FK Partizan

Fudbalski klub Partizan (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Партизан, IPA: [fudbalskiː kluːb partizaːn]; English: Partizan Football Club) is a Serbian professional football club based in [Belgrade (Beograd)]]. It forms a major part of the Partizan multi-sport club. The club plays in the Serbian SuperLiga and has spent its entire history in the top tier of Yugoslav and Serbian football having won a total of 45 official trophies, finishing in the Yugoslav league all-time table as second. It is named after the Yugoslav Partisans, the resistance liberation movement during World War II.

Partizan was founded by young high officers of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in 1945 in Belgrade, as part of the Yugoslav Sports Association Partizan. Their home ground is the Partizan Stadium in Belgrade, where they have played since 1949. Partizan holds records such as playing in the first European Champions Cup match on 4 September, 1955, as well as becoming the first Balkan and Eastern European football club to reach the European Champions Cup final, when it did so in 1966. Partizan was the first Serbian club to compete in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

The club has a long-standing rivalry with Red Star Belgrade. Matches between these two clubs are known as the Eternal Derby ("Veciti derbi") and rate as one of the greatest cross-town clashes in the world. Partizan also has many supporters in many of the former-Yugoslav republics and in the Serbian diaspora.

Their popular nickname 'The Steamroller' (Parni valjak) was originally used in the press report after the 7-1 hammering of Red Star at the 13th Eternal Derby on 6 December 1953. This nickname was later embedded in the lyrics of the club anthem.

Partizan Youth Academy is one of the most renowned and export-oriented in Europe. CIES (University of Neuchatel International Centre for Sports Studies) Football Observatory report of November 2015 ranks Partizan Belgrade at the top place of training clubs out of the 31 European lea

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