Russian national football team (U-21 men)
Nickname (s) | Molodeschka | ||
Association | Rossijski Futbolny Soyuz | ||
confederacy | UEFA | ||
Head coach | Mikhail Galaktionov , since 2018 | ||
captain | Ivan Obljakov | ||
Record scorer | Fyodor Smolow (16) | ||
Record player | Ilya Sujew (34) | ||
Home stadium | Changing stages | ||
FIFA code | ISL | ||
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Successes in tournaments | |||
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European Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 3 ( first : 1994 ) | ||
Best results | Quarterfinals 1994 , 1998 | ||
(As of April 3, 2020) |
The Russian U-21 national soccer team is a selection team of Russian soccer players . It is subject to the Russian Football Association and represents it internationally at the U-21 level , for example in friendly matches against the national teams of other national associations or at the European championships of the continental association UEFA . Eligible to play are players who have not yet reached the age of 21 in the first qualifying match for a tournament and who are Russian citizens .
The record national player is the central defender Ilya Sujew with 34 appearances and the record scorer is the striker Fyodor Smolow with 16 goals.
history
After the Soviet U-21 team with failing to qualify for the U-21 European Championship in 1992 was dissolved, the newly formed Russian U-21 team took the umbrella organization of Rossijski Futbolny Soyuz already in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship 1994 in France part. This was successfully overcome as group winners and in the quarter-finals you met the host . The game was lost 2-0. The qualification for the U-21 European Championship in 1996 did not succeed, two years later the selection made it again. At the finals in Romania they lost their first game, the quarter-finals, against Spain . Thereupon they missed the qualification seven times and only took part again in the U-21 European Championship 2013 in Israel , where they did not survive the group stage after three defeats from three games.
Tournament balances at U-21 European Championships
year | Host country | Participation until ... | Last opponent | Result |
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1994 | France | Quarter finals | France | - |
1996 | Spain | not qualified | - | - |
1998 | Romania | Quarter finals | Spain | - |
2000 to 2011 | not qualified | - | - | |
2013 | Israel | Group stage | Germany | - |
2015 | Czech Republic | not qualified | - | - |
2017 | Poland | not qualified | - | - |
2019 | Italy and San Marino | not qualified | - | - |
Remarks:
- ↑ Between 1978 and 1992, the finals of the U-21 European Championship did not take place in a host country, but were played back and forth in the respective participating nations.
Coach history
No. | Surname | time | ||
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from | to | |||
1 | Boris Ignatiev | 1992 | 1993 | |
2 | Mikhail Gershkovich | 1994 | 1998 | |
3 | Leonid Pachomov | 1998 | 1999 | |
4th | Valery Gladilin | 2000 | 2001 | |
5 | Valery Gassayev | 2001 | 2002 | |
6th | Andrei Chernyshev | 2002 | 2005 | |
7th |
Alexander Borodjuk Viktor Losev |
2006 | 2006 | |
8th | Boris Stukalov | 2007 | 2008 | |
9 | Igor Kolyvanov | 2008 | 2010 | |
10 | Nikolai Pissarev | 2010 | 2015 | |
11 | Dmitri Chomucha | 2015 | 2015 | |
12 | Nikolai Pissarev | 2016 | 2017 | |
13 | Yevgeny Buschmanov | 2017 | 2018 | |
14th | Mikhail Galaktionov | 2018 |
Final squad
EM 1994 in France
U-21 European Championship 1994 |
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EM 1998 in Romania
U-21 European Championship 1998 |
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EM 2013 in Israel
U-21 European Championship 2013 |
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See also
- Russian national soccer team
- Russian national football team (U-20 men)
- Russian national football team (U-19 juniors)
- Russian national football team (U-17 juniors)
Individual evidence
- ↑ France 2-0 Russia In: worldfootball.net of March 8, 1994 (accessed April 1, 2020)
- ↑ Spain 1-0 Russia In: worldfootball.net of May 24, 1998 (accessed April 1, 2020)
- ↑ U21 Euro 2013 Israel - Group B In: worldfootball.net (accessed April 1, 2020)
Web links
- U-21 national team on the website of the Russian Football Association