Iceland national under-19 football team

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Iceland Under-19
Nickname(s)Strákarnir okkar
AssociationFootball Association of Iceland
Head coachIceland Ólafur Ingi Skúlason
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Iceland 1–1  Wales
(Reykjavik, Iceland; 13 October 1970)
Biggest win
 Iceland 9–0  Luxembourg
(Reykjavik, Iceland; 9 October 1994)
Biggest defeat
 Serbia 6–0  Iceland
(Ireland; 30 May 2014)
European Under-19 Football Championship
Appearances6 (first in 1976)
Best resultGroup stage (6 times)

The Iceland national under-19 football team, controlled by the Football Association of Iceland, represents Iceland at the European Under-19 Football Championship and international friendly match fixtures at the under-19 age level.

European Championships[]

Introduction[]

Since it adopted its current format in 2002, the Iceland under-19s have failed to qualify for the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. As of 2011, their best qualifying campaign performances came in 2007 and 2008, when they qualified for the second, or 'elite', qualification stage.

In the qualifying campaign for the 2007 tournament, the team finished joint second place in the elite qualification stage behind the Spain under-19s, who went on to win the tournament.[1][2] In 2008, the Iceland under-19s recorded elite stage victories against the Norway under-19s and the Israel under-19s, but again finished in second place. On that occasion the group winners were the Bulgaria under-19s.[3][4]

In the 2011 qualification campaign, Iceland finished third in group 1 of the first qualifying stage. Their only points came in a 4–0 victory over the Kazakhstan under-19s, who finished bottom in fourth place.[5][6]

In the first qualification stage of the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, the Iceland under-19s faced Norway, Latvia and Cyprus, finishing last in the group.[7] Iceland didn't fare much better in 2013, as they came third in the group and didn't qualify.[8] In 2014 they finished second in Group 4 behind Belgium and ahead of both France and Northern Ireland[9] to qualify for the elite round where they lost all three matches.

History[]

Year Result GP W D L GS GA
Norway 2002 First qualifying stage
Liechtenstein 2003 First qualifying stage
Switzerland 2004 First qualifying stage
Northern Ireland 2005 First qualifying stage
Poland 2006 First qualifying stage
Austria 2007 Elite qualifying stage
Czech Republic 2008 Elite qualifying stage
Ukraine 2009 First qualifying stage
France 2010 First qualifying stage
Romania 2011 First qualifying stage
Estonia 2012 First qualifying stage
Lithuania 2013 First qualifying stage
Hungary 2014 Elite qualifying stage
Greece 2015 First qualifying stage
Germany 2016 First qualifying stage
Georgia (country) 2017 First qualifying stage
Finland 2018 First qualifying stage
Armenia 2019 First qualifying stage
Northern Ireland 2020 Postponed, rescheduled, and then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[10]
Romania 2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[11]
Slovakia 2022 TBD
Total 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Current squad[]

The following players were named in the squad for the Qualifying round of the 2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship All caps and goals are correct as of 19 November 2019.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Jökull Andrésson (2001-08-25) 25 August 2001 (age 20) 4 0 England Reading
1GK Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson (2001-10-13) 13 October 2001 (age 20) 1 0 Iceland Grótta
2DF (2001-05-24) 24 May 2001 (age 20) 4 0 Denmark OB
2DF (2002-03-11)11 March 2002 (aged 17) 3 0 Iceland Þróttur
2DF (2002-02-25)25 February 2002 (aged 17) 5 0 Iceland ÍA
2DF Ísak Snær Þorvaldsson (2001-05-01) 1 May 2001 (age 20) 9 1 England Norwich
2DF Atli Barkarson (2001-03-19) 19 March 2001 (age 20) 10 1 Norway Fredrikstad
3MF Kristall Máni Ingason (2002-01-18) 18 January 2002 (age 20) 5 2 Denmark F.C. Copenhagen
3MF (2002-02-25)25 February 2002 (aged 17) 3 1 Netherlands Heerenveen
3MF Andri Fannar Baldursson (2002-01-10)10 January 2002 (aged 17) 5 0 Italy Bologna
3MF (2002-09-22)22 September 2002 (aged 16) 5 1 Iceland HK
3MF (2001-04-06) 6 April 2001 (age 20) 4 0 Iceland Fjölnir
3MF (2001-07-06) 6 July 2001 (age 20) 5 1 Iceland Breiðablik
3MF (2001-02-28) 28 February 2001 (age 20) 3 1 Iceland Leiknir Reykjavík
3MF (2002-06-15)15 June 2002 (aged 16) 3 0 Iceland Keflavík
3MF Mikael Egill Ellertsson (2002-03-11)11 March 2002 (aged 17) 4 0 Italy SPAL
3MF (2001-08-10)10 August 2001 (aged 17) 1 0 Iceland Vestri
4FW Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen (2002-01-29)29 January 2002 (aged 17) 10 4 Spain Real Madrid
4FW Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson (2003-03-23)23 March 2003 (aged 16) 5 1 Sweden Norrköping
4FW (2003-01-05)5 January 2003 (aged 16) 2 0 Denmark Midtjylland

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Elite qualifying stage results 2006–07". Uefa.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Elite qualifying stage tables, 2007 U-19 European Championships". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Elite qualifying stage results 2007–08". Uefa.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  4. ^ "Elite qualifying stage tables, 2008 U-19 European Championships". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  5. ^ "2011 UEFA under-19 European Championships: Group 1 final standings". Uefa.com. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  6. ^ "Under-19 result: Iceland 4–0 Kazakhstan". soccerway.com. 20 October 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  7. ^ "Iceland under-19 fixtures for 2012 European Championships". Football Association of Iceland. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  8. ^ http://www.uefa.com/under19/season=2013/standings/round=2000318/group=2001753/index.html[dead link]
  9. ^ http://www.uefa.com/under19/season=2014/standings/round=2000383/group=2002192/index.html[dead link]
  10. ^ "Under-19 EURO: new schedule". UEFA.com. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  11. ^ "2020/21 Under-19 EURO cancelled". UEFA.com. 23 February 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
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