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
2027	did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Total	3/17	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

2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	10	7	2	1	23	7	+16	23	Final tournament	—	2–0	0–0	4–1	1–0	4–2
2	Republic of Ireland	10	6	2	2	16	14	+2	20^[a]	Play-offs	3–1	—	2–2	1–1	1–0	4–3
3	Slovakia	10	6	2	2	17	13	+4	20^[a]		0–4	0–2	—	2–0	3–0	2–1
4	Moldova	10	2	3	5	12	19	−7	9		0–4	1–2	2–3	—	3–0	3–2
5	Andorra	10	2	2	6	7	12	−5	8		1–1	4–0	1–2	0–0	—	1–0
6	Kazakhstan	10	1	1	8	11	21	−10	4		0–2	0–1	1–3	1–1	1–0	—

Source: UEFA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:

Head-to-head points: Republic of Ireland 4, Slovakia 1.

Results and fixtures

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	1GK	Ľubomír Belko	(2002-02-04) 4 February 2002	10	0	Žilina
12	1GK	Adam Danko	(2003-06-27) 27 June 2003	1	0	Podbrezová
21	1GK	Tomáš Frühwald	(2002-09-23) 23 September 2002	4	0	Bohemians

2	2DF	Jakub Jakubko	(2004-08-24) 24 August 2004	6	0	Košice
3	2DF	Filip Mielke	(2005-04-09) 9 April 2005	3	0	Podbrezová
4	2DF	Adam Obert	(2002-08-23) 23 August 2002	14	0	Cagliari
5	2DF	Dominik Javorček	(2002-11-02) 2 November 2002	21	2	Holstein Kiel
13	2DF	Nicolas Šikula	(2003-05-15) 15 May 2003	8	0	Dukla Banská Bystrica
16	2DF	Marek Ujlaky	(2003-12-03) 3 December 2003	2	0	Spartak Trnava
20	2DF	Adam Gaži	(2003-03-01) 1 March 2003	0	0	Skalica
23	2DF	Samuel Kopásek	(2003-05-22) 22 May 2003	5	1	Žilina

8	3MF	Martin Šviderský	(2002-10-04) 4 October 2002	16	0	Almería
10	3MF	Sebastian Nebyla	(2002-01-25) 25 January 2002	25	3	Jablonec
11	3MF	Artur Gajdoš	(2004-01-20) 20 January 2004	7	2	Trenčín
14	3MF	Mário Sauer	(2004-05-15) 15 May 2004	10	3	Toulouse
15	3MF	Leo Sauer	(2005-12-16) 16 December 2005	2	0	NAC Breda
22	3MF	Tomáš Rigo	(2002-07-03) 3 July 2002	7	1	Baník Ostrava

6	4FW	Dominik Hollý	(2003-11-11) 11 November 2003	2	0	Jablonec
7	4FW	Tomáš Suslov	(2002-06-07) 7 June 2002	5	2	Hellas Verona
9	4FW	Roman Čerepkai	(2002-04-06) 6 April 2002	14	0	Košice
17	4FW	Adrián Kaprálik	(2002-06-10) 10 June 2002	30	8	Žilina
18	4FW	Nino Marcelli	(2005-05-29) 29 May 2005	8	3	Slovan Bratislava
19	4FW	Timotej Jambor	(2003-04-04) 4 April 2003	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

^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

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

Notes

References

"Prezývka slovenských reprezentantov? Suchá". aktualne.sk. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
"SLOVENSKÍ SOKOLI". futbalsfz.sk. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.

External links

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