Greece national under-21 football team

Greece Under-21

Nickname(s)	Εθνική Ελπίδων ("National team of Hopes")
Association	Hellenic Football Federation
Head coach	Kostas Tsanas
Captain	Ioannis Potouridis
Most caps	Kostas Fortounis (14)
Top scorer	Demis Nikolaidis (14)
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 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 national team.

Greece National Team Competition Record[edit]

UEFA European Under-21 Championship Record[edit]

Year	Position
1978	Group stage
1980	Group stage
1982	Group stage
1984	Group stage
1986	Group stage
1988
1990	Group stage
1992	Group stage
1994	Quarter finalist
1996	Group stage
1998
2000	Quarter finalist
2002	Group stage
2004	Did Not Qualify
2006	Did Not Qualify
2007	Did Not Qualify
2009	Did Not Qualify
2011	Did Not Qualify
Total	13/18

Euro 2013 Under-21 Championship[edit]

Group 1[edit]

Team v t e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Germany 10 9 1 0 39 9 +30 28  Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 6 2 2 25 12 +13 20  Greece 10 4 1 5 14 15 −1 13  Belarus 10 4 1 5 11 17 −6 13  Cyprus 10 4 0 6 16 20 −4 12  San Marino 10 0 1 9 2 34 −32 1

Bosnia and Herzegovina  — 3–0 5–1 4–4 4–0 3–1 Belarus  1–1 — 0–3 0–1 1–3 1–0 Cyprus  2–1 1–3 — 0–3 0–2 6–0 Germany  3–0 3–0 4–1 — 1–0 7–0 Greece  0–1 2–3 1–0 4–5 — 2–0 San Marino  0–3 0–2 1–2 0–8 0–0 —

Current squad[edit]

Current Greece U-21 squad for EURO 2011-2013 qualifier vs San Marino October 6, 2011 and Belarus October 11, caps and goals accurate as of September 06 ^[1]

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club 1 1GK Ioannis Gelios (1992-04-24) April 24, 1992 (age 21) 1 0 FC Augsburg 13 1GK Gianniotis Andreas (1992-12-12) December 12, 1992 (age 20) 0 0 Olympiacos 12 1GK Kapino Stefanos (1994-03-18) March 18, 1994 (age 19) 1 0 Panathinaikos 2 2DF Tzanakakis Manolis (1992-04-30) April 30, 1992 (age 21) 0 0 Ergotelis 19 2DF Potouridis Ioannis (1992-02-27) February 27, 1992 (age 21) 8 3 Platanias 4 2DF Bougaidis Mavroudis (1993-06-01) June 1, 1993 (age 20) 1 0 AEK 5 2DF Lagos Anastasios (1992-04-12) April 12, 1992 (age 21) 13 0 Panathinaikos 3 2DF Stafylidis Kostas (1993-12-02) December 2, 1993 (age 19) 4 0 PAOK 18 2DF Konstantinos Rougalas (1993-10-13) October 13, 1993 (age 19) 0 0 Olympiacos 6 3MF Ballas Panagiotis (1993-09-06) September 6, 1993 (age 19) 1 0 Atromitos 7 3MF Gianniotas Giannis (1993-04-29) April 29, 1993 (age 20) 1 0 Aris Thessaloniki 14 3MF Kourbelis Dimitris (1993-11-02) November 2, 1993 (age 19) 1 0 Asteras Tripoli 10 3MF Katidis Giorgos (1993-02-13) February 13, 1993 (age 20) 1 0 AEK 8 3MF Kolovos Dimitris (1993-04-27) April 27, 1993 (age 20) 1 0 Panionios 16 3MF Fourlanos Spyros (1993-11-19) November 19, 1993 (age 19) 2 0 Club Brugge 17 3MF Pelkas Dimitris (1993-10-26) October 26, 1993 (age 19) 0 0 PAOK 9 4FW Diamantakos Dimitris (1993-03-05) March 5, 1993 (age 20) 1 1 Aris Thessaloniki 11 4FW Vellios Apostolos (1992-01-08) January 8, 1992 (age 21) 6 2 Everton 15 4FW Bakasetas Tassos (1993-06-28) June 28, 1993 (age 19) 0 0 Asteras Tripoli

See also[edit]

• UEFA U21 Football Championship
• Greece National Football Team (Senior)
• Greece National U19 Football Team
• Greece National U17 Football Team

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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