Serbia national football team

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Serbia women's national football team.

Serbia
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Орлови / Eagles
AssociationFudbalski savez Srbije (FSS)
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coachDragan Stojković
CaptainAleksandar Mitrović
Most capsDušan Tadić (111)
Top scorerAleksandar Mitrović (59)
Home stadiumVarious
FIFA codeSRB
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 33 Increase 2 (24 October 2024)[1]
Highest6 (December 1998)
Lowest101 (December 1994)
First international
as Yugoslavia
 Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom of SCS 
(Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920)
as FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro
 Brazil 2–0 FR Yugoslavia 
(Porto Alegre, Brazil; 23 December 1994)
 Serbia and Montenegro 2–2 Azerbaijan 
(Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro; 12 February 2003)
as Serbia
Unofficial
FS Serbia 2–1 FS Montenegro
(Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 3 September 1945)
Official
 Czech Republic 1–3 Serbia 
(Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic; 16 August 2006)
Biggest win
as Yugoslavia
 Yugoslavia 10–0 Venezuela 
(Curitiba, Brazil; 14 June 1972)
as FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro
 Faroe Islands 1–8 FR Yugoslavia 
(Toftir, Faroe Islands; 6 October 1996)
 Serbia and Montenegro 5–0 San Marino 
(Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro; 13 October 2004)
as Serbia
 Azerbaijan 1–6 Serbia 
(Baku, Azerbaijan; 17 October 2007)
 Serbia 6–1 Bulgaria 
(Belgrade, Serbia; 19 November 2008)
 Serbia 5–0 Romania 
(Belgrade, Serbia; 10 October 2009)
 Serbia 6–1 Wales 
(Novi Sad, Serbia; 11 September 2012)
 Serbia 5–0 Russia 
(Belgrade, Serbia; 18 November 2020)
Biggest defeat
as Yugoslavia
 Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom of SCS 
(Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920)
 Uruguay 7–0 Kingdom of SCS 
(Paris, France; 26 May 1924)
 Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom of SCS 
(Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 October 1925)
as FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro
 Netherlands 6–1 FR Yugoslavia 
(Rotterdam, Netherlands; 25 June 2000)
 Czech Republic 5–0 FR Yugoslavia 
(Prague, Czech Republic; 6 September 2002)
 Argentina 6–0 Serbia and Montenegro 
(Gelsenkirchen, Germany; 16 June 2006)
as Serbia
 Ukraine 5–0 Serbia 
(Lviv, Ukraine; 7 June 2019)
World Cup
Appearances13 (first in 1930)
Best resultAs Yugoslavia: Fourth place (1930, 1962)
As FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro: Round of 16 (1998)
As Serbia: Group stage (2010, 2018, 2022)
European Championship
Appearances6 (first in 1960)
Best resultAs Yugoslavia: Runners-up (1960, 1968)
as FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro: Quarter-finals (2000)
As Serbia: Group stage (2024)
Medal record
UEFA European Championship
Silver medal – second place 1960 France Team
Silver medal – second place 1968 Italy Team
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome Team
Silver medal – second place 1948 London Team
Silver medal – second place 1952 Helsinki Team
Silver medal – second place 1956 Melbourne Team
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Los Angeles Team
Balkan Cup
Gold medal – first place 1934–35 Greece Team
Gold medal – first place 1935 Bulgaria Team
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1971 Izmir Team
Gold medal – first place 1979 Split Team
Websitefss.rs

The Serbia men's national football team (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалска репрезентација Србије, romanized: Fudbalska reprezentacija Srbije) represents Serbia in men's international football competition. It is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia, the governing body for football in Serbia.

After the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia and its football team in 1992 Serbia was represented (alongside Montenegro) within the new FR Yugoslavia national football team. Despite qualifying for Euro 1992 the team was banned from participating in the tournament due to international sanctions, with the ruling also enforced for 1994 World Cup and Euro 1996 qualifiers. The national team played its first friendly in December 1994, and with the easing of sanctions the generation of the 1990s eventually participated at the 1998 World Cup, reaching the round of 16, and the quarter-finals at Euro 2000. The team played in the 2006, 2010, 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, but failed to progress past the group stage on each occasion.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Between February 2003 and June 2006, Serbia participated as Serbia and Montenegro due to the countries' name change. Following a 2006 referendum Montenegro declared its independence, leading to separate football federations which resulted in the team's final renaming and establishment as the Serbia national football team.[11][12][13][14][15][16] Serbia is considered by FIFA and UEFA to be the official successor team of FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro national football teams, as well as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia/SFR Yugoslavia team.[17][18][19][20]

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  7. ^ "FIFA Svetsko prvenstvo 1998. u Francuskoj". reprezentacija.rs. 9 June 1998. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
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  19. ^ "Football Association of Serbia". UEFA. The Football Association of Serbia (Fudbalski savez Srbije or FSS) was originally founded in 1919 as the Yugoslav Football Association [...] Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until it finally fragmented in 1992 [...] In 1992 the new state of Serbia and Montenegro was named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [...] In February 2003 the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia changed its name once again to Serbia and Montenegro. Finally, in June 2006, Serbia and Montenegro became separate nations and the Republic of Serbia was declared. Serbia's first international as a single entity came [...]
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