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
Macedonia moved up two places gaining 8 points since the previous rankings. That is thanks to the wins over Gibraltar and Armenia in the Nations League. The small amount of points since the August ranking is due to the wins over national teams that have worse ranking than us with Gibraltar being even one of
Macedonia opened the Nations League campaign with an expected win over Gibraltar away thanks to the goals by Ivan Trichkovski and Ezgjan Alioski. photo: moment of the match The match started with most of the 22 players in Gibraltar’s half. This seemed like the hosts will take on a defensive approach. However, the opening 15
FIFA introduced a new formula for calculating the points that brought significantly more points to all national teams. Macedonia now shares the 70th place with Saudi Arabia. As you can see by the rankings below, Macedonia jumped one place but has trice more points than the last rankings. That is thanks to the new formula