Andorran national football team

This article is about the Andorran men's national football team. For the women's team, see Andorran Women's National Football Team .

Principality of Andorra
Principat d'Andorra

Nickname (s)	La tricolor
Association	FAF
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Macron
Head coach	Koldo Álvarez (since 2010)
captain	Ildefons Lima
Record scorer	Ildefons Lima (11)
Record player	Ildefons Lima (119)
Home stadium	Estadi Nacional
FIFA code	AND
FIFA rank	135th (1082 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey Third jersey
Balance sheet
159 games 7 wins 19 draws 136 losses
statistics
First international match Andorra 1: 6 Estonia ( Andorra la Vella , Andorra ; November 13, 1996 )
Biggest victories Andorra 2-0 Belarus ( Andorra la Vella , Andorra ; April 26, 2000 ) Andorra 2-0 Albania ( Andorra la Vella , Andorra ; 17 April 2002 ) San Marino 0-2 Andorra ( Serravalle , San Marino ; 22. February 2017 )
Biggest defeats Czech Republic 8: 1 Andorra ( Liberec , Czech Republic ; June 4, 2005 ) Croatia 7: 0 Andorra ( Zagreb , Croatia ; October 7, 2006 )
(As of June 11, 2019)

Formerly used association coat of arms

The Andorran national football team ( Catalan : Selecció de futbol d'Andorra) is the selection of the best football players in Andorra . They had their first official game in 1996 against Estonia , which was lost 6-1. Since its inclusion in the UEFA Andorra participated in any EM -Qualifikationsrunde part and was almost always last in the group. So far, the team has won six games, five at home and one away win in San Marino. In competitive games, Andorra won 1-0 against Macedonia in the course of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup and also 1-0 against Hungary in the course of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup and also 1-0 against the Republic of Moldova in the course of qualifying for the Euro 2020 .

Soccer world championships

• 1930 to 1998 - did not participate
• 2002 to 2018 - not qualified

European football championships

• 1960 to 1996 - did not participate
• 2000 to 2021 - not qualified

history

Andorra have never been able to qualify for a World or European Championship. The national soccer team of Andorra is one of the small national teams of international soccer. The national football association of the dwarf state (75,000 inhabitants) was founded in 1994 . His national team has been active on the international stage since 1996 after the association joined FIFA . Since the qualifying round for the European Football Championship 2000 , Andorra has participated in all European and World Cup qualifications. The last place in the qualification group was taken in all participations. In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , Andorra met Estonia , the Netherlands , Romania , Turkey and Hungary . Andorra also ended this qualification as bottom of the group without winning points. Andorra ranks 136th in the FIFA world rankings as of 25 July 2019.

The goals scored against opponents such as Portugal and Ireland are already considered successes in Andorra . Apart from that, seven victories have been recorded so far, including the successes achieved in the context of World Cup qualification, the 1-0 against Macedonia on October 13, 2004 and the 1-0 against Hungary on June 9, 2017, and most recently in the European Championship -Qualification a 1-0 home win over Moldova on October 11, 2019. Andorra's selection was also successful against Albania (April 2002), Belarus (April 2000) and Liechtenstein (March 2018). On February 22, 2017, the only away win in the friendly game in San Marino was achieved so far. On October 10, 2016, Switzerland played in the qualification for the 2018 World Cup in Andorra and won 2: 1 and on August 31, 2017 in St. Gallen 3: 0. So far there have been no international matches against Germany and Austria (see also the list of international matches for the Andorran national soccer team ). The Spanish manufacturer Joma equipped the national team until 2006 . The current supplier is the Italian manufacturer Macron .

Problems

It is proving difficult for the association to find enough talented players from the 75,000 inhabitants of the small state, especially since there are no full-time professional teams in the country. Only two of the actors are professionals, the rest of them play on a semi-professional basis. To make matters worse, the Andorran laws hardly make naturalization of players possible. A player would either have to live in the state for 20 years, marry a citizen or graduate from university there.

In addition, there is no stadium or training facilities in Andorra, the team plays in the Estadi Communal with a capacity of almost 1200 spectators. However, since land in the Pyrenees is very expensive and the association has little money, hardly anything will change in this situation. International matches against attractive opponents have also been played repeatedly in Spain , for example in Barcelona and Lleida .

In 2014 the Estadi Nacional , the new national stadium with 3,306 seats, opened in the capital Andorra la Vella. In 2017, the reigning European champions Portugal came to a World Cup qualifier in the stadium, which was almost sold out with 3,193 spectators.

Extended squad

The following players were in the squad for the UEFA Nations League game against Latvia on November 19, 2018.

No.	Surname	society	birth date	Calls	Gates	debut	Last use
goal
1	Josep Gómes	FC Santa Coloma	0Dec 3, 1985	052	00	Aug 16, 2006	19 Nov 2018
13	Ferran Pol	UE Sant Julià	Feb. 28, 1983	025th	00	0June 2, 2010	21 Mar 2018
Defense
6th	Ildefons Lima	Inter Club d'Escaldes	Dec 10, 1979	0118	010	June 22, 1997	19 Nov 2018
15th	Moisés San Nicolás	FC Santa Coloma	17 Sep 1993	036	00	Oct 12, 2012	19 Nov 2018
16	Adri Rodrígues	Lusitanos FC	Aug 14, 1988	015th	00	0May 3, 2012	May 28, 2016
20th	Max Llovera	UA Horta	0Jan. 8, 1997	025th	00	03rd Sep 2015	19 Nov 2018
21st	Marc García	EC Granollers	21 Mar 1988	040	00	May 29, 2010	19 Nov 2018
23	Jordi Rubio	UE Santa Coloma	0Nov 1, 1987	044	00	Aug 16, 2006	Nov 15, 2018
midfield
3	Marc Vales	Sandefjord Fotball	0Apr 4, 1990	055	00	26th Mar 2008	19 Nov 2018
5	Emili García	FC Andorra	Jan. 11, 1989	043	01	0June 4, 2008	Nov 15, 2018
8th	Marc Ferré	FC Andorra	Jan. 11, 1994	002	00	03rd June 2018	Oct 16, 2018
11	Sergi Moreno	Inter Club d'Escaldes	Nov 25, 1987	059	00	Apr 14, 2004	19 Nov 2018
17th	Joan Cervós	FC Santboià	Feb. 24, 1998	007th	00	03rd June 2018	19 Nov 2018
22nd	Víctor Rodríguez	FC Santa Coloma	0Sep 7 1987	022nd	00	Oct 15, 2008	19 Nov 2018
attack
2	Cristian Martínez	FC Andorra	Oct 16, 1989	051	02	05th Sep 2009	19 Nov 2018
7th	Alexandre Martínez	FC Andorra	Oct 10, 1998	014th	01	May 26, 2016	19 Nov 2018
9	Ricard Fernandez	FC Andorra U19	19 Mar 1999	005	00	21 Mar 2018	19 Nov 2018
10	July Sánchez	FC Santa Coloma	June 20, 1978	070	01	Nov 13, 1996	19 Nov 2018
14th	Jordi Aláez	FC Andorra	Jan. 23, 1998	016	01	May 26, 2016	19 Nov 2018
19th	Sebastián Gómez	UE Engordany	0Nov 1, 1983	031	00	0June 4, 2008	Sep 10 2018

Records

Record player

See also : List of Andorran national soccer players

So far, 17 Andorran players have played at least 50 internationals and two players more than 100 internationals. Ildefons Lima has been a record international player since August 15, 2017 when he replaced long-time leader Óscar Sonejee with his 107th international match .

rank	player	Games
1.	Ildefons Lima	119
2.	Óscar Sonejee	106
3.	Josep Ayala	84
	Marcio Vieira
5.	Marc Pujol	81
6th	Manolo Jiménez	79
6th	Koldo Álvarez	78
8th.	Txema García	71
	July Sánchez
10.	Justo Ruiz	67
11.	Jordi Escura	65
12.	Antoni Lima	64
13.	Sergi Moreno	63
14th	Marc Vales	57
15th	Josep Gómes	53

As of November 19, 2018

Record goal scorers

rank	player	Gates
1.	Ildefons Lima	11
2.	Óscar Sonejee	4th
3.	Emiliano González	3
	Jesús Lucendo
	Cristian Martínez
6th	Marc Pujol	2
	Marc Rebés
	Justo Ruiz
	Fernando Silva

As of November 19, 2018

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

→ Main article : List of international matches for the Andorran national soccer team

International matches against Liechtenstein

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
01.	August 14, 2012	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	1-0	Andorra
02.	March 21, 2018	La Línea de la Concepción	Andorra	1-0	Liechtenstein

International matches against Switzerland

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
01.	October 10, 2016	Andorra la Vella	Andorra	1: 2	Switzerland
02.	August 31, 2017	St. Gallen	Switzerland	3-0	Andorra

There have been no matches against Germany , Luxembourg and Austria so far.

See also

• List of international matches for the Andorran national football team

Web links

• Official website of the Andorran Football Association (Catalan)
• Statistics of UEFA
• Statistics of FIFA
• RSSSF Archives: All the matches of the Andorra national team from 1996 to 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Andorra against Portugal
3. ↑ https://www.transfermarkt.de/andorra_lettland/aufstellung/spielbericht/2994212