# 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.
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 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | 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 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | 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) | 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).