Greece national under-21 football team

Greece Under-21
Nickname(s)	Εθνική Ελπίδων ; ("National team of Hopes")
Association	Hellenic Football Federation
Head coach	Georgios Simos
Captain	Apostolos Diamantis
Most caps	Giorgos Karagounis (39)
Top scorer	Nikos Liberopoulos &; Lampros Choutos (15)
First colours	Second colours
Biggest win
	Greece 6–0 Luxembourg ; (Greece; 1993); Greece 6–0 Latvia ; (Greece; 1999)
Biggest defeat
	Hungary 7–0 Greece ; (Hungary; 1976)
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances	4 (first in 1988)
Best result	Runners-up, 1988, 1998

Greece U-21 team at 5 September 2011

The Greece national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years.

The under-21 competition rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two-year competition, so technically it is up to an U-23 competition. To be eligible for the Greece National Team, all the football players must hold Hellenic (Greek) nationality and comply with the provisions of Article 15 of the regulations governing the Application of FIFA Statutes. A list of 35 football players must be submitted to the UEFA administration 30 days before the European Under-21 Football Championship opening match. Only 22 of the 35 players listed are authorised to take part in the final tournament and 3 of them must be goalkeepers.

As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Sotiris Ninis has done recently. It is also possible to play more than one country at youth level or different at youth level and different at senior level (providing the player is eligible). But a football player can represent only the senior national team that capped him first.

Also in existence are national teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under-17s. Greece also has a women's national team.

History[]

The first time that Greece's national team of hopes were formed was in 1968, with the aim of participating in the first Balkan Youth Championship that took place at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki.

In their maiden match she played with the corresponding team in Turkey and it was a draw without goals.

The first eleven were the following: Tourkomenis, B. Intzoglou (59' Dimitriou), Chaliambalias, Kyriazis, Athanasopoulos, Karafeskos, Filakouris, Sarafis (46' Stoligas), K. Papaioannou, Koudas, Kritikopoulos (70' Alexiadis).

In the following years, Greece won twice the Balkan Youth Championship (1969 and 1971), and they fought twice (1988 and 1998) in the final of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

Competition Record[]

As of 16 November 2021

Competition	Pld	W	D	L
UEFA U-21 Championship	234	107	45	82

UEFA European Under-21 Championship Record[]

Year	Position
1978	Did Not Qualify
1980	Did Not Qualify
1982	Did Not Qualify
1984	Did Not Qualify
1986	Did Not Qualify
1988
1990	Did Not Qualify
1992	Did Not Qualify
1994	Quarter finalist
1996	Did Not Qualify
1998
2000	Play-Off for Final Tournament
2002	Quarter finalist
2004	Did Not Qualify
2006	Did Not Qualify
2007	Did Not Qualify
2009	Did Not Qualify
2011	Play-Off for Final Tournament
2013	Did Not Qualify
2015	Did Not Qualify
2017	Did Not Qualify
2019	Play-Off for Final Tournament
2021	Did Not Qualify
Total	4/23'

Honours[]

Balkan Youth Championship

Winners (2): 1969, 1971

Valeriy Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament

Third place (2):, 2015, 2018

Results and schedule[]

The following is a list of match results from the previous 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

2021[]

25 March 2021 (2021-03-25) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Greece	0–0	Cyprus	Athens, Greece
17:30 (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium Attendance: Behind closed doors Referee: Allard Lindhout (Netherlands)

5 June 2021 (2021-06-05) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Liechtenstein	0–5	Greece	Eschen, Liechtenstein
18:00 (UTC+2)		Report	G. Christopoulos 39' Macheras 55' Botos 61' Zagaritis 65' Sardelis 73'	Stadium: Sportpark Eschen-Mauren Referee: Viktor Kopiyevskyi (Ukraine)

3 September 2021 (2021-09-03) Friendly	Denmark	1–1	Greece	Copenhagen, Denmark
19:00 (UTC+2)	Isaksen 8'	Report	Ioannidis 56'

7 September 2021 (2021-09-07) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Iceland	1–1	Greece	Reykjavík, Iceland
19:00 (17:00 WET)	Þórðarson 37'	Report	Ioannidis 45+1'	Stadium: Víkingsvöllur Referee: Gal Leibovitz (Israel)

8 October 2021 (2021-10-08) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Belarus	0–2	Greece	Zhodino, Belarus
18:00 (19:00 EEST)		Report	Diamantis 27' Sardelis 84'	Stadium: Torpedo Stadium Referee: Mohammed Al-emara (Finland)

12 November 2021 (2021-11-12) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Greece	2–0	Belarus	Tripoli, Greece
15:00 (16:00 EET)	Sourlis 16' Supranovich 53' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium Referee: Irakli Kvirikashvili (Georgia)

16 November 2021 (2021-11-16) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Greece	1–0	Iceland	Tripoli, Greece
15:00 (16:00 EET)	Michailidis 37' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)

2022[]

25 March 2022 (2022-03-25) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Greece	v	Liechtenstein	Crete, Greece
		Report		Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium

29 March 2022 (2022-03-29) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Greece	v	Portugal	Crete, Greece
		Report		Stadium: Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium

6 June 2022 (2022-06-06) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Cyprus	v	Greece	Achna, Cyprus
		Report		Stadium: Ethnikos Achnas Stadium

11 June 2022 (2022-06-11) 2023 Euro U-21 Qualification	Portugal	v	Greece
		Report

Euro 2023 Under-21 Championship qualification[]

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification[]

Pos	Team v	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	5	5	0	0	20	0	+20	15	Final tournament	—	11 Jun	6–0	25 Mar	1–0	11–0
2	Greece	6	4	2	0	11	1	+10	14	Play-offs	29 Mar	—	0–0	1–0	2–0	25 Mar
3	Cyprus	5	2	1	2	12	7	+5	7		0–1	6 Jun	—	29 Mar	26 Mar	6–0
4	Iceland	5	2	1	2	6	4	+2	7		0–1	1–1	11 Jun	—	8 Jun	3 Jun
5	Belarus	6	2	0	4	11	7	+4	6		4 Jun	0–2	5 Jun	1–2	—	6–0
6	Liechtenstein (E)	7	0	0	7	0	41	−41	0		7 Jun	0–5	0–6	0–3	0–4	—

Updated to match(es) played on 16 November 2021. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(E) Eliminated

Coaching staff[]

Managers[]

The following table provides a summary of the complete record of each Greek manager including their results regarding European Under-21 Championship.

Giannis Goumas was the most recent U-21 Greek national team manager

Key: Pld–games played, W–games won, D–games drawn; L–games lost, %–win percentage

Manager	Greece tenure	Pld	W	D	L	Win %	Major competitions
Stelios Aposporis	2004–2007	18	9	1	8	050.0	2006 European Championship – Failed to qualify 2007 European Championship – Failed to qualify
Nikos Nioplias	2007–2009	19	9	5	5	047.4	2009 European Championship – Failed to qualify
Georgios Georgiadis	2010–2012	19	10	2	7	052.6	2011 European Championship – Play-offs 2013 European Championship – Failed to qualify
Kostas Tsanas	2012–2015	18	9	2	7	050.0	2015 European Championship – Failed to qualify
Michalis Iordanidis	2015	1	1	0	0	100.0	—
Antonis Nikopolidis	2015–2019	32	15	5	12	046.9	2017 European Championship – Failed to qualify 2019 European Championship – Play-offs
Giannis Goumas	2019–2021	13	5	2	6	038.5	2021 European Championship – Failed to qualify
Georgios Simos	2021–	6	4	2	0	066.7	—
Totals

Last updated: 16 November 2021. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

Players[]

Current squad[]

Players born on or after 1 January 1998 will be eligible until the completion of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.^[1]

The following players were named in the squad for the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification, to be played at 12 November 2021.^[2]

Caps and goals updated as of 8 October 2021. Names in bold denote players who have been capped for the senior team.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1GK	Konstantinos Tzolakis	(2002-11-08) 8 November 2002 (age 19)	6	0	Olympiacos
1GK	Christos Mandas	(2001-09-17) 17 September 2001 (age 20)	2	0	OFI
1GK	Nikos Christogeorgos	(2000-01-03) 3 January 2000 (age 22)	1	0	Panathinaikos

2DF	Giorgos Antzoulas	(2000-02-04) 4 February 2000 (age 21)	5	0	Asteras Tripolis
2DF	Vasilis Zagaritis	(2001-05-04) 4 May 2001 (age 20)	5	1	Parma
2DF	Apostolos Diamantis (Captain)	(2000-05-20) 20 May 2000 (age 21)	12	1	OFI
2DF	Marios Tsaousis	(2000-05-11) 11 May 2000 (age 21)	4	0	PAOK B
2DF	Nikos Michelis	(2001-03-23) 23 March 2001 (age 20)	0	0	Willem II
2DF	Giannis Michailidis	(2000-02-18) 18 February 2000 (age 21)	4	0	PAOK
2DF	Giannis Christopoulos	(2000-06-22) 22 June 2000 (age 21)	4	1	Asteras Tripolis
2DF	Lefteris Lyratzis	(2000-02-22) 22 February 2000 (age 21)	9	0	PAOK

3MF	Giorgos Kanellopoulos	(2000-01-29) 29 January 2000 (age 22)	3	0	Asteras Tripolis
3MF	Andreas Athanasakopoulos	(2001-11-27) 27 November 2001 (age 20)	0	0	Panathinaikos
3MF	Giannis Sardelis	(2000-11-03) 3 November 2000 (age 21)	3	2	Panathinaikos B
3MF	Vasilis Sourlis	(2002-11-16) 16 November 2002 (age 19)	4	0	Olympiacos
3MF	Konstantinos Thymianis	(2001-02-28) 28 February 2001 (age 20)	3	0	Xanthi
3MF	Angelos Liasos	(2000-05-26) 26 May 2000 (age 21)	2	0	PAS Giannina
3MF	Charis Tsingaras	(2000-08-20) 20 August 2000 (age 21)	10	0	PAOK
3MF	Giannis Fivos Botos	(2000-12-20) 20 December 2000 (age 21)	10	1	Go Ahead Eagles
3MF	Alexandros Lolis	(2002-09-05) 5 September 2002 (age 19)	4	0	PAS Giannina

4FW	Efthymis Christopoulos	(2000-09-20) 20 September 2000 (age 21)	7	1	AEK Athens B
4FW	Frixos Grivas	(2000-09-23) 23 September 2000 (age 21)	2	0	Kalamata
4FW	Fotis Ioannidis	(2000-01-10) 10 January 2000 (age 22)	6	2	Panathinaikos
4FW	Alexandros Tereziou	(2000-03-01) 1 March 2000 (age 21)	0	0	Volos

Former squads[]

2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece

References[]

^ "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2019-21" (PDF). UEFA. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
^ "Greece U-21 current squad at the HFF's website" (in Greek). epo.gr.

External links[]

Greece U-21 at HFF (in Greek)
Greece U-21 at UEFA
UEFA European U-21 Championship at uefa.com

[2021_Euro_Regs-1] "Regulations of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2019-21" (PDF). UEFA. Retrieved 21 August 2019.

[2] "Greece U-21 current squad at the HFF's website" (in Greek). epo.gr.

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