Bosnian-Herzegovinian national football team

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Bosnian-Herzegovinian national football team (disambiguation) .

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosna i Hercegovina
Босна и Херцеговина

Nickname (s)	Zmajevi (Dragon) Zlatni Ljiljani (Golden Lilies)
Association	NFSBIH
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Adidas
Head coach	Dušan Bajević (since December 2019)
Assistant coach	Rusmir Cviko Slaven Musa Adnan Čustović
captain	Edin Džeko
Record scorer	Edin Džeko (58)
Record player	Edin Džeko (105)
Home stadium	Grbavica , Sarajevo / Bilino Polje , Zenica
FIFA code	BIH
FIFA rank	49th (1430 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
218 games 91 wins 47 draws 80 losses
statistics
First international match Albania 2-0 BIH ( Tirana , Albania ; November 30, 1995 )
Highest wins Liechtenstein 1: 8 BIH ( Vaduz , Liechtenstein ; September 7, 2012 ) BIH 7: 0 Estonia ( Zenica , BIH ; September 10, 2008 )
Biggest defeat Argentina 5-0 BIH ( Córdoba , Argentina ; May 14, 1998 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2014 )
Best results	Preliminary round 2014
(As of September 17, 2019)

The Bosnian-Herzegovinian national team ( Bosnian Nogometna / Fudbalska reprezentacija Bosne i Hercegovine / Ногометна / Фудбалска Репрезентација Босне и Херерентака Репрезентација Босне и Херегоска Босне и Хереретна Боснене и Херегоска Репрезентација Босне и Хереговes of the Bosnian football association . The N / FSBIH was founded for the first time in 1908. The association was merged into the Yugoslav Football Association in 1919 and was re-established in 1992. He has been a member of FIFA since 1996 and UEFA since 1998 .

history

From 1905 to the First World War

In 1905, Bosnian students from Vienna brought the soccer game to Bosnia-Herzegovina . From the city of Mostar , the sport of football quickly spread throughout the region and gained great popularity. In 1907 a football game between a team from Split and one from Mostar was played, which is the first game by a Bosnian team.

In 1908 the first Bosnian football association was founded. At the time of the outbreak of World War I, there were over 70 registered football clubs in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Since many players in the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian Army went to war, the game came to a standstill.

Kingdom, World War II, and Socialist Yugoslavia

After the First World War, Bosnia-Herzegovina split off from Austria-Hungary and joined the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . The following year the Yugoslav Football Association (JFS) was founded and the Bosnian Football Association incorporated into it.

After the Second World War , professional football was introduced in Yugoslavia. In 1950 and 1954, no Bosnian players were nominated for the Yugoslav national team. The Bosnian association then organized its own selection team and hosted friendly games, including against China in 1955, where they won 6-0. It was not until 1958 that Bosnian players were called up to the Yugoslav national team more often, and the makeshift Bosnian national team became obsolete.

In 1990 the Bosnian Ivica Osim led the Yugoslav national team at the World Cup in Italy up to the quarter-finals, in which they were only eliminated on penalties against world champions Argentina. Ivica Osim resigned from his position as team manager after the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars; the (remaining) Yugoslav national team was denied participation shortly before the European Championship in Sweden in 1992 . This enabled the eventual European champion Denmark to take part in the competition.

During and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia (1992-2001)

The Bosnian Football Association was re-established in 1992 after the split from Yugoslavia and took part with a B-team in the "Mediterranean Cup" in 1993 in France . There she played her first game against Algeria, which ended with a 1-1. Another game in the same tournament they lost 3-1 to Greece. Other friendlies were also played, such as against Fortuna Düsseldorf in August 1993. At that time, the national team was peppered with well-known, former Yugoslav national players such as Safet Susic , Mehmed Bazdarevic , Davor Jozic , Blaz Sliskovic , Faruk Hadzibegic , Predrag Juric and others, all of which, however, were already in the autumn of their careers, so that very few of them have booked official appearances in the national team after being accepted into FIFA in 1996.

In 1994 Bosnia-Herzegovina tried to join FIFA . But at the conference in Chicago , due to the political situation, people voted against joining. The national team did not play their first international match until 1995 against Albania. They traveled with only 12 players and played in borrowed equipment. The game was lost 2-0.

In 1996, the association was accepted into FIFA one day before the World Cup qualifying draw , which made it into the lottery pot. The opponents in the qualifying group were Denmark, Croatia, Slovenia and Greece. The Bosnians played their first competitive game as part of qualifying for the 1998 World Cup on September 1, 1996 against Greece (0: 3). The first win in an official international match was on November 6, 1996 in a friendly against Italy (2-1) at the Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium. In this game, the first international goal for Bosnia-Herzegovina fell by the then 19-year-old Hasan Salihamidžić . Only four days later there was the first competitive win in Ljubljana against Slovenia.

FIFA wanted Bosnia-Herzegovina to play its home games in Bologna, Italy, for security reasons . The first game against Croatia also took place on Italian soil, but after association protests, FIFA withdrew their demands. Bosnia-Herzegovina then won 3-0 against ex-European champions Denmark in Sarajevo . The first game on another continent took place on December 18, 1996 in Manaus (Brazil), where they lost 1-0 to Brazil.

In 1997, the team from Bosnia-Herzegovina took part in Malaysia in the Dunhill Cup, in which they reached second place. In 1998 they played a friendly game against a FIFA All-Star team in Sarajevo (0-1). The reasons for this were, on the one hand, joining UEFA and, on the other hand, the 90th birthday of the Bosnian Football Association. In 2001 three tournaments with Bosnian participation took place in India , Malaysia and Iran . The tournament in India was won. At the tournament in Malaysia they met the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the final and lost. In Iran, however, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was defeated in the semi-finals, but the final against Iran was lost.

Recent history (2001-present)

In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship, the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina came close to qualifying for a major tournament for the first time. The team defeated Norway and Luxembourg 1-0 and 2-0 respectively in qualifying, and Denmark was beaten 2-0 in Copenhagen. Only on the last match day was the goal of EURO 2004 missed. On that day, a win against Denmark would even have been enough to win the group. The final score of 1: 1 was not even enough for the play-offs.

Once again, Bosnia and Herzegovina played stronger than expected in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup . Among other things, the selection played twice against Spain, which was rated more strongly, and ended up in front of Belgium, among others . Again, the team failed to qualify on the last day of the match in the 1-0 defeat against Serbia-Montenegro .

Many players felt that the nomination placed less emphasis on playing skills than on nationality and that the board interfered too much in the coach's affairs. This resulted in many of the main forces boycotting the national team. In 2007, a total of 13 players boycotted the Bosnian national team. Only when the entire board of three of the Bosnian Association were dismissed and the players were nominated according to their skills, these players wanted to return. The boycott, however, crumbled somewhat before the two qualifiers in March 2007, so that 8 out of 13 players could be persuaded to play for their nation again.

The coach Meho Kodro , who took office on January 5, 2008, refused to travel with the national team to the friendly game in Iran because the football association canceled the previously planned game against Poland. The reason for the cancellation was given by the N / FSBIH that Albania coincidentally had already agreed to a friendly match with Poland on the same date. The real reason, however, was that Iran offered the association the equivalent of 100,000 euros if they came to a friendly match. The Bosnian Football Association agreed, but Meho Kodro refused. When he was due to submit the list of players on May 15, 2008, he did not show up for the appointment and the association kicked him out three days later.

As a result, many fan groups, former Bosnian football players and football professionals from Bosnia called out the organization “Spasimo bh fudbal” (Let's save Bosnian football). When the Bosnian national soccer team played against Azerbaijan in Zenica on June 1, 2008 , there were almost no spectators. Instead, the stadium in Sarajevo, where a friendly game was being played, was sold out. This friendly game had a humanitarian character and the two teams were called "Kodro and friends" and "Bolic and friends".

In qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national soccer team narrowly failed to participate in the World Cup. While the first group game against Spain was only lost 1-0 away, the team won the second game against Estonia with an outstanding performance 7-0. Against Turkey, the selection lost again just 2-1, but beat Armenia in the home game. With a 4-2 win against Belgium in Genk, the team saved their chance to participate in the 2010 World Cup. Bosnia-Herzegovina won thanks to three goals towards the end of the game. This game has meanwhile been canceled because Bosnian fans (members of the group "BHFanaticos") threw flares onto the field. At home in Zenica the second leg against Belgium took place, which was won 2-1. Striker Edin Džeko scored two goals for Bosnia-Herzegovina in the first half, Belgium struck in the 88th minute. Armenia were defeated a second time, the selection scored 1-1 against Turkey, and Estonia was also defeated. In the last group game in Zenica against European champions Spain, Bosnia lost 5-2. With 19 points Bosnia finally got into the play-offs , in which the Portuguese national team were the opponents. The first leg in Portugal ended 1-0 for Portugal. Since the return leg in Zenica also ended 0-1 for Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina failed to qualify for the World Cup in South Africa. Edin Džeko was together with Wayne Rooney after Theofanis Gekas the second best European scorer in the World Cup qualification.

In qualifying for the European Football Championship in 2012 , the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national football team was drawn into a group with France, Romania, Albania, Belarus and Luxembourg. In this group, the team reached second place. During the group phase, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian association was temporarily suspended by FIFA and UEFA in March 2011 because the association's statutes did not correspond to those of UEFA and FIFA. Mainly it was about the three-member association presidium, consisting of one Croat, one Serbs and one Bosniaks. The Serbs and Croats refused to replace the three-member presidium with a single president. A so-called normality committee was set up around Ivica Osim to find a compromise. Ivica Osim held talks with the entity associations of the Federation, especially in the Croatian-dominated cantons, and the Republika Srpska. Finally, a compromise was reached: There will be a president, but in the Executive Committee, which has 15 members (5 Bosniaks , Serbs and Croats each ), decisions are passed with a three-quarters majority (demand of the Serbs and Croats). In a general meeting of the association on March 29, 2011, the new statute was passed unanimously. After that, the suspension was lifted and thus the further participation of the team in the group stage was ensured, in which they achieved second place and thus qualified for the play-offs. In the first leg of the play-offs, the team reached a draw against Portugal, the second leg on November 15, 2011 at the stadium da Luz in Lisbon was lost 6-2 instead of 6-2. So the team could not achieve the desired participation in the EM 2012. On October 15, 2013, due to the better goal balance compared to Greece, they were able to qualify for a FIFA World Cup for the first time . Bosnia started with a 2-1 loss to Argentina . Ibišević scored the first World Cup goal in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 85th minute. The 1-0 defeat against Nigeria in the second group game sealed the elimination of Bosnia-Herzegovina, although a regularly scored goal by Edin Džeko by referee Peter O'Leary was not counted. A photo showing O'Leary after the game, laughing gleefully and hugging a Nigerian player caused outrage in Bosnia. Bosnia-Herzegovina has never been able to qualify for a European football championship .

In August 2013, Bosnia-Herzegovina achieved 13th place, the best ever placement in the FIFA world rankings .

Some older players of Bosnian-Herzegovinian origin played in the national team of Yugoslavia before. For a list, see the Yugoslav national football team .

Trainer

Period	National coach
November 30, 1995– November 5, 1997	Fuad Muzurović
May 14, 1998– January 27, 1999	Džemaludin Mušović
March 11, 1999 to October 9, 1999	Faruk Hadžibegić
11/11/1999–07/10/2001	Mišo Smajlović
March 27, 2002 - October 11, 2006	Blaž Slišković
March 24, 2007– December 17, 2007	Fuad Muzurović
January 30, 2008– March 26, 2008	Meho Kodro
July 10, 2008–12, 2009	Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević
03.03.2010–16.11.2014	Safet Sušić
December 13, 2014-10 October 2017	Mehmed Baždarević
05.01.2018-27.11.2019	Robert Prosinečki
December 21, 2019–	Dušan Bajević

The dates show when the coaches played their first and last games and not when they came in and left.

Current

International matches

→ Main article : List of the international matches of the Bosnia-Herzegovina national football team

The games of the current year 2019 are listed with the results from a Bosnian-Herzegovinian perspective.

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Type of game	Goal scorers
23 Mar 2019	Sarajevo	Armenia	2: 1 (1: 0)	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020	Krunić (33.), Milošević (80.), Mkrtchyan (93.)
26th Mar 2019	Zenica	Greece	2: 2 (2: 0)	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020	Višća (10th), Pjanić (15th), Fortounis (64th, penalty), Kolovos (85th)
0June 8, 2019	Tampere ( FIN )	Finland	0: 2 (0: 0)	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020	Pukki (56th, 68th)
June 11, 2019	Turin ( ITA )	Italy	1: 2 (1: 0)	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020	Džeko (32nd), Insigne (49th), Verratti (86th)
05th Sep 2019	Zenica	Liechtenstein	5: 0 (1: 0)	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020	Gojak (11th, 89th), Malin (80th, own goal), Džeko (85th), Višća (87th)
08 Sep 2019	Yerevan ( ARM )	Armenia	2: 4 (1: 1)	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020	Mkhitaryan (3rd, 66th), Džeko (13th), Gojak (70th), Hambartsumyan (77th), Lončar (95th, own goal)
Oct 12, 2019	Zenica	Finland	-: -	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020
Oct 15, 2019	Marousi ( GRE )	Greece	-: -	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020
Nov 15, 2019	Zenica	Italy	-: -	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020
Nov 18, 2019	Vaduz ( LIE )	Liechtenstein	-: -	Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020

Squad

The table names the 23 players who were nominated for the EM 2020 qualifiers against Liechtenstein on September 5 and Armenia on September 8, 2019.

position	No.	Surname	society	birth date	Calls	Gates	debut	Last use
goal
	01	Jasmin Buric	Hapoel Haifa	Feb. 18, 1987	000	00	-	-
	12	Ibrahim Šehić	Büyükşehir Belediye Erzurumspor	0Sep 2 1988	024	00	Nov 17, 2010	08 Sep 2019
	22nd	Vladan Kovačević	FK Sarajevo	Apr 11, 1998	000	00	-	-
Defense	02	Eldar Ćivić	Ferencváros Budapest	May 28, 1996	008th	00	0June 1, 2018	June 11, 2019
	03	Ermin Bičakčić	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Jan. 24, 1990	030th	03	14 Aug 2013	08 Sep 2019
	04th	Darko Todorović	Holstein Kiel	0May 5, 1997	010	00	Jan. 28, 2018	08 Sep 2019
	05	Sead Kolašinac	Arsenal FC	June 20, 1993	025th	00	May 30, 2014	08 Sep 2019
	06th	Marko Mihojevic	FC Erzgebirge Aue	Apr 21, 1996	002	00	Jan. 28, 2018	05th Sep 2019
	07th	Muhamed Besic	Sheffield United	Sep 10 1992	041	00	Nov 17, 2010	08 Sep 2019
	15th	Toni Šunjić	FK Dynamo Moscow	Dec 15, 1988	040	01	Aug 15, 2012	05th Sep 2019
	17th	Ervin Zukanović	Al-Ahli Saudi FC	Feb 11, 1987	038	00	Oct 16, 2012	08 Sep 2019
	18th	Adnan Kovačević	Corona Kielce	0Sep 9 1993	000	00	-	-
midfield	09	Haris Duljevic	Olympique Nîmes	Nov 16, 1993	021st	01	25th Mar 2016	08 Sep 2019
	10	Miralem Pjanic	Juventus Turin	0Apr 2, 1990	089	013	Aug 20, 2008	08 Sep 2019
	13	Gojko Cimirot	Standard Liege	Dec 19, 1992	019th	00	04th Sep 2014	08 Sep 2019
	14th	Amer Gojak	Dinamo Zagreb	Feb 13, 1997	008th	03	25th Mar 2017	08 Sep 2019
	19th	Rade Krunić	AC Milan	0Oct 7, 1993	011	01	03rd June 2016	05th Sep 2019
	20th	Stjepan Lončar	HNK Rijeka	Nov 10, 1996	004th	00	Jan. 31, 2018	08 Sep 2019
	23	Deni Milošević	Konyaspor	09 Mar 1995	007th	01	31 Aug 2017	05th Sep 2019
attack	08th	Edin Višća	Istanbul Başakşehir FK	Feb. 17, 1990	048	10	Dec 10, 2010	08 Sep 2019
	11	Edin Džeko	AS Roma	17th Mar 1986	105	58	0June 2, 2007	08 Sep 2019
	16	Riad Bajić	Konyaspor	0May 6, 1994	011	00	25th Mar 2017	08 Sep 2019
	21st	Irfan Hadžić	Akhisar Belediyespor	June 15, 1993	000	00	-	-

Jerseys

The national soccer team of Bosnia and Herzegovina uses the colors white and blue, based on the old Bosnian flag, as the main colors, while the colors of the country's flag are blue and yellow . The Bosnian-Herzegovinian team also played in the colors of white and gold for some time (the gold color referred to the lilies, which were the main symbol of the old Bosnian flag). The Bosnian national team is currently wearing blue and yellow jerseys at home and white jerseys away.

Stages

The Bosnian national team plays its home games in two different stadiums in two different cities. Once in the capital Sarajevo and in the fourth largest city in the country, in Zenica.

Bilino Polje

The Bilino Polje stadium in Zenica was built in 1972 and has a capacity of 19,000 spectators. It is used by the NK Čelik Zenica . The Bosnian national team has mostly preferred this stadium in previous qualifying matches. There, on September 10, 2008, the national team celebrated the highest victory in their history with a 7-0 win against Estonia.

Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium

The Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium (Koševo until 2014), built in 1947 , was the opening site of the 1984 Winter Olympics and was extensively renovated for this purpose. The stadium serves as a home for FK Sarajevo , which is owned by the municipality of Sarajevo-Centar . The capacity is 35,000 seats without a roof, whereby the west stand cannot be opened for international matches, as the seats do not meet UEFA standards. Safet Sušić made his debut as coach of Bosnia-Herzegovina in this stadium and they won 2-1 against Ghana with goals from Pjanic and Ibišević and Muntari. Due to the existing career path, the fans and players prefer the Bilino Polje in Zenica because of its proximity to the field.

Grbavica

On October 7, 2017, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national team played their first international match against Belgium at Grbavica as part of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia . For this purpose, the stadium, which was badly damaged during the Bosnian War, was extensively renovated.

The newly built eastern grandstand was opened on April 1, 2017, increasing the capacity of the Grbavica to 13,449 spectators.

Hrasnica

This is where the Bosnian national team usually prepares for friendly and qualifying matches. The stadium belongs to the FK Famos Hrasnica club, which plays in the first division of the Federation. It has approximately a capacity for 5,200 spectators.

Record holder and rankings

List of the most frequently used players

rank	player	International appearances	Period
1	Edin Džeko	105	since 2007
2	Emir Spahic	94	2003-2018
3	Miralem Pjanic	92	since 2008
4th	Vedad Ibišević	84	2007-2017
	Zvjezdan Misimović	84	2004-2014
6th	Asmir Begović	62	since 2009
7th	Haris Medunjanin	60	since 2009
8th	Senad Lulić	57	2008-2017
9	Elvir Bolić	51	1996-2006
10	Sergei Barbarez	47	1998-2006
	Sejad Salihović	47	2007-2015
12	Vedin Musić	45	1995-2007
13	Kenan Hasagic	44	2002-2011

As of March 23, 2019

Record goal scorers

Record goal scorers

rank	Name (italic = active)	Gates	Games	Goals / game	First goal	Last goal	Record holder	World Cup and European Championship goals
01	Edin Džeko	58	105	0.552	0June 2, 2007	08 Sep 2019	0Sep 7 2012 - Sep 11 2012; since Oct. 16, 2012	World Cup 2014 (1)
02	Vedad Ibišević	28	83	0.337	Oct 13, 2007	25th Mar 2017		World Cup 2014 (1)
03	Zvjezdan Misimović	26th	85	0.306	31 Mar 2004	Oct 11, 2013
04th	Elvir Bolić	22nd	51	0.431	0Nov 6, 1996	0Oct 9, 2005	Aug 20, 1997 - Sep 7 20120
05	Sergei Barbarez	16	47	0.340	05th Sep 1998	0Sep 2 2006
06th	Elvir Baljić	14th	38	0.368	Aug 19, 1998	0Apr 2, 2003
07th	Miralem Pjanic	14th	92	0.146	03rd Mar 2010	26th Mar 2019		World Cup 2014 (1)
08th	Edin Višća	10	48	0.208	June 12, 2015	05th Sep 2019
09	Haris Medunjanin	9	59	0.153	Nov 17, 2010	0Oct 7, 2017
10	Milan Đurić	7th	14th	0.500	Oct 10, 2015	0June 7, 2016
Note: If the number of goals is the same, the better effectiveness (goals / game) counts.

As of September 16, 2019

Record goalkeeper

space	Name (italic = active)	Games	Games without conceding a goal	Games without conceding a goal (proportionately)	Important tournaments (* = no stake)
01	Asmir Begović	62	30th	48%	World Cup 2014
02	Kenan Hasagic	44	13	30%
03	Mirsad Dedic	27	8th	30%
04th	Ibrahim Šehić	24	11	46%
05	Adnan Gušo	22nd	5	23%
06th	Almir Tolya	15th	3	20%
07th	Tomislav Piplica	8th	3	38%
08th	Nemanja Supić	8th	2	25%
09	Goran Brašnić	8th	1	13%
010	Romeo Mitrovic	6th	3	50%
Note: If the number of games without a goal is the same, the better blocking effectiveness decides (games without a goal proportionately).

As of September 16, 2019

Balance sheets

International match records

→ Main article : List of the international matches of the Bosnia-Herzegovina national football team

The following overview shows the balance sheets of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national soccer team. Games decided in extra time will be counted as a tie according to their result, whereas games decided in penalty shootouts will be counted as a draw.

For the sake of clarity, only countries are listed here whose respective national team has played against Bosnia-Herzegovina at least five times. A full list can be found under international match statistics .

country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Goal ratio	Goal difference	important encounters
Albania	5	2	2	1	5: 4	+ 1	European Championship qualification 2012
Belgium	8th	3	1	4th	13:19	- 6	World Cup qualification 2006, 2010, 2018; European Championship qualification 2016
Denmark	5	2	2	1	8: 5	+ 3	World Cup qualification 1998; 2004 European Championship qualification
Estonia	7th	5	1	1	21: 4	+ 17	World Cup qualification 2010, 2018; European Championship qualification 2000
Greece	10	1	5	4th	8:15	- 7th	World Cup qualification 1998, 2014, 2018; European Championship qualification 2008, 2020
Iran	6th	1	1	4th	10:17	- 7th	World Cup preliminary round 2014; LG Cup 2001 - Final
Serbia and Montenegro	5	0	2	3	1: 6	- 5th	World Cup qualification 2006; Millennium Super Cup 2001 - preliminary round, final
Liechtenstein	7th	6th	1	0	28: 2	+ 26	World Cup qualification 2002, 2014; Euro 2020 qualification
Lithuania	6th	4th	1	1	10: 5	+ 5	World Cup qualification 2006, 2014; European Championship qualification 2000
Luxembourg	5	5	0	0	11: 1	+ 10	European Championship qualification 2004, 2012
North Macedonia	5	1	3	1	8: 8	± 0
Austria	5	1	3	1	3: 4	- 1	World Cup qualification 2002; UEFA Nations League 2018/19
Spain	8th	0	2	6th	8:18	- 16	World Cup qualification 2002, 2006, 2010
Turkey	6th	2	2	2	7: 6	+ 1	World Cup qualification 2010; European Championship qualification 2008

World championships

Bosnian-Herzegovinian World Cup goalscorer

space	player	Year (s)	Participate	Gates
01	Edin Džeko	2014	1	1
	Miralem Pjanic	2014	1	1
	Vedad Ibišević	2014	1	1
	Avdija Vršajević	2014	1	1

→ Main article : Bosnian-Herzegovinian national soccer team / World Cups

Since its independence in 1992, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national soccer team has only qualified once for the soccer world championship .

This surprisingly succeeded the team under the direction of coach Safet Sušić on the last matchday (October 15, 2013) against the Lithuanian selection . There they successfully won 1-0 and secured the group victory even before the Greek team with the same number of points . The winning goal scored Vedad Ibišević in the 68th minute and gave the country the only qualification to a world championship final .

After the group draw it was clear that Bosnia-Herzegovina would play against ex-world champions Argentina , Iran and Nigeria .

The opening game against Argentina they lost 2-1, with the defensive boss Sead Kolašinac undercutting an own goal at the beginning of the game. Nevertheless, the team celebrated its first World Cup goal in the 85th minute of the game. Again it was Vedad Ibišević who scored the goal.

Now that it was clear that you had to get all three points in the next game in order to advance to the round of 16, the second World Cup game against African champions Nigeria began emotionally charged. Then there was a scandal in the 22nd minute of the game: The New Zealand football referee Peter O'Leary saw Edin Džekos offside while trying to score and decided not to recognize the goal. According to many experts, the gate was compliant.

After the brief excitement on the part of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian team, the chances of reaching the round of 16 were lost in the 29th minute. Peter Odemwingie made it 1-0 for Nigeria .

Many Bosnian-Herzegovinian football players said they saw a contentious situation: Defender and captain Emir Spahić had previously been fouled.

On the last day of the preliminary round, at least the first victory was achieved. They scored 3-1 against Iran and were able to travel home with a final score of three points.

Coach Safet Sušić remained in office after the tournament , but was sacked after a 3-0 defeat in the qualifying match for the 2016 European Football Championship against Israel in November 2014. The office of coach was then taken over by Mehmed Baždarević .

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	space	Trainer	Comments and special features
1998	France	not qualified	-	-	Fuad Muzurović	In the qualification of Denmark and Croatia failed.
2002	South Korea and Japan	not qualified	-	-	Drago Smajlović	In the qualification of Spain failed.
2006	Germany	not qualified	-	-	Blaž Slišković	In the qualification of Spain and Serbia and Montenegro failed.
2010	South Africa	not qualified	-	-	Miroslav Blažević	In the qualification in the playoffs of the runners to Portugal failed.
2014	Brazil	Preliminary round	Argentina, Nigeria, Iran	19th place	Safet Sušić	First World Cup participation
2018	Russia	not qualified	-	-	Mehmed Baždarević	In the qualification of Belgium and Greece failed

European championships

• 1960 to 1992 - was part of Yugoslavia
• 1996 - was not a UEFA member
• 2000 to 2016 - not qualified

Web links

Commons : Bosnian-Herzegovinian national soccer team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bosnian-Herzegovinian national football team in the database of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Football Association (English)
• National team ( Memento from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BiH National Team - Balkan North - Topic - Page 1 - transfermarkt.at. Retrieved October 23, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Debut in the national team. Retrieved October 23, 2013 . 
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