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.
| Nickname(s) | Lads (Юноши) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Association | Football Federation of USSR | ||
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
| Head coach | - | ||
| FIFA code | URS | ||
| |||
| 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 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
editChampions 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
editThe last Soviet U-20 team
- Head coach
- Gennadi Kostylev
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 CP), Novosadov changed team (KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny), Tumilovich changed team (Belarus Minsk).
See also
editExternal links
edit- FIFA Under-20 website Contains full results archive
- The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-20 Championships.