Kosovo national under-15 football team explained

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Association:Federata e Futbollit e Kosovës (FFK)
Confederation:UEFA (Europe)
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Top Scorer: (8)
Fifa Trigramme:KVX[1]
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First Game: 1–1
(Elbasan, Albania; 3 May 2018)
Largest Win: 8–0
(Kamëz, Albania; 19 September 2019)

The Kosovo national under-15 football team (Albanian: Kombëtarja e futbollit të Kosovës nën 15 vjeç; Serbian: Фудбалска репрезентација Косова до 15. године|Fudbalska reprezentacija Kosova do 15. godine) is the national under-15 football team of Kosovo and is controlled by the Football Federation of Kosovo.

History

Permitting by FIFA to play friendlies

On 6 February 2013, FIFA gave the permission to play international friendly games against other member associations.[2] Whereas, on 13 January 2014, there was a change of this permit that forbade Kosovo to play against the national teams of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Club teams were also allowed to play friendlies and this happened after a FIFA Emergency Committee meeting. However, it was stipulated that clubs and representative teams of the Football Federation of Kosovo may not display national symbols as flags, emblems, etc. or play national anthems. The go-ahead was given after meetings between the Football Association of Serbia and Sepp Blatter.

Membership in UEFA and FIFA

See also: Membership of Kosovo in international sports federations. In September 2015 at an UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Malta was approved the request from the federation to the admission in UEFA to the next Ordinary Congress to be held in Budapest.[3] On 3 May 2016, at the Ordinary Congress. Kosovo were accepted into UEFA after members voted 28–24 in favor of Kosovo.[4] [5] Ten days later, Kosovo was accepted in FIFA during their 66th congress in Mexico with 141 votes in favour and 23 against.[6]

First match

Kosovo in most of the time has organized training camps in Kosovo and Europe with different players from the local championship and diaspora. On 3 May 2018, Kosovo for first time in its history played a friendly match against Albania and the match ended with a 1–1 away draw and the starting line-up of that match was Rijad Bytyqi (GK), Albert Raçi, Albin Nishori, Arian Hetemi, Dardan Ibishi, Diar Halili, Dion Berisha, Eduard Ibrahimi, Elion Mahmuti, Ilhan Majić and Sadri Pacolli.[7]

Competitive record

UEFA U15 Development Tournament

Kosovo participated in the UEFA U15 Development Tournament for the first time in August 2019, where took first place after winning two matches against Albania (2–1) and North Macedonia (0–1) and drew without goals against Montenegro.[8] One month later, Kosovo again participated in the UEFA U15 Development Tournament, where again took first place after winning all three matches against Tajikistan (8–0), Estonia (3–0) and Albania (0–1).[9]

YearRound
August 2019Winners1st321031
September 2019Winners1st3300120
TotalWinners2/26510151

Fixtures and results

2018

Players

Current squad

Coaching staff

PositionName
Head coach(es)
Goalkeeping coach
Physiotherapist
Device manager
Team manager
Technical director

See also

Men's
Women's

Notes and references

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dryomin. Mark. Tabeira. Martin. Lozano. Carles. Jeffree. Iain. FIFA Country Codes. Kosovo (KVX). RSSSF. 2 June 2016.
  2. News: FIFA Circular no.1342. https://web.archive.org/web/20190620192102/https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/administration/02/01/19/65/circularno.1342-friendlygameswithteamsofthefootballfederationofkosovo.pdf. FIFA. 6 February 2013. 20 June 2019.
  3. News: UEFA shqyrton në mars të vitit të ardhshëm anëtarësimin e Kosovës. UEFA reviews in March next year Kosovo's membership. sq. Voice of America. 19 September 2015.
  4. Web site: Football Federation of Kosovo joins UEFA. UEFA. 3 May 2016.
  5. Web site: Kosovo accepted as member of Uefa after Congress vote. The Guardian. 3 May 2016.
  6. Web site: Zyrtare: Kosova pranohet në FIFA, jemi të barabartë me të gjitha vendet e botës. Official: Kosovo is admitted to FIFA, we are equal to all countries in the world. sq. Telegrafi. 13 May 2016.
  7. News: Kosova U15 barazoi me Shqipërinë në miqësoren e parë. Kosovo U15 drew with Albania in the first friendly. Albanian. Football Federation of Kosovo. 3 May 2018.
  8. News: Kosova U15 triumfoi në turneun e mbajtur në Shkup. Kosovo U15 triumphed in the tournament held in Skopje. Albanian. Football Federation of Kosovo. 30 August 2019.
  9. News: Kosova U15 triumfon në "UEFA Development Tournament" në Kamëz. Kosovo U15 triumphs in the "UEFA Development Tournament" in Kamëz. Albanian. Football Federation of Kosovo. 23 September 2019.
  10. News: Kombëtarja U15 merr pjesë në turneun zhvillimor të UEFA-s në Kamëz. The national U15 team participates in the UEFA Development Tournament in Kamëz. Albanian. Football Federation of Kosovo. 18 September 2019.