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{{Infobox football biography
| name= Yevgeniy Rudakov
| image = Yevhen Rudakov México 70.png
| caption = Yevhen Rudakov in 1970
| fullname = Yevgeniy Vasilievich Rudakov
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1942|1|2}}
| birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]] 
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2011|12|21|1942|1|2}}
| death_place = [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]]
| height = 
| currentclub = 
| position = [[Goalkeeper (association football)|Goalkeeper]]
| youthyears1 = 1957–1959
| youthclubs1 = [[Torpedo Moscow]]
| years1 = 1960
| clubs1 = [[Torpedo Moscow]]
| caps1  =  
| goals1 = 
| years2 = 1961–1962
| clubs2 = [[MFK Mykolaiv|Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv]]
| caps2  = 
| goals2 =
| years3 = 1962–1977
| clubs3 = [[Dynamo Kyiv]]
| caps3  = 297
| goals3 = 0
| nationalyears1 = 1968–1976
| nationalteam1 = [[USSR national football team|USSR]]
| nationalyears2 = 1972
| nationalteam2 = [[USSR national under-21 football team|USSR Olympic]]
| nationalcaps1 = 42
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalcaps2  = 6 
| nationalgoals2 = 0
| manageryears1 = 1979
| managerclubs1 = [[Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk]]
| manageryears2 = 1980–1990
| managerclubs2 = [[FC Obolon Kyiv|Zmina Kyiv]] (youth club)
| manageryears3 = 1994
| managerclubs3 = [[FC Kremin Kremenchuk|Kremin Kremenchuk]]
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's [[association football|football]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{URS}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Munich]] | [[Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics|Team competition]] }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UEFA European Championship]]}}
{{Medal|Runner-up|[[UEFA Euro 1972|1972 Belgium]]| }}
}}
{{family name hatnote|Vasylyovych|Rudakov|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
'''Yevgeniy Vasilievich Rudakov''' ({{langx|ru|Евгений Васильевич Рудаков}}; 2 January 1942 – 21 December 2011)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/en/news/news/dynamo_mourn_legendary_goalkeeper_yevhen_rudakov/ |title=Dynamo mourn legendary goalkeeper Yevhen Rudakov |website=fcdynamo.kiev.ua }}</ref> was a Ukrainian [[Association football|footballer]] of Russian origin who played as a [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rbc.ua/ukr/newsline/show/ushel-iz-zhizni-evgeniy-rudakov-21122011123400 |title=Пішов з життя колишній воротар київського "Динамо" Євген Рудаков – Новини РБК-Україна |website=Rbc.ua |access-date=21 December 2011}}</ref> In 1971, he was recognized as the Best Ukrainian Player of the Year becoming the first foreigner to be awarded such honors.

A six-time [[Soviet Top League|domestic champion]] of the Soviet Union with [[FC Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]], Rudakov also helped Dynamo win the [[Soviet Cup]] twice, the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|Cup Winners' Cup]] and the [[UEFA Super Cup]]. He also represented the [[USSR national football team]] and helped them reach the finals of [[UEFA Euro 1972|Euro 1972]] finals. After the [[UEFA Euro 1972]] along with his teammates by [[Soviet Union national football team]] – [[Revaz Dzodzuashvili]] and [[Murtaz Khurtsilava]] – he was included in the team of the tournament, along with such great players as [[Franz Beckenbauer]], [[Gerd Müller]], [[Paul Breitner]], [[Uli Hoeness]] and [[Günter Netzer]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=1972/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116162418/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=1972/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 November 2011 |title=TEAM OF THE TOURNAMENT of the 1972 UEFA European Championship |website=[[UEFA]]  |access-date=31 January 2017}}</ref> In 1971 Rudakov was also chosen the [[Soviet Footballer of the Year]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dynamo.kiev.ua/Press/Interv12/rudakov.htm |title=Evhen Rudakov |website=dynamo.kiev.ua |language=ru }}</ref> and the best goalkeeper of the USSR in 1969, 1971, and 1972.

At the Olympic Games 1972 he earned four wins and two shutouts. He also won 21 games with the regular senior squad and finished 22 games without allowing any goals. His career goals against average was at 0.69.

After finishing his playing career, he coached few Ukraine-based clubs, but mostly stayed on at [[Dynamo Kyiv]]'s sport school as a children coach.

He was nominated twice for the [[Ballon d'Or]], in [[1971 Ballon d'Or|1971]] when he came 12th, and [[1972 Ballon d'Or|1972]] when he came 18th.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ua.tribuna.com/tribuna/blogs/tribunal/11786.html|title = Группа "Блестящие". 15 украинских футболистов, претендовавших на "Золотой мяч"}}</ref>

==Honours==
;Dynamo Kyiv
*[[Soviet Top League]]: [[1966 Soviet Top League|1966]], [[1967 Soviet Top League|1967]], [[1968 Soviet Top League|1968]], [[1971 Soviet Top League|1971]], [[1974 Soviet Top League|1974]], [[1975 Soviet Top League|1975]], [[1977 Soviet Top League|1977]]
*[[Soviet Cup]]: [[Soviet Cup#Finals|1964]], [[Soviet Cup#Finals|1966]], [[Soviet Cup#Finals|1974]]
*[[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]]: [[1975 European Cup Winners' Cup Final|1974–75]]
*[[UEFA Super Cup]]: [[1975 European Super Cup|1975]]

;Soviet Union
*[[Olympic Games]] bronze medal: [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972]]
*[[UEFA European Championship]] runner-up: [[UEFA Euro 1972|1972]]

;Individual
*[[UEFA European Championship Teams of the Tournament|UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament]]: 1972<ref>{{cite news |title=1972 team of the tournament |url=https://www.uefa.com/euro2024/news/0253-0d7bd0da58f2-d557c23f55fa-1000--euro-1972-team-of-the-tournament/ |work=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=23 January 2015}}</ref>
*[[Ukrainian Footballer of the Year]]: 1971
*[[Soviet Footballer of the Year]]: 1971
*[[Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst|ADN Eastern European Footballer of the Season]]: 1971<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>
*''FUWO European Team of the Season'': 1972<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%201973/FUWO%201973%2002.pdf |website=FCC-Wiki|title=FUWO 1973|access-date=23 April 2024 }}</ref>
*[[International Federation of Football History & Statistics|IFFHS]] European 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=3 June 2025|website=[[RSSSF]]}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/rudakov.html RussiaTeam biography]
* {{KLISF|name=Evgeniy Vasil'evich Rudakov|url=http://www.klisf.ru/index.app?cmd=ln&lang=en&id=825912660673394|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130911213412/http://www.klisf.ru/index.app?cmd=ln&lang=en&id=825912660673394|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-09-11}}

{{UEFA Euro 1972 Team of the Tournament}}
{{Ukrainian Footballer of the Year}}
{{Soviet Footballer of the Year}}
{{Soviet Union squad UEFA Euro 1968}}
{{Soviet Union squad UEFA Euro 1972}}
{{Soviet Union football squad 1972 Summer Olympics}}
{{FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk managers}}
{{FC Kremin Kremenchuk managers}}

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