50 Facts About FK Partizan

Fudbalski klub Partizan, sometimes known as Partizan Belgrade in English, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade.

FK Partizan was founded by young high officers of the Yugoslav People's Army in 1945 in Belgrade, as part of the Yugoslav Sports Association FK Partizan.

FK Partizan holds records such as playing in the first European Champions Cup match on 4 September, 1955, as well as becoming the first Balkan and Eastern European football club to reach the European Champions Cup final, when it did so in 1966.

FK Partizan was the first Yugoslavian club to compete in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

FK Partizan has many supporters in many of the former-Yugoslav republics and in the Serbian diaspora.

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FK Partizan was founded on 4 October 1945 in Belgrade, as a football section of the Central House of the Yugoslav Army "FK Partizan", and was named in honour of the Partisans, the communist military formation who fought against fascism during World War II in Yugoslavia.

At the time, just months after the World War II in Yugoslavia ended, no organized football competition was yet restored, so FK Partizan played only friendly games and tournaments both home and abroad.

The decision to rely mostly on talented youngsters scouted from all over the country quickly gave results – FK Partizan took three consecutive championship titles, in 1961,1962 and 1963, the first title hat-trick in the Yugoslav First League.

The semi-finals would see FK Partizan taking part in an emotional tie that would bring Manchester United, in their first season back in the European Cup after the Munich air disaster, returning to the scene of their final game, at the JNA Stadium, before embarking on that fateful journey home.

FK Partizan's babies achieved the greatest success in history of FK Partizan, a place in the 1966 European Cup Final against Real Madrid.

Still, FK Partizan became the first club from the Balkans and Eastern Europe to have played in a European Cup final.

On 11 July 1976, in Ljubljana, FK Partizan played the last game of the season against Olimpija and needed a win to clinch the title ahead of rivals Hajduk Split.

FK Partizan helped Partizan win the league by scoring 15 goals, and immediately became a fan favourite.

FK Partizan was only 22 years old, and at the peak of his popularity.

FK Partizan spent the final years in Yugoslavia undergoing significant organizational changes.

FK Partizan only won the 1989 national cup, 32 years after the last victory in that competition.

That year, FK Partizan took three trophies which is a club record in one season.

In 1987, FK Partizan signed Chinese national team players Jia Xiuquan and Liu Haiguang and they entered history as they, along Xie Yuxin and Gu Guangming, were the first Chinese footballers ever to have played in Europe.

Notwithstanding, FK Partizan won during the war two titles in a row, in 1993 and 1994.

The next two championships FK Partizan won came in 1996 and 1997, but after only few years of peace, the Yugoslav clubs stood again before difficult times.

In 1997, FK Partizan was reintroduced to European competitions following the lift of the UEFA ban on clubs from FR Yugoslavia, but while the national team continued where they had stopped in the spring of 1992, the clubs had all their results erased and were treated as the beginners in the European competitions.

Later on, FK Partizan was drawn in a tough group with Real Madrid, Porto and Marseille.

FK Partizan became the youngest head coach in the history of Partizan.

Stanojevic took over the club in very difficult period and managed to win the championship in 2010, although FK Partizan was 10 points behind from the 1st placed Red Star Belgrade.

FK Partizan then signed former Chelsea manager Avram Grant, who was able to preserve the lead from the half-season.

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FK Partizan led Partizan to their fifth consecutive league title but lost three times against fierce rivals Red Star.

In summer of 2013, FK Partizan eliminated Shirak and lost against Ludogorets Razgrad.

FK Partizan is after the draw, placed in Group C with Tottenham Hotspur, Besiktas and Asteras Tripoli.

FK Partizan began the Europa League in excellent form and remained undefeated against the English giant Tottenham, but in the next four games, the club were defeated.

FK Partizan made three victories in group stage, but he failed to get in Round of 32.

FK Partizan failed to defend the title, but won Serbian Cup after five years, without conceding goal.

FK Partizan is first team who managed to win the Serbian Cup without conceding goal in history.

In July and August 2019, FK Partizan secured their ninth participation in the group stage of UEFA Europa League.

Under Savo Milosevic's leadership, FK Partizan knocked out Connah's Quay Nomads FC, Yeni Malatyaspor and Molde FK in the qualifiers.

FK Partizan beat Astana on matchday 2, but lost the two following games against Manchester United.

In October 1945, FK Partizan adopted as their first crest a blue disc with a yellow bordered red five-pointed star in the middle, which symbolized communism, and contained the abbreviation JA inside it.

FK Partizan used this emblem until 1958, although it changed its equipment colors of blue and red to black and white a year before.

However, there is an alternative crest, which FK Partizan supporters call the "shovel" but it is never used in official matches.

In 1950, FK Partizan briefly had an all-white shirt with a blue diagonal stripe, besides an all blue shirt.

Since then, FK Partizan has played mainly in black and white striped shirts, with black or white shorts and socks.

FK Partizan is the club with the most league titles and cup wins in youth competition in Serbia.

FK Partizan has won several awards for its youth work, including "Best European Youth Work" in 2006, and the club's youth school has been declared the second-best in Europe after that of Ajax.

FK Partizan's academy has produced numerous professional football players or Yugoslav and Serbian internationals.

The other theory is that the name comes from a misinterpretation of the name of the street on which FK Partizan's stadium is located – "Humska", when actually the street was named after Serbian medieval land of Hum, nowadays part of Herzegovina and South Dalmatia.

FK Partizan played 874 games in two turns, from 1996 and 2005 and from 2010 till 2019.

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Over 150 footballers from FK Partizan have played for the Yugoslav and Serbian national football teams.

FK Partizan are record-holders of the Yugoslav First League in terms of points acquired during a campaign, with 107, and are the only league-winning team to have gone undefeated during one season.

FK Partizan became the first champion of Yugoslavia in 1947, the first Yugoslav Cup winner, in 1947, and therefore the first double winner in the country.

FK Partizan won the most national championships since the dissolution of Yugoslavia, becoming champions 13 times.

FK Partizan operates as a sports association, as part of FK Partizan Sports Association, which includes 28 clubs in different sports, but it has complete independence regarding organisation, management, finances, material goods and facilities.