Predrag Pavlović

Predrag Pavlović

Personal information
Full name	Predrag Pavlović
Date of birth	19 June 1986
Place of birth	Kruševac, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current team	Sūduva
Youth career
	Napredak
2002–2004	Partizan
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2004–2006	Partizan	0	(0)
2004–2005	→ Napredak (loan)	23	(5)
2005	→ Teleoptik (loan)	19	(1)
2006	→ Napredak (loan)	18	(3)
2006–2010	Napredak	107	(19)
2010	Debrecen	0	(0)
2010	Debrecen II	6	(0)
2011	Metalac Gornji Milanovac	13	(2)
2011–2013	OFK Beograd	31	(4)
2014–2015	Novi Pazar	65	(12)
2016–	Sūduva	0	(0)
National team
2002–2003	Serbia and Montenegro U17[1]	6	(4)
2005	Serbia and Montenegro U19[1]	4	(0)
2006–2008	Serbia U21[1]	7	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 January 2016. † Appearances (goals)

Predrag Pavlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Павловић; born 19 June 1986) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for Sūduva, mainly as a right winger.

Club career

Born in Kruševac, Pavlović made his first football steps at his hometown club Napredak. He later joined the youth system of Partizan, becoming a part of their promising generation, together with Nebojša Marinković, Milan Smiljanić and Borko Veselinović, among others. In order to get senior team experience, Pavlović was sent on loan to his mother club Napredak in the 2004–05 season. He returned to Partizan in the summer of 2005, playing for their satellite club Teleoptik, before eventually going back on loan to Napredak in January 2006.^[2]

In the summer of 2006, Pavlović signed a permanent contract with Napredak, becoming one of the most important players for the team in the following seasons.

In the summer of 2010, Pavlović moved abroad for the first time by signing with Hungarian club Debrecen. He made two cup appearances for the first team, but also played for their reserve team in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II, before being released near the end of the year. In January 2011, Pavlović returned to his homeland, having a six-month stint with Metalac Gornji Milanovac.

On 12 July 2011, Pavlović signed a four-year contract with OFK Beograd.^[3] He retired from professional football in October 2013, at the age of 27, due to a long history of injury problems. However, Pavlović came out of retirement in February of the following year by signing with Novi Pazar.

In January 2016, Pavlović moved to Lithuania and signed with Sūduva.^[4]

International career

Pavlović represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2005 UEFA Under-19 Championship in Northern Ireland. He played the full 90 minutes in all of his team's four games, as they were eliminated by England in the semi-final. Already capped for the Serbian national under-21 team, Pavlović made one appearance at the 2007 UEFA Under-21 Championship, which was hosted in the Netherlands, winning the silver medal.

Pavlović was also a member of the team that represented Serbia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but failed to make an appearance.

Statistics

As of 22 January 2016

Club	Season	League		Cup		Continental		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Napredak	2006–07	31	5	-	-	0	0	31	5
	2007–08	29	8	2	1	0	0	31	9
	2008–09	32	4	-	-	0	0	32	4
	2009–10	15	2	-	-	0	0	15	2
	Total	107	19	2	1	0	0	109	20
Debrecen	2010–11	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
	Total	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
Debrecen II	2010–11	6	0	2	0	0	0	8	0
	Total	6	0	2	0	0	0	8	0
Metalac Gornji Milanovac	2010–11	13	2	0	0	0	0	13	2
	Total	13	2	0	0	0	0	13	2
OFK Beograd	2011–12	8	2	2	0	0	0	10	2
	2012–13	21	2	4	0	0	0	25	2
	2013–14	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0
	Total	31	4	7	0	0	0	38	4
Novi Pazar	2013–14	14	1	0	0	0	0	14	1
	2014–15	29	4	0	0	0	0	29	4
	2015–16	22	7	1	0	0	0	23	7
	Total	65	12	1	0	0	0	66	12
Career total		222	37	14	1	0	0	236	38

Notes and references

1. Only official UEFA matches included
2. "Bilans zimskog prelaznog roka" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 14 February 2006. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
3. "Novo pojačanje OFK Beograda" (in Serbian). ofkbeograd.co.rs. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
4. "“Sūduva” pasirašė sutartį su P.Pavlovičiumi" (in Lithuanian). fksuduva.lt. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.

External links

• HLSZ profile
• MLSZ profile
• Footballdatabase profile
• Predrag Pavlović – UEFA competition record