Mitic and Bobek

Sport rivalry is the purest kind of contest, which is present in all aspects our lives. In football, as the most popular sport, this rivalry is especially rendered. If we are talking about teams from the same city the affair gets an entirely new dimension. If there are such two teams in a metropolitan city they inevitably become rivals and each encounter turns into the event of the day – derby...

City duels around the world, starting with Milan, Rome, Madrid, Glasgow, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Istanbul, Rio or Buenos Aires…, celebrate the matches between Milan and Inter, Roma and Lacio, Real and Atletico, Celtic and Rangers, Benfika and Sporting, Liverpool and Everton, Arsenal and Tottenham, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray, Flamingo and Botafoga, River Plate and Boca Juniors… The eternal Derby between Red Star and Partizan stands shoulder to shoulder with these elite.

There are things and events that cannot be erased by time. Some of them grow out of their time and become tradition. In a country of great changes, such as ours, football matches between Red Star and Partizan are one of the highlighting traditions not only in sports.

There is no doubt that the rivalry between these two clubs is one of the most beautiful things that developed through football in this region. It all began on the 5^th of January 1947. when the first match between the two Belgrade clubs was held. Red Star came out victorious winning 4:3 as the visiting team and started an amazing winner’s story that is current until today. As the biggest rival, Partizan, with a twist of faith, was literarily a witness of Red Star’s growing to become a great football team.

The first trophy in the history of the club was attained exactly with a win over the eternal rival in a Marshal Tito Cup’s final 1948. It happened on 29^th of November and Red Star won 3:0 thanks to goals from Vukosavljevic (2) and Mitic.

The fact that Red Star has won their first championship title 1951. by wining against Partizan in the last premiership round is nothing less significant – on the opponents ground just the same. This was on 4^th of November and Red Star celebrated 2:0, just enough to overtake Dinamo Zagreb in a tight finish to the championship title race.

The rest is history. In the meantime many pages in the book of Red Star triumphs have been written with numerous trophies and acknowledgements. The rivalry with Partizan became more than just a game. It is measured on all fields and everything stands in favour of our club. Not only the ratio of wins and losses in mutual matches but also the greater number of titles, Cups and premiership points won. Even the 100th “eternal derby” was taken by our club.


5^th of January 1947

PARTIZAN – RED STAR 3:4

Scorers:

Jezerkic 12’, 25’, 54’ and Djajić 77 for Red Star
Djajic 72’ (own goal), Kasanin 83’ (own goal) and Bobek 85’ for Partizan

Partizan:  

Glazer, Brozovic, Popesku, Cajkovski, Djurdjevic, Simonovski, Mihajlovic, Palfi, Bobek, Rupnik and Seres

Red Star:

Lovric, Stankovic, Petrovic, Djajic, Spajic, Kasanin, Tomasevic, Mitic, Jezerkic, Arandjelovic and Secerov


6^th of May 1995

RED STAR - PARTIZAN 2:1

Scorers:

Victors

Kovacevic 84’ (penalty), Stojkovski 88’ for Red Star
Bjekovic 76’ for Partizan

Red Star:

Milojevic Zvonko, Stefanovic Dejan, Djorovic Goran, Radmanovic Nikola, Stojkovski Mitko, Bajcetic  Srdjan,  Adzic Ivan (Zivković Bratislav), Krupnikovic Nebojsa, Kovacevic Darko, Petkovic Dejan (Perovic Marko) and Sakic Nenad

Partizan:

Pandurovic Goran, Mirkovic Zoran, Saveljic Nisa, Nadj Albert, Bolic Drazen, Djuric Zoran, Tesovic Darko, Curcic Sasa (Trenevski Viktor), Bjekovic Nenad, Ciric Dragan and Milosevic Savo


Bora Kostic - recorder

Kostic

Bora Kostic is the absolute recorder when premiership games against Partizan are in question. He played the most matches (23) and scored the most goals (9). Right next to him is Dragan Dzajic with the same number of goals and two matches less on his account.

Rajko Mitic and Vladica Popovic both played 19 derbies, Branko Stankovic 18 and Vladimir Durkovic 17 matches. They are followed by a group of players with 15 matches each: Ljubisa Spajic, Jovan Acimovic, Vladimir Petrovic and Milos Sestis, whereas Predrag Djajic, Miljan Zekovic, Anton Rudinski, Dragoslav Sekularac, Goran Djorovic and Zvonko Milojevic took part in 14 derbies.


In bad memory of Partizan’s goalkeepers

Among the scorers, right after Kostic and Dzajic (9 goals each), Kosta Tomasevic made his

Pjanovic

mark with all together 8 strikes in premiership matches. Zoran Filipovic managed one goal less.

The goalkeepers of “black-and-whites” have ill memories of Ivan Toplak with 6 goals, Dusan Savic and Milko Djurovski with 5 each as well as Anton Rudinski, Zoran Prljincevic, Milos Sestic, Dejan Stankovic and Mihailo Pjanovic with 4 goals each.


Hat-trick marksmen

Jezerkic

Jovan Jezerkic and Stevan Ostojic scored 3 goals each in premiership

Ostojic

matchesagainst Partizan – all of them in one game! Jezerkic managed to complete his hat-trick in the first eternal derby on 5th of January 1947 as Red Star won away with 4:3, whereas Ostojic achieved the same stunt 21 years later.

Bora Kostic never scored a hat-trick, but he managed to score two goals on as many as three occasions. Bora Cvetkovic scored a double twice...