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Serbia National Football Team

Head coach: Javier Clemente
Captain: Dejan Stankovic
Top scorer: Savo Milosevic
FIFA ranking: 22

The Serbia national football team represents Serbia in international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia. It was previously known as the Yugoslavia national football team until February 2003 and the Serbia and Montenegro national football team until June 2006 when Serbia declared independence as the successor state to the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. It was renamed the Serbia national football team on June 28, 2006, with the Montenegro national football team created to represent the new state of Montenegro.

FIFA considers the Serbia national team the direct descendant of the Serbia and Montenegro and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia national teams.

Although the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed on April 28, 1992, because of the international sanctions due to the Yugoslav wars banning the country from international sporting events, the football team didn't play its first match until 23 December 1994, when they lost to Brazil. Since then the team has qualified for the World Cup twice, in 1998 and 2006, and for the European Championship once, in 2000. In 2003, with the reconstitution of the country as Serbia and Montenegro, the team changed its name accordingly.

On May 21, 2006 Montenegro voted to dissolve its political union with Serbia. On June 3, Montenegro became a sovereign state meaning there will be separate Montenegrin national teams competing in future tournaments. This did not affect the finals of the 2006 World Cup, in which the newly independent states of Serbia and Montenegro competed under the same flag for the last time but did not progress past the group stage.

On August 16, 2006 the new team representing Serbia played its first international match, with a 3-1 away win against the Czech Republic.

Serbia Team
No.	NAME	POS	Height	Weight	Age
1	Vladimir Stojkovic	G	6-5	203	23
12	Vlada Avramov	G	6-2	165	28
3	Ivica Dragutinovic	D	6-0	190	31
5	Nemanja Vidic	D	6-2	185	25
6	Antonio Rukavina	D	-	-	-
11	Dusko Tosic	D	6-0	176	22
14	Milan Jovanovic	D	6-0	161	26
20	Mladen Krstajic	D	6-3	183	33
2	Ivan Ergic	M	6-1	185	26
4	Igor Duljaj	M	5-9	159	27
7	Ognjen Koroman	M	5-9	154	28
10	Dejan Stankovic	M	5-11	174	28
16	Nenad Kovacevic	M	5-9	174	26
17	Milos Krasic	M	6-1	165	22
18	Bosko Jankovic	M	6-0	172	23
22	Zdravko Kuzmanovic	M	6-1	157	19
8	Danko Lazovic	S	6-1	170	24
9	Marko Pantelic	S	6-0	176	28

Group A
	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P
Poland	9	6	1	2	15	7	8	19
Serbia	7	4	2	1	10	4	6	14
Portugal	7	4	2	1	15	5	10	14
Finland	8	4	2	2	9	5	4	14
Belgium	8	2	1	5	5	10	-5	7
Armenia	7	2	1	4	3	7	-4	7
Kazakhstan	8	1	3	4	5	11	-6	6
Azerbaijan	8	1	2	5	4	17	-13	5