Honours and Achievments
Internationally, Red Star is the most successful football club from Serbia in every European competition and the only Serbian club that has won an UEFA competition, winning the European Cup/UEFA Champions League in 1991 in Bari, Italy. The same year in Tokyo, Japan, the club won the Intercontinental Cup and also played in European Super Cup final which Red Star lost to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup champion Manchester United where only one match was played in Manchester of two supposed, because of UN economic and sport sanctions imposed on Serbia that lasted until 1995 and influenced much more to later Red Star and generally Serbian European success by having excluded Serbian teams from all European and international competitions. The club also had previously made it to the 1979 UEFA Cup Final, losing to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Red Star played in semi-finals of every European competition(UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Cup Winners Cup) and played in two Europeans finals (UEFA Europa League in 1979 and European Champion Clubs Cup in 1991). Red Star have played 15 times in quarter-finals in European competitions. Red Star has also won 49 domestic trophies making them the most successful club in Serbia with a record 25 national league titles and 24 national Cups. Red Star also won two regional trophies of Mitropa Cup in 1958 and in 1968. And among many records Red Star has the longest unbeaten record in the league, and winning streak of 17 games in a row.
Partizan participated in the first ever 1955–56 European Cup match that took place on 3 September 1955 in Lisbon against Sporting. The final result of this match was 3-3, having won by 5–2 in the second leg in Belgrade. Partizan also played in 1966 European Cup Final, losing it to Real Madrid 1–2, after eliminating Manchester United in the semifinals. In more recent years, the club played in the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League season, after eliminating Newcastle United on the penalties in the last qualifying round and also in the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League season after eliminating R.S.C. Anderlecht again on penalties in the last qualifying round. By 2011, Partizan has won 25 national league titles, 12 national Cups, Mitropa Cup in 1978 and a Yugoslav Supercup in 1989.
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