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; 21 May 1963)
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(as U-23),

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The Soviet national youth football team was the under-21

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team of the

. Before 1978 it was known as under-23 team. It ceased to exist on the breakup of the Union. Following the realignment of

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'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 26 December 1991), the senior team played out its remaining fixtures, which were the finals of

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. Because the USSR U-21s had, by 26 December, 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. A total of 15 former Soviet states play international football today; 11 in Europe under

, 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

Started in

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as the Under-23 Challenge Cup which ran from 1967 to 1970, the Soviet Union did not participate.

UEFA U-21 Championship Record

Managers

* 1963 Boris Nabokov * 1964 Boris Nabokov and Vasiliy Sokolov * 1964 Vasiliy Sokolov * 1965 Yevgeniy Goryanskiy * 1965

Gavriil Kachalin Gavriil Dmitriyevich Kachalin (russian: Гавриил Дмитриевич Качалин; 17 January 1911 – 23 May 1995) was a Soviet and Russian football player and coach. He led the USSR national football team to their greatest achievem ...

* 1966 Viktor Lakhonin and Yevgeniy Rogov * 1966

Nikita Simonyan Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan ( hy, Նիկիտա Մկրտիչ Սիմոնյան, born ''Mkrtych Pogosovich Simonyan'', 12 October 1926) is a former Soviet football striker and coach of Armenian descent. He was born in Armavir. As of 2021 he was t ...

* 1967 Boris Nabokov * 1967 German Zonin * 1967 Vsevolod Blinkov * 1968

and

Aleksei Paramonov Aleksei Aleksandrovich Paramonov (russian: Алексей Александрович Парамонов; 21 February 1925 – 24 August 2018) was a Soviet football player and manager, 1956 Olympic champion. He was born in Borovsk. Bio ...

* 1968

* 1968 Vitaliy Artemyev * 1969–1973 Boris Nabokov * 1974–1976 Valentin Nikolayev * 1976 Sergei Mosiagin * 1977–1979 Valentin Nikolayev * 1980 Valentin Nikolayev and

Sergei Korshunov Sergei Aleksandrovich Korshunov (russian: Сергей Александрович Коршунов; 8 October 1928 – 12 December 1982) was an association footballer from the former Soviet Union who played for FC Dynamo Kyiv and Moscow teams. I ...

* 1980–1985 Valentin Nikolayev * 1985

Vladimir Salkov Vladimir Maksimovich Salkov (russian: Владимир Максимович Сальков, uk, Володимир Максимович Сальков; 1 April 1937 – 9 July 2020) was a Russian-Ukraine, Ukrainian Association football, footba ...

* 1985

Eduard Malofeyev Eduard Vassilievich Malofeyev ( rus, Эдуа́рд Васи́льевич Малофе́ев, p=məlɐˈfʲeɪf, be, Эдуард Васілевіч Малафееў ''Eduard Malafyeyew''; born 2 June 1942 in Kolomna) is a Soviet and Belarusi ...

* 1986–1990

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* 1988

Leonid Pakhomov Leonid Aleksandrovich Pakhomov (russian: Леонид Александрович Пахомов; born 17 February 1943) is a Russian football manager and a former player. Honours * Soviet Cup winner: 1968, 1972. * Soviet Top League The Soviet ...

* 1991–1992

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* In 1992 it also competed as the CIS national under-21 football team coached by Boris Ignatyev. Since August of 1992 Boris Ignatyev continued already with the

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1990 European Championship squad

The last Soviet U-21 team ;Head coach:

''Notes:'' * All data through 31 December 1991. * Mikhail Yeremin died on 30 June 1991 from injuries he sustained in an auto accident on 23 June, less than a week after his birthday. * Rogovskoi moved to Poland (

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), Sydelnykov - Germany ( SG Wattenscheid 09), Pozdnyakov - Austria ( FC Stahl Linz), Tskhadadze - Sweden (

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), Shalimov - Italy (

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), Kanchelskis - England (

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), Pyatnitskiy - Russia (

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), Mostovoi - Portugal ( S.L. Benfica), Dobrovolskiy - Switzerland (

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), Kolyvanov - Italy (

), Yuran - Portugal ( S.L. Benfica).

National teams of the former Soviet republics

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