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Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro

Nickname	Плави (Blue)
Association	Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro
Coach	Ilija Petković
Most caps	Savo Milošević (97)
Top scorer	Savo Milošević (35)
First international Brazil 2 - 0 Yugoslavia (Porto Alegre, Brazil; 23 December 1994) Serbia and Montenegro 2 - 2 Azerbaijan (Podgorica, SCG; 12 February 2003)
Largest win Faroe Islands 1 - 8 Yugoslavia (Toftir, Faroe Islands; 6 October 1996)
Worst defeat Netherlands 6 - 1 Yugoslavia (Rotterdam, Netherlands; 25 June 2000) Czech Republic 5 - 0 Yugoslavia (Prague, Czech Republic; 6 September 2002)
World Cup
Appearances	2 (First in 1998)
Best result	Round 2, 1998
European Championship
Appearances	1 (First in 2000)
Best result	Quarterfinals, 2000

The Serbia and Montenegro national football team is the national football team of Serbia and Montenegro and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro. It was previously known as the Yugoslavia national football team when the country was called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until February 2003 when the name of the country was changed to Serbia and Montenegro. This article refers to the team after the split of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as the national team of first Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and then Serbia and Montenegro.

Although the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed on April 28, 1992, because of the international sanctions due to the Yugoslav wars banning the country from international sporting events, the football team didn't play its first match until 23 December 1994, when they lost to Brazil. Since the split, the team has qualified for the World Cup twice, in 1998 and 2006, and for the European Championship once, in 2000. In 2003, with the renaming of the country, the team assumed its current name.

FIFA considers the Serbia and Montenegro team the direct descendent of the SFRY national team; however, since that one represented a much larger group of people, the information on this page and elsewhere on this site is split, with the Yugoslavia national football team article covering the pre-1992 Yugoslavia.

World Cup record

1930 to 1990 - Did not enter, was part of Yugoslavia
1994 - Banned because of international sanctions due to Yugoslav wars (as Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
1998 - Round 2 (as FR Yugoslavia)
2002 - Did not qualify (as FR Yugoslavia)
2006 - Qualified

European Championship record

1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of Yugoslavia
1996 - Banned because of the sanctions (as FR Yugoslavia)
2000 - Quarterfinals (as FR Yugoslavia)
2004 - Did not qualify (started qualification as FR Yugoslavia)

Current squad

Goalkeepers

Dragoslav Jevrić
Oliver Kovačević
Vladimir Stojković
Dragan Žilić

Defenders

Dušan Basta
Milivoje Ćirković
Nenad Đorđević
Ivica Dragutinović
Milan Dudić
Goran Gavrančić
Mladen Krstajić
Aleksandar Luković
Nemanja Vidić (suspended for first game of 2006 World Cup against Holland)
Milivoje Vitakić

Midfielders

Branko Bošković
Nenad Brnović
Predrag Đorđević
Igor Duljaj
Saša Ilić
Ognjen Koroman
Nenad Kovačević
Miloš Marić
Dragan Mladenović
Albert Nađ (Hungarian: Albert Nagy)
Dejan Stanković
Simon Vukčević
Zvonimir Vukić

Forwards

Nenad Jestrović
Mateja Kežman
Danijel Ljuboja
Savo Milošević (captain)
Marko Pantelić
Mirko Vučinić
Nikola Žigić

Famous players

Slaviša Jokanović
Vladimir Jugović
Mateja Kežman
Siniša Mihajlović
Predrag Mijatović
Savo Milošević
Dejan Savićević
Dejan Stanković
Dragan Stojković
Zvonimir Vukić

Coaches

Slobodan Santrač 1994-1998
Milan Živadinović 1998-1999
Vujadin Boškov 1999-2000
Ilija Petković 2000-2001
Milovan Đorić 2001
3-man coaching comission: Dejan Savićević, Vujadin Boškov and Ivan Ćurković 2001-2002
Dejan Savićević 2002-2003
Ilija Petković 2003-present

External links

• Serbia & Montenegro football history at RSSSF
• Serbia & Montenegro player stats at RSSSF

Note that the RSSSF pages are still slightly outdated with regard to the renaming of the last Yugoslavia and the succession issues.

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