Since the inaugural European Championship finals in 1960, UEFA’s flagship international tournament has gone from strength to strength. What started out as a rather modest affair, with only four teams taking part in the finals, has now grown into the second biggest national team football competition in the world.
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Croatia vs Slovenia UEFA Euros Tournament Record
Croatia first qualified for the finals of the UEFA European Championship following independence in 1996, and a star-studded side including greats such as Davor Suker, Robert Prosinecki, and Zvonimir Boban impressed during the tournament in England.
Wins over Turkey and Denmark secured safe passage to the Quarter-Finals, where they took on unified Germany. Former Tottenham favourite Jurgen Klinsmann scored the opener at Old Trafford before Davor Suker leveled. Matthias Sammer then netted the winner just before the hour mark to knock out the Vatreni.
They reached the last eight again at Euro 2008, and this came after a great run of form in the group stage, where Croatia defeated Germany, Austria, and Poland before they then faced Turkey in the Quarter-Finals in Vienna.
Ivan Klasnic scored in the 119th minute to seemingly give the Croats a narrow win, but Semih Senturk then scored two minutes into injury time to force a penalty shoot-out that saw Luka Modric, Ivan Rakitic and Mladen Petric all fail to convert, handing the win to the Turks.
Croatia have regularly featured in the finals of the tournament but, more recently, have not done all that much once they got there. They suffered Round of 16 exits at both Euro 2016 and Euro 2020 and will look to make more of an impact going forward.
Slovenia have only once previously made it to the UEFA European Championship finals, and that came at Euro 2000.
They started the competition with a bang, going 3-0 up against the Former Republic of Yugoslavia before their opponents came roaring back to secure a memorable 3-3 draw.
They followed that up with a narrow defeat to Spain before a draw against Norway ended both team’s hopes of making progress to the knockout phase.
Croatia vs Slovenia Head-to-Head
Croatia and Slovenia have previously met in four UEFA European Championship matches, all in qualifying action.
In the run-up to Euro 96, Croatia beat Slovenia on both occasions. In their second set of meetings, in the qualifying campaign for Euro 2004, a goal from Ermin Siljak earned the Sloevnians a 1-1 draw in Zagreb while the return fixture resulted in a 1-0 win for the Croats.
