Serbian-Montenegrin national soccer team / world championships

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)
Савезна Република Југославија
Savezna Republika Jugoslavija (1992–2003)
Државна Заједница Србиана Боргорана 2006
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World Cup record goalscorer:	5 players with 3 goals (partly or all for Yugoslavia before 1998) Slobodan Komljenović (2)
World Cup record players:	4 players with 9 games each (partially or all for Yugoslavia before 1998 or Serbia after 2006) Dejan Stanković (6 and 3 for Serbia after 2006)
Rank :	no longer listed
Balance sheet
7 World Cup games 2 wins 1 draw 4 losses 7:14 goals
statistics
First World Cup game Yugoslavia 1-0 Iran Saint-Étienne ( FRA ); June 14, 1998
Last World Cup game Serbia and Montenegro 2: 3 Ivory Coast Munich ( DEU ); June 21, 2006
Biggest World Cup victories in Yugoslavia 1-0 Iran Saint-Étienne ( FRA ); June 14, 1998 FR Yugoslavia 1-0 USA Nantes ( FRA ); June 25, 1998
Biggest World Cup defeat Serbia and Montenegro 0: 6 Argentina Gelsenkirchen ( DEU ); June 16, 2006
successes
World Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 1998 )
Best results	Round of 16 ( 1998 )
Best placements in the countries that host the FIFA World Cup
(As of July 2014 )

The article contains a detailed description of the Serb-Montenegrin national football team , according to the Yugoslav Wars , the successor of and independence of most republics Yugoslav national football team took previously for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in World Cups was started. It took part in the World Cup finals twice as the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" and "Serbia & Montenegro". The successes of the Yugoslav team were therefore initially attributed to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and then to Serbia and Montenegro by FIFA . After Montenegro split off from Serbia , the Serbian national soccer team became its successor. She first took part in 2010 and the successes of the Yugoslav and Serbian-Montenegrin national football teams are now attributed to Serbia.

overview

Participation in soccer world championships (2 times)

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

Statistics (data including 2018: 21 World Championships; percentages are rounded)

• Not taken because not admitted: 1 × (5%; 1994)
• No (longer) existent: 17 × (81%; 1930 to 1990 - participation as Yugoslavia - and since 2010 - participation as Serbia)
• Not qualified: 1 × (5%; 2002)
• Athletic qualification: 2 × (10% or 67% of the attempts)
• Preliminary round: 1 × (5%; 2006)
• Round of 16: 1 × (5%; 1998)

1994 in the United States

Yugoslavia had registered for the qualification for the World Cup in the USA and was drawn into a group with Greece, Russia, Iceland, Hungary and Luxembourg. Due to the Yugoslav wars , however, UN sanctions were imposed on Yugoslavia and the team was suspended.

1998 in France

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which now only consists of Serbia and Montenegro, was allowed to qualify for the second World Cup in France and was able to qualify. She met Spain , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , the Faroe Islands and Malta . On April 24, 1996 the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia met the Faroe Islands in their first World Cup qualifier and won 3-1. Six more wins, two draws and only one defeat in Spain followed. This put the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in second place behind Spain and had to go into the playoffs of the group runners-up against Hungary. The first game was won 7-1 in Hungary, the second ended 5-0.

In France, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was drawn into a politically explosive group, because there they met the USA and Germany, who had blamed the Serbs for the problems in the former Yugoslavia, and Iran , which has been around since the overthrow of the Shah until today is in open conflict with the USA and, on the other hand, was more on the side of the Muslim Bosnians in the Yugoslav Wars. In the first World Cup game, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was able to win 1-0 against Iran with a goal from Siniša Mihajlović . In the second game against Germany they looked like the winner after a 2-0 lead, but had to accept the 2-2 from Oliver Bierhoff after an own goal by Mihajlović . Some so-called German football fans behaved ingloriously, as the French policeman Daniel Nivel was ambushed and severely mistreated during the game , so that he suffered life-threatening injuries. In the third game against the USA, a goal scored in the third minute resulted in a 1-0 win. Thus, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was behind the tied German team due to the fewer goals scored in the group runner-up. They met the Netherlands in the round of 16 and lost 2-1 with a goal in added time. Predrag Mijatović missed a possible decision in favor of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia when he shot a penalty kick against the crossbar in the 52nd minute. With this, the team said goodbye to the World Cup as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

2002 in Japan and South Korea

In qualifying for the first World Cup in Asia , the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had to compete against Russia , Slovenia , Switzerland , the Faroe Islands and Luxembourg again . With five wins, four draws and only one defeat against Russia, only the third place was occupied behind the Russians, who qualified as group winners directly for the finals, and the Slovenes, who managed to prevail against Romania in the playoffs of the group runners-up and to qualify for the finals for the first time.

2006 in Germany

In qualifying for the second World Cup in Germany , the team then went as Serbia & Montenegro and prevailed as group winners against Spain, which had to go through the playoff games of the runners-up group, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium , Lithuania and San Marino . No game was lost, six were won and four ended in a draw.

In Germany, the team was drawn into a so-called death group with the Netherlands , Argentina and World Cup newcomer Ivory Coast . In the first game against the Dutch they pulled out of the affair with 0: 1, but against Argentina followed a 0: 6, in which Mateja Kežman also received the red card . It was the biggest World Cup defeat for Serbia & Montenegro and Yugoslavia. In the last game they lost after a 2-0 lead with 2: 3 against Ivory Coast, which won a World Cup game for the first time. Saša Ilić scored the last (World Cup) goal for Serbia and Montenegro. After receiving a yellow-red card for Albert Nađ, they were outnumbered for one half. Nađ was only brought on in the 16th minute and saw the yellow card a minute later . It was the last game of the joint team of Serbs and Montenegrins, because Montenegro had split from Serbia due to a referendum. Serbia was able to qualify for the World Cup four years later, Montenegro not yet.

Ranking of the Serbian-Montenegrin World Cup players with the most appearances

01. Dragoslav Šekularac , Dejan Stanković (including 3 games for Serbia), Dragan Stojković (including 5 games for Yugoslavia) and Ivica Šurjak - 9 appearances in 2 tournaments

05. Safet Sušić and Zlatko Vujović - 8 appearances in 2 tournaments

07. Vujadin Boškov - 7 appearances in 2 tournaments

08. Jovan Aćimović , Vladimir Durković , Milan Galić , Miloš Milutinović , Rajko Mitić , Vladica Popović , Milutin Šoškić and Branko Stanković - 6 appearances in 2 tournaments

16. Vladislav Bogićević , Dragoljub Brnović , Dragan Džajić , Fahrudin Jusufi , Savo Milošević , Ilija Petković , Vladimir Petrović , Dejan Savićević (including 3 games for Yugoslavia), Predrag Spasić , Nikola Žigić (including 3 games for Serbia) - 5 appearances in one competition

Note: Players in italics only played for Yugoslavia (before 1998)

Ranking of the Serbian-Montenegrin World Cup players with the most World Cup goals

01. Ivan Bek , Milan Galić , Dragan Stojković (including 2 for Yugoslavia) and Todor Veselinović - 3 goals each

06. Stanislav Karasi , Slobodan Komljenović , Aleksandar Petaković , Ivica Šurjak , Kosta Tomašević , Đorđe Vujadinović - 2 goals each

Note: Players in italics scored the goals for Yugoslavia only (before 1998)

World Cup captains

• 1998: Dragan Stojković (substituted in 3 games)
• 2006: Savo Milošević (1st and 2nd game), Dejan Stanković (3rd game)

Players banned from World Championships

• 2006: Mateja Kežman received the red card in the second group match against Argentina and was suspended for the last group match as was Ognjen Koroman , who received the second yellow card . In the last group game, Albert Nađ received the second yellow card and then the yellow-red card . Since Serbia & Montenegro were eliminated, this had no further effect on the tournament like the second yellow card for Goran Gavrančić .

Share of players playing abroad in the World Cup squad

Legionnaires made up the main contingent in both cadres.

Year (games)	Number (countries)	Players (stakes)
1998 (4)	19 (2 in Germany, 1 in England, 1 in France, 5 in Italy, 2 in Japan, 1 in Portugal, 7 in Spain)	Slobodan Komljenović (3), Miroslav Stević (1); Savo Milosevic (2); Niša Saveljić (1); Dejan Govedarica (1), Vladimir Jugović (4), Siniša Mihajlović (4), Zoran Mirković (2), Dejan Savićević (2); Željko Petrović (4), Dragan Stojković (4); Ljubinko Drulović (0); Branko Brnović (3), Goran Djorović (4), Miroslav Đukić (0), Slaviša Jokanović (4), Darko Kovačević (2), Dragoje Leković (0), Predrag Mijatović (4)
2006 (3)	16 (1 in Bulgaria, 2 in Germany, 2 in England, 1 in France, 1 in Greece, 1 in Italy, 1 in Switzerland, 3 in Spain, 2 in Turkey, 2 in Ukraine)	Oliver Kovačević (0); Mladen Krstajić (3), Danijel Ljuboja (2); Ognjen Koroman (2), Nemanja Vidić (0); Vladimir Stojkovic (0); Predrag Đorđević (3); Dejan Stanković (3) ,; Ivan Ergic (2); Ivica Dragutinović (1), Mateja Kežman (2), Savo Milošević (3); Mirsad Baljić (1); Saša Ilić (1), Dragoslav Jevrić (3); Igor Duljaj (3), Goran Gavrančić (3)

Games

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro played seven World Cup games. Two of them were won, four lost and one ended in a draw.

The team never took part in the opening game, never played against the host, defending champion or eventual world champion.

The team met a newcomer to the World Cup once: 2006 / Ivory Coast .

Most frequent opponent: Netherlands - twice

All World Cup games
No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	comment
1	06/14/1998	1-0	Iran	*	Saint-Étienne ( FRA ), Stade Geoffroy Guichard	Preliminary round	Only international match against Iran
2	06/21/1998	2: 2	Germany	*	Lens ( FRA ), Stade Félix Bollaert	Preliminary round	First international match against Germany
3	06/25/1998	1-0	United States	*	Nantes ( FRA ), Stade de la Beaujoire Louis Fonteneau	Preliminary round	Only international game against the USA
4th	06/29/1998	1: 2	Netherlands	*	Toulouse ( FRA ), Municipal Stadium	Round of 16	First international match against the Netherlands
5	06/11/2006	0: 1	Netherlands	*	Leipzig ( DEU ), central stadium	Preliminary round
6th	06/16/2006	0: 6	Argentina	*	Gelsenkirchen ( DEU ), FIFA World Cup Stadium Gelsenkirchen	Preliminary round	Biggest defeat
7th	06/21/2006	2: 3	Ivory Coast	*	Munich ( DEU ), FIFA World Cup Stadium Munich	Preliminary round	Only international match against Ivory Coast, last international match for Serbia & Montenegro

Highest victories and defeats

The team achieved their highest victories against the following countries in World Cup tournaments:

•  Iran : Preliminary round 1998 - 1-0 (only game against Iran)
•  USA : Preliminary round 1998 - 1-0 (only game against USA)

The team suffered their biggest defeats in World Cup tournaments against the following countries:

•  Argentina : preliminary round 2006 - 6-0
•  Ivory Coast : Preliminary round 2006 - 2: 3 (only game against Ivory Coast)

Negative records

• Most tournament goals conceded: 2006-10 in 3 games
• The biggest defeat in a tournament: 2006 - Serbia-Montenegro - Argentina 0: 6 in the preliminary round
• Worst team in a tournament: Ranked 32nd by FIFA in 2006.

See also

• Serbian-Montenegrin national soccer team / European championships

Web links

• Football World - Statistics - Serbia on fifa.com
• fifa.com: "Statistical overview: records and milestones"

References and footnotes

1. ↑ The results were included in the evaluation of Serbia.
2. ↑ Serbian-Montenegrin players in Uruguay (1930), Brazil (1950), Switzerland (1954), Sweden (1958), Chile (1962), the Federal Republic of Germany (1974), Spain (1982) and Italy (1990) as part of the Yugoslav team
3. ↑ 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)