Liechtenstein national football team
The Liechtenstein national football team is the national team of the Liechtenstein Football Association ( LFV ) and represents Liechtenstein at the international level. Since 1994, Liechtenstein regularly takes part in the qualifiers for the European Championship and the World Cup.
History
Your first Counted from the countries of the Union game carried her out only in 1982, although the Liechtenstein Football Association is already since 1974 a member of FIFA and UEFA. Four 1981 discharged and not mitgezählte by the Association matches against Malta, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are now counted by FIFA as internationals.
The first victory achieved Liechtenstein on 6 June 1982 in Vaduz with a 2-0 in a friendly match against a club team from Beijing (China ). The first victory in a competitive fixture succeeded on 14 October 1998 against Azerbaijan ( 2-1 ) during the European Championship qualifiers.
Acting coach since November 2012 Rene Pauritsch. Under Martin Andermatt Liechtenstein reached a 2-2 draw against Portugal in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers on 9 October 2004, which can be referred to date as the biggest success for the Liechtenstein team. It was the first point of Liechtenstein in a World Cup qualifier. Four days later, they reached their first away success at all. They won in Luxembourg in World Cup qualifier equal to 4:0. Successes in 2005 were 0-0 against the group runners-up Slovakia and another convincing win against Luxembourg 3-0. In qualifying for the 2008 European Championship on 28 March 2007 managed a 1-0 win over Latvia, and on October 17, 2007, a 3-0 win over Iceland.
In the years 1999, 2004 and 2005, the national team was honored at the athletes meeting places of Liechtenstein Olympic Sports Association as Team of the Year.
In the junior level, Liechtenstein was for the U -16 Football Championship in 1998 qualify in Scotland, at the U -19 Football Championship on home soil in 2003 they took part as the host also. In both cases, however, they lost all three group games and thus different from an early stage. 2010 U-17 Football Championship was held in Liechtenstein, the Association withdrew its automatically qualified choice but back due to lack of competitiveness of the tournament.
In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil Liechtenstein met on Bosnia - Herzegovina, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia and Slovakia. There go two draws at the home games against Latvia and Slovakia ( 1:1) as well as one goal scored by the two games against the eventual group winners and World Cup participants Bosnia - Herzegovina. But this was only enough to last place in the group.
In qualifying for the Euro 2016 Liechtenstein meets Russia, Sweden and Austria, and for the first time on Moldova and Montenegro.
Current squad
Most players of the Liechtenstein national football team are currently playing for clubs in Swiss league, primarily in the Challenge League ( FC Vaduz ) and the first League Classic.
Mario Frick, with over 200 games in the Swiss Super League and the Italian Serie A, the largest export of the Liechtenstein football, but also some other players have managed the leap into international countries. Basically almost all performers were at least of the team at any one club employed abroad and in the last twenty years the team has changed from an amateur team to a professional team.
Especially since 2008 has taken place in the squad a natural alternation of generations, with the player of the beginnings of the Liechtenstein professional football due to age replaced by a new generation of young players.
As of October 15, 2013 after beating Greece
Previous coach
- Hans Müntener March 1982 - June 1982
- Pius Fischer June 1984
- Erich Bürzle May 1990
- Dietrich Weise October 1990 - December 1996
- Alfred Riedl January 1997 - May 1998
- Erich Bürzle June 1998
- Ralf Loose July 1998 - July 2003
- Walter Hörmann July 2003 - February 2004
- Martin Andermatt March 2004 - October 2006
- Urs Meier November 2006 - December 2006
- Hans -Peter Zaugg January 2007 - October 2012
- Rene Pauritsch since November 2012
Balance
Against Germany
- 4 games, 4 of defeats at 3:27 gates
Against Austria
- 7 games, 7 of defeats at 1:28 gates
In qualifying for the Euro 2016 Liechtenstein meets again on Austria.
Against Switzerland
- 7 games, 7 of defeats at 1:18 gates
Against Luxembourg
- 3 games, including 2 wins and a draw at 10:3 gates