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The Soviet national youth football team was a special under-18 and under-20
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team of the
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designated specifically for FIFA World Youth Championship (today
FIFA U-20 World Cup The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 whe ...
). 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
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, the Soviet Union youth football team competed at the
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as the CIS youth under-18 football team which qualified for the
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. 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 ''*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on
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1991 FIFA World Youth Championship

The last Soviet U-20 team ;Head coach:
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''Notes:'' * All data through December 31, 1991. * 1992 transfers: Mandreko moved to Austria (
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), Mamchur - Russia ( Asmaral Moscow), Bushmanov changed team (
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), Scherbakov - Portugal (
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), Novosadov changed team ( KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny), Tumilovich changed team ( Belarus Minsk).


See also

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Soviet Union national football team The Soviet Union national football team ( rus, сбо́рная СССР по футбо́лу, r=sbórnaya SSSR po futbólu) was the national football team of the former Soviet Union. After the breakup of the Union the team was transformed i ...
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Soviet Union national under-18 football team The Soviet national lads football team was the under-18 football team of the Soviet Union. For world competitions it was reorganized into under-20 team. It ceased to exist on the breakup of the Union. It was the oldest existing junior national ...
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Soviet Union national under-16 football team The Soviet national junior football team was the under-16 (continental competitions) and under-17 (world competitions) football team of the Soviet Union. It ceased to exist as a result of the breakup of the Union. Following the realignment of UEF ...
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FIFA U-20 World Cup The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 whe ...
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UEFA European Under-19 Championship The UEFA European Under-19 Championship, or simply UEFA Under-19 Championship or the UEFA Euro U-19, is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Spain and England ...


External links


FIFA Under-20 website
Contains full results archive

Contains full record of U-20 Championships. {{National sports teams of the Soviet Union 1977 establishments in the Soviet Union 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union European national under-20 association football teams Soviet Union national football team Youth football in the Soviet Union