Ireland U21s - 2025 Campaign

Thought I'd make a new thread as the others I searched for were dedicated to previous campaigns.

Next campaign is for players born on/after the 1st of January 2002.

This is the player pool as far as I can see.

Mostly 02/03. Players in [brackets] are 04/05:

                               Cannon           Odubeko                        
                               Kenny             Armstrong                
                               Emakhu          Kavanagh                                                     

                Oko-Flex                                        O'Neill  
                Springett                                        Costelloe
                Hayes                  Moran                 Fitzgerald

                Burns                  Gilsenan               Fitzhugh

                O'Kane                Mooney                Harkin
                                          [Ferizaj]

                                                    
 Adaramola                                                                      Ebosele    
 Furlong                   Hodge                  Phillips                   Solomon                           
 Greenwood            Henry-Francis        John Patrick          [Curtis]
 Adedokun               Adebambo            Adeeko                  Caffrey
                               McCormack           Leavy

                               Ibrahim                 Hill

                    Roughan        Garcia-MacNulty       Lawal 

                    McGrath            Jones                    Mills

                    Ogungbo          Adetoro                Negru

                    Watson               Egan                 L.Kavanagh

                   [Murphy]           [Grehan]            [Abankwah] 
                               
              
                                           Keeley
                                           Doherty
                                            Rose
                                            Blair

I'm sure I missed a few names here and there (& more will pop up as the campaign goes on), so if you want to point them out I'll add them in.

Also, not entirely sure of the positions for a few lads (like Caffrey), and obviously some can play multiple positions.

Players already capped at U21 level:
Ferguson(10), O'Neill(5), Odubeko(4), Ebosele(4), Hodge(2), Lawal(2), Moran(2), Roughan(1), Garcia-MacNulty(1), Rose(1)

Bazunu, Parrott, Omobamidele, Ferguson

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Looks like a strong group, RWB might be a problem area if Ebosele is called up to the seniors.

Unlike the previous 2 campaigns, this group should largely be able to stay together for the whole thing.

We look very light at the back based on the list as it stands, and the goalkeeper position is up for grabs.

The draw is on Feb 2nd, I believe, so hopefully we get an idea of the fixtures list soon after that.

A permanent move or a loan? Still a very young guy so possibly focusing on college instead of football?

He's just not that great, looked fairly poor any time he played underage for us. I'd say he's just trying to get as much out of the experience as he can.

Not sure who will be our Under 21 keeper for the next campaign - could be a weak spot again like last time. Maher started well enough but got worse as time went on. There's a couple of young Irish keepers playing PL2 at Tottenham - Josh Keeley and Aaron Maguire. Might be one of them that gets the jersey.

Slovakia have been confirmed as the hosts. So the question is whether they were ranked higher than us or not in the seedings. It looks like they were the highest ranked third seed last time and they came second in their group, so that would suggest there's a decent chance that they would have been above us and we might well get bumped up to second seeds ahead of the draw.