Viktor Kolotov

Viktor Kolotov

Viktor Kolotov in 1975
Personal information
Full name	Viktor Mikhailovich Kolotov
Date of birth	3 July 1949
Place of birth	Yudino, Kazan, Soviet Union
Date of death	3 January 2000 (aged 50)
Place of death	Kiev, Ukraine
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
1958	Lokomotiv Udino
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1967	FC Chaika Zelenodolsk
1968	FC Trudovye Rezervy Kazan
1969–1970	FC Rubin Kazan	68	(16)
1971–1981	FC Dynamo Kyiv	218	(62)
National team
1970–1978	USSR	54	(22)
1979	Ukraine
Teams managed
1983–1993	FC Dynamo Kyiv (assistant)
1993	Borysfen Boryspil
1995–1996	Ukraine Olympic football team
1996–1997	FC Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk
1998–1999	Ukraine Olympic football team
Honours Competitor for  Soviet Union Men's Football Olympic Games 1972 Munich Team competition 1976 Montreal Team competition UEFA European Football Championship European Championship 1972
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Viktor Mikhailovich Kolotov (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Колотов) (born 3 July 1949, Yudino, Kazan, Tatarstan – 3 January 2000, Kiev) was the Soviet footballer who spent the most and the best of his years in Ukraine.

He was born in the settlement of Yudino, Kazan municipality. Today the settlement is included in the Kirov Raion of Kazan city. After becoming a coach he extended his welcomed stay in Kiev. Together with Dynamo Kyiv he became the four-time champion of the USSR as well as the two-time holder of the USSR Cup. Also in Europe he participated in the memorable 1976–1975 season when Dynamo Kyiv conquered the Cup Winner's Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. Kolotov was also a European vice-champion (1972).

In 1979 Kolotov played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.^[1]

Statistics for Dynamo

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Super Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo	1971	25	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	10
	1972	26	11	4	0	6	0	-	-	36	11
	1973	23	6	6	6	5	2	-	-	34	14
	1974	28	7	4	0	9	2	-	-	41	9
	1975	25	12	1	1	4	2	-	-	30	15
	1976 (s)	3	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	0
	1976 (a)	7	3	-	-	2	2	-	-	9	5
	1977	15	5	-	-	2	0	1	0	18	5
	1978	23	2	7	1	4	0	-	-	34	3
	1979	28	5	6	3	6	0	-	-	40	8
	1980	11	1	1	0	1	0	-	-	13	1
	1981	4	0	5	0	-	-	-	-	9	0
Total		218	62	34	11	39	8	1	0	292	81

• The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

Honours

Dynamo Kyiv

• Soviet Top League (6): 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981
• Soviet Cup (2): 1974, 1978
• European Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1974–75
• European Super Cup (1): 1975

References

1. Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR

External links

• RussiaTeam biography