Liechtenstein national under-21 football team

The Liechtenstein national under-21 football team represents the under-21s of Liechtenstein in the UEFA U-21 Championship, and is controlled by the Liechtenstein Football Association, the governing body of football in Liechtenstein. On 5 October 2022, it was announced that this team would be dissolved for 2023 and 2024, and would return in time for the UEFA U21-Championship 2027 qualification campaign. This decision was made because most of the higher quality players in this age category would end up playing for the senior team.[1]

Liechtenstein U-21
AssociationLiechtenstein Football Association
(Liechtensteiner Fussballverband)
Head coachMichael Koller
Most capsJens Hofer (22)
Top scorerSimon Kühne (3)
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Liechtenstein 1–4 Northern Ireland 
(Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 12 April 2006)
Last international
 Liechtenstein 0–9 Portugal 
(Vaduz, Liechtenstein; 7 June 2022)
Biggest win
 Liechtenstein 1–0 Azerbaijan 
(Eschen, Liechtenstein; 6 June 2019)
Biggest defeat
 Portugal 11–0 Liechtenstein 
(Vizela, Portugal; 7 October 2021)
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances0
Best resultNone

Overview

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The Liechtenstein under-21s first attempted to qualify for the UEFA U-21 Championship in 2006, where they played a home-and-home against Northern Ireland, losing 1–8 on aggregate, thus being eliminated from qualifying.

The Liechtenstein under-21s lost their first 59 competitive fixtures, being outscored 232–17. They avoided defeat for the first time on 6 June 2019, beating Azerbaijan during qualifying for the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship tournament.[2]

UEFA U-21 Championship record

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Year Result GP W D L GS GA
  2007 did not qualify 2 0 0 2 1 8
  2009 8 0 0 8 4 31
  2011 8 0 0 8 1 27
  2013 8 0 0 8 4 35
  2015 8 0 0 8 3 34
  2017 10 0 0 10 1 40
 /  2019 10 0 0 10 2 42
 /  2021 10 1 0 9 3 35
 /  2023 10 0 0 10 0 63

Current squad

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Last squad

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No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Tim-Tiado Öhri (2003-12-15) 15 December 2003 (age 20) 1 0   Vaduz
1GK Jonas Strunk (2003-07-30) 30 July 2003 (age 21) 0 0   Schaan
1GK Luca Vanoni (2001-01-12) 12 January 2001 (age 23) 5 0   Balzers
2DF Niklas Beck (2001-03-25) 25 March 2001 (age 23) 17 0   Vaduz
2DF Lukas Büchel (2001-09-12) 12 September 2001 (age 23) 11 0   Ruggell
2DF Fabian Ducak (2001-01-04) 4 January 2001 (age 23) 6 0   Ruggell
2DF Lukas Graber (2001-05-03) 3 May 2001 (age 23) 17 1   Eschen/Mauren
2DF Noah Graber (2001-05-03) 3 May 2001 (age 23) 17 0   Eschen/Mauren
2DF Jonas Hilti (2000-03-22) 22 March 2000 (age 24) 17 0   Vaduz
2DF David Jäger (2004-07-04) 4 July 2004 (age 20) 2 0   Vaduz
2DF Fabian Unterrainer (2001-06-05) 5 June 2001 (age 23) 19 0   Donau Linz
3MF Noah Frick (2001-10-16) 16 October 2001 (age 23) 11 2   Gossau
3MF Noah Frommelt (2000-12-18) 18 December 2000 (age 23) 9 0   Eschen/Mauren
3MF Alessio Hasler (2005-07-07) 7 July 2005 (age 19) 1 0   Vaduz
3MF Marius Hilti (2000-03-05) 5 March 2000 (age 24) 0 0   Eschen/Mauren
3MF Liam Kranz (2003-07-17) 17 July 2003 (age 21) 7 0   Schaan
3MF Jakob Lorenz (2001-09-11) 11 September 2001 (age 23) 6 0   Blau-Weiss Feldkirch
3MF Simon Lüchinger (2002-11-28) 28 November 2002 (age 21) 14 0   Vaduz
3MF Andrin Netzer (2002-01-11) 11 January 2002 (age 22) 16 0   Vaduz
3MF Andrin Risch (2002-07-11) 11 July 2002 (age 22) 1 0   Ruggell
3MF Emanuel Zünd (2004-12-29) 29 December 2004 (age 19) 2 0   Vaduz
4FW Joshua Eggenberger (2001-03-23) 23 March 2001 (age 23) 7 0   Rebstein
4FW Philipp Gassner (2003-08-30) 30 August 2003 (age 21) 7 0   AKA Vorarlberg
4FW Fabio Luque Notaro (2005-08-31) 31 August 2005 (age 19) 2 0   Vaduz
4FW Severin Schlegel (2004-07-24) July 24, 2004 (age 20) 9 0   Vaduz
4FW Tim Schreiber (2002-02-03) 3 February 2002 (age 22) 15 0   Ruggell
4FW Johannes Schädler (2003-07-12) 12 July 2003 (age 21) 8 0   Vaduz

Last call-ups

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The following players have been selected in the last 12 months and are still eligible to represent.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
GK Gabriel Foser (2002-09-02) September 2, 2002 (age 22) 4 0   Vaduz v.   Greece, 25 March 2022
GK Raffael Loosli (2000-08-31) August 31, 2000 (age 24) 2 0   Triesenberg v.   Belarus, 16 November 2021

DF Elias Jäger (2002-02-15) February 15, 2002 (age 22) 7 0   Ostermundigen v.   Greece, 25 March 2022
DF Silvan Schiess (2003-11-07) November 7, 2003 (age 21) 6 0   Rapperswil-Jona v.   Greece, 25 March 2022
DF Marius Hasler (2002-10-03) October 3, 2002 (age 22) 5 0   Ruggell v.   Greece, 25 March 2022
DF David Tschupp (2002-11-19) November 19, 2002 (age 21) 1 0   Vaduz v.   Greece, 25 March 2022

MF Nicolas Kaiser (2002-06-29) June 29, 2002 (age 22) 0 0   Eschen/Mauren v.   Belarus, 12 October 2021
MF Lucas Neusüss (2003-04-17) April 17, 2003 (age 21) 1 0   Triesen v.   Cyprus, 3 September 2021

Notes:

  • PRE = Preliminary squad

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Nächste U21 EM-Qualifikation ohne Liechtenstein". www.lfv.li (in German). Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  2. ^ "Under-21 - Liechtenstein-Azerbaijan - Match info - UEFA.com".
  3. ^ "U21 schliesst EM-Qualifikation ab" (PDF) (in German). Liechtensteiner Fussballverband. 30 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
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