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 Soviet Union 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 Soviet Union (on 26 December 1991), the senior team played out its remaining fixtures, which were the finals of Euro 92. Because the Soviet Union U21s had, by 26 December, already failed to qualify for their version of the 1992 European Championship, the former Soviet states did not play as a combined team at under-21 level ever again.
Of the former Soviet states, only Russia entered the 1992–1994 competition. A total of 15 former Soviet states play international football today; 11 in Europe under UEFA, 4 in Asia under the AFC.
UEFA U-23 championship record Started in Balkans as the Under-23 Challenge Cup which ran from 1967 to 1970, the Soviet Union did not participate. UEFA European Under-23 Championship Knockout stageUEFA European Under-23 Championship Group stageYearRoundPosition1972FinalRunners-up62311392110321974SemifinalsThird place4202944310811976FinalChampions631296210142
UEFA U-21 championship record UEFA European Under-21 Championship Knockout stageUEFA European Under-21 Championship Group stageYearRoundPosition1978did not qualify4211511980FinalChampions6420814310821982SemifinalsThird place41127114130101984did not qualify623186198663038819886303791990FinalChampions642013664111251992did not qualify623164
Managers
1963 Boris Nabokov 1964 Boris Nabokov and Vasiliy Sokolov 1964 Vasiliy Sokolov 1965 Yevgeniy Goryanskiy 1965 Gavriil Kachalin 1966 Viktor Lakhonin and Yevgeniy Rogov 1966 Nikita Simonyan 1967 Boris Nabokov
1967 German Zonin 1967 Vsevolod Blinkov 1968 Gavriil Kachalin and Aleksei Paramonov 1968 Gavriil Kachalin 1968 Vitaliy Artemyev 1969–1973 Boris Nabokov 1974–1976 Valentin Nikolayev 1976 Sergei Mosiagin
1977–1979 Valentin Nikolayev 1980 Valentin Nikolayev and Sergei Korshunov 1980–1985 Valentin Nikolayev 1985 Vladimir Salkov 1985 Eduard Malofeyev 1986–1990 Vladimir Radionov 1988 Leonid Pakhomov 1991–1992 Boris Ignatyev
In 1992 it also competed as the CIS national under-21 football team coached by Boris Ignatyev. Since August 1992 Boris Ignatyev continued already with the Russia national under-21 football team.
1990 European Championship squad Head coach Vladimir Radionov
Notes: All data through 31 December 1989.
1992 European Championship cycle squad The last under-21 squad which is also known as the Olympic. All caps and goals are based on the Soviet team performance at the 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in 1990–1991. Head coach Boris Ignatyev
National teams of the former Soviet republics National teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-23 teamAFCNational teamU-21 team (U-23 team)UEFA (AFC: 1992–2002)National teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-23 teamAFCNational teamU-23 teamAFCNational teamU-21 teamUEFANational teamU-23 teamAFCNational teamU-21 teamUEFA
See also UEFA European Under-21 Championship
External links Contains full results archive The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships. НЕОФИЦИАЛЬНЫЙ РЕЕСТР МАТЧЕЙ МОЛОДЕЖНОЙ СБОРНОЙРОССИИ /СССР, СНГ/. www.rusteam.permian.ru