Serbia national football team

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General

Kit history

Serbia
Nickname(s)	Орлови/Оrlovi (The Eagles)
Association	Football Association of Serbia
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Mladen Krstajić
Captain	Aleksandar Kolarov
Most caps	Dejan Stanković, Branislav Ivanović (103)
Top scorer	Stjepan Bobek (38)
Home Stadium	Rajko Mitić Stadium, Belgrade
FIFA ranking	34 1 (7 June 2018)
Highest FIFA ranking	6
Lowest FIFA ranking	101
Elo ranking	22 (12 June 2018)
Highest Elo ranking	4
Lowest Elo ranking	47
First international	Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom SCS (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) as Serbia Czech Republic 1–3 Serbia (Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic; 18 August 2006)
Biggest win	SFR Yugoslavia 10–0 Venezuela (Curitiba, Brazil; 14 June 1972)
Biggest defeat	Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom SCS (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) Uruguay 7–0 Kingdom SCS (Paris, France; 26 May 1924) Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom SCS (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 October 1925)
World Cup appearances	12 (First in 1930)
Best result	Fourth place, 1930
European Championship appearances	5 (First in 1960)
Best result	Runners-up, 1960 and 1968

The Serbia national football team represents Serbia in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia, the governing body for football in the country.

With the national team nicknamed the Orlovi (Орлови, the Eagles), football has a long history in both Serbia and neighbouring countries. Serbia competed under the various forms of Yugoslav national teams, where it achieved considerable success, finishing fourth at the 1930 and 1962 World Cups respectively. Considered by FIFA and UEFA to be the successor of both the Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro national teams, the achievements of the promising team of the 1990s which featured players such as Dragan Stojković, Dejan Savićević, Predrag Mijatović, Vladimir Jugović and Siniša Mihajlović was somewhat curbed due to international sanctions imposed against Yugoslavia at the time due to the Yugoslav Wars.

Following the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia has played as an independent nation since 2006, and qualified for the World Cup in 2010 and 2018.

The home ground of the national team is the Rajko Mitić Stadium of Red Star Belgrade, located in Belgrade.

Both FIFA and UEFA consider the Serbian national team to be the direct and sole successor of the Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro teams.

External links

Official

• Football Association of Serbia – official site
• Serbian National Football Team
• UEFA team profile
• FIFA team profile

Unofficial

• Beli Orlovi
• Serbian football at xtratime.org
• BeliOrlovi.rs – fan site
• RSSSF – Serbia men's national football team international matches (English)

Football in Serbia

League competitions FSS Cup competitions SuperLiga Serbia Serbian Cup First League (U21 · U20 · U19 · U17) List of stadiums List of leagues List of players

Serbia – 2010 FIFA World Cup

1. Stojković 2. Rukavina 3. Kolarov 4. Kačar 5. Vidić 6. Ivanović 7. Tošić 8. Lazović 9. Pantelić 10. Stanković (c) 11. Milijaš 12. Isailović 13. Luković 14. Jovanović 15. Žigić 16. Obradović 17. Krasić 18. Ninković 19. Petrović 20. Subotić 21. Mrđa 22. Kuzmanović 23. Đuričić Manager:   Radomir Antić

Serbia – 2018 FIFA World Cup – Group stage

1. Stojković 2. Rukavina 3. Tošić 4. Milivojević 5. Spajić 6. Ivanović 7. Živković 8. Prijović 9. Mitrović 10. Tadić 11. Kolarov (c) 12. Rajković 13. Veljković 14. Rodić 15. Milenković 16. Grujić 17. Kostić 18. Radonjić 19. Jović 20. Milinković-Savić 21. Matić 22. Ljajić 23. Dmitrović Manager:   Mladen Krstajić

Serbia – UEFA Euro 2024 –

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