There are more than 400,000 active sportspeople in Croatia. Out of that number, 277,000 are members of sports associations and nearly 4,000 are members of chess and contract bridge associations. Association football is the most popular sport. The Croatian Football Federation (), with more than 118,000 registered players, is the largest sporting association in the country. The Prva HNL football league attracts the highest average attendance of any professional sports league in the country. In season 2010–11, it attracted 458,746 spectators. Croatian athletes competing at international events since Croatian independence in 1991 won 44 Olympic medals, including 15 gold medals—at the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics in handball, 2000 Summer Olympics in weightlifting, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics in alpine skiing, 2012 Summer Olympics in discus throw, trap shooting, and water polo, and in 2016 Summer Olympics in shooting, rowing, discus throw, sailing and javelin throw.
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Croatia
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Lukša Andrić | Croatian national team
His brothers, Tomislav (born 1985) and Ivan (born 1990) are also basketball players and have all played in the Croatia national basketball team youth selections.
Marko Ramljak | Personal life
Since independence Croatia has been a fairly successful sporting country. The most popular team sports have been association football (soccer). The Croatian Football Federation (), with more than 118,000 registered players, is the largest sporting association in the country. Other popular sports are handball, basketball and to some extent water polo. The most popular sports played mainly by individuals are tennis, skiing, swimming, and to some extent table tennis and chess. The nation's arenas are primarily used for handball and basketball games.
Culture of Croatia | Sports
Ana Konjuh, a young tennis player, new superstar to some.
Sport in Croatia | Individual sports
He has represented Croatia internationally at U15, U17, U18, U19, U20 and U21 level.
Marko Šimić (footballer, born 1985) | National team
SFR Yugoslavia Croatia Albania Argentina
Toronto Croatia | Notable players
Dario Šimić, 20 August 2008, Slovenia 2–3 Croatia Ivan Rakitić, 9 years 4 days, 8 September 2009 – 11 September 2018
Croatia national football team records and statistics | Appearances
The players that have played for the Croatian National Team are in bold, the others have played since 1992.
List of foreign football players in Serbia | Croatia
He also plays for the Croatian national team.
Stanko Barać | Croatian national team
This is a list of the Croatian soccer players who played for the Croatia senior national football team, born outside Croatia. Most of them are born in the former Yugoslavia countries, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina, or outside Yugoslavia they're born in Germany. In this list are included naturalized players and born abroad. "Players in bold" are currently playing for the Croatia national football team or active, in brackets there are their caps. The list is updated as 14 October 2020.
List of Croatia international footballers born outside Croatia | Introduction
He was a member of the youth Croatia national basketball team selections and played at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship and 2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (Division B). In 2018 he was called up for the senior B selection that played the Stankovic Cup in China.
Domagoj Vuković | Croatian national team
Cvjetković made part of the Croatia national football team in their early stages, between 1990 and 1991, having played three matches and scored one goal.
Ivan Cvjetković | International career
He is now Head Coach of the Yorkshire Under 20 County side which has won numerous English National County Championships and coaches professionally at the Doncaster club in England. His family originated from the Island of Korčula.
Croatia national rugby union team | Famous players
Ugrinoski was also member of U-18 Croatian national basketball team.
Aleksandar Ugrinoski | Croatian national team
He played for the Croatian U-21 team.
Dario Bodrušić | International
There are more than 400,000 active sportspeople in Croatia. Out of that number, 277,000 are members of sports associations and nearly 4,000 are members of chess and contract bridge associations. Association football is the most popular sport. The Croatian Football Federation (), with more than 118,000 registered players, is the largest sporting association in the country. The Prva HNL football league attracts the highest average attendance of any professional sports league in the country. In season 2010–11, it attracted 458,746 spectators. Croatian athletes competing at international events since Croatian independence in 1991 won 44 Olympic medals, including 15 gold medals—at the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics in handball, 2000 Summer Olympics in weightlifting, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics in alpine skiing, 2012 Summer Olympics in discus throw, trap shooting, and water polo, and in 2016 Summer Olympics in shooting, rowing, discus throw, sailing and javelin throw.
Croatia | Sports
Croatian national team :
Dino Butorac | National team career
Although not having won titles, some of Croatia's basketball legends originated there. In early 1980s known players were Mlađan Tudor, Josip Puljiz and Bjelajac. The most famous players who were playing in "Dalvin" are Croatian national team players Dino Rađa, Josip Vranković and Ante Grgurević.
KK Dalvin | Famous players and coaches
"Note: This list is correct through the start of the ."
List of Croatian NBA players | Currently active players
Florijan Matekalo, 2 April 1940, Croatia 4–0 Switzerland
Croatia national football team records and statistics | Goals
Table tennis player and Olympic silver medalist Zoran Primorac became the first Croatian athlete to participate in seven Olympic Games as an individual athlete (his first appearance competed under the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), and was also the oldest athlete of the team, at age 43. Venio Losert, captain of the men's handball team, was appointed by the committee to carry the nation's flag at the opening ceremony.
Croatia at the 2012 Summer Olympics | Introduction
Banić was part of the Croatian national basketball teams at the EuroBasket 2007, the 2008 Olympic Basketball Tournament, the EuroBasket 2009.
Marko Banić | Croatian national team
Giriček was a member of the Croatian national basketball team. With Croatia, he played at 5 consecutive European Championships: the 1997 European Championship, 1999 European Championship, 2001 European Championship, 2003 European Championship, and the 2005 European Championship.
Gordan Giriček | Croatian national basketball team
Srna eventually surpassed his teammates and accrued a record total of 134 international caps for Croatia before retiring in 2016. Alen Halilović is the youngest player to represent the team, making his senior debut in June 2013 aged 16 years, 11 months and 22 days. The team's oldest player is Dražen Ladić, who played his last match in May 2000 aged 37 years, 4 months and 27 days. With 45 goals scored, Davor Šuker, the current president of the Croatian Football Federation, is the team's highest-scoring player. The national team's record for highest-scoring victory was achieved in 2016, a 10–0 friendly win over San Marino.
Croatia national football team | All-time team records
He was a member of the Croatia national team many years. He was a part of the national team at Eurobasket 2007 and Eurobasket 2009. On 15 November 2018, Croatia head coach Dražen Anzulović invited him to the national team after 9 years, for the qualifications for the 2019 World Cup.
Marin Rozić | National team career
Nicević has been a member of the Croatian national basketball team. He played at the EuroBasket 1997, the EuroBasket 2003, the 2008 Olympics, and the EuroBasket 2009.
Sandro Nicević | Croatian national team
NK Zagreb Austria Salzburg Individual
Nikola Jurčević | As a player
Petrović, Ćosić, Kukoč and Novosel are members of the FIBA Hall of Fame. Ćosić, however, never played for the Croatian national team, he was a member of the Yugoslavia national basketball team.
Croatia men's national basketball team | Introduction
This list is about Croatia national football team players with at least 20 appearances. For a list of all national team players with a Wikipedia article, see the . For the current national team squad, see Croatia national football team#Current squad. "Appearances and goals are composed of FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship and each competition's required qualification matches, as well as the UEFA Nations League and international friendlies. Players are listed by number of caps, then by goals scored. If they are still tied the players are listed alphabetically. Statistics correct as of 14 October 2020 and the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League match against France."
List of Croatia international footballers | Players
Mršić was a member of Croatia's senior national team that won bronze medals at the 1994 World Championship, 1993 EuroBasket and the 1995 EuroBasket. He was also on the squad for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games, 1999 EuroBasket and the 2001 EuroBasket.
Veljko Mršić | National team career
As a member of the senior Croatian national team, Vujčić played at the 1999 EuroBasket, the 2001 EuroBasket, the 2005 EuroBasket, and the 2009 EuroBasket.
Nikola Vujčić | National team playing career
Some of Croatia's more successful national teams include:
Sport in Croatia | National sports teams
Dinamo Zagreb Hajduk Split Yugoslavia
Stjepan Deverić | Player
By far the most popular club in the country is Hajduk (Split)
Football in Croatia | Teams
Slaven Bilić, Aljoša Asanović, Igor Tudor, and Stipe Pletikosa are some of the famous Split natives who started their careers at Hajduk. Basketball is also popular, and the city basketball club, KK Split (Jugoplastika Split), holds the record of winning the Euroleague three consecutive times (1989–1991), with notable players like Toni Kukoč and Dino Rađa both of whom are Split natives. Former WWE wrestler and WWE Hall of Fame member Josip Peruzović, better known as Nikolai Volkoff, was born in Split. Split's most famous tennis players are the retired 2001 Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanišević, Mario Ančić (""Super Mario""), Nikola Pilić and Željko Franulović.
Split, Croatia | Sports
Marko Marin is a German player of Serbian ethnicity. Cican Stanković is an Austrian player of Serbian ethnicity.
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sport
"Only national team players are listed, for players with Wikipedia article, see: "
List of foreign basketball players in Serbia | Croatia
While in the process of acquiring his Croatian citizenship, Draper made the list of 25 players who were senior Croatian national team candidates for the EuroBasket 2011. In July 2011, shortly after having received his Croatian citizenship, Draper played his first game for the national team. He also played at the 2013 EuroBasket. He also represented Croatia at the 2015 EuroBasket, where they were eliminated in the round of final 16 by the Czech Republic.
Dontaye Draper | Croatian national team
He was a member of the Croatian national team B, which won the gold medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara.
Jakov Vladović | Croatian national team
At the following 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games, he got the silver medal after Croatia lost to the USA in the men's final against "The Dream Team", while playing for the senior Croatian national team.
Stojko Vranković | Croatia (after independence)
This is a list of Croatia national football team players. Most of the appearances were made since the country became independent from Yugoslavia in 1990, but international games were also played in the early 1940s and a one-off match was played in 1956. Darijo Srna made the most appearances for the national team with 134, making him one of the eight Croatian players with 100 or more caps. Davor Šuker, who was the top goalscorer at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is by far the top goalscorer in the history of the Croatian team, with 45 goals.
List of Croatia international footballers | Introduction
Antun Stipančić was born in Duga Resa, a small industrial town in central Croatia's Karlovac County (at the time of his birth, and until summer-autumn 1991, Croatia was one of six republics constituting Yugoslavia). His family of five — father Ivan, a janitor at the football club, mother Franca and two younger brothers, Marijan and Ivica — had a difficult time trying to make ends meet. They lived in very modest circumstances in a damp apartment located at the football (soccer) playground which shared its location with the hall of the Table Tennis Club (TTC) "Duga Resa". At the end of the 1950s, a group of sport enthusiasts led by Josip Trupković, Josip Stojković and Dragutin Vrana brought inspiration to the little-noted town and its young people with a new sport - table tennis.
Antun Stipančić | Early years
Željko made part of the Croatia national football team in the earliest stages in 1991. Having afterwards continued his career in Austrian clubs, he received in 2001 a call to play to the Austrian national football team, being one of the oldest players to have made the debut for the selection, with a record 39 years. He ended playing three matches for Austria.
Željko Vuković (footballer, born 1962) | International career
This is a partial list of famous Croatian sportspeople.
List of Croatian sportspeople | Introduction
He played one match for the Croatia national football team in 1991.
Ivo Šeparović | International career
Rožić played one match for the Croatian U-20 team in 2006.
Ante Rožić | National team
He represented Croatia at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where they finished in 5th place.
Mario Hezonja | National team career
As a player, Vrbičić spent most of his career with hometown club VK Šibenik. He was a part of the senior Croatia national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, where they have won the silver medal.
Renato Vrbičić | Playing career
Iskra Bugojno Zagreb Yugoslavia Youth
Tomislav Piplica | Player
By that time Građanski had ceased to exist, although Stjepan Bobek, who initially played for Građanski 1943–1945 before switching to newly formed Partizan after the war, was a key player of the national team at both 1950 and 1954 World Cups and at the 1948 and 1952 Olympic tournaments. The following is a list of Građanski players who earned at least one cap for Kingdom of Yugoslavia national team while playing at the club in the period from 1920 to 1941. Appearances and goals are taken from Football Association of Serbia database, and represent players' career totals. During WW2 the fascist Independent State of Croatia fielded its own FIFA-registered national team which played a total of 15 friendlies between 1941 and 1944.
HŠK Građanski Zagreb | Notable players
Lazio (1957/58), Hajduk Split (1958–61, 1963/64), OFK Beograd (1961–63, 1964/65), Israel national football team (1965–68), Beşiktaş J.K. (1968/69), Aris FC (1969–71), Valencia CF (1974/75), India national football team (1984–85), etc.
Milovan Ćirić | Introduction
Like many players from the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s, Jelić obtained Greek citizenship, while playing in the country, and thus competed as a domestic player under the name Ntousan Koutsopoulos (Greek: Ντοὐσαν Κουτσόπουλος). In Greece, he is also known by the name Dušan Jelic Koutsopoulos.
Dušan Jelić | Personal life
Dujmović stated playing football in lower league club NK Sava Zagreb where he was noticed by Croatian giants Dinamo Zagreb. But he never managed to get senior cap for Dinamo so he was forced to leave club in 2000. Next six years he played for Croatian yo-yo clubs Hrvatski Dragovoljac, Inter Zaprešić and Međimurje before leaving for Russia in 2006.
Tomislav Dujmović | Croatia
Modriča Hajduk Split Jagodina
Dario Damjanović | Player
After leaving the U19 team in Imotski, he moved to play for Croatia Zmijavci who is in the 4th tier of Croatia football.
Marijan Šuto | Croatia Zmijavci
This section is only about players born outside Croatia. Players in bold are currently active.
List of Croatia international footballers born outside Croatia | Records
The team has developed an extensive fan base since its formation in 1991. Following their run at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, there was a rise in domestic and global attention for the side. Balkan Insight commented that the national team became a symbol of Croatian independence from Yugoslavia. However, after the death of former-president Franjo Tuđman, local political ties with the national team have loosened. All matches are followed and televised throughout the country, particularly during tournaments. A part of the team's support base consists of fans of Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb, the two best-supported clubs in the Croatian domestic league, the Prva HNL.
Croatia national football team | Supporters
Juranović comes from the Dubrava quarter of Zagreb. Both his brothers, Dragan and Mihael, are also football players.
Josip Juranović | Personal life
Kovačić was a regular member of the senior men's Croatian national team. With Croatia, he won the bronze medal at the 1993 EuroBasket. He also played at the 1997 EuroBasket and at the 2001 EuroBasket.
Emilio Kovačić | National team career
Markota has also been a member of the senior men's Croatian national basketball team. With Croatia's senior national team, he played at the EuroBasket 2007, EuroBasket 2011, EuroBasket 2013 and the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Damir Markota | National team career
Rimac was a member of the senior Croatia national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and at EuroBasket 1997.
Slaven Rimac | National team career
Komazec was a member of the senior Yugoslavian national team (1990–92), and then the senior Croatian national team. He was a part of the Croatian teams that won silver at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and bronze at EuroBasket 1993 and 1995.
Arijan Komazec | National team career
Smajlagić has played for the Croatia's Under-16 and Under-18 national team.
Sven Smajlagić | National team
Major tournaments Minor tournaments Other awards
Croatia national football team | Honours
Croatian teams are restricted to fielding at most six foreign players in the first eleven during the domestic league and cup matches. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; players who also hold Croatian citizenship are specifically noted.
HNK Hajduk Split | Players
Croatia played its first unofficial friendly game on 2 June 1964 in Karlovac. Croatian team played against US All Star Team and lost 65–110 (31–50). USA players coached by Red Auerbach were Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, K. C. Jones, Jerry Lucas, Bob Pettit, Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell and Croatian team was Giuseppe Gjergja, Nemanja Đurić, Živko Kasun, Zlatko Kiseljak, Slobodan Kolaković, Dragan Kovačić, Boris Križan, Stjepan Ledić, Mirko Novosel, Marko Ostarčević, Petar Skansi and Željko Troskot.
Croatia men's national basketball team | Prior to Croatian independence
In the modern era, the nation played three matches shortly before its independence from Yugoslavia, listed at Croatia national football team results (1940–91).
Croatia national football team results (1992–99) | By year
Croatia have a host of players who are New Zealanders, Australians and South Africans of Croatian origin who play the game and have played internationally for these countries. The first New Zealander of Croatian descent to play for Croatia was Brendon Winslow against Luxembourg in 1995. Other New Zealanders, were Paul Vegar (North Shore, NZ reps), Paul Vujcich (Counties, Manurewa and North Shore) and the Graham brothers Rob and Reon (Counties, Patumahoe, Manurewa). Anthony Posa was another New Zealander who played many times for Croatia (1996–2003), playing out of both the GHA RFC, Glasgow, Scotland and Beverley RUFC, Yorkshire, England.
Croatia national rugby union team | Famous players
It is also possible to play for one country at youth level and another at senior level (providing the player is eligible). For example, Ivan Rakitić is a former Switzerland U21 player who later became a Croatia international. The under-21 age category came into existence with the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976. The Croatia U21 team was formed following Croatia's independence from SFR Yugoslavia in 1991 and is controlled by the Croatian Football Federation (from 1976 to 1990 Croatian players played for Yugoslavia U21). A goalless draw in a friendly against Italy played on 13 February 1992 was Croatia U21s' first result.
Croatia national under-21 football team | Introduction
The team was largely composed of Građanski players, and initially managed by Jozo Jakopić, director of Građanski. Players who appeared for Croatia in that period are marked with †. After the war and dissolution of Građanski some of its players were called up to play for the newly established communist SFR Yugoslavia team. Only four players appeared for all three national teams during this politically turbulent period – Miroslav Brozović, Zvonimir Cimermančić, Branko Pleše and Franjo Wölfl).
HŠK Građanski Zagreb | Notable players
Beside one match played for the B team, the six matches for the City of Zagreb team and nine for the City of Belgrade team, he played 12 matches for Yugoslavia national football team having scored four times. His debut was on 30 April 1933 in Belgrade against Spain, and his last match was also in Belgrade, on 23 March 1941, against Hungary, that ended drow and he scored the only goal for Yugoslavia.
Svetislav Valjarević | National team
Mujezinović played professionally in Croatia (Šibenik, Cibona), Italy (Libertas Forli, Fortitudo Bologna, Benetton Treviso), Turkey (Kombassan Konya, Galatasaray, Darüşşafaka), Greece (Panathinaikos, Panionios), Slovenia (Union Olimpija), Switzerland (SAV Vacallo Basket), Russia (Dynamo Moscow), Bulgaria (PBC Academic), Cyprus (AEL Limassol), Ukraine (Kyiv), Lithuania (Lietuvos rytas) and Spain (Valencia).
Haris Mujezinović | Professional career
Milinović made four appearances for the Croatia national football team.
Damir Milinović | International career
Fabijan Komljenović (born 16 January 1968) is a former Croatian football player. He made his international debut against Slovenia at Murska Sobota on 19 June 1991, where he scored the winning goal (0–1). This was his single appearance for the Croatia national football team. While playing for Rijeka, he was nicknamed the "Caniggia from Kantrida" due to his style of play and physical appearance.
Fabijan Komljenović | Introduction
Žižić was a member of the senior Croatia national basketball team. He also won a silver medal at the 1998 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, and a bronze medal at the 1999 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, while playing with the Croatian national junior teams.
Andrija Žižić | Croatia national team
The following players have also been called up to the Croatia squad in the last 12 months and are still eligible for selection.
Croatia national football team | Recent call-ups
He is considered a crucial part of the vanguard to the present-day mass influx of European players into the NBA and he was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2013, he was voted the best European Basketball player in history, by players at the 2013 FIBA EuroBasket.
Sport in Croatia | Basketball
The following table lists all Croatian players who are credited to win an international final (either appeared in the final, being unused substitutes or were in the squad in earlier rounds of the tournament). It does not include Croatians who were considered Yugoslav players prior to Croatia's independence in 1991. As of 2020 a total of eleven Croatian players are credited as winning the Champions League: Alen Bokšić, Zvonimir Boban, Davor Šuker, Dario Šimić, Igor Bišćan, Mario Mandžukić, Luka Modrić, Ivan Rakitić, Mateo Kovačić, Dejan Lovren and Ivan Perišić, although Šimić, Bišćan, Kovačić and Lovren did not appear in the finals.
Football in Croatia | Footballers in international club competitions
He made his Croatia national team debut on 11 June 2019 in a friendly against Tunisia, as a starter.
Dario Melnjak | International
Vranješ was part of the Croatian national team in 2002 FIFA World Cup where he played in two games. He also played in the Croatian team at the 1998 Under-18 European Championship when Croatia won the third place.
Jurica Vranješ | International career
The Croatia national basketball team has won a silver medal at the 1992 Olympic basketball tournament, bronze medal at the 1994 World Championship and bronze medals at EuroBasket 1993 and EuroBasket 1995. Croatian basketball clubs were EuroLeague champions five times: KK Split three times (1989, 1990 and 1991) and KK Cibona in 1985 and 1986. Croatian basketball players such as Krešimir Ćosić, Dino Rađa and Toni Kukoč were amongst the first foreign players to succeed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the United States. One of the most notable Croatian basketballers was Dražen Petrović, who died in a car accident in June 1993.
Sport in Croatia | Basketball
In the 1989–90 season together with his older brother Fadil, he moved to NK Rijeka and played there another season in the Yugoslav First League before moving to HNK Šibenik where he spent 8 seasons. He finished his career playing for second league team NK Imotska krajina.
Xhevdet Muriqi | Croatia
Andrey Belofastov (Ukraine), Xavier García (Spain) Faris Okanovic (Sweden)
Croatia men's national water polo team | Naturalized players
Before the nation's independence, Croatian footballers played for the national teams of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1919–39) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–92), though during periods of political upheaval, ethnically Croatian sides occasionally formed to play unofficial matches. A hastily arranged Croatian side, managed by Hugo Kinert, played a few matches in 1918–19. In 1940, Jozo Jakopić led an unofficial national team representing the Banovina of Croatia (part of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in four friendly matches, against Switzerland and Hungary. Following invasion by the Axis powers, the Croatian Football Federation became briefly active, joining FIFA on 17 July 1941, representing the Independent State of Croatia.
Croatia national football team | Pre-independence
Notably successful Croatian female tennis players include: Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and Iva Majoli.
Women's professional sports | Croatia
He played at the 2016 Summer Olympics where Croatia came 5th. He rejected the call-up for the 2017 EuroBasket, but played again for the Croatia national basketball team at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification games.
Miro Bilan | Croatian national team
Krešić debuted for Croatia national football team on 10 September 2013 in a friendly match against South Korea, playing for 90 minutes before he was substituted in the injury time of the game.
Dario Krešić | International career
His older brother Tomislav (born 1985) and younger brother Marko (born 1993) are also basketball players and have all played in the Croatia national basketball team youth selections.
Ivan Ramljak | Personal life
Dabro was a member of each Croatian youth national football team from U-14 to U-20 level, having debuted for the U-15 national team as a 13-year old in 2010.
Marko Dabro | International career
"As of 18 Aug 2016, after 2016 Olympics" "* includes games against Czechoslovakia" "** includes games against CIS and Soviet Union" "*** includes games against Serbia and Montenegro"
Croatia men's national basketball team | Record against other teams
After the war, most of the prominent Yugoslavian clubs, including clubs in Croatia, were dissolved and replaced with new sides by Marshal Tito's Communist regime. Today, club football in Croatia is dominated by Hajduk Split, HNK Rijeka and Dinamo Zagreb. Since independence, the country has produced a string of players who have performed well in many of Europe's most highly regarded leagues and who took the national team to third place at the 1998 World Cup and the final at the 2018 World Cup.
Football in Croatia | Introduction
His brother Đorđije is also a Montenegro international who has been capped 7 times by the national team, and his uncle is former Yugoslavia international footballer Predrag Mijatović. He once stated that he loved basketball and that he would have loved to play basketball if he were taller.
Marko Ćetković | Personal life
On 12 November 2014, he made an official senior national team debut for Croatia, starting and playing 90 minutes in a friendly game against Argentina, wearing a jersey numbered 21.
Domagoj Antolić | International career
The only Croatian player to have scored a goal in the final match was Nikola Kalinić in the 2015 final.
Football in Croatia | Footballers in international club competitions
He made four appearances for the Croatia national football team, scoring one goal in a friendly game against Turkey on 12 June 1997.
Tomislav Erceg | Career
This article lists various football records in relation to the Croatia national football team.
Croatia national football team records and statistics | Introduction
Hajduk Split NK Zagreb Šibenik
Josip Bulat | Player
On 3 August 2008, he was called into the senior Croatian national basketball team to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics, after Damir Markota withdrew from the team, due to injury. In 2009, he won the gold medal at the XVI Mediterranean Games, which were held in Pescara, Italy. He also represented Croatia at the EuroBasket 2015, where they were eliminated in the eighth-finals by the Czech Republic.
Damjan Rudež | National team career
Both fixtures against archrivals Yugoslavia (the rump state which was later renamed Serbia and Montenegro) ended in draws, which prevented Croatia from qualifying for the tournament.
Croatia national football team | Blažević period and the "golden generation" (1994–1999)
In terms of appearances, thirteen players have played in the final (Bokšić, Boban, Šuker, Živković, Babić, Tudor, Pršo, Olić, Mandžukić, Modrić, Rakitić, Lovren and Perišić), but only five players appeared more than once – Bokšić (1993, 1997), Boban (1994, 1995), Olić (2010, 2012), Mandžukić (2013, 2017) and Modrić (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018). Two Croatian players have scored a goal in the final match, Mandžukić in the 2013 and 2017 final, and Rakitić in the 2015 final. As of 2019 a total of seven Croatian players are credited as winning the Europa League: Mario Stanić, Ivica Olić, Ivica Križanac, Darijo Srna, Ivan Rakitić, Šime Vrsaljko and Mateo Kovačić – although Stanić did not appear for his club in the final.
Football in Croatia | Footballers in international club competitions