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Bosnia Herzegovina Football Team

Head coach: Fuad Muzurović
Captain: Zvjezdan Misimović
Top scorer: Elvir Bolić
FIFA ranking: 28

The Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team is the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is controlled by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They played their first match in 1995 after the split of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Before that, Bosnian-Herzegovinian players played for the Yugoslavia national football team.

The team has never qualified for a major tournament, but in the qualifying campaign for Euro 2004, only one goal in the last game against Denmark separated them from the finals in Portugal.

In the World Cup 2006 qualifying round, the Bosnians played surprisingly well when matched against teams like Spain (drawing both times), Belgium (one win, one loss), and Serbia and Montenegro (one draw, one loss).

Playing against the Serbian team inspires much national pride, as is common with any match that features two former Yugoslav republics. Against Serbia and Montenegro, the Bosnian team drew at home but lost the second leg in Belgrade, 1-0. Both matches had extra precautions being taken by officials, to prevent nationalistic rioting. UEFA fined both football federations.

UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers

After the World Cup 2006 qualifying round, much was expected of the Bosnian squad for the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying. Bosnia and Herzegovina opened their race for the tournament with a 5-2 victory over Malta playing away. However, major disappointing results followed with losses to Hungary and Greece at home soil, and an unexpected draw with Moldova in Chisinau. With nearly no hopes left for the squad, major changes took place. Coach Fuad Muzurovic replaced Blaz Sliskovic and following the protest of 13 different players against the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina by not attending national games, Muzurovic had to rebuild the national team from scratch.

A team was successfully put together but little was expected of the squad since they did not have enough time to go under proper training against the next qualifying match against the solid Norwegians which was awaiting of picking up 3 points as being the home side. However, with a stunning upset the Bosnians took advantage of all chances during the game and came to victory with a 2-1 win, bringing hopes of qualifying back to life.

Bosnia Herzegovina Team
No.	NAME	POS	H(M)	W(Kg)	Age
1	Adnan Guso	G	-	-	-
22	Muhamed Alaim	G	-	-	-
2	Dzemal Berberovic	D	-	-	-
4	Safet Nadarevic	D	-	-	-
5	Branimir Bajic	D	-	-	-
28	Boris Pandza	D	-	-	-
4	Dario Damjanovic	M	-	-	-
7	Vedin Music	M	1.69	73	34
16	Ivan Radeljic	M	-	-	26
17	Mario Bozic	M	-	-	-
18	Mirko Hrgovic	M	1.86	76	28
20	Zajko Zeba	M	-	-	-
25	Elvir Rahimic	M	1.91	80	31
-	Damir Vrancic	S	1.84	74	21
6	Branislav Krunic	S	1.87	80	28
7	Senijad Ibricic	S	-	-	-
8	Veldin Muharemovic	S	-	-	-
9	Zlatan Muslimovic	S	1.89	83	26
10	Zvjezdan Misimovic	S	1.79	71	25
11	Darko Maletic	S	-	-	26
14	Vedad Ibisevic	S	1.89	79	23
15	Adnan Custovic	S	-	-	-
17	Ivan Bozic	S	-	-	-
19	Mladen Bartolovic	S	-	-	33
23	Edin Dzeko	S	-	-	21

Group C
	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P
Greece	7	6	0	1	12	5	7	18
Bosnia-Herzegovina	7	4	1	2	14	14	0	13
Turkey	6	4	1	1	16	6	10	13
Norway	7	4	1	2	17	6	11	13
Hungary	7	2	0	5	7	14	-7	6
Malta	7	1	1	5	5	15	-10	4
Moldova	7	0	2	5	4	15	-11	2