North Macedonia national under-21 football team

North Macedonia Under-21
Nickname(s)	The Red Lions (Црвени лавови)
Association	Football Federation of Macedonia
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Dragi Kanatlarovski
Captain	Mario Ilievski; Dimitar Todorovski
Most caps	Goran Bogdanović (28)
Top scorer	Samir Fazli (7); Dimitar Mitrovski (7);
Home stadium	Petar Miloshevski TC
FIFA code	MKD
First colours	Second colours
First international
	Unofficial; Macedonia 7–0 Estonia; (Skopje, 31 May 1994); Official; Macedonia 5–3 Denmark; (Kočani, 7 September 1994)
Biggest win
	Unofficial; Macedonia 7–0 Estonia; (Skopje, 31 May 1994); Official; North Macedonia 7–1 Faroe Islands; (Skopje, 10 September 2019)
Biggest defeat
	Macedonia 0–8 FR Yugoslavia; (Skopje, 7 September 1999)
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances	1 (first in 2017)
Best result	Group stage, 2017

The North Macedonia national under-21 football team is a youth association football national team which represents North Macedonia at this age level and is a feeder team for the North Macedonia national football team. It was formerly known as the Macedonia national under-21 football team.

This team is for Macedonian players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U21s, senior side and again for the U21s. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).

The under-21 age category came into existence with the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976. The Macedonia U21 team was formed following Macedonia's independence from SFR Yugoslavia in 1991 and is controlled by the Football Federation of North Macedonia (from 1976 to 1992 Macedonian players played for Yugoslavia U21). A 7–0 win in a friendly against Estonia played on 31 May 1994 was Macedonia U21s' first result. Four months later, Macedonia also had their first competitive match which ended in a 5–3 win against Denmark.

So far, the team has qualified for one final tournament, the one being the 2017 Euro U21 held in Poland for players born 1994 or later. They ended the tournament on the 11th position with 1 draw and 2 losses over the group stage.

UEFA U-21 Championship Record

UEFA U-21 Championship record									UEFA U-21 Championship Qualification record							Manager(s)
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1996	Did not qualify								10	4	0	6	16	27	−11	Jovo Nikushev
1998									8	1	1	6	3	17	−14	Zoran Smileski
2000									8	1	0	7	2	25	−23	Perica Gruevski, Blagoja Kitanovski
2002									10	1	2	7	6	18	−12	Blagoja Kitanovski, Nikola Ilievski
2004									8	0	1	7	4	23	−19	Zharko Odjakov, Mirsad Jonuz
2006									12	2	3	5	9	18	−9	Mirsad Jonuz
2007									4	2	0	2	6	6	0
2009									8	2	3	3	5	6	−1
2011									8	0	2	6	9	19	−10	Mirsad Jonuz, Boban Babunski
2013									8	3	3	2	14	15	−1	Boban Babunski
2015									8	1	1	6	4	13	−13	Boban Babunski, Vujadin Stanojković
2017	Group stage	3	0	1	2	4	11	−7	10	6	3	1	13	7	+6	Blagoja Milevski
2019	Did not qualify								10	2	1	7	17	24	−7	Blagoja Milevski, Dobrinko Ilievski
2021									10	5	3	2	20	12	+8	Blagoja Milevski
2023									10	2	3	5	8	15	−7	Blagoja Milevski, Dragan Kanatlarovski
Total	1/15	3	0	1	2	4	11	−7	132	32	26	74	136	245	−109

2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Qualification

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Macedonia	10	6	3	1	13	7	+6	21	Final tournament	—	2–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
2	France	10	6	2	2	17	8	+9	20		1–1	—	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0
3	Iceland	10	5	3	2	13	9	+4	18		3–0	3–2	—	2–4	2–0	1–1
4	Ukraine	10	4	2	4	14	12	+2	14		0–2	1–0	0–1	—	4–0	1–1
5	Scotland	10	2	2	6	8	17	−9	8		0–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	—	3–1
6	Northern Ireland	10	0	2	8	6	18	−12	2		1–2	0–3	0–1	1–2	1–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Final tournament

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9	Knockout stage
2	Portugal	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	6
3	Serbia	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
4	Macedonia	3	0	1	2	4	11	−7	1

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Qualification

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	10	9	1	0	20	1	+19	28	Final tournament	—	3–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	2–0
2	North Macedonia	10	5	3	2	20	12	+8	18		0–1	—	1–1	1–1	7–1	2–1
3	Israel	10	3	4	3	12	14	−2	13		1–1	1–1	—	1–2	3–1	0–0
4	Kazakhstan	10	3	1	6	12	21	−9	10		0–1	1–4	1–2	—	2–3	0–4
5	Faroe Islands	10	3	0	7	11	25	−14	9		0–2	1–2	3–1	1–3	—	1–0
6	Montenegro	10	2	1	7	11	13	−2	7		0–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	3–0	—

Source: UEFA

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Qualification

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	10	8	2	0	31	5	+26	26	Final tournament	—	5–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	7–0
2	Ukraine	10	7	2	1	20	11	+9	23	Play-offs	3–3	—	2–1	1–0	4–0	2–1
3	Serbia	10	3	3	4	10	11	−1	12		0–3	0–1	—	0–0	2–1	2–0
4	Faroe Islands	10	2	4	4	6	12	−6	10		1–1	0–4	1–1	—	1–1	2–0
5	North Macedonia	10	2	3	5	8	15	−7	9		0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	—	3–1
6	Armenia	10	1	0	9	7	28	−21	3		1–4	0–2	1–4	2–0	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Recent results and fixtures

Generation 2000+

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score	Macedonia scorer(s)	Report
2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification
2 September 2021	MMArena, Le Mans, France	France	0–3		uefa.com
7 September 2021	SRC Biljanini Izvori, Ohrid, North Macedonia	Serbia	0–0		uefa.com
7 October 2021	Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands	Faroe Islands	1–1	Gjorgjievski 55'	uefa.com
12 October 2021	Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia	Armenia	2–1	Gjorgjievski 25', Maksimov 83'	uefa.com
11 November 2021	Petar Miloševski Training Centre, Skopje, North Macedonia	Ukraine	1–1	Grozdanovski 58'	uefa.com
16 November 2021	Todor Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia	France	0–1		uefa.com
24 March 2022	Voždovac Stadium, Belgrade, Serbia	Serbia	1–2	Dimoski 83'	uefa.com
29 March 2022	Todor Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia	Faroe Islands	0–1		uefa.com
2 June 2022	Petar Miloševski Training Centre, Skopje, North Macedonia	Armenia	3–1	Maksimov 22', Ilievski 85', Emini 90+7' (pen.)	uefa.com
7 June 2022	TBA, Chișinău, Moldova	Ukraine
Friendly matches
24 March 2021	Antalya Orman Stadı, Antalya, Turkey	Kazakhstan	1–2	Kalkan 75'	ffm.mk
27 March 2021	Asteria Kremlin Palace Spor Merkezi, Antalya, Turkey	Slovakia	2–2	Churlinov 24', Radulovikj-Velichkovikj 55'	ffm.mk
29 March 2021	Antalya Orman Stadı, Antalya, Turkey	Bulgaria	5–1	Ilievski 10', Grozdanovski 30', Maksimov 58', 76', Kalkan 80'	ffm.mk
3 June 2021	Matija Gubec Stadium, Krško, Slovenia	Slovenia	0–3		nzs.si

* Macedonia's scores are always listed first

Generation 2002+

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score	Macedonia scorer(s)	Report
Friendly matches
16 December 2021	Petar Miloševski Training Centre, Skopje, North Macedonia	Kosovo	1–0	Abazi 63'	ffm.mk
18 December 2021		Kosovo	3–3	Trpchevski 12', Abazi 74', Todorovski 78'	ffm.mk
10 June 2022		Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–0	Abazi 47'	ffm.mk
12 June 2022		Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–1	Kurtulan 24', 34'	ffm.mk
23 September 2022	Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia	Albania	3–1	Kalkan 10', Ilievski 47', 55'	ffm.mk
26 September 2022	Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia	Saudi Arabia	1–1	Ilievski 60'	ffm.mk

Squad

Current squad

Squad named for the friendly tournament in Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia from 23 to 26 September 2022.^[1]
Caps and goals as of 30 September 2022, after both matches against Saudi Arabia.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Marko Alchevski	(2002-04-16) 16 April 2002 (age 22)	3	0	Akademija Pandev
12	1GK	Ivan Nikoloski	(2002-12-23) 23 December 2002 (age 21)	3	0	Voska Sport
22	1GK	Aleksandar Angjelkovski	(2002-05-25) 25 May 2002 (age 22)	1	0	Teteks

16	2DF	Viktor Krstevski	(2002-04-04) 4 April 2002 (age 22)	10	0	Gostivar
24	2DF	Martin Radulovikj Velichkovikj	(2002-02-07) 7 February 2002 (age 22)	7	1	Slovan U19
4	2DF	Andrej Stojchevski	(2003-05-26) 26 May 2003 (age 21)	7	0	Žilina
3	2DF	Kristijan Tasevski	(2003-10-11) 11 October 2003 (age 20)	5	0	Augsburg U19
5	2DF	Stefan Despotovski	(2003-01-23) 23 January 2003 (age 21)	4	0	Unattached
2	2DF	Antonio Jankulovski	(2003-09-16) 16 September 2003 (age 20)	4	0	Västra Frölunda
14	2DF	Agan Mjaki	(2003-03-10) 10 March 2003 (age 21)	4	0	Groningen U19
15	2DF	Reshat Ramadani	(2003-06-30) 30 June 2003 (age 21)	4	0	Shkëndija

8	3MF	Dimitar Todorovski (captain)	(2002-03-07) 7 March 2002 (age 22)	14	1	Rabotnichki
10	3MF	Luka Stankovski	(2002-09-02) 2 September 2002 (age 21)	12	0	Gaziantep
6	3MF	Aleks Zlatkov	(2002-03-19) 19 March 2002 (age 22)	8	0	Shkupi
17	3MF	Ivan Nikolov	(2002-02-17) 17 February 2002 (age 22)	5	0	Bregalnica
21	3MF	Leonid Ignatov	(2002-01-04) 4 January 2002 (age 22)	3	0	Skopje
18	3MF	Vane Krstevski	(2003-04-28) 28 April 2003 (age 21)	3	0	Akademija Pandev
13	3MF	Hamza Ramani	(2002-09-17) 17 September 2002 (age 21)	2	0	Pobeda

9	4FW	Mario Ilievski (captain)	(2002-02-24) 24 February 2002 (age 22)	18	5	Kisvárda
19	4FW	Metodi Maksimov	(2002-08-20) 20 August 2002 (age 21)	16	4	Rabotnichki
20	4FW	Luan Abazi	(2002-01-19) 19 January 2002 (age 22)	7	3	Wil
7	4FW	Berat Kalkan	(2003-03-02) 2 March 2003 (age 21)	7	2	Kasımpaşa U19
23	4FW	Behar Feta	(2003-04-07) 7 April 2003 (age 21)	6	0	Voska Sport
11	4FW	Arda Okan Kurtulan	(2002-11-19) 19 November 2002 (age 21)	4	2	Adana Demirspor

Recent call-ups

Players that have been called up within the past 12 months and are eligible for the 2023 European U21 Football Championship Qualifiers.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Stefan Mitrev	(2003-02-14) 14 February 2003 (age 21)	0	0	Belasica	v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 June 2022

DF	Imran Fetai	(2002-08-02) 2 August 2002 (age 21)	4	0	Gostivar	v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 June 2022
DF	Anatolij Petejchuk	(2002-10-22) 22 October 2002 (age 21)	4	0	Pobeda	v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 June 2022
DF	Martin Miserdovski	(2002-11-11) 11 November 2002 (age 21)	2	0	Rabotnichki	v. Kosovo, 18 December 2021
DF	Uran Neziroski	(2002-11-06) 6 November 2002 (age 21)	2	0	Mauerwerk	v. Kosovo, 18 December 2021
DF	Gorast Stojmenov	(2002-06-26) 26 June 2002 (age 22)	2	0	Skopje	v. Kosovo, 18 December 2021
DF	Aleksandar Gjurkovski	(2002-02-11) 11 February 2002 (age 22)	7	0	Tikvesh	v. France, 16 November 2021

MF	Aleksandar Kocev	(2003-04-27) 27 April 2003 (age 21)	2	0	Belasica	v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 June 2022
MF	Hristijan Georgievski	(2003-04-12) 12 April 2003 (age 21)	2	0	Skopje	v. Kosovo, 18 December 2021

FW	Dashmir Elezi ^U19	(2004-11-21) 21 November 2004 (age 19)	3	0	Shkëndija	v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 June 2022
FW	Danail Tasev	(2002-04-26) 26 April 2002 (age 22)	2	0	Tikvesh	v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 June 2022
FW	Filip Trpchevski ^INJ	(2003-05-04) 4 May 2003 (age 21)	2	1	Häcken	v. Kosovo, 18 December 2021
FW	Hristijan Maleski	(2002-05-04) 4 May 2002 (age 22)	2	0	Struga	v. Kosovo, 18 December 2021

A: Called up by the Macedonia A National Team
U19: Called up by the Macedonia U19 National Team
INJ: Injured
WD: Withdrew
COV: Covid-19
PRE: Preliminary squad

Current First Squad

Alchevski

Stojchevski

Krstevski

Despotovski

Tasevski

Todorovski

Zlatkov

Current First Squad (2002+) with the Club Leagues they play in

Past squads

2017 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship squad

Statistics

As of 27 September 2022

Most appearances

Rank	Name	U21 Career	Caps
1	Goran Bogdanovikj	2009–2012	28
2	David Babunski	2012–2017	27
2	Davor Zdravkovski	2015–2020	27
4	Boban Nikolov	2013–2017	24
4	Gjoko Zajkov	2013–2017	24
6	Filip Antovski	2019–2022	23
7	Samir Fazli	2008–2012	22
	Kire Ristevski	2010–2012
	Yani Urdinov	2009–2012
	Darko Velkovski	2013–2017

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	U21 Career	Goals
1	Samir Fazli	2008–2012	7
1	Dimitar Mitrovski	2018–2020	7
3	Jani Atanasov	2018–2020	6
3	Kire Markoski	2013–2017	6
5	David Babunski	2012–2017	5
	Darko Churlinov	2018–2021
	Mario Ilievski	2020 –
	Ilija Nestorovski	2009–2012
9	Enis Bardhi	2014–2017	4
	Miroslav Gjokikj	1994–1995
	Tihomir Kostadinov	2015–2018
	Metodi Maksimov	2021 –
	Muarem Muarem	2009–2010
	Marjan Radeski	2013–2017
	Artim Shaqiri	1994–1995
	Aco Stojkov	2002–2005

References

^ Канатларовски го објави списокот на фудбалери за двата контролни натпррвари

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.

[1] Канатларовски го објави списокот на фудбалери за двата контролни натпррвари

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North Macedonia national under-21 football team

Contents

UEFA U-21 Championship Record

2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Qualification

Final tournament

Group stage

2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Qualification

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship

Qualification

Recent results and fixtures

Generation 2000+

Generation 2002+

Squad

Current squad

Recent call-ups

Current First Squad

Past squads

Statistics

Most appearances

Top goalscorers

See also

References

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