Serbia national football team
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The Serbia men's national football team (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалска репрезентација Србије, romanized: Fudbalska reprezentacija Srbije) represents Serbia in men's international football competition. It is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia, the governing body for football in Serbia.
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| Nickname(s) | Орлови / Оrlovi (Eagles) | ||
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| Association | Fudbalski savez Srbije (FSS) | ||
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
| Head coach | Dragan Stojković | ||
| Captain | Dušan Tadić | ||
| Most caps | Dušan Tadić (106) | ||
| Top scorer | Aleksandar Mitrović (57) | ||
| Home stadium | Various | ||
| FIFA code | SRB | ||
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| FIFA ranking | |||
| Current | 33  1 (4 April 2024)[1] | ||
| Highest | 6 (December 1998) | ||
| Lowest | 101 (December 1994) | ||
| First international | |||
 Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom of SCS  (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) as Serbia Unofficial  FS Serbia 2–1 FS Montenegro (Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 3 September 1945) Official Czech Republic 1–3 Serbia  (Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic; 16 August 2006) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
 Yugoslavia 10–0 Venezuela  (Curitiba, Brazil; 14 June 1972) as Serbia  Azerbaijan 1–6 Serbia (Baku, Azerbaijan; 17 October 2007) Serbia 6–1 Bulgaria  (Belgrade, Serbia; 19 November 2008) Serbia 5–0 Romania  (Belgrade, Serbia; 10 October 2009)  Serbia 6–1 Wales  (Novi Sad, Serbia; 11 September 2012) Serbia 5–0 Russia  (Belgrade, Serbia; 18 November 2020) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom of SCS (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920)  Uruguay 7–0 Kingdom of SCS (Paris, France; 26 May 1924) Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom of SCS (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 October 1925) as Serbia  Ukraine 5–0 Serbia (Lviv, Ukraine 7 June 2019) | |||
| World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 13 (first in 1930 as Yugoslavia 1998 as FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro 2010 as Serbia) | ||
| Best result | As Yugoslavia: Fourth place (1930, 1962) As FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro: Round of 16 (1998) As Serbia: Group stage (2010, 2018, 2022) | ||
| European Championship | |||
| Appearances | 6 (first in 1960 as Yugoslavia 2000 as FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro 2024 as Serbia) | ||
| Best result | As Yugoslavia: Runners-up (1960, 1968) as FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro: Quarter-finals (2000) As Serbia: To be determined (2024) | ||
| Website | fss | ||
After the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia and its football team in 1992 Serbia was represented (alongside Montenegro) within the new FR Yugoslavia national football team. Despite qualifying for Euro 1992 the team was banned from participating in the tournament due to international sanctions, with the ruling also enforced for 1994 World Cup and Euro 1996 qualifiers. The national team played its first friendly in December 1994, and with the easing of sanctions the generation of the 1990s eventually participated at the 1998 World Cup, reaching the round of 16, and the quarter-finals at Euro 2000. The team played in the 2006, 2010, 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, but failed to progress past the group stage on each occasion.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Between February 2003 and June 2006, Serbia participated as Serbia and Montenegro due to the countries' name change. Following a 2006 referendum Montenegro declared its independence, leading to separate football federations which resulted in the team's final renaming and establishment as the Serbia national football team.[10][11][12][13][14][15] Serbia is considered by FIFA and UEFA to be the official successor team of FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro national football teams, but also the Kingdom of Yugoslavia/SFR Yugoslavia team.[16][17][18][19]