North Macedonian national football team

This article is about the North Macedonian men's national football team. For the women's team see here .

Republic of North Macedonia
Република Северна Македонија
Republika Severna Makedonija
Republika e Maqedonisë së Veriut

Association	Fudbalska Federacija na Makedonija
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Jako
Head coach	Igor Angelovski (since 2015)
captain	Goran Pandev
Record scorer	Goran Pandev (34)
Record player	Goran Pandev (108)
Home stadium	Toše Proeski Arena
FIFA code	MKD
FIFA rank	68th (1347 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
227 games 67 wins 57 draws 103 losses
statistics
First international match Slovenia 1-4 Macedonia ( Ljubljana , Slovenia ; October 13, 1993 )
Highest victory Liechtenstein 1:11 Macedonia ( Vaduz , Liechtenstein ; November 9, 1996 )
Biggest defeat Czech Republic 6: 1 Macedonia ( Teplice , Czech Republic ; June 8, 2005 )
(As of November 19, 2019)

The North Macedonian national soccer team is the national soccer team of North Macedonia . At international tournaments, the country, initially called the Republic of Macedonia, previously competed under the provisional name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , or FYR Macedonia for short , under which it was also listed in the FIFA world rankings . On February 12, 2019, the country's name change came into force.

World championships

• 1930 to 1990 - was part of Yugoslavia
• 1994 - did not participate
• 1998 to 2018 - not qualified

European championships

• 1960 to 1992 - was part of Yugoslavia
• 1996 to 2016 - not qualified

history

Previous logo until 2014

Until 1991 see Yugoslav national football team .

The Macedonian Football Association was founded in 1949 as part of the Yugoslav Football Association. After the country became independent, he joined both UEFA and FIFA in 1994 . Macedonia played their first competitive game as part of qualifying for the European Football Championship in 1996 on September 7, 1994 at home against European champions Denmark (1-1). There was only one win in this first qualifying round, as well as a respectable 1-1 in Belgium.

The Macedonians played their best qualifying round in qualifying for the 1998 World Cup . Here they played for a long time, thanks to a 3-2 win against the Republic of Ireland , for a long time, but then lost the last three games and thus only came fourth.

The Macedonians clearly missed the European Championship 2000 , but at least they won a draw against third place in the World Cup, Croatia .

Since then, the performance of the young football nation has fluctuated considerably. Respectable appearances and points wins against teams like Turkey , Holland or England contrast with embarrassing results against football dwarfs like Azerbaijan , Liechtenstein or Andorra .

So far it has not been enough to qualify for a major tournament. So far, there has not been more than fourth place in a qualifying group.

In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Macedonia faced Belgium , Croatia , Scotland , Serbia and Wales . After two wins, one draw and four defeats, Macedonia had no chance to qualify on September 6, 2013 with three games still to go.

In qualifying for the Euro 2016 , Macedonia faced Spain , Ukraine , Slovakia and Luxembourg, and for the first time Belarus . After just 7 games, Macedonia had no chance of a successful qualification. In the end, due to the direct comparison, the last place was occupied behind Luxembourg, against which the two games ended 3-2 and 0-1.

Trainer

• Andon Dončevski (1993–1995) - 17 games
• Gjoko Hadžievski (1995–1999) - 28 games
• Dragi Kanatlarovski (1999–2001) - 15 games
• Gjore Jovanovski (2001–2002) - 13 games
• Nikola Ilievski (2002–2003) - 13 games
• Dragi Kanatlarovski (2003–2005) - 16 games
• Slobodan Santrač (2005) - 4 games
• Boban Babunski (2005) - 3 games
• Srečko Katanec (2006–2009) - 27 games
• Mirsad Jonuz (2009–2011) - 21 games
• Boban Babunski (2011, interim) - 1 game
• John Toshack (2011-2012) - 8 games
• Goce Sedloski (2012) - 1 game
• Čedomir Janevski (2012-2013) - 14 games
• Zoran Stratev (2013, interim) - 2 games
• Đurovski Boško (2014–2015) - 11 games
• Ljubinko Drulović (2015) - 5 games
• Igor Angelovski (2015–)

Source: eu-football.info

player

Record player

(As of March 15, 2020)

Record player
Games	player	Period	Gates
108	Goran Pandev	2001 – active	34
100	Goce Sedloski	1996-2010	8th
84	Veliče Šumulikoski	2002-2013	1
72	Artim Shakiri	1996-2006	15th
70	Igor Mitresky	2001-2011	1
64	Nikolče Noveski	2004-2013	5
59	Petar Miloševski	1998-2009	0
58	Vanče Šikov	2005-2017	4th
56	Ivan Tričkovski	2010 – active	5
54	Aleksandar Trajkovski	2011 – active	15th

Record shooters
Gates	player	Period	Games
34	Goran Pandev	2001 – active	100
15th	Gjorgji Hristov	1996-2005	48
15th	Artim Shakiri	1996-2006	72
15th	Aleksandar Trajkovski	2011 – active	54
10	Goran Maznov	2001-2009	45
9	Ilčo Naumoski	2003-2012	46
8th	Saša Ćirić	1995-2004	26th
8th	Ilija Nestorovski	2015 – active	36
8th	Goce Sedloski	1996-2010	100
7th	Agim Ibraimi	2009-2016	39

• PLAYERS → played for Macedonia national team → ordered by appearances

See also

• List of internationals for the North Macedonian national football team
• North Macedonian women's national football team

Web links

Commons : North Macedonian National Soccer Team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the association
• Football in the Republic of North Macedonia - MacedonianFootball.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Managers of European national football teams ( English ) eu-football.info. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} rsssf.com: Macedonia - Record International Players