Croatian national soccer team / European championships
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| European Championship record scorer: | Before that Šuker , Mario Mandžukić (3 each) |
| European Championship record players: | Darijo Srna (12) |
| Rank: | 10 |
| Organizer: | 1976 (as part of Yugoslavia) |
| Balance sheet | |
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| 18 European Championship games 8 wins 5 draws 5 defeats 23:20 goals |
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First European Championship game Croatia 1-0 Turkey Nottingham ( ENG ); June 11, 1996  |
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Biggest European Championship victory Croatia 3-0 Denmark Sheffield ( ENG ); June 16, 1996  |
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Biggest European Championship defeat Croatia 0: 3 Portugal Nottingham ( ENG ); June 19, 1996  |
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| European Championship | |
| Participation in the finals | 5 ( first : 1996 ) |
| Best results | Quarterfinals ( 1996 and 2008 ) |
| Best results in the countries where the UEFA European Football Championships are held | |
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| (As of July 10, 2016) | |
The article contains a detailed description of the Croatian national football team at European championships and the qualifications for them. Croatia has taken part in the European Championships five times so far, most often by the teams that emerged from the former Yugoslavia. Players born on the territory of today's Croatia made up a significant proportion of the Yugoslav team from 1960 to 1984 . The successes of the Yugoslav team were but from the UEFA initially the only of Serbia and Montenegro existing Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 2000 under that name in the finals and then from 2006 as Serbia and Montenegro took part in the qualifications, and now Serbia attributed that to but could not yet qualify. Croatia is the best team with only five appearances in 10th place in the ranking and has scored the most goals of the teams with a maximum of five appearances.
Overview
| year | Host country | Participation until ... | Last opponent | Result | Trainer | Comments and special features |
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| 1960-1990 | Croatia was part of Yugoslavia | |||||
| 1996 | England | Quarter finals | Germany | Miroslav Blažević | ||
| 2000 | Netherlands, Belgium | not qualified | In the qualification of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Ireland failed, but which also could not qualify. | |||
| 2004 | Portugal | Preliminary round | France , Switzerland and England | Otto Baric | ||
| 2008 | Austria Switzerland | Quarter finals | Turkey | Slaven Bilic | Defeat on penalties | |
| 2012 | Poland / Ukraine | Preliminary round | Ireland , Italy and Spain | Slaven Bilic | ||
| 2016 | France | Round of 16 | Portugal | - | 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 of the round of 16 |
| 2021 | Europe | qualified | Croatia had initially applied with the Maksimir stadium to host games, but then withdrew. Opponents in the final round are England, the Czech Republic and a playoff winner. |
EM 1996
The first major football tournament in which the Croatian national team took part was the 1996 European Championship in England. They have been trained by Miroslav Blažević since 1994 . The Croatians had qualified against Italy as well as Lithuania , Ukraine , Slovenia and Estonia , which like Croatia took part in the qualification for the first time. Croatia and Italy both won seven games, drew twice and lost one game. Croatia had won the direct comparison against Italy as well as the better goal difference and qualified as group winners for the first time for the European Championship finals. Italy was also directly qualified as the best runner-up in the group.
In England , the team reached with victories against the Turks , with Goran Vlaović scoring the first European Championship goal for the Croatians, and the defending champions Denmark prematurely the quarter-finals, but then lost the game for group victory against Portugal . As runners-up in the group, they met Germany and lost 2-1 in an extremely tough game. Germany later became European champions, but two years later Croatia was able to return the favor at the 1998 World Cup , defeating Germany 3-0 in the quarter-finals and then finishing third. Before that, Šuker was the top scorer of the entire competition with 15 goals - 12 of them in qualification - a record that has not yet been exceeded.
EM 2000
As third place in the World Cup, Croatia then failed in qualifying for the European Championship 2000. In a group with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Ireland , Macedonia and Malta they only finished 3rd. The decisive factor was a 2-2 on the last match day against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, that they could not win despite 50-minute majority after the red card for Zoran Mirković . The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the group winners and went to the EM, where they failed in the quarter-finals. Ireland as second in the group failed in the playoffs due to the away goals rule against Turkey. National coach Miroslav Blažević remained in office, but after a poor start to qualifying for the 2002 World Cup , he resigned.
EM 2004
After failing to qualify for the European Football Championship in 2000 , the team completed the qualification phase as second in the group. Group opponents were Bulgaria , Belgium , Estonia and Andorra . The direct qualification was missed by a 1: 2 in Belgium on the penultimate matchday. With a win against the Bulgarians, who were already group winners, on the last day of the match, second place was secured. The Croatians had reached the playoffs of the group runners-up and met their neighbor Slovenia . After a 1-1 draw at home, they won the second leg in Slovenia 1-0 and qualified for the European Championship finals for the second time.
In the preliminary round in Portugal , Otto Barić's team , who had taken over the team after the preliminary round at the 2002 World Cup , reached two draws against defending champions France and Switzerland , but suffered a 2: 4 defeat against England and missed that as third-placed Quarter finals.
EM 2008
After the preliminary round at the 2006 World Cup , Slaven Bilić was the new coach of the national team. In qualifying for the European Championship in 2008, Croatia was able to prevail as group winners before Russia , which also qualified , with two victories against England, with which they provided the Russians with support. Other group opponents were Israel , Macedonia, Estonia and Andorra . Eduardo da Silva , naturalized in 2002 , achieved second place in the qualifying scorers list with ten goals.
In the final tournament, Croatia secured a 1-0 win against co-hosts Austria , with Luka Modrić (Croatia) scoring the earliest penalty goal in European Championship history after 3:34 minutes and a 2-1 win against Germany prematurely taking first place in the group. Croatia also won the third game against Poland , in which some regular players were spared, with Croatia winning all three preliminary round games for the first time. The team met Turkey in the quarter-finals . Since both teams failed to score in regular time, extra time came, in which neither succeeded for a long time. Then things got dramatic: Ivan Klasnić scored the 1-0 for the Croatians after a mistake by the Turkish goalkeeper in the 119th minute , but the Turks equalized in the second minute of stoppage time. This resulted in a penalty shoot-out in which Luka Modrić and Ivan Rakitić missed the goal, and Mladen Petrić failed at the Turkish goalkeeper, only Darijo Srna was successful. Croatia lost the penalty shoot-out with 1: 3 - two Turks did not even have to compete. The Turks were in the semi-finals against record European champions Germany, but lost 3-2 with a goal from Philipp Lahm in the last minute of the game.
EM 2012
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Four years later, Croatia was able to return the favor in playoff games of the group runners-up and qualify for the finals against Turkey with a 3-0 win in Turkey and 0-0 at home. In the group stage they finished second behind Greece and ahead of Israel , Latvia , Georgia and Malta . They only lost in Georgia and Greece.
Even before the start of the European Championship, the Croatians were plagued by numerous injury concerns. Ivica Olić , Dejan Lovren and Ivo Iličević were canceled due to injury.
In the preliminary round, the Croatians met in the group in which the last two world champions met for the first time at an EM, Ireland , Italy and the then world champion and defending champion Spain . The Croatians won their opening game against Ireland 3-1, the second group game against Italy ended in a draw with 1-1. In the last game against Spain, the team lost 1-0. The four points achieved were only enough for third place in the group, ahead of Ireland (0 points), but behind Spain (7 points) and Italy (5 points). The team was eliminated. Slaven Bilić resigned as previously announced, his successor was Igor Štimac , who was replaced by Niko Kovač after a less than optimal qualification for the 2014 World Cup before the final playoffs .
EM 2016
In the qualification , Croatia met Italy , Norway , Bulgaria , Azerbaijan and Malta for the first time . Croatia has a positive record against all group opponents who have already been played. The first two in the group qualify directly as well as possibly the third in the group as the best third in the group or via playoff games.
Croatia started with four wins and one draw in Italy and was in first place after half of the games. Afterwards they managed to win points against Italy, but the 0-0 win in Azerbaijan was seen as a loss of points and after losing in Norway, Croatia fell back to 3rd place. Then national coach Kovač was dismissed. With two wins in the last two games under the new national coach Ante Čačić , thanks to Italian help against Norway, the second place and thus the direct qualification for the finals was achieved on the last day of the game.
For the group draw on December 12, 2015, Croatia was assigned to Pot 2 due to the UEFA coefficient and could therefore be drawn as host France, defending champions Spain or world champions Germany. Ultimately, they were drawn into the group with Spain. Other opponents were the Czech Republic and Turkey, against whom they played the opening game as in their first participation and won 1-0 as in 1996. After a 2: 2 against the Czech Republic in which the goals were conceded in the closing stages after riots by Croatian spectators, the group win was made perfect by a 2: 1 against the defending champions.
In the last sixteen they met the eventual European champions Portugal. Against the defensive Portuguese, the Croatians only had a significant chance of scoring shortly before the end of the extra time necessary after 90 minutes without a goalless, but immediately afterwards had to accept the goal of a 0-1 defeat by a counterattack and then could not use the last chance to equalize . After the EM, the record national player Darijo Srna ended his national team career .
EM 2021
For the first pan-European European Championship finals, Croatia initially applied to host games at the Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb , but then withdrew. In the qualifying , had to take part in the final round, the organizers of games, it had to do with the Croats Hungary, Wales, Slovakia and Azerbaijan. The Croatians, who only lost to the French in the final of the 2018 World Cup, won their home games. But since they only won away in Slovakia and only draws in Azerbaijan and Wales, the Croatians could only qualify for the final round with their last game, but thus make the group victory perfect.
At the draw on November 30, 2019, the Croatians were drawn into the group with England and the Czech Republic and a playoff winner.
Player with the most appearances in European championships
| Games | player | Year (games) |
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| 12 | Darijo Srna | 2004 (2), 2008 (3), 2012 (3), 2016 (4) |
| 11 | Vedran Ćorluka | 2008 (4), 2012 (3), 2016 (4) |
| 10 | Ivan Rakitić | 2008 (3), 2012 (3), 2016 (4) |
| 9 | Luka Modrić | 2008 (3), 2012 (3), 2016 (3) |
| 7th | Ivan Perišić | 2012 (3), 2016 (4) |
| 6th | Niko Kovač | 2004 (3), 2008 (3) |
| Robert Kovač | 2004 (3), 2008 (3) | |
| Niko Kranjčar | 2008 (3), 2012 (3) | |
| Ivica Olić | 2004 (3), 2008 (3) | |
| Stipe Pletikosa | 2008 (3), 2012 (3) | |
| Danijel Pranjić | 2008 (4), 2012 (2) |
As of June 25, 2016
Player with the most goals at European championships
| Gates | player | Year (goals) |
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| 3 | Before that, Šuker | 1996 (3) |
| Mario Mandžukić | 2012 (3) | |
| 2 | Ivan Klasnić | 2004 (0), 2008 (2) |
| Luka Modrić | 2008 (1), 2016 (1) | |
| Ivan Perišić | 2012 (0), 2016 (2) | |
| 1 | 11 players |
As of June 25, 2016
Croatian players in the Yugoslav team
- 1960: Dražan Jerković (2), Željko Matuš (1), Željko Perušić (2), Ante Žanetić (2), Branko Zebec (1)
- 1968: Rudolf Belin (0), Milan Damjanović (3), Ilija Pantelić (3), Mladen Ramljak (0), Radomir Vukčević (0)
- 1976: Ivan Buljan (2), Jurica Jerković (2), Dražen Mužinić (2), Luka Peruzović (1), Ivica Šurjak (0)
- 1984: Josip Čop (0), Borislav Cvetković (2), Stjepan Deverić (1), Ivan Gudelj (3), Tomislav Ivković (1), Branko Miljuš (2), Velimir Zajec (3)
Players banned from European championships
- In 1996 Igor Štimac received the yellow-red card in the quarter-finals , as Croatia was eliminated, it had no additional effect on the tournament.
- In 2016 Duje Čop was suspended for the first group game due to a red card received in the penultimate qualifying game.
Share of players playing abroad in the EM squad
Legionaries always made up the main contingent in the Croatian cadres. Most played in Germany.
| Year (games) | Number (countries) | Players (stakes) |
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| 1996 (4) | 13 (1 in Belgium, 2 in Germany, 2 in England, 2 in Italy, 1 in Japan, 5 in Spain) | Mario Stanic (3); Elvis Brajković (0), Nikola Jurčević (3); Slaven Bilić (4), Igor Štimac (3); Zvonimir Boban (4), Alen Bokšić (1), Goran Vlaović (4); Mladen Mladenović (3); Robert Jarni (4), Nikola Jerkan (3), Dubravko Pavličić (2), Robert Prosinečki (3), Davor Šuker (4) |
| 2004 (3) | 20 (1 in Belgium, 7 in Germany, 1 in England, 1 in France, 1 in Israel, 2 in Italy, 2 in Austria, 1 in Portugal, 1 in Russia, 1 in Turkey, 2 in Ukraine) | Tomislav Butina (3); Nenad Bjelica (2), Marko Babić (0), Robert Kovač (3), Josip Šimunić (3), Niko Kovač (3), Ivan Klasnić (0), Boris Živković (2); Ivica Mornar (3); Dado Pršo (3); Ðovani Roso (3); Dario Šimić (3), Igor Tudor (2); Joey Didulica (0), Mario Tokić (0); Tomo Šokota (3); Ivica Olić (3); Stjepan Tomas (0); Jerko Leko (1), Darijo Srna (2) |
| 2008 (4) | 21 (6 in Germany, 2 in England, 3 in France, 1 in Greece, 3 in Italy, 1 in the Netherlands, 1 in Austria, 2 in Russia, 2 in Ukraine) | Ivan Klasnić (2), Robert Kovač (3), Ivica Olić (3), Mladen Petrić (4), Ivan Rakitić (3), Josip Šimunić (3); Vedran Ćorluka (4), Niko Kranjčar (4); Jerko Leko (2), Nikola Pokrivač (1), Vedran Runje (1); Mario Galinović (0); Igor Budan (1), Dario Knežević (3), Dario Šimić (1); Nikola Pokrivač (4); Niko Kovač (3); Stipe Pletikosa (3), Hrvoje Vejić (1); Darijo Srna (3), Ognjen Vukojević (2) |
| 2012 (3) | 18 (5 in Germany, 3 in England, 1 in France, 1 in Israel, 2 in Russia, 1 in Spain, 5 in Ukraine) | Vedran Ćorluka (3), Ivan Perišić (3), Gordon Schildenfeld (3), Danijel Pranjić (2), Mario Mandžukić (3); Nikica Jelavic (3), Luka Modrić (3), Niko Kranjčar (2); Danijel Subašić (0); Jurica Buljat (0); Tomislav Dujmović (1), Stipe Pletikosa (3); Ivan Rakitić (3); Ivan Strinić (3), Nikola Kalinić (0), Ognjen Vukojević (3), Darijo Srna (3), Eduardo da Silva (3) |
| 2016 (4) | 17 (2 in Germany, 7 in Italy, 1 in Monaco, 1 in Russia, 4 in Spain, 2 in Ukraine) |
Tin Jedvaj (2), Andrej Kramarić (3); Marcelo Brozović (3), Milan Badelj (4), Nikola Kalinić (2), Mario Mandžukić (3), Ivan Perišić (3), Ivan Strinić (3), Šime Vrsaljko (2); Danijel Subašić (4); Vedran Corluka (4); Duje Čop (1), Mateo Kovačić (3), Luka Modrić (3), Ivan Rakitić (4); Darijo Srna (4), Domagoj Vida (3)
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As of June 25, 2016
Records
- Croatia (4 wins, 1 draw), Germany (6 wins, 5 draws), Norway and Ukraine (1 win each) and Slovenia (1 draw) never lost their opening game.
- The earliest penalty goal : Luka Modrić after 3:34 minutes in the 2008 match between Austria and Croatia
- Highest number of goals in the entire competition: Before Šuker in 1996 with 15 goals
Games
Venues (green = positive balance, yellow = balanced balance, red = negative balance, number in brackets = number of games, if> 1) |
Croatia played 18 European Championship games, eight of which were won, four were lost and five ended in a draw. Two games had to be extended and were lost by a goal or on penalties .
Croatia never played the opening game, but played once against the co-hosts (2008 in the preliminary round) and three times against the eventual European champions, one of whom was also the defending champion. There were also three more games against the defending champions. The most frequent opponents are Turkey (3 games), Germany, Portugal and Spain, each of whom has been played twice so far.
- The highest victory in an EM tournament was achieved against the following countries.
- The Croatian team suffered their biggest defeat at an EM tournament against only one country:
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Portugal : Preliminary round 1996 0: 3 (first game against Portugal, highest European Championship defeat)
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| All EM games | |||||||||
| No. | date | opponent | Result | occasion | AH/* | venue | Remarks | ||
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| 1 | 06/11/1996 |
Turkey
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1-0 | Preliminary round | * | Nottingham ( ENG ) | First international match against Turkey | ||
| 2 | 06/16/1996 |
Denmark (TV)
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3-0 | Preliminary round | * | Sheffield ( ENG ) | First international match against Denmark | ||
| 3 | 06/19/1996 |
Portugal
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0: 3 | Preliminary round | * | Nottingham ( ENG ) | First international match against Portugal | ||
| 4th | 06/23/1996 |
 Germany
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1: 2 | Quarter finals | * | Manchester ( ENG ) | 50th international match | ||
| 5. | 06/13/2004 |
 Switzerland
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0-0 | Preliminary round | * | Leiria ( PRT ) | |||
| 6th | 06/17/2004 |
 France (TV)
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2: 2 | Preliminary round | * | Leiria ( PRT ) | |||
| 7th | 06/21/2004 |
 England
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2: 4 | Preliminary round | * | Lisbon ( PRT ) | Last game under Otto Barić | ||
| 8th | 06/08/2008 |
 Austria
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1-0 | Preliminary round | A. | Vienna ( AUT ) | |||
| 9 | 06/12/2008 |
Germany
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2: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Klagenfurt ( AUT ) | |||
| 10 | 06/16/2008 |
 Poland
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1-0 | Preliminary round | * | Klagenfurt ( AUT ) | |||
| 11 | 06/20/2008 |
Turkey
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1: 1 n.V., 1: 3 i. E. | Quarter finals | * | Vienna ( AUT ) | |||
| 12 | 06/10/2012 |
 Ireland
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3: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Poznan ( POL ) | |||
| 13 | 06/14/2012 |
 Italy
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1: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Poznan ( POL ) | |||
| 14th | 06/18/2012 |
 Spain (TV)
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0: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Gdansk ( POL ) | Last game under Slaven Bilić | ||
| 15th | 06/12/2016 |
Turkey
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1-0 | Preliminary round | * | Paris ( FRA ) | |||
| 16 | 06/17/2016 |
 Czech Republic
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2: 2 | Preliminary round | * | Saint-Etienne ( FRA ) | |||
| 17th | 06/21/2016 |
Spain (TV)
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2: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Bordeaux ( FRA ) | |||
| 18th | 06/25/2016 |
Portugal
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0: 1 a.d. | Round of 16 | * | Lens ( FRA ) | |||
| 06/13/2021 |
England
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Preliminary round | A. | London ( ENG ) | |||||
| 06/18/2021 |
Czech Republic
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Preliminary round | * | Glasgow ( SCO ) | |||||
| 06/22/2021 | Playoff winner way C | Preliminary round | * / A | Glasgow ( SCO ) | |||||
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ In France (1960), Italy (1968) and Yugoslavia (1976) with the Yugoslav team.
- ↑ Turkey vs. Croatia EM 2008 last minutes @ southside 08
- ↑ turkey vs croatia
- ↑ fifa.com: "EM qualification endangered: Croatia dismisses national coach Kovac"
- ↑ UEFA European Championship Booking List before Final tournament Matchday 1
- ↑ In the French league