Serbia national football team

The Serbia national football team represent Serbia in men's football. Currently, FIFA considers Serbia to be the successor of World Cup results from Yugoslavia from 1930 to 1990.

Serbia's best World Cup finish is semifinals, in 1930 and 1962; these times Serbia were part of Yugoslavia.

2012-2016: Major tournament failures
The three consecutive major tournament failure began for Serbia in Euro 2012 when three 2010 World Cup teams (Italy, Serbia and Slovenia) were all drawn together. At the end, Serbia finished third behind favourite Italy and underdog Estonia and thus failed to qualify for Euro 2012.

In the 2014 World Cup qualification, Serbia was drawn with Belgium, Croatia, Scotland, Macedonia and Wales. Serbia were seeded in Pot 2 for the 2014 qualification. After finishing third behind eventual qualifiers Belgium and Croatia, Serbia failed to qualify for the 2014 World Cup, their first World Cup failure since 2002.

Euro 2016 brought a disaster for football in Serbia. Serbia finished fourth in their group, one of the worst performances for the team in history. They were part of the Euro 2016 qualifying controversy match between them and Albania. This ended in a 3-0 win for Serbia.

2018 World Cup
Serbia were drawn in a group containing Wales as the top seed, Austria, Republic of Ireland, Moldova and Georgia. It will be easy for Serbia to qualify for the 2018 World Cup since there is no 2014 FIFA World Cup team in the group.