Macedonian U17 national team is taking a part at the Federation Cup in Latvia together with the hosts, Ukraine and Turkey.
photo by TFF: moment of the match against Turkey
Our team suffered three defeats in the matches at this tournament which is very concerning fact for coach Goran Stankovski ahead of the upcoming qualifying matches next month. Winner is Ukraine.
Round 1:
Latvia – Ukraine 0:0
Turkey – Macedonia 4:0
Round 2:
Macedonia – Latvia 1:3
Ukraine – Turkey 2:0
Round 3:
Macedonia – Ukraine 1:3
Latvia – Turkey 0:2
21 September, Arkādija stadium in Riga 
Turkey – 
Macedonia 4:0 (1:0)
9′ Selman Faruk Dibek, 58′, 90’+2 Abdullah Soğucak, 90’+3 Bartuğ Elmaz.
Turkey: Osman Ertuğrul Çetin; Murat Şenel, Emin Bayram, Ahmetcan Kaplan, Yiğit Emre Çeltik (46′ Bartuğ Elmaz), Abdülsamet Kaya (46′ Abdullah Soğucak), Ömer Faruk Beyaz, Emre Demir (61′ Alperen Soysal), Selman Faruk Dibek (82′ Kadir Arslan), Furkan Yasa (46′ Ahmet Gülay), İsmail Zehir (46′ Tuğbey Akgün).
Macedonia: Stefan Mitrev; Lavdrim Ibrahimi (79′ Elnes Alabashoski), Filip Gjorgovski, Borche Gogov (57′ Emir Saitoski), Gregori Davkov, Albin Limani (82′ Slavche Zhivkov), Oktaj Rakipi (82′ Hristijan Georgievski), Rezart Kokolari (57′ Samet Redjepi), Martin Talakov (46′ Salih Muslioski), Behar Feta, Dashmir Elezi (46′ Alban Taipi).
23 September, Zemgales Olimpiskais centrs in Jeglava
Macedonia – Latvia 1:3 (0:1)
88′ Alban Taipi – 6′ Kristers Penkevics, 72′ Kārlis Vilnis, 90′ Kristiāns Kaušelis
Macedonia: Stefan Mitrev, Elnes Alabashoski (55′ Rezart Kokolari), Gregori Davkov (36′ Lavdrim Ibrahimi), Filip Gjorgovski, Behar Feta (78′ Hristijan Georgievski), Oktaj Rakipi (78′ Andrej Stojchevski), Dashmir Elezi (69′ Alban Taipi), Martin Talakov, Samet Redjepi, Albin Limani (63′ Salih Muslioski), Slavche Zhivkov.
Latvia: Kristers Kjava, Maksims Jurkovjaņecs (79′ Maksims Fjodorovs), Mikus Vasijevskis, Maksims Rodčenko (66′ Lūkass Vapne), Kārlis Vilnis, Kristofers Rēķis (66′ Jegors Novikovs), Ojģerts Raščevskis (79′ Arsēnijs Ostapenko), Rolands Bočs, Artjoms Puzirevskis (46′ Kristiāns Kaušelis), Niks Sliede, Kristers Penkevics (83′ Niklāvs Konrāds Skrinda).
The full match with Taipi’s goal at 1:51:33:
25 September
Macedonia – 
Ukraine 1:3 (1:1)
11′ Alban Taipi – 19′ Nazar Voloshin, 56′ Artur Mykytyshyn, 88′ Oleksandr Yatsyk
Macedonia: 1. Stefan Mitrev (C); 5. Filip Gjorgoski, 15. Samet Redjepi, 2. Elnes Alabashoski (38′ 3. Gregori Davkov, 80′ 20. Slavche Zhivkov), 13. Lavdrim Ibrahimi, 16. Albin Limani, 10. Martin Talakov (76′ 11. Emir Saitoski), 8. Oktaj Rakipi, 19. Alban Taipi, 17. Rezart Kokolari (61′ 9. Dashmir Elezi), 7. Behar Feta.
Ukraine: Isenko, Roman, Tanchak, Savchuk, Diachuk, Kononov (71′ Malenkov), Lebediev (46′ Shubin), Yatsik (89′ Bomaschuk), Khlan (46′ Mikittyshin), Voloshyn (65′ Shistak), Horbach (60′ Popov).
Coach Stankovski called up 20 players for this tournament
Stefan Mitrev – Aarau 
Luka Stojkovski – Vardar
Elnes Alabashoski – Neuchâtel Xamax
Ljavdrim Ibrahimi – Rabotnichki
Filip Gjorgovski – Vardar
Borche Gogov – Akademija Pandev
Andrej Stojchevski – Vardar
Samet Redjepi – Shkupi
Gregori Davkov– Vardar
Behar Feta – Nju Stars
Oktaj Rakipi – Shkendija
Martin Talakov – Akademija Pandev
Hristijan Georgievski – Rabotnichki
Dashmir Elezi – Shkendija
Alban Taipi – Renova
Rezart Kokolari – Azzuri LS 90
Emir Saitoski – Domžale 
Albin Limani – Solothurn
Slavche Zhivkov – Vardar
Salih Muslioski – Rheindorf Altach 