Greek national football team (U-21 men)

Greece

Nickname (s)

Ethniki Elpidon (Εθνική Ελπίδων)
('National Team of Hopes')

Association

Elliniki Podosferiki Omospondia

confederacy

UEFA

Head coach

Nicos Nioplias

captain

Grigorios Makos

Record scorer

-

Record player

Demis Nikolaidis (14)

FIFA code

GRE

home

Away

Balance sheet

136 games
59 wins
28 draws
49 losses

statistics

First international match
-

Biggest win
Greece 6-0 Luxembourg
( Greece ; 1993)

Biggest defeat
Hungary 7-0 Greece
( Hungary ; 1976)

Successes in tournaments

European Championship

Participation in the finals

4 ( first : 1988 )

Best results

Final 1988 , 1998

(As of September 2008)

The Greek national U-21 football team (September 5, 2011).

The Greek U-21 national soccer team is a selection team of Greek soccer players . It is subject to the Hellenic Football Federation and represents him on the U-21 level , in friendly matches against the national teams of other national associations, but also at the European Championships of the continental federation UEFA and the Football World Cup of FIFA . Players who have not yet reached the age of 21 and who are Greek citizens are eligible to play. In tournaments, the age at the first qualifying game is decisive.

European championships

The Greek U-21 selection has so far qualified four times for the finals of a European Championship. Her first participation was in 1988, where she was able to advance as an outsider to the final and there faced the U-21 team of France . After the first leg ended 0-0, the second leg was relatively clearly lost 3-0 from a Greek perspective. After they reached the quarter-finals in 1994 and met Spain there , the team had to be eliminated from the tournament after the first round of the final. Four years later, in 1998, both teams met again in this competition. This time, however, victory or defeat would decide the European championship title. A 1-0 win for Spain on May 31, 1998 also lost the second final. In 2002, the Hellenes were eliminated after the preliminary round. After only one point against the eventual European champions Czech Republic , the suitcases had to be packed early.

In qualifying for Euro 2009 , the Greeks were drawn into Group 1 with Italy , Croatia , Albania , Faroe Islands and Azerbaijan . Although Italy was the favorite for first place in this group, the Greeks wanted to qualify for the relegation games via second place. After a 4-1 win against Azerbaijan, a 2-3 defeat against the Croatians followed in the second game. After two more victories, the next opponent was Italy on October 16, 2007. The Greeks were able to wrest a 2-2 from the game and caused a small surprise. In the following game, a revenge against Croatia should follow. However, the team also lost this comparison with one goal difference (3: 4). In the second meeting with Italy, both teams did not get beyond a draw, so that participation in the European Championship for the Greeks was a long way off. In the end, only third place remained with 18 points from ten games.

Participation in U-21 European Championships

1978	not qualified
1980	not qualified
1982	not qualified
1984	not qualified
1986	not qualified
1988	final
1990	not qualified
1992	not qualified
1994 in France	Quarter finals
1996 in Spain	not qualified
1998 in Romania	final
2000 in Slovakia	not qualified
2002 in Switzerland	Preliminary round
2004 in Germany	not qualified
2006 in Portugal	not qualified
2007 in the Netherlands	not qualified
2009 in Sweden	not qualified
2011 in Denmark	not qualified
2013 in Israel	not qualified
2015 in the Czech Republic	not qualified
2017 in Poland	not qualified

Note : Between 1978 and 1992, the final round of a U-21 European Championship was not played in one country, but instead was played back and forth in the respective participating nations.

Current squad

Surname	society	Date of birth
goal
Stefanos Kapino	Greece Panathinaikos Athens	03/18/1994
Sokratis Dioudis	Greece Aris Thessaloniki	02/03/1993
Nikolaos Giannakopoulos	Greece Panionios Athens	02/19/1993
Defense
Ioannis Potouridis	Italy Novara Calcio	02/27/1992
Mavroudis Bougaidis	Greece Aris Thessaloniki	06/01/1993
Stelios Kitsou	Greece PAOK Thessaloniki	09/28/1993
Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos	Greece Panathinaikos Athens	04/03/1993
Alexandros Kouros	Greece Panionios Athens	08/21/1993
Nikolaos Marinakis	Greece Panathinaikos Athens	09/12/1993
Spyros Risvanis	Greece Panathinaikos Athens	03/01/1994
Dimitrios Goutas	Greece Olympiacos Piraeus	04/04/1994
midfield
Anastasios Lagos	Greece Panathinaikos Athens	04/12/1992
Dimitrios Kolovos	Greece Panionios Athens	04/27/1993
Dimitrios Kourbelis	Greece Asteras Tripoli	11/02/1993
Andreas Bouchalakis	Greece Ergotelis	04/05/1993
Manolis Siopis	Greece AO Platanias	05/14/1994
Spyros Fourlanos	Greece Kalloni	11/19/1993
attack
Apostolos Vellios	England Everton FC	01/08/1992
Nikolaos Karelis	Greece Panathinaikos Athens	02/24/1992
Charis Mavrias	England Sunderland AFC	02/21/1994
Dimitris Diamantakos	Germany Karlsruher SC	03/05/1993
Ioannis Gianniotas	Germany Fortuna Dusseldorf	04/29/1993

Former players

(Selection)

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