The back-to-back home defeats in the 2020 EURO qualifiers sent Macedonia five places backwards at the newest FIFA World ranking list. None expected, but it happened. Macedonia after a long time recorded two defeats in a row and that resulted in a fall at the FIFA rankings. The 1:0 defeat by Poland followed by the
Macedonia suffered a heavy home defeat to Austria and hurt its chances for finish among the top two places that lead at the 2020 EURO. photo by Filip Zdraveski: moment of the match Despite an early lead in the game, Macedonia suffered a heavy home defeat to Austria and hurt badly their chances for a
A lone goal by Piątek gave Poland a win in Skopje over Macedonia in the third round of the 2020 EURO qualifiers. photo by Filip Zdraveski: moment of the match Coach Igor Angelovski fielded exactly the same team from the last match against Slovenia on the road. Poland started with one attacker in Robert Lewandowski
Macedonia got back at the 68th place thanks to the two positive results in the opening matches of the 2020 EURO qualifiers. After going down three places in the previous rankings, Macedonia got back at the same place at which entered this year. The 3:1 home win over Latvia and the 1:1 road draw with
Macedonia opened the 2020 EURO qualifiers with a 3:1 win against Latvia, a match that was even more special as captain Goran Pandev celebrated his 100th appearance in the national colors. photo by Filip Zdraveski: view at the first half A small ceremony took place before the kick-off as FFM presented Pandev with a special
Despite not losing any points Macedonia went down three places on the first FIFA rankings for 2019. That is because of the recently concluded AFC Asian Cup where many Asian national teams were active and collected points. It is an inactive period for the Macedonian national team, but because of the Asian championship the Lynx
This 2018 year ends successfully for Macedonia. With no changes since the last two rankings, Macedonia will enter 2019 as the 68th best national team in the world. The inactive period brought only few changes on the FIFA ranking list but none affected Macedonia. The Lynx kept the same points from November and stayed on
Poland, Austria, Israel, Slovenia and Latvia are the opponents that Macedonia will face in the qualifications for the 2020 EURO. photo by UEFA: the stage before the draw On the draw ceremony in Irish capital city of Dublin Macedonia was drawn in Group G in the second part of groups that feature six teams. That
The two UEFA Nations League wins over Liechtenstein and Gibraltar did not affect the newest ranking list due to the bad ranking of both our opponents so Macedonia stayed at the same place as last month. Macedonia defeated Liechtenstein away with 2:0 and than recorded a 4:0 win over Gibraltar at home. However, because of
Macedonia did not move nor up nor down, even stayed on the same amount of points in the newest ranking list of FIFA. It was expected for Macedonia to lose points and maybe slip a place or two because of the heavy defeat away in Armenia in the Nations League. But the 4:0 humiliation did