FK Partizan

For other uses, see FK Partizan (disambiguation).
For the parent multi-sport club, see JSD Partizan.

Partizan
Full nameFudbalski klub Partizan
Nickname(s)Parni valjak (The Steamroller)
Crno-beli (The Black-Whites)
Short namePAR, PTZ, PRT
Founded4 October 1945; 79 years ago (1945-10-04)
GroundPartizan Stadium
Capacity29,775[1]
OwnerJSD Partizan
PresidentRasim Ljajić
Head coachSavo Milošević
LeagueSerbian SuperLiga
2023–24Serbian SuperLiga, 2nd of 16
Websitepartizan.rs
Current season
Active sport clubs of JSD Partizan
AthleticsAuto racing3x3
Basketball
(Men's)		Basketball
(Women's)		Bowling
BoxingChessCycling
EsportsFootballGymnastics
HandballIce HockeyJudo
KarateMMARowing
Rugby UnionShootingSwimming
Table tennisTennisVolleyball
(Men's)
Volleyball
(Women's)		Water Polo
(Men's)		Water Polo
(Women's)
WeightliftingWrestlingRugby league
FutsalFencingHandball
(Women's)
Closed sport clubs of JSD Partizan
Alpinisme-escaladeSkiingBaseball
Bowling
(Women's)		Table tennis
(Women's)

Fudbalski klub Partizan (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Партизан, IPA: [fûdbalskiː klûːb partǐzaːn]; lit. 'Football Club Partizan') is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade. It forms a major part of the JSD Partizan multi-sport club.[2] The club plays in the Serbian SuperLiga and has spent its entire history in the top tier of Yugoslav and Serbian football, winning a total of 46 official trophies,[3] finishing in the Yugoslav league all-time table as second. Its home ground is the Partizan Stadium, where the team have played since 1949.[4] Partizan holds records such as playing in the first European Champions Cup match on 4 September 1955,[5] as well as becoming the first club from Southeast Europe to reach the European Champions Cup final, when it did so in 1966.[6] Partizan was the first Serbian club to compete in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

The club has a long-standing rivalry with Red Star Belgrade. Matches between these two clubs are known as the Eternal derby ("Večiti derbi") and rate as one of the greatest cross-town clashes in the world.[7] Partizan also has supporters in some of the former-Yugoslav republics and in the Serbian diaspora.[8][9] Their popular nickname 'The Steamroller' (Parni valjak) was originally used in the press report after the 7–1 hammering of Red Star at the 13th Eternal Derby on 6 December 1953.[10] This nickname was later embedded in the lyrics of the club anthem.[11]

Partizan Youth Academy is one of the most renowned and export-oriented in Europe. CIES (University of Neuchâtel International Centre for Sports Studies) Football Observatory report of November 2015 ranks Partizan at the top place of training clubs out of the 31 European leagues surveyed.[12] CIES report of 2019 confirmed Partizan as the most productive training club in Europe, with 75 of their academy graduates currently playing across 31 European top divisions.[13]

  1. ^ "STADIUM". partizan.rs. Archived from the original on 2 May 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Crno-beli rođendan" (in Serbian). Sportske.net. Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Trophies". Partizan.rs. Archived from the original on 26 June 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Stadium info". Partizan.rs. Archived from the original on 8 March 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  5. ^ "FK Partizan". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  6. ^ "1965/66: Madrid make it six". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Partizan Beograd – The Black and Whites of Belgrade". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 14 January 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Makedonski "grobari" imaju stotinak karata za meč sa Škendijom" (in Serbian). Blic. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  9. ^ "Pola Srbije navija za Crvenu zvezdu" (in Serbian). Večernje novosti. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  10. ^ "Partizan – Zvezda 7:1 Derbi kada su Novinari čestitali Protivniku na pobedi! (video)". Informer (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  11. ^ "Himna Partizana Tekst Pesme – Partizan". www.tekstovi.org. 13 April 2014. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Monthly Report 9". www.football-observatory.com. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  13. ^ "Weekly Post 271". football-observatory.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.