Georgijs Smirnovs (born 1936) is a Latvian formerfootball player and manager. In 2006Latvian Football Federation selected Smirnovs as one of the 11 greatest footballers in the first 100 years of football in Latvia.^{[citation needed]}

Born inLeningrad, Smirnovs played football with a local factory club. In 1957 he was sent toRiga, Latvia for military service. He got to play withFK Dinamo Rīga with which he won theLatvian Cup and was noted by many as a very talented forward. After just six matches that he had played with Dinamo,Vadims Ulbergs fromDaugava Rīga offered Smirnovs to join the strongest Latvian club.

He made his debut with Daugava in the 1st Soviet league in the 1957 and played with the club until 1971. In his best season in 1960 when Daugava played in theSoviet Top League Smirnovs scored 11 goals and was nominated to the list of the 33 best Soviet footballers of the year. Smirnovs also managed to score three goals in two matches against the legendaryLev Yashin in that year. After the season Smirnovs got offers from several top league squads, but he remained loyal to Daugava. In 1967 Smirnovs was offered to retire from playing and start management work with Daugava, but he refused and continued playing. In 1969 when Daugava went on a tourney to England but the players were found carryingcontraband money and many of them including Smirnovs andGunārs Ulmanis - the club veterans and leaders were disqualified. In 1971 his disqualification was lifted and Smirnovs played one more match for Daugava (and a couple of games withZvejnieks Liepāja, but he himself recognized that he wasn't in a form good enough, so he retired from football for sure.^{[citation needed][1]}

Later Smirnovs returned to football as a manager withVEF Rīga which he brought to many successful seasons in the Latvian league - winning 5 titles and the twoLatvian Cups. With VEF he worked from 1971 to 1992.^[2]

The Georgijs Smirnovs club is a list of Latvian football players that have scored 100 or more goals during their professional careers.^[3] This club is named after Georgijs Smirnovs.