Andorra national football team

Andorra
Association	Andorran Football Federation; (Federació Andorrana de Futbol)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	David Rodrigo
Captain	Justo Ruiz
Most caps	Oscar Sonejee (81)
Top scorer	Ildefons Lima (7)
Home stadium	Comunal d'Aixovall
FIFA code	AND
FIFA ranking	203
Highest FIFA ranking	125 (September 2005)
Lowest FIFA ranking	196 (May 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)

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The Andorra national football team is controlled by the Andorran Football Federation. Andorra is a very new country in international football; the national team has existed for slightly over 10 years. 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]

[edit] World Cup record

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

[edit] European Championship record

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

[edit] Andorra all time record against all nations

As of June 10, 2009

Against	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD	% Won
Albania	2	1	0	1	2	3	-1	50%
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%
FYR 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	1	0	0	1	0	3	-3	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	3	0	0	3	1	7	-6	0%
Spain	1	0	0	1	0	4	-4	0%
Ukraine	2	0	0	2	0	6	-6	0%
Total	84	3	9	72	28	231	-203	3.57%

[edit] Current squad

The following players named for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Belarus and England on June 6 and 10, 2009. Caps and goals correct as of June 11, 2009.^[2]

Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
GK	Josep Gómes	December 3, 1985 (1985-12-03) (age 23)	6	0	Eivissa
DF	Ildefons Lima	December 10, 1979 (1979-12-10) (age 29)	60	7	Triestina
DF	Genís García	May 18, 1975 (1975-05-18) (age 34)	37	0	Santa Coloma
DF	Juli Fernández	November 19, 1974 (1974-11-19) (age 34)	36	1	Santa Coloma
DF	Óscar Sonejee	March 26, 1976 (1976-03-26) (age 33)	81	2	Santa Coloma
DF	Txema Garcia	December 4, 1974 (1974-12-04) (age 34)	71	0	Andorra
DF	Jordi Escura	April 19, 1980 (1980-04-19) (age 29)	57	0	Benavent
MF	Marc Vales	April 4, 1990 (1990-04-04) (age 19)	9	0	Binéfar
MF	Marcio Vieira	October 10, 1984 (1984-10-10) (age 24)	25	0	Monzón
MF	Víctor Rodríguez	September 7, 1987 (1987-09-07) (age 21)	4	0	Santa Coloma
MF	Xavier Andorrà	June 7, 1985 (1985-06-07) (age 24)	17	0	Santa Coloma
MF	Victor Moreira	January 1, 1991 (1991-01-01) (age 18)	4	0	Sant Julià
MF	Xavier Gil	May 24, 1982 (1982-05-24) (age 27)	2	0	Santa Coloma
MF	Manolo Jiménez	August 12, 1976 (1976-08-12) (age 32)	65	1	Santa Coloma
MF	Josep Ayala	April 8, 1980 (1980-04-08) (age 29)	43	0	Andorra
FW	Sergi Moreno	November 25, 1987 (1987-11-25) (age 21)	21	0	Alcázar
FW	Gabi Riera	June 5, 1985 (1985-06-05) (age 24)	15	1	Principat
FW	Fernando Silva	May 16, 1977 (1977-05-16) (age 32)	29	2	Montijo

[edit] 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification

Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 6

Team v • d • e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
England	7	7	0	0	26	4	+22	21
Croatia	6	3	2	1	12	6	+6	11
Ukraine	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	11
Belarus	5	3	0	2	14	7	+7	9
Kazakhstan	7	1	0	6	7	22	−15	3
Andorra	7	0	0	7	2	25	−23	0


Andorra	–	1 – 3	0 – 2	0 – 2	9 Sep	14 Oct
Belarus	5 – 1	–	12 Aug	1 – 3	10 Oct	9 Sep
Croatia	4 – 0	5 Sep	–	1 – 4	3 – 0	2 – 2
England	6 – 0	14 Oct	9 Sep	–	5 – 1	2 – 1
Kazakhstan	3 – 0	1 – 5	14 Oct	0 – 4	–	1 – 3
Ukraine	5 Sep	1 – 0	0 – 0	10 Oct	2 – 1	–

[edit] Friendlies

2008-03-26	Andorra	0 – 3	Latvia	Comunal d'Aixovall, Andorra la Vella
			Ivanovs 10' Pereplotkins 24' Rimkus 41'	Comunal d'Aixovall, Andorra la Vella

[edit] Matches

2008-08-20	Kazakhstan	3 – 0	Andorra	Almaty Stadium, Almaty
	Ostapenko 14', 30' Uzdenov 45'			Almaty Stadium, Almaty

2008-09-06	Andorra	0 – 2	England	Estadi Olímpic, Barcelona
			Cole 49', 55'	Estadi Olímpic, Barcelona

2008-09-10	Andorra	1 – 3	Belarus	Comunal d'Aixovall, Andorra la Vella
	Pujol 66'		Verhawtsow 36' Rodionov 78' Hleb 89'	Comunal d'Aixovall, Andorra la Vella

2008-10-15	Croatia	4 – 0	Andorra	Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb
	Rakitić 16', 87' (pen.) Olić 32' Modrić 75'			Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb

2009-06-10	England	6 – 0	Andorra	Wembley Stadium, London
	Rooney 4', 39' Lampard 29' Defoe 73', 76' Crouch 81'			Wembley Stadium, London

[edit] 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
3	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	WCQ	2 September 2000	Cyprus	Ildefons Lima	2–3³
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

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.

[edit] Notes

^ "Home: 7/4 Draw: 11/5 Away: 11/8", David Prentice, Liverpool Echo, 6 September 2008. This was also confirmed by the Setanta Sports commentary team during the England match on 6 September 2008.
^ http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/country.php?id=5

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

[0] "Home: 7/4 Draw: 11/5 Away: 11/8", David Prentice, Liverpool Echo, 6 September 2008. This was also confirmed by the Setanta Sports commentary team during the England match on 6 September 2008.

[1] ttp://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/country.php?id=5

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[edit] World Cup record

[edit] European Championship record

[edit] Andorra all time record against all nations

[edit] Current squad

[edit] 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification

[edit] Friendlies

[edit] Matches

[edit] International goals

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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