Israel Olympic football team

Israel

Association	Israel Football Association
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Guy Luzon
FIFA code	ISR
First colours Second colours
Summer Olympic Games
Appearances	1 (first in 2024)
Best result	TBD (2024)

The Israel Olympic football team (Hebrew: נבחרת ישראל בכדורגל האולימפית, also known as Israel under-23 national football team) represents Israel in international football competitions in Olympic Games. The team is one of the Israeli youth football teams and only is only constituted when Israel qualifies for Summer Olympics.

Israel is expected to make its debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in France, headed by Guy Luzon.^[1]

History

Previosuly, the Israel national team competed previously in two Olympic Games, in 1968 and 1976, reaching the quarter-final in both times. Since age limit has been set for participants under the age of 23 starting from the 1992 Olympic Games, Israel had experienced a long absence from the Olympic football tournament, failing to qualify.^[2]

In the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Israel U21 reached the quarter-finals and then defeat the host Georgia 4-3 in a penalty shootout after 0-0 after 120 minutes, thus advancing to the semi-finals for the first time in its history.^[3] This achievement also helped secure the team's qualification to the 2024 Olympic Games.^[2][4]

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of all match results, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixture

2024

Mali  v  Israel

24 July 2024 (2024-07-24) Summer Olympics – Group stage	Mali	v	Israel	Paris, France
21:00		Report		Stadium: Parc des Princes

Israel  v  Paraguay

27 July 2024 (2024-07-27) Summer Olympics – Group stage	Israel	v	Paraguay	Paris, France
19:00		Report		Stadium: Parc des Princes

Israel  v  Japan

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) Summer Olympics – Group stage	Israel	v	Japan	Nantes, France
21:00		Report		Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire

Head coaches

As of 1 July 2024

Manager	Nation	Year	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	Win %
Guy Luzon		2024	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Players

Current squad

The following 29 players were called up in the preliminary squad for the 2024 Olympic Games.^[5]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Daniel Peretz*	(2000-07-10)10 July 2000 (aged 24)	0	0	Bayern Munich
	1GK	Omer Nir'on	(2001-04-17)17 April 2001 (aged 23)	0	0	Maccabi Netanya
	1GK	Niv Eliasi	(2002-02-01)1 February 2002 (aged 22)	0	0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
	2DF	Sean Goldberg*	(1996-08-25)25 August 1996 (aged 27)	0	0	Maccabi Haifa
	2DF	Itay Ben Hamo	(2002-02-06)6 February 2002 (aged 22)	0	0	Bnei Sakhnin
	2DF	Stav Lemkin	(2003-04-02)2 April 2003 (aged 21)	0	0	Shakhtar Donetsk
	2DF	Doron Leidner	(2002-04-26)26 April 2002 (aged 22)	0	0	Olympiakos
	2DF	Noam Malmoud	(2002-08-02) 2 August 2002 (age 21)	0	0	Hapoel Jerusalem
	2DF	Roy Revivo	(2003-05-22)22 May 2003 (aged 21)	0	0	Hapoel Tel Aviv
	2DF	Ilay Feingold	(2004-08-23)23 August 2004 (aged 19)	0	0	Macabi Haifa
	2DF	Or Israelov	(2004-09-02)2 September 2004 (aged 19)	0	0	Hapoel Tel Aviv
	2DF	Noam Ben Harush	(2005-05-13)13 May 2005 (aged 19)	0	0	Macabi Haifa
	3MF	Omri Gandelman*	(2000-05-16)16 May 2000 (aged 24)	0	0	Gent
	3MF	Ido Shahar	(2001-08-20)20 August 2001 (aged 22)	0	0	Hapoel Tel Aviv
	3MF	Ayano Preda	(2002-04-29)29 April 2002 (aged 22)	0	0	Hapoel Jerusalem
	3MF	Ethan Azoulay	(2002-05-26)26 May 2002 (aged 22)	0	0	Maccabi Netanya
	3MF	Oscar Gloukh	(2004-04-01)1 April 2004 (aged 20)	0	0	Red Bull Salzburg
	3MF	Adi Yona	(2004-04-17)17 April 2004 (aged 20)	0	0	Beitar Jerusalem
	3MF	Amir Ganah	(2004-09-07)7 September 2004 (aged 19)	0	0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva
	3MF	Niv Yehoshua	(2005-01-28)28 January 2005 (aged 19)	0	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva
	3MF	Liran Hazan	(2006-05-10)10 May 2006 (aged 18)	0	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva
	4FW	Osher Davida	(2001-02-18)18 February 2001 (aged 23)	0	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
	4FW	Liel Abada	(2001-10-03)3 October 2001 (aged 22)	0	0	Charlotte FC
	4FW	Ilay Hagag	(2001-11-07)7 November 2001 (aged 22)	0	0	Maccabi Haifa
	4FW	Dor Turgeman	(2003-10-24)24 October 2003 (aged 20)	0	0	Maccabi Tel Aviv
	4FW	Elad Madmon	(2004-02-10)10 February 2004 (aged 20)	0	0	Hapoel Hadera
	4FW	Mohammed Abu Rumi	(2004-03-01)1 March 2004 (aged 20)	0	0	Ironi Kiryat Shmona
	4FW	Idan Gorno	(2004-08-09)9 August 2004 (aged 19)	0	0	Maccabi Petah Tikva
	4FW	Anan Khalaily	(2004-09-03)3 September 2004 (aged 19)	0	0	Maccabi Haifa

* Overage player.

Overage players in Olympic Games

Olympic Games record

Summer Olympic Games Record
Hosts	Result	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1952 to 1988	See the Israel national football team
1992 to 2020	Did not qualify
2024	Qualified
Total	1/8		0	0	0	0	0	0

References

External links

• IFA official website
• 2024 Paris football schedule. digitalhub.fifa.com