FK Partizan in European football

Updated on Oct 23, 2023

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Club FK Partizan Champions League 1966 Runner-up		First entry 1955–56 European Cup
Latest entry 2016–17 UEFA Europa League

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 105, 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

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: