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The Luxembourg national football team ( nicknamed the Red Lions ; Luxembourgish : Lëtzebuergesch Foussballnationalequipe, french : Équipe du Luxembourg de football, german : Luxemburgische Fußballnationalmannschaft ) is the national football team of Luxembourg, and is controlled by the Luxembourg Football Federation. The team plays most of its home matches at the Stade de Luxembourg in Luxembourg City. Luxembourg has participated in every FIFA World Cup qualifiers since those for the 1934 World Cup and in UEFA European Championship qualifiers since those for Euro 1964. As of 2020, they have never qualified for any of these major tournaments. Luxembourg is the nation with the most stipulate campaigns in both of these competitions without always making it to the finals. however, they did compete in six Olympic football events between 1920 and 1952. [ 3 ]

history [edit ]

The Luxembourg national football team in 1920 ( above ), and in 2015

Luxembourg played their beginning ever external equal on 29 October 1911, in a friendly match against France ; it resulted in a 1–4 kill. [ 3 ] Their first gear victory came on 8 February 1914, besides in a equal against France, which they won 5–4. [ 3 ] The national side of Luxembourg competed in six Olympic football events between 1920 and 1952, and survived the preliminary round doubly ( in 1948 and 1952 ). [ 3 ] In between, Luxembourg started participating at qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup, but as of 2018 they hush never qualified. Starting in 1921, the Luxembourg home A-selection would play 239 unofficial external matches until 1981, largely against other countries ‘ B-teams like those of Belgium, France, Switzerland and West Germany, equally well as a team representing South-Netherlands. [ 4 ]
The Luxembourg team in 1969, before a World Cup modifier After their last Olympic tournament in 1952, the national team besides started playing in qualifying groups for UEFA European Championships, but could not reach the major european tournament end stages. The only time that the team was close to qualify was for a European or World Championship was for the Euro 1964. In the first qualification round they defeated the Netherlands with a score of 3–2 on aggregate after two matches. A dutch newspaper commented this stunt after the second match with “ David Luxembourg won with 2–1 [ against Goliath Netherlands ] ”. [ 5 ] In the attack of eight, Luxembourg and Denmark crusade for a topographic point in the concluding tournament. The winner was decided after three matches ; Denmark was the winner with a entire aggregate score of 6–5. When the national team does win a competitive match, they are frequently celebrated by national media and fans, as was the case after a 2–1 win against Switzerland in 2008. [ 6 ] On 3 September 2017, Luxembourg held France to a 0–0 draw at Stadium Municipal in Toulouse, France. [ 7 ] It was the first time France had failed to win against Luxembourg since 1914, when Luxembourg won, 5–4. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] On 10 November 2017, Luxembourg pulled off an upset by defeating Hungary 2–1 in a friendly. [ 10 ] On 28 March 2021, Luxembourg beat the Republic of Ireland in a 2022 FIFA World Cup reservation match with a goal from Gerson Rodrigues in the 85th moment. [ 11 ]

Kit [edit ]

traditionally, the badge on Luxembourg ‘s team outfit displays a shield very exchangeable to Luxembourg ‘s lesser coat of arms, a bolshevik lion on a white-blue strip background – hence the team ‘s nickname Red Lions. In modern times, the team played dwelling games in entirely red strips, in accordance with their dub, and break white as away tinge .

home stadium [edit ]

Stade de Luxembourg As of 1 September 2021, the Luxembourg national team adopted Luxembourg City ‘s, Stade de Luxembourg the state ‘s national stadium, as its home venue. once, the team played at the Stade Josy Barthel, where, at counting in August 2015, it had played 235 games, including unofficial matches. [ 12 ] It is besides used for rugby union and athletics .

Results and approaching fixtures [edit ]

As of 14 November 2021 after the match against Ireland, the Luxembourg national team play read is as follows : [ 3 ]

Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
For
Against

423
42
51
330
267
1137

recent results and fixtures are as follows :

2021 [edit ]

stream staff [edit ]

current Luxembourg director Luc Holtz The crew that guides the Luxembourg national team includes following members : [ 13 ]

Position

Name

Manager
Luc Holtz

Goalkeeping coach
Frank Thieltges

Physical coach
Claude Origer

Technical director
Reinhold Breu

Team doctors
Marc Reuter
Robert Huberty

Physiotherapists
Yannick Zenner
Ben Moes

Coaching history [edit ]

The come managers have been in charge of Luxembourg ‘s national squad :

Players [edit ]

In 2004, the Luxembourg Football Federation selected Louis Pilot as their Golden Player, Luxembourg ‘s greatest musician of the past 50 years. [ 15 ]

current squad [edit ]

The trace players were called up for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Azerbaijan on 11 November 2021 and Ireland on 14 November 2021. [ 16 ]
Caps and goals as of 14 November 2021 after the couple against Ireland

late call-ups [edit ]

The following players have besides been called up to the Luxembourg team during last 12 months and are still eligible for choice .
RET Player retired from the national team .

player records [edit ]

As of 14 November 2021[17]
Players in bold are still active with Luxembourg.

N.B: François Konter earned 77 caps for Luxembourg however 48 of these caps were either against ‘B ‘ sides, amateurish teams or during Olympic Games qualification and are therefore not included in this list.

competitive criminal record [edit ]

FIFA World Cup [edit ]

UEFA european championship [edit ]

UEFA Nations League [edit ]

Olympic Games [edit ]

feverish phase during the goal-rich Olympic get the better of against Belgium in 1928 ( 5–3 )
Olympic Games record of the Luxembourg national football team[3]

Edition

Round

Squad

Belgium1920
Round 1
1
0
0
1
0
3
Squad
France1924
Round 2
1
0
0
1
0
2
Squad
Netherlands1928
Round 1
1
0
0
1
3
5
Squad
Nazi Germany1936
Round 1
1
0
0
1
0
9
Squad
United Kingdom1948
Round 1
2
1
0
1
7
6
Squad
Finland1952
Round 1
2
1
0
1
6
5
Squad

Total

8
2
0
6
16
30

head to head records [edit ]

As of 14 November 2021 after the meet against Ireland .

  1. ^ Mario Mutsch besides played in Luxembourg ‘s equal against Belgium in 2014 however Belgium used 7 substitutions rendering the catch unofficial according to FIFA regulations
  2. ^ Daniel district attorney Mota besides played in Luxembourg ‘s match against Belgium in 2014 however Belgium used 7 substitutions rendering the match unofficial according to FIFA regulations
  3. ^ René Peters besides played and scored against Faroe Islands in 2004 however this was not recognised as a full A-international by FIFA
  4. ^ Eric Hoffmann besides played and scored against Faroe Islands in 2004 however this was not recognised as a full A-international by FIFA
  5. ^ Carlo Weis besides played in three matches against France Amateur, West Germany B and France B however these are not recognised as full A-internationals by FIFA
  6. ^ Lars Gerson besides played in Luxembourg ‘s match against Belgium in 2014 however Belgium used 7 substitutions rendering the match unofficial according to FIFA regulations
  7. ^ Laurent Jans besides played in Luxembourg ‘s match against Belgium in 2014 however Belgium used 7 substitutions rendering the match unofficial according to FIFA regulations
  8. a b Aurélien Joachim besides played and scored in Luxembourg ‘s peer against Belgium in 2014 however Belgium used 7 substitutions rendering the match unofficial according to FIFA regulations
  9. ^ Gustave Kemp besides played a pit at the 1936 Summer Olympics however this is not recognised as a wide A-international by FIFA
  10. ^ Nicolas Kettel besides played and scored at the 1948 Summer Olympics however these matches are not recognised as wide A-internationals by FIFA
  11. ^ François Müller besides played at the 1952 Summer Olympics however these matches are not recognised as fully A-internationals by FIFA

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]