Anatoli Ilyin

Anatoli Mikhaylovich Ilyin was a Soviet Russian footballer.

Honours

Olympic champion: 1956.
Soviet Top League winner: 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962.
Soviet Top League runner-up: 1954, 1955.
Soviet Top League bronze: 1957, 1961.
Soviet Cup winner: 1958.
Soviet Top League top scorer: 1954, 1958.
Grigory Fedotov club member.

International career

He earned 31 caps and scored 16 goals for the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1959. He earned an Olympic gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, scoring the game-winning goal of the Gold Medal match, and also participated in the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
Ilyin also scored the first goal in the history of the UEFA European Championship, scoring a goal 4 minutes into a qualifying game against Hungary in 1958.