Yugoslav national soccer team / European championships

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European Championship record scorer:	Dragan Dzajic (4)
European Championship record players:	Dragan Dzajic (5)
Rank:	no longer placed, the results are now attributed to the Serbian team
Organizer:	1976
Balance sheet
10 European Championship games 2 wins 1 draw 7 defeats 14:24 goals
statistics
First European Championship game Yugoslavia 5-4 France Paris ( FRA ); July 6, 1960
Last European Championship game Yugoslavia 2-3 France Saint-Étienne ( FRA ) June 19, 1984
Biggest European Championship victories Yugoslavia 5-4 France Paris ( FRA ); July 6, 1960 Yugoslavia 1-0 England Florence ( ITA ); 5th June 1968
Biggest European Championship defeat Yugoslavia 0: 5 Denmark Lyon ( FRA ); June 16, 1984
successes
European Championship
Participation in the finals	4 ( first : 1960 )
Best results	Vice European Champion 1960 , 1968
Best results in the countries where the UEFA European Football Championships are held
(As of July 2012)

The article contains a detailed description of the Yugoslav national football team that competed for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at European championships and qualifications from 1959 to 1992 . Yugoslavia was able to qualify for the finals of the European Championship five times, but was only allowed to participate four times and reached the final twice, but could not win any. Yugoslavia hosted the fifth finals in 1976, when the first penalty shoot-out decided the title. After the wars of Yugoslavia and the independence of most of the republics, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, consisting only of Serbia and Montenegro , was able to qualify for the finals again in 2000 and in 2004 took part in the qualification as Serbia and Montenegro . The successes of the Yugoslav team were from the UEFA initially the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, then Serbia and Montenegro , and now Serbia attributed the first time took part in the qualifiers for Euro 2008, but could not qualify.

Overview

Yugoslavia was able to qualify for every second European Championship finals, twice with four participants, one time being the host, and twice with eight participants. After the last qualification, however, the exclusion took place shortly before the start of the tournament. Yugoslavia was replaced by Denmark, which won the title.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1960	France	final	USSR	2nd place	Ljubomir Lovrić
1964	Spain	not qualified				In the second round to Sweden failed.
1968	Italy	final	Italy	2nd place	Rajko Mitic	Defeat in replay
1972	Belgium	not qualified				Failed in the quarter-finals at the USSR
1976	Yugoslavia	3rd place match	Netherlands	Fourth	Ante Mladinić	In the semifinals to defending champion Germany only failed in extra time.
1980	Italy	not qualified				In the qualification of Spain failed
1984	France	Preliminary round	Belgium , Denmark , France		Todor Veselinović	Eliminated after three defeats as bottom of the group
1988	BR Germany	not qualified				In the qualification of England failed
1992	Sweden	qualified , wg. the Yugoslav Wars but excluded from the tournament .				The other previous republics of Yugoslavia were against the participation of Serbia and Montenegro in the EM on behalf of Yugoslavia.

EM 1960

Lineups in the first European Championship final

Yugoslavia also wanted to take part in the first European football championship in 1960, which was still held as the “European Cup of Nations”, and had to face Bulgaria in the round of 16 . After a 2-0 on May 31, 1959 in Belgrade , in which Milan Galić scored the 1-0 in the first minute, the 1-1 in Sofia could be coped with to reach the next round. In the quarter-finals, Portugal was the opponent. After a 1: 2 in Oeiras , the second leg in Belgrade was won 5: 1. So Yugoslavia had reached the final round, which was played in France .

On July 6, 1960, the first European Championship final match took place in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris , and Yugoslavia met the host in the highest-scoring game in European Championship history. Already in the 11th minute, Milan Galić gave the Yugoslavs a 1-0 lead, but only a minute later Jean Vincent equalized . Then it took until the 43rd minute until François Heutte brought the French into the lead for the first time and so it was the break. In the 53rd minute, French captain Maryan Wisnieski increased the lead to 3-1, but two minutes later the Yugoslavs scored the next goal. With his second goal, François Heutte restored the two-goal lead for the French in the 62nd minute, but they had missed their powder, while the Yugoslavs turned the game with three goals, two of them by Dražan Jerković and 5-4 in the final moved in. In this they met the Olympic champion USSR , who competed with four players from the 1956 squad. Again, Galić brought the Yugoslavs 1-0 lead, this time only in the 41st minute. But four minutes after the break, the equalizer had to be accepted. After that, neither team succeeded in making the decision in regular time, so extra time was necessary. Six minutes before the end of extra time, the USSR scored the winning goal and became the first European Cup winner. Two months later, Yugoslavia was able to win the Olympic gold medal, with seven players from the EM squad then also in the Olympic squad.

EM 1964

Four years later, more teams than 1960 wanted to participate. Therefore, the round of 16 was preceded by a preliminary round . Yugoslavia had to play against Belgium , winning the home game 3-2 and the second leg 1-0. They met Sweden in the round of 16 . After a goalless draw in Belgrade, they lost 3-2 in Malmö and were eliminated. Sweden then failed in the quarter-finals to defending champions Soviet Union, which again reached the finals and the final, but lost the title there to Spain .

EM 1968

Lineups in the first final game

Lineups in the second final game

For the European Football Championship in 1968, group games were scheduled for the first time in qualifying . Yugoslavia had to compete against vice world champions Federal Republic of Germany and Albania . In the first home game there was a 1-0 win against the vice world champions and afterwards they won 2-0 in Albania. The second leg in Germany was lost 3-1, but then won against Albania 4-0. Since the Germans had won their home game 6-0 against Albania, a 1-0 win in the second leg in Albania was enough for them to qualify. Although the Germans had set up Peter Meyer, the then leading scorer of the Bundesliga season 1967/68 and Hannes Löhr, the later top scorer, they failed to score. With the 0-0 the Germans missed a qualification for the only time to date and Yugoslavia reached the quarter-finals. In this they met France and after a 1-1 draw in Marseille they were able to reach the finals with a 5-1 in the second leg. This took place in Italy.

In the semifinals on June 5, 1968, they met World Champion England in Florence , who came with 11 players from the World Cup squad. However, the English had to do without the three-time final scorer Geoff Hurst and Nobby Stiles , who had been injured a few days earlier in the World Cup revenge and their first defeat against Germany. Therefore, the English team was set up defensively and both teams neutralized each other for 85 minutes. Then Dragan Džajić scored the 1-0 winner. A minute later, Alan Mullery was also the first Englishman to be sent off in an international match, which made it easier for the Yugoslavs to make it 1-0 over time.

In the final, the Yugoslavs met the Italians , who needed the luck of the draw in their semifinals after a goalless 120 minutes against the USSR. Although the Italians met this time, Džajić also met again for the Yugoslavs to take the lead, but both teams only once in 120 minutes. This time there was no drawing of lots, but a replay two days later. Italy won 2-0 and became the first team to become world and Olympic champions before, also European champions, drawing level with Uruguay, which had also been world and South American champions and Olympic champions.

European Championship 1972

Yugoslavia could not qualify for the European Championship finals in 1972 . In a group with the Netherlands , the GDR and Luxembourg , three wins and three draws were enough for them to reach the quarter-finals. Here again the Soviet Union was the enemy. After a goalless draw at home, the second leg was lost 3-0. The Soviet Union took it to the European Championship finals in Belgium , reached the final, but lost to a German team that celebrated dream football.

EM 1976

In 1976 the final round was held for the last time with four teams. Yugoslavia had to qualify for this in the group stage against Northern Ireland , Sweden and Norway . Yugoslavia won five games and only lost in Northern Ireland. The group was thus won confidently, as the others also took points from each other. In the quarterfinals, Wales was the opponent. After a 2-0 home game, the 1-1 draw in the second leg was enough to reach the final round, which the Yugoslavs were allowed to host.

In the semifinals they met defending champions and world champions Germany and were leading 2-0 after 30 minutes. The Germans then scored the first goal in the 62nd minute and in the 82nd minute, Dieter Müller, who had just been substituted for his first international match, equalized to 2-2. This went into extra time, in which Müller scored two more goals, making him the first player to score three goals in a European Championship game. The Germans stood again for the final, but lost it to Czechoslovakia on penalties . Yugoslavia met vice world champions Netherlands in the small final and lost 3-2 after extra time. The realized Dragan Džajić with his fourth EM-Tor, the interim 2: 2nd He is the best Yugoslav scorer at the European Championships.

EM 1980

The 1980 European Football Championship was held for the first time with eight teams and for the first time the host was known in advance so that he did not have to qualify. The Federal Republic of Germany, England, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland were involved as organizers. On October 19, 1977, UEFA announced that England or Italy would host the European Championship, and on November 12, 1977, Italy was announced as the host. According to the law of the series, Yugoslavia failed again in the qualification, this time to Spain and could only relegate Romania and Cyprus to the places. Spain did not get beyond the preliminary round in the final round.

EM 1984

In qualifying for the European Championship 1984 in France, the Yugoslavs had to compete in Group 4 against Wales , Bulgaria and Norway . The Yugoslavs started with a defeat in Norway, then never lost a game and were group winners with three wins and two draws. They were only able to secure qualification in the last two games, a 1-1 in Wales and a 3-2 against Bulgaria.

In France, the Yugoslavs lost the opening game against Belgium 2-0, then lost a game against Denmark for the first time and suffered their highest European Championship defeat with the 0-5. This meant that they had no chance of reaching the semi-finals before the last game against hosts France . Nevertheless, the Yugoslavs gave everything again, took the lead through Safet Sušić in the 31st minute and held it until the 58th minute. Then Michel Platini managed the only flawless hat trick to date at an EM. In the 80th minute, the Yugoslavs reduced it to 2: 3, but it wasn't enough for more. Yugoslavia was eliminated as the bottom of the group and then did not play a European Championship game.

EM 1988

The qualification for the EM in Germany ran again according to the law of the series. In a group with England , Northern Ireland and Turkey , in which only the Turks did not win a game, Yugoslavia finished second with four wins and two losses to England. The English drove to the European Championship, but failed there in the group stage.

EM 1992

In qualifying for the European Championship in 1992 , Yugoslavia met Denmark, Northern Ireland again as well as Austria and the Faroe Islands , who participated for the first time and surprisingly won their first qualifying game against Austria. Yugoslavia only lost the home game against Denmark, all other games were won. This put them in first place in the end, as the Danes had only achieved a 1-1 draw in Northern Ireland. Yugoslavia was thus qualified for the European Championship finals. Shortly before the start of the final round, Yugoslavia was excluded due to UN sanctions as a result of the Yugoslav wars and Denmark was nominated. Most of the Danish players had already started their vacation after the end of the season of the national leagues and arrived without much preparation. Nevertheless, the Danes managed the biggest surprise to date and won the title in the final against world champions and record European champions Germany.

Player with the most appearances in European championships

Dragan Džajić (1970), Yugoslav player with the most European Championship appearances and goals

Games	player	Year (games)
5	Dragan Džajic	1968 (3), 1976 (2)
4th	Jovan Aćimović	1968 (2), 1976 (2)
3	16 players
2	24 players
1	12 players

As of July 1, 2012

Player with the most goals at European championships

Gates	player	Year (goals)
4th	Dragan Džajic	1968 (2), 1976 (2)
2	Dražan Jerković	1960 (2)
	Milan Galic	1968 (2)
1	6 players

As of July 1, 2012

Players banned from European championships

No Yugoslavs were sent off at the European Championship finals.

Share of players playing abroad in the EM squad

Legionnaires were only appointed to the last two cadres, but also made up the minority there.

Year (games)	Number (countries)	Players (stakes)
1960 (2)	0
1968 (3)	0
1976 (2)	4 (1 in Belgium, 2 in Germany, 1 in France)	Enver Hadžiabdić (0); Branko Oblak (2), Danilo Popivoda (2); Josip Katalinski (2)
1984 (3)	1 (in France)	Safet Sušić (3)

As of July 1, 2012

Records

• The highest-scoring game: 9 goals in the semifinals 1960 Yugoslavia 5-4 France
• The first goal in a final round: Milan Galić in the 11th minute of the France-Yugoslavia game on July 6, 1960
• The only team that did not receive a warning in any final.

Negative records

• The longest series of defeats: Yugoslavia lost 6 games in a row between 1968 and 1984.
• Biggest defeats in group matches: Yugoslavia - Denmark and Belgium - France (1984) and Bulgaria - Sweden (2004) - all 0: 5

Games

Paris (2) Rome (2) Florence Belgrade Zagreb Saint-Etienne Lens Lyon

Venues (green = positive balance, yellow = balanced balance, red = negative balance, bold = final venue, number in brackets = number of games if> 1)

Yugoslavia played ten European Championship games, two of which were won, seven were lost and one ended in a draw. Four games had to be extended. One of them was repeated and three lost in overtime.

Yugoslavia had two home games. Yugoslavia played the first game twice, played four times against the hosts (including a replay) and four times against the eventual European champions. It was played twice against the reigning world champion and once against the reigning Olympic champion.

• The highest victory in an EM tournament was not achieved against any country.

• The Yugoslav team suffered their biggest defeat at an EM tournament against only one country:
  •  Denmark : preliminary round 1984 0-5 (first defeat against Denmark)

All EM games
No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	Remarks
1	07/06/1960	5: 4	France	A.	Paris ( FRA ), Parc des Princes	Semifinals
2	07/10/1960	1: 2 a.d.	USSR	*	Paris ( FRA ), Parc des Princes	final	Opponent is the reigning Olympic champion
3	06/05/1968	1-0	England	*	Florence ( ITA ), Stadio Comunale	Semifinals	Opponent is the reigning world champion
4th	06/08/1968	1: 1 a.d.	Italy	A.	Rome ( ITA ), Stadio Olimpico	final
5	06/10/1968	0: 2	Italy	A.	Rome ( ITA ), Stadio Olimpico	Final replay
6th	06/17/1976	2: 4 a.d.	FRG	H	Belgrade , Crvena Zvezda Stadium	Semifinals	Opponent is the reigning world champion
7th	06/19/1976	2: 3 a.d.	Netherlands	H	Zagreb , Maksimir Stadium	3rd place match
8th	06/13/1984	0: 2	Belgium	*	Lens ( FRA ), Stade Félix Bollaert	Group game
9	06/16/1984	0: 5	Denmark	*	Lyon ( FRA ), Stade de Gerland	Group game
10	06/19/1984	2: 3	France	A.	Saint-Étienne ( FRA ), Stade Geoffroy Guichard	Group game

See also

• Yugoslav national football team at world championships

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yugoslavia - 2-0 Bulgaria
2. ↑ Bulgaria - Yugoslavia 1: 1 (0: 0)
3. ^ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: The history of the European football championship, Verlag Die Werkstatt, ISBN 978-3-89533-553-2