Luxembourg national football team

Luxembourg

Nickname(s)	De Roude Léiw (The Red Lions)
Association	Luxembourg Football Federation (Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Luc Holtz
Captain	Jeff Strasser
Most caps	Jeff Strasser (98)
Top scorer	Léon Mart (16)
Home stadium	Stade Josy Barthel
FIFA code	LUX
FIFA ranking	127
Highest FIFA ranking	93 (April 1996)
Lowest FIFA ranking	195 (August 2006)
Elo ranking	168
Highest Elo ranking	76 (28 July 1946)
Lowest Elo ranking	190 (Oct 2004 to Jan 2006, September 2007)
Home colours Away colours
First international
Luxembourg 1–4 France (Luxembourg City, Lux.; October 29, 1911)
Biggest win
Luxembourg 6–0 Afghanistan (London, England; July 26, 1948)
Biggest defeat
Luxembourg 0–9 England (Luxembourg City, Lux.; October 19, 1960) England 9–0 Luxembourg (London, England; December 15, 1982)
European Championship
Appearances	none
Best result	Quarter-Finals, 1964 (in qualifying)

The Luxembourg national football team is the national football team of Luxembourg, and is controlled by the Luxembourg Football Federation. The team play most of their home matches at the Stade Josy Barthel, in Luxembourg.

History

Luxembourg was a strong national team in the 1960s, getting to second round of the qualifying campaign for the 1964 European Football Championship, which included eight best teams, however since then the level of the national team has dropped. Their most historic victories were against France in 1914 (5–4), Germany in 1939 (2–1), Mexico in April 1969 (2–0) , Turkey in 1979 (2–0), Belgium in 1945 (4–1), and Afghanistan (6–0) in 1948.

More recently, they had minor successes in the qualifying campaign for the 1996 European Football Championship as they managed three 1–0 victories, beating Malta twice and upset eventual runners-up Czech Republic at home. However, from 1995 until 2007, Luxembourg failed to win a game, falling down the FIFA World Rankings to a low of 195th in the process. The team scored its first victory in almost twelve years in February 2007, beating Gambia 2–1 in a friendly match. In October of the same year Luxembourg recorded its first competitive win in 12 years, beating Belarus 1–0 in a UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying game, following it up on 10 September 2008 with a win away to Switzerland, their first World Cup qualifying win since 1972. On October 8, 2010 Luxembourg managed a 0–0 result against Belarus during the Euro 2012 qualifiers. On 9 February 2011 Luxembourg defeated Slovakia 2–1 in a friendly match, following it up with two more wins with the same exact result - against Albania on the 7 September and again versus Macedonia on February 29 2012.

World Cup record

• 1930 – Did not enter
• 1934 to 2010 – Did not qualify

European Championship record

• 1960 – Did not enter
• 1964 – Quarterfinals
• 1968 – 2012 – Did not qualify

Managers

• Ernst Melchior (1969–1972)
• Louis Pilot (1978–1984)
• Paul Philipp (1985–2001)
• Allan Simonsen (2001–2004)
• Guy Hellers (2004–2010)
• Luc Holtz (2010–)

Players

The most capped Luxembourg player until November 2008 was Carlo Weis, who made 87 appearances between 1978 and 1998. Two of these appearances were made against "B" teams of other nations, however, the Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football regards both of these matches as official internationals. Jeff Strasser took over his record, as of April 2010 he has made 96 appearances in full internationals.

Luxembourg's all-time leading goalscorer is Léon Mart, who scored 16 goals between 1933 and 1945, though most of his goals were scored against international "B" teams.

In 2004, the Luxembourg Football Federation selected Louis Pilot as their Golden Player, Luxembourg's greatest player of the past 50 years.

Jeff Strasser scored his 7th goal in World Cup 2010 qualifiers and is the current top scorer in competitive competitions.

Current squad

The following players are called up for the friendly match against Macedonia on 29 February 2012.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Jonathan Joubert (1979-09-12) September 12, 1979 51 0 F91 Dudelange 12 GK Marc Oberweis (1982-11-06) November 6, 1982 7 0 Jeunesse Esch 2 DF Guy Blaise (1980-12-12) December 12, 1980 23 0 Virton 4 DF Eric Hoffmann (1984-06-21) June 21, 1984 77 0 Jeunesse Esch 5 DF Tom Schnell (1985-10-08) October 8, 1985 27 0 Fola Esch 6 DF Tom Laterza (1992-05-09) May 9, 1992 15 0 Sedan Ardennes B 15 DF Mathias Jänisch (1990-08-27) August 27, 1990 18 0 Differdange 03 17 DF Ante Bukvić (1987-11-14) November 14, 1987 4 0 Differdange 03 19 DF Dan Collette (1985-04-02) April 2, 1985 30 0 Jeunesse Esch 23 DF Chris Philipps (1994-93-08) September 8, 1994 1 0 Metz U19 3 MF Mario Mutsch (1984-09-03) September 3, 1984 55 1 Sion 8 MF Gilles Bettmer (1989-03-31) March 31, 1989 48 1 Differdange 03 10 MF René Peters (1981-06-15) June 15, 1981 86 3 Jeunesse Esch 14 MF Lars Gerson (1990-02-05) February 5, 1990 20 1 IFK Norrköping 18 MF Charles Leweck (1983-07-19) July 19, 1983 33 0 Etzella Ettelbruck 21 MF Joël Pedro (1992-04-10) April 10, 1992 8 0 Sedan Ardennes B 7 FW Daniel da Mota (1988-09-11) September 11, 1988 36 2 F91 Dudelange 9 FW Aurélien Joachim (1986-08-10) August 10, 1986 32 1 F91 Dudelange 11 FW Stefano Bensi (1988-08-11) August 11, 1988 8 0 F91 Dudelange 16 FW Maurice Deville (1992-07-31) July 31, 1992 2 2 07 Elversberg

Recent call-ups

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club DF Kim Kintziger (1987-04-02) April 2, 1987 40 1 Differdange 03 DF Massimo Martino (1990-09-18) September 18, 1990 10 0 RM Hamm Benfica MF Ben Payal (1988-09-08) September 8, 1988 41 0 F91 Dudelange FW Joël Kitenge (1987-11-12) November 12, 1987 29 2 Fola Esch

Top goalscorers

1. Léon Mart 16 goals
2. Gustave Kemp 15 goals
3. Camille Libar 14 goals

External links

• RSSSF archive of results 1911–
• RSSSF archive of most capped players and highest goalscorers
• Luxembourg's football federation website
• Luxemb. football