Soviet Union national under-21 football team

Started in Balkans as the Under-23 Challenge Cup which ran from 1967 to 1970, the Soviet Union did not participate. == UEFA U-21 championship record ==

• 1963 Boris Nabokov • 1964 Boris Nabokov and Vasiliy Sokolov • 1964 Vasiliy Sokolov • 1965 Yevgeniy Goryanskiy • 1965 Gavriil Kachalin • 1966 Viktor Lakhonin and Yevgeniy Rogov • 1966 Nikita Simonyan • 1967 Boris Nabokov • 1967 German Zonin • 1967 Vsevolod Blinkov • 1968 Gavriil Kachalin and Aleksei Paramonov • 1968 Gavriil Kachalin • 1968 Vitaliy Artemyev • 1969–1973 Boris Nabokov • 1974–1976 Valentin Nikolayev • 1976 Sergei Mosiagin • 1977–1979 Valentin Nikolayev • 1980 Valentin Nikolayev and Sergei Korshunov • 1980–1985 Valentin Nikolayev • 1985 Vladimir Salkov • 1985 Eduard Malofeyev • 1986–1990 Vladimir Radionov • 1988 Leonid Pakhomov • 1991–1992 Boris Ignatyev • In 1992 it also competed as the CIS national under-21 football team coached by Boris Ignatyev. Since August 1992 Boris Ignatyev continued already with the Russia national under-21 football team. ==1990 European Championship squad==

;Head coach: Vladimir Radionov Notes: • All data through 31 December 1989. ==1992 European Championship cycle squad==

The last under-21 squad which is also known as the Olympic. All caps and goals are based on the Soviet team performance at the 1992 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in 1990–1991. ;Head coach: Boris Ignatyev ==National teams of the former Soviet republics==