Soviet Union national under-20 football team

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.

Soviet Union U-20

Nickname(s)	Lads (Юноши)
Association	Football Federation of USSR
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	-
FIFA code	URS
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
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

  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place

FIFA World Youth Championship 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	0	0	3	3	6
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	14	9	7	52	32

*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
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 CP), 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.

Head-to-head record

The following table shows Soviet Union's head-to-head record in the FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Argentina	1	0	0	1	1	3	−2	000.00
Australia	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	000.00
Austria	1	0	1	0	0	0	+0	000.00
Brazil	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	000.00
Canada	1	1	0	0	5	0	+5	100.00
China	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100.00
Colombia	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2	100.00
Costa Rica	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100.00
Egypt	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100.00
Guinea	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3	100.00
Hungary	1	1	0	0	5	1	+4	100.00
Iraq	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2	100.00
Mexico	1	0	1	0	2	2	+0	000.00
Netherlands	1	0	0	1	2	3	−1	000.00
Paraguay	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	050.00
Poland	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100.00
Nigeria	4	1	2	1	6	6	+0	025.00
Spain	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2	050.00
Syria	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2	100.00
Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	0	0	4	0	+4	100.00
Uruguay	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Total	30	14	9	7	52	32	+20	046.67