FK Partizan
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Fudbalski klub Partizan (Serbian Cyrillic
: Фудбалски клуб Партизан, English
: Partizan Football Club) is a professional football club based in Belgrade
, Serbia
. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup
in 1978. It holds records such as playing in the first European Champions' Cup
match in 1955, becoming the first Eastern European club to play in the European Champions' Cup final in 1966, and becoming the first club from Serbia to take part in the UEFA Champions League
group stages. It is a major part of the Sports Association Partizan. The second division
team FK Teleoptik
is also owned by Partizan. According to a recent poll, FK Partizan is the second most popular football club in Serbia
behind rivals Red Star Belgrade
, with 32.2 percent of the population supporting the club.
in Yugoslavia. The club was initially managed by the Yugoslav People's Army
, and the stadium was named Stadion JNA (Stadium of Yugoslav People's Army). In the 1953 the club became independent from the Army. Partizan made the first step on the path of success two days after its establishment, with the match against selection of Zemun
that ended 4–2. Florijan Matekalo
entered the record books as the first goal scorer in the history of Partizan. The first championship was won in 1947, along with the first cup title. Champions squad in that year consisted of Stjepan Bobek
, Miroslav Brozović
, Bela Palfi
, Zlatko Čajkovski, Kiril Simonovski
, Franjo Rupnik
, Prvoslav Mihajlović
, Aleksandar Atanacković
, Milivoje Đurđević, Franjo Glazer, Stanislav Popesku, Miodrag Jovanović
, Silvester Šereš, Florijan Matekalo
, Jane Janevski, Risto Nikolić, Vladimir Firm
, Momčilo Radunović, Ratko Čolić
, Stevan Jakuš, Franjo Šoštarić
, Šepe Šutevski and manager Illés Spitz
. However, after the second championship title in 1949, Partizan had a long break without winning a championship, only winning cup titles in 1952, 1954 and 1957. Partizan played its first international match on December 6, 1945, against CSKA Moscow and participated in the first ever Champions Cup
match, that took place on September 3, 1955 in Lisbon
against Sporting CP. The final result was 3–3.
, Ivan Ćurković
, Milutin Šoškić
, Velibor Vasović, Branko Rašović
, Fahrudin Jusufi
, Milan Galić
, Vladica Kovačević
, Lazar Radović
, Jovan Miladinović
, Josip Pirmajer
, Velimir Sombolac
, Mustafa Hasanagić
, Bora Milutinović, Bruno Belin
, Ilija Mitić
, Milorad Milutinović
and Miodrag Petrović. Many of these great players achieved the greatest success in history of Partizan, a place in 1966 European Cup final against the famous Real Madrid
. At one point, Partizan was 1–0 up (goal by Velibor Vasović), only to lose to the Spaniards 2–1 at the end. On the way to the finals Partizan beat Nantes (2–0, 2–2), Werder Bremen (3–0, 1–0), Sparta Prague (4–1, 5–0) in quarterfinals and Manchester United (2–0, 1–0) in semifinals. Partizan also became the first club from Eastern Europe to have played in a European Cup final. The cause of the defeat in the finals was that none of the players did not expect to get so far in the competition so they were more than satisfied with achievement. Also, many players have already signed contracts with the strongest European clubs after the semifinals.
, Rešad Kunovac
, Ilija Zavišić
, Refik Kozić
, Ivan Golac
, Radmilo Ivančević
, Nenad Bjeković
, Boško Đorđević
, Vukan Perović
, Vladimir Pejović, Nenad Stojković
, Pavle Grubješić
, Aleksandar Trifunović
, Radomir Antić
, Petar Borota
, Nikica Klinčarski
, Xhevat Prekazi finally lifted the championship title in 1976. Nenad Bjeković
scored 24 goals in that season. Partizan won its eight title in 1978. Credits for that trophy mostly belong to Momčilo Vukotić
and Slobodan Santrač
, who both have scored 11 goals. The same year Partizan won Mitropa Cup
, defeating Hungarian side Honvéd
by 1–0.
, Zvonko Živković
, Zoran Dimitrijević
, Momčilo Vukotić
, Nenad Stojković
, Nikica Klinčarski
, Dragan Mance
and others won the championship in 1983. Partizan's most notable player in that season, and one of the most notable players ever was Dragan Mance
. He helped Partizan win the league by scoring 15 goals. He also led the club in their 1984–85 UEFA Cup second round tie against English side Queens Park Rangers
, one of the most memorable matches in the club's history. QPR won the first leg 6–2, but Partizan advanced after a 4–0 return victory. That match was voted on the 70th position among Top 100 greatest matches in the history of football, in a poll organized by Eurosport
in September 2009. Mance died September 3, 1985 in a car crash at the peak of his popularity. He was only 22 years old at the time. In his honour, the street next to the clubs stadium in Belgrade carries his name. Partizan won two consecutive titles in 1986 and 1987. However, due to scandal and controversy caused by Yugoslav FA presidency, Partizan was not able to represent the country in 1987 and 1988 European Cup
. The FA illegaly gave Partizan's spot in the competition to Red Star
and FK Vardar
instead. Some of the players contributed in winning these titles were Milko Đurovski, Fahrudin Omerović
, Zvonko Varga
, Vladimir Vermezović
, Admir Smajić
, Goran Stevanović
, Nebojša Vučićević
, Miloš Đelmaš, Srečko Katanec
, Fadil Vokrri
and Bajro Župić
. The last trophy Partizan won in SFR Yugoslavia was 1989 cup title, after 32 years of waiting.
. He became the most successful manager in the history of Partizan. In 1997 Partizan was reintroduced to European competitions following the lift of the UEFA ban on clubs from FR Yugoslavia. This decade has been marked by numerous team changes and the circle of selling the best players to richer European clubs after just a couple of seasons of first-team football and replacing them with fresh young talents. Many players are credited with the successes of the nineties, such as Predrag Mijatović
, Slaviša Jokanović
, Savo Milošević
, Albert Nađ, Dragan Ćirić
, Zoran Mirković
, Saša Ćurčić
, Branko Brnović
, Goran Pandurović
, Dražen Bolić
, Niša Saveljić
, Damir Čakar
, Budimir Vujačić
, Ivan Tomić
, Gjorgji Hristov, Đorđe Tomić, Ivica Kralj
, Mateja Kežman
and many others.
, 2010–11
), 4 cups and managed to qualify two times for the UEFA Champions League. First time, the club played in the 2003–04 Champions League, after eliminating Newcastle United
. Partizan was drawn in a tough group with Real Madrid
, FC Porto (actual winner of the UEFA Cup and the eventual winner of the competition) and Olympique de Marseille
(eventual runner-up
of the UEFA Cup). The team never lost a home game, playing 0–0 with Real Madrid, and 1–1 with FC Porto and Olympique de Marseille while playing some inspired football in the away match in Madrid (0–1), Marseille (0–3) and Porto (1–2). They are the first, and so far the only Serbian team to qualify for the main draw of this elite European club competition since its inception in 1992. For the second time he qualified for the 2010-11 UEFA Champions League after beating RSC Anderlecht. Now, the draw for the group phase decided that Partizan will play in group H, alongside Arsenal F.C.
, Shakhtar Donetsk and S.C. Braga. On matchday 1, Partizan lost against Shakhtar on Donbass Arena in Donetsk
– 0–1 (0–0). Next game Partizan played against Arsenal
at Partizan Stadium and lost 1–3 (1–1), after they played inspired football with a 10 man in last 30 min's of the match. In two matches against Braga, Partizan failed to score and they lost both games (0–2 in Braga; 0–1 in Belgrade). The last two rounds in the group have also brought inspired football, but unfortunately it wasn't enough so Shakhtar Donetsk and Arsenal defeated Partizan once again, 0–3 (0–0) in Belgrade and 1–3 (0–1) at the Emirates Stadium
.
In the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, Partizan reached the round-of-16 in the UEFA Cup
, where it was eliminated by CSKA Moscow, the eventual winner of the competition. In the 2007–08 UEFA Cup
qualifying stages, Partizan was expelled and fined €30,056 due to crowd trouble, after fighting broke out with opponent fans during their qualifying match against HŠK Zrinjski Mostar
, and after beating them by an aggregate score of 11–1. Seasons 2007–08 and 2008–09 will remain as one of the most successful in club's domestic history. In season 2008–09 the club successfully defended their league and cup double
from 2007–08 season, for the first time in its history. On July 21, 2009, Partizan demolished Welsh champions Rhyl
, with a score of 8–0 (12–0 on agg.) This score is their largest ever winning margin in European competitions.
Many players contributed to these successes, some of them are Mladen Krstajić
, Saša Ilić, Ivica Iliev
, Zvonimir Vukić
, Igor Duljaj
, Vladimir Ivić
, Danko Lazović
, Taribo West
, Andrija Delibašić
, Milan Smiljanić
, Zoran Tošić
, Stevan Jovetić
, Ivan Obradović, Nenad Đorđević, Radosav Petrović
, Almami Moreira
, Lamine Diarra
, Cléo
and many. The club is still a member of the same sports association, which includes 25 clubs in different sports, as well as the Football Association of Serbia
, but it has complete independence regarding organisation, management, finances, material goods and facilities.
gear, then the derby at home venue in the Umbro
equipment. For 1994–95 season a new technical sponsor was the Japanese Asics
then since 1996–97 sponsor was Nike
. Nike releases a new 1998–99 season jersey, mainly white with a blue set of applications on the collar. In spring 2000, Partizan exceeds with the local "NAAI", and afterwards from 2000–01 contracted with Puma
sport manufacturer. Striped jerseys were quite identical as the Nike jerseys from the 1996–97 and 1997–98 season. Later on, club moved to the Kappa
jerseys. In the first season, the stripes on the jersey were thin and then moved to wide. All this time there was a spare and lots of variants – gray, red and blue, white and black jerseys. In the 2010–11 season Partizan returned to tradition with the most powerful global brand – Adidas
.
). It was a blue circle with a red five-pointed star edged in yellow with the letters JA inside it. Soon, no one knows exactly when, the crest experience great changes and began to take the shape of the crest that is seen today. The central circle was white with a red five-pointed star in it, in a blue circle in which, in white letters, is written – The Yugoslav Army and both are bordered by a yellow circle and over the circle is a green wreath. At the bottom of the emblem are red and white lines, and on the top is red torchlight. The emblem is actually a clear association with the crest of the former state – Yugoslavia, with the difference as the torch and stars on the Partizan crest replaced places. This emblem club use since 1947. Fifties, there is a small change in the emblem of Partizan but significant, where for the first time inserted team name in yellow outer circle and written in Cyrillic
and Latin. Separated from the Army, Partizan Belgrade receives a new crest. The inscription of the Yugoslav Army is disappearing from the crest and it was replaced by Sports association. This emblem has a "shelf life" until 1958, when Partizan changed his club colors of blue and red to black and white, very original and previously unknown on the football sky of former Yugoslavia. Then the Sport Society adds Yugoslav adjective, and the color emblem is drastically changing. Complete crest becomes black and white, with red torch and five-pointed star, while the line at the bottom of crest cross in black and white. So Partizan wear this emblem mostly in its history, the emblem that has become a real brand and a symbol of Partizan. From 1992, Yugoslavia ceased to exist and instead of Jugoslovensko Sportsko Društvo (Yugoslav Sports Association) in a black circle on the crest for the first time was inserted – Football club and this emblem remains unchanged to date. In the 2007–08 season Partizan won its 20th championship and added two stars on the top of the emblem as the symbol for 20 and more titles. Author of the Partizan crest is academic painter Branko Šotra. Parallel with this crest there is an alternative emblem, Partizan supporters popularly called it "lopata" (The shovel). This emblem found its place only on tickets, souvenirs, annual tickets and club brochures, but never sewn on the jersey of FK Partizan.
is Partizan's record-holder by number of appearances (791 matches). The goal-scoring record-holder is striker Stjepan Bobek
, with 425 goals. Over 130 Partizan football players were in the Yugoslav national team
and Stjepan Bobek
, Branko Zebec
, Zlatko Čajkovski, Fahrudin Jusufi
, Velibor Vasović, Milan Galić
, Milutin Šoškić
, Slaviša Jokanović
and Predrag Mijatović
(a former sporting director of Real Madrid
) are among them. Former Partizan player Savo Milošević
played 102 matches for the national football team, a national record. Stjepan Bobek
holds national team record with 38 goals, second place is shared by Partizan legends Savo Milošević
and Milan Galić
, they scored 37 goals each of them. It holds records such as playing in the first European Champions' Cup
match in 1955, becoming the first Eastern European club to play in the European Champions' Cup final in 1966, and becoming the first club from Serbia to take part in the UEFA Champions League
group stages.
*Players in bold are still active
The "black and whites" are record-holders of the Yugoslav First League
, in terms of points scored during a campaign, with 107 in one year's championship and are the only unbeaten champion team ever (in the 2004–05 season). Partizan also won the most national championships since the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
, being a champion 12 out of 19 times. They are the only Serbian club ever, since the first nation-wide domestic football competition in 1923, to win four consecutive national titles, not leaving the throne since 2007–08 season. Arguably, Partizan's most exciting match was a double header against Celtic
in 1989. The first tie was held in Mostar
(now Bosnia and Herzegovina) which Partizan won 2–1. The second leg was held in Scotland
which Celtic
won 5–4. Partizan scored in the last minute to qualify on the away goals rule in front of nearly 50,000 fans. Currently, the player with both most appearances and most goals scored for Partizan in Europe is Saša Ilić (63 appearances, 15 goals).
First groups of organized supporters began to visit the JNA stadium in the late 1950s. Those were mainly young men from Belgrade, and they occupied southern stands of the stadium. In those times, support was expressed by loud singing as well as polling of referees and opposite team's players.
Partizan's participation in the European Cup
final in 1966 attracted much more fans to the stadium, and is considered to be the crucial moment of the organized fans moving to a south stand of the stadium where they are gathering up to this day.
Partizan's supporters, Grobari
(The Gravediggers), were formed in 1970. The nickname itself was given by their biggest rivals (Delije
of Red Star Belgrade
), referring to the club's mostly black colors which were similar to the official uniforms of cemetery undertakers. The other theory is that the name arrives from misinterpretation of Partizan's stadium street name – Humska (humka roughly translates as grave), when actually the street was named after Serbian medieval land of Hum
. They support all clubs in the Sports Association Partizan. In 1999, the organized supporters who traditionally occupy the south stands at the stadium split into two groups. The newly formed group named Južni Front (Southern Front) accused several top members of the Grobari organization for abusing their privileges, and the club itself for favoring those individuals. In 2006, they settled their differences and today there are three major fan groups: Južni Front, Grobari 1970 and Grobari Beograd. From 2005 until 2007, fan groups boycotted all Partizan matches until former sports director Bjeković and general secretary Zečević resigned, which was their main goal. Bjeković finally resigned in May and Zečević in September 2007. As a result of their demands being accepted, the Grobari returned to the stands of Partizan Stadium. Grobari
have become recognizable by noisy and constant cheering and their devotion and loyalty to the club. The basis of their cheering is the principle of voice and palms along with songs in distinctive style. Grobari also do other actions characteristic to organized fan groups, such as choreographies, banners and flares. Danny Dyer
featured the Grobari on the Real Football Factories International
show. In the episode he labelled the Grobari as a group willing to do anything for the respect of the club.
Boris Tadić
, President of Republika Srpska
Milorad Dodik
, filmmaker Emir Kusturica
, tennis players Ana Ivanović
and Viktor Troicki
, swimmer Milorad Čavić
, writer Duško Radović, actors Rade Šerbedžija
, Dragan Bjelogrlić and Sergej Trifunović
and musicians Zoran Kostić Cane and Eddy Grant
.
) for most of its history, and is still sometimes called that. The stadium seated approximately 55,000 people before UEFA's law of having seats across the entire stadium. The stadium was used from the mid-fifties until 1987 as the final point of yearly festivities called the Day of Youth. Each year on May 25, the baton of the Relay of Youth was finally passed into the hands of Josip Broz Tito
, president of Yugoslavia
. The playing field measures 105 x 70 m, and is illuminated at 1,400 lux
. The current capacity is 32,710 people.
filled with hotels and office buildings. The 12.5 hectares of land will include a large commercial area, a five-star hotel, a business centre, multiplex cinema, nine tennis courts and around 400 apartments.
SC Partizan-Teleoptik
The sports centre Partizan-Teleoptik, also known as "Zemunelo" (the name being composed to show the resemblance to A.C. Milan
's sports centre, Milanello
), is situated on the surface of almost 10 hectares, in the west part of Zemun
, on the intersection of two major highways and in vicinity of the airport. Regarding functionality, architectural solutions, modern equipment and building materials used, this centre is among sports buildings of the highest value in Europe. At present, it is a training and preparatory base of all Partizan selections, consisting of around six hundred sportsmen beginning with the first team, through the 2nd division
team of Teleoptik
, down to the youngest categories of the large Partizan family. Sports centre currently consists of: seven ideal grass pitches, all suitable for night training, two "latest generation" all-weather pitches, central building with total surface of 4,000 square metres, there is a sauna in the basement, as well as gym with the top of the range equipment, amusement room (pool table, darts, table football, chess, etc.)and other modern facilities, ground floor has a restaurant with an balcony, first floor is a medicine centre with modern equipment containing rooms for physiotherapy, kinesis and hydro therapy, there is also a meeting room on the first floor, reception hall for guests, administrative offices, and offices of Partizan and FK Teleoptik management and representatives, building also has 19 apartments (14 two and three bed rooms for players and five for the technical personnel), there is a dining room for players with balcony on a top floor and centre also has a kitchen with modern equipment, under supervision of top food experts;
David Manga
Aleksandar Lazevski
Vladimir Jovančić
Aleksandar Ranković
Nemanja Rnić
Medo
(Serbian
: Црвена звезда, Crvena zvezda). The duel is regarded as one of the greatest football rivalries
in the world and the matches between these rivals have been labeled as the eternal derby (Serbian
: Вечити дерби, Večiti derbi). Given its widespread touch on the entirety of a major city, it's dubbed one of, along with the Old Firm, the Rome derby and the Istanbul derby, the most heated rivalries in European football. These matches are always greatly anticipated and quite spectacular, but in recent years the amount of violence and hooliganism made attendance fall an inevitable consequence. The greatest attendance was about 108,000 spectators.
British Daily Mail
in September 2009 has ranked the Partizan – Red Star derby on the 4th position among 10 greatest football rivalries in the world.
(1950) Bogdan Vujošević (1952–1956) Đuro Lončarević (1956–1958) Martin Dasović (1958–1962) Dimitrije Pisković (1962–1963) Ilija Radaković (1963–1965) Vladimir Dujić (1965–1967) Mića Lovrić (1967–1971)
Milosav Prelić (1971–1973) Vesa Živković (1973–1974) Predrag Gligorić (1974–1975) Nikola Lekić (1975–1979) Vlada Kostić (1979–1981) Miloš Ostojić (1981–1983) Dragan Papović (1983–1987) Zdravko Lončar (1987–1988)
Zdravko Mrvić (1988) Špiro Sinovčić (1988–1989) Ivan Ćurković
(1989–2006) Nenad Popović
(2006–2007) Tomislav Karadžić
(2007–2008) Dragan Đurić
(2008–present)
and the current manager is Aleksandar Stanojević
, who was appointed on April 16, 2010. Ljubiša Tumbaković
had the longest reign as Partizan coach, with nine years (seven consecutive) in charge, and is the most successful coach in Partizan history with six national championships and three national cup wins.
National Cups – 12
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Honours
! Years
|-
| Yugoslav Cup
(5)
| 1947, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1989
|-
| Cup of FR Yugoslavia (4)
| 1992, 1994, 1998, 2001
|-
| Serbian Cup
(3)
| 2008, 2009, 2011
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Honours
! Years
|-
| Trofeo Mohamed V
| 1963
|-
| European Cup Runner-up
| 1966
|-
| Torneo Pentagonal Internacional de la Ciudad de México
| 1970
|-
| Torneo Pentagonal Internacional de la Ciudad de Bogotá
| 1971
|-
| Trofeo Colombino de fútbol
| 1976
|-
| Mitropa Cup
| 1978
|-
| Carlsberg Cup
| 1984
|-
| 40th Anniversary FK Partizan
| 1985
|-
| Basel Tournament
| 1985 (Shared with FC Basel
and Bayern Munich
|-
| Uhrencup
| 1989
|-
| Yugoslav Supercup
| 1989
|-
| Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu Runner-up
| 2007
|}
|-
!Period
!Kit Manufacturer
!Shirt Sponsor
|-
|1978–1983
|rowspan=1|Sport
|rowspan=2|None
|-
|1983–1985
|rowspan=4|Adidas
|-
|1985–1988
|rowspan=1|Iskra Delta
|-
|1988–1989
|rowspan=1|BEKO
|-
|1989–1990
|rowspan=1|None
|-
|1990–1992
|rowspan=1|Vocado
|rowspan=1|Aiwa
|-
|1992–1993
|rowspan=2|Admiral
|rowspan=1|Dafiment banka
|-
|1993–1994
|rowspan=2|GOMA
|-
|1994–1996
|rowspan=1|ASICS
|-
|1996–1998
|rowspan=2|Nike
|rowspan=1|OKI
|-
|1998–2000
|rowspan=3|Peugeot
|-
|2000
|rowspan=1|NAAI
|-
|2000–2003
|rowspan=1|Puma
|-
|2003–2004
|rowspan=5|Kappa
|rowspan=1|Superfund
|-
|2004–2006
|rowspan=1|Imlek
|-
|2006
|rowspan=1|Austrotherm
|-
|2006–2009
|rowspan=1|Volkswagen
|-
|2009–2010
|rowspan=1|MSI
|-
|2010–2011
|rowspan=2|Adidas
|rowspan=1|EPS
*
|-
|2011–present
|rowspan=1|
|}
Fans and supporters:
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
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: Partizan Football Club) is a professional football club based in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Serbia
Serbia
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. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup
Mitropa Cup
The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides...
in 1978. It holds records such as playing in the first European Champions' Cup
UEFA Champions League
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match in 1955, becoming the first Eastern European club to play in the European Champions' Cup final in 1966, and becoming the first club from Serbia to take part in the UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
group stages. It is a major part of the Sports Association Partizan. The second division
Serbian First League
Serbian First League is the name for the second tier in Serbia's football league. The league is operated by the Football Association of Serbia. 18 teams are set to compete in this league for the 2009-10 season...
team FK Teleoptik
FK Teleoptik
Fudbalski klub Teleoptik is a professional football club based in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia. The club currently playing in the Serbian First League....
is also owned by Partizan. According to a recent poll, FK Partizan is the second most popular football club in Serbia
Serbia
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behind rivals Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...
, with 32.2 percent of the population supporting the club.
Early years (1945–1958)
Partizan was founded on October 4, 1945, as part of the Yugoslav Sports Society Partizan, and was named after the Partisans, the communist military formation during the World War IIWorld War II
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in Yugoslavia. The club was initially managed by the Yugoslav People's Army
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army , also referred to as the Yugoslav National Army , was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.-Origins:The origins of the JNA can...
, and the stadium was named Stadion JNA (Stadium of Yugoslav People's Army). In the 1953 the club became independent from the Army. Partizan made the first step on the path of success two days after its establishment, with the match against selection of Zemun
Zemun
Zemun is a historical town and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia...
that ended 4–2. Florijan Matekalo
Florijan Matekalo
Florijan Matekalo was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer and manager. He played for both the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's national team and the Banovina of Croatia's national team.Matekalo started his career with local side Elektrobosna Jajce before moving to Slavija Sarajevo...
entered the record books as the first goal scorer in the history of Partizan. The first championship was won in 1947, along with the first cup title. Champions squad in that year consisted of Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek was a football striker from Yugoslavia, and later a football manager. An ethnic Croat, Bobek started playing at a very young age and had spells with several clubs in Zagreb but is mainly remembered for his time at the Serbian side Partizan Belgrade, where he moved to following the...
, Miroslav Brozović
Miroslav Brozovic
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, Bela Palfi
Bela Palfi
Béla Pálfi was a Serbian footballer of Hungarian origin who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He later became a manager. With Partizan he won national championship and Yugoslav cup...
, Zlatko Čajkovski, Kiril Simonovski
Kiril Simonovski
Kiril Simonovski was a Macedonian footballer . He played top league football for Gragjanski Skopje, FK Vardar and FK Partizan....
, Franjo Rupnik
Franjo Rupnik
-Career:He started playing in Hajduk Osijek, before moving to Zagreb's HŠK Concordia where he will play until the beginning of the World War II. In 1945, he moved to Belgrade's FK Partizan, before returning to Osijek, in 1947, to play in Proleter, one of the predecessors of today's NK Osijek.He...
, Prvoslav Mihajlović
Prvoslav Mihajlovic
Prvoslav Mihajlović was a Serbian-Yugoslav footballer and head coach.On the national level he played for Yugoslavia national team and was a participant at the 1948 Olympic Games, where his team won a silver medal, and at the 1950 FIFA World Cup...
, Aleksandar Atanacković
Aleksandar Atanackovic (footballer born 1920)
Aleksandar Atanacković was a Serbian footballer who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He later became a manager.-External links:*...
, Milivoje Đurđević, Franjo Glazer, Stanislav Popesku, Miodrag Jovanović
Miodrag Jovanovic (footballer born 1922)
Miodrag Jovanović was a Serbian footballer who was part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He was born in Belgrade.-External links:*...
, Silvester Šereš, Florijan Matekalo
Florijan Matekalo
Florijan Matekalo was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer and manager. He played for both the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's national team and the Banovina of Croatia's national team.Matekalo started his career with local side Elektrobosna Jajce before moving to Slavija Sarajevo...
, Jane Janevski, Risto Nikolić, Vladimir Firm
Vladimir Firm
Vladimir Firm was a former Croatian football player.-References:* at Serbian Federation website.* at Nogometni Leksikon....
, Momčilo Radunović, Ratko Čolić
Ratko Colic
Ratko Čolić was a Serbian footballer who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup.-External links:*...
, Stevan Jakuš, Franjo Šoštarić
Franjo Šoštaric
Franjo Šoštarić was a Croatian football player who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.- References :*...
, Šepe Šutevski and manager Illés Spitz
Illés Spitz
Illés Spitz was a Hungarian international football player and manager.- Playing career :...
. However, after the second championship title in 1949, Partizan had a long break without winning a championship, only winning cup titles in 1952, 1954 and 1957. Partizan played its first international match on December 6, 1945, against CSKA Moscow and participated in the first ever Champions Cup
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
match, that took place on September 3, 1955 in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
against Sporting CP. The final result was 3–3.
The Partizan's babies (1958–1966)
In 1958, club left way behind 13 years of playing in blue-red combination and took the now legendary black and white colors. From 1961 to 1965, Partizan took 4 championship titles, three consecutive, in 1961,1962 and 1963, and next one in 1965 with the majority of players from its Youth Academy known as Partizanove bebe (The Partizan's babies). These players were Tomislav KaloperovićTomislav Kaloperovic
Tomislav Kaloperović was a Serbian footballer and coach.-External links:*...
, Ivan Ćurković
Ivan Curkovic
Ivan Ćurković had a professional goalkeeping career and was the president of the FK Partizan and of the Serbian Olympic Committee...
, Milutin Šoškić
Milutin Šoškic
Milutin Šoškić is a Serbian former goalkeeper who is one of FK Partizan's biggest legends.- References :**...
, Velibor Vasović, Branko Rašović
Branko Rašovic
Branko Rašović is a Montenegrin defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.-External links:* at the Serbian federation website...
, Fahrudin Jusufi
Fahrudin Jusufi
Fahrudin Jusufi is a former Yugoslav football defender of Gorani origin.-Career:...
, Milan Galić
Milan Galic
Milan Galić is a former Serbian footballer.He scored 37 international goals in 51 matches for the Yugoslavia national football team. He participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal, the 1960 UEFA European Football Championship, where Yugoslavia finished second , and the 1962...
, Vladica Kovačević
Vladica Kovacevic
For the Serbian soldier, see Vladimir KovačevićVladimir "Vladica" Kovačević is a Serbian striker who played at FIFA World Cup 1962 for SFR Yugoslavia. He had a successful playing career in both SFR Yugoslavia with FK Partizan, reaching the 1966 European Cup Final and in France with FC Nantes and...
, Lazar Radović
Lazar Radovic
Lazar Radović is a retired Montenegrin football player. He capped 7 times for Yugoslavia.-External links:* *...
, Jovan Miladinović
Jovan Miladinovic
Jovan Miladinović is a former Serbian footballer.During his club career he played for FK Partizan and 1. FC Nuremberg...
, Josip Pirmajer
Josip Pirmajer
Josip Pirmajer is a Serbian striker who played for SFR Yugoslavia.-References:*...
, Velimir Sombolac
Velimir Sombolac
Velimir Sombolac is a former Bosnian Serb football player and manager.-Club career:...
, Mustafa Hasanagić
Mustafa Hasanagic
Mustafa Hasanagić is a Serbian football striker who played for SFR Yugoslavia....
, Bora Milutinović, Bruno Belin
Bruno Belin
Bruno Belin was a Croatian footballer who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He died in a car accident in 1962 at the 25th kilometer of Belgrade-Zagreb highway.-External links:*...
, Ilija Mitić
Ilija Mitic
Ilija Mitic is a former Serbian American professional soccer player. He was a star of the North American Soccer League, its 7th all-time leading scorer with 239 points in 166 games, including 101 goals....
, Milorad Milutinović
Milorad Milutinović
Milorad Milutinović is a former Serbian football player and manager....
and Miodrag Petrović. Many of these great players achieved the greatest success in history of Partizan, a place in 1966 European Cup final against the famous Real Madrid
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...
. At one point, Partizan was 1–0 up (goal by Velibor Vasović), only to lose to the Spaniards 2–1 at the end. On the way to the finals Partizan beat Nantes (2–0, 2–2), Werder Bremen (3–0, 1–0), Sparta Prague (4–1, 5–0) in quarterfinals and Manchester United (2–0, 1–0) in semifinals. Partizan also became the first club from Eastern Europe to have played in a European Cup final. The cause of the defeat in the finals was that none of the players did not expect to get so far in the competition so they were more than satisfied with achievement. Also, many players have already signed contracts with the strongest European clubs after the semifinals.
Mixed results (1970s)
The era of "Partizanove bebe" was followed by mixed results and the period without a trophy. New generation of players, such as Momčilo VukotićMomcilo Vukotic
Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić is a Serbian football manager and a former player.He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals. In his club career in FK Partizan, he appeared in a total of 752 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 306 goals...
, Rešad Kunovac
Rešad Kunovac
Rešad Kunovac is a Bosnian former football player and current coach. He was the assistant to Radomir Antić, the head coach of the Serbian national team until 2010....
, Ilija Zavišić
Ilija Zavišic
Ilija Zavišić is a Serbian retired football player.-Coaching career:...
, Refik Kozić
Refik Kozic
Refik Kozić is a retired Yugoslav professional footballer who played for FK Partizan, and in the NASL between 1980 and 1984 for the Tampa Bay Rowdies. His son Alen Kozić was also a professional player....
, Ivan Golac
Ivan Golac
Ivan Golac is a former Yugoslav football player and manager.A Yugoslav international right back, he is best known as a player and manager of FK Partizan, of Belgrade...
, Radmilo Ivančević
Radmilo Ivančević
Radmilo Ivančević is a Serbian football manager of Alki Larnaca and former footballer.-Coaching career:Ivančević's career began in 1983 as manager of Serbian amateur club FK Sumadija Arandjelovac, he then moved on to train the Kazma Sporting Club in Kuwait in 1984 and remained there until 1988,...
, Nenad Bjeković
Nenad Bjekovic
Nenad Bjeković is a Serbian footballer of the late 1960s, 1970s who was very successful with OGC Nice in French Division 1...
, Boško Đorđević
Boško Đorđević
Boško Đorđević is a retired Serbian football player. He is mainly known for spending five and a half seasons with FK Partizan between 1974 and the winter of 1979, with whom he won the 1975–76 and 1977–78 Yugoslav First League.Along with Dušan Savić, Đorđević was also joint top scorer of the league...
, Vukan Perović
Vukan Perović
Vukan Perović is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a striker.-Career:Perović began playing professional football in the Yugoslav First League for FK Partizan. After two seasons with the club, he moved to Turkey where he would play with Adanaspor for one season...
, Vladimir Pejović, Nenad Stojković
Nenad Stojkovic
Nenad Stojković is a Serbian defender who played at FIFA World Cup 1982 for SFR Yugoslavia.Following his playing career, Stojković had a brief spell as the manager of AS Cannes....
, Pavle Grubješić
Pavle Grubješić
Pavle Grubješić is a former Serbian football player.His son, Nikola Grubješić, is also a football player. While playing for Partizan, he held the nickname of Brzi Gonzales which in Serbian means Speedy Gonzales.-External sources:* at Playerhistory....
, Aleksandar Trifunović
Aleksandar Trifunovic (footballer)
Aleksandar Trifunović is a Serbian former midfielder who played for SFR Yugoslavia....
, Radomir Antić
Radomir Antic
Radomir Antić is a Serbian former football defender and former football manager for the Serbian national team.Following a 17-year playing career he found his true calling in coaching....
, Petar Borota
Petar Borota
Petar Borota was a Serbian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most notably for Partizan and Chelsea....
, Nikica Klinčarski
Nikica Klincarski
Nikica Klinčarski is a former Macedonian football player, SFR Yugoslavia international. He was the assistant coach at FK Partizan until 2010.-Club career:...
, Xhevat Prekazi finally lifted the championship title in 1976. Nenad Bjeković
Nenad Bjekovic
Nenad Bjeković is a Serbian footballer of the late 1960s, 1970s who was very successful with OGC Nice in French Division 1...
scored 24 goals in that season. Partizan won its eight title in 1978. Credits for that trophy mostly belong to Momčilo Vukotić
Momcilo Vukotic
Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić is a Serbian football manager and a former player.He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals. In his club career in FK Partizan, he appeared in a total of 752 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 306 goals...
and Slobodan Santrač
Slobodan Santrac
Slobodan Santrač is a retired Serbian football player and currently manager of Chinese Super League side Shaanxi Renhe Commercial Chanba F.C.....
, who both have scored 11 goals. The same year Partizan won Mitropa Cup
Mitropa Cup
The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides...
, defeating Hungarian side Honvéd
Budapest Honvéd FC
Budapest Honvéd FC |football]] team. "Honved" means the Homeland Defense. Originally formed as Kispest AC, they became Kispest FC in 1926 before reverting to their original name in 1944. The team enjoyed a golden age during the 1950s when it was renamed Budapest Honvéd SE and became the Hungarian...
by 1–0.
Memorable years (1980s)
Ljubomir RadanovićLjubomir Radanovic
Ljubomir Radanović is a Montenegrin defender who played at Euro 1984 for SFR Yugoslavia.He is remembered with fondness by Yugoslavian football fans for his last-minute headed goal against Bulgaria in Split on 21 December 1983, which sent Yugoslavia to the finals of Euro 84 ahead of their opponents...
, Zvonko Živković
Zvonko Živkovic
Zvonko Živković was a top Serbian footballer of the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, and now one of the most primising and respected Serbian football coaches....
, Zoran Dimitrijević
Zoran Dimitrijevic
Zoran “Čava” Dimitrijević was a Serbian professional football player. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia...
, Momčilo Vukotić
Momcilo Vukotic
Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić is a Serbian football manager and a former player.He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals. In his club career in FK Partizan, he appeared in a total of 752 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 306 goals...
, Nenad Stojković
Nenad Stojkovic
Nenad Stojković is a Serbian defender who played at FIFA World Cup 1982 for SFR Yugoslavia.Following his playing career, Stojković had a brief spell as the manager of AS Cannes....
, Nikica Klinčarski
Nikica Klincarski
Nikica Klinčarski is a former Macedonian football player, SFR Yugoslavia international. He was the assistant coach at FK Partizan until 2010.-Club career:...
, Dragan Mance
Dragan Mance
Dragan Mance , was a legendary footballer of FK Partizan Belgrade.- Biography :...
and others won the championship in 1983. Partizan's most notable player in that season, and one of the most notable players ever was Dragan Mance
Dragan Mance
Dragan Mance , was a legendary footballer of FK Partizan Belgrade.- Biography :...
. He helped Partizan win the league by scoring 15 goals. He also led the club in their 1984–85 UEFA Cup second round tie against English side Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...
, one of the most memorable matches in the club's history. QPR won the first leg 6–2, but Partizan advanced after a 4–0 return victory. That match was voted on the 70th position among Top 100 greatest matches in the history of football, in a poll organized by Eurosport
Eurosport
Eurosport is a pan-European television sport network operated by French broadcaster TF1 Group. The network of channels are available in 59 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events...
in September 2009. Mance died September 3, 1985 in a car crash at the peak of his popularity. He was only 22 years old at the time. In his honour, the street next to the clubs stadium in Belgrade carries his name. Partizan won two consecutive titles in 1986 and 1987. However, due to scandal and controversy caused by Yugoslav FA presidency, Partizan was not able to represent the country in 1987 and 1988 European Cup
European Champion Clubs' Cup
The European Champion Clubs' Cup, also known as Coupe des Clubs Champions Européens, or simply the European Cup, is a trophy awarded annually by UEFA to the football club that wins the UEFA Champions League...
. The FA illegaly gave Partizan's spot in the competition to Red Star
Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...
and FK Vardar
FK Vardar
FK Vardar Skopje is a Macedonian football club based in the capital city of Skopje. FK Vardar is currently a member of the 1-MFL. FK Vardar is the most popular and renowned Macedonian football club both domestically and abroad, having won 6 national championships and 6 national cups...
instead. Some of the players contributed in winning these titles were Milko Đurovski, Fahrudin Omerović
Fahrudin Omerovic
Fahrudin Omerović is a retired Yugoslav/Bosnian football goalkeeper. He is assistant coach of Fenerbahçe. In Turkey he is known as Fahrettin Ömerli since he took Turkish citizenship while playing there.-Career:...
, Zvonko Varga
Zvonko Varga
Zvonko Varga is a former Serbian/Yugoslav football manager and former player of Partizan Belgrade.With "black - white" team he won 2 national championship and Mitropa Cup 1978.He has been working as manager of FK Teleoptik, a satellite club of FK Partizan.He previously managed OFK Beograd, FK...
, Vladimir Vermezović
Vladimir Vermezovic
Vladimir Vermezović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is the current coach of South African Premier Soccer League club Kaizer Chiefs.-Playing career:...
, Admir Smajić
Admir Smajic
Admir Smajić is a Bosnian former football defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.-Football career:...
, Goran Stevanović
Goran Stevanovic
Goran "Plavi" Stevanović is a Serbian football manager and former player. In January 2011, Stevanovic was appointed as the new Ghana coach.-External links:...
, Nebojša Vučićević
Nebojša Vucicevic
Nebojša "Uške" Vučićević is a Serbian football manager and former player....
, Miloš Đelmaš, Srečko Katanec
Srecko Katanec
Srečko Katanec is a Slovenian football manager and a former player capped for Yugoslavia and Slovenia. His last position was as the manager of the United Arab Emirates national football team.-Career:...
, Fadil Vokrri
Fadil Vokrri
Fadil Vokrri is a former Yugoslav football player, from the 1980s.Vokrri was known for his Diego Maradona-like approach with quick movement and strong shooting...
and Bajro Župić
Bajro Župić
Bajram "Bajro" Župić is a former Serbian football player and a football manager.-Career:...
. The last trophy Partizan won in SFR Yugoslavia was 1989 cup title, after 32 years of waiting.
Decade of domestic success (1990s)
After the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia Partizan won two titles in a row in 1993 and 1994. Next three championships Partizan won in 1996, 1997 and 1999. Partizan also won national cups in 1992, 1994 and 1998. The key man for these trophies was Ljubiša TumbakovićLjubiša Tumbakovic
Ljubiša Tumbaković is a Serbian soccer manager. Tumbaković is the most successful coach in the history of Partizan Belgrade where he won six national championships and three national cups...
. He became the most successful manager in the history of Partizan. In 1997 Partizan was reintroduced to European competitions following the lift of the UEFA ban on clubs from FR Yugoslavia. This decade has been marked by numerous team changes and the circle of selling the best players to richer European clubs after just a couple of seasons of first-team football and replacing them with fresh young talents. Many players are credited with the successes of the nineties, such as Predrag Mijatović
Predrag Mijatovic
Predrag "Peđa" Mijatović is a Montenegrin football player and former sports director of Real Madrid. He is considered one of Yugoslavia's best players of the 1990s. He was acclaimed as the best athlete of Yugoslavia in 1997...
, Slaviša Jokanović
Slaviša Jokanovic
Slaviša Jokanović is a retired Serbian professional footballer who played in the 1990s and early 2000s....
, Savo Milošević
Savo Miloševic
Savo Milošević is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a striker.After making a name for himself at Partizan, he signed for Aston Villa, and went on to spend the vast majority of the following decade playing in Spain, where he represented four clubs, amassing La Liga totals of 241 games and...
, Albert Nađ, Dragan Ćirić
Dragan Ciric
Dragan Ćirić is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a midfielder.-Football career:...
, Zoran Mirković
Zoran Mirkovic
Zoran "Bata" Mirković is a former Serbian footballer.-Club career:Mirković made his first appearance for FK Rad during the 1990–91 season. But even before that he and his teammates won the Yugoslav title in the under-21 category, the biggest success this club ever had...
, Saša Ćurčić
Saša Curcic
Saša Ćurčić is a Serbian former football midfielder....
, Branko Brnović
Branko Brnovic
Branislav "Branko" Brnović is a retired Montenegrin professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and the current manager of the Montenegro national football team.-Club career:After making his professional debuts with local FK Budućnost Podgorica, Brnović signed...
, Goran Pandurović
Goran Pandurovic
Goran Pandurović is a former Serbian football player, who plays as goalkeeper.He spend most of his career playing with FK Partizan and Stade Rennais....
, Dražen Bolić
Dražen Bolic
Dražen Bolić is a former Serbian footballer.Bolić played for FR Yugoslavia from 1995 to 2000. He spent 5 seasons with Virtus Lanciano but in the last season did not play and had a discipline problem.-External links:...
, Niša Saveljić
Niša Saveljic
Niša Saveljić is a former Montenegrin professional footballer. He was capped 32 times for the Yugoslav national team, scoring 1 goal, and played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000.-External links:...
, Damir Čakar
Damir Cakar
Damir Čakar is a former Montenegrin professional footballer.-External links:* at reprezentacija.rs*...
, Budimir Vujačić
Budimir Vujacic
Budimir Vujačić is a retired Montenegrin footballer. Mainly a left back, he could also operate as a central defender.-Club career:...
, Ivan Tomić
Ivan Tomic
Ivan Tomić is a former Serbian footballer.-Club career:He grew up with one of the teams of his city, FK Partizan....
, Gjorgji Hristov, Đorđe Tomić, Ivica Kralj
Ivica Kralj
Ivica Kralj is a former Montenegrin football goalkeeper.-Club career:He played for Partizan, Arsenal Tivat, Jastrebac Niš, Porto, Radnički Kragujevac, PSV Eindhoven, Rostov and Spartak Trnava....
, Mateja Kežman
Mateja Kežman
Mateja Kežman is a Serbian football striker who plays for FC BATE Borisov of the Belarusian Premier League....
and many others.
Domination in Serbia and reestablishment in Europe (2000s)
In the last 11 years, Partizan has won 7 national championships (2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–102009–10 Serbian Superliga
-League table:-Results:...
, 2010–11
2010–11 Serbian Superliga
-League table:-Results:...
), 4 cups and managed to qualify two times for the UEFA Champions League. First time, the club played in the 2003–04 Champions League, after eliminating Newcastle United
Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...
. Partizan was drawn in a tough group with Real Madrid
Real Madrid C.F.
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...
, FC Porto (actual winner of the UEFA Cup and the eventual winner of the competition) and Olympique de Marseille
Olympique de Marseille
Olympique de Marseille is a French association football club based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, the club plays in Ligue 1 and have spent most of its history in the top tier of French football. Marseille have been French champions nine times and have won the Coupe de France a record ten times. In...
(eventual runner-up
Runner-up
Runner-up is a term used to denote a participant which finishes in second place in any of a variety of competitive endeavors, most notably sporting events and beauty pageants; in the latter instance, the term is applied to more than one of the highest-ranked non-winning contestants, the...
of the UEFA Cup). The team never lost a home game, playing 0–0 with Real Madrid, and 1–1 with FC Porto and Olympique de Marseille while playing some inspired football in the away match in Madrid (0–1), Marseille (0–3) and Porto (1–2). They are the first, and so far the only Serbian team to qualify for the main draw of this elite European club competition since its inception in 1992. For the second time he qualified for the 2010-11 UEFA Champions League after beating RSC Anderlecht. Now, the draw for the group phase decided that Partizan will play in group H, alongside Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
, Shakhtar Donetsk and S.C. Braga. On matchday 1, Partizan lost against Shakhtar on Donbass Arena in Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
– 0–1 (0–0). Next game Partizan played against Arsenal
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
at Partizan Stadium and lost 1–3 (1–1), after they played inspired football with a 10 man in last 30 min's of the match. In two matches against Braga, Partizan failed to score and they lost both games (0–2 in Braga; 0–1 in Belgrade). The last two rounds in the group have also brought inspired football, but unfortunately it wasn't enough so Shakhtar Donetsk and Arsenal defeated Partizan once again, 0–3 (0–0) in Belgrade and 1–3 (0–1) at the Emirates Stadium
Emirates Stadium
Ashburton Grove, currently known as the Emirates Stadium, is a UEFA elite football stadium which is home to Arsenal FC, where they moved from Highbury in 2006. It has an current capacity of 60,361, and there have been rumours of an expansion...
.
In the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, Partizan reached the round-of-16 in the UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
, where it was eliminated by CSKA Moscow, the eventual winner of the competition. In the 2007–08 UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
qualifying stages, Partizan was expelled and fined €30,056 due to crowd trouble, after fighting broke out with opponent fans during their qualifying match against HŠK Zrinjski Mostar
HŠK Zrinjski Mostar
HŠK Zrinjski Mostar is a football team from the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and has been one of the top teams in the country over the years....
, and after beating them by an aggregate score of 11–1. Seasons 2007–08 and 2008–09 will remain as one of the most successful in club's domestic history. In season 2008–09 the club successfully defended their league and cup double
The Double
The Double is a term in association football which refers to winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season...
from 2007–08 season, for the first time in its history. On July 21, 2009, Partizan demolished Welsh champions Rhyl
Rhyl F.C.
Rhyl Football Club is a Welsh football club, playing in the Cymru Alliance.The club was founded in 1882 and the team plays its home matches at Belle Vue, Rhyl, which can accommodate 3,000 spectators.- History :Few clubs in the Welsh Premier League have as distinguished a past as Rhyl's...
, with a score of 8–0 (12–0 on agg.) This score is their largest ever winning margin in European competitions.
Many players contributed to these successes, some of them are Mladen Krstajić
Mladen Krstajic
Mladen Krstajić is a former Serbian footballer who currently works as a director of football for FK Partizan.-Early life:...
, Saša Ilić, Ivica Iliev
Ivica Iliev
Ivica Iliev is a Serbian footballer who plays for Wisla Krakow.-Club career:...
, Zvonimir Vukić
Zvonimir Vukic
Zvonimir Vukić is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for FK Partizan.-Club career:...
, Igor Duljaj
Igor Duljaj
Igor Duljaj is a Serbian professional footballer. He currently plays as a defensive midfielder for PFC Sevastopol in the Ukrainian Premier League.-Club career:...
, Vladimir Ivić
Vladimir Ivic
Vladimir Ivić is a Serbian footballer who plays as a midfielder for PAOK. He is the younger brother of Ilija Ivić, ex Red Star player and sports director....
, Danko Lazović
Danko Lazovic
Danko Lazović is a Serbian footballer who plays for Russian Premier League club Zenit as a second striker or a winger.-Feyenoord:...
, Taribo West
Taribo West
Taribo West is a retired Nigerian professional footballer who played as a defender. West represented the Nigerian national team in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups. He is known for the various unusual and colourful hairstyles that he has sported over the years.-Club career:Taribo moved to France in...
, Andrija Delibašić
Andrija Delibašic
Andrija Delibašić is a Montenegrin footballer who plays for Rayo Vallecano in La Liga, as a striker.-Club career:...
, Milan Smiljanić
Milan Smiljanic
Milan "Lola" Smiljanić is a Serbian footballer who plays for FK Partizan as a midfielder.-Early life:...
, Zoran Tošić
Zoran Tošic
Zoran Tošić is a Serbian footballer who plays as a left winger for CSKA Moscow. Born in Zrenjanin, Tošić began his career with his local side Proleter Zrenjanin. He then joined Budućnost Banatski Dvor, who then merged with Proleter to form Banat Zrenjanin...
, Stevan Jovetić
Stevan Jovetic
Stevan Jovetić is a Montenegrin footballer who plays for Serie A club ACF Fiorentina...
, Ivan Obradović, Nenad Đorđević, Radosav Petrović
Radosav Petrovic
Radosav "Raća" Petrović is a Serbian footballer who plays for English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers as a midfielder.-Early career:...
, Almami Moreira
Almami Moreira
Almami Samori da Silva Moreira is a Bissauan-Portuguese footballer who plays for Dalian Aerbin F.C. in the China League One, as a midfielder.-Boavista / Belgium / Russia:...
, Lamine Diarra
Lamine Diarra
Lamine Diarra is a Senegalese football striker who plays for Serbian SuperLiga club FK Partizan. He has been nicknamed "Black Mamba" or "Mamba Di", due to his speed and deadliness.-Partizan:...
, Cléo
Cleo
Cleo is a given name that is short for Cleopatra or Cleophalus and an alternate spelling of Clio. It is a Greek prefix often translated to mean 'pride', 'fame' or 'glory'.Cleo may refer to:-People:...
and many. The club is still a member of the same sports association, which includes 25 clubs in different sports, as well as the Football Association of Serbia
Football Association of Serbia
The Football Association of Serbia is the governing body of football in Serbia, based in Belgrade. It organizes Serbian football leagues, namely the Serbian Superliga, the Serbia national football team, as well as the Second Leagues....
, but it has complete independence regarding organisation, management, finances, material goods and facilities.
Colours
Until the 70s of the 20th century all clubs from Europe did not wear jerseys of famous manufacturers. It is known that the first manufacturer of sports equipment that highlighted its logo on the jersey was the Admiral (Leeds United's uniform) in the 1973. In the mid-70s Partizan equipment consisted of prevail striped or plain white jerseys with a collar, with Adidas shorts. The late 70's (1977, 1978) Partizan often carries a set of Adidas gear, mostly in white. From season 1978–79 Partizan's first long contract with "Sport" sport manufacturer from Belgrade. Cooperation with the "Sport" manufacturer lasts until early spring season of 1982–83, when Partizan returns to "Adidas", wearing striped jerseys usually with thin lines. By the end of the 80's, shorts was almost always white, like socks. Adidas only changed the design of shirt collar and color sleeve. Since 1983–85 were white, and then the 1985–86 and 1986–87 black, returning to the white sleeves was in the late 1987. In early 1990, Partizan left "Adidas" after 7 years and entered into a contract with an anonymous Swiss sport manufacturer "Vocado". Next season, "Vocado" goes the classic striped shirts, it's a jersey in which Partizan won the Cup in 1992. It remains to remember the first red and blue jersey after more than 30 years, carried in Malta against Hibernian in the UEFA Cup in 1990. The following sanctions and an inability to find well-known foreign sponsor, and Partizan then carries all sorts of sport kits – "Admiral", and then the derby in 1993 with a set of white DiadoraDiadora
Diadora is an Italian football, tennis, running, cycling, rugby, athletic shoe, clothing, and fashion accessory manufacturer with locations in Italy, the United States, and Hong Kong.-History:...
gear, then the derby at home venue in the Umbro
Umbro
Umbro is an English sportswear and football equipment supplier based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England. The company is now part of Nike. Umbro designs, sources, and markets sport-related apparel, footwear, and equipment...
equipment. For 1994–95 season a new technical sponsor was the Japanese Asics
ASICS
ASICS is a Japanese athletic equipment company. ASICS produces professional footwear and sports equipment designed for football, running, netball, tennis, badminton, squash, martial arts, cricket, golf, wrestling, track & field, cross-training, volleyball, cheerleading, lacrosse, and for many other...
then since 1996–97 sponsor was Nike
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
. Nike releases a new 1998–99 season jersey, mainly white with a blue set of applications on the collar. In spring 2000, Partizan exceeds with the local "NAAI", and afterwards from 2000–01 contracted with Puma
PUMA AG
Puma SE, officially branded as PUMA, is a major German multinational company that produces high-end athletic shoes, lifestyle footwear and other sportswear. Formed in 1924 as Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik by Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, relationships between the two brothers deteriorated until the two...
sport manufacturer. Striped jerseys were quite identical as the Nike jerseys from the 1996–97 and 1997–98 season. Later on, club moved to the Kappa
Kappa (company)
Kappa is an Italian company specialized at the manufacture of sporting clothes and accessories, that started as a sock and underwear manufacturer in 1916 in Turin.-Logo:...
jerseys. In the first season, the stripes on the jersey were thin and then moved to wide. All this time there was a spare and lots of variants – gray, red and blue, white and black jerseys. In the 2010–11 season Partizan returned to tradition with the most powerful global brand – Adidas
Adidas
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...
.
Crest
The first crest carried by Partizan had only abbreviation JA – Jugoslovenska Armija (The Yugoslav ArmyYugoslav Army
Aside from the Yugoslav People's Army, the terms Yugoslav Army, Army of Yugoslavia, or Military of Yugoslavia may refer to:* Yugoslav Partisans , the Yugoslav resistance army during World War II...
). It was a blue circle with a red five-pointed star edged in yellow with the letters JA inside it. Soon, no one knows exactly when, the crest experience great changes and began to take the shape of the crest that is seen today. The central circle was white with a red five-pointed star in it, in a blue circle in which, in white letters, is written – The Yugoslav Army and both are bordered by a yellow circle and over the circle is a green wreath. At the bottom of the emblem are red and white lines, and on the top is red torchlight. The emblem is actually a clear association with the crest of the former state – Yugoslavia, with the difference as the torch and stars on the Partizan crest replaced places. This emblem club use since 1947. Fifties, there is a small change in the emblem of Partizan but significant, where for the first time inserted team name in yellow outer circle and written in Cyrillic
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for the Serbian language, developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two standard modern alphabets used to write the Serbian language, the other being Latin...
and Latin. Separated from the Army, Partizan Belgrade receives a new crest. The inscription of the Yugoslav Army is disappearing from the crest and it was replaced by Sports association. This emblem has a "shelf life" until 1958, when Partizan changed his club colors of blue and red to black and white, very original and previously unknown on the football sky of former Yugoslavia. Then the Sport Society adds Yugoslav adjective, and the color emblem is drastically changing. Complete crest becomes black and white, with red torch and five-pointed star, while the line at the bottom of crest cross in black and white. So Partizan wear this emblem mostly in its history, the emblem that has become a real brand and a symbol of Partizan. From 1992, Yugoslavia ceased to exist and instead of Jugoslovensko Sportsko Društvo (Yugoslav Sports Association) in a black circle on the crest for the first time was inserted – Football club and this emblem remains unchanged to date. In the 2007–08 season Partizan won its 20th championship and added two stars on the top of the emblem as the symbol for 20 and more titles. Author of the Partizan crest is academic painter Branko Šotra. Parallel with this crest there is an alternative emblem, Partizan supporters popularly called it "lopata" (The shovel). This emblem found its place only on tickets, souvenirs, annual tickets and club brochures, but never sewn on the jersey of FK Partizan.
Club records
Momčilo VukotićMomcilo Vukotic
Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić is a Serbian football manager and a former player.He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals. In his club career in FK Partizan, he appeared in a total of 752 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 306 goals...
is Partizan's record-holder by number of appearances (791 matches). The goal-scoring record-holder is striker Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek was a football striker from Yugoslavia, and later a football manager. An ethnic Croat, Bobek started playing at a very young age and had spells with several clubs in Zagreb but is mainly remembered for his time at the Serbian side Partizan Belgrade, where he moved to following the...
, with 425 goals. Over 130 Partizan football players were in the Yugoslav national team
Yugoslavia national football team
The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...
and Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek was a football striker from Yugoslavia, and later a football manager. An ethnic Croat, Bobek started playing at a very young age and had spells with several clubs in Zagreb but is mainly remembered for his time at the Serbian side Partizan Belgrade, where he moved to following the...
, Branko Zebec
Branko Zebec
Branislav "Branko" Zebec was a Croatian football player and coach...
, Zlatko Čajkovski, Fahrudin Jusufi
Fahrudin Jusufi
Fahrudin Jusufi is a former Yugoslav football defender of Gorani origin.-Career:...
, Velibor Vasović, Milan Galić
Milan Galic
Milan Galić is a former Serbian footballer.He scored 37 international goals in 51 matches for the Yugoslavia national football team. He participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal, the 1960 UEFA European Football Championship, where Yugoslavia finished second , and the 1962...
, Milutin Šoškić
Milutin Šoškic
Milutin Šoškić is a Serbian former goalkeeper who is one of FK Partizan's biggest legends.- References :**...
, Slaviša Jokanović
Slaviša Jokanovic
Slaviša Jokanović is a retired Serbian professional footballer who played in the 1990s and early 2000s....
and Predrag Mijatović
Predrag Mijatovic
Predrag "Peđa" Mijatović is a Montenegrin football player and former sports director of Real Madrid. He is considered one of Yugoslavia's best players of the 1990s. He was acclaimed as the best athlete of Yugoslavia in 1997...
(a former sporting director of Real Madrid
Real Madrid C.F.
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...
) are among them. Former Partizan player Savo Milošević
Savo Miloševic
Savo Milošević is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a striker.After making a name for himself at Partizan, he signed for Aston Villa, and went on to spend the vast majority of the following decade playing in Spain, where he represented four clubs, amassing La Liga totals of 241 games and...
played 102 matches for the national football team, a national record. Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek
Stjepan Bobek was a football striker from Yugoslavia, and later a football manager. An ethnic Croat, Bobek started playing at a very young age and had spells with several clubs in Zagreb but is mainly remembered for his time at the Serbian side Partizan Belgrade, where he moved to following the...
holds national team record with 38 goals, second place is shared by Partizan legends Savo Milošević
Savo Miloševic
Savo Milošević is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a striker.After making a name for himself at Partizan, he signed for Aston Villa, and went on to spend the vast majority of the following decade playing in Spain, where he represented four clubs, amassing La Liga totals of 241 games and...
and Milan Galić
Milan Galic
Milan Galić is a former Serbian footballer.He scored 37 international goals in 51 matches for the Yugoslavia national football team. He participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal, the 1960 UEFA European Football Championship, where Yugoslavia finished second , and the 1962...
, they scored 37 goals each of them. It holds records such as playing in the first European Champions' Cup
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
match in 1955, becoming the first Eastern European club to play in the European Champions' Cup final in 1966, and becoming the first club from Serbia to take part in the UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
group stages.
Player records
| Name | Apps |
|---|---|
 Momčilo VukotićMomcilo Vukotic Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić is a Serbian football manager and a former player.He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals. In his club career in FK Partizan, he appeared in a total of 752 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 306 goals... |
791 |
| Nikica Klinčarski Nikica Klincarski Nikica Klinčarski is a former Macedonian football player, SFR Yugoslavia international. He was the assistant coach at FK Partizan until 2010.-Club career:... |
565 |
| Milan Damjanović Milan Damjanovic Milan "Gica" Damjanović is a former Yugoslavian and Serbian football defender.On the national level he played for Yugoslavia national team , and was a participant at Euro 1968.... |
537 |
| Blagoje Paunović Blagoje Paunovic Blagoje Paunović is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a defender, and a current manager.-Playing career:... |
514 |
| Ljubomir Mihajlović Ljubomir Mihajlovic Ljubomir Mihajlović was a Serbian defender who played for SFR Yugoslavia.-References:*... |
512 |
 Saša Ilić |
507 |
| Nenad Stojković Nenad Stojkovic Nenad Stojković is a Serbian defender who played at FIFA World Cup 1982 for SFR Yugoslavia.Following his playing career, Stojković had a brief spell as the manager of AS Cannes.... |
492 |
| Vladimir Kovačević |
487 |
| Vlada Pejović |
485 |
| Stjepan Bobek Stjepan Bobek Stjepan Bobek was a football striker from Yugoslavia, and later a football manager. An ethnic Croat, Bobek started playing at a very young age and had spells with several clubs in Zagreb but is mainly remembered for his time at the Serbian side Partizan Belgrade, where he moved to following the... |
478 |
| Name | Goals |
|---|---|
| Stjepan Bobek Stjepan Bobek Stjepan Bobek was a football striker from Yugoslavia, and later a football manager. An ethnic Croat, Bobek started playing at a very young age and had spells with several clubs in Zagreb but is mainly remembered for his time at the Serbian side Partizan Belgrade, where he moved to following the... |
425 |
| Marko Valok Marko Valok Marko Valok is a former footballer who represented Yugoslavia. He played club football in Yugoslavia with FK Partizan.He coached Burma, FK Partizan, Budućnost Titograd, Philadelphia Fury, FK Vojvodina, Adana Demirspor, Borac Banja Luka, Teteks Tetovo, Galenika Zemun and FK Rad.-External links: at... |
411 |
| Mustafa Hasanagić Mustafa Hasanagic Mustafa Hasanagić is a Serbian football striker who played for SFR Yugoslavia.... |
355 |
| Momčilo Vukotić Momcilo Vukotic Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić is a Serbian football manager and a former player.He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals. In his club career in FK Partizan, he appeared in a total of 752 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 306 goals... |
339 |
| Vladimir Kovačević |
319 |
| Saša Ilić |
208 |
*Players in bold are still active
The "black and whites" are record-holders of the Yugoslav First League
Yugoslav First League
The Yugoslav First League was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and socialist Yugoslavia...
, in terms of points scored during a campaign, with 107 in one year's championship and are the only unbeaten champion team ever (in the 2004–05 season). Partizan also won the most national championships since the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
, being a champion 12 out of 19 times. They are the only Serbian club ever, since the first nation-wide domestic football competition in 1923, to win four consecutive national titles, not leaving the throne since 2007–08 season. Arguably, Partizan's most exciting match was a double header against Celtic
Celtic F.C.
Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
in 1989. The first tie was held in Mostar
Mostar
Mostar is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest and one of the most important cities in the Herzegovina region and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country...
(now Bosnia and Herzegovina) which Partizan won 2–1. The second leg was held in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
which Celtic
Celtic F.C.
Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
won 5–4. Partizan scored in the last minute to qualify on the away goals rule in front of nearly 50,000 fans. Currently, the player with both most appearances and most goals scored for Partizan in Europe is Saša Ilić (63 appearances, 15 goals).
Club all-time European record
As of August 19 2011| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champions League / European Cup UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It... |
81 | 32 | 16 | 33 | 127 | 109 | +18 | 39.51 |
| Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but... |
12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 21 | −2 | 33.33 |
| Europa League / UEFA Cup | 89 | 37 | 17 | 35 | 140 | 125 | +15 | 42.05 |
| Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Inter-Cities Fairs Cup The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971. The competition was the idea of Swiss pools supremo Ernst Thommen, Ottorino Barassi from Italy, and the English Football Association general secretary Stanley Rous, all of whom later became senior officials... |
8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 14 | −4 | 25.00 |
| Total | 189 | 75 | 36 | 78 | 295 | 268 | +27 | 39.68 |
UEFA Ranking
Club Ranking for 2011 (Previous year rank in italics, UEFA Club Coefficients in parentheses)- 112
(108) 
FK Austria WienFK Austria WienFußballklub Austria Wien is an Austrian association football club from the capital city of Vienna. They are considered the most successful club in Austria, having won the highest Austrian Bundesliga 23 times, the Austrian Cup 27 times and the Austrian Supercup 6 times. They also reached the UEFA...
(16.465) - 113 (56)
Rapid BucureştiRapid BucurestiFotbal Club Rapid București is a Romanian football club. It was founded in 1923 by a group workers of the Grivița workshops under the name of "Cultural and Sporting Association CFR" . Rapid won the Romanian championship 3 times and the Romanian Cup on thirteen occasions...
(16.164) - 114 (123) FK Partizan Belgrade (15.850)
- 115 (120) NEC Nijmegen (15.025)
- 116 (172)
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(14.980)
Best results in European competitions
| Season | Achievement | Notes | |
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| European Cup / UEFA Champions League UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It... |
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| 1965–66 | Runner-up | lost to  Real MadridReal Madrid C.F. Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la... 1–2 in Brussels |
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| 1955–56 | Quarter Final | eliminated by Real Madrid Real Madrid C.F. Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la... 0–4 in Madrid, 3–0 in Belgrade |
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| 1963–64 | Quarter Final | eliminated by  InterF.C. Internazionale Milano Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always... 0–2 in Belgrade, 1–2 in Milano |
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| Mitropa Cup Mitropa Cup The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides... |
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| 1977–78 Mitropa Cup The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides... |
Winner | defeated  Honved Budapest 1–0 in Belgrade |
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| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but... |
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| 1989–90 | Quarter Final | eliminated by  Dinamo Bucureşti 1–2 in Bucureşti, 0–2 in Titograd* |
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| UEFA Cup / Europa League UEFA Cup The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League... |
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| 1974–75 | Round of 16 | eliminated by  Köln1. FC Köln 1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07.... 1-0 in Belgrade, 1–5 in Köln |
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| 1984–85 | Round of 16 | eliminated by Videoton Videoton FC Videoton FC is a Hungarian professional football club based in Székesfehérvár, playing in the Hungarian League as of 2011. Videoton has won one Hungarian League title, one Hungarian Cup title, two Hungarian League Cup titles and one Hungarian Super Cup title... 0-5 in Székesfehérvár, 2–0 in Belgrade |
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| 1990–91 | Round of 16 | eliminated by Inter F.C. Internazionale Milano Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always... 0-3 in Milano, 1–1 in Belgrade |
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| 2004–05 | Round of 16 | eliminated by  CSKA MoscowCSKA Moscow CSKA Moscow is a major Russian sports club based in Moscow. It is popularly referred to in the West as "Red Army" or "the Red Army team" because during the Soviet era, it was a part of the Armed Forces sports society, which in turn was associated with the Soviet Army... 1–1 in Belgrade, 0–2 in Krasnodar* |
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- This match was played at Pod Goricom Stadium in Titograd instead of at FK Partizan's home ground in Belgrade since UEFA barred FK Partizan again from playing home matches within a 300 km radius of their home ground after more crowd trouble in the previous round's home tie vs FC Groningen.
- This match was played at Krasnodar instead at Moscow due to a bad weather conditions.
Club fans
Partizan's participation in the European Cup
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
final in 1966 attracted much more fans to the stadium, and is considered to be the crucial moment of the organized fans moving to a south stand of the stadium where they are gathering up to this day.
Partizan's supporters, Grobari
Grobari
Grobari are supporters of the Belgrade football club Partizan Belgrade. They are one of two major football fan groups in Serbia...
(The Gravediggers), were formed in 1970. The nickname itself was given by their biggest rivals (Delije
Delije
Delije roughly translated to English as Heroes is an umbrella name referring to the supporters of various sports clubs that compete under Red Star Belgrade Sports Society banner....
of Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...
), referring to the club's mostly black colors which were similar to the official uniforms of cemetery undertakers. The other theory is that the name arrives from misinterpretation of Partizan's stadium street name – Humska (humka roughly translates as grave), when actually the street was named after Serbian medieval land of Hum
Zachlumia
Zachlumia or Zahumlje was a medieval principality located in modern-day regions of Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia...
. They support all clubs in the Sports Association Partizan. In 1999, the organized supporters who traditionally occupy the south stands at the stadium split into two groups. The newly formed group named Južni Front (Southern Front) accused several top members of the Grobari organization for abusing their privileges, and the club itself for favoring those individuals. In 2006, they settled their differences and today there are three major fan groups: Južni Front, Grobari 1970 and Grobari Beograd. From 2005 until 2007, fan groups boycotted all Partizan matches until former sports director Bjeković and general secretary Zečević resigned, which was their main goal. Bjeković finally resigned in May and Zečević in September 2007. As a result of their demands being accepted, the Grobari returned to the stands of Partizan Stadium. Grobari
Grobari
Grobari are supporters of the Belgrade football club Partizan Belgrade. They are one of two major football fan groups in Serbia...
have become recognizable by noisy and constant cheering and their devotion and loyalty to the club. The basis of their cheering is the principle of voice and palms along with songs in distinctive style. Grobari also do other actions characteristic to organized fan groups, such as choreographies, banners and flares. Danny Dyer
Danny Dyer
Danny Dyer is an English actor, media personality, and chairman of Greenwich Borough, a non-League football team.-Biography:Daniel John Dyer was born in Custom House, an area of East London, to Antony and Christine Dyer...
featured the Grobari on the Real Football Factories International
The Real Football Factories International
The Real Football Factories International is a documentary style program about football hooliganism across the world. The Real Football Factories was the first series, where presenter and actor Danny Dyer travelled the UK, meeting some of the more notorious football firms. In this spin-off series,...
show. In the episode he labelled the Grobari as a group willing to do anything for the respect of the club.
Notable fans
Notable fans include Serbian PresidentPresident of Serbia
The President of Serbia is the head of state of Serbia. Presently serving as the head of state is Boris Tadić. He was elected with a narrow majority of 50.31% in the 2008 Serbian presidential elections.-Authority, legal and constitutional rights:...
Boris Tadić
Boris Tadic
Boris Tadić is the President of Serbia and leader of the Democratic Party. He was elected to a five-year term on 27 June 2004, and was sworn into office on 11 July. He was re-elected for a de facto second five-year term on 3 February 2008 and was sworn in on 15 February...
, President of Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik , is the President of Republika Srpska, and the president of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats political party. He graduated from the Belgrade University of Political Sciences .-Political career:...
, filmmaker Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica
Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
, tennis players Ana Ivanović
Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...
and Viktor Troicki
Viktor Troicki
Viktor Troicki is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has Serb and Russian ethnic roots. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Tver and Rostov-on-Don to Serbia in 1917. His career-high ranking is no. 12, achieved on 6 June 2011. He won his first ATP singles title at the 2010 Kremlin Cup,...
, swimmer Milorad Čavić
Milorad Cavic
Milorad Čavić is an American-born Serbian swimmer.-Swimming career:...
, writer Duško Radović, actors Rade Šerbedžija
Rade Šerbedžija
Rade Šerbedžija , occasionally credited as Rade Sherbedgia in some English-language productions, is a Croatian actor, director and musician of Serb origin. He was one of the most popular Yugoslav actors in the 1970s and 1980s. He is now internationally known mainly for his supporting roles in...
, Dragan Bjelogrlić and Sergej Trifunović
Sergej Trifunovic
Sergej Trifunović is a popular Bosnian Serb movie actor.-Biography:...
and musicians Zoran Kostić Cane and Eddy Grant
Eddy Grant
Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.- Life and career :When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park...
.
Stadium and training ground
The club's stadium is now named Stadion FK Partizan, although it was known as Stadion JNA (Stadium of the Yugoslav People's ArmyYugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army , also referred to as the Yugoslav National Army , was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.-Origins:The origins of the JNA can...
) for most of its history, and is still sometimes called that. The stadium seated approximately 55,000 people before UEFA's law of having seats across the entire stadium. The stadium was used from the mid-fifties until 1987 as the final point of yearly festivities called the Day of Youth. Each year on May 25, the baton of the Relay of Youth was finally passed into the hands of Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito
Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
, president of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
. The playing field measures 105 x 70 m, and is illuminated at 1,400 lux
Lux
The lux is the SI unit of illuminance and luminous emittance, measuring luminous flux per unit area. It is used in photometry as a measure of the intensity, as perceived by the human eye, of light that hits or passes through a surface...
. The current capacity is 32,710 people.
New stadium
The current stadium is expected to be redesigned by Swiss firm Mob Lab. The capacity of new Partizan arena will be approximately 36,000 seats with a modern business parkBusiness park
A business park or office park is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. All of the work that goes on is commercial, not industrial or residential....
filled with hotels and office buildings. The 12.5 hectares of land will include a large commercial area, a five-star hotel, a business centre, multiplex cinema, nine tennis courts and around 400 apartments.
SC Partizan-Teleoptik
The sports centre Partizan-Teleoptik, also known as "Zemunelo" (the name being composed to show the resemblance to A.C. Milan
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan , is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, that plays in the Serie A. Milan was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others...
's sports centre, Milanello
Milanello
Milanello Sports Centre, commonly referred to as simply Milanello, is the training facility of Italian professional football club Associazione Calcio Milan. Built in 1963, the centre consists of , including a pinewood and a little lake...
), is situated on the surface of almost 10 hectares, in the west part of Zemun
Zemun
Zemun is a historical town and one of the 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia...
, on the intersection of two major highways and in vicinity of the airport. Regarding functionality, architectural solutions, modern equipment and building materials used, this centre is among sports buildings of the highest value in Europe. At present, it is a training and preparatory base of all Partizan selections, consisting of around six hundred sportsmen beginning with the first team, through the 2nd division
Serbian First League
Serbian First League is the name for the second tier in Serbia's football league. The league is operated by the Football Association of Serbia. 18 teams are set to compete in this league for the 2009-10 season...
team of Teleoptik
FK Teleoptik
Fudbalski klub Teleoptik is a professional football club based in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia. The club currently playing in the Serbian First League....
, down to the youngest categories of the large Partizan family. Sports centre currently consists of: seven ideal grass pitches, all suitable for night training, two "latest generation" all-weather pitches, central building with total surface of 4,000 square metres, there is a sauna in the basement, as well as gym with the top of the range equipment, amusement room (pool table, darts, table football, chess, etc.)and other modern facilities, ground floor has a restaurant with an balcony, first floor is a medicine centre with modern equipment containing rooms for physiotherapy, kinesis and hydro therapy, there is also a meeting room on the first floor, reception hall for guests, administrative offices, and offices of Partizan and FK Teleoptik management and representatives, building also has 19 apartments (14 two and three bed rooms for players and five for the technical personnel), there is a dining room for players with balcony on a top floor and centre also has a kitchen with modern equipment, under supervision of top food experts;
Current squad
Players with multiple nationalities
David MangaDavid Manga
David Manga is a Central African Republic international footballer, who plays for FK Partizan. He is also member of the Central African Republic national football team.-Career:...
Aleksandar LazevskiAleksandar Lazevski
Aleksandar Lazevski is a Serbian-born Macedonian international footballer. He currently plays for FK Partizan in the Serbian SuperLiga.-Club career:...
Vladimir JovančićVladimir Jovančić
Vladimir Jovančić is a Bosnian Serb footballer who plays for FK Partizan in the Serbian SuperLiga.-Club career:...
Aleksandar RankovićAleksandar Rankovic (footballer)
Aleksandar Ranković is a Serbian footballer. He currently plays for FK Partizan in the Serbian SuperLiga.-Club career:...
Nemanja RnićNemanja Rnic
Nemanja "Berthen" Rnić is a Serbian football encircling defender who had spent his entire career at FK Partizan, before signing a contract for three seasons with the Belgian giants RSC Anderlecht in May 2008.He has been a solid member of the Serbian u-21 national football team and made his senior...
MedoMohamed Kamara
Mohamed Kamara , widely known as Medo, is a Sierra Leonean footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for FK Partizan in the Serbian SuperLiga.He also has a Finnish citizenship.-Biography:...
Out on loan
For recent transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers summer 2011.Partizan technical staff
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Aleksandar Stanojević Aleksandar Stanojević Aleksandar Stanojević is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is currently head coach of Partizan Belgrade.-Playing career:... |
Manager |
| Vanja Radinović Vanja Radinović Vanja Radinović is a Serbian football coach and former player. Currently, he is a technical coach and advisor to the FK Partizan senior team.-Professional career:... |
Assistant Coach |
| Slobodan Kuljanin |
Assistant Coach |
| Ljubiša Ranković Ljubiša Rankovic Ljubiša Ranković is a former Serbian footballer.-External links:* at Playerhistory.* at Srbijafudbal.... |
Secretary of the coaching staff |
| Goran Pandurović Goran Pandurovic Goran Pandurović is a former Serbian football player, who plays as goalkeeper.He spend most of his career playing with FK Partizan and Stade Rennais.... |
Goalkeeping Coach |
| Miša Filipović |
Fitness Coach |
| Ilija Rosić |
Doctor |
| Slobodan Branković Slobodan Branković Slobodan Branković is a Serbian former track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres. He is currently the general secretary of the Athletics Federation of Serbia.... |
Physiotherapist |
| Viktor Vujošević |
Physiotherapist |
| Vladimir Radeka |
Physiotherapist |
| Dušan Nikolić |
Physiotherapist |
| Branko Vučićević |
Economic |
| Rade Vučićević |
Economic |
Partizan management
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Dragan Đurić Dragan Đurić Dragan Đurić is a Serbian businessman and president of football club FK Partizan. He is also a president of ZEKSTRA Group.-FK Partizan:... |
President |
| Mladen Krstajić Mladen Krstajic Mladen Krstajić is a former Serbian footballer who currently works as a director of football for FK Partizan.-Early life:... |
Sport director |
| Albert Nađ |
Sport coordinator |
| Darko Grubor Darko Grubor Darko Grubor is a general secretary of FK Partizan.-References:*... |
General secretary |
The Eternal derby
Partizan's city rival is Red Star BelgradeRed Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...
(Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
: Црвена звезда, Crvena zvezda). The duel is regarded as one of the greatest football rivalries
Major football rivalries
This list deals with association football rivalries around the world. This includes local derbies as well as matches between teams further apart. Footballing rivalries manifest themselves in many ways...
in the world and the matches between these rivals have been labeled as the eternal derby (Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
: Вечити дерби, Večiti derbi). Given its widespread touch on the entirety of a major city, it's dubbed one of, along with the Old Firm, the Rome derby and the Istanbul derby, the most heated rivalries in European football. These matches are always greatly anticipated and quite spectacular, but in recent years the amount of violence and hooliganism made attendance fall an inevitable consequence. The greatest attendance was about 108,000 spectators.
British Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
in September 2009 has ranked the Partizan – Red Star derby on the 4th position among 10 greatest football rivalries in the world.
Club presidents
Ratko VujovićRatko Vujovic
Ratko "Blaža" Vujović - Čoče was a Montenegrin political activist and soldier.-Biography:Ratko Vujović was born on 16 December 1916 in Nikšić, Montenegro. Before the start of World War II, he was a student. As a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, he was active since 1938...
(1950) Bogdan Vujošević (1952–1956) Đuro Lončarević (1956–1958) Martin Dasović (1958–1962) Dimitrije Pisković (1962–1963) Ilija Radaković (1963–1965) Vladimir Dujić (1965–1967) Mića Lovrić (1967–1971)
Milosav Prelić (1971–1973) Vesa Živković (1973–1974) Predrag Gligorić (1974–1975) Nikola Lekić (1975–1979) Vlada Kostić (1979–1981) Miloš Ostojić (1981–1983) Dragan Papović (1983–1987) Zdravko Lončar (1987–1988)
Zdravko Mrvić (1988) Špiro Sinovčić (1988–1989) Ivan Ćurković
Ivan Curkovic
Ivan Ćurković had a professional goalkeeping career and was the president of the FK Partizan and of the Serbian Olympic Committee...
(1989–2006) Nenad Popović
Nenad Popovic
Nenad Popović, Ph.D was born in the town of Tuzla, in 1966.He is the president of , vice president of the and Member of Parliament of Republic of Serbia....
(2006–2007) Tomislav Karadžić
Tomislav Karadžić
TOLE LOPOVE JEBEMO TI SVE TOLE LOPOVEEE TOLE LOPOVEEE JEBEMO TI SVEEE is a Serbian businessman and football administrator of Montenegrin origin. Since 2008 he is in his second stint as the president of Serbian Football Association...
(2007–2008) Dragan Đurić
Dragan Đurić
Dragan Đurić is a Serbian businessman and president of football club FK Partizan. He is also a president of ZEKSTRA Group.-FK Partizan:...
(2008–present)
Notable players
Managerial history
In Partizan's history, 35 coaches have coached the club. The first manager was Franjo GlaserFranjo Glaser
Franjo Glaser was a Croatian football goalkeeper and football manager...
and the current manager is Aleksandar Stanojević
Aleksandar Stanojević
Aleksandar Stanojević is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is currently head coach of Partizan Belgrade.-Playing career:...
, who was appointed on April 16, 2010. Ljubiša Tumbaković
Ljubiša Tumbakovic
Ljubiša Tumbaković is a Serbian soccer manager. Tumbaković is the most successful coach in the history of Partizan Belgrade where he won six national championships and three national cups...
had the longest reign as Partizan coach, with nine years (seven consecutive) in charge, and is the most successful coach in Partizan history with six national championships and three national cup wins.
Club honours
National Championships – 23| Honours | Years |
|---|---|
| Champion of SFR Yugoslavia Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and socialist Yugoslavia... (11) |
1946–47, 1948–49, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1985–86, 1986–87 |
| Champion of FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (8) | 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05 |
| Champion of Serbia Serbian Superliga Serbian SuperLiga is a Serbian professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Serbian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 16 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with the Serbian First League... (4) |
2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 2009–10 Serbian Superliga -League table:-Results:... , 2010–11 2010–11 Serbian Superliga -League table:-Results:... |
National Cups – 12
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Honours
! Years
|-
| Yugoslav Cup
Yugoslav Cup
The Yugoslav Cup, officially the Marshal Tito Cup, was one of two major football competitions in the former Yugoslavia, the other one being the Yugoslav League Championship. The Yugoslav Cup took place after the league championships when every competitive league in Yugoslavia had finished, in order...
(5)
| 1947, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1989
|-
| Cup of FR Yugoslavia (4)
| 1992, 1994, 1998, 2001
|-
| Serbian Cup
Serbian Cup
The Serbian Cup is the national football cup of Serbia. For sponsorship reasons it is referred to in the media as Lav Cup of Serbia since 2007.The winner of the competition gets a spot in the UEFA Europa League qualifying round.-Sponsorship:...
(3)
| 2008, 2009, 2011
2010–11 Serbian Cup
The Serbian Cup 2010–11 is fifth season of the Serbian national football tournament. The competition started on 1 September 2010 and concluded with the Final on 11 May 2011. Partizan Belgrade won the title 2-1 over FK Vojvodina in controversial fashion...
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Honours
! Years
|-
| Trofeo Mohamed V
| 1963
|-
| European Cup Runner-up
1966 European Cup Final
The 1966 European Cup Final was a football match held at Heysel Stadium, Brussels, on 11 May 1966 that saw Real Madrid of Spain defeat Partizan of Yugoslavia 2–1.-Match summary:...
| 1966
1966 European Cup Final
The 1966 European Cup Final was a football match held at Heysel Stadium, Brussels, on 11 May 1966 that saw Real Madrid of Spain defeat Partizan of Yugoslavia 2–1.-Match summary:...
|-
| Torneo Pentagonal Internacional de la Ciudad de México
| 1970
|-
| Torneo Pentagonal Internacional de la Ciudad de Bogotá
Colombian Football Federation
The Colombian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Colombia. It was founded in 1924 and has been affiliated to FIFA since 1936...
| 1971
|-
| Trofeo Colombino de fútbol
| 1976
|-
| Mitropa Cup
Mitropa Cup
The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides...
| 1978
|-
| Carlsberg Cup
| 1984
|-
| 40th Anniversary FK Partizan
| 1985
|-
| Basel Tournament
| 1985 (Shared with FC Basel
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel is a Swiss football club based in Basel. They are one of the most successful clubs in Swiss football, having won the Swiss Super League 14 times, the third most for any Swiss club. They were most successful in the late 1960s and 1970s, winning the...
and Bayern Munich
|-
| Uhrencup
Uhrencup
The Uhrencup is a club football tournament, held annually in Switzerland.The tournament usually features four teams , each playing two matches, and is held in July at Stadion Brühl in Grenchen. As a friendly tournament, the format tends to be fluid...
| 1989
|-
| Yugoslav Supercup
| 1989
|-
| Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu Runner-up
Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu
The Santiago Bernabéu Trophy or Santiago Bernabéu Cup is dedicated to the memory of long-time Real Madrid president Santiago Bernabéu. It is a friendly tournament organised each year by Real Madrid at the beginning of the season, somewhere around the end of August or the beginning of...
| 2007
|}
Shirt sponsors and manufacturers
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"|-
!Period
!Kit Manufacturer
!Shirt Sponsor
|-
|1978–1983
|rowspan=1|Sport
|rowspan=2|None
|-
|1983–1985
|rowspan=4|Adidas
Adidas
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...
|-
|1985–1988
|rowspan=1|Iskra Delta
Iskra Delta
Iskra Delta was a computer manufacturer from Slovenia. It was one of the biggest computer producers in SFR Yugoslavia that saw its own end with the breakup of the country. It started in 1974 as Elektrotehna, Ljubljana representative od Digital Equipment Corporation , USA minicomputer manufacturer...
|-
|1988–1989
|rowspan=1|BEKO
Beko
Beko is a domestic appliance and electronics brand of Arçelik A.Ş., owned by Koç Holding of Turkey.The company's products include washing machines, TV sets and laptop computers...
|-
|1989–1990
|rowspan=1|None
|-
|1990–1992
|rowspan=1|Vocado
|rowspan=1|Aiwa
Aiwa
was a Japanese consumer electronics company, founded in 1951.It produced audio and video equipment from the 1970s until the early 2000s.-History:The Aiwa Corporation slid towards bankruptcy until it was purchased by competitor Sony Corporation. As of October 1, 2002, Aiwa ceased to be a separate...
|-
|1992–1993
|rowspan=2|Admiral
|rowspan=1|Dafiment banka
|-
|1993–1994
|rowspan=2|GOMA
Goma
Goma is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, next to the Rwandan city of Gisenyi. The lake and the two cities are in the western branch of the Great Rift Valley, and Goma lies only 13 to 18 km due south of the crater of the active...
|-
|1994–1996
|rowspan=1|ASICS
ASICS
ASICS is a Japanese athletic equipment company. ASICS produces professional footwear and sports equipment designed for football, running, netball, tennis, badminton, squash, martial arts, cricket, golf, wrestling, track & field, cross-training, volleyball, cheerleading, lacrosse, and for many other...
|-
|1996–1998
|rowspan=2|Nike
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
|rowspan=1|OKI
Oki Electric Industry
, commonly referred to as OKI, OKI Electric or the OKI Group, is a Japanese company manufacturing and selling info-telecom and printer products. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, OKI operates in over 120 countries around the world....
|-
|1998–2000
|rowspan=3|Peugeot
Peugeot
Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...
|-
|2000
|rowspan=1|NAAI
|-
|2000–2003
|rowspan=1|Puma
PUMA AG
Puma SE, officially branded as PUMA, is a major German multinational company that produces high-end athletic shoes, lifestyle footwear and other sportswear. Formed in 1924 as Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik by Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, relationships between the two brothers deteriorated until the two...
|-
|2003–2004
|rowspan=5|Kappa
Kappa (company)
Kappa is an Italian company specialized at the manufacture of sporting clothes and accessories, that started as a sock and underwear manufacturer in 1916 in Turin.-Logo:...
|rowspan=1|Superfund
Superfund Group
Superfund is a fund provider, specializing in managed futures, which is considered an alternative investment.The company's funds are held by at least 50,000 institutional and private investors worldwide. Superfund was founded in 1996 by Christian Baha in Vienna, Austria, and employs at least 430...
|-
|2004–2006
|rowspan=1|Imlek
Imlek (company)
Imlek is a large Serbian food company based in Belgrade. It is specialised in processing milk and produces dairy products. The company was founded in 1953 and owns nine dairies in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia. In 2004 the Salford Investment Fund became...
|-
|2006
|rowspan=1|Austrotherm
|-
|2006–2009
|rowspan=1|Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
|-
|2009–2010
|rowspan=1|MSI
Micro-Star International
Micro-Star International Co., Ltd is a Taiwan-based electronics company and one of the world's largest motherboard and video card manufacturers.-Overview:MSI is one of the top three motherboard and video card manufacturers worldwide...
|-
|2010–2011
|rowspan=2|Adidas
Adidas
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...
|rowspan=1|EPS
Elektroprivreda Srbije
Elektroprivreda Srbije or simply EPS is the state-owned energy provider in Serbia, and currently the largest enterprise in Serbia. As of 2010, the company employs 34,130 workers....
*
|-
|2011–present
|rowspan=1|
|}
- Only European and Cup matches
External links
- Official website
- FK Partizan Official Football Camp
- FK Partizan at UEFAUEFAThe Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....
- FK Partizan Web TV
- FK Partizan Official Fan Shop
- FK Partizan at FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
- FK Partizan at utakmica.rs
- FK Partizan at kapiten.rs
Fans and supporters: