The Slovenia national football team represents Slovenia in men's international football and is controlled by the Football Association of Slovenia, the governing body for football in Slovenia. The national squad is under the global jurisdiction of FIFA and is governed in Europe by UEFA. It competes in the three major professional tournaments available to European nations: the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Nations League and the UEFA European Championship. Slovenia played its first official match in 1992, one year after the country gained independence from Yugoslavia. The majority of Slovenia's home matches are played at Stožice Stadium in Ljubljana.
Ante Šimundža is a Slovenian professional football manager and former player.
Maja Keuc, also known as Amaya, is a Slovenian singer. She represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 4 December 2011 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. This was the first early election in Slovenia's history. The election was surprisingly won by the center-left Positive Slovenia party, led by Zoran Janković. However, he failed to be elected as the new prime minister in the National Assembly, and the new government was instead formed by a right-leaning coalition of five parties, led by Janez Janša, the president of the second-placed Slovenian Democratic Party. The voter turnout was 65.60%.
Presidential elections were held in Slovenia on 11 November 2012, with a run-off held on 2 December. Slovenia's 1.7 million registered voters chose between the incumbent president Danilo Türk, the SDS/NSi party candidate Milan Zver and Borut Pahor of the Social Democrats who was also supported by the Civic List. The first round was won, contrary to the opinion poll predictions, by Pahor, with Türk placing second. In the run-off election, Pahor won with roughly two-thirds of the vote.
Slovenia competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. Sixty-six competitors were chosen to participate, in eight sports. For the first time since the country's independence, the Slovenia men's national ice hockey team qualified for the Olympic tournament.
The 2014 Tour of Slovenia was the 21st edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 19 and 22 June 2014.
The Slovenian National Road Race Championships have been held since independence in 1991.
The Slovenian National Time Trial Championships have been held since 1991.
The 2016 Tour of Slovenia was the 23rd edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 16 and 19 June 2016.
Presidential elections were held in Slovenia on 22 October 2017. Nine candidates ran in the first round of the elections, in which the incumbent independent President Borut Pahor placed first and Marjan Šarec of the List of Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) placed second. No candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round, resulting in a run-off between Pahor and that was held on 12 November 2017. Pahor won the run-off with 53% of the vote; voter turnout in the second round was 42.13%, the lowest in any presidential election since independence.
The 2004 Tour of Slovenia was the 11th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as UCI‑2.5 stage race held between 4 and 9 May 2004.
The 2005 Tour of Slovenia was the 12th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 9 and 12 June 2005.
The 2006 Tour of Slovenia was the 13th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 8 and 11 June 2006.
The 2007 Tour of Slovenia was the 14th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 12 and 16 June 2007.
The 2008 Tour of Slovenia was the 15th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 11 and 14 June 2008.
The 2009 Tour of Slovenia was the 16th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 18 and 21 June 2009.
The 2013 Tour of Slovenia was the 20th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 13 and 16 June 2013.
The 2012 Tour of Slovenia was the 19th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 14 and 17 June 2012.
The 2010 Tour of Slovenia was the 17th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race held between 17 and 20 June 2010.
