Igor Belanov

**Igor Ivanovich** (or **Ihor Ivanovych**) **Belanov** (born 25 September 1960) is a former Ukrainian footballer. He played for the Soviet Union football team.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|SKA Odessa|1979||32|5|–|–|–|32|5||||
|1980||36|11|–|–|–|36|11||||||
|rowspan="5"|Chornomorets Odesa|1981|Soviet Top League|27|6|2|0|–|–|29|6|||
|1982|Soviet Top League|29|2|4|1|–|–|33|3|||||
|1983|Soviet Top League|27|7|1|0|–|–|28|7|||||
|1984|Soviet Top League|33|11|5|3|–|–|38|14|||||
|rowspan="6"|Dynamo Kyiv|1985|Soviet Top League|31|10|4|2|4|1|–|39|13||
|1986|Soviet Top League|22|10|1|0|8|4|1|0|32|14|||
|1987|Soviet Top League|23|8|6|3|6|1|2|1|37|13|||
|1988|Soviet Top League|27|9|4|1|–|–|31|10|||||
|1989|Soviet Top League|18|3|4|1|–|–|22|4|||||
|rowspan="3"|Borussia Mönchengladbach|1989–90|Bundesliga|14|4|1|0|–|–|15|4|||
|1990–91|Bundesliga|10|0|2|1|–|–|12|1|||||
|rowspan="5"|Eintracht Braunschweig|1990–91|2. Bundesliga|9|3|–|–|–|9|3||||
|1991–92|2. Bundesliga|29|10|1|1|–|–|30|11|||||
|1992–93|2. Bundesliga|–|–|–|–|–||||||||
|1993–94|Oberliga Nord|26|8|1|0|–|4|0|31|8||||
|Chornomorets|1995–96|Ukrainian Premier League|3|1|–|–|–|3|1|||||
|rowspan="3"|Metalurh Mariupol|1995–96|Ukrainian Second League|1|0|–|–|–|1|0||||
|1996–97|Ukrainian First League|4|4|–|–|–|4|4||||||

### International

|colspan=3|Soviet Union||
| --- | --- | --- |
|1985|3|0|
|1986|8|6|
|1987|7|2|
|1988|13|0|
|1989|1|0|
|1990|1|0|

### International goals

- _Scores and results list Soviet Union's goal tally first._
|#||Date||Venue||Opponent||Score||Result||Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|2 June 1986|Estadio Sergio León Chávez, Irapuato, Mexico||**3**–0|6–0|1986 FIFA World Cup|||||||
|2.|15 June 1986|Estadio Nou Camp, León, Mexico||**1**–0|3–4|1986 FIFA World Cup|||||||
|3.|15 June 1986|Estadio Nou Camp, León, Mexico||**2**–1|3–4|1986 FIFA World Cup|||||||
|4.|15 June 1986|Estadio Nou Camp, León, Mexico||**3**–4|3–4|1986 FIFA World Cup|||||||
|5.|11 October 1986|Parc des Princes, Paris, France||**1**–0|2–0|Euro 1988 qualifying|||||||
|6.|29 October 1986|Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol, Soviet Union||**2**–0|4–0|Euro 1988 qualifying|||||||
|7.|29 April 1987|Republican Stadium, Kyiv, Soviet Union||**2**–0|2–0|Euro 1988 qualifying|||||||
|8.|28 October 1987|Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol, Soviet Union||**1**–0|2–0|Euro 1988 qualifying|||||||

### Club

**Dynamo Kyiv**
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1985–86
- Soviet League: 1985, 1986
- Soviet Cup: 1985, 1987, 1990
- Soviet Super Cup: 1986, 1987
- UEFA Super Cup: Runner-up 1986

**Chornomorets Odessa**
- Ukrainian Premier League: Runner-up 1995–96

### International

**Soviet Union**
- UEFA European Football Championship: Runner-up 1988

### Individual

- Ballon D'Or: 1986
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: Top scorer 1985–86
- _World Soccer_ magazine's Player of the Year: Runner-up 1986
- FIFA World Cup Bronze Boot: 1986
- Top assist provider: UEFA Euro 1988
- The World Cup's top 100 footballers of all time, by _The Times_
- Merited Master of Sports: 1986
- The best 33 football players of the Soviet Union (4): 1985 — No. 3, 1986 — No. 1, 1987 — No. 3, 1988 — No. 3
- FIFA XI: 1991, 1998
- Golden Foot: 2008, as a legend

## Other websites

- Profile at UkrSoccerHistory

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Igor Belanov
- **image**: Ihor Belanov.jpeg
- **image size**: 250px
- **caption**: Belanov in 2012
- **full name**: Igor Ivanovich Belanov
- **birth place**: Odesa, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- **height**: 1.74 m
- **position**: Midfielder, Attacking Midfielder
- **youthyears1**: 1973–1978
- **youthclubs1**: FC Chornomorets Odessa, Chornomorets Odessa
- **years1**: 1979–1981
- **clubs1**: SC Odesa, SKA Odessa
- **caps1**: 68
- **goals1**: 16
- **years2**: 1981–1985
- **clubs2**: FC Chornomorets Odesa, Chornomorets Odessa
- **caps2**: 116
- **goals2**: 26
- **years3**: 1985–1989
- **clubs3**: FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv
- **caps3**: 121
- **goals3**: 40
- **years4**: 1989–1991
- **clubs4**: Borussia Mönchengladbach
- **caps4**: 24
- **goals4**: 4
- **years5**: 1991–1995
- **clubs5**: Eintracht Braunschweig
- **caps5**: 64
- **goals5**: 21
- **years6**: 1995–1996
- **clubs6**: FC Chornomorets Odesa, Chornomorets Odessa
- **caps6**: 3
- **goals6**: 1
- **years7**: 1996–1997
- **clubs7**: FC Mariupol, Metalurh Mariupol
- **caps7**: 5
- **goals7**: 4
- **totalcaps**: 401
- **totalgoals**: 112
- **nationalyears1**: 1985–1990
- **nationalteam1**: Soviet Union national football team, Soviet Union
- **nationalcaps1**: 33
- **nationalgoals1**: 8