Montenegro is one of the newest national teams in the world. In 2006, after the disintegration of Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia still participated in the World Cup with Montenegro. In that World Cup, Serbia and Montenegro failed to enter the knockout stage.
The first official international competition of Montenegro's national football team was the 20 10 World Cup qualifier. In February 2005, when the 2008 European Football Championship was drawn, Montenegro was not a member of UEFA, so it did not participate in the competition. In the 20 10 World Cup qualifier, Montenegro was drawn into Group 8, along with Italy, Bulgaria, Ireland, Cyprus and Georgia.
After the independence of Serbia and Montenegro, Montenegro has already played the qualifiers for the 2008 European Football Championship, but UEFA said that it is willing to accept Montenegro's participation as long as FIFA approves the establishment of the Montenegro Football Association before September 2006. However, with the start of the competition, this idea failed to come true. On June 5438+ 10, 2006, Montenegro obtained the temporary membership of UEFA, and became a full member of UEFA at the UEFA meeting on June 5438+ 10, 2007. When Montenegro entered the FIFA ranking for the first time, the ranking was 199 (and the last place was caused by zero when it entered the ranking system for the first time).
On June 26th, 2007, Montenegro officially became a member of UEFA. On March 24th, 2007, the Republic of Montenegro participated in the first international football friendly match in Podgorica Stadium, the capital of Podgorica. The opponent was Hungary, and Montenegro beat the opponent with a score of 2-/kloc-0. On May 3rd, 2007, Kloc-0, Montenegro was accepted as the 208th member of FIFA.