Croatia national football team

**Croatia national football team** is the national football team of Croatia. The team reached the final of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but lost to France 4–2.

## Most appearances

|#|class="unsortable"|Name|class="unsortable"|Croatia career|Caps|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|style="text-align: left;"|Darijo Srna|2002–2016|**134**|22||
|2|style="text-align: left;"|Stipe Pletikosa|1999–2014|**114**|0||
|3|style="text-align: left;"|**Luka Modrić**|2006–|**112**|14||
|4|style="text-align: left;"|Josip Šimunić|2001–2013|**105**|3||
|5|style="text-align: left;"|Ivica Olić|2002–2015|**104**|20||
|6|style="text-align: left;"|Vedran Ćorluka|2006–|**103**|4||
|7|style="text-align: left;"|Dario Šimić|1996–2008|**100**|3||
|8|style="text-align: left;"|Ivan Rakitić|2007–|**98**|15||
|9|Mario Mandžukić|2007–|**88**|32|||
|10|style="text-align: left;"|Robert Kovač|1999–2009|**84**|0||

## Top scorers

|width=50px|#|class="unsortable" width=150px|Name|class="unsortable" width=100px|Croatia career|width=50px|Goals|width=50px|Caps|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|Davor Šuker|1991–2002|**45**|69|||||
|2|align="left"|Mario Mandžukić|2007–|**32**|88|||||
|3|align="left"|Eduardo da Silva|2004–2014|**29**|64|||||
|4|align="left"|Darijo Srna|2002–2016|**22**|134|||||
|rowspan="2"|5|align="left"|Ivica Olić|2002–2015|rowspan="2"|**20**|104|||
|align="left"|**Ivan Perišić**|2011–|72|||||||
|7|align="left"|Niko Kranjčar|2004–2013|**16**|81|||||
|rowspan="3"|8|align="left"|Goran Vlaović|1992–2002|rowspan="3"|**15**|52|||
|align="left"|Nikola Kalinić|2007–|42|||||||
|align="left"|Ivan Rakitić|2007–|98|||||||

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Croatia
- **nickname**: _wiktionary:vatren, Vatreni_ (The Blazers)
_wiktionary:kockast, Kockasti_ (The Chequered Ones)
- **association**: Croatian Football Federation, Hrvatski nogometni savez (HNS)
- **confederation**: UEFA (Europe)
- **fifa trigramme**: CRO
- **fifa max**: 3
- **fifa max date**: January 1999
- **fifa min**: 125
- **fifa min date**: March 1994
- **elo max**: 5
- **elo max date**: July 1998, July 2018
- **elo min**: 26
- **elo min date**: October 2002
- **coach**: Zlatko Dalić
- **captain**: Luka Modrić
- **most caps**: Darijo Srna (134)
- **top scorer**: Davor Šuker (45)
- **home stadium**: #Stadiums, Various
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- **first game**: 4–0
(Zagreb, Banovina of Croatia, Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia; 2 April 1940)
_as modern Croatia_

- **largest win**: 10–0
(Rijeka, Croatia; 4 June 2016)
- **largest loss**: 6–0
(Elche, Spain; 11 September 2018)
- **world cup apps**: 5
- **world cup first**: 1998
- **world cup best**: Runners-up (2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018)
- **regional name**: UEFA European Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 5
- **regional cup first**: UEFA Euro 1996, 1996
- **regional cup best**: Quarter-finals (UEFA Euro 1996, 1996, UEFA Euro 2008, 2008)