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The Andorra national football team ((カタルーニャ語、バレンシア語:Selecció de futbol d'Andorra)) represents Andorra in association football and is controlled by the Andorran Football Federation, the governing body for football in Andorra. The team has enjoyed very little success due to the Principality's tiny population, the fifth smallest of any UEFA country (only Liechtenstein, San Marino, Gibraltar and the Faroe Islands are smaller). Andorra's first official game was a 6–1 defeat in a friendly match to Estonia in 1996. Since the qualifying rounds for the UEFA Euro 2000 tournament, Andorra have competed in qualifying for every European Championship and World Cup but have had very little success. They have only ever won three matches, all at home. They have one win in competitive matches, a 1–0 win against Macedonia in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying competition. ==History== Though the Andorran Football Federation formed in 1994, and the Andorra domestic league started in 1995, the national team could not participate in major championships until it gained affiliation with governing bodies FIFA and UEFA in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=and/index.html )〕 The national team played its first match against Estonia in Andorra La Vella and lost 6–1. Andorra's first match in a FIFA-sanctioned competition was a 3–1 loss to Armenia on 5 September 1998 in a qualifier for UEFA Euro 2000. Andorra lost all ten qualifiers for the tournament.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/00e-ext.html )〕 The team particularly struggled in away matches; each loss was by at least three goals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/00e-ext.html )〕 Andorra scored only three goals, two of which were penalties,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/00e-ext.html )〕 and two of which were in the away matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/00e-ext.html )〕 Andorra conceded 28 goals,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/00e-ext.html )〕 and their biggest defeat of the qualifiers was a 6–1 away loss to Russia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/00e-ext.html )〕 For their first World Cup qualifying campaign, Andorra were drawn in a group with Cyprus, Estonia, Ireland, the Netherlands and Portugal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2002q.html )〕 They lost their opening match 1–0 loss to Estonia. In the next game, they lost 3–2 to Cyprus but scored their first World Cup qualifying goals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2002q.html )〕 They were again defeated by Estonia, this time 2–1.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2002q.html )〕 They lost all their matches and their only away goal was in a 3–1 loss against Ireland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2002q.html )〕 Their worst defeat was 7–1 to Portugal on a neutral ground in Lleida, Spain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2002q.html )〕 Andorra finished the campaign with no points and conceded 36 goals in ten matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2002q.html )〕 In the team's qualification campaign for Euro 2004 they again lost every game. They scored their only goal in a 2–1 away loss to Bulgaria. In this competition the scores were closer than before as they lost 3–0 to Bulgaria, Croatia and Belgium, 2–0 twice to Estonia, 2–0 to Croatia and 1–0 to Belgium. By Andorran standards, qualification for the 2006 World Cup was successful. They won their first competitive game 1–0 at home against Macedonia. Andorra midfielder Marc Bernaus, who played in the Spanish second division, received a long throw in off his chest and volleyed in a goal early in the second half. After the game, Macedonia coach Dragan Kanatlarovski resigned and called the game "a shameful outcome, a humiliation." Andorra also drew two matches, 0–0 in Macedonia and 0–0 at home against Finland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2006q.html )〕 This tournament has been the only one in which Andorra has scored points. In Euro 2008 qualifying, Andorra again lost every game.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/08e.html )〕 The closest game was against Russia, a 1–0 defeat on 21 November 2007, which helped Russia qualify at the expense of England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/08e.html )〕 Their biggest defeat was a 7–0 loss to Croatia in Andorra La Vella, which is their worst defeat in UEFA competitions〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/teama/team=60618/profile/index.html )〕 and matched their loss to the Czech Republic as their largest losing deficit. Andorra scored only two goals and conceded 42 in a total of 12 games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/08e.html )〕 In 2010 World Cup qualifying they lost all ten matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2010q.html )〕 For the tournament, they scored three goals, in defeats to Belarus and Kazakhstan, and conceded 39 goals, including six in a defeat to England, the largest margin in the group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.rsssf.com/tables/2010q.html )〕 Qualifying for UEFA Euro 2012 ended in a similar way; they lost all ten matches, scoring only one goal and conceding 25; their best results were two one-goal losses to Slovakia and a 3–1 loss in Ireland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8943195.stm )〕 The 2014 World Cup qualifying was even more disastrous, Andorra losing all the matches, conceding 25 goals and not scoring. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andorra national football team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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