Croatia national football team records and statistics
This article lists various football records in relation to the Croatia national football team. Individual records. Player records. Most capped players. Dario Šimić, 20 August 2008, Slovenia 2–3 Croatia Ivan Perišić, 10 years 2 months 6 days, 26 March 2011 – 1 June 2021 Top goalscorers. Florijan Matekalo, 2 April 1940, Croatia 4–0 Switzerland Manager records. Managers results. The following table provides a summary of the complete record of each Croatia manager including their results regarding World Cups and European Championships. Team records. Home matches. "Key: Pld–games played, W–games won, D–games  drawn; L–games lost, %–win percentage" Competition records. FIFA World Cup. Croatia qualified for and competed in three consecutive World Cup tournaments between 1998 and 2006, but failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after finishing 3rd in Group 6 behind England and Ukraine. Although they had joined both FIFA and UEFA by 1992, they were unable to enter the 1994 World Cup as qualification had started before the side was officially recognised as a state. In the following three World Cup groups they were eliminated after finishing third in all of them, before finally advancing  further than the group stage at the 2018 World Cup. On 11 July 2018, Croatia won their semi-final match against England, advancing the national team to their first FIFA World Cup final wherein they secured second place as runners-up against winners France. Supplanting their third place positioning in 1998, this is the nation's best performance to date. Head-to-head records. The following table show the Croatia national football team's all-time international record. "Only FIFA matches are counted. Correct as of 29 March 2022, after the international friendly fixture against Bulgaria." Croatia national football team