Belarus national under-21 football team
| Association | Football Federation of Belarus | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
| Head coach | Vitaliy Pavlov | ||
| Home stadium | Citi Stadium (Borisov) | ||
| FIFA code | BLR | ||
| |||
| First international | |||
| Moldova 0–1 Belarus (Chişinău, Moldova; 30 August 1992) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
| Belarus 10–0 Gibraltar (Zhodino, Belarus; 8 June 2019) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| Russia 7–0 Belarus (Moscow, Russia; 31 May 2017) Belarus 0–7 Netherlands (Zhodino, Belarus; 4 September 2020) | |||
| UEFA European Under-21 Championship | |||
| Appearances | 3 (first in 2004) | ||
| Best result | Third place (2011) | ||
The Belarus national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Belarus and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus. The team competed in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, held every two years.
History
The team qualified for the final round of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship three times. In 2004 in Germany and 2009 in Sweden the team was unable to advance past group stage.
In 2011 at U21 Euro in Denmark they advanced to semifinal with only one win (against Iceland) and two losses (against Denmark and Switzerland) and having better 3-way head-to-head record against Iceland and Denmark (as all three teams had identical overall results). The team lost 1-3 to Spain. They defeated the Czech Republic 1–0 in the third-place match and qualified for the Men's Football Tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, UEFA banned Belarus from hosting international competitions.[1][2]
European Championship record
| UEFA European Under-21 Championship record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
| 1976–1992 | Part of the Soviet Union | |||||||
| 1994 | Did not enter | |||||||
| 1996 | Did not qualify | |||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||
| 2002 | ||||||||
| 2004 | Group stage | 5th | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | Did not qualify | |||||||
| 2007 | ||||||||
| 2009 | Group stage | 7th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 2011 | Third place | 3rd | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2013 | Did not qualify | |||||||
| 2015 | ||||||||
| 2017 | ||||||||
| 2019 | ||||||||
| 2021 | ||||||||
| 2023 | ||||||||
| 2025 | ||||||||
| 2027 | TBD | |||||||
| Total | Third place | 3/18 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 |
UEFA U21 Euro 2027 qualification
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Final tournament | — | 6 Oct '26 | 10 Oct | 31 Mar '26 | 28 Sep '26 | |
| 2 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Play-offs | 14 Oct | — | 27 Mar '26 | 28 Sep '26 | 24 Sep '26 | |
| 3 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 Oct '26 | 14 Nov | — | 14 Oct | 31 Mar '26 | ||
| 4 | Wales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 Sep | 10 Oct | 6 Oct '26 | — | 27 Mar '26 | ||
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 Nov | 4 Sep | 8 Sep | 14 Nov | — |
Current squad
The following players were called up for friendly matches against Azerbaijan and China on 4 and 7 June 2025.
Caps and goals are correct as of 7 June 2025, after the match against China.
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Arseniy Skopets | 10 June 2005 | 6 | 0 | BATE Borisov | |
| GK | Artyom Karatay | 24 March 2004 | 4 | 0 | Dinamo Minsk | |
| GK | Ivan Shimakovich | 13 February 2005 | 3 | 0 | Dinamo Minsk | |
| DF | Nikita Baranok | 31 March 2004 | 17 | 3 | Maxline Vitebsk | |
| DF | Vadim Martinkevich | 10 April 2004 | 9 | 0 | Gomel | |
| DF | Kirill Gomanov | 17 February 2005 | 7 | 0 | Isloch Minsk Raion | |
| DF | Vladislav Melko | 19 July 2004 | 5 | 0 | Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | |
| DF | Ilya Dubinets | 22 June 2004 | 4 | 1 | Minsk | |
| DF | Vasiliy Chernyavskiy | 14 June 2006 | 4 | 0 | Slutsk | |
| DF | Maksim Burko | 23 January 2004 | 3 | 0 | KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny | |
| DF | Matvey Bokhno | 14 October 2007 | 2 | 0 | Lech Poznań | |
| MF | Daniil Dushevskiy | 1 March 2004 | 19 | 1 | Mladost Novi Sad | |
| MF | Rodion Pechura | 24 March 2004 | 13 | 2 | Kuban Krasnodar | |
| MF | Artur Nazarenko | 10 February 2004 | 10 | 0 | Neman Grodno | |
| MF | Ruslan Myalkovskiy | 7 May 2006 | 8 | 2 | Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | |
| MF | Timofey Sharkovskiy | 4 February 2004 | 5 | 0 | Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | |
| MF | Kirill Tsepenkov | 8 July 2004 | 4 | 4 | Dinamo Minsk | |
| MF | Yevgeniy Novykh | 14 August 2006 | 4 | 0 | Vitebsk | |
| MF | Gleb Kuchko | 3 June 2005 | 4 | 0 | Wisła Płock | |
| MF | Vladislav Varaksa | 26 January 2004 | 4 | 0 | Minsk | |
| MF | Andrey Denisyuk | 26 March 2005 | 2 | 1 | Minsk | |
| MF | Egor Prokopenko | 7 September 2006 | 1 | 0 | Cerdanyola del Vallès | |
| FW | Artyom Shumansky | 25 November 2004 | 13 | 2 | CSKA Moscow | |
| FW | Timofey Simanenka | 27 November 2006 | 4 | 0 | Minsk | |
Recent call-ups
The following players have also been called up within the last twelve months and remain eligible for selection.
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | Latest call-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DF | Aleksey Dunayev | 11 September 2004 | 5 | 0 | Dnepr Mogilev | v. Azerbaijan (4 June 2025) PRE |
| DF | Yegor Bozhko | 14 March 2006 | 0 | 0 | Maxline Vitebsk | v. Azerbaijan (4 June 2025) PRE |
| DF | Arseniy Ageyev | 19 July 2004 | 8 | 0 | Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) PRE |
| DF | Vladislav Grekovich | 1 June 2005 | 2 | 0 | Minsk | v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) PRE |
| DF | Matvey Svidinskiy | 16 May 2004 | 2 | 0 | BATE Borisov | v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) PRE |
| DF | Yegor Khralenkov | 11 November 2005 | 0 | 0 | Dinamo Brest | v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) PRE |
| DF | Vladislav Zhuravlev | 2 July 2004 | 6 | 0 | Isloch Minsk Raion | v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024) |
| DF | Ivan Oreshkevich | 20 January 2005 | 2 | 0 | Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024) |
| MF | Aleksandr Guz | 22 May 2004 | 9 | 0 | Isloch Minsk Raion | v. Azerbaijan (4 June 2025) PRE |
| MF | Danila Zhulpa | 16 July 2004 | 3 | 0 | BATE Borisov | v. Azerbaijan (4 June 2025) PRE |
| MF | Anton Lukashov | 16 September 2004 | 0 | 0 | Dnepr Mogilev | v. Azerbaijan (4 June 2025) PRE |
| MF | Mark Mokin | 26 January 2006 | 0 | 0 | Baltika Kaliningrad | v. Azerbaijan (4 June 2025) PRE |
| MF | Pavel Kotlyarov | 31 October 2004 | 8 | 0 | Slavia Mozyr | v. Turkey (25 March 2025) |
| MF | Nikita Krasnov | 9 July 2004 | 7 | 0 | Legion Makhachkala | v. Turkey (25 March 2025) |
| MF | Artem Sokolovskiy | 31 July 2006 | 2 | 0 | Slutsk | v. Turkey (25 March 2025) |
| MF | Nikita Burak | 13 May 2004 | 6 | 0 | Dinamo Brest | v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) PRE |
| MF | Nikolay Sotnikov | 11 November 2005 | 0 | 0 | Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024) |
| MF | Zakhar Gitselev | 21 February 2004 | 0 | 0 | Volna Pinsk | v. Azerbaijan (16 November 2024) PRE |
| FW | Aleksandr Frantsuzov | 19 May 2004 | 3 | 1 | Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | v. Azerbaijan (4 June 2025) PRE |
| FW | Timofey Martynov | 6 May 2005 | 2 | 1 | Orenburg | v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) PRE |
| FW | Maksim Budko | 30 January 2004 | 0 | 0 | Molodechno | v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024) |
| FW | Ivan Grudko | 24 July 2004 | 1 | 0 | Naftan Novopolotsk | v. Azerbaijan (16 November 2024) PRE |
| FW | Nikolay Mirskiy | 19 December 2005 | 0 | 0 | BATE Borisov | v. Azerbaijan (16 November 2024) PRE |
| FW | Trofim Melnichenko | 18 September 2006 | 3 | 0 | Porto B | v. Faroe Islands (15 October 2024) |
See also
- Belarus national football team
- Belarus national under-23 football team
- Belarus national under-19 football team
- Belarus national under-17 football team
References
- ^ Goldberg, Rob. "UEFA Bars Belarus from Hosting International Games After Invasion of Ukraine". Bleacher Report.
- ^ [🖉"Russia, Belarus Suspended From International Soccer, Hockey Over Ukraine Attacks". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty.