Soviet Union national under-20 football team
Nickname(s) | Lads (Юноши) | ||
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Association | Football Federation of USSR | ||
Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
Head coach | - | ||
FIFA code | URS | ||
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First international | |||
Soviet Union 3–1 Iraq (Sfax, Tunisia; 28 June 1977) Last international Australia 1–1 (4–5 p) Soviet Union (Porto, Portugal; 29 June 1991) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Soviet Union 5–0 Canada (Minsk, Soviet Union; 29 August 1985) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Brazil 3–0 Soviet Union (Guimarães, Portugal; 26 June 1991) | |||
FIFA U-20 World Cup | |||
Appearances | 6 (first in 1977) | ||
Best result | Winners, 1977 |
The Soviet national youth football team was a special under-18 and under-20 football team of the Soviet Union designated specifically for FIFA World Youth Championship (today FIFA U-20 World Cup). It ceased to exist on the breakup of the Union.
The team was created in 1977 for the newly created FIFA competition for junior teams (among lads, under-18).
With dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union youth football team competed at the 1992 UEFA European Under-18 Championship as the CIS youth under-18 football team which qualified for the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. That berth was passed over (grandfathered) to the Russia national under-20 football team.
FIFA World Youth Championship
Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
FIFA World Youth Championship/FIFA U-20 World Cup record | ||||||||
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Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA |
1977 | Champions | 1st | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
1979 | Runners-up | 2nd | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 |
1981 | Did not qualify | |||||||
1983 | Group stage | 15th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
1985 | Fourth place | 4th | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
1987 | Did not qualify | |||||||
1989 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 |
1991 | Third place | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 |
Total | 1 title | 6/8 | 30 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 53 | 33 |
*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
Head coaches
- 1977 Sergei Mosyagin
- 1979 Sergei Korshunov
- 1983 Nikolay Kiselyov
- 1985 Sergei Mosyagin
- 1989 Boris Ignatyev
- 1991 Gennadi Kostylev
1991 FIFA World Youth Championship
The last Soviet U-20 team
- Head coach
- Gennadi Kostylev
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Club |
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1 | 1GK | Oleksandr Pomazun | (1971-10-11)11 October 1971 (aged 20) | Metallist Kharkov | |
2 | 2DF | Yervand Krbachian | (1971-10-01)1 October 1971 (aged 20) | Ararat Yerevan | |
3 | 2DF | Sergei Mandreko | (1971-08-01)1 August 1971 (aged 20) | Pamir Dushanbe | |
4 | 2DF | Sergei Mamchur | (1972-02-03)3 February 1972 (aged 19) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | |
5 | 2DF | Valeri Minko | (1971-08-08)8 August 1971 (aged 20) | CSKA Moscow | |
6 | 2DF | Evgeni Bushmanov | (1971-11-02)2 November 1971 (aged 20) | Spartak Moscow | |
7 | 3MF | Dmitri Mikhailenko | (1973-07-13)13 July 1973 (aged 18) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | |
8 | 4FW | Serhiy Scherbakov | (1971-08-15)15 August 1971 (aged 20) | Shakhtar Donetsk | |
9 | 4FW | Dmitri Karsakov | (1971-12-29)29 December 1971 (aged 20) | CSKA Moscow / KAMAZ N. Chelny | |
10 | 4FW | Serhiy Konovalov | (1972-03-01)1 March 1972 (aged 19) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | |
11 | 3MF | Volodymyr Sharan | (1971-09-18)18 September 1971 (aged 20) | Karpaty Lviv / Dynamo Kyiv | |
12 | 1GK | Andrei Novosadov | (1972-03-27)27 March 1972 (aged 19) | CSKA Moscow | |
13 | 2DF | Dmitri Klimovich | (1972-04-30)30 April 1972 (aged 19) | Dinamo Minsk | |
14 | 2DF | Alexei Guschin | (1971-10-21)21 October 1971 (aged 20) | CSKA Moscow | |
15 | 3MF | Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov | (1972-01-16)16 January 1972 (aged 19) | Dynamo Moscow | |
16 | 3MF | Vitali But | (1972-11-16)16 November 1972 (aged 19) | Dynamo Moscow | |
17 | 3MF | Armen Babalarian | (1971-08-15)15 August 1971 (aged 20) | Ararat Yerevan / Kotayk | |
18 | 3MF | Evgueni Pokhlebaev | (1971-11-25)25 November 1971 (aged 20) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | |
19 | 1GK | Gennady Tumilovich | (1971-09-03)3 September 1971 (aged 20) | Dinamo Minsk |
Notes:
- All data through December 31, 1991.
- 1992 transfers: Mandreko moved to Austria (Rapid Wien), Mamchur - Russia (Asmaral Moscow), Bushmanov changed team (CSKA Moscow), Scherbakov - Portugal (Sporting Lisbon), Novosadov changed team (KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny), Tumilovich changed team (Belarus Minsk).
See also
- Soviet Union national football team
- Soviet Union national under-18 football team
- Soviet Union national under-16 football team
- FIFA U-20 World Cup
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship
External links
- FIFA Under-20 website Contains full results archive
- The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-20 Championships.
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