History

The history of a football club Red Star is a great story about triumphs that have been coming one after another for more than six decades. In every country that Red Star played, it was a winning club either by winning National Championships (we have reached 25), Cups (22) or Double Crowns (10). At the same time, by playing in an attractive manner, our club used to attract neutral spectators. In this way Red Star soon became the most popular club in Serbia and Yugoslavia of that time, and a hundred thousand supporters at Marakana were a common sight during the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Since mid-eighties, the plans for winning the European throne were made at Marakana. During the previous two decades, Crvena Zvezda was achieving solid European results by forming the team out of its youth school players and by occasionally bringing young, talented footballers from smaller, mainly Serbian clubs into the team. Džajić-Cvetković tandem decided to take a different approach. They opted for choosing the best domestic players in order to create a team which could immediatelly compete at continental level, and even become a candidate for European trophies.

In more than six decades of the history of the European Cups, only two clubs from Eastern Europe won the European champions title – Steaua from Romania and our Crvena Zvezda. The crest of Zvezda will always remain in programmes dedicated to the Champions League, but the triumphs of 1991 are just the tip of the iceberg made of great results of Zvezda’s many generations.