Soviet Union national under-20 football team
Football Federation of USSR | |||
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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
breakup of the Union
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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 | GK | Oleksandr Pomazun | 11 October 1971 (aged 20) | Metallist Kharkov
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2 | DF | Yervand Krbachian | 1 October 1971 (aged 20) | Ararat Yerevan | |
3 | DF | Sergei Mandreko | 1 August 1971 (aged 20) | Pamir Dushanbe
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4 | DF | Sergei Mamchur | 3 February 1972 (aged 19) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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5 | DF | Valeri Minko | 8 August 1971 (aged 20) | CSKA Moscow | |
6 | DF | Evgeni Bushmanov
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2 November 1971 (aged 20) | Spartak Moscow | |
7 | MF | Dmitri Mikhailenko | 13 July 1973 (aged 18) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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8 | FW | Serhiy Scherbakov
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15 August 1971 (aged 20) | Shakhtar Donetsk | |
9 | FW | Dmitri Karsakov | 29 December 1971 (aged 20) | CSKA Moscow / KAMAZ N. Chelny | |
10 | FW | Serhiy Konovalov | 1 March 1972 (aged 19) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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11 | MF | Volodymyr Sharan | 18 September 1971 (aged 20) | Dynamo Kyiv
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12 | GK | Andrei Novosadov | 27 March 1972 (aged 19) | CSKA Moscow | |
13 | DF | Dmitri Klimovich
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30 April 1972 (aged 19) | Dinamo Minsk | |
14 | DF | Alexei Guschin
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21 October 1971 (aged 20) | CSKA Moscow | |
15 | MF | Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov
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16 January 1972 (aged 19) | Dynamo Moscow | |
16 | MF | Vitali But | 16 November 1972 (aged 19) | Dynamo Moscow | |
17 | MF | Armen Babalarian | 15 August 1971 (aged 20) | Ararat Yerevan / Kotayk | |
18 | MF | Evgueni Pokhlebaev
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25 November 1971 (aged 20) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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19 | GK | Gennady Tumilovich | 3 September 1971 (aged 20) | Dinamo Minsk |
Notes:
- All data through December 31, 1991.
- 1992 transfers: Mandreko moved to Austria (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.