Israel national under-17 football team

The Israel national under-17 football team represents Israel in association football at the under-17 youth level, and is controlled by the Israel Football Association.

Israel under-17
Shirt badge/Association crest
AssociationIsrael Football Association
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coachGadi Brumer
Most capsMohammad Ghadir
Omer Peretz
(17 each)
Top scorerMaor Buzaglo (9)
FIFA codeISR
First colours
Second colours
European U-17 Championship
Appearances11 (first in 1987)
Best resultThird place (1996)
FIFA U-17 World Cup
Appearances0

The team is for Israeli players aged 17 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-17 Football Championship cycle, so players can be up to 17 years old.

Competition history edit

Although the Israel Football Association became a member of UEFA as late as 1994, Israel U-16s took part in several European youth championships since the late 1980s, beginning with the 1987 European U-16 tournament, for which they qualified but failed to progress past the group stage after a defeat to Turkey U16s and draws against Denmark and Greece.[1]

The team managed to qualify for six other European U-16 championships (including five consecutive appearances between 1996 and 2000) before UEFA's renaming of youth levels in 2001. Since then, Israel U17s only qualified twice for the final tournament, in 2003 and 2005. Their best result in the under-16 era came in the 1996 European U-16 Championship where they won third place, beating Greece in a third-place play-off match.[2]

European Championship edit

Under-16 format edit

Year Round GP W D L GS GA GD
  1987 Group stage 3 0 2 1 1 2 -1
  1988 did not enter
  1989 did not qualify
  1990 did not enter
  1991 did not qualify
  1992 Group stage 3 1 1 1 3 3 0
  1993 did not qualify
  1994
  1995
  1996 Third place 6 4 0 2 10 9 +1
  1997 Group stage 3 0 0 3 3 8 –5
  1998 Quarter-finals 4 1 2 1 5 6 –1
  1999 Quarter-finals 4 2 0 2 8 10 –2
  2000 Group stage 3 0 1 2 3 7 –4
  2001 did not qualify
Total 7/15 33 15 6 12 36 46 –10

Under-17 format edit

Year Round GP W D L GS GA GD
  2002 did not qualify
  2003 Group stage 3 0 0 3 1 9 –8
  2004 did not qualify
  2005 Group stage 3 0 0 3 3 9 –6
  2006 did not qualify
  2007
  2008
  2009
  2010
  2011
  2012
  2013
  2014
  2015
  2016
  2017
  2018 Group stage 3 0 0 3 1 7 –6
  2019 did not qualify
  2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Europe[3][4]
  2021
  2022 Group stage 3 1 0 2 3 4 –1
  2023 did not qualify
  2024 withdrew
Total 4/19 12 1 0 11 8 29 –21

Past squads edit

UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads

Players edit

Current squad edit

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Liran Dayan (2006-03-01) 1 March 2006 (age 18) 5 0   Ashdod
1GK Daniel Cohen (2006-08-02) 2 August 2006 (age 17) 0 0   Maccabi Netanya

2DF Amit Kredi (2006-06-01) 1 June 2006 (age 17) 7 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Adir Waheb (2006-06-01) 1 June 2006 (age 17) 6 0   Maccabi Haifa
2DF Amit Banay (2006-02-01) 1 February 2006 (age 18) 5 0   Maccabi Petah Tikva
2DF Noam Schwartz (2006-07-15) 15 July 2006 (age 17) 3 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Itay Malma (2006-11-01) 1 November 2006 (age 17) 1 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Daniel Tishler (2006-09-28) 28 September 2006 (age 17) 1 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv

3MF Liran Hazan (2006-05-10) 10 May 2006 (age 17) 7 1   Maccabi Petah Tikva
3MF Ido Oli (2006-03-01) 1 March 2006 (age 18) 7 1   Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Liam Atzmi (2006-05-21) 21 May 2006 (age 17) 1 0   Maccabi Petah Tikva
3MF Itay Ehud (2006-09-21) 21 September 2006 (age 17) 5 0   Maccabi Haifa
3MF Yuval Kfir (2006-02-22) 22 February 2006 (age 18) 5 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Lotem Asres (2007-01-15) 15 January 2007 (age 17) 1 0   Ashdod
3MF Eyad Khalaily (2006-07-02) 2 July 2006 (age 17) 1 0   Maccabi Haifa
3MF Yehonatan Oz (2007-03-24) 24 March 2007 (age 17) 0 0   Maccabi Petah Tikva

4FW Karem Zoabi (2006-05-03) 3 May 2006 (age 17) 12 2   Hapoel Jerusalem
4FW Sayd Abu Farhi (2006-05-01) 1 May 2006 (age 18) 7 1   Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Yuval Ranon (2006-02-11) 11 February 2006 (age 18) 6 1   Werder Bremen
4FW Yehuda Balay (2006-03-01) 1 March 2006 (age 18) 6 0   Maccabi Tel Aviv

Recent call-ups edit

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
GK Itay Hemi (2006-05-29) 29 May 2006 (age 17) 2 0   Maccabi Petah Tikva v.   England, 31 October 2022

DF Tomer Lannes (2006-02-06) 6 February 2006 (age 18) 2 0   Hapoel Hadera v.   England, 31 October 2022
DF Yarin Itzhak (2006-08-01) 1 August 2006 (age 17) 1 0   Maccabi Petah Tikva v.   England, 31 October 2022
DF Yuval Paz Tondovsky (2006-06-01) 1 June 2006 (age 17) 1 0   Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim v.   England, 31 October 2022

MF Avishay Tzuriel (2006-10-13) 13 October 2006 (age 17) 2 1   Hapoel Jerusalem v.   England, 31 October 2022
MF Yarin Shyovitz (2006-01-30) 30 January 2006 (age 18) 0 0   Hapoel Tel Aviv v.   England, 31 October 2022
MF Adi Tzur (2006-04-01) 1 April 2006 (age 18) 0 0   Maccabi Haifa v.   England, 31 October 2022

FW Anas Sarsur (2006-04-01) 1 April 2006 (age 18) 2 0   Maccabi Petah Tikva v.   England, 31 October 2022

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Garin, Erik (28 June 2006). "European U-16 Championship 1987". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  2. ^ Garin, Erik (7 December 2003). "European U-16 Championship 1996". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  3. ^ "U17 finals in Estonia cancelled". UEFA. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  4. ^ "2020/21 Under-17 EURO cancelled". UEFA. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  5. ^ "נבחרת ישראל עד גיל 17" (in Hebrew). ההתאחדות לכדורגל בישראל. Retrieved 23 March 2023.

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