The U19 national team of Macedonia will play a friendly against their counterparts from Turkey this upcoming Thursday.

New Macedonia U19 manager Goran Stanikj has named a squad of 18 players for the test away to Turkey U19 on February 26. Only one player on the list is based abroad, that being the highly rated Emil Abaz from the youth teams of Belgian giants Anderlecht. The other 17 players are all based in Macedonia. Due to the timing of this friendly (not being a FIFA date), many other players based abroad could not be called up.

Filip Ilikj – Metalurg
Bobi Celeski – Makedonija GjP

Slobodan Bocevski – Rabotnichki
Ivo Naumoski – Rabotnichki
Darko Digalovski – Metalurg
Hristijan Karanfilovski – Metalurg
Igor Perchinkov – Metalurg
Stefan Jevtoski – Metalurg

Davor Zdravkovski – Makedonija GjP
Sashe Shoposki – Metalurg
Sabahudin Alomerovikj – Vardar
Valentin Kochoski – Turnovo
Martin Mirchevski – Pelister
Petar Petkovski – Vardar
Emil Abaz – Anderlecht
Filip Krstevski – Teteks

Remzifaik Selmani – Renova
Vlatko Stojanovski – Metalurg

The game will be played at the Alaettin Kurt stadium in the city of Gebze, some 50 km east of Istanbul. It will kick-off at 13.00 CET. It will be the debut for Stanikj.