Manager Boban Babunski has called up 24 players for the upcoming qualifiers against Azerbaijan and Norway.

Filip Pivkovski, whose agent announced that he has accepted an invitation to play for the Macedonia U21 national team, was still not given clearance to play, so he was not among the 24 players called up.  Instead, Babunski will rely on the return of players such as Stefan Ristovski, Ezgjan Alioski, David Babunski and Aleksandar Trajkovski, among others, to get positive results from the two November qualifiers.  Those four players all return to the U21 team from the senior national team, who did not schedule a friendly for November.

Half of the 24 players are based from the domestic league, with Rabotnichki leading the way with four of their players on the squad.

Stole Dimitrievski – Granada
Dejan Iliev – Arsenal youth team
Andreja Efremov – Metalurg

Stefan Ristovski – Latina
Kristijan Toshevski – Teteks
Ezgjan Alioski – Schaffhausen
Stefan Ashkovski – Donji Srem
Dino Najdoski – Rabotnichki
Gjoko Zajkov – Rabotnichki
Hristijan Dragarski – Pelister
Leonard Zhuta – Häcken
Visar Musliu – Renova

David Babunski – Barcelona B
Darko Micevski – OFK Beograd
Kire Markoski – Rabotnichki
Boban Nikolov – Viitorul
Martin Blazhevski – Vardar
Darko Velkovski – Rabotnichki

Aleksandar Trajkovski – Mechelen
Marjan Radeski – Metalurg
Besmir Bojku – Makedonija Gjorche Petrov
Dorian Babunski – Real Madrid youth team
Filip Naumchevski – Horizont Turnovo

Macedonia U21 will first face their counterparts from Azerbaijan on 15 November and then square off against Norway four days later on 19 November.  Both games will be played at the Phillip II Arena in Skopje.  Macedonia U21 has already played these two opponents on the road in this qualifying cycle, drawing 0:0 away to Azerbaijan and losing 1:2 in Norway.