Yugoslavia National Team
1999 Yugoslavia Home Shirt
Size - XLMade by - Adidas
Players - Predrag Mijatovic, Siniša Mihajlovic, Stankovic, Savo Miloševic, Mateja Kežman
Notes - Classic design home shirt as worn at Euro 2000
Slight History :
The Yugoslavia national football team existed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (For the team under the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia see Serbia and Montenegro national football team.) The first one was in the kingdom that existed between the two world wars. The Football Federation of what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was founded in Zagreb in 1919 (and admitted into FIFA), and the national team played its first international game in Antwerp in 1920. In 1929, the country was renamed to Yugoslavia and the football association became Fudbalski Savez Jugoslavije and moved its headquarters to Belgrade. The national team participated in the Football World Cup 1930 and shared the third/fourth place with the U.S. team. The federation and football overall was disrupted by World War II. After the war, a socialist federation was formed and the football federation reconstituted. It was one of the founding members of the UEFA and it organized the 1976 European Championship played in Belgrade and Zagreb. The national team participated in eight World Cups, four Euros, and even won Olympic Games football tournament in the 1960 (they also finished second three times and third once). Dragan D,,ajic holds the record for the most national team caps at 85, between 1964 to 1979. The best scorer is Stjepan Bobek with 38 goals, between 1946 and 1956. The under-21 team won the inaugural UEFA U-21 Championship in 1978. The Yugoslav under-20 team won the Youth World Cup in Chile in 1987. The same generation probably would have been even more successful had it not been for the Yugoslav wars. The Yugoslav team split up and the remaining team of the FRY was banned from competing at Euro 92.