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Serbia and Montenegro national football team

Nickname Плави (Blue)
Association Football Association of
Serbia and Montenegro
Coach Ilija Petković
Most caps Savo Milošević (90)
Top scorer Savo Milošević (35)
First international
Brazil 2 - 0 Yugoslavia
(Porto Alegre, Brazil; 23 December 1994)
Serbia and Montenegro 2 - 2 Azerbaijan
(Podgorica, SCG; 12 February 2003)
Largest win
Faroe Islands 1 - 8 Yugoslavia
(Toftir, Faroe Islands; 6 October 1996)
Worst defeat
Netherlands 6 - 1 Yugoslavia
(Rotterdam, Netherlands; 25 June 2000)
Czech Republic 5 - 0 Yugoslavia
(Prague, Czech Republic; 6 September 2002)
World Cup
Appearances 2 (First in 1998)
Best result Round 2, 1998
European Championship
Appearances 1 (First in 2000)
Best result Quarterfinals, 2000

 

The Serbia and Montenegro national football team is the national football team of Serbia and Montenegro and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro. It was previously known as the Yugoslavia national football team when the country was called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until February 2003 when the name of the country was changed to Serbia and Montenegro. This article refers to the team after the split of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as the national team of first Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and then Serbia and Montenegro.

Although the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed on April 28, 1992, because of the international sanctions due to the Yugoslav wars banning the country from international sporting events, the football team didn't play its first match until 23 December 1994, when they lost to Brazil. Since the split, the team has qualified for the World Cup twice, in 1998 and 2006, and for the European Championship once, in 2000. In 2003, with the renaming of the country, the team assumed its current name.

FIFA considers the Serbia and Montenegro team the direct descendent of the SFRY national team; however, since that one represented a much larger group of people, the information on this page and elsewhere on this site is split, with the Yugoslavia national football team article covering the pre-1992 Yugoslavia.

World Cup record

  • 1930 to 1990 - Did not enter, was part of Yugoslavia
  • 1994 - Banned because of international sanctions due to Yugoslav wars (as Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
  • 1998 - Round 2 (as FR Yugoslavia)
  • 2002 - Did not qualify (as FR Yugoslavia)
  • 2006 - Qualified

European Championship record

  • 1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of Yugoslavia
  • 1996 - Banned because of the sanctions (as FR Yugoslavia)
  • 2000 - Quarterfinals (as FR Yugoslavia)
  • 2004 - Did not qualify (started qualification as FR Yugoslavia)

     

Famous players

  • Slavia Jokanović
  • Vladimir Jugović
  • Mateja Kežman
  • Siniša Mihajlović
  • Predrag Mijatović
  • Savo Milošević
  • Dejan Savićević
  • Dejan Stanković (current squad captain)
  • Dragan Stojković
  • Zvonimir Vukić

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