FK Partizan

FK Partizan

Fudbalski klub Partizan Beograd (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Партизан Београд), commonly known as Partizan Belgrade or simply Partizan, is a professional Serbian football club based in Belgrade, and the major part of the Partizan Sports Association. The club is the second most successful club in Serbia, having won a total of 38 trophies, including 24 national championships, 12 national cups, 1 national supercup as well 1 Mitropa Cup, and finished the Yugoslav league all-time table as 2nd.

Partizan was founded by young high officers of the Yugoslav People's Army in 1945, as a part of the Yugoslav Sports Association Partizan. Their home ground is the Partizan Stadium, where they have played since 1949. Partizan holds records such as playing in the first European Champions Cup match in 1955, as well as becoming the first Balkan and Eastern European who reached the European Champions Cup final, so in 1966.

The club has a long-standing rivalry with Red Star, also from the capital city of Belgrade. The matches between these two clubs are known as Eternal derby and rates as one of the great cross-town clashes in the world. In September 2009, British Daily Mail ranked the Red Star – Partizan derby 4th among the 10 greatest football rivalries of all time.

According to a recent poll, Partizan is the second most popular football club in Serbia. The club is also very popular in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially in the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska. They also have many supporters in all other former Yugoslavian republics and in the Serbian and Yugoslav diaspora.