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Macedonia

Nickname(s)	Црвени Рисови Crveni Risovi (Red Lynxes) Црвени Лавови Crveni Lavovi (Red Lions)
Association	Фудбалска Федерација на Македонија – Fudbalska Federacija na Makedonija (ФФМ/FFM)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Igor Angelovski
Captain	Goran Pandev
Most caps	Goce Sedloski (100)
Top scorer	Goran Pandev (33)
Home stadium	Philip II Arena
FIFA code	MKD
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	71 3 (7 February 2019)[1]
Highest	46 (October 2008)
Lowest	166 (March 2017)
Elo ranking
Current	78 (2 February 2019)[2]
Highest	41 (12 April 2018)
Lowest	113 (January 2017)
First international
Slovenia 1–4 Macedonia  (Kranj, Slovenia; 13 October 1993)
Biggest win
Liechtenstein 1–11 Macedonia  (Eschen–Mauren, Liechtenstein; 9 November 1996)
Biggest defeat
Macedonia 0–5 Belgium  (Skopje, Macedonia; 7 June 1995)  Macedonia 0–5 Slovakia  (Skopje, Macedonia; 7 October 2001)  Hungary 5–0 Macedonia  (Budapest, Hungary; 14 November 2001)  Czech Republic 6–1 Macedonia  (Teplice, Czech Republic; 8 June 2005)

The Macedonia national football team (Macedonian: Фудбалска репрезентација на Македонија, Fudbalska reprezentacija na Makedonija) is the national football team of North Macedonia and is controlled by the Football Federation of Macedonia. The venue for home games is the Philip II Arena in Skopje.

Despite being one of the less successful national teams from former Yugoslavia, Macedonia has still produced several good results, notably drawing with England twice away, drawing Italy and Netherlands once (both away), as well as beating Croatia 2–0 in 2007 and Serbia at home 1–0 in 2012. Some popular Macedonian footballers also played outside Macedonia for other national team, notably Marek Jankulovski who represented Czech Republic.

On 12 August 2009, as part of the 100-year anniversary of football in Macedonia, the national team played a friendly match against Spain. Star player Goran Pandev scored two goals in the first half to give Macedonia a 2–0 lead before Spain scored three goals in the second half to record the 3–2 victory in front of a record crowd of 30,000 at the renovated Philip II Arena.^[3]

Competitive record

World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record										FIFA World Cup qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Position
1994	Did not enter									–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1998	Did not qualify									10	4	1	5	22	18	4/6
2002										10	1	4	5	11	18	4/6
2006										12	2	3	7	11	24	5/7
2010										8	2	1	5	5	11	4/5
2014										10	2	1	7	7	16	6/6
2018										10	3	2	5	15	15	5/6
2022	To be determined									–	–	–	–	–	–	–/6
2026										–	–	–	–	–	–	–/6
Total		0/7	0	0	0	0	0	0		60	14	12	34	72	104	—

The Macedonia national football team has yet to qualify for a World Cup Finals tournament. In their attempt at qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, they finished fourth in Group 9 with seven points. Surprisingly, due to the closeness of the group throughout the campaign (only five teams in the group), Macedonia remained in contention to qualify until the final group game, which Macedonia lost 2–1 away to Norway, although Norway would be the only runner up to not make the play offs that year.

European Championship record

UEFA European Championship record										UEFA European Championship qualifying record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Position
1996	Did not qualify									10	1	4	5	9	18	4/6
2000										8	2	2	4	13	14	4/5
2004										8	1	3	4	11	14	4/5
2008										12	4	2	6	12	12	5/7
2012										10	2	2	6	8	14	5/6
2016										10	1	1	8	6	18	6/6
2020	To be determined									To be determined
Total		0/6	0	0	0	0	0	0		58	11	14	33	59	90	—

Nations League record

Summer Olympics record

Macedonia was part of the Yugoslavia until Seoul 1988. After that, they never managed to qualify from Barcelona 1992 to Rio 2016.

History

The beginning (1993–96)

In 1994, Macedonia became a member of FIFA and UEFA after the break-up of Yugoslavia. The team began its football journey with a 4–1 win against Slovenia in a friendly on 13 October 1993 under coach Andon Dončevski.^[4]

They went on to win their next two friendlies against Slovenia and Estonia before suffering their first loss against Turkey on 31 August 1994 (before this they lost to Club Atlético Peñarol 0–4 in Montevideo in February 1994). The inaugural Macedonian side featured Darko Pančev, who won the European Cup with Red Star Belgrade in 1991 and also played for Internazionale in Italy.

Euro 1996 qualifiers

The Euro 96 Qualifiers was the first major qualifying tournament that Macedonia participated in as an independent nation and they were grouped with Spain, Denmark, Belgium, Cyprus and Armenia. In their opening game, which was also their first ever official match, Macedonia was drawn against the reigning European Champions Denmark.

The game was played in Skopje on 7 September 1994 and it finished 1–1 with Macedonia leading for most of the game after scoring in the fourth minute.^[5] In this qualifying stage, Macedonia suffered one of its worst defeats when they lost 0–5 to Belgium at home on 7 June 1995.^[6] They failed to qualify for Euro 96, finishing fourth in the group with seven points.^[7]

Hadžievski, Kanatlarovski and Jovanovski's era (1996–2001)

1998 World Cup qualifiers

Macedonia's first qualifying attempt for the World Cup saw them grouped with Romania, Ireland, Lithuania, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.

The tournament began on 24 April 1996 with a 3–0 win at home against Liechtenstein. On 9 November 1996, Macedonia recorded their biggest win ever, an 11–1 thrashing of Liechtenstein.^[8] Half of the goals Macedonia scored in the entire campaign were scored in this match alone. Macedonia failed again to qualify for the 1998 World Cup in France, finishing fourth in the group on 13 points.^[9]

Euro 2000 qualifiers

Macedonia's journey to qualify for the Euro 2000 tournament in the Netherlands and Belgium saw them grouped with FR Yugoslavia, Ireland, Croatia, and Malta. They once again opened their qualifying campaign with a win after beating Malta 4–0 at home on 6 September 1998. Their most notable result in the campaign was a 1–1 draw against Croatia in June 1999, with an equalizer of Gjorgji Hristov 10 minutes before the end of the game. They were helped Yugoslavia to qualify directly and eliminate Croatia, because were drawn 1–1 against Republic of Ireland with a last minute equalizer of Goran Stavrevski. However, they failed to qualify again, finishing fourth in the group with eight points.^[10]

2002 World Cup qualifiers

Macedonia's 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign saw them grouped with Sweden, Turkey, Slovakia, Moldova, and Azerbaijan. They were unsuccessful in their opening match, going down to Slovakia 2–0 in Slovakia on 3 September 2000. The Macedonians once again failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, which was held in Japan and South Korea, as they finished fourth in the group with seven points.^[11]

Ups and downs (2001–06)

Euro 2004 qualifiers

The Euro 2004 Qualifiers saw Macedonia grouped alongside England, Turkey, Slovakia, and Liechtenstein. Despite Macedonia failing to win its first four games of the campaign, they managed to record one of its most memorable results of its short history.

On 16 October 2002, Macedonia played former world champions England in Southampton, which was England's first home game in Southampton in almost 100 years. Macedonia grabbed the lead early in the first half after Artim Šakiri scored directly from a corner kick, leaving English goalkeeper David Seaman stunned. England soon leveled the game, but not before Macedonia managed to take the lead once again.

However, the game ended 2–2 after England managed to score a second equalizer in the second half.^[12] Macedonia lost to England 2–1 at home in the return leg, which took place in September 2003.^[13] Macedonia's only win of the campaign came on 7 June 2003, when they beat Liechtenstein 3–1 at home. Macedonia did not qualify for the Euro 2004 tournament, which was held in Portugal, finishing fourth in the group with six points.^[14]

2006 World Cup qualifiers

Macedonia was drawn in Group 1 and was grouped with the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Romania, Finland, Armenia, and Andorra. They managed to open their campaign with a comfortable 3–0 win at home against Armenia on 18 August 2004. Macedonia did not win another home game for more than three years.

On 9 October 2004, Macedonia managed to hold the Netherlands to a surprise 2–2 draw in Skopje in front of a crowd of 17,000 at the Skopje City Stadium,^[15] but in their next game, just four days later, they suffered one of its most embarrassing defeats, a 1–0 loss away to Andorra, one of the world's weakest teams.^[16] Also in this tournament, Macedonia set a new team record for most goals conceded in a game when they lost 6–1 away to Czech Republic on 8 June 2005.

Macedonia went on to concede a further eight goals in the next two qualifying games, both against Finland. On 23 August 2005, coach Slobodan Santrač resigned as coach of Macedonia after just five months on the job due to personal problems, with former player Boban Babunski temporarily taking over as coach. The resignation came just days after they were beaten 3–0 by Finland in Skopje. Despite their poor performance during the 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign, Macedonia managed to end the campaign on a high with a 0–0 draw against the Netherlands in Amsterdam.^[17]

This result meant that Macedonia, with the two draws against the Netherlands, was the only team in the group not to have been defeated by the Netherlands. The Netherlands won 10 of their 12 games in the 2006 World Cup campaign. Macedonia failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, finishing fifth in the group with nine points.^[18]

Iran tournament

Following the completion of the 2006 World Cup qualifying tournament, in November 2005, Macedonia took part in a friendly tournament in Iran consisting of four teams, each team from a different continent. The teams were Macedonia, Iran, Paraguay, and Togo. In their opening match, they won 2–1 against host nation Iran, booking a spot in the final against Paraguay. They lost the final against Paraguay 0–1. Macedonia was the only nation in this friendly tournament not to have qualified for the 2006 World Cup.

Srečko Katanec's era and best FIFA ranking (2006–10)

Euro 2008 qualifiers

On 27 January 2006 in Switzerland, Macedonia was placed in Group E for the Euro 2008 qualifiers alongside England, Croatia, Russia, Israel, Estonia, and Andorra. On 17 February 2006, former Slovenian national team coach Srečko Katanec was appointed as the head coach and was given a two-year contract.

In the lead-up to the beginning of the qualifiers for Euro 2008, Macedonia managed two results against sides in friendly matches. They beat Ecuador 2–1 in Madrid, their first ever win against a South American nation, and a week later, followed that up with a 1–0 win against Turkey.

Macedonia opened their UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying campaign with a 0–1 win away to Estonia on 16 August 2006. Goce Sedloski scored for Macedonia in the 73rd minute, which meant that Macedonia was the first team to score a goal in the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign. Macedonia hosted England on 6 September 2006 in their second game of the qualifiers. England went on to win 0–1 after Peter Crouch scored for the away side in the 46th minute. This was the first time that Macedonia failed to score against England.^[19]

A month later, on 7 October 2006, the two teams met once again in Manchester, where England was held to a 0–0 draw in front of 72,062 people.^[20] On 17 October 2007, Macedonia recorded their first win on home soil since August 2004 when they easily defeated Andorra 3–0 in Skopje in an emotional game as it was the day after the death of pop icon Toše Proeski.^[21]

Macedonia then recorded one of their most impressive wins to date when they picked up a 2–0 victory over eventual group winners Croatia on 17 November 2007, causing the biggest upset of Group A; it was also a first win for Macedonia over a side that was ranked in the top ten of the FIFA World Rankings.^[22] Despite some surprising results, Macedonia once again failed to qualify for the Euro 2008 Finals after finishing fifth in the group with 14 points.^[23]

2010 World Cup qualifiers

On 25 November 2007, just days after Macedonia completed its qualifying campaign for Euro 2008, the groups for European qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup were held in Durban, South Africa, where Macedonia was seeded in Pot 4 and grouped along with the Netherlands, Scotland, Norway and Iceland.^[24] Manager Srečko Katanec received a two-year extension on 21 December 2007, which meant he would be under contract through the end of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.^[25] In the lead up to the campaign, Macedonia played three friendlies against Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland, which all ended in draws.

Macedonia opened their campaign with a 1–0 home win against Scotland on 6 September 2008 when Ilčo Naumoski scored on a rebound after a well taken free kick by Goce Sedloski. Following these impressive results, Macedonia moved up 10 places to 46 in the FIFA World Rankings list for October 2008 which was their highest ever position on the rankings list. Srečko Katanec left the team following a 4–0 loss to the Netherlands in Amsterdam in April 2009 for allegedly getting into an argument with star player Goran Pandev.^[26]

Soon afterwards, the manager of the under-21 squad, Mirsad Jonuz, became the new coach of the Macedonian senior team and was signed until the end of the World Cup qualifying campaign.^[27] On 5 September, Macedonia lost 2–0 to Scotland and then suffered another loss to Norway, which meant that Macedonia once again did not qualify for the World Cup.

Recent years (2010–present)

Euro 2012 qualifiers

On 7 February 2010, Macedonia was placed in Group B for the Euro 2012 qualifiers alongside Russia, Slovakia, Republic of Ireland, Armenia and Andorra.^[28] In the lead up to the qualifiers, an under-strength Macedonia side played friendlies against Azerbaijan, Romania and Malta, winning the first two 3–1 and 1–0 respectively, and tied 1–1 against Malta later the summer.

However, the qualifications did not go as well. Instead, Macedonia finished in a disappointing fifth position in the group with only two wins against minnows Andorra and two draws, against Armenia and Slovakia, both at home. Due to the poor results in the qualifications, manager Mirsad Jonuz was dismissed on 18 June 2011^[29] and replaced by John Toshack,^[30] who led the Macedonia in the last four matches to one win, one draw and two losses.

2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

FFM's logo until 2014

Macedonia's 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign saw them grouped with Croatia, Serbia, Belgium, Scotland and Wales.^[31] In August 2012, prior to the qualifications, John Toshack would leave as manager^[32] and would be replaced by Čedomir Janevski.^[33] The national team would begin the qualification round with a loss to Croatia in Zagreb and would go on to draw against Scotland in Glasgow. They lost again to Croatia and won against Serbia in Skopje after a penalty kick taken by Agim Ibraimi.^[34] Later in qualification, the national team would go on to lose twice to the eventual group winners Belgium.

Macedonia would win against Wales and lose against Scotland at home. Around the end of September 2013, Janevski would leave the team for Belgian club R.A.E.C. Mons^[35] and would be replaced by Zoran Stratev for the last two matches.^[36] The national team would suffer a disastrous finish to their qualification campaign with away losses to Wales and Serbia. They would finish last in their group.

After the unsuccessful qualification run, Goran Pandev, Nikolče Noveski, Veliče Šumulikoski and others would retire from the national team due to turbulent relations with the Football Federation of Macedonia.^[37] In November 2013, Boško Gjurovski would be appointed the new national team manager.^[38]

Euro 2016 qualifiers

On 23 February 2014, Macedonia was placed in Group C for the Euro 2016 qualifiers alongside Spain, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus and Luxembourg.^[39] However, the national team had a disastrous start against Spain in Valencia with a 1–5 loss. The only win they collected was against Luxembourg in Skopje.

After that match, Macedonia was brought into disastrous run of a four losses. Due to the poor results in the qualifications, manager Boško Gjurovski was dismissed on 7 April 2015^[40] and replaced by Ljubinko Drulović.^[41] The miserable run, however, continued with the losses against Slovakia and surprisingly Luxembourg by late goal of Sébastien Thill, after a missed penalty kick of Besart Abdurahimi. Their disappointing performances was continued against Spain in Skopje, beside their good game, and against, Ukraine also home.

In the last match against Belarus in Barysaw, Macedonia played a draw which broke the black streak of seven losses. The team still ended the qualifications at the last place of the group with a worse head-to-head scoring with Luxembourg.

2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

On 25 July 2015, in the middle of the Euro 2016 qualifying, the group draws for European qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup were held in Saint Petersburg. Macedonia was seeded in Pot 5 and grouped along with Spain again, for the first time with Italy, with the rival Albania and with Israel and Liechtenstein.^[42]

In October 2015, Drulović left the National Team to Serbian club Partizan^[43] and the manager place was taken over the former manager of Rabotnički and former assistant coach of the national team Igor Angelovski.^[44] In the same month, the Macedonian football superstar Goran Pandev came back to the national team after the two years of absence.^[45]

Macedonia started with another disappointing performance with a loss to Albania in Shkodër, with a goal scored by Bekim Balaj in the last moments of the game, in a match that was played over two days because of interruption in the 76th minute due to very bad weather conditions.^[46][47] Later on they also lost to Israel at home by missing a penalty kick by Adis Jahović in the last moments of the game.^[48] After that, the national team also lost to Italy beside their 2–1 lead with the goals scored by Ilija Nestorovski and Ferhan Hasani.^[49] At the end of the another year to forget Macedonia was outclassed by Spain in Granada (4–0)^[50] and after four rounds Macedonia had not scored a single point which was the worst qualifying start in the history of the national team.^[51]

Finally, in March 2017, Macedonia recorded their first win in the qualifying against Liechtenstein (3–0).^[52] Then again, expectantly, have lost to a Spain in Skopje (1–2).^[53] They also defeated Israel away through the lone goal by Goran Pandev, which was also a first ever win against Israel.^[54] However, in the next round Macedonia missed a good opportunity to collect yet another win, this time against Albania in Strumica, but the game ended with a draw (1–1).^[55]

2018–19 UEFA Nations League & Euro 2020 qualifiers

In the first edition of the UEFA Nations League, Macedonia was played in League D, the fourth and lowest division of that competition.^[56] Macedonia were drawn in Group 4 with Armenia, Liechtenstein and Gibraltar.^[57] The national team were won the group with five wins and only one loss to Armenia away (0–4), and were promoted to the League C for the next edition of the Nations League, and were secured minimally the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying play-offs.^[58]

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Macedonia (P)	6	5	0	1	14	5	+9	15	Promotion to League C		—	2–0	4–0	4–1
2	Armenia	6	3	1	2	14	8	+6	10			4–0	—	0–1	2–1
3	Gibraltar	6	2	0	4	5	15	−10	6			0–2	2–6	—	2–1
4	Liechtenstein	6	1	1	4	7	12	−5	4			0–2	2–2	2–0	—

For the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Macedonia was placed in Group G, along with Austria, Israel, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia.^[59]

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualify for final tournament		—	9 Sep	10 Jun	19 Nov	13 Oct	24 Mar
2	Austria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			21 Mar	—	10 Oct	7 Jun	16 Nov	6 Sep
3	Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			16 Nov	24 Mar	—	21 Mar	5 Sep	15 Oct
4	Slovenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			6 Sep	13 Oct	9 Sep	—	24 Mar	16 Nov
5	Macedonia (X)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			7 Jun	10 Jun	19 Nov	10 Oct	—	21 Mar
6	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			10 Oct	19 Nov	7 Jun	10 Jun	9 Sep	—

Stadiums

Philip II Arena, Skopje

Stadiums which have hosted Macedonia international football matches:

Recent results and upcoming fixtures

2018

Finland  v  Macedonia

23 March 2018 Friendly	Finland	0–0	Macedonia	Antalya, Turkey
16:00 GMT		Report		Stadium: Gloria Sports Arena Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Mete Kalkavan (Turkey)

Azerbaijan  v  Macedonia

27 March 2018 Friendly	Azerbaijan	1–1	Macedonia	Antalya, Turkey
17:00 GMT	Almeida  6' (pen.)	Report	Trajkovski  22' (pen.)	Stadium: Mardan Sports Complex Attendance: 100 Referee: Halis Özkahya (Turkey)

Gibraltar  v  Macedonia

6 September 2018 2018–19 Nations League D	Gibraltar	0–2	Macedonia	Gibraltar
19:45 GMT		Report	Trichkovski  19' Alioski  35'	Stadium: Victoria Stadium Attendance: 1,850 Referee: Jens Maae (Denmark)

Macedonia  v  Armenia

9 September 2018 2018–19 Nations League D	Macedonia	2–0	Armenia	Skopje, Macedonia
16:00 GMT	Alioski  14' (pen.) Pandev  59'	Report		Stadium: Philip II Arena Attendance: 4,730 Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (Austria)

Macedonia  v  Liechtenstein

13 October 2018 2018–19 Nations League D	Macedonia	4–1	Liechtenstein	Skopje, Macedonia
18:45 GMT	Trajkovski  10', 30' Pandev  36' Alioski  67'	Report	Yildiz  37'	Stadium: Philip II Arena Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Roi Reinshreiber (Israel)

Armenia  v  Macedonia

16 October 2018 2018–19 Nations League D	Armenia	4–0	Macedonia	Yerevan, Armenia
16:00 GMT	Pizzelli  12' Movsisyan  67' Ghazaryan  81' Mkhitaryan  90+4'	Report		Stadium: Republican Stadium Referee: Martin Strömbergsson (Sweden)

Liechtenstein  v  Macedonia

16 November 2018 2018–19 Nations League D	Liechtenstein	0–2	Macedonia	Vaduz, Liechtenstein
19:45 GMT		Report	Bardhi  53' Nestorovski  90+1'	Stadium: Rheinpark Stadion Attendance: 2,100 Referee: Petr Ardeleanu (Czech Rep.)

Macedonia  v  Gibraltar

19 November 2018 2018–19 Nations League D	Macedonia	4–0	Gibraltar	Skopje, Macedonia
19:45 GMT	Bardhi  27' Nestorovski  67', 80' Trajkovski  90+2'	Report		Stadium: Philip II Arena Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (Kazakhstan)

2019

Macedonia  v  Latvia

21 March 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Macedonia	v	Latvia	Skopje, Macedonia
19:45 GMT				Stadium: Philip II Arena

Slovenia  v  Macedonia

24 March 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Slovenia	v	Macedonia	Ljubljana, Slovenia
19:45 GMT				Stadium: Stožice Stadium

Macedonia  v  Poland

7 June 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Macedonia	v	Poland	Skopje, Macedonia
18:45 GMT				Stadium: Philip II Arena

Macedonia  v  Austria

10 June 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Macedonia	v	Austria	Skopje, Macedonia
18:45 GMT				Stadium: Philip II Arena

Israel  v  Macedonia

5 September 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Israel	v	Macedonia	Jerusalem, Israel
18:45 GMT				Stadium: Teddy Stadium

Latvia  v  Macedonia

9 September 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Latvia	v	Macedonia	Riga, Latvia
18:45 GMT				Stadium: Daugava Stadium

Macedonia  v  Slovenia

10 October 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Macedonia	v	Slovenia	Skopje, Macedonia
18:45 GMT				Stadium: Philip II Arena

Poland  v  Macedonia

13 October 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Poland	v	Macedonia
18:45 GMT

Austria  v  Macedonia

16 November 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Austria	v	Macedonia	Vienna, Austria
19:45 GMT				Stadium: Ernst-Happel-Stadion

Macedonia  v  Israel

19 November 2019 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	Macedonia	v	Israel	Skopje, Macedonia
19:45 GMT				Stadium: Philip II Arena

Players

Current squad

Squad named for the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League D matches against  Liechtenstein and  Gibraltar on 16 and 19 November 2018.^[66]
Caps and goals as of 19 November 2018 after game against Gibraltar.
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No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Stole Dimitrievski	(1993-12-25) 25 December 1993 (age 25)	24	0	Rayo Vallecano
22	1GK	Dejan Iliev	(1995-02-25) 25 February 1995 (age 23)	0	0	Arsenal
12	1GK	Damjan Shishkovski	(1995-03-18) 18 March 1995 (age 23)	0	0	RoPS
4	2DF	Kire Ristevski	(1990-10-22) 22 October 1990 (age 28)	30	0	Újpest
6	2DF	Visar Musliu	(1994-11-13) 13 November 1994 (age 24)	12	1	Shkëndija
3	2DF	Gjoko Zajkov	(1995-02-10) 10 February 1995 (age 24)	9	0	Charleroi
2	2DF	Kristijan Toshevski	(1994-05-06) 6 May 1994 (age 24)	6	0	Vardar
15	2DF	Egzon Bejtullai	(1994-01-07) 7 January 1994 (age 25)	5	0	Shkëndija
14	2DF	Mite Cikarski	(1993-01-06) 6 January 1993 (age 26)	3	0	PAS Giannina
11	3MF	Ferhan Hasani	(1990-06-18) 18 June 1990 (age 28)	35	2	Al-Raed
20	3MF	Stefan Spirovski	(1990-08-23) 23 August 1990 (age 28)	27	1	Ferencváros
8	3MF	Ezgjan Alioski	(1992-02-12) 12 February 1992 (age 27)	25	4	Leeds United
17	3MF	Enis Bardhi	(1995-07-02) 2 July 1995 (age 23)	19	3	Levante
16	3MF	Boban Nikolov	(1994-07-28) 28 July 1994 (age 24)	13	1	MOL Vidi
5	3MF	Arijan Ademi	(1991-05-29) 29 May 1991 (age 27)	9	2	Dinamo Zagreb
21	3MF	Elif Elmas	(1999-09-27) 27 September 1999 (age 19)	8	0	Fenerbahçe
10	4FW	Goran Pandev (Captain)	(1983-07-27) 27 July 1983 (age 35)	99	33	Genoa
7	4FW	Ivan Trichkovski (1st Vice-Captain)	(1987-04-18) 18 April 1987 (age 31)	54	5	AEK Larnaca
9	4FW	Aleksandar Trajkovski	(1992-09-05) 5 September 1992 (age 26)	47	15	Palermo
23	4FW	Ilija Nestorovski	(1990-03-12) 12 March 1990 (age 28)	27	8	Palermo
19	4FW	Krste Velkoski	(1988-02-20) 20 February 1988 (age 30)	12	0	Sarajevo

Recent call-ups

The following players are also eligible for the Macedonian squad and have received a call up within the past 12 months:

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	David Mitov Nilsson INJ	(1991-01-12) 12 January 1991 (age 28)	1	0	Norrköping	v.  Armenia, 16 October 2018
DF	Stefan Ristovski INJ(2nd Vice-Captain)	(1992-02-12) 12 February 1992 (age 27)	44	1	Sporting	v.  Armenia, 16 October 2018
DF	Darko Velkovski INJ	(1995-06-21) 21 June 1995 (age 23)	11	0	Rijeka	v.  Armenia, 16 October 2018 WD
MF	Marjan Radeski INJ	(1995-02-10) 10 February 1995 (age 24)	13	1	Shkendija	v.  Azerbaijan, 27 March 2018

• 
  ^INJ = Injured


• 
  ^U21 = Currently with the U21 national team.


• 
  ^RET = Retired from international football.


• 
  ^WD = Withdrew.

All-time head-to-head record

As of 19 November 2018, after the match against Gibraltar

Macedonia all-time head-to-head record
Against	Region	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %	First match	Last match
Albania	UEFA	10	4	4	2	12	7	+5	40%	14 May 1994	5 September 2017
Andorra	UEFA	6	4	1	1	9	1	+8	66.67%	13 October 2004	6 September 2011
Angola	CAF	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0%	29 May 2012	29 May 2012
Armenia	UEFA	8	3	2	3	13	15	-2	37.5%	10 May 1995	16 October 2018
Australia	AFC	2	0	1	1	0	1	-1	0%	12 March 1997	30 March 2015
Azerbaijan	UEFA	7	5	2	0	14	5	+9	71.43%	26 July 2000	27 March 2018
Bahrain	AFC	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0%	7 January 2001	7 January 2001
Belarus	UEFA	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	33.33%	27 March 2015	28 March 2017
Belgium	UEFA	4	0	1	3	1	9	-8	0%	16 November 1994	26 March 2013
Bosnia and Herzegovina	UEFA	5	1	3	1	8	8	0	20%	3 June 1998	26 March 2008
Bulgaria	UEFA	7	2	1	4	3	7	-4	28.57%	12 April 1995	29 March 2016
Cameroon	CAF	2	0	0	2	0	3	-3	0%	9 February 2011	26 May 2014
Canada	CONCACAF	2	1	0	1	3	1	+2	50%	18 May 1998	14 November 2009
China PR	AFC	5	0	2	3	0	4	-4	0%	27 January 2004	22 June 2014
Croatia	UEFA	8	1	2	5	9	12	-3	12.5%	14 October 1998	12 October 2012
Cyprus	UEFA	2	1	1	0	4	1	+3	50%	17 December 1994	11 October 1995
Czech Republic	UEFA	3	0	1	2	2	9	-7	0%	28 February 2001	8 June 2005
Denmark	UEFA	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	33.33%	7 September 1994	6 February 2013
Ecuador	CONMEBOL	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1	100%	28 May 2006	28 May 2006
Egypt	CAF	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0%	29 September 1998	29 September 1998
England	UEFA	4	0	2	2	3	5	-2	0%	16 October 2002	7 October 2006
Estonia	UEFA	4	3	1	0	8	3	+5	75%	1 June 1994	12 September 2007
Finland	UEFA	5	1	1	3	2	11	-9	20%	10 January 2002	23 March 2018
Gibraltar	UEFA	2	2	0	0	6	0	+6	100%	6 September 2018	19 November 2018
Hungary	UEFA	2	0	1	1	0	5	-5	0%	22 April 1998	14 November 2001
Iceland	UEFA	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	50%	1 June 1996	10 June 2009
Iran	AFC	3	0	1	2	3	7	-4	0%	9 June 2000	2 June 2016
Republic of Ireland	UEFA	6	1	1	4	5	11	-6	16.67%	9 October 1996	4 June 2011
Israel	UEFA	5	1	0	4	5	8	-3	20%	20 November 2002	2 September 2017
Italy	UEFA	2	0	1	1	3	4	-1	0%	9 October 2016	6 October 2017
Jamaica	CONCACAF	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1	100%	20 April 1998	20 April 1998
Latvia	UEFA	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1	100%	5 March 2014	5 March 2014
Lebanon	AFC	1	0	0	1	0	1	-1	0%	17 November 2015	17 November 2015
Liechtenstein	UEFA	9	8	1	0	33	5	+28	88.89%	24 April 1996	16 November 2018
Lithuania	UEFA	3	1	0	2	2	4	-2	33.33%	6 September 1997	15 August 2012
Luxembourg	UEFA	4	2	0	2	8	6	+2	50%	20 August 2008	5 September 2015
Malta	UEFA	6	5	1	0	15	2	+13	83.33%	27 March 1996	11 August 2010
Moldova	UEFA	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	0%	11 October 2000	11 February 2009
Montenegro	UEFA	3	2	0	1	7	3	+3	66.67%	19 November 2008	15 August 2012
Netherlands	UEFA	4	0	2	2	3	8	-5	0%	9 October 2004	1 April 2009
Nigeria	CAF	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0%	22 August 2007	22 August 2007
Norway	UEFA	4	1	1	2	3	4	-1	25%	6 June 2009	11 November 2017
Oman	AFC	1	0	0	1	0	2	-2	0%	30 December 2001	30 December 2001
Poland	UEFA	3	0	1	2	2	8	-6	0%	14 February 2003	14 December 2012
Portugal	UEFA	2	0	1	1	0	1	-1	0%	2 April 2003	26 May 2012
Qatar	AFC	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	33.33%	25 July 2001	30 May 2014
Romania	UEFA	5	1	0	4	5	11	-6	20%	14 December 1996	2 June 2010
Russia	UEFA	4	0	0	4	0	7	-7	0%	15 November 2006	2 September 2011
Saudi Arabia	AFC	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0%	1 August 2001	1 August 2001
Scotland	UEFA	4	1	1	2	3	5	-2	25%	6 September 2008	10 September 2013
Serbia[a]	UEFA	6	1	1	4	7	15	-8	16.67%	5 September 1999	15 October 2013
Slovakia	UEFA	8	0	2	6	3	16	-13	0%	3 September 2000	14 June 2015
Slovenia	UEFA	4	3	0	1	9	4	+5	75%	13 October 1993	23 March 2016
South Korea	AFC	2	0	1	1	3	4	-1	0%	18 April 1998	7 June 2000
Spain	UEFA	7	0	0	7	3	20	-16	0%	12 October 1994	11 June 2017
Sweden	UEFA	3	0	0	3	1	4	-3	0%	24 March 2001	3 June 2013
Turkey	UEFA	8	1	2	5	9	14	-5	12.5%	31 August 1994	5 June 2017
Ukraine	UEFA	4	1	1	2	1	3	-2	25%	11 October 2003	9 October 2015
United States	CONCACAF	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0%	16 May 1998	16 May 1998
Wales	UEFA	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	50%	6 September 2013	11 October 2013
Total	60 nations	226	66	57	103	260	305	-45	29.2%
a.^ "Serbia" includes matches against  Serbia and Montenegro.

Statistics

See all-time players list.
Updated as for 19 November 2018

Captains

This is a list of Macedonian captains for five or more official and friendly matches. Goran Pandev is the current captain of the Macedonian National Team.

Note: Some of the other players to have captained the team include: Dragi Kanatlarovski (1 cap) 1993, Ilija Najdoski (3) 1994, Dančo Celeski (2) 1995, Ljupčo Markovski (4) 1995 to 1997, Mitko Stojkovski (2) 1998, Boban Babunski (2) 1996 and 1999, Gjorgji Hristov (2) 2002 to 2003, Petar Miloševski (2) 2004 and 2008, Ilcho Naumoski (1) 2008, Igor Mitreski (4) 2007 to 2010, Aleksandar Lazevski (1) 2010, Nikolče Noveski (4) 2011 to 2013, Daniel Mojsov (1) 2012, Boban Grncharov (3) 2012 to 2014, Blazhe Ilijoski (1) 2014, Blagoja Todorovski (1) 2014 , Vanche Shikov (4) 2015 and Ivan Trichkovski (1) 2018.

Coaching history

Updated on 19 November 2018 ^[67]

Name	First game	Last game	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Andon Donchevski	13 October 1993	15 November 1995	17	5	5	7	23	23	0	29.41%
Gjoko Hadjievski	27 March 1996	9 June 1999	28	10	7	11	42	37	+5	35.71%
Dragi Kanatlarovski	5 September 1999	13 February 2005	31	8	8	15	32	37	−5	25.81%
Gjore Jovanovski	2 June 2001	10 January 2002	13	0	6	7	9	27	−18	0%
Nikola Ilievski	27 March 2002	11 June 2003	13	3	4	6	23	24	-1	23.08%
Slobodan Santrač	30 March 2005	17 August 2005	4	1	0	3	4	12	−8	25%
Boban Babunski (caretaker)	7 September 2005	10 August 2011	4	2	1	1	4	6	−2	50%
Srečko Katanec	1 March 2006	1 April 2009	27	9	7	11	28	29	−1	33.33%
Mirsad Jonuz	6 June 2009	4 June 2011	20	7	4	9	21	19	+2	35%
Vlatko Kostov (caretaker)	7 September 2010	7 September 2010	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0%
John Toshack	2 September 2011	29 May 2012	8	1	4	3	4	8	−4	12.5%
Goce Sedloski (caretaker)	15 August 2012	15 August 2012	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100%
Chedomir Janevski	7 September 2012	10 September 2013	14	5	1	8	15	19	−4	35.71%
Zoran Stratev (caretaker)	11 October 2013	15 October 2013	2	0	0	2	1	6	−5	0%
Boshko Gjurovski	5 March 2014	30 March 2015	11	2	3	6	7	12	−5	18.18%
Ljubinko Drulović	14 June 2015	12 October 2015	5	0	1	4	1	6	−5	0%
Igor Angelovski	12 November 2015		27	12	5	10	43	30	+13	44.44%