Andorra national football team

Andorra

Association	Andorran Football Federation (Federació Andorrana de Futbol)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Koldo Álvarez de Eulate
Captain	Óscar Sonejee
Most caps	Óscar Sonejee (85)
Top scorer	Ildefons Lima (7)
Home stadium	Comunal d'Andorra la Vella
FIFA code	AND
FIFA ranking	201
Highest FIFA ranking	125 (September 2005)
Lowest FIFA ranking	202 (November 2009)
Elo ranking	181
Home colours Away colours
First international
Andorra 1–6 Estonia (Andorra la Vella, Andorra; January 1, 1996)
Biggest win
Andorra 2–0 Belarus (Andorra la Vella, Andorra; April 26, 2000) Andorra 2–0 Albania (Andorra la Vella, Andorra; April 17, 2002)
Biggest defeat
Czech Republic 8–1 Andorra (Liberec, Czech Republic; June 4, 2005) Croatia 7–0 Andorra (Zagreb, Croatia; October 7, 2006)

The Andorra national association football team is controlled by the Andorran Football Federation. Andorra is a very new country in international association football; the national team has existed since the mid-90s and the Federation was affiliated to FIFA as recently as 1996. They have recorded three victories so far, all at home.

In the 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign, they received more red and yellow cards than any other team.^[1]

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1998 - Did not enter
• 2002 to 2010 - Did not qualify

European Championship record

• 1960 to 1996 - Did not enter
• 2000 to 2008 - Did not qualify

All–time record against all nations

As of September 9, 2009

Against	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD	% Won
Albania	3	1	0	2	2	4	-2	33%
Armenia	6	0	1	5	2	13	-11	0%
Azerbaijan	3	0	2	1	1	2	-1	0%
Belarus	4	1	0	3	4	11	-7	25%
Belgium	2	0	0	2	0	4	-4	0%
Brazil	1	0	0	1	0	3	-3	0%
Bulgaria	2	0	0	2	1	5	-4	0%
China PR	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0%
Croatia	6	0	0	6	0	24	-24	0%
Cyprus	2	0	0	2	2	8	-6	0%
Czech Republic	2	0	0	2	1	12	-11	0%
England	4	0	0	4	0	16	-16	0%
Estonia	9	0	0	9	5	23	-18	0%
Faroe Islands	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0%
Finland	2	0	1	1	0	3	-3	0%
France	3	0	0	3	0	7	-7	0%
Macedonia	4	1	1	2	1	6	-5	25%
Gabon	1	0	0	1	0	2	-2	0%
Iceland	3	0	0	3	0	8	-8	0%
Israel	2	0	0	2	1	6	-5	0%
Kazakhstan	2	0	0	2	1	6	-5	0%
Latvia	3	0	0	3	1	9	-8	0%
Lithuania	2	0	0	2	1	7	-6	0%
Malta	2	0	2	0	2	2	0	0%
Netherlands	4	0	0	4	0	16	-16	0%
Portugal	3	0	0	3	1	14	-13	0%
Republic of Ireland	2	0	0	2	1	6	-5	0%
Romania	2	0	0	2	1	7	-6	0%
Russia	5	0	0	5	2	15	-13	0%
Spain	1	0	0	1	0	4	-4	0%
Ukraine	4	0	0	4	0	17	-17	0%
Total	89	3	9	77	30	253	-223	3.37%

Current squad

The following players were a part of the matchday squad for the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifiers against Republic of Ireland on September 7, 2010. Caps and goals correct as of September 7, 2010.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Josep Gómes December 3, 1985 (1985-12-03) (age 25) 15 0 Ciudad de Vícar 2 DF Jordi Rubio November 1, 1987 (1987-11-01) (age 23) 12 0 UE Santa Coloma 3 DF Marc Bernaus February 2, 1977 (1977-02-02) (age 34) 21 1 Girona 4 MF Óscar Sonejee March 26, 1976 (1976-03-26) (age 34) 85 3 FC Santa Coloma 5 FW Fernando Silva May 16, 1977 (1977-05-16) (age 33) 37 2 Imperio Mérida 6 DF Ildefons Lima December 10, 1979 (1979-12-10) (age 31) 66 7 Bellinzona 7 MF Marc Pujol August 21, 1982 (1982-08-21) (age 28) 52 2 Andorra 8 MF Marcio Vieira October 10, 1984 (1984-10-10) (age 26) 33 0 Monzón 9 FW Sebastià Gómez November 1, 1983 (1983-11-01) (age 27) 7 0 Sant Julià 10 MF Manolo Jiménez August 12, 1976 (1976-08-12) (age 34) 73 1 FC Santa Coloma 11 MF Sergi Moreno November 25, 1987 (1987-11-25) (age 23) 30 0 Hellín 12 FW Xavier Andorrà June 7, 1985 (1985-06-07) (age 25) 22 0 Andorra 13 GK Ferran Pol February 28, 1983 (1983-02-28) (age 27) 1 0 Andorra 15 MF Daniel Mejías July 26, 1982 (1982-07-26) (age 28) 3 0 Andorra 16 DF Cristian Martínez August 23, 1977 (1977-08-23) (age 33) 7 1 Andorra 17 FW Iván Lorenzo April 15, 1986 (1986-04-15) (age 24) 4 0 Alcampell 18 MF Josep Ayala April 8, 1980 (1980-04-08) (age 30) 51 0 Andorra 19 DF Jordi Escura April 19, 1980 (1980-04-19) (age 30) 63 0 Alcarràs

UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying

Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Russia 4 3 0 1 6 3 +3 9  Republic of Ireland 4 2 1 1 7 5 +2 7  Armenia 4 2 1 1 9 4 +5 7  Slovakia 4 2 1 1 4 4 0 7  Macedonia 4 1 1 2 4 4 0 4  Andorra 4 0 0 4 1 11 −10 0

Andorra  — 2 Sep '11 0–2 7 Oct '11 0–2 26 Mar '11 Armenia  4–0 — 7 Oct '11 0–1 26 Mar '11 3–1 Macedonia  6 Sep '11 2–2 — 4 Jun '11 0–1 11 Oct '11 Republic of Ireland  3–1 11 Oct '11 26 Mar '11 — 2–3 2 Sep '11 Russia  11 Oct '11 4 Jun '11 2 Sep '11 6 Sep '11 — 0–1 Slovakia  4 Jun '11 6 Sep '11 1–0 1–1 7 Oct '11 —

3-way tiebreaker: Republic of Ireland (4 pts); Armenia (3 pts); Slovakia (1 pt)

International goals

Andorra has scored very few goals in competitive internationals (UEFA European Football Championship or FIFA World Cup matches), the list below is comprehensive.

No.	Comp.1	Date	Opponent	Scorer(s)	Final Score2
1	ECQ	5 September 1998	Armenia	Jesús Lucendo	1–3
2	ECQ	31 March 1999	Russia	Emiliano González	1–6
3	ECQ	8 September 1999	Russia	Justo Ruiz	1–2
4	WCQ	2 September 2000	Cyprus	Emiliano González	2–33
5				Ildefons Lima
6	WCQ	7 October 2000	Estonia	Justo Ruiz	1–2
7	WCQ	25 April 2001	Republic of Ireland	Ildefons Lima	1–3
8	WCQ	1 September 2001	Portugal	Robert Alonso	1–7
9	ECQ	16 October 2002	Bulgaria	Antoni Lima	1–2
10	WCQ	8 September 2004	Romania	Marc Pujol	1–5
11	WCQ	13 October 2004	Macedonia	Marc Bernaus	1–04
12	WCQ	26 March 2005	Armenia	Fernando Silva	1–2
13	WCQ	4 June 2005	Czech Republic	Gabriel Riera	1–8
14	ECQ	6 September 2006	Israel	Juli Fernández	1–4
15	ECQ	22 August 2007	Estonia	Fernando Silva	1–2
16	WCQ	10 September 2008	Belarus	Marc Pujol	1–3
17	WCQ	6 June 2009	Belarus	Ildefons Lima	1–5
18	WCQ	9 September 2009	Kazakhstan	Óscar Sonejee	1–3
19	ECQ	7 September 2010	Ireland	Cristian Martínez	1–3

• ¹ ECQ = UEFA European Football Championship qualification match. WCQ = FIFA World Cup qualification match.

• ² Andorra score always shown first in score.

• ³ The Andorra-Cyprus match in 2000 is the only record of Andorra scoring two goals in any competitive match.

• ⁴ The Andorra-Macedonia match in 2004 is the only record of Andorra winning a competitive match.

Notes

References

• Andorra's weapons of Mac's destruction Daily Mail, 28 March 2007. accessed 22 April 2007.

External links

• Official website
• RSSSF archive of international results 1996-2002 (list of results)
• RSSSF archive of most capped players, highest goalscorers and coaches
• ITV Football-Statistics/Andorra
• Football.co.uk:Andorra
• National Football Teams
• UEFA
• FIFA

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