San Marino national football team

The San Marino national football team is the selection of the Republic of San Marino.

  • 6.1 Record Player
  • 6.2 scorer

History

The association of the country was founded in 1931. He is a member of FIFA since 1990 and previously had been two years a provisional member of UEFA. According to FIFA, there are 30,000 inhabitants in the Republic about 2800 football players, of which 1,500 players registered.

According to some unofficial games - including against an Olympic team from Canada (1986) and against Lebanon (1987 ) - it came on 14 November 1990 on the first official match against Switzerland. On April 28, the first came in 2004 as "historic " victory celebrated: in Serravalle San Marino defeated Liechtenstein 1-0 in a friendly match. A competitive victory not succeeded so far. It could only be achieved in qualifying rounds for the World Cup two draws: in the qualification for the World Cup in 1994 managed a 0-0 draw against Turkey, and in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup, a 1-1 draw against Latvia.

On the FIFA World Ranking San Marino increases with 0 points to a 207th and final space. It shares this place with the teams from Bhutan and the Turks and Caicos Islands and is therefore the weakest European selection currently (as of February 16, 2014).

San Marino did in the course of its history, only a well-known player out: the midfielder Massimo Bonini, who played for Juventus 1981-1988 and was with his club three times Italian champion and once won the European Champions Cup.

The Sammarinese football team holds a record: Davide Gualtieri scored against England in 1993 in the qualifying the fastest goal of the international countries game history after just 8.3 seconds. San Marino still lost with 1:7.

Ten teams were able to achieve against San Marino their highest victory, last on 6 September 2013, the Ukraine by a 9-0 in World Cup qualifier. Only against Guam were more teams (12 ) reach their highest victory.

Coach from 1998 to 2013, the main working as a sports teacher former professional football player Giampaolo Mazza. Among the 76 European Championship and World Cup qualifiers, which were denied in his tenure, went 75 lost. After the group stage in the World Cup qualifiers in 2014 he resigned.

In the qualification for Euro 2016 of San Marino takes on England, Switzerland, Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia. Against any of the enemy has been able to be a point won against England and only once was a goal to be achieved. This, however, was the fastest goal ever scored in a World Cup qualifier (see above).

Stadium

San Marino plays its home games at the Stadio Olimpico in Serravalle, the only country playing suitable stadium of the Republic, from. It has a capacity of 5,387 spectators.

International matches against German -speaking teams

Internationals against Germany

Germany and San Marino were dissolved in qualifying Group D for Euro 2008. On 6 September 2006, the teams met each other for the first time in Serravalle. The game ended 12:13 ( 0:6 ) and is the highest-ever defeat of San Marino's football team, while it is for the German team in the highest-ever away win. The return match took place on June 2, 2007 in Nuremberg, it was 0:6 ( 0:1) are lost, leaving San Marino barely missed a 0-0 at halftime.

Internationals against Switzerland

The selection of San Marino has played only twice against the Swiss national football team, both games were compulsory games during qualifying for the European Championship 1992. San Marino lost the first leg on November 14, 1990 in Serravalle with 0:4, the return game on June 5, 1991 St. Gallen 0:7. In qualifying for the Euro 2016 San Marino takes on 14 October 2014 and October 9, 2015 and again on Switzerland.

International matches against Liechtenstein

( Results from the perspective of San Marino )

International matches against Austria

Both previously been transferred to the Austrian national team games were compulsory games to qualify for the European Championship 2000. In the first leg in Serravalle on 14 October 1998 subject to the San Marinesen with 1:4 after they suffered no goal as hosts until the 58th minute. 81 minutes in, Andy Selva scored the first goal even for San Marino. The return match in Graz on 28 April 1999 won the Austrian sovereign 7-0.

International Match balances

San Marino has the following balances against other national teams:

Level after the match against Moldova on October 11, 2011

Legend:

  • Yellow Background = balance balanced
  • Red background = negative balance (number of defeats higher than that of wins)

Squad

(As of September 12, 2012)

Records

Most games

As of September 10, 2013

Scorer

As of September 10, 2013

Andy Selva has long been the only player of the national team of San Marino, who has scored more than one goal for the national team of San Marino. On August 14, 2012 Manuel Marani scored his second goal against Malta. After San Marino thereafter remained without a goal more than a year, Alessandro Della Valle succeeded on September 10, 2013 with his first goal at 1:5 against Poland again a goal for San Marino.

Known player

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