FK Vojvodina

Also written as Vojvodina.

The club

FK Vojvodina is not Partizan and not Crvena zvezda (Red Star Belgrade), the two Belgrade clubs that dominate Serbian football's honours lists and most of this corpus's other Serbian dossiers. Vojvodina are based in Novi Sad, roughly 80 kilometres north-west of Belgrade in Serbia's Vojvodina province, and the club's name is a reference to that historical Serbian political territory rather than to either Belgrade rival. Partizan were founded in Belgrade in 1945 as the football section of the Yugoslav Army's Central House and play in black and white; Red Star were founded in Belgrade the same year by young activists and students and play in red-and-white vertical stripes. Vojvodina predate both by three decades.

The club was founded on 6 March 1914 in Novi Sad, formed in secret because the Austro-Hungarian authorities of the time banned large gatherings of young people. The team initially played in bright blue and white; in 1920 red and white jerseys were adopted, styled on Slavia Prague's colours, and on 23 July 1922 the club formally adopted red and white as a tribute to the Czech club. Vojvodina play in red and white shirts with white shorts at home, with an away kit built predominantly around gold and yellow.

The home ground is the Karađorđe Stadium in Novi Sad, capacity 14,458, named after the leader of the First Serbian Uprising. It was originally known as the City Stadium or Vojvodina Stadium before being renamed Karađorđe in 2007 at fans' request, restoring what had been its name before the Second World War. The stadium has modern floodlighting and also serves as a home venue for Serbia's under-21 national team.

The head coach is Miroslav Tanjga, who was in charge through the 2025/26 season and remains in post for 2026/27. The club president is Dragoljub Zbiljić.

Recent seasons

In the Yugoslav era Vojvodina were champions twice, winning the Yugoslav First League in 1965-66, finishing eight points clear of Dinamo Zagreb, and again in 1988-89, three points ahead of Red Star Belgrade. The club also finished runner-up in 1956-57, 1961-62 and 1974-75, and sits fifth in the all-time Yugoslav league table. Since the Serbian SuperLiga was established in 2006, Vojvodina have not won the title, but have been consistent challengers: runners-up in 2008-09 and again in 2025-26, with a run of third-place finishes across 2007, 2008, 2011 to 2013, 2017 and 2020.

The 2025-26 SuperLiga season was one of the club's strongest of the SuperLiga era: Vojvodina finished second with 23 wins, 7 draws and 7 losses from 37 matches, 62 points, 66 goals scored and 35 conceded for a goal difference of plus 31. Miroslav Tanjga managed the side throughout. Milutin Vidosavljević was the club's leading scorer with 8 league goals and 10 in all competitions. Average home league attendance was 3,493, with the season high of 7,100 coming for the visit of Partizan on 8 March 2026. That season also included a run to the Serbian Cup final, in which Vojvodina finished runners-up after a 2-2-0 record across four cup matches (7 goals for, 5 against).

The 2026-27 season began on 17 July 2026, the 21st edition of the SuperLiga under its current 14-team format (due to reduce to 12 clubs from 2027-28). Through the round played by 24 August 2026, Vojvodina sat second in the table with four wins and two losses from six matches, 12 points and a goal difference of plus 4 (10 goals for, 6 against), one point and one match behind early pace-setters Red Star Belgrade.

Honours and landmarks

Vojvodina's major honours are the two Yugoslav First League titles of 1965-66 and 1988-89, plus two Serbian Cup wins, in 2013-14 and 2019-20. In Europe the club won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1976 and the Mitropa Cup in 1976-77. Vojvodina's deepest run in the European Cup itself came in 1966-67, when the club reached the quarter-finals before losing to Celtic, who went on to win the competition that season; Vojvodina lost 0-1 at home and 0-2 away in that tie.

Club records include Radomir Krstić's 613 appearances, the most of any Vojvodina player, and Todor Veselinović's tally of 586 goals in all competitions, including 130 in the Yugoslav league; Veselinović won the Yugoslav league's top scorer award four times, in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1961. The Vojvodina academy has produced a run of players who went on to prominent careers elsewhere in Europe, among them Miloš Krasić, Dušan Tadić, Sergej Milinković-Savić, Milan Jovanović and Gojko Kačar.

Notable scorelines

Vojvodina's two Serbian Cup wins both came via finals against different kinds of opposition. In 2013-14 the club beat Jagodina 2-0 in the final, played at the Partizan Stadium in Belgrade. In 2019-20 Vojvodina won the trophy against Partizan themselves, drawing 2-2 after extra time at the Čair Stadium in Niš before winning 4-2 on penalties, a result that stands as one of the club's landmark wins over one of the two Belgrade giants this dossier exists to distinguish Vojvodina from.

Within the 2025-26 SuperLiga season, Vojvodina beat Red Star Belgrade 3-2 at home on 30 October 2025 and beat Radnički 1923 4-1 at home on 18 October 2025, but also lost 1-3 at home to IMT on 2 November 2025 and lost 0-1 away to Partizan on 4 October 2025, results that illustrate the swings of a season that still ended in a second-place finish.

European record

Vojvodina's best European run remains the 1966-67 European Cup quarter-final against Celtic, lost 0-1 at home and 0-2 away, in a season Celtic went on to win the tournament outright. The club's European honours from the 1970s, the 1976 UEFA Intertoto Cup and the 1976-77 Mitropa Cup, date from an era when Yugoslav clubs competed regularly for both trophies.

In the 2024-25 European season, Vojvodina entered the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round and were eliminated by Ajax, losing 1-3 away and 0-1 at home. Dropping into the Conference League third qualifying round, Vojvodina beat Maribor: a 1-0 home win after extra time, a 1-2 away defeat, for a 2-2 aggregate score settled 4-2 to Vojvodina on penalties, before the run ended at the next stage.

In the 2026-27 European season Vojvodina entered the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round against Ferencváros of Hungary. Vojvodina lost the first leg 1-2 at home at the Karađorđe Stadium on 9 July 2026, in front of an attendance of 7,623; the club's goal was an own goal by Ferencváros's Toon Raemaekers in first-half stoppage time. Ferencváros won the second leg 3-0 in Budapest on 16 July 2026, taking the tie 5-1 on aggregate and eliminating Vojvodina from the Europa League. As losers of a Europa League first qualifying round tie on the competition's Main Path, Vojvodina dropped into the UEFA Conference League, entering at the second qualifying round of the Main Path with a club coefficient of 5.500; the identity of Vojvodina's second qualifying round opponent and that match's scorelines were not established from the sources read here.

Head-to-head notes

Vojvodina's central rivalries are with the two Belgrade clubs this dossier is written to be kept separate from: Red Star Belgrade and Partizan. Detailed head-to-head win-loss records against either club across the Yugoslav and Serbian eras were not established from the sources read here, but the 2019-20 Serbian Cup final win over Partizan on penalties and the 3-2 league win over Red Star Belgrade at home in October 2025 are the two most notable recent results this dossier has recorded against them. Vojvodina's home game with Partizan on 8 March 2026 drew the club's highest 2025-26 league attendance, 7,100, underlining that fixtures against the two Belgrade sides remain the biggest home dates on the Novi Sad calendar even though Vojvodina are a separate club from both, from a separate city, with a separate honours history.

Right now (2026/27)

Vojvodina go into the 2026/27 season, their 21st in the SuperLiga era, under Miroslav Tanjga, who managed the club to its second-place finish and Serbian Cup final appearance in 2025-26 and has stayed on. The league season began on 17 July 2026; through the round completed by 24 August 2026, Vojvodina were second in the 14-team table with four wins and two losses from six matches, 12 points, and a goal difference of plus 4, sitting one point and one match behind early leaders Red Star Belgrade. In Europe, Vojvodina's continental campaign began and ended quickly in the qualifying rounds: eliminated 5-1 on aggregate by Ferencváros of Hungary in the Europa League first qualifying round in July 2026, before entering the Conference League's second qualifying round as a Europa League Main Path loser. Summer transfer activity for the campaign included the signings of midfielder Dejan Zukić from Wolfsberger for a reported 2.5 million euros and forward Nardin Mulahusejnović from FC Noah for a reported 700,000 euros, part of roughly 4.3 million euros in spending across six incoming players.

Sources

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