The Armenia national under-21 football team is the youth football team of

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. The team is based mostly on the young players from the league and competes every two years in order to qualify for the

European Under-21 Football Championship The UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the UEFA Under-21 Championship or simply the Euro Under-21, is a biennial football competition contested by the European men's under-21 national teams of the UEFA member associations. Since 1992, the compe ...

. The team played its first match in 1994, Armenia having until 1992 been part of the

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UEFA U-21 record

* 1978 - 1991: part of USSR * 1992 - 1994: did not participate * 1996: 6th of 6 in qualification group. * 1998: 5th of 5 in qualification group. *

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: 5th of 5 in qualification group. *

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: 5th of 6 in qualification group. * 2004: 5th of 5 in qualification group. *

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: 6th of 6 in qualification group. * 2007: 2nd of 3 in qualification group. * 2009: 4th of 5 in qualification group. *

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: 4th of 6 in qualification group. *

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: 2nd of 5 in qualification group. *

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: 4th of 5 in qualification group. * 2017: 6th of 6 in qualification group. * 2019: 4th of 6 in qualification group.

Managers

Oganes Zanazanyan Hovhannes Arutyunovich Zanazanyan ( hy, Հովհանես Զանազանյան, russian: Оганес Арутюнович Заназанян; 10 December 1946 – 4 October 2015) was a Soviet football player and an Armenian coach. Honours * Sov ...

Samvel Petrosyan Samvel Petrosyan ( hy, Սամվել Պետրոսյան, russian: Самвел Александрович Петросян; born on 27 September 1954) in Yerevan, is a former Soviet football striker. Now is manager who has worked as the coach of ...

- From September 1994- *

Armen Gyulbudaghyants Armen Gyulbudaghyants ( hy, Արմեն Գյուլբուդաղյանց), is an Armenian association football manager and former footballer. He is the former manager of the Armenia national football team. Career During his career, Gyulbudaghyants m ...

* Andranik Adamyan *

Mihai Stoica Mihai Stoica (born 12 April 1965), commonly known as Meme Stoica, is a former president of Oțelul Galați and former general manager of Unirea Urziceni. Since November 2010 until September 2011, Mihai Stoica was the manager of FCSB. He was fo ...

- From 2003-August 2004 *

Vardan Minasyan Vardan Minasyan ( hy, Վարդան Մինասյան; born 5 January 1974) is a former Armenian footballer who played as a midfielder, and is the former football manager of FC Taraz in the Kazakhstan Premier League. Minasyan has been largely cred ...

- From August 2004 – 2007 *

Varuzhan Sukiasyan Varuzhan Sukiasyan ( hy, Վարուժան Սուքիասյան, russian: Варужан Гарсеванович Сукиасян; born 5 August 1956 in Yerevan), is an Armenian association football manager and former player. He is the brother of ...

* Flemming Serritslev - From March 2009-September 2010 *

Rafael Nazaryan Rafael Nazaryan ( hy, Ռաֆայել Նազարյան, born on 26 March 1975 in Yerevan, Soviet Union) is a retired Armenian football midfielder and a current manager. He was a member of the Armenia national team and participated in 23 internat ...

- From 2011- October 22, 2013 *

Abraham Khashmanyan Abraham Khashmanyan ( hy, Աբրահամ Խաշմանյան; born 11 November 1967) is an Armenian football manager and former player. Honours Alashkert * Armenian Premier League 2015–16, 2016–17 * Armenian Cup: 2018–19 * Armenian S ...

- October 22, 2013 - November 30, 2014 *

Sargis Hovsepyan Sargis Hovsepyan ( hy, Սարգիս Հովսեփյան; born on 2 November 1972) is an Armenian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Hovsepyan was the long-time captain of the Armenia national team. He participated in 133 ...

- December 1, 2014 - June 5, 2015 *Artak Oseyan - June 6, 2015 - November 26, 2015 * Karen Barseghyan - January 12, 2016 - June 30, 2017 * Artur Voskanyan - May 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018 *

- July 1, 2018 - October 6, 2018 *Antonio Jesus Flores - May 1, 2019 - 2020 *

- 2020 -

Players

Current squad

* The following players were called up for the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification. * Match dates: 2, 6 and 12 June 2022 * Opposition: , and * Caps and goals correct as of: 29 March 2022, after the match against

Recent call-ups

Players that have been called up within the past 12 months and are eligible for the 2021 European U21 Football Championship Qualifiers.

UEFA Euro U-21 qualification

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group H

Standings

References

External links

Uefa Under-21 website
Contains fixtures and results {{UEFA U-21 Championship European national under-21 association football teams Youth football in Armenia Armenia national youth football team