Israel national under-17 football team

National association football team

Israel under-17

Association

Israel Football Association

Confederation

UEFA (Europe)

Head coach

Gadi Brumer

Most caps

Mohammad Ghadir
Omer Peretz
(17 each)

Top scorer

Maor Buzaglo (9)

FIFA code

ISR

First colours

Second colours

European U-17 Championship

Appearances

11 (first in 1987)

Best result

Third place (1996)

FIFA U-17 World Cup

Appearances

The Israel national under-17 football team represents Israel in association football at the under-17 youth level, and is controlled by the Israel Football Association.

The team is for Israeli players aged 17 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-17 Football Championship cycle, so players can be up to 17 years old.

Competition history

Although the Israel Football Association became a member of UEFA as late as 1994, Israel U-16s took part in several European youth championships since the late 1980s, beginning with the 1987 European U-16 tournament, for which they qualified but failed to progress past the group stage after a defeat to Turkey U16s and draws against Denmark and Greece.^[1]

The team managed to qualify for six other European U-16 championships (including five consecutive appearances between 1996 and 2000) before UEFA's renaming of youth levels in 2001. Since then, Israel U17s only qualified twice for the final tournament, in 2003 and 2005. Their best result in the under-16 era came in the 1996 European U-16 Championship where they won third place, beating Greece in a third-place play-off match.^[2]

European Championship

Under-16 format

Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD
1987	Group stage	3	0	2	1	1	2	-1
1988	did not enter
1989	did not qualify
1990	did not enter
1991	did not qualify
1992	Group stage	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
1993	did not qualify
1994
1995
1996	Third place	6	4	0	2	10	9	+1
1997	Group stage	3	0	0	3	3	8	–5
1998	Quarter-finals	4	1	2	1	5	6	–1
1999	Quarter-finals	4	2	0	2	8	10	–2
2000	Group stage	3	0	1	2	3	7	–4
2001	did not qualify
Total	7/15	33	15	6	12	36	46	–10

Under-17 format

Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD
2002	did not qualify
2003	Group stage	3	0	0	3	1	9	–8
2004	did not qualify
2005	Group stage	3	0	0	3	3	9	–6
2006	did not qualify
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018	Group stage	3	0	0	3	1	7	–6
2019	did not qualify
2020	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Europe^[3]^[4]
2021	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Europe^[3]^[4]
2022	Group stage	3	1	0	2	3	4	–1
2023	did not qualify
2024	withdrew
Total	4/19	12	1	0	11	8	29	–21

Past squads

UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads

Players

Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification matches.^[5]
Match dates: 22–28 March 2023
Opposition: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and Serbia
Caps and goals correct as of: 22 March 2023, after the match against Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1GK	Liran Dayan	(2006-03-01) 1 March 2006 (age 18)	5	0	Ashdod
1GK	Daniel Cohen	(2006-08-02) 2 August 2006 (age 17)	0	0	Maccabi Netanya

2DF	Amit Kredi	(2006-06-01) 1 June 2006 (age 17)	7	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF	Adir Waheb	(2006-06-01) 1 June 2006 (age 17)	6	0	Maccabi Haifa
2DF	Amit Banay	(2006-02-01) 1 February 2006 (age 18)	5	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva
2DF	Noam Schwartz	(2006-07-15) 15 July 2006 (age 17)	3	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF	Itay Malma	(2006-11-01) 1 November 2006 (age 17)	1	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF	Daniel Tishler	(2006-09-28) 28 September 2006 (age 17)	1	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv

3MF	Liran Hazan	(2006-05-10) 10 May 2006 (age 17)	7	1	Maccabi Petah Tikva
3MF	Ido Oli	(2006-03-01) 1 March 2006 (age 18)	7	1	Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF	Liam Atzmi	(2006-05-21) 21 May 2006 (age 17)	1	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva
3MF	Itay Ehud	(2006-09-21) 21 September 2006 (age 17)	5	0	Maccabi Haifa
3MF	Yuval Kfir	(2006-02-22) 22 February 2006 (age 18)	5	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF	Lotem Asres	(2007-01-15) 15 January 2007 (age 17)	1	0	Ashdod
3MF	Eyad Khalaily	(2006-07-02) 2 July 2006 (age 17)	1	0	Maccabi Haifa
3MF	Yehonatan Oz	(2007-03-24) 24 March 2007 (age 17)	0	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva

4FW	Karem Zoabi	(2006-05-03) 3 May 2006 (age 17)	12	2	Hapoel Jerusalem
4FW	Sayd Abu Farhi	(2006-05-01) 1 May 2006 (age 17)	7	1	Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW	Yuval Ranon	(2006-02-11) 11 February 2006 (age 18)	6	1	Werder Bremen
4FW	Yehuda Balay	(2006-03-01) 1 March 2006 (age 18)	6	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv

Recent call-ups

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Itay Hemi	(2006-05-29) 29 May 2006 (age 17)	2	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva	v. England, 31 October 2022

DF	Tomer Lannes	(2006-02-06) 6 February 2006 (age 18)	2	0	Hapoel Hadera	v. England, 31 October 2022
DF	Yarin Itzhak	(2006-08-01) 1 August 2006 (age 17)	1	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva	v. England, 31 October 2022
DF	Yuval Paz Tondovsky	(2006-06-01) 1 June 2006 (age 17)	1	0	Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim	v. England, 31 October 2022

MF	Avishay Tzuriel	(2006-10-13) 13 October 2006 (age 17)	2	1	Hapoel Jerusalem	v. England, 31 October 2022
MF	Yarin Shyovitz	(2006-01-30) 30 January 2006 (age 18)	0	0	Hapoel Tel Aviv	v. England, 31 October 2022
MF	Adi Tzur	(2006-04-01) 1 April 2006 (age 18)	0	0	Maccabi Haifa	v. England, 31 October 2022

FW	Anas Sarsur	(2006-04-01) 1 April 2006 (age 18)	2	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva	v. England, 31 October 2022

References

^ Garin, Erik (28 June 2006). "European U-16 Championship 1987". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
^ Garin, Erik (7 December 2003). "European U-16 Championship 1996". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
^ "U17 finals in Estonia cancelled". UEFA. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
^ "2020/21 Under-17 EURO cancelled". UEFA. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
^ "נבחרת ישראל עד גיל 17" (in Hebrew). ההתאחדות לכדורגל בישראל. Retrieved 23 March 2023.

External links

Official website of the Israel Football Federation

Football in Israel

Domestic leagues

Men	Premier League Liga Leumit Liga Alef Liga Bet Liga Gimel Noar Premier League
Women	Women's League
Other	Beach Soccer League Futsal League

Domestic cups

Men	State Cup Super Cup Toto Cup Youth State Cup
Women	Israeli Women's Cup

Defunct competitions

National teams

Men	National team Players History Records U-23 U-21 U-20 U-19 U-18 U-17 U-16
Women	National team Players U-19 U-17
Other	National beach team National futsal team Mandatory Palestine (1934–1940)