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{{Short description|Soviet footballer (1929–1990)}}
{{family name hatnote|Ivanovich|Yashin|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Lev Yashin
| image = LevYashin.JPG
| caption = Yashin in 1965
| full_name = Lev Ivanovich Yashin
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|10|22}}
| birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], Soviet Union
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1990|03|20|1929|10|22}}
| death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
| height = 1.89 m<ref name="Лев Иванович Яшин">{{cite web|url=http://academydinamo.ru/yashin/|title=Лев Иванович Яшин.|publisher=academydinamo.ru|language=ru|access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref>
| 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
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's [[Association football|football]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{fb|URS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[File:Olympics_rings_(1913-1986).svg|20px|link=Football at the Summer Olympics]] [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne]]|[[Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics|Team]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Championship]]}}
{{Medal|Winner|[[UEFA Euro 1960|1960 France]]|}}
{{Medal|Runner-up|[[UEFA Euro 1964|1964 Spain]]|}}
}}

'''Lev Ivanovich Yashin''' ({{langx|ru|Лев Иванович Яшин}}; 22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a Soviet professional [[Association football|footballer]] considered by many to be the greatest [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]] in the history of the sport.<ref name="britannica">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Yashin, Lev Ivanovich.|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9077855/Lev-Ivanovich-Yashin|access-date=25 June 2008}}</ref> He was the first and only goalkeeper to win a [[Ballon d'Or]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-06-08 |title=Lev Yashin: Bullet-maker to Ballon d'Or - the man who reinvented goalkeeping |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44411465 |access-date=2025-05-02 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref> He was known for his athleticism, positioning, imposing presence in goal, and acrobatic reflex saves.<ref name="FIFA">{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/players/player=174638/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005620/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/players/player=174638/|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 December 2013|title="Yashin, the impregnable Spider".}} FIFA. Retrieved 23 November 2013</ref><ref name="Casillas names his top ten No1s">{{cite web|url=http://www.uefa.org/news/newsid=949435.html|title=Casillas names his top ten No1s|publisher=UEFA.org|author1=Guillem Balagué|date=5 February 2010|access-date=27 March 2017|archive-date=28 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328195704/http://www.uefa.org/news/newsid=949435.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Euro 1960"/><ref name="l'Equipe"/> He was also [[deputy chairman]] of the [[Football Federation of the Soviet Union]].

Yashin earned status for revolutionising the goalkeeping position by imposing his authority on the entire defence.<ref name="FIFA"/><ref name="Casillas names his top ten No1s"/><ref name="ESPN"/> A vocal presence in goal, he shouted orders at his defenders, came off his line to intercept crosses and also [[Goalkeeper (association football)#Sweeper-keeper|ran out to meet onrushing attackers]], done at a time when goalkeepers spent the 90 minutes standing in the goal waiting to be called into action.<ref name="FIFA"/><ref name="ESPN">Lomas, Mark (29 April 2010) {{cite web|url=http://www.espnfc.com/print?id=779000&type=story |title="Lev Yashin: Russian Revolutionary". |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522194557/http://www.espnfc.com/print?id=779000&type=story |archive-date=22 May 2014 }} ESPN. Retrieved 21 May 2014</ref><ref name="Top World Cup goalkeepers">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-may-15-la-sp-top-goalkeepers-20100516-story.html|title=Top World Cup goalkeepers|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|author1=Grahame L. Jones|date=15 May 2010|access-date=16 January 2018}}</ref> His performances made an indelible impression on a global audience at the [[1958 FIFA World Cup|1958 World Cup]], the first to be broadcast internationally. He dressed head to toe in apparent black (in truth very dark blue),<ref name = "BBC"/> thus earning his nicknames "'''the Black Spider'''" or "'''the Black Panther'''",<ref name="Panther">{{cite news |title=The Black Panther: The greatest goalkeeper of all time |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44382181 |agency=BBC |date=23 June 2018}}</ref> which enhanced his popularity.<ref name="FIFA"/><ref name="ESPN"/> 
 
Yashin appeared in three [[FIFA World Cup|World Cups]] from 1958 to 1966 and was an unused squad member in 1970. In 2002, he was chosen on the [[FIFA World Cup Dream Team]]. In 1994, he was chosen for the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, and in 1998 was chosen as a member of the [[World Team of the 20th Century]]. According to [[FIFA]], Yashin saved over 150 [[Penalty kick (association football)|penalty kick]]s in professional football — [[List of world association football records|more than any other goalkeeper]].<ref name="panther">{{cite news|url=http://de.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2016/m=5/news=panther-gegen-spinne-2790692.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513101938/http://de.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2016/m=5/news=panther-gegen-spinne-2790692.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 May 2016|title="Panther" gegen "Spinne"|trans-title="Panther" vs. "Spider"|language=de|work=FIFA|date=12 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="bbc"/> He also kept over 270 clean sheets in his career, winning a gold medal at the [[Football at the Summer Olympics#Results|1956 Olympic football tournament]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/27585 |title=Lev Yashin |work=Olympedia |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref> and the [[1960 European Nations' Cup|1960 European Championships]].<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |last1=Jennings |first1=Patrick |title=Yashin |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin |access-date=2 September 2020 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Flint |first1=Andrew |title=Lev Yashin: the only goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or |url=https://thesefootballtimes.co/2017/08/23/lev-yashin-the-only-goalkeeper-to-win-the-ballon-dor/ |access-date=2 September 2020 |work=These Football Times |date=23 August 2017}}</ref>

In 1963, Yashin received the [[Ballon d'Or]], awarded to the European player of the year, the only goalkeeper ever to receive the award.<ref name="FIFA" /> He was additionally named posthumously to the [[Ballon d'Or Dream Team#First Team|Ballon d'Or Dream Team]] in 2020, a greatest all-time XI, and was voted the best goalkeeper of the 20th century by the [[IFFHS]].<ref>{{cite web |title=IFFHS' Century Elections |author= Stokkermans, Karel |work= RSSSF |url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/iffhs-century.html |access-date=25 June 2008}}</ref> He was also named to the [[IFFHS World Team#All-time Men's Dream Team (2021)|IFFHS All-time Men's Dream Team]] in 2021. He was named by ''[[France Football]]'' as the greatest goalkeeper of all time in 2020.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Torrance |first=Sam |date=15 February 2023 |title=France Football ranked the 10 greatest goalkeepers of all-time - Gianluigi Buffon 4th |url=https://www.givemesport.com/buffon-yashin-neuer-france-football-named-10-greatest-goalkeepers-ever-in-2020/ |access-date=23 January 2024 |website=GiveMeSport |language=en}}</ref> In 2025, [[IFFHS]] crowned him as the greatest goalkeeper in football history.<ref>{{cite web |title=IFFHS ALL TIME WORLD BEST GOALKEEPERS TOP 10 |url=https://www.iffhs.com/posts/4378 |date=16 May 2025}}</ref> In November 2003, to celebrate [[UEFA]]'s Jubilee, he was selected as the [[UEFA Jubilee Awards|Golden Player]] of Russia by the [[Russian Football Union]] as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefa/news/Kind=256/newsId=130150.html |title=Golden Players take centre stage |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040312203128/http://www.uefa.com/uefa/news/Kind%3D256/newsId%3D130150.html |archive-date=12 March 2004 |work=[[UEFA]] |date=29 November 2003 |access-date=24 July 2018}}</ref> In 2019, ''France Football'' established the [[Yashin Trophy]] for the best performing goalkeeper, and is awarded alongside the Ballon D'Or.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.as.com/en/2019/12/02/football/1575288628_506101.html|title=Ballon d'Or 2019: Yachine Trophy: the candidates for the award|date=2 December 2019|publisher=AS|access-date=2 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407071558/https://en.as.com/en/2019/12/02/soccer/1575288628_506101.html|archive-date=7 April 2023}}</ref>

==Early life==
Yashin was born in [[Moscow]], in a [[Russians|Russian]] family of industrial workers. When he was 12, [[World War II]] forced him to work in a factory to support the Soviet war effort. However his health at the age of 18 (after he suffered a nervous breakdown) meant he was unable to work.<ref name = "BBC">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin “Bullet maker to Ballon d'Or: The man who reinvented goalkeeping”]. BBC. Retrieved 7 June 2018</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Storey|first1=Daniel|title=Portrait of an icon: Lev Yashin|date=28 September 2016|url=http://www.football365.com/news/portrait-of-an-icon-lev-yashin}}</ref> Thus, he was sent to work in a military factory in Moscow. After being spotted playing for the factory team he was invited to join the [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] youth team.<ref>{{cite news |title=On This Day Legendary Goalkeeper Lev Yashin Would've Turned 90 |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/10/22/on-this-day-legendary-goalkeeper-lev-yashin-wouldve-turned-90-a67853 |access-date=17 August 2021 |work=The Moscow Times}}</ref>

==Club career==
[[File:Jerseys of Platini, Yashin & Kahn.jpg|thumb|right|Yashin's [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] jersey (middle), next to [[Michel Platini|Platini]]’s (left) and [[Oliver Kahn|Kahn]]’s (right) in the [[San Siro]] museum]]
Yashin’s debut for Dynamo Moscow came in 1950 in a friendly match. It was not the debut he would have hoped for, as he conceded a soft goal scored straight from a clearance by the opposing keeper. That year he played in only two league games, and did not appear in a senior match again until 1953. But he remained determined, and stayed at Dynamo in the reserves waiting for another opportunity. Yashin also played goalie for the [[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo]] [[ice hockey]] team during those early years of trying to break into the senior squad. He managed to win a USSR ice hockey cup in 1953 and was third in the USSR ice hockey championship as goalkeeper.<ref>{{cite news|title=A tribute to Lev Yashin|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/49159-a-tribute-to-lev-yashin|agency=Bleacher Report|date=21 March 2018}}</ref>

He spent his entire professional football career with Dynamo Moscow, from 1950 to 1970, winning the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] football championship five times and the [[Soviet Cup]] three times.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lev Ivanovich Yashin |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lev-Ivanovich-Yashin |access-date=17 August 2021 |work=Britannica}}</ref> Yashin's club teammate, rival and mentor was [[Alexei Khomich|Alexei "Tiger" Khomich]], the keeper of the [[Soviet Union national football team|Soviet national team]], who had become famous for his role in [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]’s British tour. He also internally rivalled goalkeeper [[Valter Sanaya]], who left the club in 1953.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180623141640/http://russianfootballnews.com/lev-yashin-the-black-panther-who-changed-the-goalkeeper-position/ “Lev Yashin: The Black Panther Who Changed the Goalkeeper Position“]}}. Russian Football News. Retrieved 23 June 2018</ref>

==International career==
[[File:Lev Yashin 1960c.jpg|thumb|Yashin in 1960]]
In 1954, Yashin was called up to the [[USSR national football team|Soviet national team]], and would go on to gather 78 [[cap (football)|cap]]s.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/yashin-intl.html | title = Lev Ivanovich Yashin – International Appearances | author = Arnhold, Matthias | date = 13 December 2012 | access-date = 2 January 2013 | publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}}</ref> With the national team he won the [[Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Summer Olympics]] as well as the first European championship, the [[1960 European Nations' Cup]].<ref name = "BBC"/> He also played in three [[FIFA World Cup|World Cups]], in [[1958 FIFA World Cup|1958]], [[Football World Cup 1962|1962]] and [[Football World Cup 1966|1966]].<ref name=sr>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/lev-yashin-1.html |title=Lev Yashin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418054037/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/lev-yashin-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020}}</ref> Yashin is credited with four [[clean sheet]]s out of the 12 games he played in the World Cup finals.<ref name = "BBC"/>

The 1958 World Cup, played in Sweden, put Yashin on the map for his performances, with the Soviet Union advancing to the quarter-finals.<ref name = "BBC"/> In a group stage match against the eventual Cup winners [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]], the Soviet team lost 2–0. Facing a Brazil team that featured [[Garrincha]] and a 17 year old [[Pelé]] in attack, Yashin's performance prevented the score from becoming a rout.<ref>{{cite book | first=Ruy | last= Castro | year=2005 | title=Garrincha – The Triumph and Tragedy of Brazil's Forgotten Footballing Hero| publisher=Yellow Jersey Press | location=London | isbn=0-224-06433-9 }}</ref>

Yashin was nominated for Ballon d'Or in 1960 and 1961 and placed fifth and fourth, respectively.<ref>Reno, Bill (12 May 2015) [https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/05/why-a-goalkeeper-will-never-win-another-ballon-dor.html Why a Goalkeeper Will Never Win Another Ballon d'Or]. ''Paste Magazine''.</ref> In 1962, despite suffering two concussions during the tournament, he once again led the team to a quarter-final finish, before losing to host country [[Chile national football team|Chile]].<ref name="concussion">{{cite web|url=http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1960/historymaker/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420210955/http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season%3D1960/historymaker/index.html |archive-date=20 April 2008 |title=Victor Ponedelnik |publisher=UEFA EURO 2008 |access-date=21 April 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> That tournament showed that Yashin was all too human, having made some uncharacteristic mistakes. In the game against [[Colombia national football team|Colombia]], which the Soviet Union was leading 4–1, Yashin let in a few soft goals, including a goal scored by [[Marcos Coll]] directly from a [[corner kick]]. It was the first and the only goal scored directly from a corner in FIFA World Cup history.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historic moments at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 |url=https://www.fifamuseum.com/en/blog-stories/blog/historic-moments-at-the-fifa-women-s-world-cup-2023/ |website=FIFA Museum |access-date=7 September 2023 |date=19 August 2023}}</ref> The Soviet Union's game against Colombia finished in a 4–4 draw, which led the French newspaper ''[[L'Équipe]]'' to predict the end of Yashin's career.<ref name="l'Equipe">{{cite news | url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/team_pages/russia/newsid_1751000/1751095.stm| title = The path of the 'Panther' | work = BBC News| access-date=21 April 2008 | date=9 April 2002}}</ref> He did, however, make an outstanding save against Chile in the quarter-final. Despite this, the Soviet Union suffered a 2–1 defeat and were eliminated from the World Cup.<ref name = "BBC"/>

Despite the disappointment of the 1962 World Cup, Yashin would bounce back to win the [[Ballon d'Or]] in December 1963. One of his best performances that year was the [[1963 England v Rest of the World football match]], where he made a number of spectacular saves. From that point onward he was known to the world as the "Black Spider" because he wore a distinctive all-black outfit and because it seemed as though he had eight arms to save almost everything.<ref name="FIFA"/><ref name="ESPN"/> But to his fans, he was always the fearless "Black Panther".<ref name="Panther"/> He often played wearing a cloth cap of burnt-brick colour. Yashin led the Soviet team to its best showing at the FIFA World Cup, a fourth-place finish in the [[1966 FIFA World Cup|1966 World Cup]] held in England.<ref name = "BBC"/>

Always ready to give advice to his comrades, Yashin even made a fourth trip to the World Cup finals in [[Football World Cup 1970|1970]], held in Mexico, as the third-choice back-up and an assistant coach. The Soviet team again reached the quarter-finals. In 1971, in Moscow, he played his last match for Dynamo Moscow. Lev Yashin's [[FIFA]] [[testimonial match]] was held at the [[Luzhniki Stadium|Lenin Stadium]] in Moscow with 100,000 fans attending and a host of football stars, including [[Pelé]], [[Eusébio]] and [[Franz Beckenbauer]].<ref name="FIFA"/>

==Personal life and health==
After retiring from playing, Yashin spent almost 20 years in various administrative positions at Dynamo Moscow. He also spent much of his retirement indulging in what his wife called his second passion: fishing. A [[bronze]] statue of Lev Yashin was erected at the [[Central Dynamo Stadium|Dynamo Stadium]] in Moscow.<ref name="Yashin"/>

In 1986, following a [[thrombophlebitis]] contracted while he was in [[Budapest]], Yashin underwent the amputation of one of his legs.<ref name="Yashin"/> He died in 1990 of [[stomach cancer]], despite a surgical intervention in an attempt to save his life. He was given a [[state funeral]] as a Soviet Honoured Master of Sport.<ref name="Yashin"/>

Yashin was survived by wife Valentina Timofeyevna and daughters Irina and Elena;<ref name="Лев Иванович Яшин" /> when Russia hosted the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]], Valentina was still living in the Moscow apartment that the Soviet state had given her husband in 1964.<ref name=Jennings>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin |title=Yashin |first=Patrick |last=Jennings |website=[[BBC Online|BBC.com]] |date=7 June 2018 |access-date=2 July 2018}}</ref> Yashin has a granddaughter and one surviving grandson; another grandson died in 2002 at age 14 from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident.<ref name=Jennings/> The surviving grandson, Vasili Frolov, played as a goalkeeper in Dynamo's youth section and was on the books of the senior side,<ref>Pryakhin, Valery (19 January 2007) [http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/248111 Вратарь «Динамо» Василий Фролов, внук Льва Яшина: Бутсы деда мне великоваты] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916221007/http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/248111 |date=16 September 2017 }}. sovsport.ru</ref> but never played a game with the senior side, retiring from play at age 23. He now runs a goalkeeper training school in Moscow near [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]]'s [[Otkritie Arena|current stadium]].<ref name=Jennings/>

==Style of play and accolades==
{{quote box|width=28%|align=right|quote="Lev Yashin was first-class, a real super goalkeeper. His positional play was excellent, but everything he did was top-class. He was the model for goalkeeping for the next 10 to 15 years, without a doubt. I visualised myself doing some of the things he was doing, even though I was already playing in the top division I used to learn from him."|source =—England legend [[Gordon Banks]], voted the second greatest goalkeeper, behind Yashin, of the 20th Century.<ref name="Euro 1960">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/17680769 "Euro 1960: Lev Yashin leads Soviets to glory in France"]. BBC. Retrieved 21 May 2014</ref>}}
{{quote box|width=28%|align=right|quote=Yashin was "the peerless goalkeeper of the century". |source =—Portugal legend [[Eusébio]].<ref name="ESPN"/>}}

Considered by many in the sport to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game,<ref name="britannica"/> Yashin was an imposing presence in goal due to his tall stature, and was highly regarded for his athleticism, agility, positional sense, bravery, and exceptional reflexes, which enabled him to produce acrobatic and spectacular saves.<ref name="FIFA"/><ref name="Casillas names his top ten No1s"/><ref name="Euro 1960"/><ref name="l'Equipe"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/021d-0e8f141f0275-968fbd474c1c-1000--saving-grace-europe-s-favourite-goalkeepers/ |title=Saving grace: Europe's favourite goalkeepers |publisher=[[UEFA]] |date=30 January 2015 |access-date=14 March 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goal.com/en/lists/buffon-or-yashin-top-10-goalkeepers-of-all-time/1mb2d3jk5w285150ykl834v60v|title=Buffon, Schmeichel or Yashin? Top 10 goalkeepers of all time|publisher=Goal.com|author1=Mark Doyle|date=27 January 2018|access-date=28 January 2018}}</ref> Yashin remains the only goalkeeper to have won the [[Ballon d'Or]], [[1963 Ballon d'Or|in 1963]].<ref name="FIFA"/> He also stopped 151 [[Penalty kick (association football)|penalty kicks]] during his career, more than any other goalkeeper in history, and kept over 270 clean sheets.<ref name="Yashin"/> For his outstanding service to the people and to his country, Yashin was awarded the [[Order of Lenin]] in 1967, the highest award of the USSR.<ref name="FIFA"/>

{{Blockquote|“Yashin revolutionised the role of goalkeeper like no other before him, by always being ready to act as an extra defender” and by “starting dangerous counter-attacks with his positioning and quick throws”.|''[[France Football]]'', June 2018.<ref name = "BBC"/>}}

A vocal and authoritative figure between the posts, Yashin is known for revolutionising the goalkeeping position:<ref name="FIFA"/><ref name="Casillas names his top ten No1s"/><ref name="ESPN"/> he shouted orders at his defenders, came off his line to intercept crosses, and also [[Goalkeeper (association football)#Sweeper-keeper|ran out to meet onrushing attackers]], done at a time when goalkeepers spent the 90 minutes standing in the goal waiting to be called into action.<ref name="FIFA"/><ref name="ESPN"/><ref name="Top World Cup goalkeepers"/> Yashin would always organise the defensive game of his team, often so fiercely that even his wife accused him of yelling too much on the pitch. He rarely captained his teams, as the later accepted custom of appointing a goalkeeper captain was virtually unheard-of in that era, but his leadership on the field was always evident. Yashin was one of the goalkeepers who began the practice of punching balls out in difficult situations instead of trying to catch them. Other novel practices he developed were the quick throw of the ball to begin a counterattack, coming out of the penalty area to anticipate danger, and the command and organisation of the defenders – practices now quite common among goalkeepers.<ref name="FIFA"/> When asked what his secret was, he would reply that the trick was "to have a smoke to calm your nerves, then toss back a strong drink to tone your muscles."<ref name="panther"/><ref name="Yashin">Greaves, Jimmy (2008). ''Football's Great Heroes and Entertainers''. Hachette UK. p. 1949. {{ISBN|1444718150}}</ref>

In 1994, [[FIFA]] established the [[Yashin Award|Lev Yashin Award]] for the best goalkeeper at the World Cup finals. FIFA polls named Yashin as the sole goalkeeper in [[World Team of the 20th Century]]. ''[[World Soccer (magazine)|World Soccer]]'' magazine named him in their [[World Soccer Magazine#Greatest Players of the 20th century|100 Greatest Players of the 20th century]]. Many commentators consider Yashin the best goalkeeper in the history of football, which has resulted in him being chosen to be the goalkeeper in most of the world-all-time teams (including the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team and the [[FIFA Dream Team]]).<ref>de Arruda, Marcelo Leme (15 May 2004) [https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/wrldallt.html World All-Time Teams]. Rec. Sport. Soccer Statistics Foundation. rsssf.org</ref> In 2020 Yashin was named in the [[Ballon d'Or Dream Team#First Team|Ballon d'Or Dream Team]], a greatest all-time XI.<ref name="all time">{{cite web |title=Ballon d'Or Dream Team: Xavi alongside Messi and Cristiano |url=https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2020/12/14/5fd78132268e3e48068b45e4.html |website=[[Marca (newspaper)|Marca]] |date=14 December 2020 |access-date=15 December 2020 |archive-date=15 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215113050/https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2020/12/14/5fd78132268e3e48068b45e4.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Legacy==
[[File:RU140-15.jpg|thumb|Yashin on a 2016 Russian stamp from the series "Football Legends"]]
[[File:AM 100 dram Ag 2008 Football Yashin b.PNG|thumb|Commemorative coin issued in 2008 by the [[Central Bank of Armenia]]]]
[[File:Opening the Russia House in Rio 03cr.jpg|thumb|Bronze statue of Yashin in [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil]]
The following works are devoted to Yashin:
*Song "Вратарь" ("Goalkeeper", 1971) by [[Vladimir Vysotsky]].<ref>Roganov, Nikolai (25 January 2013) [http://m.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/583522 История песни «Вратарь». Владимиру Высоцкому сегодня исполнилось бы 75] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424104416/http://m.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/583522 |date=24 April 2016 }}. sovsport.ru</ref>
*Poem "Года летят" ("Years go by") by [[Robert Rozhdestvensky]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Galchuk, Andrei|title=Мир мужских увлечений. Лучший подарок настоящему мужчине|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=97qCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA172|date=2014|publisher=ЛитРес|isbn=978-5-457-59663-4|pages=172–}}</ref>
*Poem "Вратарь выходит из ворот" ("Goalkeeper is coming out of the goal", 1974) by [[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]].<ref>Shestak, Anna (2009) [https://web.archive.org/web/20211124220454/http://bulvar.com.ua/arch/2009/38/4aba70ff5e41a/view_print/ Евгений ЕВТУШЕНКО: «Поэзии я учился у советского футбола»]. ''Bulvar Gordona'', Vol. 38 (230)</ref>
*A Russian-language biopic about his life, entitled ''Lev Yashin: Goalie of My Dreams,'' was released on 22 October 2017. Its director Oleg Kapanets previously produced ''[[Gagarin: First in Space]]''.<ref name="panther"/><ref>{{cite news|script-title=ru:Стали известны претенденты на роль Льва Яшина (голосование)|url=http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/783257|access-date=21 April 2015|work=[[Sovetsky Sport]]|trans-title=Contenders for the role of Lev Yashin revealed|date=4 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418202618/http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/783257|archive-date=18 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Statues of Yashin were unveiled at both [[Luzhniki Stadium]], in 1997, and [[Central Dynamo Stadium]], in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arthistory/events/2014/163.html |title=From Rio to Russia: Imaging the World Cup |access-date=30 December 2022 |archive-date=30 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230040344/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arthistory/events/2014/163.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* The new billion-dollar Dynamo Moscow stadium, [[VTB Arena]], is officially called Lev Yashin Stadium.
*Several streets are named after Yashin in Russian cities, and there are multiple monuments of Yashin, both in Russia and abroad.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pose for a photo with legendary Lev Yashin in Moscow and elsewhere |url=https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/40110073/ |access-date=28 August 2018 |agency=Mos.ru. |archive-date=29 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829000240/https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/40110073/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Yashin features in [[EA Sports]]' [[FIFA (video game series)|''FIFA'' football video game series]]: he was added as an Ultimate Team Icon in ''[[FIFA 18]]'', joined by many other legends of the sport.
*In 2018, Yashin appeared on a new 100-ruble commemorative banknote from the [[Central Bank of Russia]] celebrating the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]] in the country; he also appeared on the official World Cup poster released in November 2017.<ref name="CoinWeek">{{cite news |title=Russia Commemorates 2018 World Cup with Country's 1st Polymer Banknote |url=https://coinweek.com/paper-money-2/russia-issues-new-100-ruble-fifa-banknote/ |access-date=1 July 2018 |publisher=CoinWeek |date=25 May 2018}}</ref>

==Ice hockey career==
Yashin also played [[ice hockey]] (also as a [[Goaltender|goalie]]) and he won the [[Soviet Cup (ice hockey)|Soviet Cup]] in March 1953.<ref name = "BBC"/> He was even among the candidates for the country's ice hockey national team, but he stopped playing ice hockey in 1954 to concentrate on his [[Association football|football]] career.<ref name = "BBC"/>

==Quotes==
{{Blockquote|"What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future."|Lev Yashin.<ref>{{cite news|title=Yashin, the impregnable Spider|url=https://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=174638/profile.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908214439/http://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=174638/profile.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 September 2015|agency=FIFA.com.|date=21 March 2018}}</ref>}}
{{Blockquote|"The joy of seeing [[Yuri Gagarin]] flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save."|Lev Yashin.<ref>{{cite news |title=The spider against the panther |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/the-spider-against-the-panther-2790523 |agency=FIFA.com |date=7 June 2018}}</ref>}}
{{Blockquote|"There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]."|Lev Yashin on [[Bert Trautmann]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Bert Trautmann, Who Won Iron Cross and F.A. Cup, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/sports/soccer/bert-trautmann-won-iron-cross-and-fa-cup-dies-at-89.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=7 June 2018}}</ref>}}
{{Blockquote|"I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is [[Vladimir Beara]]."|Lev Yashin, upon receiving the award for best player in 1963.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/aug/05/europeanfootball| title=Meet Yugoslavia's ballerina Beara, once the best keeper in the world| author=Jonathan Wilson| date=5 August 2008| newspaper=The Guardian| access-date=December 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.istoriafotbalului.com/tradatorii-iii-vladimir-beara/| title=Trădătorii (III): Vladimir Beara| author=Buturugeanu, Alex | date=1 October 2010| publisher=Istoria Fotbalului| access-date=21 December 2013}}</ref>}}
{{Blockquote|"Yashin plays football better than me".|Striker [[Sandro Mazzola]] after a 1963 [[Italy national football team|Italy]]–USSR match, during which Yashin saved his penalty.<ref>{{cite news |title=Yashin, the man in black who shone bright |url=http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=rus/news/newsid=235065.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140105181901/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=rus/news/newsid=235065.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 January 2014 |agency=UEFA.com |date=7 June 2018}}</ref>}}

==Career statistics==
===Club===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
|-
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!colspan="3"|League
!colspan="2"|[[Soviet Cup]]
!colspan="3"|Total
|-
!Division!!Apps!!Goals
!Apps!!Goals
!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="21"|[[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]||[[1950 Soviet Top League|1950]]||rowspan="21"|[[Soviet Top League|Top League]]||2||0||0||0||2||0
|-
|[[1951 Soviet Top League|1951]]||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||0||0
|-
|[[1952 Soviet Top League|1952]]||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||0||0
|-
|[[1953 Soviet Top League|1953]]||13||0||5||0||18||0
|-
|[[1954 Soviet Top League|1954]]||24||0||1||0||25||0
|-
|[[1955 Soviet Top League|1955]]||22||0||4||0||26||0
|-
|[[1956 Soviet Top League|1956]]||19||0||0||0||19||0
|-
|[[1957 Soviet Top League|1957]]||12||0||0||0||12||0
|-
|[[1958 Soviet Top League|1958]]||6||0||0||0||6||0
|-
|[[1959 Soviet Top League|1959]]||19||0||0||0||19||0
|-
|[[1960 Soviet Top League|1960]]||18||0||2||0||20||0
|-
|[[1961 Soviet Top League|1961]]||19||0||2||0||21||0
|-
|[[1962 Soviet Top League|1962]]||17||0||0||0||17||0
|-
|[[1963 Soviet Top League|1963]]||27||0||2||0||29||0
|-
|[[1964 Soviet Top League|1964]]||28||0||3||0||31||0
|-
|[[1965 Soviet Top League|1965]]||20||0||0||0||20||0
|-
|[[1966 Soviet Top League|1966]]||8||0||0||0||8||0
|-
|[[1967 Soviet Top League|1967]]||20||0||6||0||26||0
|-
|[[1968 Soviet Top League|1968]]||17||0||2||0||19||0
|-
|[[1969 Soviet Top League|1969]]||22||0||2||0||24||0
|-
|[[1970 Soviet Top League|1970]]||13||0||3||0||16||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total!!326!!0!!32!!0!!358!!0
|}

===International===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year
|-
!National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="14"|[[Soviet Union national football team|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
|-
!colspan="2"|Total||74||0
|}

===Other statistics===
* 812 career games played<ref name="russiateam_ru">{{cite web |script-title=ru:Лев Яшин |work=russiateam.ru |url=http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/yashin.html |access-date=18 March 2011 |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824105208/http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/yashin.html |archive-date=24 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* estimated to have made over 150 penalty saves during his career<ref name="britannica"/><ref name="russiateam">{{cite web |title=Lev YASHIN |work=russiateam.ru |url=http://russiateam.com/legends/yashin.html |access-date=18 March 2011 |archive-date=5 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705200138/http://russiateam.com/legends/yashin.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="bbc"/>
* 326 games played for [[FC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]] main line-up (football team)<ref name="nft">{{NFT player|id=19046|name=Yashin, Lev|accessdate= }}</ref>
* 74 caps for the [[USSR national football team|USSR]] national team (70 goals conceded)<ref name="nft"/>
* 12 caps at the [[Football World Cup|World Cup]] (4 [[clean sheet]]s)
* 2 [[FIFA]] 'Best of the World XI' appearances (in 1963 vs England, in 1968 vs [[Brazil]])
* 270 career [[clean sheet]]s<ref name="russiateam"/>

==Honours==

===Football===

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

'''Soviet Union'''
*[[Football at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Gold Medal]]: [[Association football at the 1956 Summer Olympics|1956]]
*[[UEFA European Football Championship]]: [[1960 European Nations' Cup Final|1960]]; runner-up: [[1964 European Nations' Cup Final|1964]]

'''Individual'''
*[[UEFA European Championship Teams of the Tournament|UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament]]: [[UEFA European Championship awards#Team of the Tournament|1960]],<ref>{{cite news|date=1 February 2011|title=1960 team of the tournament|work=Union of European Football Associations|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7f20bc921c-495824f652eb-1000--euro-1960-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724121103/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7f20bc921c-495824f652eb-1000--euro-1960-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2020|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref> [[UEFA European Championship awards#Team of the Tournament|1964]]<ref>{{cite news|title=1964 team of the tournament|work=Union of European Football Associations|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7d0bdc396b-570ad6e6ff87-1000--euro-1964-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724153004/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7d0bdc396b-570ad6e6ff87-1000--euro-1964-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2020|access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>
*USSR Goalkeeper of the year: 1960, 1963, 1966{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
*[[Ballon d'Or]] Winner: 1963,<ref name=sr/> nominated: [[1956 Ballon d'Or|1956]], [[1957 Ballon d'Or|1957]], [[1958 Ballon d'Or|1958]], [[1959 Ballon d'Or|1959]], [[1960 Ballon d'Or|1960]], [[1961 Ballon d'Or|1961]], [[1964 Ballon d'Or|1964]], [[1965 Ballon d'Or|1965]], [[1966 Ballon d'Or|1966]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html|title=European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")|author1=Rob Moore|author2=Karel Stokkermans|date=21 January 2011|website=[[RSSSF]]|access-date=10 April 2025}}</ref>
*''[[World Soccer (magazine)|World Soccer]]'' World XI: 1963,<ref name="WORLD XI">[http://beyondthelastman.com/2013/04/29/eric-battys-world-xis-the-sixties/ "ERIC BATTY’S WORLD XI – THE SIXTIES"] Retrieved on 29 November 2015</ref> 1964,<ref name="WORLD XI"/> 1966,<ref name="WORLD XI"/> 1967<ref name="WORLD XI"/>
*[[FIFA|FIFA XI]]: 1963,<ref name="FIFA XI">[https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/fifa-xi.html FIFA XI´s Matches – Full Info]</ref> 1968<ref name="FIFA XI" />
*[[Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst|ADN Eastern European Footballer of the Season]]: 1963<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ukrfootball.ua/news/albert-dzhayich-blohin-stoyichkov-levandovski-shcho-spilnogo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200112/http://ukrfootball.ua/news/albert-dzhayich-blohin-stoyichkov-levandovski-shcho-spilnogo |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-04 |website=WebArchive |title=Eastern European Footballer of the season|access-date=5 July 2024 }}</ref>
*[[Europe XI]]: 1964,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/contreps3770.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref> 1964,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/contreps3770.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref> 1965<ref>{{Cite web|title=Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/contreps3770.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref> 
*European football Oscars: 1963-64<ref>{{Cite web |title=European football Oscar 1964 |url=https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/european-football-oscar-1964.2110706/ |access-date=31 May 2022 |website=BigSoccer Forum |language=en-US}}</ref> 
*World XI selected by Italian press. 1960,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Revista do Esporte (RJ) - 1959 a 1970 - DocReader Web |url=https://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/docreader.aspx?bib=144118&pesq=andrade%20samitier&pagfis=6404 |access-date=31 May 2022 |website=memoria.bn.br}}</ref> 1961<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ballon d'Or awards revisited by BigSoccer users |url=https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/ballon-dor-awards-revisited-by-bigsoccer-users.2119696/page-14#post-40429364 |access-date=31 May 2022 |website=BigSoccer Forum |language=en-US}}</ref>
*''FUWO European Team of the Year'': 1965,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%201966/FUWO%201966%2001.pdf |website=FCC-Wiki|title=FUWO 1966|access-date=23 April 2024 }}</ref> 1966<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%201967/FUWO%201967%2002.pdf |website=FCC-Wiki|title=FUWO 1967|access-date=23 April 2024 }}</ref>
*[[Order of Lenin]]
*Silver [[Olympic Order]]<ref name=sr/>
*[[FIFA Order of Merit]]
*''[[Placar]]'''s All-Time Team<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=World All-Time Teams|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/wrldallt.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref>
*''[[Placar]]'''s 100 Stars of the Century: #11<ref name="rsssf.org">{{Cite web|title=The Best x Players of the Century/All-Time|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/best-x-players-of-y.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref>
*[[FIFA World Cup]] All-Time Team
*''Planète Foot'''s All-Time Team<ref name=":0" />
*''[[France Football]]'''s Football Player of the Century: #10<ref name="rsssf.org"/>
*''Planète Foot'''s 50 Best Players of all Time<ref name="rsssf.org"/>
*[[Il Venerdì di Repubblica|''Venerdì'']]'s All-Time Team<ref name=":0" />
*[[Il Venerdì di Repubblica|''Venerdì'']]'s 100 Magnificent<ref>{{Cite web|title=Venerdì's All-Time Top-100 (100 Magnifici)|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/100magn.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref>
*[[World Soccer (magazine)|''World Soccer'']]'s 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time: #11<ref name="rsssf.org"/>
*[[World Team of the 20th Century]]
*''[[Voetbal International]]'''s Team of the Century<ref name="rsssf.org"/>
*''[[Voetbal International]]'''s World Stars by Raf Willems<ref name="rsssf.org"/>
*''[[Jornal A Tarde]]'' All-Time Team<ref name=":0" />
*''[[Placar]]'''s 100 Stars of the World Cup: #23<ref>{{Cite web|title=Os 100 Craques das Copas (Placar Magazine)|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/placwc100.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref>
*[[O Estado de S. Paulo|''O Estado de São Paulo'']] All-Time Team<ref name=":0" />
*World Hall of Fame of Soccer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hall of Fame of Soccer Mexico and World|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/mex-hof.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref>
*''[[France Football]]'' Greatest Goalkeeper of All Time<ref name=":1" />
*[[FIFA]] Goalkeeper of the 20th Century<ref name=sr/>
*[[FIFA World Cup Dream Team]]
*[[UEFA Jubilee Awards|Golden Player of Russia]]
*''[[World Soccer (magazine)|World Soccer]]'' Greatest XI of all time<ref>{{cite news |title=The Greatest: – how the panel voted |url=http://www.worldsoccer.com/features/the-greatest-xi-how-the-panel-voted-341427 |work=World Soccer |date=23 June 2018}}</ref>
*''World Sports'' dream team of the past 20 years: 1970<ref>{{Cite web |title=Old great players lists (esp. 1950s - 1970s) ? |url=https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/old-great-players-lists-esp-1950s-1970s.2038892/#post-35140367 |access-date=31 May 2022 |website=BigSoccer Forum |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[International Federation of Football History & Statistics|IFFHS]] Legends<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iffhs.de/iffhs-has-announced-the-48-football-legend-players/|title=IFFHS announce the 48 football legend players|publisher=IFFHS|date=25 January 2016|access-date=14 September 2016|archive-date=24 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924082150/https://iffhs.de/iffhs-has-announced-the-48-football-legend-players/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[International Federation of Football History & Statistics|IFFHS]] World Goalkeeper of the Century<ref name="IFFHS' Century Elections">{{Cite web|title=IFFHS' Century Elections|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/iffhs-century.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref>
*[[International Federation of Football History & Statistics|IFFHS]] European Goalkeeper of the Century<ref name="IFFHS' Century Elections"/>
*[[Ballon d'Or Dream Team]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Crépin |first=Timothé |title=Ballon d'Or Dream Team : Découvrez les révélations de ce onze de légende ! |url=https://www.francefootball.fr/news/Ballon-d-or-dream-team-decouvrez-les-revelations-de-ce-onze-de-legende/1205748 |website=[[France Football]] |language=fr |date=14 December 2020 |access-date=14 December 2020}}</ref>
*[[International Federation of Football History & Statistics#All-time Men's Dream Team (2021)|IFFHS All-time Men's Dream Team]]<ref name="IFFHS Dream Team">{{cite web |url=https://www.iffhs.com/posts/1110 |title=IFFHS ALL TIME WORLD MEN'S DREAM TEAM |work=IFFHS |date=22 May 2021 }}</ref>
*[[International Federation of Football History & Statistics|IFFHS]] All-time Europe Men's Dream Team<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iffhs.com/posts/1121|publisher=IFFHS|date=29 May 2021| access-date=31 May 2021|title=IFFHS}}</ref>
*[[IFFHS World Team#Men Team of the Century (1901–2000)|IFFHS Men Team of the Century (1901–2000)]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=IFFHS MEN WORLD TEAM OF THE XXth CENTURY (1901-2000) |url=https://www.iffhs.com/posts/1060 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528224421/https://www.iffhs.com/posts/1060 |archive-date=28 May 2021 |access-date=8 November 2021 |website=www.iffhs.com}}</ref>

===Ice hockey===
'''Dynamo Moscow'''
*[[Soviet Cup (ice hockey)|Soviet Cup]]: 1953

==See also==
{{Portal|Association football|Russia}}
* [[List of one-club men in association football]]
* [[Lev Yashin Club]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
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* [https://en.fcdm.ru/legend/yashin/ Profile] at the FC Dynamo Moscow website
* {{FIFA player}}
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* {{cite web|author=Matthias Arnhold|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/yashin-intl.html|title=Lev Ivanovich Yashin – International Appearances|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|date=13 December 2012}}

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