After missing out UEFA Euro 2000, the team qualified for the next four major tournaments, the FIFA World Cups in 2002 and 2006 and the UEFA European Championships in 2004 and 2008, reaching the quarter-finals of Euro 2008. It then failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup.
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As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Attila Hanacsek (Hungary) Assistant referees: Béla Mező (Hungary) Assistant referees: János Ring (Hungary)
Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Fritz Stuchlik (Austria) Assistant referees: Wojciech Gorgon (Austria) Assistant referees: Johann Almer (Austria)
Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Zsolt Szabó (Hungary) Assistant referees: János Ring (Hungary) Assistant referees: Tibor Vámos (Hungary)
Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Stefan Messner (Austria) Assistant referees: Herbert Krenn (Austria) Assistant referees: Michael Robitsch (Austria)
Stadium: Stadion Varteks Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Lutz Michael Fröhlich (Germany) Assistant referees: Stefan Trautmann (Germany) Assistant referees: Olaf Blumenstein (Germany)
Stadium: Stadion Varteks Attendance: 8,290 Referee: Mircea Salomir (Romania) Assistant referees: Dan Lăzărescu (Romania) Assistant referees: George Vidan (Romania)
Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 12,000 Referee: João Ferreira (Portugal) Assistant referees: João Ferreira dos Santos (Portugal) Assistant referees: Luís Miguel Cordas Tavares (Portugal)
Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Anthony Zammit (Malta) Assistant referees: Philip Agius (Malta) Assistant referees: Konrad Borg (Malta) Fourth official: Joseph Attard (Malta)
^Šimunić was given three yellow cards in the match: the referee (Graham Poll) failed to send him off the pitch after the second yellow, and was only red carded after the third yellow. The original FIFA match report listed all three yellow cards, however was revised shortly after, with the second yellow card (90') not being recorded; it is unknown whether this was for consistency in the reports, or whether the card was retrospectively overturned.