Soviet Union national under-20 football team

Soviet Union U-20Nickname(s)| Lads (Юноши)

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Association| Football Federation of USSR
Confederation| UEFA (Europe)
Head coach| -
FIFA code| URS

First colours

Second colours

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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[edit]

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

FIFA World Youth Championship/FIFA U-20 World Cup record

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[edit]

* 1977 Sergei Mosyagin
* 1979 Sergei Korshunov
* 1983 Nikolay Kiselyov
* 1985 Sergei Mosyagin
* 1989 Boris Ignatyev
* 1991 Gennadi Kostylev

## 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship[edit]

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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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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