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
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	163	75	28	60

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	TBD
Total	6/20

Euro 2015 Under-21 Championship qualification

Group 7

Main article: 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification Group 4

Current squad

Squad called for 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification matches against Hungary on 16 November 2015.

Caps and goals as of 1 January 2016.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club 1 1GK Vassilis 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 Diamantis Chouchoumis (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 7 4FW Charis Mavrias (Captain) (1994-04-21) 21 April 1994 22 5 Sunderland 9 4FW Nikos Ioannidis (1994-04-26) 26 April 1994 7 6 Borussia Dortmund II 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 Elche 21 3MF Giannis Mystakidis (1994-12-07) 7 December 1994 4 0 PAOK

Recent call ups

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

Pos.	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

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

Honors

Twice Balkan Youth Championship winners (1969, 1971).

See also

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

External links

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