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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/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.

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).

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.

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