Greece National Under-21 Football Team

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.

History

The first time that Greece's national team of hopes were formed was in 1968, with the aim of participating in the first Balkan Youth Championship that took place at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki.

In their maiden match she played with the corresponding team in Turkey and it was a draw without goals.

The first eleven were the following: Tourkomenis, B. Intzoglou (59' Dimitriou), Chaliambalias, Kyriazis, Athanasopoulos, Karafeskos, Filakouris, Sarafis (46' Stoligas), K. Papaioannou, Koudas, Kritikopoulos (70' Alexiadis).

In the following years, Greece won twice the Balkan Youth Championship (1969 and 1971), and they fought twice (1988 and 1998) in the final of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

Competition Record

''As of 23 September 2022''

UEFA European Under-21 Championship Record

Honours

*Balkan Youth Championship
: Winners (2): 1969, 1971

*Valeriy Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament
: Third place (2):, 2015, 2018

Results and schedule

The following is a list of match results from the previous 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

2021

2022

Euro 2023 Under-21 Championship qualification

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Coaching staff

Managers

The following table provides a summary of the complete record of each Greece team manager including their results regarding European Under-21 Championship.

:''Key: Pld–games played, W–games won, D–games drawn; L–games lost, %–win percentage''

Last updated: 23 September 2022. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

Players

Current squad

The following players were named in the squad for the friendly game against Poland, to be played 23 September 2022.

''Caps and goals updated as of 23 September 2022 after the match against Poland. Names in italics denote players who have been capped for the senior team.''

Former squads

* 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
* 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
* 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece

See also

*Greece national football team
*Greece national under-23 football team
*Greece national under-20 football team
*Greece national under-19 football team
* Greece national under-17 football team

References

External links

Greece U-21
at HFF
Greece U-21
at UEFA
UEFA European U-21 Championship
at ''uefa.com''

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