Soviet Union national under-21 football team

Soviet Union U-21/23
Nickname(s) -
Association Football Federation of the Soviet Union
Head coach -
Most caps ?
Top scorer ?
First colours
Second colours
First international
Spain Spain 1-2 USSR Soviet Union
Málaga, March 30, 1971
Last International
Soviet Union USSR 1-1 Italy Italy
Simferopol, October 16, 1991
Biggest win
Soviet Union USSR 6-0 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Yerevan, April 10, 1974
Biggest defeat
West Germany West Germany 5-0 USSR Soviet Union
Aachen, March 30, 1982
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances 3 (first in 1980)
Best result Winners, 1976 (as U-23), 1980 & 1990

The Soviet national youth football team was the under-21 football team of the Soviet Union. Before 1978 it was known as under-23 team. It ceased to exist on the breakup of the Union.

Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, the USSR Under-21 team was formed. The team had a good record, winning the competition twice, reaching the last four once, but failing to qualify for the last eight on five occasions.

After the dissolution of the USSR (on December 26, 1991), the senior team played out its remaining fixtures, which were the finals of Euro 92. Because the USSR U-21s had, by December 26, already failed to qualify for their version of the 1992 European Championship, the former Soviet states didn't play as a combined team at U-21 level ever again.

Of the former Soviet states, only Russia entered the 1992-1994 competition. However, the Russian U-21 team should not be considered as a continuation of this team; a large percentage of the team's players came from outside Russia (Russia still provided the most). A total of 15 former Soviet states play international football today; 11 in Europe under UEFA, 4 in Asia under the AFC.

Since the under-21 competition rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two-year competition, technically it is an U-23 competition. USSR's unparalleled record in U-23 competitions is also shown.

UEFA U-23 Championship Record

UEFA U-21 Championship Record

1990 European Championship squad

The last Soviet U-21 team

Head coach
Vladimir Radionov
No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Club
1GK Andriy Kovtun (1968-02-28)February 28, 1968 (aged 23) 6 Soviet Union Shakhtar Donetsk / Dynamo Kyiv
1GK Dmitriy Kharine (1968-08-16)August 16, 1968 (aged 23) 10 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow / CSKA Moscow
1GK Mikhail Yeremin (1968-06-17)June 17, 1968 (aged 23) 2 Soviet Union CSKA Moscow / deceased*
2DF Dmitriy Chugunov (1968-06-09)June 9, 1968 (aged 23) 6 Soviet Union Shinnik Yaroslavl / Torpedo Moscow
2DF Andriy Bal (1958-01-16)January 16, 1958 (aged 33) 8 Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv / Bnei Yehuda
2DF Vadim Rogovskoi (1962-02-06)February 6, 1962 (aged 29) 1 Soviet Union Torpedo Moscow
2DF Andriy Sydelnykov (1967-09-27)September 27, 1967 (aged 24) 6 Soviet Union Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2DF Andrei Chernyshov (1968-01-07)January 7, 1968 (aged 23) 5 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
2DF Oleh Luzhny (1968-08-05)August 5, 1968 (aged 23) 4 Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv
2DF Ravil Sabitov (1968-03-08)March 8, 1968 (aged 23) 4 Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow
2DF Serhiy Zayets (1969-08-18)August 18, 1969 (aged 22) 3 Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv
2DF Boris Pozdnyakov (1962-05-31)May 31, 1962 (aged 29) 2 Soviet Union Spartak Moscow
2DF Andrei Solovtsov (1967-10-17)October 17, 1967 (aged 24) 2 Soviet Union Lokomotiv Moscow
2DF Mikhail Solovyov (1968-12-23)December 23, 1968 (aged 23) 2 Soviet Union Torpedo Moscow
2DF Gennadi Nagornykh (1968-05-20)May 20, 1968 (aged 23) 1 Soviet Union Rostselmash Rostov
2DF Gela Ketashvili (1965-09-27)September 27, 1965 (aged 26) 1 Soviet Union Guria Lanchkhuti
2DF Kakhaber Tskhadadze (1968-09-07)September 7, 1968 (aged 23) 5 Soviet Union Dinamo Tbilisi
3MF Igor Shalimov (1969-02-02)February 2, 1969 (aged 22) 11 Soviet Union Spartak Moscow
3MF Serhiy Shmatovalenko (1967-01-20)January 20, 1967 (aged 24) 11 Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv
3MF Andrei Kobelev (1968-10-22)October 22, 1968 (aged 23) 10 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
3MF Andrei Kanchelskis (1969-01-23)January 23, 1969 (aged 22) 8 Soviet Union Shakhtar Donetsk
3MF Aleksandr Mostovoi (1968-08-22)August 22, 1968 (aged 23) 7 Soviet Union Spartak Moscow
3MF Andrei Pyatnitskiy (1967-09-27)September 27, 1967 (aged 24) 6 Soviet Union Pakhtakor Tashkent
3MF Yevgeniy Smertin (1969-01-17)January 17, 1969 (aged 22) 4 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
3MF Igor Dobrovolskiy (1967-08-27)August 27, 1967 (aged 24) 2 Spain CD Castellón
3MF Zaza Revishvili (1968-05-23)May 23, 1968 (aged 23) 2 Soviet Union Dinamo Tbilisi
3MF Gia Dzhishkariani (1967-11-30)November 30, 1967 (aged 24) 1 Soviet Union Dinamo Tbilisi
3MF Serhiy Pohodin (1968-04-29)April 29, 1968 (aged 23) 1 Soviet Union Shakhtar Donetsk
4FW Igor Kolyvanov (1968-03-06)March 6, 1968 (aged 23) 11 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
4FW Sergei Kiriakov (1970-01-01)January 1, 1970 (aged 21) 6 Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow
4FW Nikolai Pisarev (1968-11-23)November 23, 1968 (aged 23) 2 Switzerland FC Winterthur
4FW Oleg Salenko (1969-10-25)October 25, 1969 (aged 22) 1 Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv
4FW Sergei Yuran (1969-06-11)June 11, 1969 (aged 22) 1 Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv

Notes:

National teams of the former Soviet republics

 RussiaNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
 UkraineNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
 BelarusNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
 UzbekistanNational teamU-20 teamAFC
 KazakhstanNational teamU-21 teamUEFA (AFC: 1992-2002)
 GeorgiaNational team U-21 teamUEFA
 AzerbaijanNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
 LithuaniaNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
 MoldovaNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
 LatviaNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
 KyrgyzstanNational teamU-20 teamAFC
 TajikistanNational teamU-20 teamAFC
 ArmeniaNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
 TurkmenistanNational teamU-20 teamAFC
 EstoniaNational teamU-21 teamUEFA

See also

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