The creator of the Club was a young statistician from Krivoy Rog Nikolai Zhigulin. After some time, Zhigulin met with Konstantin Yesenin, who, after checking the data, suggested publishing the material in the weekly Soccer Hockey. The first publication of the Club took place in July 1980 at No. 27.

Initially, the club included 9 goalkeepers: Lev Yashin , Vladimir Maslachenko , Anzor Kavazashvili , Ramaz Urushadze , Evgeni Rudakov , Victor Bannikov , Alyosha Abrahamyan , Alexander Tkachenko , Sergey Kramarenko . Only “dry” games in the championship were taken into account, therefore Lev Yashin predictably took the leading position in the Club.

Since 1982, the provision on the Lev Yashin Club has been supplemented by taking into account “dry” games for the USSR national team and in European club tournaments (Champions Cup, Cup, UEFA Cup and Super Cup). This led to two notable consequences: firstly, Yuri Degteryov was included in the Club, later (May 2, 1982) who played the 100th “dry” match in the USSR championships, and Yuri Pshenichnikov ; secondly, Lev Yashin - precisely due to the European Cup matches - Kiev Dynamo player Evgeni Rudakov replaced the Dynamo Kyiv leader.

From 1983 to 1988, the list of the Club was not officially published in Football Hockey. However, in this period they began to take into account the “dry” games for the USSR Cup in football. As a result, Jonas Bauza , Vladimir Pilgui and Nikolai Gontar were accepted into the Club. During this time, taking into account the amended changes, three goalkeepers managed to reach the indicator of 100 “dry” matches: Rinat Dasaev (July 14, 1983), Vyacheslav Chanov (August 9, 1983), and Otar Gabelia (April 3, 1987 .). And finally, Yashin and Rudakov were the first to exceed the Club's norm twice, exceeding the mark of “200 games to zero”.

In addition, on July 9, 1987, the Moscow Spartak player Rinat Dasaev reached the third place in the 200 “dry” matches, and on October 4, 1987, beating Evgeny Rudakov, he reached the first position.

On March 23, 1988, Viktor Chanov was among the members of the Club. And this was the last time that the goalkeeper entered the Club in the era of the USSR .

The first goalkeeper who managed to join the Club already in the post-Soviet space was Stanislav Cherchesov . It happened on March 28, 1993 after the match with the Sochi “ Pearl ” (3: 0).

Further, namely on August 23, 1997, the Club was replenished with Alexander Podshivalov, who returned from the South Korean championship.

The last to join the Club in the 20th century was Moscow Spartak Alexander Filimonov . It happened on June 19, 1999 in a away match with Saturn from Ramensky (0: 3). Filimonov became the first goalkeeper to join the Club, having spent all the test matches only for the teams of post-Soviet Russia .

With the advent of the new century, and with it the new millennium - the membership of the club continues to replenish. On July 28, 2002, in the match CSKA - Lokomotiv M (0: 1), their 100th match “to zero” against the Club was played by goalkeeper of the Moscow Lokomotiv Sergey Ovchinnikov . . The most noteworthy is that Ovchinnikov, becoming the first goalkeeper to join the Club in the 21st century, was at the same time the last one to enter part of the matches in the USSR in order to join the Club.

May 15, 2005, after the match “ Terek ” - “Moscow” (0: 0), the goalkeeper of Grozny Ruslan Nigmatullin joined the Club.

But nevertheless, in the XXI century the main achievements of the Club are connected with the name of the Moscow army player Igor Akinfeev , who:

• On August 10, 2008, in a guest meeting with Ramensky “Saturn” (according to other sources - on August 3 in a match with “Wings of the Soviets” ^[1] ) he became the youngest goalkeeper in the history of the Club (22 years and either 124 days or even less - 117 days);
• seven years later, on October 25, 2015, in the match of the Terek Russian Championship - CSKA Moscow (0-0) repeated the record result of Rinat Dasayev, who single-handedly led the list for more than 28 years;
• already in the next game of the championship (CSKA - “Ufa”, October 31, 2015, 2-0) he played his 230th “dry” match and came out on top in the Lev Yashin Club ^[2] ;
• On December 3, 2016, in a meeting with Ural at the CSKA Arena, he left his goal intact for the 253rd time and ahead of Dasayev in the total number of “dry” matches for his career (taking into account all the official appearances, including those not going to Club standings ^[3] );
• On March 11, 2017, in a duel with Tomyu at the CSKA stadium, he played the 161st game in the national championship ^[4] “to zero” and managed to beat Lev Yashin's record, which had been standing for almost 50 years;
• February 13, 2018 in Belgrade in the UEFA Europa League match “Crvena Zvezda” - CSKA held the 100th match “in other competitions” “to zero”, thus becoming the first goalkeeper who was able to actually fulfill the Lev Yashin Club norm even without taking into account matches of the national championship (USSR and Russia) ^[5] .
• On March 16, 2019, in an away match against Ural, he brought the score to his record-breaking “dry” matches to “300”;
• On May 26, 2019, in the home match of the Russian Premier League against the Samara Wings of the Soviets, he played the 200th “dry” match in the Russian championship, becoming the first goalkeeper to double the Club's norm in accordance with the original rules.

After the return match of the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Cup Zenit - Udinese (1-0), held on March 19, 2009, goalkeeper of the St. Petersburg Zenit and the Russian team Vyacheslav Malafeev became a member of the Club.

On July 24, 2009, after the match with Perm “Amkar” (2-0), the first foreign footballer was accepted into the Club - goalkeeper of Khimki and the national team of Armenia Roman Berezovsky . .

On March 14, 2013, the Club expanded due to the entry of goalkeeper of Kazan Rubin Sergey Ryzhikov . It happened in the match of the 1/8 finals of the Europa League against the Spanish “ Levante ” (2: 0).

Most of the time since holding its first regular match, to enter the Club (14 years and 60 days) it took goalkeeper Vladimir Dynamo of Moscow Gabulov - he played his 100th dry match on May 10, 2015 in Khimki against Moscow Torpedo " (0: 0).

On October 12, 2018, the first player naturalized in Russia was admitted to the Club - the goalkeeper born in Brazil of the Moscow Lokomotiv and the Russian national team Guillerme , who defended the League of Nations match against Sweden (0-0) in Kaliningrad “to zero”.

Of the 29 members of the Club (as of autumn 2018), only eight goalkeepers, a little more than a quarter, throughout their careers played in the championships of the USSR or Russia only for one team, games for which allowed to get test matches (all for eight different teams ): Alyosha Abrahamyan ( “Ararat” ) played in the Leninakan “Shirak” ; Evgeny Rudakov ( Dynamo Kiev ) in the Nikolaev Shipbuilder , Rinat Dasayev ( Spartak ) in the Astrakhan Volgar , Guillerme ( Lokomotiv ) played in the Brazilian championship for Atletico Paranaens ; however, the results shown in the lower divisions of the domestic championship and in the foreign championship before starting a career in Russia cannot be counted against the Club. Lev Yashin ( Dynamo Moscow ), Yuri Degteryov ( Shakhtar ), Igor Akinfeev ( CSKA ), Vyacheslav Malafeev ( Zenit ) have not played anywhere else.

Of the eight goalkeepers listed, throughout their careers in the domestic championship who have remained faithful to one team, five are leading the standings of the Lev Yashin Club.

Another seven goalkeepers, a little less than a quarter, managed to fulfill the club standard within the framework of one Soviet or Russian team (and also for seven different teams): Sergey Ovchinnikov ( Lokomotiv ), Sergey Ryzhikov ( Rubin ), Victor Chanov ( Dynamo Kyiv ” ), Alexander Tkachenko ( Zarya ), Sergey Kramarenko ( Neftchi ), Otar Gabelia ( Dynamo Tbilisi ), Vladimir Pilguy ( Dynamo Moscow ).

Also, of the seven goalkeepers listed, who throughout their playing career have managed to fulfill the Club standard within one team, two occupy the sixth and seventh places in the Lev Yashin Club.

1. A goalkeeper who has not missed 100 or more matches becomes a member of the Club.

2. The goalkeeper actually joins the Club if he does not miss in the 100th match.

3. Any goalkeeper playing / playing for Russian / Soviet clubs can become a member of the Club. Moreover, the registration of test matches for the Club may begin with games for Russian / Soviet clubs.

4. Club statistics are kept according to the official protocols of the RFU, RFPL, PFL, the USSR Football Federation, FIFA, UEFA, national federations of other countries (in the absence of protocols, newspaper materials can be used as a statistical basis).

5. Matches are counted:

• in the championships of the USSR / Russia (top division / premier league, with the exception of butt games for the right to play in the top division / premier league),
• in the USSR / Russia Cups, from the stages when the teams of the top division / Premier League started playing (matches of the CCCR Season Cup, USSR Federation Cup, Russian Premier League Cup and Russian Super Cup do not count),
• in European cups
• for the first USSR / Russia team at the level of matches of national teams of countries held under the auspices of FIFA.
• for foreign clubs, which at the time the goalkeeper entered the field, were among the 100 best clubs in the world according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (FIFA partner).
• undefeated, according to the rules of the Club, the result of which was canceled or the match was interrupted. But the goalkeeper score is taken into account at the time of an unplanned stoppage of the match or until a decision is made on the final result of the match.

6. If the match has passed in extra time or in a series of penalty shoot-outs, then the goalkeeper indicator shown by him until the end of extra time is taken into account. The penalty shoot-outs on the goalkeeper score shown by him in regular and extra time are not affected.

7. With the same number of “dry” matches - the goalkeeper takes the highest place, having reached this number earlier by date.

Club regulations are subject to change.

As of October 13, 2019.

As of September 30, 2019.

The club in its current form does not take into account such a column as “Games for the Season Cup, Federation Cup, Spartakiad of 1956 and 1979”. This column was present in Soviet-era football literature - for example, the Handbook “Football - 90/91” (compiled by V.N. Kolos; Ufa, 1991). The absence of this column does not allow Mikhail Biryukov to be a member of the club. And in the above directory, thanks to the presence of this column, he was already on the list of Club members.

• Mikhail Biryukov: USSR Championship - 76; USSR Cup - 16; Sat USSR - 1; international cups - 4; Sp, KS, KFF - 5. Total 102 “dry” matches.

In addition, in the same directory, matches played by the USSR Olympic team at the XXII Summer Olympic Games and qualifiers for the XVIII , XX and XXIII Summer Olympic Games are counted . As well as three friendly matches of the USSR national team against the Indian national team, which lasted 60 minutes each. As a result of this, Lev Yashin got one “dry” match more than Yevgeny Rudakov and in the list of Club members, in the mentioned guide, he is one place higher than Yevgeny Rudakov.

Also, “dry” matches played in the Premier League Cup , the Russian Super Cup and for the USSR / Russian Olympic teams (qualifying matches starting from the XΧ Olympic Games, and matches of the main tournament starting from the ΧΧΙ Olympic Games), as well as butt matches in the struggle for the right to play in the USSR / RFPL Championship. In addition, the Club does not take into account “dry” matches played by goalkeepers in foreign championships (for example, Rinat Dasayev does not take into account 20 “dry” matches for “Sevilla” ^[2] , there are unaccounted matches “to zero” in the “legionnaire” biography Сергея Овчинникова — всего у него 215 «сухих» матчей за карьеру и третье после И. Акинфеева и Р. Дасаева место в неофициальном списке, Станислава Черчесова, Владимира Габулова, в «домашней» биографии Гильерме).

В связи со всем, упомянутым выше (учёт не всех внутренних турниров в СССР и Российской Федерации, неучёт некоторых международных матчей, а также игр в зарубежных первенствах), у целого ряда вратарей есть расхождения по цифрам:

• Сергей Овчинников — 48 матчей на «0»
• Ринат Дасаев — 23 матча на «0»
• Вячеслав Чанов — 9 матчей на «0»
• Станислав Черчесов — 7 матчей на «0»
• Владимир Габулов — 5 матчей на «0»
• Александр Подшивалов — 5 матчей на «0»
• Владимир Пильгуй — 4 матча на «0»
• Игорь Акинфеев — 3 матча на «0»
• Лев Яшин — 3 матча на «0»
• Вячеслав Малафеев — 3 матча на «0»
• Александр Филимонов — 3 матч на «0»
• Отар Габелия — 3 матча на «0»
• Сергей Рыжиков — 2 матча на «0»
• Александр Ткаченко — 2 матча на «0»
• Руслан Нигматуллин — 2 матча на «0»
• Виктор Чанов — 1 матч на «0»
• Юрий Дегтерёв — 1 матч на «0»
• Сергей Крамаренко — 1 матч на «0»
• Рамаз Урушадзе — 1 матч на «0»

Еженедельник «Футбол-Хоккей»

• 1980 — № 27
• 1981 — № 3
• 1982 — № 8
• 1983 — № 6
• 1988 — № 6
• 1989 — № 23

• Советский Спорт — Футбол 15-21 ноября 2011, № 45(388) — Клуб Льва Яшина — Малафеев «сушит» игру. ССФ — об изменениях в «Клубе Яшина»
• Советский Спорт — Футбол — Клуб Льва Яшина
• Советский Спорт — Футбол, № 49(288), с. 21
• Справочник «Футбол — 90/91» /сост. В. Н. Колос. — Уфа, 1991. — 141 с.
• Спорт Экспресс — Футбол — Клуб Льва Яшина