Red Star Belgrade
European Cup winners in 1991.
Red Star Belgrade is a Serbian club and the most successful in the Balkans: the only one from the region to have won both the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup, in 1991.
Quick Facts
- Club
- Crvena zvezda
- Full name
- Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda (Red Star Football Club)
- Nickname
- Звезда
- Zvezda (The Star) Црвено-бели
- Crveno-beli (The Red-Whites)
- Short name
- CZV, ZVE
- Founded
- 4 March 1945
- Ground
- Rajko Mitić Stadium
- Capacity
- 51,755
- Owner
- Svetozar Mijailović
Lore & Background
Red Star reached the semi-finals of the 1956-57 European Cup, and in 1957-58 it lost 5-4 on aggregate to Manchester United in the quarter-finals. During the Miljan Miljanić era it reached another European Cup semi-final in the early 1970s, before the 1991 title.
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