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)
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 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
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	GK	Oleksandr Pomazun	11 October 1971 (aged 20)		Metallist Kharkov
2	DF	Yervand Krbachian	1 October 1971 (aged 20)		Ararat Yerevan
3	DF	Sergei Mandreko	1 August 1971 (aged 20)		Pamir Dushanbe
4	DF	Sergei Mamchur	3 February 1972 (aged 19)		Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
5	DF	Valeri Minko	8 August 1971 (aged 20)		CSKA Moscow
6	DF	Evgeni Bushmanov	2 November 1971 (aged 20)		Spartak Moscow
7	MF	Dmitri Mikhailenko	13 July 1973 (aged 18)		Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
8	FW	Serhiy Scherbakov	15 August 1971 (aged 20)		Shakhtar Donetsk
9	FW	Dmitri Karsakov	29 December 1971 (aged 20)		CSKA Moscow / KAMAZ N. Chelny
10	FW	Serhiy Konovalov	1 March 1972 (aged 19)		Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
11	MF	Volodymyr Sharan	18 September 1971 (aged 20)		Karpaty Lviv / Dynamo Kyiv
12	GK	Andrei Novosadov	27 March 1972 (aged 19)		CSKA Moscow
13	DF	Dmitri Klimovich	30 April 1972 (aged 19)		Dinamo Minsk
14	DF	Alexei Guschin	21 October 1971 (aged 20)		CSKA Moscow
15	MF	Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov	16 January 1972 (aged 19)		Dynamo Moscow
16	MF	Vitali But	16 November 1972 (aged 19)		Dynamo Moscow
17	MF	Armen Babalarian	15 August 1971 (aged 20)		Ararat Yerevan / Kotayk
18	MF	Evgueni Pokhlebaev	25 November 1971 (aged 20)		Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
19	GK	Gennady Tumilovich	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.