Serbia, Football

The Serbia national football team represents Serbia in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Serbia, the governing body for football in the country. With the national team nicknamed the Orlovi (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, finishing fourth at the 1930 and 1962 World Cups respectively. Considered by FIFA and UEFA to be the successor of both the Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro national teams, the achievements of the promising team of the 1990s which featured players such as Dragan Stojkovic, Dejan Savicevic, Predrag Mijatovic, Vladimir Jugovic and Siniša Mihajlovic 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, and qualified for the World Cup in 2010 and 2018. The home ground of the national team is the Rajko Mitic Stadium of Red Star Belgrade, located in Belgrade. Their home stadium can also be the Partizan stadium as well. Both FIFA and UEFA consider the Serbian national team to be the direct and sole successor of the Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro teams.