San Marino win rare Nations League match: Here are all the football games they have not lost

Lorenzo Lazzari, Nicola Nanni and Alessandro Golinucci each scored to spot disconnected Liechtenstein 3-1, which was lone their 2nd triumph since 2004. 

It was besides their 2nd triumph this play against Liechtenstein this season, different tiny authorities that has go thing of a footballing rival. 

Sensationally, it was the archetypal clip Sam Marino had scored much than 2 goals successful a lucifer since their archetypal authoritative planetary lucifer successful 1987. 

Topping their 4th part Nations League table, supra Gibraltar and Lichtenstein, was a glorious infinitesimal for the broadside placed 210th and past successful Fifa’s satellite rankings. 

With a colonisation of conscionable 30,000, San Marino person go known arsenic also-rans, if not whipping boys, against larger sides successful European qualification games. 

San Marino’s promotion volition mean sterner tests await, but for present Roberto Cevoli’s squad tin bask successful the glory of the tiny state’s finest hour. 

Over the years, the squad has routinely gone done full qualification processes without scoring astatine each and losing each matches by 3 oregon much goals.

Listing San Marino’s achievements up until present is simply a pugnacious task – but the latest triumph tin beryllium seen wrong the discourse of a database of matches the squad simply has not lost.

Look distant now, immoderate fans of Liechtenstein! 

San Marino 0-0 Lebanon - September 1987 

The archetypal authoritative planetary for San Marino was a comparatively agleam start, holding their Middle Eastern competitors to a stalemate.

San Marino 0-0 Turkey - March 1993

The Lebanon gully proved the lone non-defeat successful astir six years earlier Turkey failed to interruption done successful a 1994 World Cup qualifier. 

Latvia 1-1 San Marino - April 2001

When Southampton striker Marians Pahars netted wrong 60 seconds it seemed San Marino’s woeful grounds would continue. But defender Nicola Albani equalised to marque history, giving La Serenissim (the astir tranquil) their archetypal distant point. 

Lichtenstein 2-2 San Marino - August 2003

A rivalry of minnows began with this planetary affable successful August 2003. 

San Marino 1-0 Liechtenstein - April 2004

After much than 70 games without a win, Selva scored the lone extremity successful this affable to springiness San Marino their archetypal ever triumph – and their past for 20 years! 

San Marino 0-0 Estonia - November 2014

After 10 years and 61 games, San Marino ended their losing streak to unafraid their archetypal ever constituent successful a European qualifier. 

Lichtenstein 0-0 San Marino - October 2020

The rivalry continued with this stalemate.

San Marino 0-0 Gibraltar - November 2020

The Nations League format gave teams similar San Marino much chances to play sides of astir their level, which has led to the 2020s becoming thing of a purple patch.

San Marino 0-0 Seychelles - September 2022

The African federation was held successful a nil-nil to springiness the Sammarinese their archetypal effect against a non-European side.

St Kitts and Nevis 0-0 San Marino - November 2022

This antithetic affable brought different stalemate to proceed a comparatively bully tally of signifier for San Marino.

San Marino 1-0 Liechtenstein - September 2024

And for the archetypal clip since 2004, San Marino won a lucifer – courtesy of Nicko Sensoli’s extremity – to erstwhile much down Liechtenstein.

San Marino 1-1 Gibraltar - November 2024

Nicola Nanni scored a precocious punishment to springiness San Marino a captious constituent towards Nations League promotion. 

Lichtenstein 1-3 San Marino - November 2024

La Serenissima did it again implicit their bitter rivals connected Tuesday to instrumentality different 3 points.

Congratulations, San Marino!