FK Partizan in European football

FK Partizan in European football

Club	FK Partizan
First entry	1955–56 European Cup
Last entry	2015–16 UEFA Europa League
Titles
Champions League	1966 Runner-up

FK Partizan is a professional association football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1945, they were the first Yugoslav and Serbian club to enter European competition, playing the European Cup in the 1955–56 season. They opened the competition in a match against Sporting CP on 4 September 1955. They also became the first Eastern European club to play in the European Cup final, losing by Real Madrid in 1966.

Including all European competitions, midfielder Saša Ilić holds the club record for the most appearances, with 80, and is also the club's second place goalscorer with 15 goals, behind Brazilian striker Cléo who scored 16 goals.

Best results in European competitions

Season	Achievement	Notes
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
1955–56	Quarter Final	eliminated by Real Madrid 0–4 in Madrid, 3–0 in Belgrade[1]
1961–62	Round of 16	eliminated by Juventus 1–2 in Belgrade, 0–5 in Turin[2]
1963–64	Quarter Final	eliminated by Inter 0–2 in Belgrade, 1–2 in Milano[3]
1965–66	Runner-up	lost to Real Madrid 1–2 in Brussels[4]
Mitropa Cup
1977–78	Winner	defeated Honved Budapest 1–0 in Belgrade
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
1989–90	Quarter Final	eliminated by Dinamo Bucureşti 1–2 in Bucureşti, 0–2 in Titograd*[5]
UEFA Cup / Europa League
1974–75	Round of 16	eliminated by Köln 1–0 in Belgrade, 1–5 in Köln[6]
1984–85	Round of 16	eliminated by Videoton 0–5 in Székesfehérvár, 2–0 in Belgrade[7]
1990–91	Round of 16	eliminated by Inter 0–3 in Milano, 1–1 in Belgrade[8]
2004–05	Round of 16	eliminated by CSKA Moscow 1–1 in Belgrade,[9] 0–2 in Krasnodar*[10]

• This match was played at Pod Goricom Stadium in Titograd instead of at Partizan's home ground in Belgrade since UEFA barred Partizan again from playing home matches within a 300 km radius of their home ground after more crowd trouble in the previous round's home tie vs FC Groningen.
• This match was played at Krasnodar instead at Moscow due to a bad weather conditions.

Biggest win in UEFA competition:

Season		Match		Score
UEFA Champions League
2009–10		Partizan – Rhyl F.C.		8–0[11]
1999–00		Partizan – Flora Tallinn		6–0[12]
1965–66		Partizan – AC Sparta Prague		5–0[13]
UEFA Europa League
2001–02		Partizan – FC Santa Coloma		7–1[14]
1988–89		Partizan – PFC Slavia Sofia		5–0[15]
1974–75		Partizan – Portadown F.C.		5–0[16]

Matches

Only official matches included (European Cup / Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup / Europa League and Inter-Cities Fairs Cup matches).

SFR Yugoslavia era (1955-1992)

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1955–56	European Cup	R1		Sporting	5–2	3–3	8–5
		Quarter final		Real Madrid	3–0	0–4	3–4
1961–62	European Cup	QR		Sporting	2–0	1–1	3–1
		R1		Juventus	1–2	0–5	1–7
1962–63	European Cup	QR		CSKA Red Flag	1–4	1–2	2–6
1963–64	European Cup	QR		Anorthosis Famagusta	3–0	3–1	6–1
		R1		Jeunesse Esch	6–2	1–2	7–4
		Quarter final		Internazionale	0–2	1–2	1–4
1965–66	European Cup	QR		Nantes	2–0	2–2	4–2
		R1		Werder Bremen	3–0	0–1	3–1
		Quarter final		Sparta Prague	5–0	1–4	6–4
		Semi final		Manchester United	2–0	0–1	2–1
		Final		Real Madrid	1–2
1967–68	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1		Lokomotiv Plovdiv	5–1	1–1	6–2
		R2		Leeds United	1–2	1–1	2–3
1969–70	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1		Újpest Dózsa	2–1	0–2	2–3
1970–71	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1		Dynamo Dresden	0–0	0–6	0–6
1974–75	UEFA Cup	R1		Górnik Zabrze	3–0	2–2	5–2
		R2		Portadown	5–0	1–1	6–1
		R3		Köln	1–0	1–5	2–5
1976–77	European Cup	R1		Dynamo Kyiv	0–2	0–3	0–5
1978–79	European Cup	R1		Dynamo Dresden	2–0	0–2	2–2 (4–5 p)
1983–84	European Cup	R1		Viking	5–1	0–0	5–1
		R2		Dynamo Berlin	1–0	0–2	1–2
1984–85	UEFA Cup	R1		Rabat Ajax	2–0	2–0	4–0
		R2		Queens Park Rangers	4–0	2–6	6–6 (a)
		R3		Videoton	2–0	0–5	2–5
1985–86	UEFA Cup	R1		Portimonense	4–0	0–1	4–1
		R2		Nantes	1–1	0–4	1–5
1986–87	UEFA Cup	R1		Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–3	0–1	1–4
1987–88	UEFA Cup	R1		Flamurtari	2–1	0–2	2–3
1988–89	UEFA Cup	R1		Slavia Sofia	5–0	5–0	10–0
		R2		Roma	4–2	0–2	4–4 (a)
1989–90	Cup Winners' Cup	R1		Celtic	2–1	4–5	6–6 (a)
		R2		Groningen	3–1	3–4	6–5
		Quarter final		Dinamo Bucureşti	0–2	1–2	1–4
1990–91	UEFA Cup	R1		Hibernians	2–0	3–0	5–0
		R2		Real Sociedad	1–0	0–1	1–1 (5–4 p)
		R3		Internazionale	1–1	0–3	1–4
1991–92	UEFA Cup	R1		Sporting de Gijón	2–0	0–2	2–2 (2–3 p)

FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro era (1992-2006)

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1996–97	UEFA Cup	QR1		Maccabi Haifa	3–1	1–0	4–1
		QR2		Naţional Bucureşti	0–0	0–1	0–1
1997–98	Champions League	QR1		Croatia Zagreb	1–0	0–5	1–5
1998–99	Cup Winners' Cup	QR		Dinamo Batumi	2–0	0–1	2–1
		R1		Newcastle United	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		R2		Lazio	2–3	0–0	2–3
1999–00	Champions League	QR1		Flora Tallinn	6–0	4–1	10–1
		QR2		Rijeka	3–1	3–0	6–1
		QR3		Spartak Moscow	1–3	0–2	1–5
	UEFA Cup	R1		Leeds United	1–3	0–1	1–4
2000–01	UEFA Cup	QR		Sliema Wanderers	4–1	1–2	5–3
		R1		Porto	1–1	0–1	1–2
2001–02	UEFA Cup	QR		Santa Coloma	7–1	1–0	8–1
		R1		Rapid Wien	1–0	1–5	2–5
2002–03	Champions League	QR2		Hammarby	4–0	1–1	5–1
		QR3		Bayern Munich	0–3	1–3	1–6
	UEFA Cup	R1		Sporting CP	3–3	3–1	6–4
		R2		Slavia Prague	3–1	1–5	4–6
2003–04	Champions League	QR2		Djurgården	1–1	2–2	3–3 (a)
		QR3		Newcastle United	0–1	1–0	1–1 (4–3 p)
		Group F		Olympique Marseille	1–1	0–3	4th out of 4
				Porto	1–1	1–2
				Real Madrid	0–0	0–1
2004–05	UEFA Cup	QR2		Oţelul	1–0	0–0	1–0
		R1		Dinamo Bucureşti	3–1	0–0	3–1
		Group E		Egaleo	4–0		3rd out of 5
				Lazio		2–2
				Villarreal	1–1
				Middlesbrough		0–3
		Round of 32		Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–2	1–0	3–2
		Round of 16		CSKA Moscow	1–1	0–2	1–3
2005–06	Champions League	QR2		Sheriff	1–0	1–0	2–0
		QR3		Artmedia	0–0	0–0	0–0 (3–4 p)
	UEFA Cup	R1		Maccabi Petah Tikva	2–5	2–0	4–5

Serbia era (2006-present)

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2006–07	UEFA Cup	QR2		Maribor	2–1	1–1	3–2
		R1		Groningen	4–2	0–1	4–3
		Group A		Livorno	1–1		5th out of 5
				Maccabi Haifa		0–1
				Auxerre	1–4
				Rangers		0–1
2007–08	UEFA Cup	QR1		Zrinjski	5–0	6–1	11–1 (disq.)
2008–09	Champions League	QR2		Inter Baku	2–0	1–1	3–1
		QR3		Fenerbahçe	2–2	1–2	3–4
	UEFA Cup	R1		Timişoara	1–0	2–1	3–1
		Group C		Sevilla		0–3	5th out of 5
				Sampdoria	1–2
				VfB Stuttgart		0–2
				Standard Liège	0–1
2009–10	Champions League	QR2		Rhyl	8–0	4–0	12–0
		QR3		APOEL	1–0	0–2	1–2
	Europa League	Play off		Žilina	1–1	2–0	3–1
		Group J		Toulouse	2–3	0–1	4th out of 4
				Club Brugge	2–4	0–2
				Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	1–4
2010–11	Champions League	QR2		Pyunik	3–1	1–0	4–1
		QR3		Helsinki	3–0	2–1	5–1
		Play off		Anderlecht	2–2	2–2	4–4 (3–2 p)
		Group H		Arsenal	1–3	1–3	4th out of 4
				Shakhtar Donetsk	0–3	0–1
				Braga	0–1	0–2
2011–12	Champions League	QR2		Škendija	4–0	1–0	5–0
		QR3		Genk	1–1	1–2	2–3
	Europa League	Play off		Shamrock Rovers	1–2	1–1	2–3
2012–13	Champions League	QR2		Valletta	3–1	4–1	7–2
		QR3		AEL Limassol	0–1	0–1	0–2
	Europa League	Play off		Tromsø	1–0	2–3	3–3 (a)
		Group H		Internazionale	1–3	0–1	3rd out of 4
				Rubin Kazan	1–1	0–2
				Neftchi Baku	0–0	1–1
2013–14	Champions League	QR2		Shirak	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		QR3		Ludogorets Razgrad	0–1	1–2	1–3
	Europa League	Play off		Thun	1–0	0–3	1–3
2014–15	Champions League	QR2		HB Tórshavn	3–0	3–1	6–1
		QR3		Ludogorets Razgrad	2–2	0–0	2–2 (a)
	Europa League	Play off		Neftchi Baku	3–2	2–1	5–3
		Group C		Tottenham Hotspur	0–0	0–1	4th out of 4
				Beşiktaş	0–4	1–2
				Asteras Tripoli	0–0	0–2
2015–16	Champions League	QR2		Dila Gori	1–0	2–0	3–0
		QR3		Steaua București	4–2	1–1	5–3
		Play off		BATE Borisov	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
	Europa League	Group L		AZ Alkmaar	3–2	2–1	3rd out of 4
				Augsburg	1–3	3–1
				Athletic Bilbao	0–2	1–5

Notices:

• disq. – disqualification

Overall record

By country

FK Partizan record in European football by country

Country[lower-alpha 1]	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Win%
Albania	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	50.00
Andorra	2	2	0	0	8	1	+7	100.000
Armenia	4	2	2	0	5	2	+3	50.00
Austria	2	1	0	1	2	5	−3	50.00
Azerbaijan	6	3	3	0	9	5	+4	50.00
Belarus	2	1	0	1	2	2	+0	50.00
Belgium	7	0	3	4	8	14	−6	00.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	2	0	0	11	1	+10	100.000
Bulgaria	10	3	3	4	21	13	+8	30.00
Croatia	4	3	0	1	7	6	+1	75.00
Cyprus	6	3	0	3	7	5	+2	50.00
Czech Republic	4	2	0	2	10	10	+0	50.00
England	17	4	2	11	16	27	−11	23.53
Estonia	2	2	0	0	10	1	+9	100.000
Faroe Islands	2	2	0	0	6	1	+5	100.000
Finland	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	100.000
France	9	1	3	5	9	19	−10	11.11
Germany	17	5	1	11	14	32	−18	29.41
Georgia	4	3	0	1	5	1	+4	75.00
Greece	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2	33.33
Hungary	4	2	0	2	4	8	−4	50.00
Ireland	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	00.00
Israel	5	3	0	2	8	7	+1	60.00
Italy	14	1	4	9	14	31	−17	07.14
Luxembourg	2	1	0	1	7	4	+3	50.00
Macedonia	2	2	0	0	5	0	+5	100.000
Malta	8	7	0	1	21	5	+16	87.50
Moldova	2	2	0	0	2	0	+2	100.000
Netherlands	6	4	0	2	15	11	+4	66.67
Northern Ireland	2	1	1	0	6	1	+5	50.00
Norway	4	2	1	1	8	4	+4	50.00
Poland	2	1	1	0	5	2	+3	50.00
Portugal	12	3	5	4	24	19	+5	25.00
Romania	12	5	4	3	13	10	+3	41.67
Russia	6	0	2	4	3	11	−8	00.00
Scotland	3	1	0	2	6	7	−1	33.33
Slovakia	4	1	3	0	3	1	+2	25.00
Slovenia	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	50.00
Spain	13	3	2	8	9	21	−12	23.08
Sweden	4	1	3	0	8	4	+4	25.00
Switzerland	2	1	0	1	1	3	−2	50.00
Turkey	4	0	1	3	4	10	−6	00.00
Ukraine	8	2	1	5	5	15	−10	25.00
Wales	2	2	0	0	12	0	+12	100.000

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win%
Champions League / European Cup	101	40	22	39	156	128	+28	39.60
Cup Winners' Cup	12	4	1	7	19	21	–2	33.33
Europa League / UEFA Cup	113	44	22	47	163	163	+0	38.73
UEFA	226	88	45	93	338	312	+26	38.83
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	8	2	3	3	10	14	–4	25.00
Pre-UEFA	8	2	3	3	10	14	–4	25.00
Mitropa Cup	28	13	9	6	60	34	+26	46.42
Non-UEFA	28	13	9	6	60	34	+26	46.42
Total	262	103	57	102	408	360	+48	39.23

UEFA ranking

As of 2nd October 2015^[17]

Rank	Team	Points
110	Partizan Belgrade	14.825

Notes and references

1. The table excludes former nations such as East Germany and the Soviet Union.

1. "Partizan Belgrade - Real Madrid". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
2. "Partizan Belgrade - Juventus". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
3. "Partizan Belgrade - Inter Milano". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
4. "Partizan Belgrade - Real Madrid". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
5. "Partizan Belgrade - Dinamo Bucureşti". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
6. "Partizan Belgrade - Köln". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
7. "Partizan Belgrade - Videoton". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
8. "Partizan Belgrade - Inter Milano". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
9. "Partizan Belgrade - CSKA Moscow". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
10. "CSKA Moscow - Partizan Belgrade". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
11. "Partizan Belgrade - Rhyl". soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
12. "Partizan Belgrade - Flora Tallinn". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
13. "Partizan Belgrade - Sparta Prague". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
14. "Partizan Belgrade - FC Santa Coloma". soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
15. "Partizan Belgrade - PFC Slavia Sofia". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
16. "Partizan Belgrade - Portadown FC". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
17. "Club coefficients". UEFA. Retrieved 2 October 2015.

External links

• Official website (Serbian) (English)
• FK Partizan at UEFA.com