The Football federation of Macedonia arranged two friendly matches for the senior national team. Both will be played in the March FIFA international week that all countries around the globe will use for test games. Macedonia will play against Finland on the 23rd and against Azerbaijan on the 27th. Both games will be played on
Armenia will be out rival for the first places in the Group 4 that also includes the likes of Liechtenstein and Gibraltar. That was decided in today’s draw made by UEFA in Lausanne, Switzerland. The UEFA Nations League will be a big chance for Macedonia to qualify for the 2020 EURO using a shortcut. But
Wednesday at noon Macedonia will find out the opponents in the new competition under UEFA called Nations League. The tournament will substitute the friendly matches, but will also be part of the 2020 EURO. Macedonia sees a great chance to finally realize the dream of qualifying. The Swiss city of Lausanne will host the draw
The first FIFA ranking in the new year brings good news for Macedonia. Although it is an inactive period, few national teams played some matches and affected the rankings. Macedonia did not play any games so did not lose of gain points, but still moved up 3 places thanks to others who lost points and
The inactive period resulted only in minor changes without effecting the Lynx who end this successful year 2017 as 76th footballing nation in the world having climbed 86 places since last January. The Football federation of Macedonia received an invitation by the United Arab Emirates for a friendly this month, but decided that it is
Macedonia hosted Liechtenstein in Strumica for the last game of the 2018 World Cup qualifications. After the big draw away to Italy coach Igor Angelovski made some changes in the starting line-up. Stefan Spirovski was suspended because of yellow cards, Darko Velkovski didn’t recover in time from injury, while Marjan Radeski was benched. Also the
Aleksandar Trajkovski converted a penalty in the 78th minute to help Macedonia avoid an unlucky loss against Albania. After the 1:0 road win against Israel hopes were very high among the Macedonian fans, creating an atmosphere of a must win game against Albania in Strumica, the hometown of Goran Pandev. Coach Igor Angelovski brought the
Thanks to a lone goal by Goran Pandev Macedonia celebrated a very important win against Israel on the road. Very tough and tactical game, like all previously played against Isarel. But this time, eventually, Macedonia managed to defeat this opponent that was perfect in the head-to-head matches with 4 wins from the 4 encounters. It
166th place for Macedonia for March 2017, the lowest place ever on the FIFA world ranking list. The Macedonian national team desperately awaits for the WC qualifier against Liechtenstein to finally record a win and climb some places on the FIFA ranking list as this way without playing friendlies and only losing the qualifiers we
First disaster for Macedonia in this qualifications as the road game to Spain happened to be a mission impossible ending in a 4:0 defeat.