Macedonia will close the 2020 EURO qualifiers with a visit to Austria and a home match against Israel, so for that occasion coach Igor Angelovski summoned 23 players.

photo by FFM: the Macedonians celebrate scoring against Slovenia last month

Another qualifiers are set to finish. Macedonian has only theoretical chances to finish second, but in reality that is impossible since not just that we must beat Austria away, but then they must lose against the weak and pointless Latvia. National team coach Igor Angelovski will use these last qualifying matches as preparations for the Nations League play-off against Kosovo in March.

Of the regular players, lateral defender Egzon Bejtulai and midfielder Arijan Ademi are not summoned because of injuries as well as reserve winger Marjan Radeski. Back up midfielders Ljupcho Doriev and Gjorgji Stoilov, who were in the previous squad, are also injured. Angelovski wanted to call their teammate CB Dime Dimov, but he picked up an injury as well.

Back in the team are central defender Darko Velkovski and winger Nikola Gjorgjev. Debutante under Angelovski is Daniel Avramovski, the current top goalscorer in the Macedonian top flight. He has 2 caps back in 29014 under Boshko Gjurovski. Again in the squad is teenager defender Mario Mladenovski who was surprisingly added in the previous squad.

Keep in mind that Musliu, Nikolov and Nestorovski must serve a yellow card suspension in the first match against Austria, so they will only be available for the Israel game.

UPDATE: Later on Saturday Angelovski additionally added Tihomir Kostadinov, 23-year-old midfielder who plays in Slovakia and who has never been capped before in the senior team.

Stole Dimitrevski – Rayo Vallecano
Dejan Iliev – Sereď
Damjan Shishkovski – Rabotnichki

Visar Musliu – Fehérvár
Kire Ristevski – Újpest
Stefan Ristovski – Sporting
Darko Velkovski – Rijeka
Gjoko Zajkov – Charleroi
Kristijan Toshevski – Vardar
Mario Mladenovski – Vardar

Enis Bardhi – Levante
Boban Nikolov – Fehérvár
Stefan Spirovski – Hapoel Tel-Aviv
Ezgjan Alioski – Leeds United
Elif Elmas – Napoli
Daniel Avramovski – Vardar
Krste Velkoski – Sarajevo
Nikola Gjorgjev – Grasshoppers
Tihomir Kostadinov – Ružomberok

Goran Pandev – Genoa
Ivan Trichkovski – AEK
Ilija Nestorovski – Udinese
Aleksandar Trajkovski – Mallorca
Vlatko Stojanovski – Nîmes

Macedonia will first visit Austria on the 16th at the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, while three days later will host Israel in Skopje. Both matches will kick off at 20.45 CET.