Greece national under-21 football team

The Greece national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years and it is considered to be the feeder team for the Greece national football team.

The under-21 competition rules stipulate that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two-year competition, so technically it is up to an U-23 competition. To be eligible for the Greece National Team, all the football players must hold Hellenic (Greek) nationality and comply with the provisions of Article 15 of the regulations governing the Application of FIFA Statutes. A list of 35 football players must be submitted to the UEFA administration 30 days before the European Under-21 Football Championship opening match. Only 22 of the 35 players listed are authorised to take part in the final tournament and three of them must be goalkeepers.

As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Sotiris Ninis has done recently. It is also possible to play more than one country at youth level or different at youth level and different at senior level (provided the player is eligible). But a football player can represent only the senior national team that capped him first.

Also in existence are national teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under-17s.

The first time that Greece's national team of hopes were formed was in 1968, with the aim of participating in the first Balkan Youth Championship that took place at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki.

In their maiden match she played with the corresponding team in Turkey; the match ended in a goalless draw.

The first eleven were the following: Tourkomenis, B. Intzoglou (59' Dimitriou), Chaliambalias, Kyriazis, Athanasopoulos, Karafeskos, Filakouris, Sarafis (46' Stoligas), K. Papaioannou, Koudas, Kritikopoulos (70' Alexiadis).

In the following years, Greece won twice the Balkan Youth Championship (1969 and 1971), and they fought twice (1988 and 1998) in the final of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship.

As of 11 October 2025

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• ^S Shared record

The following is a list of match results from the previous 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

The following table provides a summary of the complete record of each Greece team manager including their results regarding European Under-21 Championship.

Key: Pld–games played, W–games won, D–games drawn; L–games lost, %–win percentage

Last updated: 18 November 2025. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

As of 18 November 2025

The following 24 players were called up for the 2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches against Malta and Germany on 27 and 31 March 2026.^[6]

Names in italics denote players who have been capped for the senior team.

Following are listed players called up in the previous twelve months who are still eligible to represent the under-21 team.

Players in bold are still active with under-21 Greece.

• 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
• 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
• 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece

• Greece national football team
• Greece national under-23 football team
• Greece national under-20 football team
• Greece national under-19 football team
• Greece national under-17 football team

• Greece U-21 at HFF (in Greek)
• Greece U-21 at UEFA
• UEFA European U-21 Championship at uefa.com