Croatia in the UEFA Nations League

This is a record of Croatia's results at the UEFA Nations League.

The Croatian team played first time on UEFA Nations League in season 2018–19 where they were seeded for League A in pot 3[1]. They were drawn into group 4 along with Spain and England. They were supposed to be relegated to the League B for the 2020–21 season, but due to changes in format of the competition, managed to stay in League A[2].

Records

UEFA Nations League
Year	Division	Group	Round	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2018–19	A	4	Group stage (3rd)	9th	4	1	1	2	4	10
2020–21	A	3	To be determined
Total			Group stage League A	1/1	4	1	1	2	4	10

2018–19 League A

Group 4

Main article: 2018–19 UEFA Nations League A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification[lower-alpha 1]
1	England	4	2	1	1	6	5	+1	7	Qualification to Nations League Finals		—	1–2	2–1
2	Spain	4	2	0	2	12	7	+5	6			2–3	—	6–0
3	Croatia	4	1	1	2	4	10	−6	4			0–0	3–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:

1. Due to revamp of the format for the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League, no teams were eventually relegated.

11 September 2018 (2018-09-11)

20:45

Spain	6–0	Croatia
Saúl  24' Asensio  33' Kalinić  35' (o.g.) Rodrigo  49' Ramos  57' Isco  70'	Report

Manuel Martínez Valero, Elche

Attendance: 26,900[3]

Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

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12 October 2018 (2018-10-12)

20:45
(20:45 UTC+2)

Croatia	0–0	England
	Report

Stadion Rujevica, Rijeka

Attendance: 0[note 1]

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

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15 November 2018 (2018-11-15)

20:45
(20:45 UTC+1)

Croatia	3–2	Spain
Kramarić  54' Jedvaj  69',  90+3'	Report	Ceballos  56' Ramos  78' (pen)

Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 33,018

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

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18 November 2018 (2018-11-18)

15:00
(14:00 UTC±0)

England	2–1	Croatia
Lingard  78' Kane  85'	Report	Kramarić  57'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 78,221

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

2020–21 League A

Group 3

Main article: 2020–21 UEFA Nations League A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to Nations League Finals		—	14 Nov	14 Oct	5 Sep
2	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			11 Oct	—	17 Nov	8 Sep
3	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			8 Sep	5 Sep	—	14 Nov
4	Croatia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		17 Nov	14 Oct	11 Oct	—

First match(es) will be played on 5 September 2020. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

5 September 2020 (2020-09-05)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Portugal	v	Croatia
	Report

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8 September 2020 (2020-09-08)

20:45

France	v	Croatia
	Report

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9 October 2020 (2020-10-09)

20:45

Croatia	v	Sweden
	Report

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12 October 2020 (2020-10-12)

20:45

Croatia	v	France
	Report

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12 November 2020 (2020-11-12)

20:45

Sweden	v	Croatia
	Report

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15 November 2020 (2020-11-15)

20:45

Croatia	v	Portugal
	Report

Players with most appearances

No.	Name	Matches
1	Luka Modrić	4
	Ivan Perišić
	Domagoj Vida

Goalscorers

No.	Name	Goals
1	Tin Jedvaj	2
	Andrej Kramarić

See also

• Croatia at the FIFA World Cup
• Croatia at the UEFA European Championship

Notes

1. The Croatia v England match was played behind closed doors due to a UEFA punishment against Croatia for racist behaviour in their UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying home match against Italy.[4]

References

1. "UEFA Nations League draw seedings". Union of European Football Associations (UEFA.com). Retrieved 8 February 2018.
2. "Format change for 2020/21 UEFA Nations League". Union of European Football Associations (UEFA.com). 24 September 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
3. "Spain 6–0 Croatia". livescore.net. LiveScore. 13 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
4. "England's Nations League match in Croatia will be behind closed doors". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.