Republic of Macedonia national football team
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| Nickname(s) |
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| Association | Фудбалска Федерација на Македонија – Fudbalska Federacija na Makedonija (ФФМ/FFM) |
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach | Igor Angelovski |
| Captain | Goran Pandev |
| Most caps | Goce Sedloski (100) |
| Top scorer | Goran Pandev (27) |
| Home stadium | Philip II Arena |
| FIFA code | MKD |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 165  3 (9 February 2017)
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| Highest | 46 (October 2008) |
| Lowest | 165 (February 2017) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 113 (26 January 2017) |
| Highest | 55 (June 2010) |
| Lowest | 113 (January 2017) |
| First international | |
 Slovenia 1–4 Macedonia  (Kranj, Slovenia; 13 October 1993) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Liechtenstein 1–11 Macedonia  (Eschen–Mauren, Liechtenstein; 9 November 1996) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
Macedonia 0–5 Belgium  (Skopje, Republic of Macedonia; 7 June 1995) Macedonia 0–5 Slovakia  (Skopje, Republic of Macedonia; 7 October 2001)  Hungary 5–0 Macedonia (Budapest, Hungary; 14 November 2001)  Czech Republic 6–1 Macedonia (Teplice, Czech Republic; 8 June 2005) |
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The Macedonia national football team (Macedonian: Фудбалска репрезентација на Македонија, Fudbalska reprezentacija na Makedonija) is the national football team of the Republic of Macedonia and is controlled by the Football Federation of Macedonia. The venue for home games is the Philip II Arena in Skopje.
On 12 August 2009, as part of the 100-year anniversary of football in Macedonia, the national team played a friendly match against Spain. Star player Goran Pandev scored two goals in the first half to give Macedonia a 2–0 lead before Spain scored three goals in the second half to record the 3–2 victory in front of a record crowd of 30,000 at the renovated Philip II Arena.
The Macedonia national football team has yet to qualify for a World Cup Finals tournament. In their attempt at qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, they finished fourth in Group 9 with seven points. Surprisingly, due to the closeness of the group throughout the campaign (only five teams in the group), Macedonia remained in contention to qualify until the final group game, which Macedonia lost 2–1 away to Norway.
Macedonia was part of the Yugoslavia until Seoul 1988. After that, they never managed to qualify from Barcelona 1992 to Rio 2016.
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