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FK Partizan

Full name

Fudbalski klub Partizan

Nickname(s)

Grobari, Crno-beli

Founded

1945

Ground

Stadion Partizana,
Belgrade
(Capacity 32,887)

Chairman

Tomislav Karadžić

Manager

vacant

League

Meridian Superliga

2006-07

2nd





Home colours





Away colours

Fudbalski Klub Partizan (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Партизан, English: Football Club Partizan) is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It is a major part of the Sports Association Partizan. The second division team FK Teleoptik is also owned by Partizan. According to UEFA, Partizan has the second-ranking youngster school in Europe, after Ajax Amsterdam.^[1] According to a recent poll, Partizan Belgrade is the second most popular football club in Serbia, with 32.2 percent of the population supporting the club.^[2]

The club played in 2003/04 UEFA Champions League season, after eliminating Newcastle United in the last qualifying round. Partizan also played in a 1966 European Cup final against Real Madrid, after eliminating Manchester United in semifinals.

1 History
2 Fans
3 Stadium & sports centre
4 Current squad
- 4.1 Squad changes just before and during 2007/08 season
5 Honours
6 Records & highlights
7 Rivalry with Red Star Belgrade
8 Coaching history
9 References
10 See also
11 External links

Partizan was founded on October 4, 1945, as a part of Yugoslav Sports Association. The club is still a member of the same association now renamed to Sports Association of Serbia, including 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.

The club was initially formed under Yugoslav People's Army, and the stadium was named for most of the time Stadion JNA (Stadium of Yugoslav People's Army). In the early 50's club became independent from the Army. The first international match was played on December 6, 1945, against CSKA Moscow (then known as CDKA).

There are several companies in the Partizan business system, which are working together with the club. There are also few own public organs such is a radio station "MIP" ("Music & Partizan") and magazine "Samo Partizan" ("Only Partizan").^{[citation needed]}

Partizan's current colors are black and white, after blue and red for the first thirteen years.

Main article: Grobari

Partizan's fans, known as Grobari (Gravediggers), were formed in 1970. The nickname itself was given by their biggest rivals F.C. Red Star Belgrade fans, referring to club's mostly black colours which were similar to official uniforms of cemetery undertakers. The other theory is that the name arrives from the Partizan's stadium street name - Humska (Graves'). They generally support all clubs in the Sports Association Partizan. In 1999, organized fans who traditionally occupy South stands at the stadium split into two groups. Newly formed group named Južni Front (South Front) accused several top members of Grobari organization for abusing their privileges, and the club itself for favouring those individuals. Last year fans settled their differences and today there are three major fan groups: "Južni Front", "Grobari 1970" and "Grobari Beograd". As of November 2005, all fan groups are boycotting the FC Partizan matches until sports director Nenad Bjeković and general secretary Žarko Zečević resign. Bjeković finally resigned in May, and Zečević in September 2007.

Main article: Partizan Stadium

Partizan Stadium

The primary stadium of the club is now named "Stadion Partizana", although it was known as "Stadion JNA" (Stadium of the Yugoslav People's Army) for most of its history, and is still sometimes called that. The stadium seats 32,710 people.

Stadium was used from mid fifties until 1987 as the final point of yearly festivities called the "Day of Youth". Each year on May 25th, the baton of Relay of Youth was finally passed into the hands of Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia.

The Sports Centre "Partizan-Teleoptik", also known as "Zemunelo" (the name being composed to show the resemblance to the A.C. Milan's sports center, 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 funcionality, architectural solutions, modern equipment and building materials used, this centre is among sports buildings of the highest value. At present, it's 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 large Partizan family.

As of 28.09.2007

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Darko Božović
2	DF	Milivoje Ćirković
3	DF	Antonio Rukavina (captain)
4	DF	Nemanja Rnić
5	DF	Milovan Sikimić
7	MF	Nenad Brnović
8	MF	Juca
9	FW	Borko Veselinović
10	MF	Moreira
11	FW	Žarko Lazetić
13	DF	Marko Jovanović
14	MF	Đorđe Lazić
17	MF	Zoran Tošić
18	DF	Aleksandar Lazevski

No.	Position	Player
21	DF	Miloš Mihajlov
23	DF	Mladen Lazarević
24	DF	Srđa Knežević
25	GK	Živko Živković
26	FW	Lamine Diarra
30	GK	Aleksandar Radosavljević
31	MF	Nikola Mitrović
33	MF	Darko Maletić
35	FW	Stevan Jovetić
36	MF	Nikola Gulan
37	DF	Ivan Obradović
39	FW	Vítor Hugo
82	MF	Marko Ćetković
99	FW	Slaven Stjepanović

In:

Darko Božović - Signed From FK Bežanija
Juca - Signed From Botafogo
Aleksandar Radosavljević - Signed From FK Čukarički Stankom
Lamine Diarra - Signed From Beira-Mar
Milovan Sikimić - Signed From Guingamp
Moreira - Signed From Desportivo das Aves
Vítor Hugo - Signed From Sport Recife
Nikola Mitrović - Signed From Napredak Kruševac
Zoran Tošić - Signed From Banat Zrenjanin
Marko Ćetković - Signed From FK Zeta
Slaven Stjepanović - Signed From FK Zeta
Nikola Gulan - Loaned From Fiorentina

Out:

Obiora Odita - Transferred To Al Ain
Marko Lomić - Transferred To TuS Koblenz
Branimir Bajić - Transferred To TuS Koblenz
Pierre Boya - Transferred To Rapid Bucuresti
Nikola Gulan - Transferred To Fiorentina
Miloš Bosančić - Loaned To Boavista
Milan Smiljanić - Transferred To Espanyol
Ivica Kralj - Transferred To FC Rostov
Albert Nadj - Transferred To FC Rostov
Bojan Zajić - Transferred To Valerenga
Nebojša Marinković - Loaned To Iraklis
Nenad Marinković - Loaned To FK Banat Zrenjanin
Predrag Lazić - Loaned To Bežanija
Ljubiša Vukelja - Transferred To Ethnikos

FK Partizan have won 19 national championships:

8 in the era of the Serbia-Montenegro / Federal Republic of Yugoslavia:

2004/05, 2002/03, 2001/02, 1998/99, 1996/97, 1995/96, 1993/94, 1992/93

11 in the era of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia:

1986/87, 1985/86, 1982/83, 1977/78, 1975/76, 1964/65, 1962/63, 1961/62, 1960/61, 1948/49, 1946/47

FK Partizan have also won 9 national cups:

4 in the era of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia:

2000/01, 1997/98, 1993/94, 1991/92

5 in the era of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia:

1988/89, 1956/57, 1953/54, 1952, 1946/47,

Internationally, Partizan was the runner-up in the European Cup Championship in 1966, winner of the Mitropa Cup in 1978, quarterfinalist of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1989, and have reached the "round-of-16" stage in the UEFA cup four times.

Partizan vs. Real Madrid in the Champions League in 2003.

Momčilo Vukotić is the Partizan record-holder by the number of appearances: He played in 752 matches. The goal scoring record-holder is a striker Stjepan Bobek, with 403 goals.

Over 130 Partizan football players were in the Yugoslav national team and Stjepan Bobek, Branko Zebec, Zlatko Čajkovski, Fahrudin Jusufi, Milan Galić, Milutin Šoškić, Slaviša Jokanović and Predrag Mijatović (who is the current sporting director of Real Madrid). Former Partizan player Savo Milošević played 101 matches for the national football team, which is an absolute national record.

One of the legendary Partizan players is Dragan Mance. He led Partizan in their UEFA Cup tie in 1984. against English side Queens Park Rangers. The Rangers won the first leg 6-2, but Partizan advances after a 4-0 return victory. Mance died 03.09.1985. in a car crash at the peak of his popularity.

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 season 2004/05). Partizan also won most national championships since the break of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, being a champion 8 out of 16 times.

Arguably Partizan's most exciting match was a double header against Celtic in 1989. The first tie was held in Mostar (Bosnia-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. Partizan also played in a 1966 European Cup final against Real Madrid, after eliminating Manchester United in semifinals. At one point Partizan was 1-0 up, only to lose to the Spaniards 2-1 at the end.

Some of the highlights from Partizan's recent past include an UEFA Champions League appearance in 2003-04 season. After eliminating Newcastle United in the last qualifying round, 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. 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 the next season, Partizan reached the "round-of-16" in UEFA Cup, where it was eliminated by CSKA Moscow, eventual winner of the competition.

In the 2007/2008 UEFA Cup Qualifying Stages, Partizan were expelled and fined €30,056 due to crowd trouble, after fighting broke out with opponent fans and Bosnian police during their qualifying match against HŠK Zrinjski Mostar.^[3]

Partizan's city rival is Red Star Belgrade, and the matches between these rivals are often called "the eternal derby" (Serbian Latin: večiti derbi, Serbian Cyrillic: вечити дерби). These games were always hotly anticipated and quite spectacular, but the lower quality of football that’s been displayed in recent times, as well as very large amount of violence and hooliganism, made the fall of the attendance an inevitable consequence. The derby played May 11, 2005 in the semi-final of the Serbia and Montenegro Cup had only 8,000 spectators, which is all-time lowest attendance in these matches. The greatest attendance was about 108,000 spectators. Although the first ever derby was won by Red Star, Partizan still holds the record victory: 7-1.