Greece national under-21 football team
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| Greece Under-21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Εθνική Ελπίδων ("National team of Hopes") |
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| Association | Hellenic Football Federation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach |  Nikos Nioplias |
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| Captain | Grigorios Makos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Demis Nikolaidis(14) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First International |
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Biggest win Greece 6 - 0 Luxembourg  (Greece; 1993) |
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Biggest defeat.png/22px-Flag_of_Hungary_(1957-1989).png){kind=small} Hungary 7 - 0 Greece .svg/22px-Flag_of_Greece_(1828-1978).svg.png){kind=small} (Hungary; 1976) |
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| UEFA U-21 Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 4 (First in 1988) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Runners-up, 1988, 1998, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greece national Under-21 football team, also known as Greece Under-21s or Greece U-21s, is the Under-21 years of age team of the Greece national football team.
This team is for Greek players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U-21s, senior side and again for the U-21s, as Sotiris Ninis has done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible).
[edit] Current squad and recent players
1986-born
(eligible to 2009 UEFA U21 Champ)
- Alexandros Kasmeridis
- Georgios Galitsios
- Efthimis Kotitsas
- Ioannis Maniatis
- Theodoros Tripotseris
- Lazaros Christodoulopoulos
- Stylianos Iliadis
- Dimitris Koiliaras
- Antonis Rikka
- Antonis Petropoulos
- Savvas Tsiambouris
1987-born
(eligible to 2009 UEFA U21 Champ)
- Leonidas Panagopoulos
- Theodoros Koubaroulis
- Giorgos Tzavelas
- Andreas Chatziliontas
- Sotiris Balafas
- Panagiotis Kone
- Grigorios Makos
- Manolis Papastergianos
- Stefanos Siontis
- Christos Aravidis
1988-born
(eligible to 2011 UEFA U21 Champ)
- Emmanouil Moniakis
- Sokratis Papastathopoulos
- Elini Dimoutsos
- Vassilios Pliatsikas
- Kostantinos Mitroglou
1989-born
(eligible to 2011 UEFA U21 Champ)
1990-born
(eligible to 2011 UEFA U21 Champ)
