Irish National Football Team (U-21 Men)

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Ireland
Association Football Association of Ireland
confederacy UEFA
Technical sponsor UMBRO
Head coach vacant
captain Jayson Molumby
Record scorer Robbie Brady (7)
Record player Alan Mahon
FIFA code IRL
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statistics
First international
Ireland 1-1 Northern Ireland
( Dublin , Ireland ; 9 March 1978)
Biggest win
Ireland 5-0 Estonia
(Tallaght Stadium, Dublin; 10 Aug 2010)
Biggest defeat
Germany 8-0 Ireland
( Baunatal , Germany ; March 23, 1993)
(As of October 2019)

The Irish National Under-21 Football Team is a national team of Irish football players . It is subject to the Football Association of Ireland and represents them at the U-21 level , in friendly matches against the national teams of other national associations, but also at the European Championship of the continental association UEFA . Eligible to play are players who are under the age of 21 and who are Irish citizens . In tournaments, the age at the first qualifying game is decisive.

history

Ireland's U-21s have not yet qualified for any UEFA-hosted tournament.

In qualifying for the 2006 European Championship , the team had to deal with France , Switzerland , Israel and Cyprus in qualifying round 3 . Five points were scored with a goal difference of 10:14. The team ended up in fourth or penultimate place, ahead of Cyprus. Against the southern Europeans one game was won and one was drawn. Another draw won the team against the Israeli selection. Against group winners France, the Irish narrowly missed two successes with a 0: 1 and a 1: 2 defeat.

Since the next European championship was to take place in 2007 after the EM 2006 , and not every two years as usual, this qualification was played out in a fast-track process. Starting with a preliminary round, over a short group stage with three teams and the play-off games. In a preliminary round for, according to statistics, worse teams, the Irish had to qualify for the short group stage. On May 11th and 18th, 2006 the team faced the team from Azerbaijan . While the first leg could only be won 2-1, the team won 3-0 on home soil and moved into the group stage. The teams from Greece and Belgium were drawn to them. There was only one game against each team, so the teams each had to play once away and once had home rights. In their first game, the island footballers won against Greece 2-0 and took the first step towards the play-offs. However, the second game was lost 1-0 to Belgium, so the Irish had to hope for help from the Greeks on the last day of the match. But there too, the Belgians prevailed and placed first in group four.

In the qualification for the European Championship 2009 the U-21 juniors of Ireland had to deal with the teams from England , Portugal , Montenegro and Bulgaria . Out of eight games, only one win and two draws succeeded. Five games were lost with a goal difference of 4:14. The only success came on November 20, 2007 against the Bulgarian team, when the Irish won 1-0 thanks to a goal from John Joe O'Toole in stoppage time in the 90th minute. On the last day of the match, they beat Portugal 2-2. Scored twice for the Green-Whites was Owen Garvan . Most of the other games were just lost. The biggest defeat was with 0: 3 against England.

Participation in U-21 European Championships

1978 not qualified
1980 not qualified
1982 not qualified
1984 not qualified
1986 not qualified
1988 not qualified
1990 not qualified
1992 not qualified
1994 in France not qualified
1996 in Spain not qualified
1998 in Romania not qualified
2000 in Slovakia not qualified
2002 in Switzerland not qualified
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
2019 in Italy / San Marino not qualified

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

Trainer

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Former and well-known players

selection

See also

Web links

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  1. ^ Republic of Ireland 1 - 0 Bulgaria on uefa.com
  2. ↑ Portugal 2 - 2 Republic of Ireland on uefa.com