Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Bosnia and Herzegovina national men's football team (nicknamed "Dragon Team", Zmajevi) is an outstanding representative of the football power of the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, carrying the glory and hope of post-war national reconstruction. The team is famous for its strong Eastern European technical style, excellent physical confrontation and explosive counterattacks. It has long been at the top level of Europe's second-tier echelon. The team has a glorious history. Although the team was founded late, it started from a very high starting point: since joining FIFA in 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina football has risen rapidly. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil was its historic peak. The team reached the finals for the first time and won the group stage. Since then, although the Bosnia and Herzegovina team has been unfortunately eliminated in the play-offs many times, it has always maintained a very high competitive level. In 2013, it set a historical record of being ranked 13th in the world, demonstrating its profound player heritage. The World Cup journey has seen major breakthroughs in recent years. After a 12-year wait, the Bosnia and Herzegovina team performed an epic performance in the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup qualifiers. In the European play-off final in March 2026, the Bosnia and Herzegovina team relied on their tenacity to defeat the traditional giant Italy in a penalty shootout and successfully won the last ticket. In this cup, they are divided into Group B and will compete with Switzerland, the host Canada and Qatar, striving to achieve a historic leap into the knockout rounds in their first journey back to the World Cup. The current lineup is in a period of alternation between veteran stars guarding and new stars taking over, and the national team's legendary hero Sergi Barbarez is in charge. The team's tactics focus on "steady defense and counterattack", emphasizing the threat of set pieces. In this World Cup, Bosnia and Herzegovina will take qualifying from the group as its core goal, rely on the huge confidence and strict team discipline accumulated in defeating Italy in the play-offs, strive to achieve a breakthrough into the knockout rounds for the first time in team history, and continue to write the heroic epic of the "Dragon Team".