Macedonia national under-21 football team

Macedonia Under-21

Nickname(s)	The Red Lions (Црвени лавови)
Association	Football Federation of Macedonia
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Blagoja Milevski
Captain	David Babunski Boban Nikolov Gjoko Zajkov
Most caps	Goran Bogdanović (28)
Top scorer	Samir Fazli (7)
FIFA code	MKD
First colours Second colours
First international
Macedonia 5–3  Denmark (Kočani, 7 September 1994)
Biggest win
Macedonia 4–0  Armenia (Skopje, 18 August 2004)
Biggest defeat
Belgium 7-0  Macedonia (Brussels,16 November 1994)

The Macedonian national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of the Macedonia and is controlled by the Football Federation of Macedonia.

UEFA U-21 Championship Record

UEFA European Under-21 Championship record									UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualification record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1994	Did not enter								–	–	–	–	–	–
1996	Did not qualify								10	4	0	6	16	27
1998									8	1	1	6	3	17
2000									8	1	0	7	2	25
2002									10	1	2	7	6	18
2004									8	0	1	7	4	23
2006									12	2	3	5	9	18
2007									4	2	0	2	6	6
2009									8	2	3	3	5	6
2011									8	0	2	6	9	19
2013									8	3	3	2	14	15
2015									8	1	1	6	4	13
Total	0/11	0	0	0	0	0	0		92	17	16	57	78	187

*Draws include knockout matches decided by penalty shootout.

2017 UEFA Under-21 Championship qualification

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	7	4	2	1	12	7	+5	14	Final tournament		—	6 Sep	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0
2	Iceland	6	3	3	0	8	3	+5	12	Possible Play-offs		3–2	—	3–0	5 Oct	11 Oct	1–1
3	Macedonia	6	2	3	1	6	7	−1	9			2–2	0–0	—	8 Oct	1–0	6 Sep
4	Scotland	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8			1–2	0–0	2 Sep	—	2–2	3–1
5	Ukraine	5	1	1	3	4	7	−3	4			2 Sep	0–1	27 May	6 Sep	—	6 Oct
6	Northern Ireland (X)	6	0	1	5	5	11	−6	1			11 Oct	2 Sep	1–2	1–2	1–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 29 March 2016. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(X) Cannot qualify directly as the top team, but may still qualify for the play-offs.

Recent Results and Forthcoming Fixtures

Generation 1994+

Date	Venues	Opponents	Results	Type of Games
13 October 2014	Philip II Arena, Skopje, Macedonia	Romania U21	2:1	Friendly
16 November 2014	FFM Training Centre, Skopje, Macedonia	Montenegro U21	1:0
9 December 2014	Gjorče Petrov Stadium, Skopje, Macedonia	FK Horizont Turnovo	2:0	Friendly (unofficial)
11 December 2014	Gjorče Petrov Stadium, Skopje, Macedonia	FK Pelister	2:1
30 March 2015	Celje, Slovenia	Slovenia U21	1:1	Friendly
11 June 2015	Hlíðarendi, Reykjavík, Iceland	Iceland U21	0:3	Euro U21 2017 Qualifications
5 September 2015	FFM Training Centre, Skopje, Macedonia	Ukraine U21	1:0
7 September 2015	FFM Training Centre, Skopje, Macedonia	Australia U23	3:1	Friendly
13 October 2015	Mourneview Park, Lurgan, Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland U21	2:1	Euro U21 2017 Qualifications
15 November 2015	FFM Training Centre, Skopje, Macedonia	France U21	2:2
12 December 2015	Gradski Stadium, Veles, Macedonia	FK Horizont Turnovo	2:0	Friendly (unofficial)
14 December 2015	Gradski Stadium, Veles, Macedonia	Macedonia A	0:0
24 March 2016	FFM Training Centre, Skopje, Macedonia	Iceland U21	0:0	Euro U21 2017 Qualifications
28 March 2016	MMArena, Le Mans, France	France U21	1:1
27 May 2016	Valeriy Lobanovskyi Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine	Ukraine U21
1 June 2016	FFM Training Centre, Skopje, Macedonia	Belarus U21		Friendly
2 September 2016	TBA, Scotland	Scotland U21		Euro U21 2017 Qualifications
6 September 2016	Skopje, Macedonia	Northern Ireland U21
8 October 2016	Skopje, Macedonia	Scotland U21

• * Macedonia's scores are always listed first

Current Squad

Squad named for the 2017 European U21 Qualifiers against  Iceland and  France on 24 and 28 March 2016.

As of 28 March 2016^[1]

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Igor Aleksovski	24 February 1995	6	0	Makedonija Gj. P.
12	GK	Damjan Shishkovski	18 March 1995	4	0	Rabotnichki
22	GK	Filip Ilikj	26 January 1997	0	0	Metalurg
5	DF	Gjoko Zajkov (Captain)	10 February 1995	16	1	Charleroi
14	DF	Darko Velkovski	21 June 1995	15	2	Vardar
19	DF	Besir Demiri	1 August 1994	10	0	Shkendija
4	DF	Visar Musliu	13 November 1994	7	0	Renova
21	DF	Mevlan Murati	5 March 1994	5	0	Shkupi
2	DF	Egzon Bejtulai	7 January 1994	3	0	Shkendija
3	DF	Aleksa Amanović	24 October 1996	1	0	Javor
10	MF	David Babunski (Captain)	1 March 1994	19	5	Red Star
8	MF	Boban Nikolov	28 July 1994	16	2	Vardar
11	MF	Daniel Avramovski	20 February 1995	9	0	OFK Beograd
7	MF	Enis Bardhi	2 July 1995	7	1	Újpest
23	MF	Tihomir Kostadinov	4 March 1996	5	0	Dukla Banská Bystrica
6	MF	Kristijan Ivanov	21 May 1995	1	0	Horizont Turnovo
15	MF	Ennur Totre	20 October 1996	0	0	Shkendija
9	FW	Marjan Radeski	10 February 1995	13	2	Shkendija
18	FW	Viktor Angelov	27 March 1994	9	3	Újpest
17	FW	Filip Pivkovski	31 January 1994	6	1	Landskrona

Recent call-ups

Players that have been called up within the past 12 months and are stll eligible for the 2017 European U21 Football Championship Qualifiers.

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Dejan Iliev	25 February 1995	5	0	Arsenal U-21
22	GK	Davor Taleski	19 May 1995	0	0	Bregalnica
2	DF	Filip Ristovski	3 January 1995	7	0	Borac Banja Luka
3	DF	Angelche Timovski	13 November 1994	4	0	Sileks
6	DF	Leon Najdovski	17 October 1994	1	0	Rabotnichki
17	MF	Kire Markoski	20 May 1995	9	1	Rabotnichki
18	MF	Burhan Mustafov	7 March 1994	8	0	Pelister
16	MF	Demir Imeri	27 October 1995	7	1	Renova
9	MF	Valmir Nafiu	23 April 1994	6	0	Skënderbeu
	MF	Jasir Asani	19 May 1995	4	0	Vardar
	MF	Besmir Bojku	3 January 1995	4	0	Shkupi
	MF	Hristijan Denkovski	15 April 1994	3	0	Vardar
20	MF	Petar Petkovski	3 January 1997	2	1	Vardar
	MF	Philip Petreski	13 March 1995	2	0	Melbourne City Youth
	MF	Nicola Kuleski	7 May 1996	1	0	Sydney Youth
	MF	Davor Zdravkovski	20 March 1998	1	0	Makedonija Gj. P.
	MF	Hakan Redzep	2 March 1994	0	0	Fremad Amager
	MF	Gjorgji Stoilov	25 August 1995	0	0	Horizont Turnovo
15	FW	Dorian Babunski	29 August 1996	6	0	Fuenlabrada
	FW	Dimitar Ivanov	19 January 1995	3	0	Teteks
	FW	Stefan Mishev	11 March 1996	0	0	Bregalnica

Current First Squad

Aleksovski

Velkovski

Zajkov

Murati

Demiri

Nikolov

Bardhi

Radeski

Babunski

Avramovski

Angelov

Current First Squad with the Club Leagues they play in

Statistics

Most appearances Rank Name U21 Career Caps 1 Goran Bogdanović 2009–2012 28 2 Nikola Gjoševski 1997–2000 25 3 Samir Fazli 2008–2012 22 Kire Ristevski 2010–2012 Yani Urdinov 2009–2012 6 Marjan Altiparmakovski 2010–2012 21 Stefan Spirovski 2009–2012 8 Bojan Markoski 2003–2005 20 Stefan Ristovski 2009–2014 Antonio Stankov 2009–2012

Top goalscorers Rank Name U21 Career Goals 1 Samir Fazli 2008–2012 7 2 David Babunski 2012 – 5 Ilija Nestorovski 2009–2012 4 Muarem Muarem 2009–2010 4 Aco Stojkov 2002–2005 6 Marjan Altiparmakovski 2010–2012 3 Viktor Angelov 2013 – Dragan Gjorgiev 2009–2012 Nikola Gjoševski 1997–2000 Ferhan Hasani 2010–2012 Aleksandar Trajkovski 2011–2014 Zoran Zlatkovski 2007–2008

Coaches

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• Čedomir Janevski (1997–1998)
• Perica Gruevski (1998–1999)
• Blagoja Kitanovski (1999–2000)
• Nikola Ilievski (2001–2002)
• Žarko Odžakov (2002–2003)
• Mirsad Jonuz (2003–2009)
• Boban Babunski (2009–2014)
• Vujadin Stanojković (interim) (2014)
• Blagoja Milevski (2014–)

See also

• Macedonia national football team
• Macedonia national under-19 football team
• Macedonia national under-17 football team
• European Under-21 Football Championship

References

1. FFM official website

External links

• MacedonianFootball Contains news and information about the Macedonian U-21 National Football Team.
• UEFA Under-21 website Contains full results archive
• The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.