Valentin Kozmich Ivanov

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This article is about the Soviet football player. For his son, the Russian football referee, see Valentin Valentinovich Ivanov.

Competitor for Soviet Union
Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Gold	1956 Melbourne	Team Competition

Valentin Kozmich Ivanov (Russian: Валентин Козьмич Иванов) (born November 19, 1934 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a football winger/striker, co-leading scorer at the 1962 World Cup.

Valentin Kozmich Ivanov celebrating his goal against Sweden

Overall, Ivanov appeared 59 times for the Soviet Union, scoring 26 goals. That number is third in national history behind Oleg Blokhin and Oleg Protasov. Ivanov's four goals in the 1962 World Cup tied five other players for the lead, and he also scored two in the 1958 edition. Ivanov spent most of his club career with Torpedo Moscow. He scored 124 goals in the Soviet Championship, 9th all-time.

Ivanov's son, also named Valentin, is an international football referee.

Preceded by Just Fontaine	FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe 1962 Shared with: Dražan Jerković, Garrincha, Vavá, Leonel Sánchez and Flórián Albert	Succeeded by Eusébio

	USSR squad - 1958 FIFA World Cup
1 Yashin \| 2 Kesarev \| 3 Kriglevski \| 4 Kuznetsov \| 5 Voinov \| 6 Netto \| 7 Apukhtin \| 8 V. Ivanov \| 9 Simonyan \| 10 Salnikov \| 11 Ilyin \| 12 Maslachenko \| 13 Belyaev \| 14 Ostrovskiy \| 15 Maslyonkin \| 16 Tsarev \| 17 A. Ivanov \| 18 Bubukin \| 19 Gusarov \| 20 Falin \| 21 Fiedosov \| 22 Yerokhin \| Coach: Kachalin

	USSR squad - 1962 FIFA World Cup
1 Yashin \| 2 Maslachenko \| 3 Kotrikadze \| 4 Dubinski \| 5 Chokheli \| 6 Ostrovskiy \| 7 Maslyonkin \| 8 Shesternyov \| 9 Manoshin \| 10 Netto \| 11 Sabo \| 12 Voronin \| 13 Gusarov \| 14 Ivanov \| 15 Kanevski \| 16 Mamykin \| 17 Meskhi \| 18 Metreveli \| 19 Ponedelnik \| 20 Serebryanikov \| 21 Khusainov \| 22 Chislenko \| Coach: Kachalin