Israel national under-17 football team

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.

Israel under-17
AssociationIsrael Football Association
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coachGadi Brumer
Most capsMohammad Ghadir
Omer Peretz
(17 each)
Top scorerMaor Buzaglo (9)
FIFA codeISR
First colours
Second colours
European U-17 Championship
Appearances11 (first in 1987)
Best resultThird place (1996)
FIFA U-17 World Cup
Appearances0

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.

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.

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
2021
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
  • 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squad
  • 2005 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squad
  • 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squad
  • 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squad

Players

Current squad

  • The following players were called up for the 2026 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification matches.
  • Match dates: 8, 11 and 14 October 2025
  • Opposition: Romania, Azerbaijan and France
  • Caps and goals correct as of: 14 October 2025, after the match against France
No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Yanal Bazdog (2009-06-04) 4 June 2009 (age 16) 5 0 Hapoel Tel Aviv
1GK Yuval Holckener (2009-05-25) 25 May 2009 (age 16) 1 0 Maccabi Petah Tikva

2DF Sahar Lavi (2009-05-23) 23 May 2009 (age 16) 8 0 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Tamir Bar (2009-12-03) 3 December 2009 (age 16) 5 2 Maccabi Petah Tikva
2DF Idan Tairi (2009-03-08) 8 March 2009 (age 16) 5 0 Maccabi Petah Tikva
2DF Tomer Peleg (2009-05-11) 11 May 2009 (age 16) 5 0 Maccabi Petah Tikva
2DF Noam Shmuel (2009-09-15) 15 September 2009 (age 16) 5 0 Maccabi Petah Tikva
2DF Tal Burko (2009-03-02) 2 March 2009 (age 16) 4 0 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2DF Shai Vacsman (2009-10-26) 26 October 2009 (age 16) 4 0 Hapoel Tel Aviv

3MF Idan Dadia (2009-07-23) 23 July 2009 (age 16) 6 2 Hapoel Haifa
3MF Ben Dajani (2009-04-15) 15 April 2009 (age 16) 6 0 Maccabi Tel Aviv
3MF Ido Berko (2009-07-31) 31 July 2009 (age 16) 6 0 Maccabi Petah Tikva
3MF Yagel Tarshish (2009-03-24) 24 March 2009 (age 16) 4 1 Maccabi Haifa
3MF Harel Bechor (2009-03-25) 25 March 2009 (age 16) 4 0 Maccabi Netanya

4FW Adam Grimberg (2009-09-07) 7 September 2009 (age 16) 11 3 Maccabi Haifa
4FW Liam Luski (2009-01-23) 23 January 2009 (age 16) 11 1 Maccabi Haifa
4FW Erez Didi (2009-08-24) 24 August 2009 (age 16) 6 1 Maccabi Petah Tikva
4FW Noam Azrane (2010-11-02) 2 November 2010 (age 15) 5 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv
4FW Ben Zuares (2009-10-05) 5 October 2009 (age 16) 4 1 Maccabi Petah Tikva
4FW Shalev Janah (2009-04-13) 13 April 2009 (age 16) 4 0 Maccabi Netanya

Recent call-ups

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up

DF Zohar Segev (2009-08-01) 1 August 2009 (age 16) 2 0 Maccabi Netanya v.  Venezuela, 9 September 2025
DF Artyom Demchuk (2009-04-01) 1 April 2009 (age 16) 1 0 Maccabi Haifa v.  Venezuela, 9 September 2025

MF Daniel Ben-Shusham (2009-01-01) 1 January 2009 (age 16) 3 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv v.  Venezuela, 9 September 2025
MF Orian Goren (2009-03-15) 15 March 2009 (age 16) 7 1 Barcelona v.  Slovenia, 25 March 2025

FW Ilay Ben Simon (2009-03-30) 30 March 2009 (age 16) 12 4 Maccabi Tel Aviv v.  Slovenia, 25 March 2025

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