Liechtenstein national football team

Liechtenstein

Association	LFV
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Macron
Head coach	Helgi Kolviðsson (since 2019)
captain	Martin Büchel
Record scorer	Mario Frick (16)
Record player	Peter Jehle (132)
Home stadium	Rheinpark Stadium
FIFA code	LIE
FIFA rank	180. (926 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
197 games 15 wins 25 draws 157 defeats
statistics
First international match Liechtenstein 0: 1 Switzerland ( Balzers , Liechtenstein ; March 9, 1982 ) unofficial: Liechtenstein 1: 6 Malta ( Seoul , South Korea ; June 14, 1981 )
Biggest win Luxembourg 0-4 Liechtenstein ( Luxembourg , Luxembourg ; October 13, 2004 )
Biggest defeat Liechtenstein 1:11 Macedonia ( Eschen , Liechtenstein ; November 9, 1996 )
(As of November 18, 2019)

The Liechtenstein national football team is the selection team of the Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) and represents Liechtenstein on an international level. Liechtenstein has been regularly participating in the qualification for the European Championship and the World Championship since 1994, but has never been able to qualify.

The Rheinpark Stadium in Vaduz - home of the Liechtenstein national team

history

It only played its first international match counted by the association in 1982, although the Liechtenstein Football Association has been a member of FIFA and UEFA since 1974 . Four international matches against Malta, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, played in 1981 and not counted by the association, are now counted as internationals by FIFA.

Liechtenstein achieved their first victory on June 6, 1982 in Vaduz with a 2-0 win in a friendly against a club team from Beijing ( People's Republic of China ). The first victory in a competitive game came on October 14, 1998 against Azerbaijan (2-1) during the European Championship qualification.

Under Martin Andermatt , Liechtenstein achieved a 2-2 draw against Portugal in the 2006 World Cup qualification on October 9, 2004, which can be described as the greatest success for the Liechtenstein team to date. It was Liechtenstein's first point in a World Cup qualification. Four days later they achieved their first ever away win. They won 4-0 in qualifying for the World Cup in Luxembourg. Successes in 2005 were the 0-0 win against runners-up Slovakia and another convincing win against Luxembourg 3-0. In qualifying for the European Championship in 2008, a 1-0 win against Latvia on March 28, 2007 and a 3-0 win against Iceland on October 17, 2007 .

In 1999, 2004 and 2005 the national team was honored as Team of the Year at the athletes' meeting of the Liechtenstein Olympic Sports Association.

In the junior division, Liechtenstein was able to qualify for the U-16 European Football Championship in Scotland in 1998 , and it also took part in the U-19 European Football Championship in 2003 in its own country. In both cases, however, they lost all three preliminary round matches and were eliminated early. In 2010, the U-17 European Football Championship took place in Liechtenstein , but the association withdrew its automatically qualified selection from the tournament due to a lack of competitiveness.

In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil , Liechtenstein met Bosnia-Herzegovina , Greece , Lithuania , Latvia and Slovakia . There were two draws in the home games against Latvia and Slovakia (1: 1 each) and one goal each in the two games against the eventual group winners and World Cup participants Bosnia-Herzegovina. But this was only enough for last place in the group.

In qualifying for the Euro 2016 , Liechtenstein met Russia , Sweden and Austria and for the first time Moldova and Montenegro . Liechtenstein won in Moldova on November 15, 2014, and won one point each in the home games against Montenegro and Moldova. All other games were lost and in the end the penultimate place was taken. In the last qualifying game, Mario Frick became the first player to ever lose an international match for the 100th time.

Current squad

Most of the players in the Liechtenstein national football team currently play for clubs in Swiss leagues, especially the Challenge League and the 1st League Classic .

With over 200 games in the Swiss Super League and the Italian Serie A, Mario Frick is the biggest export hit in Liechtenstein football, although a few other players also made the leap abroad. In principle, almost all of the team's top performers were employed by at least one club each abroad, and in the last twenty years the team has changed from an amateur team to a professional team.

Since 2008 in particular, there has been a natural generation change in the squad, with the players from the early days of Liechtenstein professional football being replaced by a new generation of young players due to their age.

Players in the squad for the European Championship qualifiers against Greece and Italy on March 23 and 26, 2019.

Surname	Date of birth	society	International matches (as of October 15, 2019)	International goals (as of October 15, 2019)	debut	Last use
goalkeeper
Benjamin Büchel	07/04/1989	FC Vaduz	27	0	11/19/2008	October 15, 2019
Lorenzo Lo Russo	07/08/1993	FC Linth 04	00	0
Claudio Majer	03/23/1996	FC Vaduz	00	0
Defense
Daniel Brändle	01/23/1992	SV Pullach	25th	0	05/21/2014	09/08/2019
Fabian Eberle	07/27/1992	FC Konolfingen	07th	0	11/11/2011	November 19, 2018
Maximilian Göppel	08/31/1997	FC Vaduz	27	1	06/06/2016	October 15, 2019
Jens Hofer	10/01/1997	FC Vaduz	06th	0	November 19, 2018	October 15, 2019
Daniel Kaufmann	12/22/1990	FC Balzers	57	1	11/17/2010	October 15, 2019
Andreas Malin	January 31, 1994	FC Dornbirn 1913	17th	0	06/06/2016	October 12, 2019
Martin Rechsteiner	02/15/1989	FC Balzers	45	0	03/26/2008	October 15, 2019
Sandro Wieser	02/03/1993	FC Vaduz	53	2	08/11/2010	09/08/2019
midfield
Martin Büchel	02/19/1987	FC Red Star Zurich	80	2	06/06/2004	October 15, 2019
Noah Frommelt	12/16/2000	FC Balzers	00	0
Nicolas Hasler	05/04/1991	FC Thun	65	3	08/11/2010	October 15, 2019
Livio Meier	01/10/1998	UPS Eschen-Mauren	11	0	December 14, 2017	October 12, 2019
Michele Polverino	09/26/1984	FC Balzers	77	6th	06/02/2007	October 15, 2019
Aron Sele	09/02/1996	FC Vaduz	18th	0	06/06/2016	October 12, 2019
Noah Frick	10/16/2001	FC Vaduz	02	0	03/23/2019	October 15, 2019
Sandro Wolfinger	08/24/1994	UPS Eschen-Mauren	30th	2	11/19/2013	October 15, 2019
Seyhan Yildiz	04/30/1989	FC Balzers	35	1	02/06/2013	October 15, 2019
Robin Gubser	04/17/1991	UPS Eschen-Mauren	36	1	06/04/2013	October 15, 2019
Storm
Philippe Erne	12/14/1986	FC Balzers	35	1	11/14/2009	11/16/2018
Yanik Frick	05/27/1998	FC Rapperswil-Jona	09	1	10/06/2016	October 15, 2019
Ridvan Kardesoglu	10/12/1996	UPS Eschen-Mauren	00	0
Dennis Salanović	02/26/1996	FC Thun	39	4th	09/04/2014	October 15, 2019

Source: Liechtenstein Football Association

Record holder

For a complete list of all players in the Liechtenstein national team, see the list of Liechtenstein national football players .

Record player

On June 11, 2017, Peter Jehle replaced the long-time record holder Mario Frick with his 126th international match .

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period
01.	Peter Jehle	132	00	goal	1998-2018
02.	Mario Frick	125	16	attack	1993-2015
03.	Martin Stocklasa	113	05	Defense	1996-2014
04th	Franz Burgmeier	112	09	midfield	2001-2018
05.	Thomas Beck	092	05	attack	1998-2013
06th	Martin Büchel	082	02	midfield	2004–
07th	Michele Polverino	079	06th	midfield	2007-
08th.	Daniel Hasler	078	01	Defense	1993-2007
09.	Martin Telser	073	01	Defense / midfield	1996-2007
10.	Ronny Büchel	072	00	midfield	1998-2010
11.	Michael Stocklasa	071	02	Defense	1998-2012
12.	Nicolas Hasler	067	03	midfield	2010–

As of November 18, 2019

Record goal scorers

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Period
01.	Mario Frick	16	125	1993-2015
02.	Franz Burgmeier	09	112	2001-2018
03.	Michele Polverino	06th	079	2007–
04th	Thomas Beck	05	092	1998-2013
0	Martin Stocklasa	05	113	1996-2014
06th	Dennis Salanović	04th	041	2014–

As of November 18, 2019

Trainer

• Hans Müntener (1982)
• Pius Fischer (1984)
• Erich Bürzle (1990, 1998)
• Dietrich Weise (1990–1996)
• Alfred Riedl (1997–1998)
• Ralf Loose (1998-2003)
• Walter Hörmann (2003-2004)
• Martin Andermatt (2004-2006)
• Urs Meier (2006)
• Hans-Peter Zaugg (2007–2012)
• René Pauritsch (2012-2018)
• Helgi Kolviðsson (2019–)

Balance sheet

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

Status: October 2019

Against Germany

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	June 4th 1996	Mannheim	Germany	9: 1	Liechtenstein
2.	June 7, 2000	Freiburg in Breisgau	Germany	8: 2	Liechtenstein
3.	September 6, 2008	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	0: 6	Germany
4th	March 28, 2009	Leipzig	Germany	4-0	Liechtenstein

Against Austria

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	June 7, 1984	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	0: 6	Austria
2.	September 7, 1994	Ash trees	Liechtenstein	0: 4	Austria
3.	April 26, 1995	Salzburg	Austria	7-0	Liechtenstein
4th	June 2, 1998	Vienna	Austria	6-0	Liechtenstein
5.	October 7, 2000	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	0: 1	Austria
6th	April 25, 2001	innsbruck	Austria	2-0	Liechtenstein
7th	October 6, 2006	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	1: 2	Austria
8th.	March 27, 2015	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	0: 5	Austria
9.	October 12, 2015	Vienna	Austria	3-0	Liechtenstein

Against Switzerland

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	March 9, 1982	Balzers	Liechtenstein	0: 1	Switzerland
2.	March 12, 1991	Balzers	Liechtenstein	0: 6	Switzerland
3.	May 27, 1994	Basel	Switzerland	2-0	Liechtenstein
4th	June 6, 2004	Zurich	Switzerland	1-0	Liechtenstein
5.	August 16, 2006	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	0: 3	Switzerland
6th	May 30, 2008	St. Gallen	Switzerland	3-0	Liechtenstein
7th	August 10, 2011	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	1: 2	Switzerland
8th.	June 10, 2015	Tuna	Switzerland	3-0	Liechtenstein

Against Luxembourg

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	April 17, 2002	Hesperange	Luxembourg	3: 3	Liechtenstein
2.	October 13, 2004	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0: 4	Liechtenstein
3.	September 7, 2005	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	3-0	Luxembourg

World championships

• 1930 to 1994 - did not participate
• 1998 to 2018 - not qualified

European championships

• 1960 to 1992 - did not participate
• 1996 to 2021 - not qualified

See also

• Football in Liechtenstein
• Liechtenstein national football team (U-17 juniors)
• Liechtenstein national football team (U-21 men)

Web links

Commons : Liechtenstein national football team  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Liechtenstein Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ^ Liechtenstein: Games and results. In: FIFA.com. Retrieved August 22, 2012 . 
3. ↑ uefa.com: Liechtenstein throws in the towel , March 5, 2010.
4. ↑ national team . Liechtenstein Football Association. Retrieved November 2, 2019.