This 2018 year ends successfully for Macedonia. With no changes since the last two rankings, Macedonia will enter 2019 as the 68th best national team in the world. The inactive period brought only few changes on the FIFA ranking list but none affected Macedonia. The Lynx kept the same points from November and stayed on
The U21 national team players that are on training camp played a friendly match between themselves in which the Red team celebrated a come from behind win thanks to a brace by Enis Fazlagikj. photo: view at the Dojran Lake Head coach Dobrinko Ilievski is currently at the shores of the Dojran Lake with 25
Stefan Ristovski got back playing for Sporting after the injury, keeper Dejan Iliev was Arsenal’s second keeper as the Europa League group stage ended with four Macedonians advancing into the knockout stage. photo by UEFA: Boban Nikolov (R) chases Callum Hudson-Odoi UEFA Europa League Group A, AEK – Bayer Leverkusen 1:5 Ivan Trichkovski started the
After failing to reach the Elite round, now the next generations of U19 and U17 national teams will have a try after learning their opponents for the next qualifiers. photo by UEFA: moment of the U19 draw Both national teams entered the draw from Pot 3 of the four pots. The Macedonian U19 national team
Macedonian football has been rising in recent times. The rise has been necessitated by different factors including massive investment into club football by the sponsors, development of more robust youth academies, and the exposure of Macedonian players to other big European clubs. The rise of Macedonian football has had a ripple effect on football clubs
The two UEFA Nations League wins over Liechtenstein and Gibraltar did not affect the newest ranking list due to the bad ranking of both our opponents so Macedonia stayed at the same place as last month. Macedonia defeated Liechtenstein away with 2:0 and than recorded a 4:0 win over Gibraltar at home. However, because of
Kosovo will the opponent that Macedonia will have to eliminate in order to reach the final of the play-off for winning a place at the 2020 EURO. photo by Le Matin: the Kosovo players celebrate a goal in the Nations League After an exiting end of the UEFA Nations League League D group stage matches,
Macedonia recorded the necessary win over Luxembourg but failed to reach the Elite Round as Croatia won a point against Czechia by scoring a very late equalizer. photo: Luxembourg takes a throw in during the first half The snow on the field made the playing conditions difficult for both sides. Also, a red ball had
In the first friendly in Montenegro the young Lions lost to Serbia by a lone goal in a match that saw three expulsions. photo by FSS: moment of the match The new generation who will take part in the next U21 qualifications (for players born in 1998 and later) had it’s first friendly. The game
The Macedonian U18 national team was defeated away to Serbia on a two friendly matches played in the past several days. photo by FSS: both teams stand up to the Macedonian anthem The first match was played in Surdulica on 15th November. In an interesting match, Serbia had the control during the match and took
