Macedonia Under-21

Nickname(s)	The Red Lions (Црвени лавови)
Association	Football Federation of Macedonia
Head coach	Boban Babunski
Most caps	? (?)
Top scorer	? (?)
Home stadium	Philip II Arena
FIFA ranking	49 (+4)
Home colours Away colours

The Macedonia national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of the Republic of Macedonia and is controlled by the Football Federation of Macedonia. They usually play their home games at Philip II Arena.

[edit] UEFA U-21 Championship Record

• 1978 to 1992 - was part of Yugoslavia
• 1994 - Did not enter
• 1996 to 2007 - Did not qualify

[edit] Coaches

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• Blagoja Kitanovski (1999-2000)
• Nikola Ilievski (2001-2002)
• Žarko Odžakov (2002-2003)
• Mirsad Jonuz (2003-2009)
• Boban Babunski (2009-)

[edit] Current Squad (2007/09 season)

Squad named for qualification match against Estonia (4 September 2009)

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Kristijan Naumovski Rabotnički 2 DF Betim Aliju KuPS 3 DF Aleksandar Lazevski January 21, 1988 (1988-01-21) (age 21) Teleoptik 4 MF Antonio Stankov Roda 5 DF Vladimir Dimitrovski November 30, 1988 (1988-11-30) (age 21) Metalurg 6 DF Daniel Georgievski (Loan) February 17, 1988 (1988-02-17) (age 21) Međimurje 7 FW Mirko Ivanovski October 31, 1989 (1989-10-31) (age 20) Makedonija Gjorče Petrov 8 MF Muarem Muarem Rabotnički 9 FW Samir Fazli April 22, 1991 (1991-04-22) (age 18) Heerenveen 10 FW Agim Ibraimi August 29, 1988 (1988-08-29) (age 21) Olimpija Ljubljana 11 MF Dragan Stojkov February 23, 1988 (1988-02-23) (age 21) Napredak Kruševac 12 GK Marko Jovanovski July 24, 1988 (1988-07-24) (age 21) Vardar 13 DF Kire Ristevski Pelister 14 DF Darko Božinov Napredok 15 MF Sevdailj Selmani January 10, 1989 (1989-01-10) (age 20) Bayer Leverkusen 16 FW Filip Petrov February 23, 1989 (1989-02-23) (age 20) Vardar 17 FW Muzafer Ejupi September 16, 1988 (1988-09-16) (age 21) Vardar 18 FW Ilija Nestoroski March 12, 1990 (1990-03-12) (age 19) Pobeda DF Dino Najdovski August 5, 1992 (1992-08-05) (age 17) Vardar MF Marko Pavlov Real Betis MF Stefan Spirovski Pelister MF Ivan Nastovski Makedonija Gjorče Petrov MF Marko Kostencovski October 8, 1989 (1989-10-08) (age 20) Vardar FW Dragan Georgiev Turnovo FW Gjorgji Zarevski Sileks

[edit] Recent call-ups

Players that were in the squad for the 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship Qualifiers

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Aleks Vrteski September 28, 1988 (1988-09-28) (age 21) Perth Glory DF Tomislav Blaževski Bregalnica Štip MF Trajče Lostovski March 17, 1989 (1989-03-17) (age 20) Lokomotiv Dryanovo MF Emir Šabani Metalurg MF Dušan Simovski Makedonija Gjorče Petrov

[edit] See also

• Macedonia national football team
• European Under-21 Football Championship

[edit] External links

• UEFA Under-21 website Contains full results archive
• The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.