FK Red Star Belgrade

Red Star Belgrade
Basic data
Surname	Sportsko društvo Crvena zvezda (main club) Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( professional football team )
Seat	Belgrade , Serbia
founding	March 4, 1945
Colours	red - white
president	Svetozar Mijailović
Website	crvenazvezdafk.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Dejan Stanković
Venue	Rajko Mitić Stadium (traditionally Marakana )
Places	55,538
league	Super league
2019/20	1st place
home Away

The football club Red Star Belgrade ( Serbian Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ), short Red Star (Црвена звезда / Crvena zvezda [tsrʋɛna zʋɛːzda] , even Zvezda ), the football section was founded in 1945 Serbian sports club Red Star Belgrade , from the Belgrade 's Dedinje district in the central Savski Venac district . The club plays since 1946 always in the highest league and with 29 league and 24 Cup victories Serbian and Yugoslav champions and record cup winner . He occupies 1st place in the all-time table of the Yugoslav league and also achieved prestigious successes in Europe, including winning the 1991 European Cup .

In Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1992) the team played a dominant role with 19 championship titles and 12 cup successes. The collapse of the country from 1992 and its consequences led, among other things, to the team being sold out.

Red Star has a special rivalry with Partizan . This encounter is known in Serbia as the " Eternal Derby ". The club plays its home games in the 60,000-seat Rajko Mitić stadium .

history

1945–1958: The founding years

SK Yugoslavia's legacy

In early 1945 was the 1913 Kingdom of Serbia founded (1878-1918) and initially as SK Velika Srbija called Belgrade club SK Jugoslavija - 1919 took place with the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918-1929), the name change from the pro-Serbian into pro-Yugoslavian SK Jugoslavija instead - dissolved and expropriated by the new communist authorities Marshal Titos . The club was previously one of the most popular clubs in the country. The Red Star, which was formed shortly thereafter, saw itself in the successor of the club and received its property, including the stadium and training grounds, as well as a large part of its players, including Red Star founding member Predrag Đajić and Red Star's top 10 record player Ljubomir Lovrić .

The club colors and even the club logo were derived from SK Jugoslavija. The former stadium of SK Jugoslavija was located exactly where the Rajko Mitić stadium , built in 1963, is today. Thus, Red Star was practically formed out of the SK Jugoslavija. However, Red Star Belgrade never officially considered itself a successor, while others, including numerous fans, claim this and are considering a new founding date. This history is still controversially discussed today. The new club also joined players from the Belgrade SK , another very popular club in the country and city rivals of SK Jugoslavija, which was also deprived of its right to exist by Tito's authorities. Red Star legend Rajko Mitić moved to the new club.

The phase of creation

The listed building of the Stari DIF 2012, where the founding meeting of Red Star Belgrade was held on March 4, 1945 .

While the Second World War was still going on, the reorganization of sporting life began after the Belgrade operation and the associated liberation of the city from fascism in October 1944 . As early as February 1945, young people from the United Federation of Anti-Fascist Youth of Serbia ( USAOS ) decided to found a sports club. On March 4, several members gathered at the State Institute for Physical Culture Stari DIF and founded the Red Star Belgrade sports club .

The initiative for the establishment came from the later Vice-Presidents Zoran Žujović and Slobodan Ćosić as well as from the secretary Ljubiša Sekulić and Dušan Bogdanović. Among the founders were Nebojša Popović, Svetozar Gligorić and the later coach Milovan Cirić, as well as the only female member Mira Petrović. A USAOS room in Kralja Milutina 2 in Vračar was chosen as the club's premises . The first club president was Đorđe Paljić, while Predrag Đajić were appointed as an economist and Bogdanović as the finance manager . Kosta Tomašević, supported by Secretary Branko Stanković , took over the leadership of the football department , the first and from the beginning the most important section of the club.

The naming of the club has been discussed for a long time and there are several versions. There is agreement that Žujović and Ćosić unanimously chose a name. After numerous suggestions, including Mladost , Udarnik , Torpedo , Dinamo and Lokomotiva , Ćosić said: “Our club should be called Stern!”, Whereupon Žujović spontaneously added: “Excellent, if a star, then it should be a red star”.

On the day it was founded, Roter Stern played its first game against the first battalion of the second Belgrade Brigade of the Corps for the People's Defense of Yugoslavia (KNOJ) and won it 3-0. The game was played on the Studenta field in front of 3,000 spectators. The first goalscorer in the club's history was Kosta Tomašević. As early as March 7th, the Politika published a call to the population to enroll in the newly founded club from which numerous clubs emerged that are still decisive in the respective sports in Serbia to this day . In the founding year, Red Star played a total of 36 games, winning 30 of them, and the first and only defeat occurred in Timișoara against the Romanian national team . Soon the Red Star became a symbol of Yugoslavia and Serbia, a sporting institution that is very popular to this day.

Rise in Yugoslavia and Europe

Red Star legend Dragoslav Šekularac

In 1946 Red Star was able to win his first title by winning the Serbian championship and thus rose to the 1st Yugoslav league . This was the beginning of 45 extremely successful years in which Red Star became the dominant club in Yugoslavia and rose to the top of the world. The debutant sat at the top of the table right from the start and ended the individual seasons in the first twelve years only three times worse than third. In 1947, 1948 and 1949 they became runner-up. In 1948, the Red and Whites won by Svetozar Glisovic after a 3: 0 final victory over Partizan Belgrade for the first time the National Cup trophy . The second and third trophies followed in 1949 and 1950 and thus the first trophy hat trick .

The club's first big wave of victories followed in the 1950s. Players during this time were u. a. the strikers Rajko Mitić and Bora Kostić , the defenders Vladica Popović and Vladimir Durković , the goalkeeper Vladimir Beara and the attacking midfielder Dragoslav Šekularac . After three failed attempts to win the championship, they had more success in 1951 when Red Star won the championship for the first time. The coaching change from Aleksandar Tomašević to Ljubiša Broćić in 1951 turned out to be a good decision in retrospect. In 1953, 1956 and 1957, Red Star won three more championship titles. In the 1956/57 European Cup , they were only eliminated in the semifinals, very close to Fiorentina after a 0-1 home defeat and a 0-0 away game . After defending the title for the first time in the club's history, coach Milovan Ćirić moved to Lazio Rome , and so Milorad Pavić was hired, a coach who would be the first to shape an era at Red Star.

In the following European Cup 1957/58 they met Manchester United in the quarter-finals . After a 1: 2 away defeat, the second leg at the Partizan Stadium ended 3: 3 after a 3-0 deficit. This was the last game of Manchester's legendary team, the so-called Busby Babes . On the return flight , the plane crashed in Munich during a snow storm . Of the 44 passengers on the Airspeed Ambassador , 23 were killed, including eight Red Devils players ; two more had to end their careers due to injuries. In the same year, Red Star finally won its first European title with the Mitropacup with a victory over Spartak Trnava . In addition, you won your fourth cup. With Pavić, who turned out to be a proven tactician and supporter of the direct short passing game, the club stayed on the road to success and so Red Star achieved the double for the first time in 1959 . In the 1959/1960 season you failed in the first round of the Cup to Partizan, but you could successfully defend the championship.

1960–1966: crisis and a new stadium

The Rajko Mitić Stadium , built in 1963, was called the “Red Star Stadium” until the end of 2014, now also known as the Marakana of Belgrade .

In the 1950s, Red Star was the first club to dominate the Yugoslav soccer scene. But at the beginning of the next decade, the rule shifted for the time being to the other side of the Topčider hill , where Partizan was, by far Red Star's greatest rival, who between 1961 and 1963 competed with the first championship hat-trick in the history of the league shocked.

During this period, some placements were the worst in the club's history, including a seventh place in 1963. The club was even four times not among the top three in the table, which was before and after in a total of 54 seasons never happened again. In 1962/63, the club scored only 21 goals, for example half of the goals that Vojvodina Novi Sad scored, although they were placed five places behind Red Star in the table. Nevertheless, Pavić was trusted.

In addition to the championship, they were also unsuccessful in the domestic cup, but they showed a completely different face internationally. In the Messestädte-Pokal 1961/62 they reached the semi-finals and were eliminated from FC Barcelona . Almost eight months later, Belgrade and Barcelona faced each other again in 1962 , this time the Catalans lost . A subsequent 2-0 home win over AS Roma wasn't enough to make it back to the semi-finals.

In addition to the international successes, the club's management continued to work on the development of the club and began building a new stadium at the end of 1959. For the next four years, Red Star played its home games at the Partizan Stadium and the Omladinski Stadium of the OFK Belgrade , which is considered to be the main reason for the poor results during those years. The new stadium finally opened in 1963, and over time the Red Star Stadium was nicknamed the Marakana .

The home stadium would prove to be a fortress in its first season, and so they won their second double straight away. Overall, the club under the leadership of Pavić was able to win three championships and three cups as well as the Mitropa Cup and the entry into the European Cup semi-finals. Eventually switched Pavić after seven years in Belgrade to Belgium for Standard Liege . He was replaced by Ivan Toplak, who remained unsuccessful for the next two years.

1966–1975: The Miljan Miljanić era

Star coach Miljan Miljanić (1971)

A crucial moment in the club's history came in 1966 when Miljan Miljanić took over the helm as the new coach. In the following eight years, Miljanić transformed the club into a top European club. Until then, Yugoslav football was in a kind of test phase, but the dominance of Red Star in domestic competitions was eventually solidified and continued. For the remaining 25 years of Yugoslavia , Red Star remained a constant contender for the title, only its competitors changed. In 1968, Roter Stern won its second European cup, the Mitropacup . After winning, the club withdrew from this competition in order to focus more on the other European competitions.

Miljanić was already a player at Red Star in the 1950s, but it wasn't until his tenure as head coach that he celebrated his greatest successes. In the first season he completely changed the squad and the style of play of Red Star, and for the time being the club finished fifth in the table, the same as the year before. After that, Red Star, led by superstar Dragan Džajić , one of the best players in Serbian history , began to make a deep mark in Yugoslav football. It was the time when Red Star won three championships in a row for the first time and two doubles .

Back then, every Red Star supporter knew the names of players like Ratomir Dujković , Milovan Đorić, Kiril Dojčinovski, Stanislav Karasi and Jovan Aćimović as well as Vojin Lazarević, Petar Krivokuća, Stevan Ostojić and Branko Klenkovski. It is particularly noteworthy that most of the above-mentioned players joined Red Star at a young age and previously went through youth school. Red Star became a resounding name on a European level, a club with high standards and a reputation that few clubs from Southeast and Eastern Europe had at the time.

In 1971 Miljanić Red Star led to the semifinals, where they were surprisingly defeated by Panathinaikos Athens . In the first leg, Red Star beat the Greeks 4-1 in front of 100,000 loud Belgrade players , creating a seemingly unassailable starting position, but they lost 3-0 in Athens and again missed the final after 1958. In the following years football greats like Vladimir and Ognjen Petrović, Bogićević, Filipović, Janković and Keri wore the Red Star jersey and celebrated other titles. In the eight years under Miljanić's leadership, the club won a total of seven trophies.

Dragan Džajić (right) at the 1974 World Cup

In the 1973/74 European Cup , Red Star eliminated Liverpool FC , the then reigning UEFA Cup winner . After Ferencváros Budapest, they were only the second foreign team to beat Liverpool at Anfield Road during the trade fair city cup in 1967/68 and the only foreign team that could ever defeat Liverpool at home in the European Cup , and that throughout the 20th century. However, Red Star lost the following quarter-final against Atlético Madrid . The following season he went to Madrid again in the quarter-finals, this time in the 1974/75 European Cup Winners' Cup against Real Madrid . The match was referred to by the press as "Džajić vs. Camacho ” because Dzajić was the best left winger in the world at the time and Camacho was one of the best defenders. In the first leg, Red Star was received at the Santiago Bernabéu by Miljanić, now Real Madrid's star coach, where Camacho's defense held and Real won 2-0. In Belgrade, however, the result in front of 100,000 spectators could be offset by goals from Džajić and goalkeeper Petrović. After a penalty shoot-out, Roter Stern finally won 6: 5 and reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup for the first time .

There they met Ferencváros Budapest. Belgrade lost the first game 2-1, but the second leg should forever be remembered as the game with the largest registered number of spectators during a Red Star home game. Although officially only 96,070 tickets were sold, there were around 110,000 spectators in the stadium. The Belgrade supporters went home disappointed, however, because with a penalty in the 83rd minute, the Magyars equalized to 2-2 and advanced to the final.

1976–1986: The first European final

Stojanovć (C) Jovanović Miletović Jurisic Jovin Milovanović Blagojevic Petrovic Milosavljevic Muslin Savic

Red Star's line-up in the UEFA Cup final . (Coach: Branko Stanković).

The new coach Gojko Zec brought the club further national championships and cups from 1976. This was followed by the Branko Stanković era , whose tenure as head coach was to last four years and brought Red Star three more titles and the first major European final. After Dragan Džajić moved to France, players like Vladimir Petrović , Dušan Savić, Srboljub Stamenković and striker Zoran Filipović took the lead in the team. The first season with Gojko Zec at the helm was a show of strength and Red Star won the championship by 9 points, the largest in the history of the league to date. In the following season, Red Star was only runner-up, but began the path to his great performance in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup , where they played through to the final.

After victories over teams like Arsenal London , West Bromwich and Hertha BSC , Red Star Belgrade was in a European cup final for the first time. There they met Borussia Mönchengladbach , which played in a total of five European finals between 1973 and 1980. About 90,000 fiery Red Star supporters were waiting for the Gladbach team, kicked up by Miloš Šestić's 1-0 lead , but the subsequent own goal by Jurišić gave Borussia a psychological advantage for the second leg. This game was played in the Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf , where the referee whistled a questionable penalty for the Gladbacher. Allan Simonsen finally sealed Red Star's fate and the “Foal Elf” won the trophy.

The first championship under Stanković as a coach was won in 1980 when Red Star narrowly missed the double. The title was defended in the next season, but was followed by 11 years without a single cup win, the longest in the history of the club, which ended in spring 1982. Stanković was replaced by Stevan Ostojić, and under his leadership the club reached the quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup twice , in 1981 when they were defeated by Inter Milan and in 1982 when they lost to Belgian representative RSC Anderlecht .

Historic games followed, such as against Udo Lattek's FC Barcelona in the 1982/83 European Cup Winners' Cup. In both games, Barcelona were the better team and Red Star were eventually defeated. What was remarkable, however, was that when Barcelona's Diego Maradona scored his second goal with a lob in front of around 100,000 spectators in the “Marakana” , the Belgrade audience was so enthusiastic about the goal that even the loyal Belgrade fans applauded Maradona, which was completely unimaginable until then. When Gojko Zec took over the team again in 1983, he found only one player from his master generation from 1977, striker Miloš Šestić. Especially after the departure of Petrović and Savić during the 1982/83 season, Šestić became one of the leading players of the new Red Star generation, which included players like Ivković , Elsner , the brothers Boško and Milko Đurovski, Musemić, Milovanović, Janjanin and Mrkela . Gojko Zec repeated the triumphs from his previous mandate and Red Star won the championship in 1984 and the cup in 1985. Before the era of Gojko Zec ended, Roter Stern reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup 1985/86 , but lost to Atlético Madrid, which eventually made it to the final.

1986–1991: The way to Bari

The years from 1986 to 1991 were probably the most important and successful in the history of the club. The way from Red Star Belgrade to the European Cup final in Bari was ultimately to be crowned by winning the European Cup for the first time and ultimately bringing the World Cup to Belgrade .

The master plan

Red star coach Velibor Vasović as a player

Legendary changes have taken place in the club since the mid-1980s. Red Star had achieved a number of good results in European football over the past two decades, and the team consisted mostly of players from their own youth, occasionally joined by talented young footballers from smaller, mostly Serbian, clubs. The new club management, led mainly by Dragan Džajić , but also by Vladimir Cvetković, decided to take a different route. It was decided to select the best Yugoslav players because the management's goal was to build a team that would compete with the strongest European teams for the top in European football.

Despite the new purchasing policy, the club kept its fast-paced style of play and continued to rely on fast strikers and creative midfielders. That summer, Velibor Vasović became coach and Red Star was joined by a number of talented young players. The first step towards winning the European Cup was the signing of strikers Borislav Cvetković and Milivoj Bračun, defender Slobodan Marović and playmaker Dragan Stojković from Radnički Niš , one of the best Yugoslav footballers of all time, and goalkeeper Stevan Stojanović from his own youth.

In 1987 the club finally developed a five-year plan, the main objective of which was to win the European Cup. Everything that was planned should ultimately be achieved. In the 1986/87 European Cup, Red Star Belgrade was faced with the first major challenge, as they met Spain's giants Real Madrid with its stars Hugo Sánchez and Emilio Butragueño . In the "Marakana", Roter Stern finally won 4-2 in front of an enthusiastic audience, but lost the second leg 2-0 and was eliminated from the cup due to the away goals rule. The club management finally continued to build on a "dream team" and signed Dragiša Binić, who would later become one of the fastest strikers in Europe, and Robert Prosinečki , one of the most talented Yugoslav players, who later won the Junior World Cup in 1987 with the national team and was voted the best player of the tournament. Furthermore, Red Star took the new Yugoslav national player Refik Šabanadžović under contract, as well as the offensive players Dejan Savićević and Darko Pančev , the best remaining players in the league and the talented defender Ilija Najdoski .

The "Marakana" saw two games against AC Milan in two days in 1988 .

How strong and ready Red Star Belgrade was for top performance at that time was shown in the following season. In 1988, Belgrade's “Marakana” awaited another super spectacle with a hitherto unexpected event. In the 1988/89 European Cup , Red Star Belgrade played in the round of 16 against Arrigo Sacchis AC Milan , peppered with the Dutch European champions trio Ruud Gullit , Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard , the absolute superstars at the time, as well as other stars, including Roberto Donadoni , Carlo Ancelotti , Franco Baresi , Mauro Tassotti , Alessandro Costacurta and Paolo Maldini . AC Milan was the absolute power in European football at the time and the absolute greatest challenge for the club, but in San Siro , Red Star Belgrade shocked the "Rossoneri" with a goal from Dragan Stojković and achieved a well-deserved 1-1. In the second leg in Belgrade, the Italians got into extreme trouble when Savićević shot the Red Star in front of 100,000 fanatical fans. Fortunately for the Milanese, the referee called off the game in the 64th minute, despite protests from Belgrade, because the fog was too thick. The game was repeated the next day. Van Basten gave AC Milan the lead, but Stojković equalized soon after. The game finally went to penalties, in which the Italians prevailed 4-2 and in the end also won the European Cup .

Red Star lost the championship to Vojvodina Novi Sad this season . Eventually, the focus was on winning the 1989/90 UEFA Cup . After victories over Galatasaray Istanbul and FK Žalgiris from Lithuania , Dragoslav Šekularac's team played against 1. FC Cologne in the third round . In Belgrade, Red Star won 2-0 in front of around 100,000 spectators with two goals from Savićević, but in Cologne the team lost 3-0.

Belgrade had already signed the former European Cup winner Miodrag Belodedić, an experienced player who was supposed to play against Cologne. But when Ceaușescu was still in power, Belodedić defected from Romania to Yugoslavia in 1988 and was accepted by Red Star, but UEFA suspended him on the basis of missing data, but soon Belodedić was given the green light. In 1990 Šekularac was replaced by Ljupko Petrović , the man who won the championship with Vojvodina a year earlier. He brought Red Star's talented youth player Vladimir Jugović to the first team and Siniša Mihajlović was soon to follow his former master coach. However, Red Star was seriously weakened by the departure of Dragan Stojković, who was undoubtedly one of the best "10-man playmakers" in the world, which he finally proved during the 1990 World Cup . Stojković moved to Olympique Marseille without realizing that he would see his former teammates again in May next year. Although without his captain, Red Star won the championship without any problems and the time was finally ripe for the carefully put together team to prove themselves at the highest level, even if this was not an easy task due to the political situation in Yugoslavia.

The first spectacle

The Hardturm Stadium , demolished in 2008.

In the first round of the 1990/91 European Cup , the Grasshoppers Zurich were drawn as opponents of Red Star Belgrade. The Swiss club, trained by Ottmar Hitzfeld and led by players like Alain Sutter and Ciriaco Sforza , took the lead through Peter Közle , striker Dragiša Binić was able to equalize. With the final score of 1: 1, Ljupko Petrović's team had the chance to advance to the next round with a win at the Hardturm Stadium in Zurich . Midfielder Robert Prosinečki , who had recently been voted best youth player of the 1990 World Cup , scored his first of this European Cup season there with two goals. This was followed by two more goals by Darko Pančev and Duško Radinović and Közle's second goal against the Yugoslavs.

After the 4-1 victory, Belgrade received the Scottish record champions Glasgow Rangers . In the sold out “Marakana of Belgrade” and supported by its supporters, the Delije (Делиjе), the home team won. Within a few minutes, Belgrade led with an own goal by John Brown and a free kick by Prosinečki 2-0. Finally, Pančev made it 3-0, a positive starting point for the encounter in Scotland. During the return leg at Ibrox Park , Pančev scored again, this time with an overhead kick . The Glasgow Ally McCoist was able to equalize; the 1: 1 draw brought Red Star a 4: 1 overall victory and thus entry into the next round.

Germany Tour - From Dresden to Munich

Red Star continued his impressive form in the quarter-finals of the European Cup. The club began its “Germany tour”, reinforced by Siniša Mihajlović from the reigning Yugoslav champion Vojvodina Novi Sad (who cost 2,000,000  marks , which was one of the most expensive transfers at the time), against the last GDR champion Dynamo Dresden . The game was highly anticipated by the Belgrade audience and in the football hell "Marakana" - the scenario was the same as against Glasgow  - the rival was overrun in front of the frenetic 100,000 Red Star fans (around the stadium there were another 20,000 fans) and overrun Robert Prosinečki's free-kick and two goals from Dragiša Binić and Dejan Savićević defeated 3-0. The stadium atmosphere, which was one of the best in the history of Red Star, was particularly remarkable.

The former Rudolf Harbig Stadium

The second leg in Dresden had a bad start for Roter Stern, as Torsten Gütschow's quick opening goal gave the East Germans hope, but they managed to turn the result around with goals from Dejan Savićević and Darko Pančev . The game in the Rudolf Harbig Stadium was finally canceled by the Spanish referee Emilio Soriano Aladrén when the score was 1: 2 in the 78th minute because of spectator riots. Fireworks and projectiles had been thrown onto the lawn from the Dresden Fan Curve, and the police had to use water cannons against the rioters. The game was rated 0: 3 and brought Roter Stern a 6-0 overall victory and the third semi-final in the European Cup , where they finally met the German record champions FC Bayern Munich and their reigning soccer world champions.

The Olympic Stadium in Munich , where the Red Star won the semi-final first leg against FC Bayern Munich 2-1

Although Roter Stern's experience with Bayern was bad, everyone at the club was full of optimism, especially the club legend and sports director Dragan Džajić , who announced a victory in Munich. The leadership by Roland Wohlfarth only gave Bayern a short-term advantage, because Red Star took the initiative in the Olympic Stadium and struck back with a goal by Darko Pančev. Then in the 70th minute, Belgrade's defense broke through an attack by Bayern. Pančev fitted to Savićević, who eventually ran away from Jürgen Kohler and Raimond Aumann and scored the second goal for Red Star to make it 2-1. The approximately 15,000 Red Star Belgrade supporters celebrated this historic victory in the north curve of the stadium. Ultimately, the gate to Europe's football throne slowly began to open for the Belgrade club.

In the second leg Bayern were welcomed by the Red Star “Delije” with a historic pyro show around the entire stadium. But shortly before that, Yugoslavia was indeed on the brink of civil war when the first armed clashes of the war broke out in March 1991. Depending on the point of view, clashes between fans of Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade in Zagreb on May 13, 1990 are considered the beginning of the war. Red Star midfielder Siniša Mihajlović (from Borovo Selo) scored Red Star with a free kick in the first half . But then Klaus Augenthaler's free-kick went through the arms of goalkeeper Stevan Stojanović and five minutes later Manfred Bender finally made it 2-1. Thus, Bayern's first leg defeat was balanced. In the remaining 30 minutes there were a number of chances on both sides, but when the game was in its final minutes, Red Star attacked one last time.

The north grandstand of the Red Star Stadium , the side on which the decisive goal for the final fell.

Up until the 90th minute Bayern were leading 2-1 and would have been in extra time. Eventually it came to a historic moment when the ball came to Robert Prosinečki after a one-two between Vladimir Jugović and Darko Pančev. He ran across the left side of the field and passed the ball back to Siniša Mihajlović. After his low cross into the penalty area, Klaus Augenthaler tried to intercept the shot, but he deflected the ball so unfortunate that the ball fell in a high arc over the head of Bayern goalkeeper Raimond Aumann into the net and triggered a huge enthusiasm in the stadium. because with a 2: 2 Red Star would move into the final. The final whistle eventually sparked a big celebration in the stadium and a massive invasion of the pitch. The 4: 3 overall victory brought Red Star, after a total of three semi-finals, the first final in the European Cup, where the French champions Olympique Marseille were already waiting for them.

European Cup victory

Successful coach Ljupko Petrović won the European Cup of National Champions 1990/91 in Bari with Red Star Belgrade .

The final of the 1990/91 European Cup was held in the San Nicola stadium in the Italian city of Bari. Red Star came to Italy unusually early, six days before the final. The team set up its base in the city of Monopoli , 40 km southeast of Bari. There they resided in the Hotel Il Melograno and trained in the facilities of AC Monopoli. Due to the great interest of the media and numerous top European clubs in the players of Red Star Belgrade, the club's management tried to ensure that their footballers could concentrate fully on the final. Immediately upon arrival, the players were placed in a kind of semi-quarantine , separated from their wives and friends, and without the possibility of receiving calls in the hotel, but being able to make outgoing calls. In the coming days, Red Star was also accompanied by a large entourage consisting of former players and coaches as well as friends of the club, who all worked together and focused on bringing the trophy to Belgrade. Among them were club legends like Rajko Mitić and Dragoslav Šekularac , former players like Srđan Mrkušić, Stanislav Karasi, the ex-coach Milorad Pavić as well as numerous Serbian celebrities and public figures such as B. the actors Ljuba Tadić and Ivan Bekjarev as well as the musician and poet Bora Đorićević, better known as the singer of the rock band Riblja čorba . Finally, Red Star coach Ljupko Petrović was able to prepare his players intensively for the upcoming encounter with Olympique Marseille .

Stojanović (C) Marović Šabanadžović Belodedic Radinović Jugović Prosinečki Mihajlović Savicevic Binić Pančev

Red Star's line-up in the final of the 1990/91 European Cup . (Coach: Ljupko Petrović ).

After the ambitious Bernard Tapie took over the office of club president of Marseille in 1985, the club invested a lot of money in the following years in signing players with international stature. For the final, Marseille had players like Manuel Amoros , Chris Waddle , Basile Boli , Jean Tigana , Dragan Stojković , Abédi Pelé and especially Jean-Pierre Papin available, all under the command of top coach Raymond Goethals . By the time of the final, Red Star had scored 18 goals in 8 games while the French champions had scored 20 goals. Therefore, a spectacle with many goals was expected for the 100th final of a European football competition. Nevertheless, Petrović decided surprisingly for a defensive tactic. After 120 minutes and only a few chances on both sides, the decision should only be made on penalties. In the first half, Robert Prosinečki scored against Pascal Olmeta, while Stevan Stojanović was able to parry Manuel Amoros' shot. It later turned out that this was the crucial situation in the game. The hits followed in the following order: Dragiša Binić (Red Star), Bernard Casoni (Marseille), Miodrag Belodedić (Red Star), Jean-Pierre Papin (Marseille), Siniša Mihajlović (Red Star) and Carlos Mozer (Marseille). Striker Darko Pančev , winner of the European Golden Shoe in 1991 as the best striker in Europe, got the chance for the decisive goal ; he finally scored the goal and brought the European Cup title to Yugoslavia and Serbia for the first time .

Red Star Belgrade won the penalty shootout on May 29, 1991 in front of 60,000 spectators and an audience of millions 5: 3. The success was very much celebrated in Yugoslavia, but the final victory was one of the last sporting successes of Yugoslavia.

World Cup Victory - Made in Japan

As European champions, Red Star Belgrade played for the European Supercup and the World Cup , which had been held in Tokyo for a decade. Usually the Supercup consisted of two games, but there was only one game against Manchester United , at Old Trafford , due to the war that had already started in Yugoslavia. Despite the fact that Red Star Belgrade controlled most of the game and the fact that Dejan Savićević in particular shone at the Theater of Dreams , Scots Brian McClair scored only one goal and Manchester ultimately won 1-0.

In the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo , Red Star Belgrade saw the chance to crown the year with another international title. Opponent was the Chilean club Colo-Colo , which had won the Copa Libertadores . In the coaching bench of the team from Santiago de Chile sat Mirko Jozić, under whose leadership Yugoslavia had won the Junior World Cup in 1987 and Robert Prosinečki was voted the best player of the tournament. However, Prosinečki left the team after winning the European Cup for 15 million euros to Real Madrid , up to then one of the most expensive transfers in football history, as did Stevan Stojanović, Slobodan Marović, Refik Šabanadžović and Dragiša Binić.

In the first half of the game, Vladimir Jugović , the youngest in the squad, gave the Belgrade side the lead. But Red Star Belgrade continued to dominate, despite Dejan Savićević's expulsion shortly before half-time, and scored another victory. At the time of the red card, Belgrade already had a lead thanks to Jugović's goal, but he scored his second goal, which eventually earned him the Toyota Prize, which was intended for the best player of the game. In the end, striker Darko Pančev scored and the club celebrated a clear 3-0 win. On December 8, 1991, Red Star Belgrade had everything that a football club could achieve, it was European and World Cup winners and thus at the height of his fame.

1992–2000: decline

The long era of Red Star in the European Cup ended in the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium .

Red Star Belgrade took part as defending champion and national champion of Yugoslavia in the European Cup of National Champions 1991/92 . However, on instructions from UEFA , the club was only allowed to defend the cup by playing outside the country due to the war in Yugoslavia that had already broken out . After all, Red Star played its games in the Hungarian cities of Szeged and Budapest and in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. On the way to the group stage, they defeated Portadown FC and Apollon Limassol . The group phase began for the club with an away defeat against Sampdoria Genoa , which was coached by the Serb Vujadin Boškov and with him already won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1989/90 . It was the first defeat for Red Star Belgrade after a total of 17 games, the fifth-longest series of a club without a defeat in a European football competition.

Finally, there were victories against RSC Anderlecht in Hungary's capital Budapest and against Panathinaikos Athens in both games. The decisive game for the final took place against Sampdoria Genoa in Sofia, when Red Star Belgrade was defeated 1: 3 after a 1-0 lead and the Italians moved into the final of the European Cup. The end of a long era, in which Red Star Belgrade wintered 22 times in the European Cup and was represented there for 24 seasons in a row, ended with the 2: 3 defeat in a meaningless game against RSC Anderlecht in Brussels, in the Constant-Vanden-Stock Stadium .

Although the championship was still won in 1992 and thus a championship hat-trick was achieved for the second time since the Miljanić era, it was clear to everyone that the club was facing very difficult times. After all, since winning the European Cup in 1990/91 , Red Star has been abandoned by practically the entire team. Robert Prosinečki moved to Real Madrid , Dejan Savićević to AC Milan , Darko Pančev to Inter Milan , Siniša Mihajlović to AS Roma , Miodrag Belodedić to FC Valencia and Vladimir Jugović to Sampdoria Genoa . Furthermore went Ilija Najdoski , Vlada Stošić, Rade Tošić and Milorad Ratković to Spain, Stevan Stojanović to Belgium, Slobodan Marović and Duško Radinović to Sweden, Refik Šabanadžović to Greece, Dragiša Binić to the Czech Republic and trainer ljupko petrović to Uruguay. Up until then, it was a unique sell-out by a top team and an unprecedented collapse of a European football giant for an indefinite period of time.

Red Star has been severely weakened by the loss of its entire successful generation, and the country's disintegration, the years of war, the UN sanctions and their economic effects and the UEFA expulsion hit the club pretty hard. Finally, a series of championship victories followed by city rivals Partizan Belgrade . 1994 returned success coach ljupko petrović back and the 14th Cup victory was won by a different generation of players in 1995, including Dejan and Jovan Stanković, Darko Kovačević , Perica Ognjenovic , Goran Đorović , Dejan Stefanovic , Nenad Sakić, Bratislav Živković , Nebojša Krupniković , Dejan Petković , Zvonko Milojević and Mitko Stojkovski . On the way to the 1995 championship, rival Partizan was defeated 2-1 at home in front of 80,000 spectators in the legendary 100th Belgrade derby with goals from Darko Kovačević and Mitko Stojkovski. However, it was only a short break before falling into the unsuccessful years and under the circumstances at the time it was difficult for the club to find the right path again. In 1999, Red Star finished the championship in third, which was the worst placement in the league in the past 20 years. Only one championship was celebrated between May 1992 and May 2000, but they won the cup five times and had a few successful games in European competitions.

The difficult return to Europe

During the 1994/95 season, UEFA allowed all Yugoslav football clubs to return to the European Cup, while the Yugoslav national football team remained excluded. However, the Yugoslav football clubs fell far behind in the UEFA five-year standings because they were unable to collect points because of the suspension. Thus, Red Star Belgrade was practically placed at the end of the UEFA five-year ranking or UEFA club rankings and had to start in the first round of the UEFA Cup .

The first international game was a friendly against Olympiacos in Belgrade, which Red Star won 4-1. A large flag with the inscription "Welcome Orthodox Brothers" was a gesture of welcome to the Greek fans and players on the part of the Belgrade fans. Since that meeting there has been a close friendship between these two clubs and their supporters. The first official game in a European competition took place on August 8, 1995 as part of the 1995/96 UEFA Cup against Xamax Neuchâtel . Despite all the problems, the new Red Star generation was welcomed at home by 60,000 fans, but after numerous missed opportunities, Red Star was punished with a last-minute goal and lost for the first time since the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1985/86 , i.e. in ten years, another home game. No goals were scored in the second leg and Red Star Belgrade was eliminated in the first round, which had never happened before in the club's history.

After the first season in the European Cup was a disappointment for the club, the second season was more promising. For the new season 1996/97 Vladimir Petrović was committed as a coach. With him and a new generation of players like Dejan Stanković , Perica Ognjenović and Zoran Njeguš, Red Star defeated Heart of Midlothian from Scotland in the 1996/97 European Cup Winners' Cup , and after a 1-0 defeat in Kaiserslautern, Red Star was able to make the second leg in the Decide on injury time with three goals. The reward for the 4-0 victory over the future German champions 1. FC Kaiserslautern was the duel in the round of 16 against FC Barcelona . The Catalans , led by coach Bobby Robson and assistant coach José Mourinho, were peppered with stars such as Ronaldo , Luís Figo , Christo Stoitschkow , Pep Guardiola , Gheorghe Popescu and Luis Enrique , the strongest team in the competition, which they ultimately won of the cup confirmed. Red Star lost 3-1 in Barcelona, ​​but the team did not give up. In Belgrade, Red Star took the lead through Zoran Jovičić, but Giovanni equalized and Barcelona saved themselves over time.

1999–2004: The new millennium

At the turn of the millennium, Red Star was able to celebrate national successes again. Due to the difficult financial situation, however, since the collapse of the country it has hardly been possible for the club to reach the level of before, as the best players initially moved abroad annually to finance the following season. In addition, the Kosovo war and the NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia dealt another heavy blow to the country and its football . Despite the difficult situation in the 1998/99 season, Roter Stern was able to win the trophy by beating Partizan. But after a bad start to the 1999/00 season, coach Miloljub Ostojić was sacked and replaced by Slavoljub Muslin. As a member of the glorious generation that reached the final of the 1978/79 UEFA Cup , he brought a fresh philosophy to the team and Red Star won the double . In the 2000/01 season, Red Star managed to defend the championship, but they lost the cup final against Partizan. During this time, Red Star Belgrade also took part for the first time in the qualification for the Champions League , which has replaced the European Cup since the 1992/93 season .

During the Champions League 2000/01 , Red Star played against Dynamo Kiev in the final qualifying round , but retired after a 0-0 win in Kiev and a 1-1 draw in Belgrade. On December 22, 2001, Red Star Belgrade and the Yugoslav national team tragically lost one of their players. Jovan Gojković, who played for Red Star from 1997 to 2000, died in a car accident in Belgrade. He was only 26 years old. In the 2001/02 Champions League they failed again in the last round to Bayer Leverkusen , the eventual finalists of the competition. Muslin left Red Star in September 2001 after Red Star began losing the next two championships to Partizan and was replaced by Zoran Filipović . In the 2002/03 UEFA Cup , they narrowly failed at Lazio . In 2003 Slavoljub Muslin returned as coach of Red Star Belgrade. In the 2003/04 season, the club was able to set a new record, because thanks to his strong defensive performance , in which the young Nemanja Vidić was particularly convincing, Red Star conceded only 13 goals in 30 games and finally won the championship.

2004 – today: present

2004 began with Ljupko Petrović , who took over the coaching position for the third time in the club's history. Despite a 3-2 win against PSV Eindhoven in the 2004/05 Champions League , Red Star was eliminated by a 5-0 away defeat, which was the highest defeat in the history of the club in a European competition. Still in shock, they then failed in the UEFA Cup against Zenit St. Petersburg . In the end, the championship battle was lost to Partizan . Red Star ended this unfortunate season with a defeat in the cup final. In 2005, Dragan Džajić left the president's chair and, after more than 20 years at the helm of the association, handed over his position to Dragan Stojković . In the same season, Walter Zenga took over the position of coach and for the first time in the club's history a foreigner. In the 2005/2006 season, Roter Stern won the double , but did not get beyond the group stage in the UEFA Cup. However, top European clubs became aware of Nikola Žigić when he scored two of three goals himself in the 3-1 win against AS Roma and prepared the third. The club managed to keep Žigić. In the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League Red Star met the AC Milan and superstar Kaka . The Rossoneri won 1-0 at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium and 2-1 in Belgrade, both games with a touch of the legendary games from the late 1980s. Red Star was indeed a good omen for Milan because they won the trophy after they beat Red Star, just as they did 18 years ago when Paolo Maldini was there in both meetings . Due to the elimination in the Champions League qualification, many Red Star regulars, including Žigić, moved abroad. These losses had to be compensated, but this did not work right away. Red Star was eliminated from the UEFA Cup before the group stage because there were simply too many regulars short of staff. It was then tried to gradually close the gaps in the team with their own youth players and obligations from both the domestic league and from abroad.

In the 2007/08 season, Red Star was still among the top 16 teams in the all-time UEFA rankings, just behind Dynamo Kiev and ahead of Celtic Glasgow and PSV Eindhoven . The 2007/08 UEFA Champions League was Red Star's last attempt to qualify for the Champions League. The opponents were Glasgow Rangers and Belgrade recalled the glorious European Cup games against the Scots during the 1990/91 European Cup , but this time Red Star narrowly failed and ended up in the UEFA Cup. Red Star Belgrade was able to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Cup with 1-0 wins against Polish representatives Groclin Grodzisk . The memories did not end there, however, because during the 2007/08 UEFA Cup they played in the group stage against Bayern Munich , 16 years after the legendary European Cup semi-finals in 1991. Bayern won the game with 3 : 2.

On November 15, 2007, the club's goalkeeper legend and member of the 1991 generation of World Cup winners, Zvonko Milojević, suffered serious injuries in a car accident in Germany and is still in a wheelchair today. In 2008 and 2009 the association went through the biggest crisis since the association was founded. Due to the commitment of many foreign players and high salaries, the club went into debt by 23 million euros in just two years. The crisis began at the beginning of the 2007/08 season. The then incumbent President Dragan Stojković resigned after failing to qualify for the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League . He was followed by three presidents until the 2009/10 season: Toplica Spasojević (2007/08), Dan Tana (2008/09) and Vladan Lukić. The coaches changed just as quickly as the presidents, and so seven different coaches have sat on the bench of the record champions since the 2007/08 season. However, all records were broken by the number of player changes. In three years the club recorded 69 entries and 68 exits.

The situation had calmed down a bit. The mountain of debt has already been partially dismantled and interested parties have been won for a stadium construction. Only the search for a well-paid main sponsor has turned out to be difficult due to Serbia's sports laws. On June 9, 2010, the incumbent board of directors under Vladan Lukić introduced membership in the Red Star Belgrade Association. This should work on the model of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid . Thus the association becomes the sponsorship of its members. From now on, the board is to be elected by the general assembly. This step has been expected by fans for decades. After just one week, more than 5200 fans were official members of the club.

Since July 9, 2010, Gazprom Neft , a subsidiary of Gazprom , has been the main sponsor of Red Star Belgrade. The sum of the five-year sponsorship agreement has not been published, but it is known that it is the most valuable sponsorship agreement that has ever existed in Southeast Europe . Although no championship has been won since the 2007/08 season and no qualification for the group stage of a European competition has been achieved, the trophy was won in 2010 and 2012.

After Roter Stern had to wait a long time to win the championship since winning the title in 2007, the 2013/14 season saw the 26th championship win.

In the 2015/16 season, the club's record of 23 wins in a row, set in the 2000/01 season, was broken. Between August 9, 2015 and April 2, 2016, it won 24 championship games in a row.

Around 26 years after the introduction of the UEFA Champions League , FK Roter Stern managed to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League for the first time on August 29, 2018 in Salzburg and thus the nominal return to top European football.

Stadion

Name of the stadium: Rajko Mitić (1970)

The Rajko Mitić Stadium (until 2014: Red Star Stadium ) now has a capacity of 60,000 visitors, 55,538 of which are seats. It is the third largest stadium in Southeast Europe and the largest in Serbia. It was completed in 1964 and had a capacity of over 100,000 viewers by the early 1990s. Because of its enormous capacity at the time, it was nicknamed Marakana, based on the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro . The record attendance of 110,000 people was set in the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1975 when Red Star Belgrade played against Ferencváros Budapest .

The venue was named Stadion Rajko Mitić after a decision by the club in December 2014 . The former player of the Red-Whites , Rajko Mitić (1922-2008), played for Red Star from 1945 to 1958 a total of 572 games (262 goals) and celebrated five championship titles and four cup successes with the club. For the Yugoslav national team he ran 59 times and scored 32 goals. From 1967 to 1970 he was also the coach of the Yugoslav team. Rajko Mitić is considered one of the greatest players and coaches in Yugoslav and Serbian football.

Fans

“Delije”, the Red Star fans

The club's supporters primarily come from Belgrade, but Red Star has numerous fans all over the country, which is partly due to its decades of success. According to surveys, Red Star Belgrade is the most popular football club in Serbia. The club is also very popular in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially in the Republika Srpska . Red Star also has numerous followers in all other former Yugoslav republics as well as in the Serbian and Yugoslav diaspora and is counted among the 50 most influential associations in the world.

The fans call themselves "Delije" (Eng. "Brave", singular "Delija"). This fan association was founded in 1989 by Željko Ražnatović ("Arkan") by uniting Ultras groups such as the "Zulu Warriors", "Red Devils" or "Ultras" to form the Delije and thus bringing together Red Star fans, the Slobodan Milošević or the nationalist politicians Vojislav Šešelj and Vuk Drašković supported. During the Yugoslav Wars, the members of Ražnatović's paramilitary " Serbian Volunteer Guard " were mainly recruited from among the Red Star fans.

The Delije traditionally support all Red Star teams in every sport. The “real Delije” are in the Severna tribina (north curve) of the stadium. In the 1990s, some places in the north curve were colored in such a way that they show the word "Delije" in white, Cyrillic letters, a statement made by the club to its fans. Along with the “Bad Blue Boys” from Zagreb, the “Torcida” from Split and the “Grobari”, fans of local rivals FK Partizan Belgrade, the Delije are the most important fan group in the former Yugoslavia.

Belgrade fans maintain a friendship with fans of Spartak Moscow and Olympiacos Piraeus, among others . The fans of Olympiakos can often be found at games of the football team, but also the basketball team . The reverse is also true: Serbian fans often travel to Greece for games.

The phrase “Srbija do Tokija” (Eng. “Serbia to Tokyo”) used in Serbia was originally invented by the Delije based on the 1991 World Cup victory in Tokyo.

people

Squad for the 2019/20 season

As of December 20, 2019

No. position Surname 1 TW Zoran Popović 2 FROM Milan Gajic 3 MF Branko Jovičić 5 FROM Miloš Degenek 6th FROM Radovan Pankov 7th MF Miloš Vulić 8th MF Mirko Ivanić 9 ST Milan Pavkov 10 MF Marko Marin ( captain ) 11 MF Mateo García 14th ST Richmond Boakye 15th FROM Srđan Babic 17th ST Tomané 18th FROM Jander 19th FROM Nemanja Milunović

No. position Surname 20th MF Njegoš Petrović 21st MF Veljko Simić 22nd MF Veljko Nikolić 23 FROM Milan Rodic 27 TW Nikola Vasiljevic 29 MF Dušan Jovančić 31 ST El Fardou Ben 32 TW Aleksandar Stanković 33 MF Milan Jevtović 77 FROM Marko Gobeljić 82 TW Milan Borjan 87 MF José Cañas 91 MF Rajiv van La Parra 92 ST Aleksa Vukanović 99 ST Nikola Krstović

Well-known former players

Star of the star

Red Star has a nearly 50-year-old tradition of awarding selected players who have had a noticeable impact on the history of the club the title “Star of the Star” ( Zvezdina zvezda ). So far only five players have been honored in the club's history:

• Rajko Mitić (1945–1958)
• Dragoslav Šekularac (1954–1966)
• Dragan Džajić (1961–1975, 1977–1978)
• Vladimir Petrović (1972-1982)
• Dragan Stojković (1986–1990)
• Winning team from 1990/91 in the European Cup

On May 29, 2010, on the 19th anniversary of winning the European Cup, the whole team from 1991 was declared the sixth and last star of Red Star Belgrade. A “Hall of Fame” was then opened, in which the future and previous greats of Red Star on and next to the square are to be included.

World and European Cup winner from 1991

Goalkeeper:  Milić Jovanović  Željko Kaludjerović  Stevan Stojanović ( C )

Defense:  Miodrag Belodedic  Slobodan Marović  Ivica Momčilović  Ilija Najdoski  Duško Radinović  Refik Šabanadžović  Goran Vasilijevic

Midfield:  Vladimir Jugović  Siniša Mihajlović  Robert Prosinečki  Dejan Savićević  Vlada Stošić  Rade Tošić

Attack:  Dragiša Binić  Vladan Lukic  Darko Pančev

Coach: Ljupko Petrović 

Other former players

•  Aílton
•  Predrag Đorđević
•  Marko Pantelić
•  Vladimir Beara
•  Vladislav Bogićević
•  Ilija Ivić
•  Ratomir Dujković
•  Stanislav Karasi
•  Bora Kostic
•  Darko Kovačević
•  Nebojša Krupniković
•  Petar Radenković
•  Vladimir Durković
•  Ratko Mitic
•  Slavoljub Muslin
•  Dušan Savić
•  Dejan Petković
•  Boško Djurovski
•  Milko Djurovski
•  Branko Bošković
•  Miloš Šestić
•  Milutin Šoškić
•  Velibor Vasović
•  Milan Biševac
•  Dejan Stanković
•  Dragoslav Stepanović
•  Goran Drulić
•  Nemanja Vidić
•  Nikola Žigić
•  Milan Purović
•  Bratislav Živković
•  Perica Ognjenović
•  Goran Bunjevčević
•  Marjan Marković
•  Ivan Ivanic
•  Jovan Aćimović
•  Zoran Filipović
•  Boško Janković
•  Bora Kostic
•  Mitar Mrkela
•  Vladimir Stojkovic
•  Zvonko Milojević
•  Srdjan Mrkušić
•  Stevan Ostojić
•  Miroslav Pavlović
•  Nenad Kovačević
•  Haminu Dramani

Previous trainers

• 1946/47 Svetozar Glišović 
• 1947/48 Svetozar Glišović
• 1948/49 Aleksandar Tomašević 
• 1950 Aleksandar Tomašević/ 00
• 1951 Ljubiša Broćić/ 00  
• 1952 Žarko Mihajlović/ 00  
• 1952/53 Žarko Mihajlović
• 0000/00  Bane Sekulić
• 1953/54 Ljubiša Broćić 
• 0000/00  Boško Ralić
• 1954/55 Milovan Ćirić 
• 1955/56 Milovan Ćirić
• 1956/57 Milovan Ćirić
• 1957/58 Milorad Pavic 
• 1958/59 Milorad Pavić
• 1959/60 Milorad Pavic
• 1960/61 Milorad Pavic
• 1961/62 Milorad Pavic
• 1962/63 Milorad Pavic
• 1963/64 Milorad Pavic
• 1964/65 Ivan Toplak 
• 1965/66 Ivan Toplak
• 1966/67 Miljan Miljanić 
• 1967/68 Miljan Miljanić
• 1968/69 Miljan Miljanić
• 1969/70 Miljan Miljanić
• 1970/71 Miljan Miljanić
• 1971/72 Miljan Miljanić
• 1972/73 Miljan Miljanić
• 1973/74 Miljan Miljanić
• 1974/75 Miljenko Mihić
• 1975/76 Milovan Ćirić 
• 1976/77 Gojko Zec 
• 1977/78 Gojko Zec
• 1978/79 Branko Stanković 
• 1979/80 Branko Stanković
• 1980/81 Branko Stanković
• 1981/82 Branko Stanković
• 0000/00  Stevan Ostojić
• 1982/83 Stevan Ostojić
• 1983/84 Gojko Zec
• 1984/85 Gojko Zec
• 1985/86 Gojko Zec
• 1986/87 Velibor Vasović 
• 1987/88 Velibor Vasović
• 1988/89 Branko Stanković
• 0000/00  Dragoslav Šekularac
• 1989/90 Dragoslav Šekularac
• 1990/91 Ljupko Petrović 
• 1991/92 Vladica Popović 
• 1992/93 Milan Živadinović 
• 1993/94 Milan Živadinović
• 1994/95 Ljupko Petrović 
• 1995/96 Ljupko Petrović
• 0000/00 Vladimir Petrovic
• 1996/97 Vladimir Petrović
• 0000/00  Vojin Lazarevic
• 1997/98 Milorad Kosanović 
• 1998/99 Milorad Kosanović
• 0000/00 Vojin Lazarevic
• 1999/00 Miloljub Ostojić 
• 0000/00  Slavoljub Muslin
• 2000/01 Slavoljub Muslin
• 2001/02 Slavoljub Muslin
• 0000/00  Zoran Filipović
• 2002/03 Zoran Filipović
• 2003/04 Slavoljub Muslin
• 2004/05 Ljupko Petrović
• 0000/00  Ratko Dostanić
• 2005/06 Walter Zenga 
• 2006/07 Dušan Bajević 
• 0000/00  Boško Đurovski
• 2007/08 Boško Đurovski
• 0000/00 Milorad Kosanović
• 0000/00  Aleksandar Janković
• 2008/09 Zdeněk Zeman 
• 0000/00  Čedomir Janevski
• 2009/10 Vladimir Petrović
• 0000/00 Ratko Dostanić
• 2010/11 Aleksandar Kristić 
• 0000/00  Robert Prosinečki
• 2011/12 Robert Prosinečki
• 2012/13 Aleksandar Janković
• 0000/00  Ricardo Sá Pinto
• 2013/14 Slaviša Stojanović 
• 2014/15 Nenad Lalatović 
• 2015/16 Miodrag Božović 
• 2016/17 Miodrag Božović
• 0000/00  Boško Gjurovski (interim)
• 2017/18 Vladan Milojević 
• 2018/19 Vladan Milojević
• 2019/20 Dejan Stanković 

Sponsors

The main sponsor of Red Star Belgrade has been the Russian mineral oil company Gazprom Neft since 2010 . The vehicle sponsor is Hyundai .

Previous main sponsors:

• Toyota (2006 to 2008)
• Moja Zvezda 2344 (2009 to 2010)
• Gazprom Neft (since 2010)

Trivia

Coat of arms history

Red Star Belgrade has three different coats of arms . The official crest is used on shirts and at official UEFA events. The coat of arms exists in versions with Serbian-Cyrillic or Latin script. It was introduced in the 1990s due to the UEFA regulation that a club crest must have three colors (red, white and blue). The logo that was valid until then consisted only of red and white. A third coat of arms is used in the marketing department and in all other areas of the association. This is a logo that is based on the original coat of arms of Red Star Belgrade, with the difference that gold was added as the third color more clearly than before 1990. This logo has been officially worn since the second half of the 2010/2011 season.

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  Old logo until 1995

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  Old logo from 1995 to 2010

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  Current logo since 2010

Jersey colors

Since the club was founded, the home shirt colors have always been striped in red and white. The away shirt is mostly white with a few red spots. Since the 2009 season, the third official jersey has been completely blue. In 2010 the blue jersey replaces the white away jersey. In the period from 2006 to 2008, the club also had a third set of jerseys with orange jerseys. Since the 2011/2012 season, Red Star has had a third set of jerseys, which is completely in dark red.

successes

• European Champion Clubs' Cup (1 ×): 1990/91
• World Cup (1 ×): 1991
• Mitropapokal (2 ×): 1958 as Donaucup, 1968

• National champion (29 ×):
  •  Masters of the SFR Yugoslavia (19 ×): 1951, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992
  •  Master of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro (5 ×): 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006
  •  Serbian champion (5 ×): 2007 , 2014 , 2016 , 2018 , 2019

• National Cup (24 ×):
  •  Cup winners of the SFR Yugoslavia (12 ×): 1947/48 , 1948/49 , 1950 , 1957/58 , 1958/59 , 1963/64 , 1967/68 , 1969/70 , 1970/71 , 1981/82 , 1984/85 , 1989/90
  •  Cup winners of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro (9 ×): 1992/93 , 1994/95 , 1995/96 , 1996/97 , 1998/99 , 1999/2000 , 2001/02 , 2003/04 , 2005/06
  •  Serbian Cup Winner (3 ×): 2006/07 , 2009/10 , 2011/12

• Double (10 ×): 1959, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007
• Yugoslav super master (2 ×): 1969, 1972
• Yugoslav League Champion Cup (1 ×): 1973

Tournaments won

• Belgrade tournament (3 ×): 1948, 1980, 1981
• Santiago de Chile (1 ×): 1962
• Iberico Cup (1 ×): 1971
• Teresa Erera Cup (1 ×): 1971
• JU Cup (1 ×): 1973
• Kosta del Sol (1 ×): 1973
• Naranja Cup (1 ×): 1973
• Danube Cup (1 ×): 1976
• Kosta Verde Cup (1 ×): 1982
• New Year's tournament (1 ×): 1984
• Città di Verona (1 ×): 1991
• Bastia tournament (1 ×): 1995
• Leipzig tournament (1 ×): 2004
• Chicago Fire Sister Cities International Cup (1 ×): 2010

Red star in the European Cup

→ Main article : FK Red Star Belgrade / European Cup statistics

Red Star Belgrade's greatest success was winning the European Cup in Bari against Olympique Marseille in the 1990/91 season .

Web links

Commons : FK Red Star Belgrade  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Football department website
• Red Star's European Cup triumph: first victory, then war. In: Spiegel Online . May 5, 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Yugoslavia - All-Time Table 1946 / 47–1991 / 92 (English)
2. ^ Jean-Pierre Hombach: Real Madrid . 2012, ISBN 978-1-4710-7651-0 , p. 251.
3. ↑ ^{a b} mojacrvenazvezda.net: Istorija FK Crvena zvezda o kojoj se (ne) priča (Serbian)
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} sd-crvenazvezda.net: ПРИЧА О СД (Serbian-Cyrillic)
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Glas javnosti : Šest decenija Crvene zvezde (Serbian)
6. ↑ crvenazvezdafk.com: Историја Црвене звезде (Serbian-Cyrillic)
7. ↑ Official club website; Istorija
8. ↑ News.de; Red star burns up ( memento from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Mondo.rs; Zvezda smanjila dug, dolaze sponzori (dt. Debts declining, sponsors coming)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Transfermarkt.de; Red Star Belgrade Transfers
11. ↑ B92.net; Najava investicije u Crvenu zvezdu? May 10, 2010
12. ↑ Sportal.rs; Kome sve Zvezda duguje? January 13, 2010 ( Memento from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Official club website; Budi deo Zvezde! June 9, 2010
14. ↑ Budideozvezde.rs; Učlanjenem vraćamo club Zvezdašima. June 26, 2010
15. ↑ Official club website; Gazprom generalni sponsor Zvezde! July 9, 2010
16. ↑ Red Star fans celebrate with Platzsturm in Salzburg. In: heute.at . August 29, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Bleacher Report : 10 Most Hostile World Football Stadiums - Marakana; Red Star Belgrade, Serbia (English)
18. ↑ Official club website; Stadion
19. ↑ World Football: Ranking the Top 50 Most Influential Teams on the Planet. In: bleacherreport.com .
20. ↑ Holger Raschke: Yugoslavia in the curve: Representations of socialist Yugoslavia as a political component of football fan culture in the (post) Yugoslav region . In: Southeastern European Hefts . No. 4 (1) , 2015, pp. 80 ff . “At Red Star Belgrade, Željko Ražnatović, known by the nickname“ Arkan ”, brought the fans together under one roof by bringing together several Ultras groups and founding the Delije group in 1989. Arkan also made a decisive contribution to overcoming the internal political camp formation. Some of the Red Star fans supported Slobodan Milošević and another part supported the two dueling nationalist politicians Vojislav Šešelj and Vuk Drašković. [...] One of the best-known paramilitary units was the Serbian Volunteer Guard (Srpska dobrovoljačka garda), also known as “the Tigers”, which was organized by Željko Ražnatović Arkan and was mainly composed of fans of Red Star Belgrade. [...] The amalgamation of many fan groups with mostly English names at Red Star Belgrade such as Zulu Warriors, Red Devils or Ultras to the Delije marks a trend towards retraditionalization, not least through the introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet as the dominant font on banners from now on , which the "Serbian" should underline. "
21. ↑ "Delije" The lautesten guys from Belgrade. In: transfermarkt.de , July 20, 2009.
22. ↑ First team. FK Crvena zvezda, accessed December 20, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Red Star Belgrade Team. www.transfermarkt.de, accessed on December 20, 2019 . 
24. ^ Official club website Generacija 1991. ( Memento from April 3, 2012 in the internet archive ) šesta Zvezdina zvezda! May 30, 2010
25. ↑ Zvezda dobija "šestu zvezdu" i otvara "Kuću slavnih". On: Blic.rs. May 28, 2010, accessed April 7, 2014.
26. ↑ crvenazvezdafk.com Gazprom Neft new main sponsor
27. ↑ Hyundai.rs Hyundai vehicle sponsor of Red Star Belgrade
28. ↑ www.UEFA.com; Crvena Zvezda. June 26, 2010
29. ↑ Budideozvezde.rs; Front page coat of arms. June 26, 2010
30. ↑ sportal.rs; Zvezda u plavom. June 26, 2010 ( Memento from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
31. ↑ Picasa Web Albums; Orange jersey. June 26, 2010 ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )