Belarus national under-21 football team

Belarus U21
Association	Football Federation of Belarus
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Vitaliy Pavlov
Home stadium	Citi Stadium (Borisov)
FIFA code	BLR
First colours	Second colours
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 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	Did not qualify
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 v t e	Qualification
1	Denmark	Final tournament	—	6 Oct '26	10 Oct	31 Mar '26	28 Sep '26
2	Belgium	Play-offs	14 Oct	—	27 Mar '26	28 Sep '26	24 Sep '26
3	Austria		2 Oct '26	14 Nov	—	14 Oct	31 Mar '26
4	Wales		8 Sep	10 Oct	6 Oct '26	—	27 Mar '26
5	Belarus		18 Nov	4 Sep	8 Sep	14 Nov	—

First match(es) will be played: 4 September 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Current squad

The following players were called up for friendly matches against North Macedonia and Turkey on 21 and 25 March 2025.

Caps and goals are correct as of 15 October 2024, after the match against Faroe Islands.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1GK	Arseniy Skopets	(2005-06-10) 10 June 2005 (age 19)	4	0	BATE Borisov
1GK	Ivan Shimakovich	(2005-02-13) 13 February 2005 (age 20)	0	0	Dinamo Minsk

2DF	Nikita Baranok	(2004-03-31) 31 March 2004 (age 21)	13	2	Maxline Vitebsk
2DF	Kirill Gomanov	(2005-02-17) 17 February 2005 (age 20)	5	0	Isloch Minsk Raion
2DF	Vadim Martinkevich	(2004-04-10) 10 April 2004 (age 21)	5	0	Gomel
2DF	Aleksey Dunayev	(2004-09-11) 11 September 2004 (age 20)	3	0	Dnepr Mogilev
2DF	Maksim Burko	(2004-01-23) 23 January 2004 (age 21)	0	0	KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny
2DF	Vasiliy Chernyavskiy	(2006-06-14) 14 June 2006 (age 18)	0	0	Slutsk
2DF	Ilya Dubinets	(2004-06-22) 22 June 2004 (age 20)	0	0	Minsk

3MF	Daniil Dushevskiy	(2004-03-01) 1 March 2004 (age 21)	15	1	Mladost Novi Sad
3MF	Aleksandr Guz	(2004-05-22) 22 May 2004 (age 20)	7	0	Isloch Minsk Raion
3MF	Artur Nazarenko	(2004-02-10) 10 February 2004 (age 21)	6	0	Neman Grodno
3MF	Pavel Kotlyarov	(2004-10-31) 31 October 2004 (age 20)	6	0	Slavia Mozyr
3MF	Nikita Krasnov	(2004-07-09) 9 July 2004 (age 20)	5	0	Legion Makhachkala
3MF	Ruslan Myalkovskiy	(2006-05-07) 7 May 2006 (age 18)	4	0	Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
3MF	Timofey Sharkovskiy	(2004-02-04) 4 February 2004 (age 21)	1	0	Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
3MF	Kirill Tsepenkov	(2004-07-08) 8 July 2004 (age 20)	0	0	Dinamo Minsk
3MF	Yevgeniy Novykh	(2006-08-14) 14 August 2006 (age 18)	0	0	Vitebsk
3MF	Gleb Kuchko	(2005-06-03) 3 June 2005 (age 19)	0	0	Wisła Płock
3MF	Artem Sokolovskiy	(2006-07-31) 31 July 2006 (age 18)	0	0	Slutsk

4FW	Aleksandr Frantsuzov	(2004-05-19) 19 May 2004 (age 20)	2	0	Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
4FW	Timofey Simanenka	(2006-11-27) 27 November 2006 (age 18)	0	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
GK	Artyom Karatay	(2004-03-24) 24 March 2004 (age 21)	3	0	Dinamo Minsk	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE

DF	Arseniy Ageyev	(2004-07-19) 19 July 2004 (age 20)	8	0	Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
DF	Vladislav Melko	(2004-07-19) 19 July 2004 (age 20)	3	0	Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
DF	Vladislav Grekovich	(2005-06-01) 1 June 2005 (age 19)	2	0	Minsk	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
DF	Matvey Svidinskiy	(2004-05-16) 16 May 2004 (age 20)	2	0	BATE Borisov	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
DF	Yegor Khralenkov	(2005-11-11) 11 November 2005 (age 19)	0	0	Dinamo Brest	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
DF	Vladislav Zhuravlev	(2004-07-02) 2 July 2004 (age 20)	6	0	Isloch Minsk Raion	v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024)
DF	Ivan Oreshkevich	(2005-01-20) 20 January 2005 (age 20)	2	0	Arsenal Dzerzhinsk	v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024)
DF	Matvey Mikhayrin	(2005-09-22) 22 September 2005 (age 19)	0	0	Arsenal Dzerzhinsk	v. Malta (5 June 2024) ^PRE

MF	Rodion Pechura	(2004-03-24) 24 March 2004 (age 21)	11	2	Kuban Krasnodar	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
MF	Nikita Burak	(2004-05-13) 13 May 2004 (age 20)	6	0	Dinamo Brest	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
MF	Danila Zhulpa	(2004-07-16) 16 July 2004 (age 20)	3	0	BATE Borisov	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
MF	Anton Lukashov	(2004-09-16) 16 September 2004 (age 20)	0	0	Dnepr Mogilev	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
MF	Andrey Denisyuk	(2005-03-26) 26 March 2005 (age 20)	0	0	Minsk	v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024)
MF	Nikolay Sotnikov	(2005-11-11) 11 November 2005 (age 19)	0	0	Arsenal Dzerzhinsk	v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024)
MF	Zakhar Gitselev	(2004-02-21) 21 February 2004 (age 21)	0	0	Volna Pinsk	v. Azerbaijan (16 November 2024) ^PRE
MF	Vladislav Varaksa	(2004-01-26) 26 January 2004 (age 21)	2	0	Minsk	v. Malta (8 June 2024)

FW	Timofey Martynov	(2005-05-06) 6 May 2005 (age 19)	2	1	Orenburg	v. North Macedonia (21 March 2025) ^PRE
FW	Artyom Shumansky	(2004-11-25) 25 November 2004 (age 20)	12	2	CSKA Moscow	v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024)
FW	Maksim Budko	(2004-01-30) 30 January 2004 (age 21)	0	0	Molodechno	v. BATE Borisov (17 November 2024)
FW	Ivan Grudko	(2004-07-24) 24 July 2004 (age 20)	1	0	Naftan Novopolotsk	v. Azerbaijan (16 November 2024) ^PRE
FW	Nikolay Mirskiy	(2005-12-19) 19 December 2005 (age 19)	0	0	BATE Borisov	v. Azerbaijan (16 November 2024) ^PRE
FW	Trofim Melnichenko	(2006-09-18) 18 September 2006 (age 18)	3	0	Porto B	v. Faroe Islands (15 October 2024)

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.^{[permanent dead link]}

[1] Goldberg, Rob. "UEFA Bars Belarus from Hosting International Games After Invasion of Ukraine". Bleacher Report.

[2] [🖉"Russia, Belarus Suspended From International Soccer, Hockey Over Ukraine Attacks". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty.^{[permanent dead link]}

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