Macedonia will play only one friendly match before going to the European Championship this June.

photo by FFM: the Macedonian team in October for the Kosovo play-off

Head coach Igor Angelovski today revealed the plan for the preparations prior to the EURO. The Macedonian team will gather on May 25 and will be training and preparing in Skopje until June 8 when they will head to Bucharest, the host city of our opening two matches. In-between, on May 29, Slovenia will visit Skopje for a friendly.

“Slovenia is an opponent that according to me is quite similar in quality to Austria and Ukraine. Because we will play three matches in March I think it is fairly enough to have only one match before heading to our base in Bucharest on the 8th”, said Angelovski during an interview for Sitel TV.

It will be our 7th match against Slovenia and 5th friendly. Slovenia is actually the team against we players our first two matches as independent nation.

The record against Slovenia so far: G6 W4 D1 L1 GD 12:6
13.10.1993 4:1 win (match report) F
23.03.1994 2:0 win (match report) F
14.11.2012 3:2 win (match report) F
23.03.2016 0:1 defeat (match report) F
24.03.2019 1:1 draw (match report) Q
10.10.2019 2:1 win (match report) Q

Macedonia will open the EURO on June 13 against Austria. On the 17th will face Ukraine before heading to Amsterdam for the last match in the Group C against co-hosts Netherlands.