Nickname(s) | Орлићи / Orlići (The Young Eagles) |
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Association | Football Association of Serbia |
Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
Head coach | Nenad Lalatović |
Captain | Nemanja Maksimović |
Top scorer | Uroš Đurđević (15) |
FIFA code | SRB |
First international | |
Romania 0–2 Yugoslavia (Bucharest, 31 March 1940, friendly) |
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Biggest win | |
Serbia and Montenegro 9–0 San Marino (Novi Sad, 12 October 2004) |
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Biggest defeat | |
France 7–0 Yugoslavia |
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UEFA U-21 Championship | |
Appearances | 10 (first in 1978) |
Best result | Winners (1): 1978 |
France 7–0 Yugoslavia
(Reims, 16 November 1985)
The Serbia national under-21 football team (Serbian: Фудбалска репрезентација Србије до 21. године / Fudbalska reprezentacija Srbije do 21. godine) is the national under-21 football team of Serbia and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia.
This team is for Serbian players aged 21 or under at the start of a two-year UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship campaign, so players can be, and often are, up to 23 years old. Also in existence are teams for Under-20s (for non-UEFA tournaments), Under-19s and Under 17s. As long as they are eligible, players can play at any level, making it possible to play for the U21s, senior side and again for the U21s, as Matija Nastasić, Filip Đuričić, Lazar Marković, and Aleksandar Mitrović have done recently. It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible). Nikola Drinčić is a currently Montenegrin international and former Serbia U21 player.