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. The under-21 competition rules insist 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 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 3 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. But a football player can represent only the senior national team that capped him first. Also in existence are national teams for Under-20s, Under-19s and Under-17s. Greece also has a women's national team.
History
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 and it was a draw without goals. The first eleven were the following: Tourkomenis, B. Intzoglou, Chaliambalias, Kyriazis, Athanasopoulos, Karafeskos, Fylakouris, Sarafis, K. Papaioannou, Koudas, Kritikopoulos. In the following years, Greece won twice the Balkan Youth Championship, and they fought twice in the final of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
The following table provides a summary of the complete record of each Greek manager including their results regarding European Under-21 Championship. is the current U-21 Greek national team manager Last updated: 15 November 2019. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.
Players
Current squad
Players born on or after 1 January 1998 will be eligible until the completion of the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. The following players were named in the squad for the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualifiers, played on 10 September 2019. Caps and goals updated as of 10 October 2019 after the match against. Names in bold denote players who have been capped for the senior team.
Former squads
2002 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
1998 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads – Greece
