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Events in the year 2019 in Slovenia .
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.
Slovenia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 29 times since its debut in 1993, having hosted a qualification round in Ljubljana for seven countries due to the influx of new nations wishing to join the contest. The Slovenian participant broadcaster in the contest is Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO).
Goran Sankovič was a Slovenian professional footballer who played as a defender for Slovenian team Celje, Czech team Slavia Prague, and Greek teams Akratitos and Panionios.
Marlenka Stupica was a Slovene children's book illustrator. She illustrated over one hundred books for children and is considered one of the top Slovene illustrators.
Polde Bibič was a Slovenian stage and film actor, a writer, and an academic professor, best known for his role in the film Flowers in Autumn and his work in theater, Bibič was a recipient of several top awards in the field of arts in Slovenia.
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.
Events in the year 2017 in Slovenia.
Events in the year 2012 in Slovenia.
Events in the year 2018 in Slovenia.
Dušan Šinigoj was a Slovene communist politician.
Iča Putrih, born Marija Kos, was a Slovenian comedian.
Zinka Zorko was a Slovenian linguist and academic. Her research focused on phonetic, theological, syntactic, and vocabulary phenomena of Carinthian, Styrian, and Pannonian dialect groups. In 2003, she was elected a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a decade later, she received the Zois Lifetime Achievement Award.
Events in the year 2020 in Slovenia.
Events in the year 2021 in Slovenia. The year was marked by the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia.
Events in the year 2022 in Slovenia.
Events in the year 2008 in Slovenia.
Mako Sajko was a Slovenian documentarist, screenwriter and film director.
Events in the year 2023 in Slovenia.
Aleksander "Sašo" Hribar was a Slovenian radio and television presenter and comedian. His best-known contribution was as a satirist and impressionist on the radio show Radio Ga Ga. He was among the most popular radio personalities in Slovenia.
Events in the year 2024 in Slovenia.