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Yugoslavia national under-20 football team

Former national under-20 association football team representing Yugoslavia

Summary

Former national under-20 association football team representing Yugoslavia

Field	Value
Name	Yugoslavia Under-20
Badge_size	100px
FIFA Trigramme	YUG
Association	Football Association of Yugoslavia
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
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U20WC apps	2
U20WC first	1979
U20WC best	Winners: 1987

The Yugoslavia national under-20 football team () represented the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the FIFA World Youth Championship and various friendly youth tournaments in the period between the mid-1970s and the country's dissolution in the early 1990s. It was a feeder team to the Yugoslavia national under-21 football team (which was itself formed following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976). However, since FIFA employs the Under-20 format for the World Youth Championship ever since its inception in 1977, the Under-20 selection was only occasionally formed to compete specifically at the tournament, in addition to a handful of other less official friendly tournaments which employ the same age format.

The team which would compete at the World Championship essentially consisted of players who had earlier participated in the UEFA Junior Tournament, which was the European Under-18 championship (held annually from 1957 to 1984 and then bi-annually from 1986 to 1992) and which doubled as the European qualifying tournament for the World Championship.

History

Yugoslavia Under-20 had appeared at two World Youth Championships throughout their existence. Their first appearance came at the 1979 tournament, where they were knocked out in the group stage after two defeats (0–2 against Poland and 0–1 against Argentina) and one win (5–0 against Indonesia). Their second appearance in the 1987 tournament was much more successful, as they won the competition, remarkably defeating each of the three other semi-finalists and eliminating the defending champions Brazil during the course of the tournament, with Robert Prosinečki winning the Golden Ball award for Best Player of the tournament.

In their two appearances Yugoslavia set a FIFA World Youth Championship scoring record which still stands today, scoring an average of 3.66 goals per game, finishing with 22 goals for and 9 against. The team, coached by Mirko Jozić, had included a number of players who later appeared at FIFA World Cups, such as Zvonimir Boban, Davor Šuker, Robert Jarni, Igor Štimac, Branko Brnović and Predrag Mijatović.

The last European U-18 tournament (and therefore the last U-20 World Cup qualifiers) in which Yugoslavia participated before the country dissolved was the 1992 European Under-18 Championship, and the Under-18's last competitive game was played on 17 October 1991 against Czechoslovakia national under-18 football team.

FIFA attributes all Yugoslav national team's records to the present-day Serbia national football team and as such the Yugoslavia Under-20 results and records are officially inherited by Serbia. Only Croatia and Serbia under-20 teams have managed to qualify for the World Youth Championship since the dissolution of Yugoslavia and are thus the only under-20 ex-Yugoslav teams to have fielded teams for competitive matches at that age level since 1992.

Tournament records

;FIFA World Youth Championship Record

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
Tunisia 1977	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
Japan 1979	First round	3	1	0	2	5	3
Australia 1981	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
Mexico 1983	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
Soviet Union 1985	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
Chile 1987	Champions	6	5	1	0	17	6
Saudi Arabia 1989	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
Portugal 1991	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
Australia 1993	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
Total	2/9	9	6	1	2	22	9

:*Denotes draws including knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Players

The following players were members of Yugoslavia Under-20 squads at the FIFA U-20 World Cup as well as various national squads at FIFA World Cup tournaments.

Player	Position	Youth
World Cup	World Cup(s)	Refs
	Goalkeeper	1979	1990 (YUG)
	Goalkeeper	1979	1982 (YUG)
	Forward	1979	1982 (YUG)
	Forward	1979	1982 (YUG)
	Goalkeeper	1987	1990 (YUG), 1998 (FRY)
	Defender	1987	1998 (FRY)
	Defender	1987	1990 (YUG), 1998 (CRO), 2002 (CRO)
	Defender	1987	1998 (CRO)
	Midfielder	1987	1998 (CRO)
	Midfielder	1987	1990 (YUG), 1998 (CRO), 2002 (CRO)
	Forward	1987	1998 (FRY)
	Forward	1987	1990 (YUG), 1998 (CRO), 2002 (CRO)

Letters in brackets denote national teams players represented at World Cups:

YUG – Yugoslavia
CRO – Croatia
FRY – Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Scorers

The following players scored goals for the Yugoslavia Under-20 team at Youth World Cups. The team's overall top scorer was Davor Šuker, who scored 6 goals for Yugoslavia at the 1987 U-20 World Cup, and went on to become top scorer at the 1998 FIFA World Cup eleven years later, where he represented Croatia and also scored 6 goals.

Rank	Player	Goals	Tournament
	Davor Šuker		1987
2	Zvonimir Boban		1987
Predrag Mijatović		1987
4	Nedeljko Milosavljević		1979
Haris Smajić		1979
Igor Štimac		1987
7	Branko Brnović		1987
Marko Mlinarić		1979
Robert Prosinečki		1987
Ranko Zirojević		1987

Full squads

References

Head-to-head record

The following table shows Yugoslavia's head-to-head record in FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %	Total

References

"1970 FIFA U-20 World Cup Fixtures and Results". [[FIFA]].
"Chile 1987: Yugoslavian fireworks". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA.com - 1990 Robert PROSINECKI (YUG)". [[FIFA]].
(1 February 2004). "European U-18 Championship 1992". [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]].
"Serbia on FIFA.com". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Tomislav IVKOVIC". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Ivan PUDAR". [[FIFA]].
"1982 FIFA World Cup Spain - Yugoslavia squad". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Zvonko ZIVKOVIC". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Ivan GUDELJ". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Dragoje LEKOVIC". [[FIFA]].
"1998 FIFA World Cup France - Yugoslavia squad". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Branko BRNOVIC". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Robert JARNI". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Igor STIMAC". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Zvonimir BOBAN". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Robert PROSINECKI". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Predrag MIJATOVIC". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Davor SUKER". [[FIFA]].
"1998 FIFA World Cup France - Awards". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Nedeljko MILOSAVLJEVIC". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Haris SMAJIC". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Marko MLINARIC". [[FIFA]].
"FIFA Player Statistics: Ranko ZIROJEVIC". [[FIFA]].

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