Luxembourg national football team

This article deals with the Luxembourg men's national football team . For the women's team, see Luxembourg women's national football team .

Luxembourg
Lëtzebuerg

Nickname (s)	The red lions
Association	Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Macron
Head coach	Luc Holtz (since 2010)
Assistant coach	Emmanuel Leblond
captain	Laurent Jans
Record scorer	Léon Mart (16)
Record player	Mario Mutsch (101)
Home stadium	Josy Barthel Stadium
FIFA code	LUX
FIFA rank	98th (1236 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
405 games 40 wins 48 draws 317 losses
statistics
First international game Luxembourg 1: 4 France ( Luxembourg City , Luxembourg ; October 29, 1911 )
Biggest win Luxembourg 6-0 Afghanistan ( Brighton , England ; July 26, 1948 )
Biggest defeats German Empire 9: 0 Luxembourg ( Berlin , Germany ; August 4, 1936 ) Luxembourg 0: 9 England ( Luxembourg City , Luxembourg ; October 19, 1960 ) England 9: 0 Luxembourg ( London , England ; December 15, 1982 )
(As of July 15, 2020)

The Luxembourg national football team was founded in 1908 and joined the world football association FIFA in 1910 . The team is organized by the Fédération Luxembourgeoise du Football (FLF) and has been coached by Luc Holtz since 2010 .

In the FIFA world rankings, the team is currently 98th (as of June 11, 2020).

Football is the most popular sport in Luxembourg . The most famous former players of the Luxembourg national team are Vic Nurenberg , Nico Braun , Louis Pilot , François Konter , Armin Krings , Guy Hellers , Jeff Strasser and Jeff Saibene .

history

Luxembourg have never been able to qualify for a European or World Cup. In qualifying for the European Championship in 1964 , Luxembourg just failed to make it to the semi-finals. After defeating the Netherlands, they faced Denmark in the quarter-finals. The first two games ended in a draw. Only in the third game could Denmark prevail with a 1-0 victory. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship , the national team did not manage to win or score a single goal. Even in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , Luxembourg remained pointless despite scoring five goals. The lowest points in history were the years 1980 to 1985, in which the country's selection suffered 35 defeats in a row, and October 13, 2004. On this day, Luxembourg lost the home game against Liechtenstein 0: 4 in the 2006 World Cup qualification . In return, narrow defeats against major football nations could be celebrated like victories. For example, in 1990 the team lost 3-2 to Germany in qualifying for the European Championship, and 0-1 to the Netherlands in 2007 . The Czech Republic was defeated 1-0 in 1995 with a goal from Guy Hellers . On 13 October 2007, the team succeeded in Homel the 1: 0 win against Belarus after more than twelve years back a victory in a European Championship qualifier (updated on September 6, 1995 against Malta ). Fons Leweck scored the goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time. The Luxembourg national team achieved a sensation with the 2-1 victory on September 10, 2008 in the World Cup qualifier in Zurich against the highly-favored Swiss national team. On June 4, 2014, the national team succeeded in another surprise when they scored 1-1 in a friendly against Italy in Perugia .

In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , Luxembourg met Azerbaijan , Israel , Northern Ireland , Portugal and Russia . Luxembourg had never played against Northern Ireland before. Except for a win on October 8, 1961 against Portugal in qualifying for the 1962 World Cup , Luxembourg had not yet won a game against any of these teams. With two draws against Azerbaijan and one win and one draw against Northern Ireland, Luxembourg was able to achieve the best result in a World Cup qualification since the introduction of the three-point rule with 6 points. However, it was not enough for a place in the World Cup finals or the playoffs. In qualifying for the 2016 European Championship in France , Luxembourg met Belarus, Macedonia , Spain , Ukraine and Slovakia . With one win and one draw you could win four points and finished second to last in the table, tied with Macedonia.

In the preliminary rounds for the 2018 World Cup in Russia , Luxembourg met Bulgaria , Sweden , Belarus, the Netherlands and runner-up European champions France and won with six points (one win against Belarus and three draws, including a 0-0 away game against France) Penultimate of the group. The national soccer team climbed into the top 100 of the FIFA world rankings (84th place) and thus achieved their best world ranking to date.

In the newly founded UEFA Nations League 2018/19 , they celebrated two wins against Moldova (4: 0) and San Marino (3: 0) in Liga D - Group 2 . In the end, it was only enough to place 2nd in the group behind Belarus .

Reinhold Breu from Germany has held the position of Technical Director of the Luxembourg Football Association since 2011 and is therefore also responsible for the association's talent development program and for training coaches. Under Breu's leadership, youth training was centralized along the lines of the French model; the youth players completed their training during the week in the youth national teams and only stayed at their clubs on weekends. In addition, many young players moved to foreign clubs. Influences from the Spanish youth training and from coaches such as Antonio Conte , Diego Simeone and Pep Guardiola also flow into the training at the academy of the Luxembourg Football Association in Monnerich .

The Luxembourg U15 national team has defeated Turkey (4: 1) and Belgium (4: 2) since Breus took up his post as Technical Director (as of March 25, 2019); The Luxembourg U18 also managed to beat their neighbor from Belgium, with Breu acting as coach.

So far, the selection has been voted Luxembourg Team of the Year twelve times : 1963, 1980, continuously from 1987 to 1991, 1995, 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2017.

Current squad

(As of August 25, 2020)

No.	Surname	society	Date of birth	Calls	Gates
goal
1	Anthony Moris	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	Apr 29, 1990	27	0
12	Ralph Already	FC Wiltz 71	Jan. 20, 1990	11	0
23	Tim Kips	F91 Dudelange	0Nov 1, 2000	0	0
Defense
8th	Marvin Martins	without a club	Feb 17, 1995	7th	1
4th	Kevin Malget	Swift Hesperange	Jan 15, 1991	34	2
6th	Chris Philipps	Lommel SK	0March 8 1994	54	0
3	Tim Hall	Gil Vicente FC	Apr 15, 1997	3	0
13	Dirk Carlson	Karlsruher SC	0Apr 1, 1998	23	0
18th	Laurent Jans	FC Metz	0Aug 5, 1992	63	1
	Mathias Jänisch	Progres Niederkorn	Aug 27, 1990	58	1
	Maxime Chanot	New York City FC	Nov 21, 1989	38	3
	Enes Mahmutovic	FK Lviv	May 22, 1997	11	0
5	Vahid Selimovic	OFI Crete	0Apr 3, 1997	2	1
midfield
	Christopher Martins Pereira	BSC Young Boys	Feb 19, 1997	38	1
10	Vincent Thill	FC Metz	0Feb. 4, 2000	29	3
11	Florian Bohnert	1. FSV Mainz 05 II	0Nov 9, 1997	16	1
15th	Olivier Thill	FK Ufa	Dec 17, 1996	22nd	2
2	Aldin Skenderovic	Progres Niederkorn	June 28, 1997	13	0
	Kevin Holtz	Progres Niederkorn	06th Mar 1993	1	0
7th	Lars Gerson	IFK Norrköping	0Feb 5, 1990	74	4th
16	Leandro Barreiro Martins	1. FSV Mainz 05	0Jan. 3, 2000	16	1
17th	Gerson Rodrigues	Dynamo Kiev	June 20, 1995	24	3
attack
9	Daniel da Mota	RFC Union Luxembourg	Sep 11 1985	98	7th
14th	Danel Sinani	Norwich City	0Apr 5, 1997	21st	3
20th	David Turpel	Swift Hesperange	Oct 19, 1992	51	6th
22nd	Aurélien Joachim	FC Differdange 03	Aug 10, 1986	79	14th
21st	Maurice Deville	1. FC Saarbrücken	July 31, 1992	41	3
	Stefano Bensi	CS Fola Esch	Aug 11, 1988	49	5
19th	Mathias Olesen	1. FC Cologne II	21 Mar 2001	0	0

(Players without numbers are injured or were not recently nominated.)

Trainer

• Paul Feierstein (1933–1948)
• Jean-Pierre Hoscheid & Albert Reuter (1948–1949)
• Adolf Patek (1949–1953)
• Bela Volentik (1953–1955)
• Eduard Havlicek (1955)
• Nandor Lengyel (1955-1959)
• Pierre Sinibaldi (1959-1960)
• Robert Heinz (1960–1969)
• Ernst Melchior (1969–1972)
• Gilbert Legrand (1972-1977)
• Arthu Schoos (1978)
• Louis Pilot (1978-1984)
• Jeff Vliers (1984)
• Josy Churches (1985)
• Paul Philipp (1985-2001)
• Allan Simonsen (2002-2004)
• Guy Hellers (2005-2010)
• Luc Holtz (2010-present)

Record player

As of July 15, 2020

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period	Record holder
01.	Mario Mutsch	101	04th	midfield	2005-2019	since September 11, 2018
02.	Jeff Strasser	098	07th	Defense	1993-2010	March 28, 2009 to September 11, 2018 (89 to 98 games)
	Daniel da Mota	098	07th	attack	2007−0000
04th	René Peters	093	04th	midfield	2000-2013
05.	Jonathan Joubert	090	00	goalkeeper	2006-2017
06th	Eric Hoffmann	089	00	Defense	2002-2014
07th	Carlo Weis	088	01	midfield	1978-1998	October 11, 1995 to March 28, 2009 (78 to 88 games)
08th.	Aurélien Joachim	079	14th	attack	2005−0000
09.	François counterattack	000077	00004th	Defense	1955-1969	November 26, 1966 to October 11, 1995 (58 to 77 games)
10.	Lars Gerson	074	04th	Defense	2008–0000
11.	Robert Langers	073	08th	midfield	1980-1998
	Ben Payal	073	00	midfield	2006-2016
13.	Manuel Cardoni	069	05	midfield	1993-2004
Remarks: ↑ Thereof 48 games against B or amateur teams ↑ All goals against B or amateur teams.

Record goal scorers

The best Luxembourg scorers scored their goals against mostly B and amateur teams. The best players who only scored against senior national teams are Aurélien Joachim , Robert Langers , Jeff Strasser and Daniel Da Mota .

As of July 15, 2020

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period
01.	Léon Mart	00016	00024	0.67	1939-1945
02.	Gustave Kemp	00015th	00021st	0.71	1936-1945
03.	Nicolas Kettel	00015th	00057	0.26	1946-1959
04th	Aurélien Joachim	14th	77	0.18	2005−0000
05.	Camille Libar	00013	00024	0.54	1937-1950
06th	François Muller	00012	00029	0.41	1949-1955
07th	Jules Gales	00011	00026th	0.42	1948-1952
08th.	Léon Letsch	00010	00053	0.19	1947-1961
...
12.	Robert Langers	08th	73	0.11	1980-1998
...
15th	Jeff Strasser	07th	98	0.07	1993-2010
	Daniel Da Mota	07th	98	0.07	2007–0000
Remarks: ↑ 11 goals against B teams. ^ Including 15 games against B teams ↑ 8 goals against B teams. ↑ 12 of these games against B teams ↑ 14 goals against B or amateur teams. ↑ Thereof 40 games against B or amateur teams ^ Including 10 goals against B teams. ↑ Including 16 games against B teams ^ Including 9 goals against B or amateur teams. ↑ Thereof 23 games against B or amateur teams ↑ Including 10 goals against B or amateur teams. ↑ Thereof 21 games against B or amateur teams ↑ 8 goals against B or amateur teams. ↑ Thereof 42 games against B or amateur teams

Sources: Luxembourg - Record International Players, PLAYERS for Luxembourg

International match records

Luxembourg has the following records against other national teams (at least ten games; as of July 15, 2020).

country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Goal difference	Important encounters
Belgium	18th	1	3	14th	12:60	-48	Round of 16 of the 1928 Olympic Games, World Cup qualification 1938, 1990, European Championship qualification 1968, 1988, 1992
Bulgaria	14th	0	1	13	9:39	-30	World Cup qualification 1970, 1986, 1998, 2018 European Championship qualification 1988, 2000, 2008
Denmark	10	0	2	08th	8:29	-21	EM quarter-finals 1964, World Cup qualification 1982, EM qualification 1984, 2004
Germany	13	1	0	12	11:60	-49	World Cup qualification 1934, round of 16 of the 1936 Summer Olympics, European Championship qualification 1992
France	18th	1	2	16	12:71	-59	World Cup qualification 1934, 1954, 1966, 1986, 2018 European Championship qualification 1968, 1980, 2012
Netherlands	18th	2	1	15th	14:67	-48	Round of 16 of the 1920 Summer Olympics, World Cup qualification in 1938, 1958, 1970, 2018, round of 16 in 1964, qualification in 1972, 1996, 2008
Norway	11	2	1	08th	9:24	-15	World Cup qualification 1966, European Championship qualification 1996, 2004
Portugal	17th	1	1	15th	7:51	-39	World Cup qualification 1962, 1990, 2006, 2014, European Championship qualification 2020
Russia	10	0	0	10	3:35	-32	World Cup qualification 1998, 2002, 2006, 2014
Switzerland	12	1	1	10	9:30	-21	World Cup qualification 1950, 1974, 1990, 2002, 2010
Hungary	12	2	0	10	14:49	-35	World Cup qualification 1994, European Championship qualification 1976, 1984
Belarus	12	2	4th	06th	5:12	–7	World Cup qualification 2018, European Championship qualification 1996, 2008, 2012, 2016, Nations League 2018

Participation of Luxembourg in soccer world championships

• 1930 - did not participate
• 1934 to 2018 - not qualified

Participation of Luxembourg in the European football championships

• 1960 - did not participate
• 1964 to 2021 - did not qualify

Participation of Luxembourg in the Olympic Games open to senior national teams

The Luxembourg national football team at the 1920 Olympic football tournament

1908 in London	not participated
1912 in Stockholm	not participated
1920 in Antwerp	Round of 16
1924 in Paris	Round of 16
1928 in Amsterdam	Round of 16
1936 in Berlin	Round of 16
1948 in London	Round of 16

See also

• List of international matches for the Luxembourg national football team
• Luxembourg national football team (U-17 juniors)

Web links

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

• Official homepage of the association
• All games of the Luxembourg national team since 1911
• Player with the most stakes and the most goals in the statistics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ^ "Luxembourg defeated Belarus 1-0" ( Memento from December 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Luxemburger Wort (online version) from October 13, 2007.
3. ↑ Technical Director Breu on flf.lu
4. ^ ^{A b} Revolution in Luxemburg: Much more than just a dwarf uprising
5. ^ Squad of Luxembourg. transfermarkt.de, accessed on August 30, 2019 . 
6. ^ Luxembourg - Record International Players. RSSSF , accessed June 15, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Luxembourg national football team individual records and stats. In: eu-football.info. Retrieved June 15, 2019 . 
8. ↑ The game of March 1, 2006 was canceled due to snowfall when the score was 0: 2 and is not included in the balance sheet