Soviet Union national under-21 football team

Soviet Union U-21/23Nickname(s)| Youth (Russian: Молодежная, Molodyozhnaya)

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Association| Football Federation of the Soviet Union
Head coach| -
Most caps| ?
Top scorer| ?

First colours

Second colours

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First international
Soviet Union (lads) 1–3 Soviet Union (youth)
(Moscow, Soviet Union; 21 May 1963)
Last International
Soviet Union 1–1 Italy
(Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR; 16 October 1991)
Biggest win
Soviet Union 6–0 Czechoslovakia
(Yerevan, Armenian SSR; 10 April 1974)
Biggest defeat
West Germany 5–0 Soviet Union
(Aachen, West Germany; 30 March 1982)
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances| 3 (first in 1980)
Best result| Winners, 1976 (as U-23), 1980 & 1990

The Soviet national youth football team was the under-21 football team of the Soviet Union. Before 1978 it was known as under-23 team. It ceased to exist on the breakup of the Union.

Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, the USSR Under-21 team was formed. The team had a good record, winning the competition twice, reaching the last four once, but failing to qualify for the last eight on five occasions.

After the dissolution of the USSR (on 26 December 1991), the senior team played out its remaining fixtures, which were the finals of Euro 92. Because the USSR U-21s had, by 26 December, already failed to qualify for their version of the 1992 European Championship, the former Soviet states didn't play as a combined team at U-21 level ever again.

Of the former Soviet states, only Russia entered the 1992–1994 competition. A total of 15 former Soviet states play international football today; 11 in Europe under UEFA, 4 in Asia under the AFC.

## UEFA U-23 championship record

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Started in Balkans as the Under-23 Challenge Cup which ran from 1967 to 1970, the Soviet Union did not participate.

UEFA European Under-23 Championship Knockout stage  |  | UEFA European Under-23 Championship Group stage

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Year  | Round  | Position  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA
1972 | Final | Runners-up | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 2  | 1  | 1  | 0  | 3  | 2
1974 | Semifinals | Third place | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4  | 3  | 1  | 0  | 8  | 1
1976 | Final | Champions | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 2  | 1  | 0  | 1  | 4  | 2

## UEFA U-21 championship record

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UEFA European Under-21 Championship Knockout stage  |  | UEFA European Under-21 Championship Group stage

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Year  | Round  | Position  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA
1978 | did not qualify | 4  | 2  | 1  | 1  | 5  | 1
1980 | Final | Champions | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4  | 3  | 1  | 0  | 8  | 2
1982 | Semifinals | Third place | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 4  | 1  | 3  | 0  | 1  | 0
1984 | did not qualify | 6  | 2  | 3  | 1  | 8  | 6
1986 | 6  | 3  | 0  | 3  | 8  | 8
1988 | 6  | 3  | 0  | 3  | 7  | 9
1990 | Final | Champions | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6  | 4  | 1  | 1  | 12  | 5
1992 | did not qualify | 6  | 2  | 3  | 1  | 6  | 4

## Managers

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* 1963  Boris Nabokov
* 1964  Boris Nabokov and  Vasiliy Sokolov
* 1964  Vasiliy Sokolov
* 1965  Yevgeniy Goryanskiy
* 1965  Gavriil Kachalin
* 1966  Viktor Lakhonin and  Yevgeniy Rogov
* 1966  Nikita Simonyan
* 1967  Boris Nabokov

* 1967  German Zonin
* 1967  Vsevolod Blinkov
* 1968  Gavriil Kachalin and  Aleksei Paramonov
* 1968  Gavriil Kachalin
* 1968  Vitaliy Artemyev
* 1969–1973  Boris Nabokov
* 1974–1976  Valentin Nikolayev
* 1976  Sergei Mosiagin

* 1977–1979  Valentin Nikolayev
* 1980  Valentin Nikolayev and  Sergei Korshunov
* 1980–1985  Valentin Nikolayev
* 1985  Vladimir Salkov
* 1985  Eduard Malofeyev
* 1986–1990  Vladimir Radionov
* 1988  Leonid Pakhomov
* 1991–1992  Boris Ignatyev

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* In 1992 it also competed as the CIS national under-21 football team coached by Boris Ignatyev. Since August 1992 Boris Ignatyev continued already with the Russia national under-21 football team.

## 1990 European Championship squad

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Head coach
Vladimir Radionov
No.  | Pos.  | Player  | Date of birth (age)  | Caps  | Club

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| 1GK | Andriy Kovtun |  (1968-02-28)28 February 1968 (aged 21)  | 6  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 1GK | Dmitriy Kharine |  (1968-08-16)16 August 1968 (aged 21)  | 10  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 1GK | Mikhail Yeremin |  (1968-06-17)17 June 1968 (aged 21)  | 2  |  CSKA Moscow
| 2DF | Dmitriy Chugunov |  (1968-06-09)9 June 1968 (aged 21)  | 6  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 2DF | Andriy Bal |  (1958-01-16)16 January 1958 (aged 31)  | 8  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 2DF | Vadim Rogovskoi |  (1962-02-06)6 February 1962 (aged 27)  | 1  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 2DF | Andriy Sydelnykov |  (1967-09-27)27 September 1967 (aged 22)  | 6  |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
| 2DF | Andrei Chernyshov |  (1968-01-07)7 January 1968 (aged 21)  | 5  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 2DF | Oleh Luzhnyi |  (1968-08-05)5 August 1968 (aged 21)  | 4  |  SKA Karpaty Lviv / Dynamo Kyiv
| 2DF | Ravil Sabitov |  (1968-03-08)8 March 1968 (aged 21)  | 4  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 2DF | Serhiy Zayets |  (1969-08-18)18 August 1969 (aged 20)  | 3  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 2DF | Boris Pozdnyakov |  (1962-05-31)31 May 1962 (aged 27)  | 2  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 2DF | Andrei Solovtsov |  (1967-10-17)17 October 1967 (aged 22)  | 2  |  Lokomotiv Moscow
| 2DF | Mikhail Solovyov |  (1968-12-23)23 December 1968 (aged 21)  | 2  |  CSKA Moscow / Torpedo Moscow
| 2DF | Gennadi Nagornykh |  (1968-05-20)20 May 1968 (aged 21)  | 1  |  Rostselmash Rostov
| 2DF | Gela Ketashvili |  (1965-09-27)September 27, 1965 (aged 24)  | 1  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 2DF | Kakhaber Tskhadadze |  (1968-09-07)7 September 1968 (aged 21)  | 5  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 3MF | Igor Shalimov |  (1969-02-02)2 February 1969 (aged 20)  | 11  |  Spartak Moscow
| 3MF | Serhiy Shmatovalenko |  (1967-01-20)20 January 1967 (aged 22)  | 11  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 3MF | Andrei Kobelev |  (1968-10-22)22 October 1968 (aged 21)  | 10  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 3MF | Andrei Kanchelskis |  (1969-01-23)23 January 1969 (aged 20)  | 8  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 3MF | Aleksandr Mostovoi |  (1968-08-22)22 August 1968 (aged 21)  | 7  |  Spartak Moscow
| 3MF | Andrei Pyatnitskiy |  (1967-09-27)27 September 1967 (aged 22)  | 6  |  Pakhtakor Tashkent
| 3MF | Yevgeniy Smertin |  (1969-01-17)17 January 1969 (aged 20)  | 4  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 3MF | Igor Dobrovolskiy |  (1967-08-27)27 August 1967 (aged 22)  | 2  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 3MF | Zaza Revishvili |  (1968-05-23)23 May 1968 (aged 21)  | 2  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 3MF | Gia Dzhishkariani |  (1967-11-30)30 November 1967 (aged 22)  | 1  |  Dinamo Tbilisi
| 3MF | Serhiy Pohodin |  (1968-04-29)29 April 1968 (aged 21)  | 1  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 4FW | Igor Kolyvanov |  (1968-03-06)6 March 1968 (aged 21)  | 11  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 4FW | Sergei Kiriakov |  (1970-01-01)1 January 1970 (aged 19)  | 6  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 4FW | Nikolai Pisarev |  (1968-11-23)23 November 1968 (aged 21)  | 2  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Oleg Salenko |  (1969-10-25)25 October 1969 (aged 20)  | 1  |  Zenit Leningrad / Dynamo Kyiv
| 4FW | Sergei Yuran |  (1969-06-11)11 June 1969 (aged 20)  | 1  |  Dynamo Kyiv

Notes:

* All data through 31 December 1989.

## 1992 European Championship cycle squad

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The last under-21 squad which is also known as the Olympic. All caps and goals are based on the Soviet team performance at the 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in 1990–1991.

Head coach
Boris Ignatyev
No. | Pos. | Player  | Date of birth (age)  | Caps  | Goals  | Club

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| 1GK | Gintaras Staučė |  (1969-12-24)24 December 1969 (aged 22)  | 5  | -2  |  Spartak Moscow
| 1GK | Vladimir Pchelnikov |  (1970-03-30)30 March 1970 (aged 21)  | 1  | -2  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 2DF | Serhiy Bezhenar |  (1970-08-09)9 August 1970 (aged 21)  | 6  | 1  |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
| 2DF | Yuriy Nikiforov |  (1970-09-16)16 September 1970 (aged 21)  | 6  | 0  |  Chornomorets Odesa
| 2DF | Omari Tetradze |  (1969-10-13)13 October 1969 (aged 22)  | 5  | 0  |  Mertskhali Ozurgeti / Dynamo Moscow
| 2DF | Vyacheslav Tsaryov |  (1971-05-04)4 May 1971 (aged 20)  | 3  | 0  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 2DF | Dmitri Khlestov |  (1971-01-21)21 January 1971 (aged 20)  | 3  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Viktor Onopko |  (1969-10-14)14 October 1969 (aged 22)  | 3  | 1  |  Shakhtar Donetsk
| 2DF | Oleh Benko |  (1969-10-21)21 October 1969 (aged 22)  | 2  | 0  |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
| 2DF | Serhiy Zayets |  (1969-08-18)18 August 1969 (aged 22)  | 2  | 0  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 2DF | Sergey Shustikov |  (1970-09-30)30 September 1970 (aged 21)  | 2  | 1  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 2DF | Yuriy Moroz |  (1970-09-08)8 September 1970 (aged 21)  | 1  | 0  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 2DF | Igor Chugainov |  (1970-04-06)6 April 1970 (aged 21)  | 1  | 0  |  Lokomotiv Moscow / Torpedo Moscow
| 2DF | Yevgeni Bushmanov |  (1971-11-02)2 November 1971 (aged 20)  | 1  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 2DF | Sergei Mamchur |  (1972-02-03)3 February 1972 (aged 19)  | 1  | 0  |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
| 3MF | Serhiy Shcherbakov |  (1971-08-15)15 August 1971 (aged 20)  | 3  | 1  |  Shakhtar Donetsk
| 3MF | Mirjalol Qosimov |  (1970-09-17)17 September 1970 (aged 21)  | 3  | 0  |  Pakhtakor Tashkent
| 3MF | Bakhva Tedeyev |  (1969-09-18)18 September 1969 (aged 22)  | 3  | 0  |  Spartak Vladikavkaz
| 3MF | Sergei Mandreko |  (1971-08-01)1 August 1971 (aged 20)  | 2  | 0  |  Pamir Dushanbe
| 3MF | Anatoliy Mushchynka |  (1970-08-19)19 August 1970 (aged 21)  | 1  | 0  |  Karpaty Lviv
| 3MF | Oleh Koshelyuk |  (1969-09-07)7 September 1969 (aged 22)  | 1  | 0  |  SKA Odessa / Chornomorets Odesa
| 4FW | Dmitri Radchenko |  (1970-12-02)2 December 1970 (aged 21)  | 6  | 1  |  Zenit Leningrad / Spartak Moscow
| 4FW | Sergei Kiriakov |  (1970-01-01)1 January 1970 (aged 21)  | 5  | 0  |  Dynamo Moscow
| 4FW | Yuri Tishkov |  (1971-03-12)12 March 1971 (aged 20)  | 4  | 1  |  Torpedo Moscow
| 4FW | Oleg Salenko |  (1969-10-25)25 October 1969 (aged 22)  | 3  | 0  |  Dynamo Kyiv
| 4FW | Valeri Popovitch |  (1970-05-18)18 May 1970 (aged 21)  | 2  | 0  |  Spartak Moscow
| 4FW | Igor Simutenkov |  (1973-04-03)3 April 1973 (aged 18)  | 2  | 0  |  Dynamo Moscow

## National teams of the former Soviet republics

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Russia | National team | U-21 team | UEFA

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Ukraine | National team | U-21 team | UEFA
Belarus | National team | U-21 team | UEFA
Uzbekistan | National team | U-23 team | AFC
Kazakhstan | National team | U-21 team (U-23 team) | UEFA (AFC: 1992–2002)
Georgia | National team | U-21 team | UEFA
Azerbaijan | National team | U-21 team | UEFA
Lithuania | National team | U-21 team | UEFA
Moldova | National team | U-21 team | UEFA
Latvia | National team | U-21 team | UEFA
Kyrgyzstan | National team | U-23 team | AFC
Tajikistan | National team | U-23 team | AFC
Armenia | National team | U-21 team | UEFA
Turkmenistan | National team | U-23 team | AFC
Estonia | National team | U-21 team | UEFA

## See also

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* European Under-21 Football Championship

## External links

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* UEFA Under-21 website Contains full results archive
* The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.
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