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Croatia national football team records and statistics

Croatia national football team records and statistics

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This article lists various football records in relation to the Croatia national football team.

Individual records

Player records

Most capped players

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First player to reach 100 appearances

Dario Šimić, 20 August 2008, Slovenia 23 Croatia[1]

Fastest player to reach 100 appearances

Ivan Perišić, 10 years 2 months 6 days, 26 March 2011 1 June 2021[2]

Top goalscorers

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First goal

Florijan Matekalo, 2 April 1940, Croatia 40 Switzerland

Manager records

Managers results

The following table provides a summary of the complete record of each Croatia manager including their results regarding World Cups and European Championships.

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Last updated: Netherlands vs. Croatia, 14 June 2023.

Source: Croatian Football Federation

  1. In September 1994, national team manager Miroslav Blažević, who was also coaching Croatia Zagreb at the time, was dismissed in a 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup match against Auxerre. Blažević was suspended by UEFA for one game and Ivić was appointed as his replacement for the UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying match against Italy in November 1994.

Team records

Home matches

Key: Pld–games played, W–games won, D–games drawn; L–games lost, %–win percentage

More information Stadium, City / town ...

Last updated: Croatia vs. Wales, 25 March 2023. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only.

Competition records

FIFA World Cup

Croatia qualified for and competed in three consecutive World Cup tournaments between 1998 and 2006, but failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after finishing 3rd in Group 6 behind England and Ukraine. Although they had joined both FIFA and UEFA by 1992, they were unable to enter the 1994 World Cup as qualification had started before the side was officially recognised as a state.[3] In the following three World Cup groups they were eliminated after finishing third in all of them, before finally advancing further than the group stage at the 2018 World Cup.[4] On 11 July 2018, Croatia won their semi-final match against England, advancing the national team to their first FIFA World Cup final wherein they secured second place as runners-up against winners France.[5] Supplanting their third place positioning in 1998, this is the nation's best performance to date.[6]

The national squad, lining up for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final.
*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty shoot-out; correct as of 17 December 2022 after the match against Morocco.
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More information First Match, Biggest Win ...

UEFA European Championship

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks; correct as of 28 March 2023 after the match against Turkey.
More information UEFA European Championship record/UEFA European Championship qualifying, Year ...
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UEFA Nations League

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks; correct as of 14 June 2023 after the match against Netherlands.
More information UEFA Nations League, Year ...
More information First Match, Biggest Win ...

Head-to-head records

The following table show the Croatia national football team's all-time international record.

Only FIFA matches are counted. Correct as of 26 March 2024, after the match against  Egypt.

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Notes
  1. According to the "three points for a win" standard
  2. Legend: Unless otherwise noted, in each final tournament of the World Cup, the European Championship and the Nations League (shown in bold), Croatia has played one match against the respective opponent, while in each qualifying tournament and each Nations League group stage, it has played two matches against the respective opponent. Friendly matches and minor tournaments are counted in the table but are not shown in this column.
  3. No longer active

See also


References

  1. "Dario Šimić stats". EU-Football.info. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  2. "Ivan Perišić stats". EU-Football.info. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  3. "World Cup 1994 qualifications". Rec. Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
  4. "World Cup 2018: Argentina 0–3 Croatia". BBC Sport. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  5. FIFA.com. "1998 FIFA World Cup France ™ - FIFA". FIFA. Archived from the original on 6 June 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

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