SFR Yugoslavia national football team
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| Nickname(s) |
Beli Orlovi (White Eagles) Plavi (The Blues) Brazilians of Europe |
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| Association | Football Association of Yugoslavia |
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| Most caps |
Dragan Džajić (85) (SFRY) |
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| Top scorer |
Stjepan Bobek (38) (SFRY) |
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| Home stadium | Red Star Stadium, Belgrade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | YUG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Czechoslovakia 7–0 KY  (Antwerp, Belgium; August 28, 1920) After 1945 Czechoslovakia 0–2 SFRY  (Prague, Czechoslovakia; May 9, 1945) Last International as SFRY  Netherlands 2–0 SFRY (Amsterdam, Netherlands; March 25, 1992) |
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SFRY 10–0 Venezuela  (Curitiba, Brazil; June 14, 1972) |
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Czechoslovakia 7–0 KY (Antwerp, Belgium; August 28, 1920)  Uruguay 7–0 KY (Paris, France; May 26, 1924) Czechoslovakia 7–0 KY (Prague, Czechoslovakia; October 28, 1925) |
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| Appearances | 8 (first in 1930) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Thrid place, 1930, Fourth place 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Appearances | 4 (first in 1960) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Runners-up, 1960 and 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
Yugoslavia national football team
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The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941, until 1929 as Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1943–1992, until November 29, 1945 as Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, 29 November 1945–1963 as Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) in association football. It enjoyed success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international competition as part of a United Nations sanction. In 1994, when the boycott was lifted, it was succeeded by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia national football team.
Serbia national football team inherited Yugoslavia's spot within FIFA and UEFA and is considered by both organisations as the only successor of Yugoslavia.
The first national team was in the kingdom, that existed between the two world wars. The Football Federation of what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was founded in Zagreb in 1919 under the name Jugoslovenski nogometni savez (and admitted into FIFA), and the national team played its first international game at the Summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1920. The opponent was Czechoslovakia, and the historic starting eleven that represented Kingdom of SCS on its debut were: Dragutin Vrđuka, Vjekoslav Župančić, Jaroslav Šifer, Stanko Tavčar, Slavin Cindrić, Rudolf Rupec, Dragutin Vragović, Artur Dubravčić, Emil Perška, Ivan Granec, and Jovan Ružić. They lost by a huge margin 0–7, but nonetheless got their names in the history books.
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