Serbia at the FIFA World Cup
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This is a record of Serbia's results at the
FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...
, including as their predecessor teams
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(1920–1992) and
Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
(1996–2006; the country was renamed from "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" in 2003).
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recognizes Serbia as the official successor of the Yugoslav teams, and thus inherits all Yugoslavia's and Serbia and Montenegro's records. Including their predecessors' records, Serbia has qualified for thirteen FIFA World Cup finals tournaments, last failing to do so in
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FIFA World Cup record


By match


Record players


Top goalscorers

Dražan Jerković Dražan Jerković (; 6 August 1936 – 9 December 2008) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional football manager and player. His professional playing career spanned from 1954 to 1966, during which he played for Dinamo Zagreb and AA La Gantoise. ...
's four goals at the
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were enough to secure him the shared
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and make him the top scorer at World Cups for the SFR Yugoslavia and its successor associations.


Squads


See also

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Serbia at the UEFA European Championship After the completed dissolution of Yugoslavia in 2006, the Serbia national team did not qualify for the next four UEFA European Championships it played qualifiers for, before finally securing a spot at Euro 2024. Its official predecessor teams Yugo ...


Notes


References

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Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...