Greece national under-21 football team

Greece Under-21

Nickname(s)

Εθνική Ελπίδων
("National team of Hopes")

Association

Hellenic Football Federation

Head coach

Antonis Nikopolidis

Captain

Charalambos Lykogiannis

Top scorer

Demis Nikolaidis (15)

First colours

Second colours

Biggest win

Greece 6 - 0 Luxembourg
(Greece; 1993)

Greece 6 - 0 Latvia

(Greece; 1999)

Biggest defeat

Hungary 7 - 0 Greece

(Hungary; 1976)

UEFA U-21 Championship

Appearances

4 (first in 1988)

Best result

Runners-up, 1988, 1998

Greece U-21-national football team (2011-09-05).

The Greece national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years.

The under-21 competition rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two-year competition,so technically it is up to an U-23 competition.To be eligible for the Greece National Team, all the football players must hold Hellenic (Greek) nationality and comply with the provisions of Article 15 of the regulations governing the Application of FIFA Statutes. A list of 35 football players must be submitted to the UEFA administration 30 days before the European Under-21 Football Championship opening match. Only 22 of the 35 players listed are authorised to take part in the final tournament and 3 of them must be goalkeepers.

As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Sotiris Ninis has done recently. It is also possible to play more than one country at youth level or different at youth level and different at senior level (providing the player is eligible). But a football player can represent only the senior national team that capped him first.

Also in existence are national teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s.Greece also has a women's national team.

Greece National Team Competition Record

Competition	Pld	W	D	L
UEFA U-21 Championship	169	77	29	63

UEFA European Under-21 Championship Record

Year	Position
1978	Did Not Qualify
1980	Did Not Qualify
1982	Did Not Qualify
1984	Did Not Qualify
1986	Did Not Qualify
1988
1990	Did Not Qualify
1992	Did Not Qualify
1994	Quarter finalist
1996	Did Not Qualify
1998
2000	Play-Off for Final Tournament
2002	Quarter finalist
2004	Did Not Qualify
2006	Did Not Qualify
2007	Did Not Qualify
2009	Did Not Qualify
2011	Play-Off for Final Tournament
2013	Did Not Qualify
2015	Did Not Qualify
2017	Did Not Qualify
Total	6/20

Euro 2015 Under-21 Championship qualification

Group 7

Main article: 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Current squad

Squad called for 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches against Israel on 28 March 2016.^[1]

Caps and goals as of 28 March 2016.

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club

1	1GK	Vasilios Barkas	(1994-05-30) 30 May 1994	1	0	Atromitos
13	1GK	Stefanos Kapino	(1994-04-18) 18 April 1994	10	0	Olympiacos

2	2DF	Manolis Saliakas	(1996-09-12) 12 September 1996	2	0	Olympiacos
3	2DF	Boyanis Shopovidis	(1994-07-17) 17 July 1994	2	0	Panathinaikos
4	2DF	Spyros Risvanis	(1994-01-03) 3 January 1994	8	0	Panionios
5	2DF	Adam Tzanetopoulos	(1995-02-10) 10 February 1995	7	0	AEK Athens
14	2DF	Praxitelis Vouros	(1995-05-05) 5 May 1995	6	0	Olympiacos
16	2DF	Achilleas Poungouras	(1995-12-13) 13 December 1995	3	0	Veria
18	2DF	Dimitris Giannoulis	(1995-10-17) 17 October 1995	2	0	Veria

6	3MF	Emmanouil Siopis (Vice-captain)	(1994-05-14) 14 May 1994	11	0	Panionios
8	3MF	Charis Charisis	(1995-01-12) 12 January 1995	7	0	PAOK
10	3MF	Taxiarchis Fountas	(1995-09-04) 4 September 1995	5	1	Asteras Tripolis
17	3MF	Giorgos Mygas	(1994-04-07) 7 April 1994	1	0	Panetolikos
19	3MF	Kyriakos Savvidis	(1995-06-20) 20 June 1995	2	0	PAOK
20	3MF	Christos Donis	(1994-10-09) 9 October 1994	2	0	Panathinaikos
21	3MF	Giannis Mystakidis	(1994-12-07) 7 December 1994	4	0	PAOK

7	4FW	Charis Mavrias (Captain)	(1994-04-21) 21 April 1994	22	5	Sunderland
9	4FW	Nikos Ioannidis	(1994-04-26) 26 April 1994	9	6	Asteras Tripoli
11	4FW	Kosmas Tsilianidis	(1994-05-09) 9 May 1994	8	1	Iraklis
15	4FW	Nikos Vergos	(1996-01-13) 13 January 1996	2	1	Olympiacos

Recent call ups

The following players have also been called up to the Greece under-21 squad and remain eligible:

Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
1GK	Nestor Gkekas	(1995-03-07) 7 March 1995	0	0	Fostiras

2DF	Stelios Pozatzidis	(1994-06-24) 24 June 1994	0	0	Panionios

3MF	Dimitris Grontis	(1994-08-24) 24 August 1994	0	0	AEK Athens

4FW	Dimitrios Manos	(1994-09-16) 16 September 1994	1	0	Ergotelis

Player withdrew from the squad before any games had been played.

Honors

Twice Balkan Youth Championship winners (1969, 1971).

References

External links

Hellenic Football Federation (Greek) (English)
/Greece under-21 on UEFA.com

Football in Greece

Overview	Hellenic Football Federation List of Unions Awards By number of titles List of clubs List of venues

National teams	Greece men U-23 U-21 U-20 U-19 U-17 U-16 Greece women Greece Beach Soccer men Military football team

League competitions	Superleague Football League Gamma Ethniki Delta Ethniki FCA Winners' Championship Local Championships Football League System Panhellenic Championship (defunct) Champions Top goalscorers Superleague Football League Women's top division

Cup competitions	Greek Cup Super Cup League Cup (defunct) Gamma Ethniki Cup Amateurs' Super Cup Amateurs Cup Women's Cup

Miscellaneous	P.O.K. Koriopolis scandal 2015 Greek football scandal Greek football clubs in European competitions

National under-21 football teams of Europe (UEFA)

Active	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

Defunct	Czechoslovakia East Germany USSR Yugoslavia

UEFA European U-21 and U-23 Championship

Under-23 Championship

Without host	1970–1972 1972–1974 1974–1976

Under-21 Championship

Without host	1976–1978 1978–1980 1980–1982 1982–1984 1984–1986 1986–1988 1988–1990 1990–1992

With host	France 1994 Spain 1996 Romania 1998 Slovakia 2000 Switzerland 2002 Germany 2004 Portugal 2006 Netherlands 2007 Sweden 2009 Denmark 2011 Israel 2013 Czech Republic 2015 Poland 2017 Italy 2019

Qualification	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017

Finals	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Squads	1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

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