Controlled by: Football Federation of Macedonia (FFM)
Founded:
UEFA affiliation: 28.04.1994
FIFA affiliation: 16.06.1994
Nickname: Lynx
Last update: 18.11.2024
Total number of matches played: 290 (3 of them (friendlies) ruled out by FIFA)
– Friendlies: 113
– European Qualifiers: 80
– World Cup Qualifiers: 70
– Nations League: 24
– European Championship: 3
Games won: 92
– Friendlies: 39
– European Qualifiers: 20
– World Cup Qualifiers: 19
– Nations League: 14
– European Championship: 0
Games drawn: 72
– Friendlies: 34
– European Qualifiers: 19
– World Cup Qualifiers: 14
– Nations League: 5
– European Championship: 0
Games lost: 126
– Friendlies: 40
– European Qualifiers: 41
– World Cup Qualifiers: 37
– Nations League: 5
– European Championship: 3
Total goal-difference: 350:390
– Friendlies: 129:122
– European Qualifiers: 84:124
– World Cup Qualifiers: 95:115
– Nations League: 40:21
– European Championship: 2:8
Total number of players used: 294
– among which goalkeepers: 25
Total number of players that scored a goal: 86
Total number of players that converted a penalty: 15
Total number of coaches used: 18
– of which as caretaker: 5
– of which foreign: 4
Total number of opponents faced: 66
– of Europe: 49
– of Asia: 9*
– of Africa: 4
– of North America: 3
– of South America: 1
– of Oceania: 0*
* when Macedonia faced Australia in 1998 in a friendly, Australia was a member of OFC but since 2006 they moved to AFC.
Youngest players:
– Darko Churlinov (16 years, 8 months, 17 days against Belarus)
– Goran Pandev (17 years, 4 months, 27 days against Asturias*)
– Tauljant Sulejmanov (17 years, 6 months, 11 days against Cameroon)
– Mile Krstev (17 years, 6 months, 14 days against Malta)
– Elif Elmas (17 years, 8 months, 15 days against Spain)
– Goran Pandev (17 years, 10 months, 10 days against Turkey)
*unofficial match
Youngest scorers:
– Goran Pandev (19 years, 1 month, 25 days against Malta)
– Elif Elmas (19 years, 5 months, 25 days against Latvia)
– Vlatko Grozdanoski (19 years, 8 months, 13 days against Turkey)
Biggest wins:
– 11:1 vs. Liechtenstein (match report)
– 5:0 vs. Malta (match report)
– 5:0 vs. Liechtenstein (match report)
– 5:0 vs. Armenia (match report)
– 5:1 vs. Albania (match report)
– 4:0 vs. Malta (match report)
– 4:0 vs. Liechtenstein (match report & match report)
– 4:0 vs. Gibraltar (match report & match report)
Biggest upsets:
– 1:0 vs. Italy (match report) reigning EURO 2020 champions
– 2:1 vs. Germany (match report)
– 2:0 vs. Croatia (match report)
– 2:2 vs. England (match report)
– 2:2 vs. Netherlands (match report)
– 3:2 vs. Ireland (match report)
– 1:1 vs. Denmark (match report) reigning EURO 1992 champions
Biggest defeats:
– 0:7 vs. England (match report)
– 1:6 vs. Czechia (match report)
– 0:5 vs. Belgium (match report)
– 0:5 vs. Slovakia (match report)
– 0:5 vs. Hungary (match report)
– 1:5 vs. Finland (match report)
– 1:5 vs. Serbia (match report)
– 1:5 vs. Spain (match report)
– 0:4 vs. Netherlands (match report)
– 0:4 vs. Spain (match report)
– 0:4 vs. Armenia (match report)
– 0:4 vs. Germany (match report)
Highest scoring games:
– 12 goals at Liechtenstein – Macedonia 1:11 (match report)
– 8 goals at Bosnia-Herzegovina – Macedonia 4:4 (match report)
– 7 goals at Czechia – Macedonia 6:1 (match report), England – Macedonia 7:0 (match report), Italy – Macedonia 5:2 (match report)
– 6 goals at Macedonia – Albania 5:1 (match report), Turkey – Macedonia 3:3 (match report), Finland – Macedonia 5:1 (match report), Serbia – Macedonia 5:1 (match report), Spain – Macedonia 5:1 (match report), Estonia – Macedonia 3:3 (match report)