Serbia and Montenegro national football team - Definition and Overview

Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia_and_Montenegro_FA.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	-
Association	Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro
Coach	Ilija Petkovic
Most caps	Savo Milosevic (89)
Top scorer	Savo Milosevic (35)
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Brazil 2 - 0 Yugoslavia (Porto Alegre, Brazil; 23 December, 1994) Serbia and Montenegro 2 - 2 Azerbaijan (Podgorica, S&M; 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	1 (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 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. 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 civil wars, 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 once, in 1998, and for the European Championship once, in 2000. In 2003, with the renaming of the country, the team assumed its current name.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1990 - see Yugoslavia national football team
• 1994 - Banned because of the civil wars (as Yugoslavia)
• 1998 - Round 2 (as Yugoslavia)
• 2002 - Did not qualify (as Yugoslavia)

European Championship record

• 1960 to 1992 - see Yugoslavia national football team
• 1996 - Banned because of the civil wars (as Yugoslavia)
• 2000 - Quarterfinals (as Yugoslavia)
• 2004 - Did not qualify (started qualification as Yugoslavia)

Famous players

• Dejan Savićević
• Dragan Stojković
• Vladimir Jugović
• Siniša Mihajlović
• Savo Milošević
• Predrag Mijatović

External links

• S&M football history at RSSSF (http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/joeg-intres-intro.html)
• S&M player stats at RSSSF (http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/joeg-recintlp.html)

Note that the RSSSF pages are still slightly outdated with regard to the renaming of the last Yugoslavia and the succession issues.