National Football Team of the USSR (U-21 men)
Association | Federacija Futbola SSSR | ||
confederacy | UEFA | ||
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First international match Spain 1-2 USSR ( Simferopol ; October 16, 1991) |
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Last game USSR 1: 1 Italy {{{datum1b}}} |
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Biggest win USSR 6-0 Czechoslovakia ( Yerevan ; April 10, 1974) |
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Biggest defeat Germany 5-0 USSR ( Aachen ; March 30, 1982) |
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Successes in tournaments | |||
European Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 3 ( first : 1980 ) | ||
Best results | 1980 (winner) | ||
(As of October 2008) |
The U-21 national soccer team of the USSR was a selection team of Soviet soccer players . She was subject to the Federacija Futbola SSSR and represented him at the U-21 level , in friendly matches against the national teams of other national associations, but also at the European championship of the continental association UEFA . Eligible to play were players who had not yet reached the age of 21 and who were citizens of the Soviet Union . In tournaments, the age at the first qualifying game is decisive.
history
The Soviet Union managed to take part in all three U-23 European Championships with its U-23 national team. In the first attempt they lost the final in 1972, in 1974 they were eliminated in the semifinals, but in 1976 they achieved their first triumph. After the reorientation of the UEFA youth football competitions in 1976, the Soviet Union decided to found its own U-21 national team. The Soviet Union missed out on participation in the first U21 European Championship, even though it was always among the top four teams in Europe at the U23 level. But the first title was won in the second attempt. This success could be repeated in 1990. Despite the two European championship titles, the Soviet Union was affected by great fluctuations in performance - if you were eliminated in the semi-finals in 1982 you could not qualify for any of the other finals (1978, 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1992).
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the following successor teams were formed:
- Armenian national football team (U-21 men)
- Azerbaijani National Football Team (U-21 Men)
- Belarusian national football team (U-21 men)
- Estonian national football team (U-21 men)
- Georgian national soccer team (U-21 men)
- Kazakh national football team (U-21 men)
- Kyrgyz national football team (U-21 men)
- Latvian national football team (U-21 men)
- Lithuanian National Football Team (U-21 Men)
- Moldovan national football team (U-21 men)
- Russian national football team (U-21 men)
- Tajik National Football Team (U-21 men)
- Turkmen National Football Team (U-21 Men)
- Ukrainian national soccer team (U-21 men)
- Uzbek national football team (U-21 men)
Participation in U-23 European Championships
1972 | final |
1974 | Semifinals |
1976 | winner |
Participation in U-21 European Championships
1978 | not qualified |
1980 | winner |
1982 | Semifinals |
1984 | not qualified |
1986 | not qualified |
1988 | not qualified |
1990 | winner |
1992 | not qualified |
Note : Between 1978 and 1992, the final round of a U-21 European Championship was not played in one country, but instead was played back and forth in the respective participating nations.
See also
- National football team of the USSR
- National Football Team of the USSR (U-17 Juniors)
- National Football Team of the USSR (U-20 men)
- U-21 European Football Championship
Web links
- RSSSF All U21 / U23 tournaments