Lev Yashin

**Lev Yashin** (22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a former Russian football player. He had played for Dynamo Moscow and Soviet Union national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, while some even considering him to be the greatest.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Soviet Cup|colspan="3"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Dynamo Moscow|1950|Top League|2|0|0|0|2|0||
|1951|—|—|0|0||||||
|1952|—|—|0|0||||||
|1953|13|0|5|0|18|0||||
|1954|24|0|1|0|25|0||||
|1955|22|0|4|0|26|0||||
|1956|19|0|0|0|19|0||||
|1957|12|0|0|0|12|0||||
|1958|6|0|0|0|6|0||||
|1959|19|0|0|0|19|0||||
|1960|18|0|2|0|20|0||||
|1961|19|0|2|0|21|0||||
|1962|17|0|0|0|17|0||||
|1963|27|0|2|0|29|0||||
|1964|28|0|3|0|31|0||||
|1965|20|0|0|0|20|0||||
|1966|8|0|0|0|8|0||||
|1967|20|0|6|0|26|0||||
|1968|17|0|2|0|19|0||||
|1969|22|0|2|0|24|0||||
|1970|13|0|3|0|16|0||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="14"|Soviet Union|1954|2|0|
|1955|4|0|||
|1956|10|0|||
|1957|5|0|||
|1958|6|0|||
|1959|2|0|||
|1960|5|0|||
|1961|5|0|||
|1962|7|0|||
|1963|4|0|||
|1964|7|0|||
|1965|5|0|||
|1966|7|0|||
|1967|5|0|||

### Other statistics

- 812 career games played
- estimated to have made over 150 penalty saves during his career
- 326 games played for Dynamo Moscow main line-up (football team)
- 74 caps for the USSR national team (70 goals conceded)
- 12 caps at the World Cup (4 clean sheets)
- 2 FIFA 'Best of the World XI' appearances (in 1963 vs England, in 1968 vs Brazil)
- 270 career clean sheets

### Football

**Dynamo Moscow**
- Soviet Top League: 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963
- Soviet Cup: 1953, 1966–67, 1970; runner-up: 1955

**Soviet Union**
- UEFA European Football Championship: 1960; runner-up: 1964
- Olympic Games Gold Medal: 1956
- FIFA World Cup Fourth place: 1966

**Individual**
- European Goalkeeper of the Year: 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966
- UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1960, 1964
- USSR Goalkeeper of the year: 1960, 1963, 1966
- Ballon d'Or: 1963
- _World Soccer_ World XI: 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967
- FIFA XI: 1963, 1968
- Europe XI: 1964, 1964, 1965
- European football Oscars: 1963-64
- World XI selected by italian press. 1960, 1961
- Order of Lenin
- Silver Olympic Order
- FIFA Order of Merit
- _Placar's_ All-Time Team
- _Placar's_ 100 Stars of the Century: #11
- FIFA World Cup All-Time Team
- _Planète Foot's_ All-Time Team
- _France Football's_ Football Player of the Century: #10
- _Planète Foot's_ 50 Best Players of all Time
- _Venerdì's_ All-Time Team
- _Venerdì's_ 100 Magnificent
- _World Soccer's_ 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time: #11
- World Team of the 20th Century
- _Voetbol International's_ Team of the Century
- _Voetbol International's_ World Stars by Raf Willems
- _Jornal A Tarde_ All-Time Team
- _Placar's_ 100 Stars of the World Cup: #23
- _O Estado de São Paulo_ All-Time Team
- World Hall of Fame of Soccer
- FIFA Goalkeeper of the 20th Century
- FIFA World Cup Dream Team
- Golden Player of Russia
- _World Soccer_ Greatest XI of all time
- _World Sports_ dream team of the past 20 years: 1970
- IFFHS Legends
- IFFHS World Goalkeeper of the Century
- IFFHS European Goalkeeper of the Century
- Ballon d'Or Dream Team
- IFFHS All-time Men's Dream Team
- IFFHS All-time Europe Men's Dream Team

### Ice hockey

**Dynamo Moscow**
- Soviet Cup: 1953

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Lev Yashin
- **image**: LevYashin.JPG
- **caption**: Yashin in 1965
- **full name**: Lev Ivanovich Yashin
- **birth place**: Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- **death place**: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- **height**: 1.89 m
- **position**: Goalkeeper (association football), Goalkeeper
- **youthyears1**: 1948–1950
- **youthclubs1**: FC Dynamo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow
- **years1**: 1950–1970
- **clubs1**: FC Dynamo Moscow, Dynamo Moscow
- **caps1**: 326
- **goals1**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 1956
- **nationalteam1**: Soviet Union Olympic football team, Soviet Union Olympic
- **nationalcaps1**: 6
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 1954–1970
- **nationalteam2**: Soviet Union national football team, Soviet Union
- **nationalcaps2**: 74
- **nationalgoals2**: 0