U18 National Team, coached by Feyyaz Uçar, beat host Russia 3-1 in the 3rd place match of Valentin Granatkin Cup which is held in St. Petersburg, Russia. The match was played in SCC Petersburgsky Stadium and Turkey's goals came from Berk İsmail Ünsal (Min. 9), Recep Niyaz (Min. 81) and Kenan Karaman (Min. 89) while, Nikita Lobanov (Min. 31) hit the target for Russia. Grigoriy Morozov from Russia was sent-off on 87th minute. Recep Niyaz and Ovsyannikov were selected as man of the match.

With this result, U18 National Team finished the tournament in the 3rd place. In their previous matches of the cup, U18s will beat Latvia 7-0 and drew 1-1 against Czech Rep. in their group matches and lost to Italy 4-2 by penalties in a classification match. Besides, Recep Niyaz from Turkey was selected as player of the tournament bu organization committee.

In the final match of the tournament, Italy beat Finland 4-0 and won the Valentin Granatkin Cup.

Turkey: Kemal Mert Özyiğit, Tayfun Aksoy (Min. 45 Ömer Yıldırım), Taha Can Velioğlu, Ahmet Yılmaz Çalık, Kerem Çağatay (Min. 90 Berkay Ceylan), Berk İsmail Ünsal, Recep Niyaz, Enver Cenk Şahin (Min. 56 Kadir Ari), Kenan Karaman, Abdülkerim Bardakcı, Aykut Güler.
Russia: Shafinskiy, Kostin, Ovsyannikov, Bavin, Leont'ev, Galanov (Min. 58 Samsonov), Panukov, Usov (Min. 67 Manzon), Morozov, Lobanov (Min. 79 Zobnin), Moreis (Min. 88 Seredin)
Goals: Min. 9 Berk İsmail Ünsal, Min. 82 Recep Niyaz, Min. 90 Kenan Karaman (Turkey), Min. 31 Lobanov (Russia)
Yellow Cards: Min. 19 Ahmet Yılmaz Çalık, Min. 61 Ömer Yıldırım (Turkey), Min. 83 Kostin, Min. 81-87 Morozov (Russia)
Red Card: Min. 87 Morozov (Russia)

U18 National Team squad for Valentin Granatkin Cup had consisted the players listed at the below:

Sercan ŞEN, Taha Can VELİOĞLU (Bursaspor), Recep NİYAZ, Kerem ÇAĞATAY (Fenerbahçe A.Ş.), Kadir ARİ (Beşiktaş A.Ş.), Enver Cenk ŞAHİN (Büyükşehir Belediyespor), Berk İsmail ÜNSAL (Galatasaray A.Ş.), Ahmet Yılmaz ÇALIK (Gençlerbirliği), Burak Can BALCI (Manisaspor), Kemal Mert ÖZYİĞİT (Bucaspor), Berkay CEYLAN (Göztepe A.Ş.), Abdülkerim BARDAKCI (Konyaspor), İsmet GÖKSELOĞLU (Altay), Aykut GÜLER (Gaziosmanpaşa), Kenan KARAMAN, Ömer YILDIRIM (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim), Ümit EMİNOĞLU (Aston Villa), Tayfun AKSOY (RSC Anderlecht).

Valentin Granatkin Cup Standings & Schedules:

Group A	M	P	Group B	M	P	Group C	M	P	Group D	M	P
1.Belarus	2	4	1.Finland	2	3	1.Italy	2	4	1.Turkey	2	4
2.Russia	2	3	2.Azerbaijan	2	3	2.Ukraine	2	3	2.Czech R.	2	4
3.Lithuania	2	1	3.St.Petersburg	2	3	3.Greece	2	1	3.Latvia	2	0

Date-Kick-Off	Team	Score	Team	Venue
04.01.2012-12.00	Czech Rep.	2-0	Latvia	SCC Petersburgsky
04.01.2012-14.00	Italy	5-0	Ukraine	SCC Petersburgsky
04.01.2012-16.30	Finland	7-0	Azerbaijan	SCC Petersburgsky
04.01.2012-19.00	Russia	1-1	Lithuania	SCC Petersburgsky
05.01.2012-12.00	Latvia	0-7	Turkey	SCC Petersburgsky
05.01.2012-14.00	Ukraine	5-1	Greece	SCC Petersburgsky
05.01.2012-16.30	Belarus	1-0	Lithuania	SCC Petersburgsky
05.01.2012-19.00	Azerbaijan	2-1	St.Petersburg	SCC Petersburgsky
07.01.2012-12.00	Turkey	1-1	Czech Rep.	SCC Petersburgsky
07.01.2012-14.00	Greece	0-0	Italy	SCC Petersburgsky
07.01.2012-16.30	Finland	2-0	St.Petersburg	SCC Petersburgsky
07.01.2012-19.00	Russia	4-1	Belarus	SCC Petersburgsky
CLASSIFICATION MATCHES
08.01.2012-12.00	Ukraine	1-4	Czech Rep.	SCC Petersburgsky
08.01.2012-14.15	Belarus	0-2	St.Petersburg	SCC Petersburgsky
08.01.2012-14.00	Greece	4-0	Latvia	PSG Zenit
08.01.2012-16.30	Italy	0-0 (4-2 Pen.)	Turkey	SCC Petersburgsky
08.01.2012-16.30	Lithuania	1-1 (6-5 Pen.)	Azerbaijan	PSG Zenit
08.01.2012-19.00	Russia	1-1 (4-5 Pen.)	Finland	SCC Petersburgsky
FINAL MATCHES
10.01.2012-12.00 7th Place Match	Ukraine	1-1 (5-4 Pen.)	Belarus	SCC Petersburgsky
10.01.2012-14.15 5th Place Match	Czech Rep.	1-1 (3-4 Pen.)	St. Petersburg	SCC Petersburgsky
10.01.2012-14.00 11th Place Match	Azerbaijan	1-2	Latvia	PSG Zenit
10.01.2012-16.30 3rd Place Match	Turkey	3-1	Russia	SCC Petersburgsky
10.01.2012-16.30 9th Place Match	Greece	0-2	Lithuania	PSG Zenit
10.01.2012-19.00 FINAL	Italy	4-0	Finland	SCC Petersburgsky

2012 Valentin Granatkin Turnuvası