Poland, Austria, Israel, Slovenia and Latvia are the opponents that Macedonia will face in the qualifications for the 2020 EURO. photo by UEFA: the stage before the draw On the draw ceremony in Irish capital city of Dublin Macedonia was drawn in Group G in the second part of groups that feature six teams. That
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
Macedonia did not move nor up nor down, even stayed on the same amount of points in the newest ranking list of FIFA. It was expected for Macedonia to lose points and maybe slip a place or two because of the heavy defeat away in Armenia in the Nations League. But the 4:0 humiliation did
Macedonia moved up two places gaining 8 points since the previous rankings. That is thanks to the wins over Gibraltar and Armenia in the Nations League. The small amount of points since the August ranking is due to the wins over national teams that have worse ranking than us with Gibraltar being even one of
Macedonia opened the Nations League campaign with an expected win over Gibraltar away thanks to the goals by Ivan Trichkovski and Ezgjan Alioski. photo: moment of the match The match started with most of the 22 players in Gibraltar’s half. This seemed like the hosts will take on a defensive approach. However, the opening 15
FIFA introduced a new formula for calculating the points that brought significantly more points to all national teams. Macedonia now shares the 70th place with Saudi Arabia. As you can see by the rankings below, Macedonia jumped one place but has trice more points than the last rankings. That is thanks to the new formula
The Macedonian national team did not play any matches but still recorded increase in points which resulted into moving up six places on the newest FIFA world ranking list for June. In this pre-World Cup period when all national teams play friendly matches, Macedonia was inactive. The football federation failed to find an opponent after
No changes for the Macedonian national team on the FIFA world ranking list for May. Same place, same points during this inactive period. As only seven international games were played since the previous rankings, there are only minor changes at the table. Macedonia did not play any games nor was affected by other teams’ games.
The two draws in the friendly matches against Finland and Azerbaijan sent Macedonia two places down to find itself on the 77th spot on the newest FIFA world ranking list. We expected a bigger drop having in mind that Macedonia played a draw against the similar ranked team of Finland and far worse ranked Azerbaijan,
Four Macedonian national teams will play a total of 10 games in just 7 days starting from tomorrow. The U17s and U19s will play the final qualifying round for the EURO, the U21s will have two qualifying matches, while the senior team will match Finland and Azerbaijan in friendlies. photo: the seniors celebrate a goal