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	Filip Antovski; Darko Churlinov; Enis Fazlagikj; Marko Gjorgjievski
Most caps	Goran Bogdanović (28)
Top scorer	Samir Fazli (7); (7);
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	Did not qualify								10	5	3	2	20	12	+8	Blagoja Milevski
2023	To be determined								To be determined							To be determined
Total	1/14	3	0	1	2	4	11	−7	122	30	23	69	128	230	−102

2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship[]

Qualification[]

Pos	Team v t	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	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	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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	6	5	1	0	20	1	+19	16	Final tournament	—	5–0	3–0	24 Mar	3 Jun	7–0
2	Ukraine	6	4	1	1	7	8	−1	13	Play-offs	29 Mar	—	7 Jun	1–0	2–1	2–1
3	North Macedonia	6	1	3	2	4	7	−3	6		0–1	1–1	—	29 Mar	0–0	2 Jun
4	Faroe Islands	6	1	3	2	4	5	−1	6		1–1	2 Jun	1–1	—	7 Jun	2–0
5	Serbia	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	5		0–3	0–1	24 Mar	0–0	—	29 Mar
6	Armenia (Y)	6	1	0	5	5	17	−12	3		7 Jun	24 Mar	1–2	2–0	1–4	—

Updated to match(es) played on 16 November 2021. Source: UEFA
(Y) Best reach the Play-offs

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	Toshe Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia	France	0–1		uefa.com
24 March 2022	TBA, TBA, Serbia	Serbia
29 March 2022	TBA, TBA, North Macedonia	Faroe Islands
2 June 2022	TBA, TBA, North Macedonia	Armenia
7 June 2022	TBA, TBA, Ukraine	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	Petar Miloševski Training Centre, Skopje, North Macedonia	Kosovo	3–3	Trpchevski 12', Abazi 74', Todorovski 78'	ffm.mk

Squad[]

Current squad[]

Squad named for the friendly games against Kosovo on 16 and 18 December 2021.^[1]
Caps and goals as of 18 December 2021, after both matches against Kosovo.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Marko Alchevski (Captain)	(2002-04-16) 16 April 2002 (age 19)	1	0	Borec
12	1GK	Ivan Nikoloski	(2002-12-23) 23 December 2002 (age 19)	1	0	Belasica
22	1GK	Aleksandar Angjelkovski	(2002-05-25) 25 May 2002 (age 19)	1	0	Gostivar

6	2DF	Viktor Krstevski	(2002-04-04) 4 April 2002 (age 19)	5	0	Gostivar
2	2DF	Antonio Jankulovski	(2003-09-16) 16 September 2003 (age 18)	2	0	Västra Frölunda
3	2DF	Uran Neziroski	(2002-11-06) 6 November 2002 (age 19)	2	0	Mauerwerk
4	2DF	Gorast Stojmenov	(2002-06-26) 26 June 2002 (age 19)	2	0	Slovácko U19
13	2DF	Anatolij Petejchuk	(2002-10-22) 22 October 2002 (age 19)	2	0	Pobeda
15	2DF	Imran Fetai	(2002-08-02) 2 August 2002 (age 19)	2	0	Gostivar
23	2DF	Martin Miserdovski	(2002-11-11) 11 November 2002 (age 19)	2	0	Rabotnichki

10	3MF	Dimitar Todorovski	(2002-03-07) 7 March 2002 (age 19)	6	1	Rabotnichki
5	3MF	Andrej Stojchevski	(2003-05-26) 26 May 2003 (age 18)	2	0	Žilina
8	3MF	Aleks Zlatkov	(2002-03-19) 19 March 2002 (age 19)	2	0	Triglav
14	3MF	Reshat Ramadani	(2003-06-30) 30 June 2003 (age 18)	2	0	Shkëndija
16	3MF	Vane Krstevski	(2003-04-28) 28 April 2003 (age 18)	2	0	Akademija Pandev
17	3MF	Hristijan Georgievski	(2003-04-12) 12 April 2003 (age 18)	2	0	MTK U19
18	3MF	Leonid Ignatov	(2002-01-04) 4 January 2002 (age 20)	2	0	Skopje

11	4FW	Berat Kalkan	(2003-03-02) 2 March 2003 (age 18)	4	1	Kasımpaşa
9	4FW	Luan Abazi	(2002-01-19) 19 January 2002 (age 20)	2	2	Wil
21	4FW	Filip Trpchevski	(2003-05-04) 4 May 2003 (age 18)	2	1	Häcken U19
7	4FW	Behar Feta	(2003-04-07) 7 April 2003 (age 18)	2	0	Voska Sport
19	4FW	Hristijan Maleski	(2002-05-04) 4 May 2002 (age 19)	2	0	Struga

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	David Denkovski	(2000-08-17) 17 August 2000 (age 21)	10	0	Bregalnica	v. France, 16 November 2021
GK	Damjan Serafimov	(2000-06-20) 20 June 2000 (age 21)	4	0	Ohrid	v. France, 16 November 2021
GK	Stefan Tasev	(2004-07-08) 8 July 2004 (age 17)	0	0	Makedonija Gj. P.	v. Serbia, 8 September 2021
GK	Stefan Jakimovski	(2000-05-28) 28 May 2000 (age 21)	1	0	Borec	v. Bulgaria, 30 March 2021

DF	Agan Mjaki	(2003-03-10) 10 March 2003 (age 18)	0	0	Groningen U19	v. Kosovo, 16 December 2021 ^WD
DF	Kristijan Tasevski	(2003-10-11) 11 October 2003 (age 18)	0	0	Augsburg U19	v. Kosovo, 16 December 2021 ^WD
DF	Filip Antovski (Captain)	(2000-11-24) 24 November 2000 (age 21)	21	0	Austria	v. France, 16 November 2021
DF	Mario Mladenovski	(2000-09-16) 16 September 2000 (age 21)	8	0	Makedonija Gj. P.	v. France, 16 November 2021
DF	Aleksandar Gjurkovski	(2002-02-11) 11 February 2002 (age 20)	7	0	Shkupi	v. France, 16 November 2021
DF	Blerton Sheji	(2000-10-21) 21 October 2000 (age 21)	7	0	Shkupi	v. France, 16 November 2021
DF	Adrian Hajdari	(2000-05-31) 31 May 2000 (age 21)	4	0	Rapid II	v. France, 16 November 2021
DF	Jovan Manev	(2001-01-25) 25 January 2001 (age 21)	4	0	Bregalnica	v. France, 16 November 2021
DF	Stefan Naumcheski	(2000-08-07) 7 August 2000 (age 21)	0	0	Tikvesh	v. France, 16 November 2021
DF	Slave Markoski	(2002-04-21) 21 April 2002 (age 19)	0	0	Ohrid	v. Ukraine, 11 November 2021 ^WD
DF	Georgije Jankulov	(2001-11-25) 25 November 2001 (age 20)	5	0	Borec	v. Armenia, 12 October 2021
DF	Besir Iseni	(2000-05-02) 2 May 2000 (age 21)	0	0	Struga	v. Armenia, 12 October 2021
DF	Martin Radulovikj Velichkovikj	(2002-02-07) 7 February 2002 (age 20)	3	1	Slovan	v. Serbia, 8 September 2021
DF	Matthew Bozinovski	(2001-01-05) 5 January 2001 (age 21)	3	0	Wellington Phoenix	v. Serbia, 8 September 2021
DF	Ardian Beqiri	(2001-07-12) 12 July 2001 (age 20)	0	0	Renova	v. Slovenia, 3 June 2021
DF	Marko Stojcheski	(2000-08-23) 23 August 2000 (age 21)	0	0	Ohrid	v. Slovenia, 3 June 2021

MF	Luka Stankovski	(2002-09-02) 2 September 2002 (age 19)	6	0	Gaziantep	v. Kosovo, 16 December 2021 ^WD
MF	Ivan Nikolov	(2002-02-17) 17 February 2002 (age 20)	0	0	Vardar	v. Kosovo, 16 December 2021 ^WD
MF	Tomche Grozdanovski	(2000-03-14) 14 March 2000 (age 21)	15	2	ViOn	v. France, 16 November 2021
MF	Enis Fazlagikj (Captain)	(2000-03-27) 27 March 2000 (age 21)	14	0	Wisła Kraków	v. France, 16 November 2021
MF	Arbi Vosha	(2001-08-04) 4 August 2001 (age 20)	10	0	Makedonija Gj. P.	v. France, 16 November 2021
MF	Metodi Maksimov	(2002-08-20) 20 August 2002 (age 19)	9	3	Rabotnichki	v. France, 16 November 2021
MF	Ali Adem	(2000-06-01) 1 June 2000 (age 21)	6	0	Veria	v. France, 16 November 2021
MF	Florent Ramadani	(2000-08-27) 27 August 2000 (age 21)	6	0	Shkëndija	v. France, 16 November 2021
MF	Amel Rustemoski	(2000-07-06) 6 July 2000 (age 21)	3	0	Wil	v. France, 16 November 2021
MF	Besnik Ferati	(2000-04-19) 19 April 2000 (age 21)	7	0	Shkupi	v. Armenia, 12 October 2021
MF	Luka Trajkoski	(2000-02-08) 8 February 2000 (age 22)	3	0	Borec	v. Armenia, 12 October 2021
MF	Agon Elezi ^INJ	(2001-03-01) 1 March 2001 (age 20)	8	0	Varaždin	v. Serbia, 8 September 2021
MF	Filip Aleksovski	(2000-03-25) 25 March 2000 (age 21)	4	0	Makedonija Gj. P.	v. Slovenia, 3 June 2021
MF	Jakup Berisha	(2000-02-20) 20 February 2000 (age 22)	4	0	Pelister	v. Slovenia, 3 June 2021
MF	Bojan Dimoski ^INJ	(2001-11-23) 23 November 2001 (age 20)	4	0	Akademija Pandev	v. Slovenia, 3 June 2021
MF	David Manasievski	(2001-09-25) 25 September 2001 (age 20)	0	0	Sileks	v. Slovenia, 3 June 2021
MF	Bozhidar Mitrevski	(2001-01-07) 7 January 2001 (age 21)	0	0	Sloga 1934	v. Slovenia, 3 June 2021
MF	Luka Zdravkovski	(2001-04-17) 17 April 2001 (age 20)	0	0	Xanthi	v. Slovenia, 3 June 2021
MF	Darko Churlinov ^A (Captain)	(2000-07-11) 11 July 2000 (age 21)	16	5	Schalke 04	v. Bulgaria, 30 March 2021
MF	David Kalpachki	(2000-06-01) 1 June 2000 (age 21)	3	0	Krka	v. Bulgaria, 30 March 2021

FW	Arda Kurtulan	(2002-11-19) 19 November 2002 (age 19)	0	0	Fenerbahçe U19	v. Kosovo, 16 December 2021 ^WD
FW	Mario Ilievski	(2002-02-24) 24 February 2002 (age 19)	10	1	Tsarsko Selo	v. France, 16 November 2021
FW	Marko Gjorgjievski (Captain)	(2000-04-18) 18 April 2000 (age 21)	9	3	Shkupi	v. France, 16 November 2021
FW	Emir Skenderi	(2000-04-01) 1 April 2000 (age 21)	4	0	Struga	v. France, 16 November 2021
FW	David Toshevski	(2001-07-16) 16 July 2001 (age 20)	6	0	Zemplín Michalovce	v. France, 16 November 2021
FW	Stefan Colakovski	(2000-04-20) 20 April 2000 (age 21)	2	0	Melbourne City	v. Serbia, 8 September 2021
FW	Ediz Spahiu	(2001-03-18) 18 March 2001 (age 20)	0	0	Tikvesh	v. Slovenia, 3 June 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[]

Denkovski

Sheji

Current First Squad (2000+) with the Club Leagues they play in

Past squads[]

2017 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship squad

Statistics[]

As of 17 November 2021

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	Samir Fazli	2008–2012	22
	Kire Ristevski	2010–2012
	Yani Urdinov	2009–2012
	Darko Velkovski	2013–2017
10	Marjan Altiparmakovski	2010–2012	21
	Filip Antovski	2019–
	Marjan Radeski	2014–2017
	Stefan Spirovski	2009–2012

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
	Ilija Nestorovski	2009–2012
8	Enis Bardhi	2014–2017	4
	Miroslav Gjokikj	1994–1995
	Tihomir Kostadinov	2015–2018
	Muarem Muarem	2009–2010
	Marjan Radeski	2013–2017
	Artim Shaqiri	1994–1995
	Aco Stojkov	2002–2005

References[]

^ Драган Канатларовски повика 25 фудбалери од генерацијата 2002-2003 за два контролни меча против Косово

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] Драган Канатларовски повика 25 фудбалери од генерацијата 2002-2003 за два контролни меча против Косово

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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[]

External links[]

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