Slovakia national under-21 football team

Slovakia U-21

Nickname(s)	Repre [1] Sokolíci (Little Falcons) [2]
Association	Slovenský futbalový zväz
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Jaroslav Kentoš
Home stadium	Štadión pod Zoborom
FIFA code	SVK
First colours Second colours
First international
Slovakia 0–3 France   (Myjava, Slovakia; 6 September 1994)
Biggest win
Malta 0–6 Slovakia   (Valletta, Malta; 30 March 1997)   Latvia 0–6 Slovakia   (Riga, Latvia; 11 October 2011)   Luxembourg 1–7 Slovakia   (Ettelbruck, Luxembourg; 11 June 2013)   Slovakia 6–0 Armenia   (Žiar nad Hronom, Slovakia; 6 June 2019)   Slovakia 6–0 Liechtenstein   (Nitra, Slovakia; 17 November 2020)
Biggest defeat
4–0 defeats on three occasions
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances	3 (first in 2000 )
Best result	Fourth place (2000)

The Slovakia national under-21 football team, controlled by the Slovak Football Association, is Slovakia's national under-21 football team and is considered to be a feeder team for the Slovakia national football team.

European Under-21 Championship record

• 1978 to 1994 - see Czechoslovakia

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1996	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
1998	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2000	Fourth place	4th	4	2	1	1	5	3
2002	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2004	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2006	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2007	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2009	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2011	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2013	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2015	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2017	Group stage	5th	3	2	0	1	6	3
2019	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2021	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2023	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2025	Group stage	–	3	1	0	2	4	5
Total	3/16	4th	10	5	1	4	15	11

Key:GP: Games played, W: Wins, D: Draws, L: Losses, GF: Goals for, GA: Goals against

UEFA European Under-21 Championship

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	8	8	0	0	37	5	+32	24	Final tournament		—	3–2	3–0	8–0	7–1	4–1
2	Slovakia	8	5	0	3	18	10	+8	15	Play-offs		2–3	—	2–1	3–1	4–0	Canc.
3	Northern Ireland	8	2	1	5	8	18	−10	7			0–6	1–0	—	4–0	0–2	Canc.
4	Lithuania	8	2	1	5	7	22	−15	7			0–2	0–2	1–1	—	2–1	0–3
5	Malta	8	2	0	6	10	25	−15	6			0–5	1–3	4–1	1–3	—	Canc.
6	Russia [a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Disqualified		1–0	3–0	1–0	Canc.	6–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:

1. On 28 February 2022, FIFA and UEFA suspended Russian national teams from all competitions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ^{[3] [4]} On 2 May 2022, UEFA expelled Russia and declared all of their results to be null and void. ^{[5] [6]}

2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship play-offs

Main article: 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs

The four play-off winners qualify for the final tournament.

All times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Croatia	3–3 (5–4 p)	Denmark	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Slovakia	3–5	Ukraine	3–2	0–3
Republic of Ireland	1–1 (1–3 p)	Israel	1–1	0–0 (a.e.t.)
Iceland	1–2	Czech Republic	1–2	0–0

Players

Current squad

The following players were selected for the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Caps and goals correct as of 11 June 2025, after the match against Spain.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1 GK	Ľubomír Belko	(2002-02-04) 4 February 2002 (age 23)	10	0	Žilina
12	1 GK	Adam Danko	(2003-06-27) 27 June 2003 (age 22)	1	0	Podbrezová
21	1 GK	Tomáš Frühwald	(2002-09-23) 23 September 2002 (age 22)	4	0	Bohemians
2	2 DF	Jakub Jakubko	(2004-08-24) 24 August 2004 (age 21)	6	0	Košice
3	2 DF	Filip Mielke	(2005-04-09) 9 April 2005 (age 20)	3	0	Podbrezová
4	2 DF	Adam Obert	(2002-08-23) 23 August 2002 (age 23)	14	0	Cagliari
5	2 DF	Dominik Javorček	(2002-11-02) 2 November 2002 (age 22)	21	2	Holstein Kiel
13	2 DF	Nicolas Šikula	(2003-05-15) 15 May 2003 (age 22)	8	0	Dukla Banská Bystrica
16	2 DF	Marek Ujlaky	(2003-12-03) 3 December 2003 (age 21)	2	0	Spartak Trnava
20	2 DF	Adam Gaži	(2003-03-01) 1 March 2003 (age 22)	0	0	Skalica
23	2 DF	Samuel Kopásek	(2003-05-22) 22 May 2003 (age 22)	5	1	Žilina
8	3 MF	Martin Šviderský	(2002-10-04) 4 October 2002 (age 22)	16	0	Almería
10	3 MF	Sebastian Nebyla	(2002-01-25) 25 January 2002 (age 23)	25	3	Jablonec
11	3 MF	Artur Gajdoš	(2004-01-20) 20 January 2004 (age 21)	7	2	Trenčín
14	3 MF	Mário Sauer	(2004-05-15) 15 May 2004 (age 21)	10	3	Toulouse
15	3 MF	Leo Sauer	(2005-12-16) 16 December 2005 (age 19)	2	0	NAC Breda
22	3 MF	Tomáš Rigo	(2002-07-03) 3 July 2002 (age 23)	7	1	Baník Ostrava
6	4 FW	Dominik Hollý	(2003-11-11) 11 November 2003 (age 21)	2	0	Jablonec
7	4 FW	Tomáš Suslov	(2002-06-07) 7 June 2002 (age 23)	5	2	Hellas Verona
9	4 FW	Roman Čerepkai	(2002-04-06) 6 April 2002 (age 23)	14	0	Košice
17	4 FW	Adrián Kaprálik	(2002-06-10) 10 June 2002 (age 23)	30	8	Žilina
18	4 FW	Nino Marcelli	(2005-05-29) 29 May 2005 (age 20)	8	3	Slovan Bratislava
19	4 FW	Timotej Jambor	(2003-04-04) 4 April 2003 (age 22)	7	2	Žilina

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Slovakia U21 squad in the past 12 months and remain eligible to play for the U21 team.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
DF	Patrik Leitner	(2002-02-07) 7 February 2002 (age 23)	1	0	Žilina	v.   North Macedonia, 28 March 2023
DF	Urban Mazanovský	(2003-12-17) 17 December 2003 (age 21)	1	0	Púchov	v.   North Macedonia, 28 March 2023
DF	Samuel Ďatko	(2001-06-24) 24 June 2001 (age 24)	1	0	Železiarne Podbrezová	v.   Ukraine, 27 September 2022
MF	Gabriel Hornyák	(2002-01-10) 10 January 2002 (age 23)	1	0	Slovan Bratislava	v.   North Macedonia, 28 March 2023
MF	Fares Shudeiwa	(2002-05-11) 11 May 2002 (age 23)	0	0	Pohronie	v.   North Macedonia, 28 March 2023
MF	Peter Pokorný	(2001-08-08) 8 August 2001 (age 24)	22	2	Slovan Bratislava	v.   Ukraine, 27 September 2022
MF	Samuel Lavrinčík	(2001-07-10) 10 July 2001 (age 24)	4	0	AS Trenčín	v.   Ukraine, 27 September 2022
FW	Adam Horvát	(2004-02-18) 18 February 2004 (age 21)	1	0	Pohronie	v.   North Macedonia, 28 March 2023
FW	Roland Galčík	(2001-07-30) 30 July 2001 (age 24)	11	1	Žilina	v.   Ukraine, 27 September 2022

• ^INJ Withdrew/Unavailable due to an injury or an illness.
• ^ALT Alternate – replaces a member of the squad in case of injury/unavailability

Past squads

• 2000 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship squad
• 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship squad

Managerial history

Head Coach	Assistant	Years
Milan Lešický	Jozef Štafura	1993–1997
Jozef Barmoš	Bohumil Andrejko	1997–1998
Dušan Radolský	Bohumil Andrejko	1998–2000
Stanislav Griga	Vladimír Goffa	2000–2001
Mikuláš Komanický	Ján Švehlík	2002–2003
Ladislav Jurkemik	Ján Gabriel	2004
Jozef Bubenko	Ján Gabriel	2004–2005
Ladislav Petráš	Karol Brezík	2006
Jozef Barmoš	Jozef Vukušič Viliam Hýravý Roland Praj	2007–2008
Boris Kitka	Jozef Daňko	2009–2010
Ľubomír Nosický	Peter Nemečkay	2010
Ivan Galád	Norbert Hrnčár	2011–2014
Pavel Hapal	Oto Brunegraf	2015–2018
Oto Brunegraf	none	2018
Adrián Guľa	Marián Zimen	2018–2019
Jaroslav Kentoš	Tibor Goljan	2019–

Other youth record

• 2002 UEFA European Under-19 Championship – Third place
• 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship – Round of 16

See also

• Slovakia national football team
• Czechoslovakia national under-21 football team
• Slovakia national under-20 football team
• Slovakia national under-19 football team
• Slovakia national under-18 football team
• Slovakia national under-17 football team
• Slovakia national under-16 football team

References

1. "Prezývka slovenských reprezentantov? Suchá". aktualne.sk. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
2. "SLOVENSKÍ SOKOLI". futbalsfz.sk. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
3. "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". FIFA . 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
4. UEFA.com (28 February 2022). "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". UEFA . Retrieved 9 February 2023.
5. "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs". UEFA . 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
6. "Uefa announces further sanctions on Russian clubs and national teams amid Ukraine invasion". BBC Sport. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.

External links

• Slovak Football Association (in Slovak)
• The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.