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

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

. 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

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

UEFA U-21 record

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

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

: 5th of 5 in qualification group. *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

: 5th of 5 in qualification group. * 2002: 5th of 6 in qualification group. * 2004: 5th of 5 in qualification group. * 2006: 6th of 6 in qualification group. * 2007: 2nd of 3 in qualification group. * 2009: 4th of 5 in qualification group. * 2011: 4th of 6 in qualification group. *

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...

: 2nd of 5 in qualification group. * 2015: 4th of 5 in qualification group. *

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...

: 6th of 6 in qualification group. *

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

: 4th of 6 in qualification group.

Managers

* Oganes Zanazanyan * Samvel Petrosyan - 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 - From 2011- October 22, 2013 * Abraham Khashmanyan - October 22, 2013 - November 30, 2014 * Sargis Hovsepyan - 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 * Rafael Nazaryan - 2020 -

Players

Current squad

* The following players were called up for the

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification The 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-21 football competition to determine the 14 teams that would be joining the automatically qualified co-hosts Romania and Georgia in the 2023 UEFA European Under ...

. * 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