RK Partizan

For the multi-sport club, see JSD Partizan.

RK Partizan (Serbian Cyrillic: РК Партизан) is a Serbian handball club based in Belgrade. They compete in the Serbian Handball Super League and EHF European League.

RK Partizan
Full name	Rukometni klub Partizan
Nickname(s)	Crno-beli (The Black-Whites)
Founded	1948
Arena	SC Voždovac
Capacity	2,300
Head coach	Đorđe Ćirković
League	Serbian Super League EHF European League
2024–25	1st
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

History

The original club was founded in 1948. They competed for only a year until 1949. In January 1957, RK Dedinje became part of the Partizan sports society, thus reinstating the club's handball section.^[1] They made their Yugoslav Handball Championship debut in 1960.^[2] In 1973, the club suffered relegation from the league. They made a comeback to the top flight in 1991,^[3] shortly before the withdrawal of Croatian and Slovenian teams due to the Yugoslav Wars. The club would win three consecutive championships in 1993, 1994 and 1995, including back-to-back doubles in 1993 and 1994. They later participated in the EHF Champions League on four occasions (1999–2000, 2003–04, 2011–12 and 2012–13). The club also reached the semi-finals of the EHF Cup Winners' Cup (1998–99 and 2001–02) and EHF Challenge Cup (2010–11).

Honours

Serbia and Montenegro League / Serbian League (10)

• 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2024–25

Yugoslav Winter Championship (1)

• 1963

Yugoslav Cup / Serbia and Montenegro Cup / Serbian Cup (12)

• 1958–59, 1965–66, 1970–71, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2023–24

Serbian Super Cup (3)^[4][5][6]

• 2009, 2011, 2012

Sponsorship

During its history, the club has been known by a variety of names due to sponsorship reasons:

• Partizan MAG
• Partizan Si&Si (2005–2009)^[7]
• Partizan Dunav osiguranje (2009–2010)

Supporters

Grobari (Serbian Cyrillic: Гробари, English: Gravediggers or Undertakers) are one of two major football fan groups in Serbia. They generally support all clubs within the Partizan multi-sports club, and mostly wear black and white symbols, which are the club's colors.

Main article: Grobari

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2025–26 season^[8]

RK Partizan AdmiralBet

Goalkeepers 32 Saeid Heidarirad 16 Andrej Trnavac 50 Nikola Zorić Left Wingers 07 Mladen Šotić 24 Đorđe Petrović 00 Marko Nikolić Right Wingers 77 Lazar Anđelković 00 Strahinja Stanković Line Players 20 Nemanja Ratković 22 Ivan Mićić 88 Miodrag Ćorsović 00 Vladimir Jevtić 00 Petar Ivanić Left Backs 11 Stevan Vujović 19 Nikola Zečević (c) 00 Gabriel Ilie 00 Liviu Caba Central Backs 08 Radan Kovačević 17 Miha Kotar 25 Veljko Popović 00 Simo Šijan Right Backs 05 Nikola Crnoglavac 10 Uroš Stanković 00 Sergey Ivanov

Transfers

Transfers for the 2025–26 season

Joining Andrej Trnavac (GK) (from RK Vojvodina) Marko Nikolić (LW) (from MRK Krka) Gabriel Ilie (LB) (from CSM Constanța) Liviu Caba (LB) (from CSM București) Simo Šijan (CB) (from RK Vojvodina) Sergey Ivanov (RB) (from CSKA Moscow) Strahinja Stanković (RW) (from CSM Constanța) Vladimir Jevtić (P) (from RK Vranje) Petar Ivanić (P) (from RK Obilić)

Leaving Luka Arsenić (GK) Bojan Madžovski (LW) Petar Đorđić (LB) (retires) Luka Barjaktarović (LB) (to RK Metaloplastika) Mihajlo Radojković (RB) (to Ramat HaSharon) Marko Vasić (RW) (to RK Vranje)

Notable players

The list includes players who played for their respective national teams in any major international tournaments, such as the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships:

• Saeid Heidarirad
• Aleksandar Glendža
• Vuk Lazović
• Rade Mijatović
• Vladimir Osmajić
• Radivoje Ristanović
• Zoran Roganović
• Stevan Vujović
• Bojan Madžovski
• Ilija Abutović
• Nikola Crnoglavac
• Petar Đorđić
• Nemanja Ilić
• Vanja Ilić
• Miloš Kostadinović
• Lazar Kukić
• Dragan Marjanac
• Mijajlo Marsenić
• Savo Mešter
• Strahinja Milić
• Dejan Milosavljev
• Uroš Mitrović
• Živan Pešić
• Bogdan Radivojević
• Stevan Sretenović
• Ivan Stanković
• Darko Stevanović
• Rastko Stojković
• Aleksandar Stojanović (handballer)
• Nikola Adžić
• Mladen Bojinović
• Zoran Đorđić
• Ratko Đurković
• Nikola Eklemović
• Nedeljko Jovanović
• Petar Kapisoda
• Aleksandar Knežević
• Branko Kokir
• Jovan Kovačević
• Blažo Lisičić
• Nenad Maksić
• Vladimir Mandić
• Vladan Matić
• Dragan Momić
• Predrag Peruničić
• Nenad Puljezević
• Dane Šijan
• Vladica Stojanović
• Goran Stupar
• Dragan Sudžum
• Alem Toskić
• Abas Arslanagić
• Časlav Grubić
• Milan Kalina
• Radivoje Krivokapić
• Dobrivoje Selec
• Goran Stojanović

Head coaches

• Marijan Flander
• Radosav Mutić
• Srđan Praljak
• Petar Eror
• Vilim Tičić
• Petar Lazarević
• Zoran Pantazis
• Dragan Stevanović
• Kosta Veselinović
• Vitomir Arsenijević
• Vlatko Martinčević
• Vladimir Cindrić
• Vojislav Malešević
• Branislav Petković
• Momčilo Jovanović
• Đorđe Vučinić
• Miodrag Savić
• Milan Tomaš
• Radomir Diklić
• Mihajlo Obradović
• Vasilije Đokić
• Mihajlo Obradović (1990–1991)
• Kasim Kamenica (1991–1992)
• Jovica Elezović (1992–1995)
• Mile Isaković (1995)
• Jovica Elezović (1995–1996)
• Nikola Adžić (1996–1997)
• Ljubomir Obradović (1997–1998)
• Jovica Elezović (1998–1999)
• Dušan Medić (1999)
• Jezdimir Stanković (1999)
• Zlatan Arnautović (1999)
• Veselin Vujović (1999–2000)
• Branko Štrbac (2000–2001)
• Mile Malešević (2001)
• Vuk Roganović (2001)
• Zoran Kurteš (2001–2003)
• Marko Isaković (2003)
• Branko Štrbac (2004)
• Zoran Kurteš (2004)
• Časlav Dinčić (2004–2005)
• Branislav Pokrajac (2006)
• Marko Isaković (2006)
• Nikola Jevremović (2006–2007)
• Zoran Ivić (2007)
• Saša Bošković (2008–2010)
• Aleksandar Brković (2010–2014)
• Nenad Maksić (2014–2018)
• Bojan Butulija (2018–2019)
• Željko Radojević (2019)
• Nenad Maksić (2020–2022)
• Dario Krželj (2023)
• Đorđe Ćirković (2023–present)