Macedonian national team coach Blagoja Milevski today announced the list of summoned players for the upcoming 2024 EURO qualifying match against Ukraine away and the friendly against Armenia at home.

photo by FFM: the Macedonian team against Italy last month

Milevski summoned 25 players for the decisive must win qualifier against Ukraine that will be played in Prague. Surprisingly, he left out strikers Ilija Nestorovski and Dorian Babunski, but summoned recently recovered Darko Churlinov, who is not even registered for Premier League matches by his Burnley. Central defender Darko Velkovski has been left out as he is still without a club, while back in the team is right back Todor Todoroski.

Gjoko Zajkov, the central defender that injured his back while playing against Malta, is out with an injury.

Stole Dimitrievski – Rayo Vallecano
Damjan Shishkovski – Doxa
Igor Aleksovski – Rabotnichki

Visar Musliu – Paderborn
Todor Todoroski – Zalaegerszeg
Nikola Serafimov – Fehérvár
Jovan Manev – Osijek
Ezgjan Alioski – Al Ahli
Bojan Dimoski – Akron
Ahmed Iljazovski – Hvidovre
Stefan Ashkovski – Radnički

Enis Bardhi – Trabzonspor
Elif Elmas – Napoli
Arijan Ademi – Dinamo
Jani Atanasov – Cracovia
Agon Elezi – Varaždin
David Babunski – Mezőkövesd
Isnik Alimi – Sepsi

Bojan Miovski – Aberdeen
Milan Ristovski – Spartak
Darko Churlinov – Burnley
Valon Ethemi – Istanbulspor
Ljupcho Doriev – Sogdiana
Aleksandar Trajkovski – Hajduk
Dimitar Mitrovski – Varaždin

The national team will gather on 9 October in Skopje and will held several training sessions. On Saturday the 14th of October at 15.00 CET is the match against Ukrane at the in Prague, the capital of Czechia. Ukraine is hosting their home matches there due to the ongoing war with Russia. Later on the 17th (Tuesday) Macedonia will host Armenia at the Blagoj Istatov stadium in Strumica, also at 15.00 CET.

Past encounters:

–  Ukraine (G6 W1 D1 L4 GD 4:8)
11.10.2003 0:0 draw (match report) F
31.03.2004 1:0 win (match report) F
12.10.2014 0:1 defeat (match report) Q
09.10.2015 0:2 defeat (match report) Q
17.06.2021 1:2 defeat (match report) EC
16.06.2023 2:3 defeat (match report) Q

– Armenia (G12 W5 D3 L4 GD 20:17)
10.05.1995 2:2 draw (match report) Q
06.09.1995 1:2 defeat (match report) Q
18.08.2004 3:0 win (match report) Q
04.06.2005 2:1 win (match report) Q
07.09.2010 2:2 draw (match report) Q
07.10.2011 1:4 defeat (match report) Q
09.09.2018 2:0 win (match report) NL
16.10.2018 0:4 defeat (match report) NL
05.09.2020 2:1 win (match report) NL
18.11.2020 0:1 defeat (match report) NL
02.09.2021 0:0 draw (match report) Q
11.11.2021 5:0 win (match report) Q