Serbian-Montenegrin national soccer team

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro

Nickname (s)

Plavi (blue)

Association

Fudbalski savez Srbije i Crne Gore

confederacy

UEFA

Head coach

Ilija Petković (last)

captain

Savo Milošević (last)

Record scorer

Savo Milosevic (35)

Record player

Savo Milosevic (101)

First jersey

Second jersey

statistics

First international match Brazil 2-0 Yugoslavia ( Porto Alegre , Brazil ; 23 December 1994 )

Last game Ivory Coast 3-2 Serbia and Montenegro ( Munich , Germany ; June 21, 2006 )

Biggest win Faroe Islands 1: 8 Yugoslavia ( Toftir , Faroe Islands ; October 6, 1996 )

Biggest defeat Argentina 6-0 Serbia and Montenegro ( Gelsenkirchen , Germany ; June 16, 2006 )

Successes in tournaments

World Championship

Participation in the finals

2 ( first : 1998 )

Best results

Round of 16 ( 1998 )

European Championship

Participation in the finals

1 ( first : 2000 )

Best results

Quarterfinals ( 2000 )

(Status: unknown)

The Serbian-Montenegrin national football team (2003 to 2006) and the national football team of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (until 2003 1993) ( Serbian Фудбалска репрезентација Савезне републике Југославије Fudbalska Reprezentacija Savezne republike Jugoslavije or Фудбалска репрезентација Србије и Црне Горе- Fudbalska Reprezentacija Srbije i Crne Gore ) was the football selection from 1993/94 to 2006 of the subsequent confederation of the 1992 defunct state of Yugoslavia . In May 2006, Montenegro officially broke away from the Confederation of Serbia and Montenegro through a declaration of independence following an independence referendum . The two countries were represented by a joint team for the last time at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Participation in soccer world championships

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1994	United States	suspended	-	-
1998	France	Round of 16 (as FR Yugoslavia)	Netherlands	10.	Slobodan Santrač
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified	-	-		In the qualification of Russia and Slovenia failed.
2006	Germany	Preliminary round (as Serbia and Montenegro)	Netherlands , Argentina , Ivory Coast	32.	Ilija Petković	In the qualification the team sat u. a. against Bosnia-Herzegovina , the 0: 6 in the second group game against Argentina is the biggest defeat.

Participation in European football championships

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	Quarterfinals (as FR Yugoslavia)	Netherlands	-	Vujadin Boškov	The 1: 6 in the quarter-finals against the Netherlands is the biggest defeat at European championships .
2004	Portugal	not qualified				In the qualification of Italy failed.

history

Early 1990s

At the beginning of the 1990s, football in Serbia and Montenegro was on a high that has not yet been achieved. Players like Dragan Stojković , Dejan Savićević , Predrag Mijatović , Vladimir Jugović and Siniša Mihajlović caused a sensation in top international clubs. The outstanding playing skills and the light-footed style of the team around captain and playmaker Stojković were therefore quickly referred to by journalists as "Balkan Brazilians". In addition, winning the European Cup of National Champions of Red Star Belgrade in 1991 caused a real euphoria among Serbian football fans. In the same year the rest of Yugoslavia (consisting of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro - the qualification was of course also contested by players from Croatia , Macedonia and other republics, such as the Macedonian Darko Pančev ) for the European Championship in Sweden , was, however, excluded from the tournament shortly before their journey to the European Championship - because of the extensive sanctions imposed by the international community against Slobodan Milošević 's government. Instead, Denmark went to Sweden and surprisingly won the tournament in the final against Germany.

1992 to 2002

Due to the sanctions, Stojković's team was no longer allowed to participate in international competitions and thus missed both qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the USA and the 1996 European Championship in England. It was not until 1998 that the Yugoslavs were allowed to take part in an international competition again and made it to the finals in France without any problems. The six lost years made themselves felt, however, as the team could not freshen up and the "golden generation" around Savićević and Stojković was getting on in years. This selection, dubbed the “old men team” by Serbian journalists, nevertheless made it to the round of 16, where they were defeated by the Dutch with a 1: 2. At the subsequent European Championship, they also made it into the second round, and this time the senility of the men around coach Vujadin Boškov turned out to be even more glaring. Again it was the Dutch who threw the team, still known as "Yugoslavia", out of the competition with a 6-1 win. The Serbo-Montenegrins, led by head coach Dejan Savićević, presented an even more disastrous performance in the qualifying matches for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The “absolute low point” and ultimately the farewell to the “golden generation” was the 2-1 defeat against Azerbaijan on June 11, 2003 - a kind of “ disgrace for Cordoba ” for the Serbs.

Return to the European top

With a new coach ( Ilija Petković ) and a lot of pessimism among the fans, however, a continuous development work was achieved, in which one worked step by step back to the top of European football with less talented but disciplined players. The Serbian-Montenegrin national team was celebrated by many as a newcomer. The new national coach Ilija Petković had no choice but to completely redesign the team. The result was a young, solid team with a dangerous storm around Atlético Madrid striker Mateja Kežman and an almost insurmountable defense that conceded only one goal in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The physically robust four-man defensive chain around Mladen Krstajić , Ivica Dragutinović , Nemanja Vidić and Goran Gavrančić was therefore also referred to by some English journalists as the "Famous Four" and consequently the team qualified for the 2006 World Cup before Spain and Belgium. The team was drawn into the so-called "group of deaths" C, where they offered a desolate performance and lost all three games (against the Netherlands 0: 1, Argentina 0: 6 and Ivory Coast 2: 3).

division

After the people of Montenegro voted for independence from Serbia in a referendum on May 21, 2006 , the joint national team was dissolved. The Serbian national soccer team became the legal successor of the Serbian-Montenegrin national team, the Montenegrin national soccer team was newly established. At the 2006 World Cup , the two countries were still represented by a common team. The last game under the name Serbia and Montenegro was the 3-2 defeat against Ivory Coast on June 21, 2006 in Munich .

International matches

Last international matches

(Results always from a Serbian-Montenegrin perspective)

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers	Type of game
October 12, 2005	Belgrade , ( SCG )	Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 Kežman (7th)	Qualification for the 2006 World Cup
November 13, 2005	Shanghai , ( CHN )	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	2: 0 (0: 0)	1-0 Đorđević (60th), 2-0 Žigić (75th)	Friendly match
November 16, 2005	Seoul , ( ROK )	Korea South South Korea	0: 2 (0: 1)	0: 1 Choi Jin-cheul (4th), 0: 2 Lee Dong-gook (66th)	Friendly match
March 1, 2006	Tunis , ( TN )	Tunisia Tunisia	1: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 Kežman (12th)	Friendly match
May 27, 2006	Belgrade , ( SCG )	Uruguay Uruguay	1: 1 (1: 0)	1-0 Stanković (18th), 1: 1 Godín (82nd)	Friendly match
June 11, 2006	Leipzig , ( D )	Netherlands Netherlands	0: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 seals (18.)	Football World Cup 2006
June 16, 2006	Gelsenkirchen , ( D )	Argentina Argentina	0: 6 (0: 3)	0: 1, 0: 3 Maxi Rodríguez (6th), (41st), 0: 2 Cambiasso (31st), 0: 4 Crespo (78th), 0: 5 Tévez (84th), 0: 6 Messi (88.)	Football World Cup 2006
June 21, 2006	Munich , ( D )	Ivory Coast Ivory Coast	2: 3 (2: 1)	1: 0 Žigić (10th), 2: 0 Ilić (20th), 2: 1 Dindane (37./HE), 2: 2 Dindane (67th), 2: 3 Kalou (85./HE)	Football World Cup 2006

The long Yugoslav football history finally ended with the group game Ivory Coast - Serbia and Montenegro.

International matches against German national soccer teams

June 21, 1998 in Lens : 2-2 (World Cup preliminary round)
April 30, 2003 in Bremen : 0: 1 (according to DFB statistics, this game is counted as the only game against Serbia-Montenegro)

Wins: 0
Defeats: 1
Draw: 1

Trainer

Serbia and Montenegro Slobodan Santrač (1994–1998)
Serbia and Montenegro Vujadin Boškov (1999-2000)

player

Individual evidence

↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (there under results for "Serbia"; PDF; 200 kB)

[1] The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (there under results for "Serbia"; PDF; 200 kB)