Soviet Union national under-20 football team

The Soviet national lads (youth) football team was a special under-18 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.

Soviet Union U-20
Nickname(s)Lads (Юноши)
AssociationFootball Federation of USSR
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coach-
FIFA codeURS
First colours
Second colours
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
Appearances6 (first in 1977)
Best resultWinners, 1977

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 under-18 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
Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA
1977Champions1st523074
1979Runners-up2nd6312127
1981Did not qualify
1983Group stage15th310247
1985Fourth Place4th6330103
1987Did not qualify
1989Quarter-finals5th4310116
1991Third Place3rd631296
Total1 Title6/83015965333

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

1991 FIFA World Youth Championship

The last Soviet U-20 team

Head coach
Gennadi Kostylev
No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
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).

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