Croatian national football team
Nickname (s) | "Kockasti", "Vatreni" ( German "Die Karierte" , "Die Fierigen") |
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Association | Hrvatski nogometni savez | ||
confederacy | UEFA | ||
Technical sponsor | Nike | ||
Head coach | Zlatko Dalić | ||
Assistant coach |
Dražen Ladić Ivica Olić Marjan Mrmić |
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captain | Luka Modrić | ||
Record scorer | Before Šuker (45) | ||
Record player | Darijo Srna (134) | ||
Home stadium | Maksimir Stadium | ||
FIFA code | CRO | ||
FIFA rank | 6. (1642 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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Balance sheet | |||
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320 games 168 wins 87 draws 65 losses |
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statistics | |||
First international match Banovina Croatia 4-0 Switzerland ( Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; April 2, 1940 )
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Biggest win Croatia 10-0 San Marino ( Rijeka , Croatia ; June 4, 2016 )
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Biggest defeat Spain 6-0 Croatia ( Elche , Spain ; September 11, 2018 )
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Successes in tournaments | |||
World Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 5 ( first : 1998 ) | ||
Best results | Vice World Champion ( 2018 ) | ||
European Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 5 ( first : 1996 ) | ||
Best results | Quarter-finals ( 1996 ; 2008 ) | ||
(As of November 16, 2019) |
The Croatian national football team is the football selection of the Croatian Football Association . The biggest success of the selection so far is the runner-up world title (2nd place) at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. She also reached third place at the 1998 World Cup in France and the quarter-finals at the 1996 European Championships in England and 2008 in Switzerland and Austria.
history
After the Croatian Football Association was founded in 1912, it was another 28 years before a Croatian national football team competed on an international level for the first time. This game, played against Switzerland in 1940, marks the beginning of the first phase of Croatian international history. On July 14, 1941, the Croatian Football Association became an official member of FIFA and played several international matches, but apart from the games against neutral Switzerland only against countries that were allied with the German Reich or were under its influence. With the incorporation of Croatia into the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia after the end of the Second World War , membership in FIFA and Croatian international football history was initially interrupted for several decades.
For decades, Croatian players played for the Yugoslav national football team . In the course of the independence efforts in Croatia at the beginning of the 1990s, it came to the first independent international match of a Croatian national team on October 17, 1990, when a US national team was defeated 2-1 in Zagreb . The first captain of the “new” Croatian team was Zlatko Kranjčar and the first goal scorer was Aljoša Asanović , who had put the Croatian team in the lead in the 29th minute of the game. Until the final declaration of independence on June 25, 1991, two more games followed before the game operations initially suffered from the Croatian war . Until the end of the war, there were hardly any home international matches.
After Croatia gained sovereignty, on July 3, 1992, she was re-admitted to FIFA. The team did not take part in qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the USA, but qualified for participation in the 1996 European Championship and qualified for the 1998 World Cup , which took third place and established itself among the European football nations. With the exception of the European Championship in 2000 and the World Championship in 2010 , the qualification for every major tournament has been achieved since the re-entry into FIFA.
Due to racist incidents in the match against Italy on July 12, 2015, the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body decided on July 23, 2015 to punish the Croatian Football Association with a deduction of one point in qualifying for the 2016 UEFA European Championship. Furthermore, the HNS was fined EUR 100,000 and had to play two games without spectators. The Poljud Stadium in Split has been suspended for the remaining qualifying matches.
Trainer
Surname | Term of office |
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Dražan Jerković | 1990-1992 |
Stanko Poklepović | 1992-1993 |
Vlatko Marković | 1993-1994 |
Tomislav Ivić | 1994 |
Miroslav "Ćiro" Blažević | 1994-2000 |
Mirko Jozić | 2000-2002 |
Otto Baric | 2002-2004 |
Zlatko Kranjčar | 2004-2006 |
Slaven Bilic | 2006–2012 |
Igor Štimac | 2012-2013 |
Niko Kovač | 2013-2015 |
Ante Čačić | 2015-2017 |
Zlatko Dalić | 2017– |
Balance sheets
FIFA World Ranking
- Croatia was named “Newcomer of the Year” by FIFA on the basis of the FIFA world rankings in 1994 and 1998.
Current rank | 5 | 4th April 2019 |
Highest rank | 3 | January 27, 1999 |
Lowest rank | 125 | March 15, 1994 |
European championships
year | Host country | Participation until ... | Last opponent | Result | Trainer | Comments and special features |
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1960 | France | then as part of Yugoslavia | - | - | - | Croatia was part of Yugoslavia |
1964 | Spain | |||||
1968 | Italy | |||||
1972 | Belgium | |||||
1976 | Yugoslavia | |||||
1980 | Italy | |||||
1984 | France | |||||
1988 | Germany | |||||
1992 | Sweden | not possible there because of the war in Croatia | - | - | Stanko Poklepović | Successfully qualified as part of Yugoslavia , but suspended after the outbreak of war |
1996 | England | Quarter finals | Germany | Quarter finals | Miroslav Blažević | EM debut and best EM result |
2000 | Belgium and the Netherlands | Not qualified | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Ireland , Macedonia , Malta | - | Miroslav Blažević | Failed in qualification at the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Ireland , which also failed to qualify; End of the term of office of World Cup bronze coach Blažević |
2004 | Portugal | Preliminary round | England , France , Switzerland | Preliminary round | Otto Baric | 3rd place in group B; End of the term of office of team boss Barić |
2008 | Austria and Switzerland | Quarter finals | Turkey | Quarter finals | Slaven Bilic | quarter-finalist again; Defeat on penalties |
2012 | Poland and Ukraine | Preliminary round | Ireland , Italy , Spain | Preliminary round | Slaven Bilic | 3rd place in group C; End of the tenure of coach Bilić |
2016 | France | Round of 16 | Portugal | Round of 16 | Ante Čačić | After victories against Turkey and Spain and a draw against the Czech Republic qualified as group winners for the knockout round; Defeat in extra time in the round of 16 |
2021 | Europe | qualified | Opponents in the qualification are Azerbaijan , Slovakia , Hungary and Wales |
World championships
World championships
1930-1941 | Croatia was part of Yugoslavia |
1941-1945 | No World Cup held during the Second World War, Croatia independent and FIFA member |
1945-1991 | Croatia was part of Yugoslavia |
1994 in the USA | FIFA ban for all countries of ex-Yugoslavia, Croatia since 1992 FIFA member |
1998 in France | Third |
2002 in South Korea / Japan | Preliminary round |
2006 in Germany | Preliminary round |
2010 in South Africa | not qualified |
2014 in Brazil | Preliminary round |
2018 in Russia | Vice world champion |
Current
Squad
The table names the 23 players who were nominated for the squad for the Euro 2020 qualifiers against Slovakia on November 16 and against Georgia on November 19, 2019.
position | No. | Surname | society | birth date |
Calls | Gates | debut | Last use |
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goal | ||||||||
1 | Dominik Livaković | Dinamo Zagreb | Jan. 9, 1995 | 9 | 0 | Jan. 11, 2017 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
12 | Lovre Kalinić | Aston Villa | Apr 3, 1990 | 18th | 0 | Nov 12, 2014 | 24 Mar 2019 | |
23 | Simon Sluga | Luton Town | 17th Mar 1993 | 1 | 0 | June 11, 2019 | June 11, 2019 | |
Defense | ||||||||
3 | Borna Barišić | Glasgow Rangers | Nov 10, 1992 | 12 | 1 | Jan. 11, 2017 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
5 | Matej Mitrovic | Club Bruges | Nov 10, 1993 | 12 | 2 | Nov 12, 2014 | Oct 15, 2018 | |
5 | Duje Ćaleta-Car | Olympique Marseille | 17 Sep 1996 | 4th | 0 | 3rd June 2018 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
14th | Mile Škorić | NK Osijek | June 19, 1991 | 2 | 0 | 22 Mar 2008 | June 8, 2019 | |
16 | Tin Jedvaj | FC Augsburg | Nov 28, 1995 | 23 | 2 | 4th Sep 2014 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
17th | Dario Melnjak | Çaykur Rizespor | Oct 31, 1992 | 1 | 0 | June 11, 2019 | June 11, 2019 | |
22nd | Karlo Bartolec | FC Copenhagen | Apr 20, 1995 | 4th | 0 | Oct 15, 2018 | Sep 9 2019 | |
Dino Peric | Dinamo Zagreb | July 12, 1994 | 1 | 0 | Nov 16, 2019 | Nov 16, 2019 | ||
midfield | ||||||||
7th | Ivan Rakitić | FC Barcelona | 10 Mar 1988 | 106 | 15th | Oct 16, 2007 | Oct 13, 2019 | |
8th | Mateo Kovačić | Chelsea FC | May 6, 1994 | 55 | 1 | June 10, 2013 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
10 | Luka Modrić | real Madrid | Sep 9 1985 | 127 | 16 | 1st Mar 2006 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
11 | Marcelo Brozović | Inter Milan | Nov 16, 1992 | 51 | 6th | June 6, 2014 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
13 | Nikola Vlašić | CSKA Moscow | Oct. 4, 1997 | 10 | 2 | May 28, 2017 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
15th | Mario Pašalić | Atalanta Bergamo | Feb 9, 1995 | 11 | 0 | 4th Sep 2014 | 6 Sep 2019 | |
19th | Milan Badelj | AC Florence | Feb 25, 1989 | 49 | 2 | May 23, 2010 | Oct 13, 2019 | |
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4th | Ivan Perišić | FC Bayern Munich | Feb. 2, 1989 | 87 | 24 | 26th Mar 2011 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
7th | Josip Brekalo | VfL Wolfsburg | June 23, 1998 | 11 | 0 | Nov 15, 2018 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
9 | Mislav Oršić | Dinamo Zagreb | June 19, 1991 | 2 | 0 | Sep 9 2019 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
18th | Ante Rebić | AC Milan | 21 Sep 1993 | 33 | 3 | 14 Aug 2013 | Nov 16, 2019 | |
20th | Bruno Petković | Dinamo Zagreb | 16 Sep 1994 | 8th | 5 | 24 Mar 2019 | Nov 16, 2019 |
International matches
The following table lists all international matches planned for the Croatian national football team in 2019 .
date | Venue | opponent | Result | Type of game | Goal scorers |
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21 Mar 2019 | Croatia | Azerbaijan | 2: 1 | Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020 | Barišić (44th), Kramarić (79th) |
24 Mar 2019 | Hungary | Hungary | 1: 2 | Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020 | Rebić (13.) |
June 8, 2019 | Croatia | Wales | 2: 1 | Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020 | Lawrence (17th, own goal), Perišić (48th) |
June 11, 2019 | Croatia | Tunisia | 1: 2 | Friendly match | Petković (47.) |
6 Sep 2019 | Slovakia | Slovakia | 4-0 | Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020 | Vlašić (45.), Perišić (46.), Petković (72.), Lovren (89.) |
Sep 9 2019 | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | 1: 1 | Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020 | Modrić (11.) |
Oct 10, 2019 | Croatia | Hungary | 3-0 | Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020 | Modrić (5th), Petković (24th), Petković (42nd) |
Oct 13, 2019 | Wales | Wales | 1: 1 | Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020 | Vlašić (9th) |
Nov 16, 2019 | Croatia | Slovakia | 3: 1 | Qualification for the European Football Championship 2020 | Vlašić (56th), Petković (60th), Perišić (74th) |
19 Nov 2019 | Croatia | Georgia | 2: 1 | Friendly match | Papunashvili (18th), Kashia (25th) (ET), Perišić (53rd) |
Color legend:
Record holder
For a complete listing of all players in the Croatian national team, see List of Croatian National Football Players .
List of the most frequently used players
rank | player | International appearances | Period |
1 | Darijo Srna | 134 | 2002-2016 |
2 | Luka Modrić | 127 | since 2006 |
3 | Stipe Pletikosa | 114 | 1999-2014 |
4th | Ivan Rakitić | 106 | since 2007 |
5 | Josip Šimunić | 105 | 2001-2013 |
6th | Ivica Olić | 104 | 2002-2015 |
7th | Vedran Ćorluka | 103 | 2006-2018 |
8th | Dario Simic | 100 | 1996-2008 |
9 | Mario Mandžukić | 89 | 2007-2018 |
10 | Ivan Perišić | 87 | since 2011 |
As of November 16, 2019
Record goalkeeper
rank | player | International appearances |
1 | Stipe Pletikosa | 114 |
2 | Dražen Ladic | 59 |
3 | Danijel Subašić | 44 |
4th | Tomislav Butina | 28 |
5 | Vedran Runje | 22nd |
6th | Lovre Kalinić | 18th |
7th | Marjan Mrmić | 14th |
8th | Tonči Gabrić | 9 |
Dominik Livaković | ||
10 | Željko Pavlović | 7th |
As of November 16, 2019
Record goal scorers
rank | player | International goals |
1 | Before that, Šuker | 45 |
2 | Mario Mandžukić | 33 |
3 | Eduardo Alves da Silva | 29 |
4th | Ivan Perišić | 24 |
5 | Darijo Srna | 22nd |
6th | Ivica Olić | 20th |
7th | Luka Modrić | 16 |
8th | Nikola Kalinić | 15th |
Niko Kranjčar | ||
Ivan Rakitić | ||
Goran Vlaović |
As of November 16, 2019
Fan club
The Croatian football association HNS founded the fan club “Uvijek vjerni” ( German : always faithful, derived from the Latin motto semper fidelis ) in March 2008 . The association organizes the allocation of tickets for international matches according to a point system through the club.
The national team is sponsored by the Croatian beer brand Ožujsko .
International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams
International matches against the German national soccer team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | June 15, 1941 | Vienna | German Empire | 5: 1 | Croatia |
2. | January 20, 1942 | Zagreb | Croatia | 0: 2 | German Empire |
3. | November 1, 1942 | Stuttgart | German Empire | 5: 1 | Croatia |
4th | June 23, 1996 | Manchester | Croatia | 1: 2 | Germany |
5. | 4th July 1998 | Lyon | Croatia | 3-0 | Germany |
6th | March 29, 2000 | Zagreb | Croatia | 1: 1 | Germany |
7th | February 18, 2004 | Split | Croatia | 1: 2 | Germany |
8th. | June 12, 2008 | Klagenfurt | Croatia | 2: 1 | Germany |
International matches against the Liechtenstein national football team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | November 14, 2009 | Vinkovci | Croatia | 5-0 | Liechtenstein |
2. | August 14, 2013 | Vaduz | Liechtenstein | 2: 3 | Croatia |
International matches against the Austrian national soccer team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | April 26, 2000 | Vienna | Austria | 1: 2 | Croatia |
2. | February 28, 2001 | Rijeka | Croatia | 1-0 | Austria |
3. | May 23, 2006 | Vienna | Austria | 1: 4 | Croatia |
4th | June 8, 2008 | Vienna | Austria | 0: 1 | Croatia |
5. | May 19, 2010 | Klagenfurt | Austria | 0: 1 | Croatia |
International matches against the Swiss national football team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | April 2, 1940 | Zagreb | Croatia | 4-0 | Switzerland |
2. | April 21, 1940 | Bern | Switzerland | 0: 1 | Croatia |
3. | April 4, 1943 | Zurich | Switzerland | 1-0 | Croatia |
4th | June 13, 2004 | Leiria | Croatia | 0-0 | Switzerland |
5. | August 15, 2012 | Split | Croatia | 2: 4 | Switzerland |
6th | 5th March 2014 | St. Gallen | Switzerland | 2: 2 | Croatia |
So far there have been no matches against Luxembourg .
See also
- Soccer in Croatia
- List of Croatian national soccer players
- List of international matches of the Croatian national football team
- Croatian national football team (U-17 juniors)
- Croatian national football team (U-20 men)
- Croatian national football team (U-21 men)
Web links
- Homepage of the Croatian Association (Croatian / English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Croatian Football Association (HNS) fined , UEFA website, 23 July 2015.
- ↑ IZBORNIK DALIĆ ODABRAO IGRAČE ZA UTAKMICE SA SLOVAČKOM I GRUZIJOM , hns-cff.hr, accessed on November 9, 2019 (Croatian)
- ↑ NEW CAN DESIGN FOR THE WORLD CUP BY BALL AND OŽUJSKO , packagingeurope.com, June 20, 2018