Serbia at the FIFA World Cup

This is a record of Serbia's results at the FIFA World Cup, including as their predecessor teams Yugoslavia (1920–1992) and Serbia and Montenegro (1996–2006; the country was renamed from "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" in 2003). FIFA 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 2014.

FIFA World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record										Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
as  Yugoslavia
1930	Fourth place	4th	3	2	0	1	7	7		Invited
1934	Did not qualify									2	0	1	1	3	4
1938										2	1	0	1	1	4
1950	Group stage	5th	3	2	0	1	7	3		5	3	2	0	16	6
1954	Quarter-finals	7th	3	1	1	1	2	3		4	4	0	0	4	0
1958		5th	4	1	2	1	7	7		4	2	2	0	7	2
1962	Fourth place	4th	6	3	0	3	10	7		4	3	1	0	11	4
1966	Did not qualify									6	3	1	2	10	8
1970										6	3	1	2	19	7
1974	Quarter-finals[a]	7th	6	1	2	3	12	7		5	3	2	0	8	4
1978	Did not qualify									4	1	0	3	6	8
1982	Group stage	16th	3	1	1	1	2	2		8	6	1	1	22	7
1986	Did not qualify									8	3	2	3	7	8
1990	Quarter-finals	5th	5	3	1	1	8	6		8	6	2	0	16	6
as  FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro
1994	Suspended[note 1]									0	0	0	0	0	0
1998	Round of 16	10th	4	2	1	1	5	4		12	9	2	1	41	8
2002	Did not qualify									10	5	4	1	22	8
2006	Group stage	32nd	3	0	0	3	2	10		10	6	4	0	16	1
as  Serbia
2010	Group stage	23rd	3	1	0	2	2	3		10	7	1	2	22	8
2014	Did not qualify									10	4	2	4	18	11
2018	Group stage	23rd	3	1	0	2	2	4		10	6	3	1	20	10
2022		29th	3	0	1	2	5	8		8	6	2	0	18	9
2026	To be determined									Future event
2030
2034
Total	Fourth place	13/22	49	18	9	22	71	71		136	81	33	22	287	123

Serbia's World Cup record
First match	Yugoslavia 2–1 Brazil  (14 July 1930; Montevideo, Uruguay)
Biggest Win	Yugoslavia 9–0 Zaire  (7 June 1974; Gelsenkirchen, West Germany)
Biggest Defeat	Argentina 6–0 Serbia and Montenegro  (16 June 2006; Gelsenkirchen, Germany)
Best Result	Fourth place in 1930 and 1962
Worst Result	Group stage in 1950, 1982, 2006, 2010, 2018, and 2022

By match

World Cup	Round	Opponent	Score	Result	Serbia scorers
000within  Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1930)
1930	Group stage	Brazil	2–1	W	Tirnanić, Bek
		Bolivia	4–0	W	Bek (2), Marjanović, Vujadinović
	Semi-final	Uruguay	1–6	L	Vujadinović
000within  SFR Yugoslavia (1950–1990)
1950	Group stage	Switzerland	3–0	W	Mitić, Tomašević, Ognjanov
		Mexico	4–1	W	Bobek, Ž. Čajkovski (2), Tomašević
		Brazil	0–2	L	—
1954	Group stage	France	1–0	W	Milutinović
		Brazil	1–1	D	Zebec
	Quarter-final	West Germany	0–2	L	—
1958	Group stage	Scotland	1–1	D	Petaković
		France	3–2	W	Petaković, Veselinović (2)
		Paraguay	3–3	D	Ognjanović, Veselinović, Rajkov
	Quarter-final	West Germany	0–1	L	—
1962	Group stage	Soviet Union	0–2	L	—
		Uruguay	3–1	W	Skoblar, Galić, Jerković
		Colombia	5–0	W	Galić (2), Jerković (2), Melić
	Quarter-final	West Germany	1–0	W	Radaković
	Semi-final	Czechoslovakia	1–3	L	Jerković
	Third place match	Chile	0–1	L	—
1974	Group stage	Brazil	0–0	D	—
		Zaire	9–0	W	Bajević (3), Džajić, Šurjak, Katalinski, Bogićević, Oblak, Petković
		Scotland	1–1	D	Karasi
	Second round	West Germany	0–2	L	—
		Poland	1–2	L	Karasi
		Sweden	1–2	L	Šurjak
1982	Group stage	Northern Ireland	0–0	D	—
		Spain	1–2	L	Gudelj
		Honduras	1–0	W	Petrović
1990	Group stage	West Germany	1–4	L	Jozić
		Colombia	1–0	W	Jozić
		United Arab Emirates	4–1	W	Sušić, Pančev (2), Prosinečki
	Round of 16	Spain	2–1	W	Stojković (2)
	Quarter-final	Argentina	0–0	D
000within  Serbia and Montenegro (1998–2006; 1998 as FR Yugoslavia)
1998	Group stage	Iran	1–0	W	Mihajlović
		Germany	2–2	D	Mijatović, Stojković
		United States	1–0	W	Komljenović
	Round of 16	Netherlands	1–2	L	Komljenović
2006	Group stage	Netherlands	0–1	L	—
		Argentina	0–6	L	—
		Ivory Coast	2–3	L	Žigić, Ilić
000  Serbia (since 2010)
2010	Group stage	Ghana	0–1	L	—
		Germany	1–0	W	Jovanović
		Australia	1–2	L	Pantelić
2018	Group stage	Costa Rica	1–0	W	Kolarov
		Switzerland	1–2	L	A. Mitrović
		Brazil	0–2	L	—
2022	Group stage	Brazil	0–2	L	—
		Cameroon	3–3	D	Pavlović, S. Milinković-Savić, A. Mitrović
		Switzerland	2–3	L	A. Mitrović, Vlahović

Record players

Rank	Player	Matches	World Cups
1	Dragoslav Šekularac	9	1958 and 1962
	Ivica Šurjak	9	1974 and 1982
	Dragan Stojković	9	1990 and 1998
	Dejan Stanković	9	1998, 2006 and 2010
5	Safet Sušić	8	1982 and 1990
	Zlatko Vujović	8	1982 and 1990
7	Vujadin Boškov	7	1954 and 1958
8	Rajko Mitić	6	1950 and 1954
	Branko Stanković	6	1950 and 1954
	Miloš Milutinović	6	1954 and 1958
	Vladica Popović	6	1958 and 1962
	Vladimir Durković	6	1962
	Milan Galić	6	1962
	Milutin Šoškić	6	1962
	Jovan Aćimović	6	1974
	Vladimir Stojković	6	2010 and 2018
	Aleksandar Mitrović	6	2018 and 2022
	Dušan Tadić	6	2018 and 2022
	Nikola Milenković	6	2018 and 2022
	Sergej Milinković-Savić	6	2018 and 2022

Top goalscorers

Dražan Jerković's four goals at the 1962 FIFA World Cup were enough to secure him the shared Golden Boot Award and make him the top scorer at World Cups for the SFR Yugoslavia and its successor associations.

Rank	Player	Goals	World Cups
1	Dražan Jerković	4	1962
2	Ivan Bek	3	1930
	Todor Veselinović	3	1958
	Milan Galić	3	1962
	Dušan Bajević	3	1974
	Dragan Stojković	3	1990 (2) and 1998
	Aleksandar Mitrović	3	2018 and 2022 (2)
8	Đorđe Vujadinović	2	1930
	Željko Čajkovski	2	1950
	Kosta Tomašević	2	1950
	Aleksandar Petaković	2	1958
	Stanislav Karasi	2	1974
	Ivica Šurjak	2	1974
	Davor Jozić	2	1990
	Darko Pančev	2	1990
	Slobodan Komljenović	2	1998

Squads

See also

• Serbia at the UEFA European Championship

Notes

1. Draw for 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifiers was made on 8 December 1991, however due to break-up of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and consequent military conflict, which broke in early 1991, FSJ ceased to exist as football organization of the SFR Yugoslavia. Organization that remained based in Belgrade, Serbia, was excluded from taking part as FSJ or its successor due to UN sanctions.^[1]

1. Last 8 held as second group stage.