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Serbia national football team

Serbia
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) Орлови / Оrlovi
(The Eagles)
Association Fudbalski savez Srbije (FSS)
Confederation UEFA (Europe)
Head coach Slavoljub Muslin
Captain Branislav Ivanović
Most caps Dejan Stanković (103)
Top scorer Stjepan Bobek (38)
Home stadium Rajko Mitić Stadium, Belgrade
FIFA code SRB
FIFA ranking
Current 51 Decrease 6 (9 February 2017)
Highest 6 (December 1998)
Lowest 101 (December 1994)
Elo ranking
Current 33 (24 February 2017)
Highest 4 (June 1998)
Lowest 47 (October 2012)
First international
 Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom SCS Kingdom of Yugoslavia
(Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920)
as Serbia
 Czech Republic 1–3 Serbia 
(Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic; 18 August 2006)
Biggest win
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia SFR Yugoslavia 10–0 Venezuela 
(Curitiba, Brazil; 14 June 1972)
Biggest defeat
 Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom SCS Kingdom of Yugoslavia
(Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920)
 Uruguay 7–0 Kingdom SCS Kingdom of Yugoslavia
(Paris, France; 26 May 1924)
 Czechoslovakia 7–0 Kingdom SCS Kingdom of Yugoslavia
(Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 October 1925)
World Cup
Appearances 11
Best result Fourth place, 1930 and 1962
European Championship
Appearances 5 (first in 1960)
Best result Runners-up, 1960 and 1968

The Serbia national football team (Serbian: Фудбалска репрезентација Србије / Fudbalska reprezentacija Srbije) represents Serbia in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia, the governing body for football in Serbia.

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, finish 4th at the 1930 and 1962 World Cups, respectively. Considered by FIFA and UEFA to be the successor of both the Yugoslav and Serbia and Montenegro football teams, the achievements of the promising team of 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. The team's greatest success could be described as the 1–0 win over Germany at the 2010 World Cup, a campaign which eventually led to the team's elimination in the group stage.


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