Filip Mladenović

Filip Mladenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Mлaдeнoвић; born 15 August 1991) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Super League Greece club Panathinaikos and the Serbia national team.

Filip Mladenović

Mladenović with Legia Warsaw in 2021
Personal information
Full name	Filip Mladenović[1]
Date of birth	(1991-08-15) 15 August 1991 (age 34)
Place of birth	Čačak, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Left-back
Team information
Current team	Panathinaikos
Number	25
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010–2011	Borac Čačak	31	(0)
2012–2013	Red Star Belgrade	42	(2)
2014–2015	BATE Borisov	47	(4)
2016	1. FC Köln	16	(0)
2017	Standard Liège	5	(0)
2018–2020	Lechia Gdańsk	74	(3)
2020–2023	Legia Warsaw	74	(13)
2023–	Panathinaikos	58	(2)
International career‡
2011–2012	Serbia U21	7	(0)
2012–2024	Serbia	34	(1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 11 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 June 2024

Club career

Borac Čačak

Mladenović became a member of the Borac senior team in the 2010–11 season, making 18 league appearances that season. He played as left-back.

Red Star Belgrade

Mladenović signed a four-year contract for Red Star Belgrade on 17 December 2011.^[2] During the summer of 2013, Red Star participated in the Uhrencup in Switzerland, where they lost the final against FC Basel with a score of 2–1. Mladenović scored for Red Star and was voted best player of the game, for which he was supposed to get a watch as a prize, but he rejected it out of disappointment with the loss.^[3] By the end of 2013, Red Star's financial situation became very unstable as players and staff were not getting paid after several months of waiting. In spite of his frequent scoring and lanky frame, Mladenović was played mostly as a left back under coach Ricardo Sá Pinto, who said that Mladenović's playing style reminded him of Fábio Coentrão.^[4] An exodus began when Sá Pinto announced in an emotional press conference when he said that he could no longer work at Red Star due to instabilities in the team's administration. On 5 October 2013, Mladenović filed a request to have his contract terminated with Red Star.^[5] The Arbitration Committee in the FSS ruled in Mladenović's favor on 23 November, giving him the status of a free agent.^[6] After the ruling on Mladenović and Marko Vešović, coach Slaviša Stojanovič took both players off of the first team, but legally were still members of Red Star until the winter 2013–14 transfer window.^[7]

BATE Borisov

On 23 February 2014, Serbian news portal B92 reported that Mladenović signed for Belarusian team BATE Borisov with a three-year contract.^[8] He made his debut for BATE in the 2014 Belarusian Super Cup final against FC Minsk, and went on to score a goal 20 minutes into the game.^[9] On 29 September 2015, Mladenović scored two goals for BATE in the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League Group E against Roma.^[10] Thanks to his breakthrough game, Mladenović was listed on UEFA.com's Champions League "Team of the Week" on 1 October 2015.^[11] Later that month, AC Milan was reported to show interest with their coach Siniša Mihajlović having known Mladenović from coaching the Serbia national team.^[12]

1. FC Köln

On 5 January 2016, Mladenović signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with 1. FC Köln.^[13]

Legia Warsaw

On 1 July 2020, Mladenović signed a three-year contract with the Poland Ekstraklasa side Legia Warsaw. He scored his maiden for Legia on 14 August 2020 in his debut in a 6–1 Polish Cup match victory against GKS Bełchatów.^[14] He scored his first league goal for Legia on 2 November 2020 in a 3–0 win against Warta Poznań.^[15] On 2 May 2023, he won the Polish Cup, defeating Raków Częstochowa in the final at the National Stadium, before being sanctioned by the Disciplinary Committee of the Polish Football Association on 5 May 2023 for post-match behavior with a three-month disqualification covering all games (including outside Poland) and a financial penalty of PLN 120,000.^[16] His contract terminated after the 2022–23 season.^[17]

Panathinaikos

On 12 June 2023, Greek side Panathinaikos announced the signing of Mladenović on a two-year deal.^[18]

International career

Mladenović made his debut for the Serbia national football team under coach Siniša Mihajlović on 31 May 2012, in a 2–0 loss against France.^[19]

In November 2022, he was selected in Serbia's squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.^[20] He played in a group stage match against Brazil.^[21]

Mladenović was part of the Serbia squad for UEFA Euro 2024. In the team's opening match of the tournament against England, he came on as a substitute for the injured Filip Kostić in the 43rd minute of the 1–0 loss.^[22] He also played in group stage matches against Slovenia and Denmark. Serbia finished fourth in the group.

Career statistics

Club

As of 11 May 2025^[23]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup[a]		Europe		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Borac Čačak	2010–11	Serbian SuperLiga	18	0	0	0	—		—		18	0
	2011–12	Serbian SuperLiga	13	0	2	0	—		—		15	0
	Total		31	0	2	0	—		—		33	0
Red Star Belgrade	2011–12	Serbian SuperLiga	12	2	3	0	—		—		15	2
	2012–13	SuperLiga	26	0	3	0	6[b]	1	—		35	1
	2013–14	SuperLiga	4	0	2	0	4[b]	0	—		10	0
	Total		42	2	8	0	10	1	—		60	3
BATE	2014	Belarusian Premier League	26	2	7	0	8[c]	0	1[d]	1	42	3
	2015	Belarusian Premier League	21	2	2	0	12[c]	2	1[d]	0	36	4
	Total		47	4	9	0	20	2	2	1	78	7
1. FC Köln	2015–16	Bundesliga	14	0	0	0	—		—		14	0
	2016–17	Bundesliga	2	0	0	0	—		—		2	0
	Total		16	0	0	0	—		—		16	0
Standard Liège	2016–17	Belgian Pro League	5	0	0	0	—		—		5	0
	2017–18	Belgian Pro League	0	0	0	0	—		—		0	0
	Total		5	0	0	0	—		—		5	0
Lechia Gdańsk	2017–18	Ekstraklasa	14	0	—		—		—		14	0
	2018–19	Ekstraklasa	35	3	6	0	—		—		41	3
	2019–20	Ekstraklasa	25	0	3	0	2	0	1[e]	0	31	0
	Total		74	3	9	0	2	0	1	0	86	3
Legia Warsaw	2020–21	Ekstraklasa	29	7	3	1	4	0	—		36	8
	2021–22	Ekstraklasa	19	0	3	0	13	1	1[e]	0	36	1
	2022–23	Ekstraklasa	26	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	30	6
	Total		74	13	10	1	17	1	1	0	102	15
Panathinaikos	2023–24	Super League Greece	30	1	6	1	8	0	—		44	2
	2024–25		28	1	4	0	15	1	—		47	2
	Total		58	2	9	1	23	1	0	0	91	4
Career total			347	24	48	2	72	5	4	1	471	32

1. Includes Serbian Cup, Belarusian Cup, Polish Cup
2. Appearances in UEFA Europa League
3. Appearances in UEFA Champions League
4. Appearance in Belarusian Super Cup
5. Appearance in Polish Super Cup

International

As of match played 25 June 2024

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Serbia	2012	1	0
	2013	0	0
	2014	0	0
	2015	0	0
	2016	5	0
	2017	0	0
	2018	0	0
	2019	4	0
	2020	5	1
	2021	3	0
	2022	3	0
	2023	8	0
	2024	5	0
Total		34	1

Scores and results list Serbia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mladenović goal.

List of international goals scored by Filip Mladenović

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	18 November 2020	Rajko Mitić Stadium, Belgrade, Serbia	Russia	5–0	5–0	2020–21 UEFA Nations League B

Honours

Red Star

• Serbian Cup: 2011–12

BATE Borisov

• Belarusian Premier League: 2014, 2015
• Belarusian Cup: 2014–15
• Belarusian Super Cup: 2014, 2015

Lechia Gdańsk

• Polish Cup: 2018–19
• Polish Super Cup: 2019

Legia Warsaw

• Ekstraklasa: 2020–21
• Polish Cup: 2022–23^[24]

Panathinaikos

• Greek Cup: 2023–24^[25]

Individual

• Serbian SuperLiga Team of the Season: 2011–12
• Ekstraklasa Player of the Season: 2020–21
• Ekstraklasa Defender of the Season: 2020–21
• Ekstraklasa Player of the Month: February 2019^[26]