Slovenian national football team

This article is about the Slovenian men's national football team. For the women's team, see Slovenian National Women's Football Team .

Slovenia
Slovenija

Association	Nogometna zveza Slovenije
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Nike
Head coach	Matjaž Kek (since 2018)
Assistant coach	Aleš Čeh
captain	Bojan Jokic
Record scorer	Zlatko Zahovič (35)
Record player	Boštjan Cesar (101)
Home stadium	Ljudski vrt stadium , Maribor
FIFA code	SVN
FIFA rank	64th (1365 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
248 games 85 wins 60 draws 103 losses
statistics
First international match Slovenia 0-1 Croatia ( Murska Sobota , Slovenia ; June 19, 1991 )
Biggest win Oman 7-0 Slovenia ( Muscat , Oman ; February 8, 1999 )
Biggest defeat France 5-0 Slovenia ( Saint-Denis , France ; October 12, 2002 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 2002 )
Best results	Preliminary round 2002 , 2010
European Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2000 )
Best results	Preliminary round 2000
(As of November 19, 2019)

The Slovenian national football team is the selection team of the European state Slovenia . Slovenia played its first international match in 1991 after the country split from Yugoslavia . Before that, the Slovenian players played in the Yugoslav national team .

The Slovenian footballers achieved their greatest successes to date with the qualification for the European Football Championship 2000 as well as the Football World Championship 2002 and the Football World Championship 2010 , whereby they were eliminated in the preliminary round.

In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany , Slovenia failed to Italy and Norway .

For the Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa , the national team was able to prevail in the play-offs against Russia . In the first game of this tournament they won 1-0 against Algeria . Against the USA it was enough after a 2-0 lead to a 2: 2 and the 0: 1 against England meant the end in the preliminary round, as the USA in the parallel game shortly before the end by a 1-0 to Slovenia and England passed by.

Extended squad

As of November 19, 2019

Surname	birthday	Games	Gates	society	debut	Last use
goalkeeper
Vid Belec	06/06/1990	13	0	APOEL Nicosia	2014	November 19, 2018
Jan Oblak	01/07/1993	28	0	Atlético Madrid	2012	November 19, 2019
Nejc Vidmar	March 31, 1989	0	0	NK Olimpija Ljubljana	-
Defense
Jure Balkovec	09/09/1994	6th	0	FC Empoli	2018	November 19, 2019
Miha Blažič	05/08/1993	5	0	Ferencváros Budapest	2018	November 19, 2019
Bojan Jokic	05/17/1986	99	1	FK Ufa	2006	09.09.2019
Miha Mevlja	06/12/1990	27	1	FK Sochi	2016	November 19, 2019
Petar Stojanović	07/10/1995	16	0	Dinamo Zagreb	2014	November 19, 2019
Aljaž Struna	08/04/1990	21st	1	Houston Dynamo	2016	11/16/2019
midfield
Jaka Bijol	02/05/1999	8th	0	PFK CSKA Moscow	2018	November 19, 2019
Damjan Bohar	10/18/1991	3	0	Zagłębie Lubin	2014	07.06.2019
Josip Iličić	01/29/1988	65	9	Atalanta Bergamo	2009	October 13, 2019
Rene Krhin	May 21, 1990	48	2	FC Nantes	2009	November 19, 2019
Jasmin Kurtić	01/10/1989	58	1	SPAL Ferrara	2012	November 19, 2019
Denis Popovič	10/15/1989	6th	0	FC Zurich	2019	October 13, 2019
Haris Vučkić	08/21/1992	3	0	FC Twente Enschede	2012	November 19, 2019
Miha Zajc	07/01/1994	19th	5	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	2016	November 19, 2019
Storm
Robert Beric	06/17/1991	25th	2	AS Saint-Etienne	2012	October 13, 2019
Roman Bezjak	02/21/1989	33	5	APOEL Nicosia	2013	11/16/2019
Tim Matavž	01/13/1989	38	11	Vitesse Arnhem	2010	November 19, 2019
Rajko Rep	06/20/1990	1	0	TSV Hartberg	2019	November 19, 2019
Andraž Šporar	02/27/1994	19th	2	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	2016	11/16/2019
Benjamin Verbič	11/27/1993	29	5	Dynamo Kiev	2015	November 19, 2019

Participation in soccer world championships

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Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia during the World Cup tournaments held until 1990 . The Slovenes Branko Oblak 1974 and Srečko Katanec 1990 for Yugoslavia took part in the world championships. After the break-up of Yugoslavia, Slovenia took part in qualifying for the 1998 World Cup for the first time. With six attempts, the team was able to qualify twice for a World Cup. In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup, Slovenia was able to prevail against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1998	France	not qualified				In the qualification of Denmark and Croatia failed.
2002	South Korea / Japan	Preliminary round	Spain , South Africa , Paraguay	30th	Srečko Katanec
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification, the eventual world champions Italy and Norway failed, which also failed in the play-offs of the group runners-up.
2010	South Africa	Preliminary round	Algeria , USA , England	18th	Matjaž Kek
2014	Brazil	not qualified				In the qualification against Switzerland and Iceland failed, whereby Iceland also failed in the play-offs of the group runners-up.
2018	Russia	not qualified				In the qualification of England and Slovakia failed, which also did not qualify as a bad tester second in the group.

Participation in European football championships

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After the break-up of Yugoslavia, Slovenia took part in qualifying for the European Championship in 1996 for the first time and has so far qualified for a final round. Branko Oblak also took part in the European Championships in Yugoslavia in 1976 and Srečko Katanec in 1984 in the European Championships in France .

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1996	England	not qualified			In the qualification to Croatia and Italy failed.
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	Preliminary round	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Spain , Norway	-	After one defeat and two draws, eliminated as bottom of the group.
2004	Portugal	not qualified			Failed in the relegation games against neighboring Croatia .
2008	Austria and Switzerland	not qualified			In the qualification to the Netherlands and Romania failed.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	not qualified			In the qualification of Italy and Estonia failed.
2016	France	not qualified			Failed in the playoffs of the group third against Ukraine .
2021	Europe	not qualified			Failed in the qualification to Poland and Austria .

Record players and goal scorers

→ See also: List of Slovenian national football players (as of November 19, 2019)

Record player
Games	player	Period	Gates
101	Boštjan Cesar	2003-2018	10
100	Bojan Jokic	2006 – active	1
90	Valter Birsa	2006 – active	7th
81	Samir Handanovič	2004-2015	0
80	Milivoje Novakovič	2006-2017	32
80	Zlatko Zahovič	1992-2004	35
77	Mišo Brečko	2004 – active	0
74	Milenko Ačimovič	1998-2007	13
74	Aleš Čeh	1992-2002	1
71	Andraž fair	2007 – active	6th
71	Džoni Novak	1992-2002	3

Record goal scorers
Gates	player	Period	Games
35	Zlatko Zahovič	1992-2004	80
32	Milivoje Novakovič	2006-2017	80
16	Sašo Udovič	1993-2000	42
14th	Ermin Siljak	1994-2005	48
13	Milenko Ačimovič	1998-2007	74
11	Tim Matavž	2009 – active	38
10	Boštjan Cesar	2003-2018	101
10	Primož Gliha	1993-1998	28

Coach chronicle

As of March 8, 2020

Surname	Period	Games	S.	U	N	successes
Bojan Prašnikar	1991-1993	4th	1	2	1
Zdenko Verdenik	1994-1997	32	10	8th	14th
Bojan Prašnikar	1998	5	1	1	3
Srečko Katanec	1998-2002	47	18th	16	13	Participation in EM 2000 , World Cup 2002
Bojan Prašnikar	2002-2004	16	6th	3	7th
Branko Oblak	2004-2006	23	6th	7th	10
Matjaž Kek	2007-2011	49	20th	9	20th	Participation in the 2010 World Cup
Slaviša Stojanovič	2011–2012	9	2	2	5
Srečko Katanec	2013-2017	42	16	7th	19th
Tomaž Kavčič	2018	7th	1	1	5
Igor Benedejčič (interim)	2018	2	0	2	0
Matjaz Kek	since 2018	10	4th	2	4th

See also

• List of international matches for the Slovenian national football team
• List of Slovenian national football players
• Slovenian national football team (U-17 juniors)
• Slovenian national football team (U-19 juniors)

Web links

Commons : Slovenian national soccer team  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Slovenian Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ [1]
3. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930–2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
4. ↑ ^{a b} rsssf.com: Slovenia - Record International Players
5. ↑ Record players on EU-Football.info. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
6. ↑ nzs.si: A reprezentanca - vse tekme