The study attempts to close certain gaps in the theory and practice of studying the sports selection of football players. The development of this problem is important for the creation of a scientifically sound system of education, upbringing, training, improvement and development of young and professional footballers, for the process of training football specialists, and is, above all, to find a modern theoretical and methodological justification for scientific and methodological and practical support of sports selection in football.
 Sports selection is a pedagogical process of finding the most talented people who are able to achieve high results in sports. Sports selection should solve the problem of identifying promising individuals who, thanks to a well-thought-out process of education and training can "grow" in outstanding athletes.
 Sports selection in football is a system of organizational and methodological activities consisting of pedagogical, physiological, psychological, sociological, genetic, medical and biological research methods, which reveal the abilities and suitability of children, adolescents, young people to play football. The purpose of sports selection in football is to predict the possibility of achieving high competitive results at the optimal age.
 There is a need to join the research of individual development options of each gifted young football player. This can bring closer to solving an important theoretical and practical problem – based on the ratio of age and individual characteristics of the unity of education, upbringing, training and improvement of a gifted child in the football aspect to determine individual and typical options for future football.