Our U19 national team will enter the qualifying tournament next week in Czechia and for that occasion head coach Goran Stankovski announced the list of summoned players.

photo by LFF: the U19s in September this year

Macedonia in in the Group 3 with Croatia, Luxembourg and hosts Czechia. The tournament will be played in the towns of Zlín and Kroměříž but all three of our matches have been scheduled in the later town. Stankovski decided to summon 20 players,. most of which were part of the friendlies last month with couple of surprises on the list.

This is the list of summoned players for the upcoming qualifiers:

Bojan Timevski – Sasa
Stefan Jakimovski – Nju Stars
Metodija Velkovski – Vardar 

Zoran Ivanovski – Akademija Pandev
Hristijan Dimov – Inter
Filip Antovski – Vardar
Jamie Perchevski – Fortuna Düsseldorf
Stefan Simonovski – Gench Kalemler
Stefan Naumcheski – Vardar

Besnik Ferati – Partizani
Anes Osmanoski – Unterhaching
Tomche Grozdanovski – Trenčín
Ali Adem – Vardar
Enis Fazlagikj – Žilina
Alex Taleski – Vardar 

Jakup Berisha – Vardar
Mario Naumoski – Pobeda
Suhejlj Muharem – Shkupi
Marko Gjorgjievski – Borec
Bojan Kolevski – Borec
Darko Churlinov – Köln 

The schedule:

All matches will be played at the Hanácká Slavia stadium in Kroměříž.

Wednesday, 14th November at 14.00 CET
Macedonia vs. Croatia

Saturday, 17th November at 17.00 CET
Czechia vs. Macedonia

Tuesday, 20th November at 17.00 CET
Luxembourg vs. Macedonia

The top teams of the group will proceed into the Elite round of qualifiers which will be played in the spring of 2019.

(Keep in mind that in May 2016 the United Nations adopted the short name Czechia for the Czech Republic. FIFA and UEFA still use the longer name, but we opted to go with the short version on our web site.)