Montenegro national football team records and statistics

As a member of FIFA and UEFA, the Montenegro national football team has been playing official matches since March 2007. Montenegro plays in the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship, as well as partaking in the UEFA Nations League. Apart from that, the team participates in friendly matches.

Most capped players
Caps and goals correct as of 9 June 2024 and the 1–3 friendly match against Georgia.

Top goalscorers
Caps and goals correct as of 9 June 2024 and the 1–3 friendly match against Georgia.

List of players
The following table summarizes caps for the Montenegro national team by every single player, since 2007.

Updated: 1 November 2020

List of goalscorers
The following table summarizes goals for the Montenegro national team by every single goalscorer.

Updated: 31 March 2021

Team records

 * Largest home victory: 🇲🇪 montenegro 5–0 🇰🇿 kazakhstan, 8 October 2016, Podgorica
 * Largest away victory: 🇸🇲 san marino 0–6 🇲🇪 montenegro, 11 September 2012, Serravalle
 * Largest home defeat: 🇲🇪 montenegro 0–4 🇺🇦 ukraine, 28 March 2013, Podgorica; 🇲🇪 montenegro 1–5 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england, 25 March 2019, Podgorica
 * Largest away defeat: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 7–0 🇲🇪 montenegro, 14 November 2019, London
 * Longest winning streak: 4 matches (11 August 2010 – 12 October 2010; 11 September 2012 – 26 March 2013)
 * Longest streak without defeat: 8 matches (11 August 2010 – 10 August 2011)
 * Longest losing streak: 4 matches (9 October 2015 – 29 March 2016)
 * Longest streak without win: 7 matches (9 October 2015 – 8 October 2016; 5 October 2017 – 10 September 2018)
 * Highest home attendance: 13,000, 🇲🇪 montenegro 1–1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england, 26 March 2013, Podgorica
 * Highest away attendance: 83,807, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england 4–1, 11 October 2013, London

Competition records
Montenegro have participated in seven qualification rounds for World Cup or European Championship tournaments. Montenegro have never qualified, and their biggest success was reaching the play-offs for Euro 2012. Montenegro first tried to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, but they finished fifth in their group. They had more success in the Euro 2012 qualifiers, when they finished second in their group to reach the play-offs, but lost to the Czech Republic. In the qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup, Montenegro finished third, and two years later, in the qualifiers for Euro 2016, they finished fourth in their group. They again finished third in their 2018 World Cup qualifying group. Worst performance came in the qualifiers for Euro 2020, as Montenegro finished last-placed in the group without single victory.

Updated: 9 June 2024

FIFA rankings history
The Montenegro national football team has been present on FIFA rankings since June 2007. To date, the team's best ranking was 16th place in the world in June 2011.

Below is a chronological list of Montenegro's position on the FIFA rankings for every three months, and their number of points.

Home attendance by years
Since establishing, Montenegrin national team played all home games at Podgorica City Stadium.

Below is a list of attendances on Montenegro home games by every single year. G = Number of home games (only matches with spectators counted); H = Highest attendance on one match; L = Lowest attendance on one match

Home attendance by competitions
Below is a list of attendances on Montenegro home games by every single competition. Friendly games are not counted.