Montenegro, currently ranked 53rd out of 55 in the UEFA leagues, has seen all four of its representative teams eliminated from European competitions before the third preliminary round.
In a dismal turn of events, none of Montenegro’s teams managed to secure a victory in this season’s European preliminary rounds. The overall record stands as follows: zero wins, zero draws, and ten losses.
Black Campaign: All Four European Representatives of Montenegro Eliminated Before Round 3!
FK Decic, who finished fourth last season, was knocked out in the first preliminary round of the Conference League after losing 0-1 and 1-2 to Latvia’s FK Liepaja.
OFK Petrovac, last season’s third-place team, also exited in the first preliminary round of the Conference League, with losses of 1-3 and 1-2 against Lithuania’s Zalgiris.
Vice-champions FK Mornar Bar faced a similar fate, being eliminated in the first preliminary round of the Conference League after a 1-2 aggregate defeat to Atletic Escaldes from Andorra.
Lastly, the reigning champions, Sutjeska, began their journey in the Champions League’s first preliminary round, where they were defeated by Kairat Almaty with a 1-2 loss away and 0-2 at home. They subsequently dropped into the second preliminary round of the Conference League, where they were beaten by Belarus’ ML Vitebsk in both legs, 3-0 and 2-1.
Alongside the microstates of Andorra and San Marino, Montenegro remains the only European country that has never had a team reach the group stages of European competitions!
