Описание
Fudbalski klub Partizan (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Партизан, English: Partizan Football Club) is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Being a household name in European football it holds records such as playing in the first UEFA Champions League match in 1955,becoming the first Eastern European club to play in the UEFA Champions League final in 1966, and becoming the first club from Serbia to take part in the UEFA Champions League group stages subsequent to the breakup of the Former Yugoslavia. It is a major part of the Sports Association Partizan. The second division team FK Teleoptik is also owned by Partizan. According to UEFA, Partizan has the second-ranking youngster school in Europe, after Ajax Amsterdam.According to a recent poll, Partizan Belgrade is the second most popular football club in Serbia, with 32.2 percent of the population supporting the club.
History :
Partizan was founded on October 4, 1945, as part of the Yugoslav Sports Association, and was named after the partisans, the communist military formation during the World War II in Yugoslavia. The club is still a member of the same sports association, which includes 25 clubs in different sports, as well as the Football Association of Serbia, but it has complete independence regarding organisation, management, finances, material goods and facilities.
The club was initially formed under the Yugoslav People's Army, and the stadium was named Stadion JNA (Stadium of Yugoslav People's Army). In the early 50's, the club became independent from the Army. The first international match was played on December 6, 1945, against CSKA Moscow (then known as CDKA).
Partizan participated in the first ever Champions Cup match, that took place on September 3, 1955 in Lisbon against Sporting. The final result was 3-3. Partizan also became the first club from Eastern Europe to have played in a European Cup final against Real Madrid, after eliminating Manchester United in the semifinals. In more recent years, the club played in the 2003-04 UEFA Champions League, after eliminating Newcastle United in the last qualifying round. Partizan also played in the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup in 2004-05.
Partizan's current colors are black and white, after wearing blue and red for the first thirteen years.
Honours : * National Championships (20) o SFR Yugoslavia Champions (11): 1946-47, 1948-49, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1964-65, 1975-76, 1977-78, 1982-83, 1985-86, 1986-87 o FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro Champions (8): 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2004-05 o Champions of Serbia (1): 2007-08 * National Cup (10) o SFR Yugoslavia Cup winners (5): 1947, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1989 o FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro Cup winners (4): 1992, 1994, 1998, 2001 o Serbian Cup winners (1): 2008
Internationally, Partizan was the runner-up in the European Cup in 1966, winner of the Mitropa Cup in 1978, quarterfinalist of the European Cup in 1964, quarterfinalist of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1989, and have reached the round-of-16 stage in the UEFA Cup four times.
Stadium and Sports Centre
The club's stadium is now named Stadion Partizana, although it was known as Stadion JNA (Stadium of the Yugoslav People's Army) for most of its history, and is still sometimes called that. The stadium seated approximately 55,000 people before UEFA's law of having seats across the entire stadium. The current capacity is 32,710 people.
The stadium was used from the mid-fifties until 1987 as the final point of yearly festivities called the Day of Youth. Each year on May 25th, the baton of the Relay of Youth was finally passed into the hands of Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia.
The sports centre Partizan-Teleoptik, also known as "Zemunelo" (the name being composed to show the resemblance to A.C. Milan's sports centre, Milanello), is situa
