Belarus national under-21 football team
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| Association | Football Federation of Belarus | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
| Head coach | Vitaliy Pavlov | ||
| Home stadium | Citi Stadium (Borisov) | ||
| FIFA code | BLR | ||
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| 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.
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]
