Tijana Bošković

Tijana Bošković
Tijana Bošković
	Bošković with Eczacıbaşı VitrA in 2025
Personal information
Nickname	The Boss
Nationality	Serbian
Born	8 March 1997 (age 28); Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hometown	Bileća, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Spike	329 cm (130 in)
Block	310 cm (122 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Opposite spiker
Current club	VakıfBank
Number	18 (national team)
Career
2010–2011	ŽOK Hercegovac
2011–2015	ŽOK Partizan Vizura
2015–2025	Eczacıbaşı Dynavit
2025–	VakıfBank
National team
2014–	Serbia
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing Serbia
Olympic Games
World Championship
European Championship
World Cup
FIVB World Grand Prix
Junior European Championship
European Youth Olympic Festival

Tijana Bošković (Serbian Cyrillic: Тијана Бошковић; born 8 March 1997) is a Serbian professional volleyball player of VakıfBank.^[2] A left-handed opposite, she has won gold medals with the Serbia women's national volleyball team at the 2018 and 2022 World Championships and the 2017 and 2019 European Championships. She is also a two-time Olympic medalist, having won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and bronze at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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Considered one of the world's best volleyball players, Bošković has been a key member of the Serbian team's offense since her debut with the national team in 2014.^[3] She was selected as the European Volleyball Confederation Female Volleyball Player of the Year for three consecutive years, in 2017, 2018, and 2019.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Bošković has broken several records for spike and serve speed in women's indoor volleyball. She currently holds the second- and fourth-fastest spike speed records, at 110.3 and 107.5 kilometers per hour respectively.^[7]

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Tournament	Year	Played		Points		Serve		Reception						Attack						Block
Tournament	Year	M	S	Tot	per set	Ace	per set	Tot	Err	Neg	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Tot	Err	Blk	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Pts	per set
Junior World Championship – European Qualification	2012^[87]	3	10	48	4.8	6	0.6	–						78	5	8	37	47.4%	0.31	5	0.5
U18 World Championship	2013	7	28	137	4.89	9	0.32	–						289	25		108	37.4%	0.29	16	0.57
U20 World Championship	2013	8	27	135	5	7	0.26	–						279	35		112	40.1%	0.28	16	0.59
U19 European Championship	2014^[88]	9	29	175	6.03	12	0.41	–						282	24	9	146	51.8%	0.40	17	0.59

Tournament	Year	Played		Points		Serve		Reception						Attack						Block
Tournament	Year	M	S	Tot	per set	Ace	per set	Tot	Err	Neg	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Tot	Err	Blk	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Pts	per set
European Championship	2015^[89]	5	17	89	5.24	7	0.41	–						166	20	16	74	44.6%	0.23	8	0.47
	2017^[90]	6	18	130	7.22	11	0.61	3	0	2	1	33.3%	0.33	198	17	13	109	55.1%	0.4	10	0.56
	2019^[91]	9	27	142	5.26	14	0.52	1	0	0	1	100%	1	269	22	20	118	43.9%	0.28	10	0.37
	2021^[92]	9	31	215	6.94	7	0.23	–						375	35	20	196	52.3%	0.38	14	0.45
	2023^[93]	9	32	229	7.16	15	0.47	–						367	24	18	199	54.2%	0.43	15	0.47
	Total	38	125	805	6.44	54	0.43							1375	118	87	696	50.6%	0.36	57	0.46
World Championship	2014^[94]	8	27	146	5.41	4	0.15	–						274	37		119	43.4%	0.3	23	0.85
	2018^[95]	11	34	193	5.68	6	0.18	–						328	50		176	53.7%	0.38	11	0.32
	2022^[96]	11	36	240	6.67	8	0.22	–						394	49		219	55.6%	0.43	13	0.36
	Total	30	97	579	5.97	18	0.19							996	136		514	51.6%	0.38	47	0.48
Olympic Games	2016^[97]	8	26	137	5.27	10	0.38	–						238	52		116	48.7%	0.27	11	0.42
	2021^[98]	8	24	192	8	12	0.5	–						313	51		165	52.7%	0.36	15	0.63
	Total	16	50	329	6.58	22	0.44							551	103		281	51.0%	0.32	26	0.52

Tournament	Year	Played		Points		Serve		Reception						Attack						Block
Tournament	Year	M	S	Tot	per set	Ace	per set	Tot	Err	Neg	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Tot	Err	Blk	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Pts	per set
World Grand Prix	2015	4	16	41	2.56	2	0.13	–						73	11		30	41.1%	0.26	9	0.56
	2016	3	14	60	4.29	2	0.14	–						127	20		50	39.4%	0.24	4	0.29
	2017	8	29	144	4.97	15	0.52	–						239	40		123	51.5%	0.35	10	0.34
	Total	15	58	245	4.22	19	0.33							439	71		203	46.2%	0.30	23	0.40
Volleyball Nations League	2018^[99]	13	47	238	5.06	8	0.17	–						418	80		206	49.28%	0.30	24	0.51
	2019^[100]	2	6	39	6.50	3	0.5	–						73	10		35	47.9%	0.34	1	0.17
	2023^[101]	4	16	109	6.81	4	0.25	–						165	13	7	97	58.8%	0.47	8	0.5
	Total	19	69	386	5.59	15	0.22							656	110		338	51.99%	0.35	33	0.48
World Championship – European Qualification	2017^[102]	4	11	82	7.45	6	0.55	3	0	1	0	0	0	117	6	3	69	59.0%	0.51	7	0.64
Intercontinental Olympic Qualification	2019^[103]	3	10	75	7.5	7	0.7	–						109	13		62	56.9%	0.45	6	0.6
	2023^[104]	5	17	129	7.59	13	0.76	–						204	25		105	51.5%	0.39	11	0.65
	Total	8	27	204	7.56	20	0.74							313	38		167	53.4%	0.41	17	0.63
World Cup	2015^[105]	10	35	159	4.54	8	0.23	–						269	47		131	48.7%	0.31	20	0.63

Team	League	Season	Played		Points		Serve		Reception						Attack						Block
Team	League	Season	M	S	Tot	per set	Ace	per set	Tot	Err	Neg	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Tot	Err	Blk	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Pts	per set
Partizan	Serbian Super League	2011–12^[106]	6	9	3	0.33	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	7	1	0	3	42.9%	0.29	0	0
		2012–13^[107]	25	87	335	3.85	22	0.25	54	13	5	15	27.8%	0.04	638	65	26	278	43.6%	0.29	37	0.43
		2013–14^[108]	22	72	372	5.17	28	0.39	–						676	59	32	304	45.0%	0.32	40	0.56
		2014–15^[109]	6	17	88	5.18	4	0.24	–						162	16	8	74	45.7%	0.31	10	0.59
		Total	59	185	798	4.31	54	0.29							1,483	141	66	659	44.4%	0.3	87	0.47
Eczacıbaşı	Turkish League	2015–16^[110]	23	79	316	4	14	0.18	–						633	56	32	274	43.3%	0.29	28	0.35
		2016–17^[111]	25	91	374	4.11	34	0.37	–						652	57	43	300	46.0%	0.31	40	0.44
		2017–18^[112]	30	105	558	5.31	36	0.34	–						938	92	70	481	51.3%	0.34	41	0.39
		2018–19^[113]	28	93	534	5.74	49	0.53	–						924	91	58	442	47.8%	0.32	43	0.46
		2019–20^[114]	18	66	402	6.09	40	0.61	–						600	48	25	323	53.8%	0.42	39	0.59
		2020–21^[115]	27	104	692	6.65	41	0.39	–						1164	99	64	602	51.7%	0.38	49	0.47
		2021–22^[116]	24	81	483	5.96	18	0.22	–						828	51	47	428	51.7%	0.4	37	0.46
		2022–23^[117]	21	70	426	6.09	17	0.24	–						701	51	57	382	54.5%	0.39	27	0.39
		2023–24^[73]	27	93	568	6.11	43	0.46							964	68	51	493	51.1%	0.39	32	0.34
		Total	223	782	4,353	5.57	292	0.37							7,400	613	447	3,725	50.2%	0.36	336	0.43

Team	Season	League	Played		Points		Serve		Reception						Attack						Block
Team	Season	League	M	S	Tot	per set	Ace	per set	Tot	Err	Neg	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Tot	Err	Blk	Exc	Exc%	Eff	Pts	per set
Partizan	2012–13	Serbian Cup^[118]	5	16	77	4.81	6	0.36	12	2	0	1	8.3%	−0.08	119	12	4	60	50.4%	0.37	11	0.69
	2013–14	Serbian Cup^[119]	2	6	55	9.17	3	0.5	–						50	3	6	21	42.0%	0.24	2	0.33
	2014–15	Serbian Cup^[120]	2	3	16	5.33	2	0.67	–						23	1	0	14	60.9%	0.57	0	0
		Champions League^[121]	3	11	66	6	2	0.18	–						155	13	9	62	40.0%	0.26	2	0.18
		Season Total	5	14	82	5.86	4	0.29							178	14	9	76	42.7%	0.30	2	0.14
Eczacıbaşı	2015–16	Champions League^[122]	8	25	101	4.04	5	0.2	2	0	1	0	0	0	194	16	9	76	39.2%	0.26	20	0.8
	2016–17	Turkish Cup^[123]	2	8	22	2.75	1	0.13	–						50	7	6	17	34.0%	0.08	4	0.5
		Club World Championship^[124]	4	17	85	5	7	0.41	–						150	20		64	42.7%	0.29	14	0.82
		Champions League^[125]	14	51	221	4.33	26	0.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	381	36	17	178	46.7%	0.33	17	0.33
		Season Total	20	76	328	4.32	34	0.45							581	86		259	44.6%	0.30	35	0.46
	2017–18	Turkish Cup^[126]	3	10	53	5.3	3	0.3	–						84	10	7	43	51.2%	0.31	7	0.7
		Club World Championship^[127]	5	19	96	5.05	10	0.53	–						150	20		78	52.0%	0.39	8	0.42
		CEV Cup^[128]	10	32	193	6.03	14	0.44	1	1	0	0	0	0	270	21	14	164	60.7%	0.48	15	0.47
		Season Total	18	61	342	5.61	27	0.44							504	72		285	56.6%	0.42	30	0.49
	2018–19	Turkish Super Cup^[129]	1	4	24	6	0	0	–						46	2	5	23	50.0%	0.35	1	0.17
		Turkish Cup^[130]	3	12	62	5.17	3	0.25	–						101	7	7	54	53.5%	0.4	5	0.42
		Club World Championship^[131]	4	15	81	5.4	5	0.33	–						132	16		69	52.3%	0.4	7	0.47
		Champions League^[132]	7	26	142	5.46	7	0.27	–						246	27	13	116	47.2%	0.31	19	0.73
		Season Total	15	57	309	5.42	15	0.26							525	77		262	49.9%	0.35	32	0.56
	2019–20	Turkish Super Cup^[133]	1	5	27	5.4	1	0.2	–						52	7	2	23	44.2%	0.27	3	0.6
		Club World Championship^[134]	5	19	114	6	14	0.74	–						194	32		91	46.9%	0.3	9	0.47
		Champions League^[135]	6	24	124	5.17	9	0.37	2	0	1	0	0	0	195	17	11	104	53.3%	0.39	11	0.46
		Season Total	12	48	265	5.52	24	0.5							441	69		218	49.4%	0.34	23	0.48
	2020–21	Turkish Super Cup^[136]	1	5	35	7	2	0.4	–						61	9	1	33	54.1%	0.38	0	0
		Turkish Cup^[137]	6	19	118	6.21	8	0.42	–						180	16	8	102	56.7%	0.43	8	0.42
		Champions League^[138]	8	30	236	6.05	5	0.17	–						325	21	18	157	48.3%	0.36	17	0.57
		Season Total	15	54	389	7.20	15	0.28							566	46	27	292	51.6%	0.39	25	0.46
	2021–22	Turkish Super Cup^[139]	1	3	21	7	2	0.67	–						31	2	0	17	54.8%	0.48	2	0.67
		Turkish Cup^[140]	4	10	55	5.5	3	0.3	–						90	7	8	44	48.9%	0.32	8	0.8
		CEV Cup^[141]	8	24	170	7.08	15	0.63	1	1	0	0	0	0	237	15	10	134	56.5%	0.46	21	0.88
		Season Total	13	37	246	6.65	20	0.54							358	24	18	195	54.5%	0.43	31	0.84
	2022–23	Turkish Cup^[142]	1	3	21	7	0	0	–						40	2	4	18	45.0%	0.3	3	1
		Club World Championship^[143]	4	14	95	6.79	8	0.57	–						145	17		82	56.6%	0.45	5	0.36
		Champions League^[144]	7	28	169	6.04	6	0.21	1	1	0	0	0	0	306	26	25	148	48.4%	0.32	15	0.54
		Season Total	12	45	285	6.33	14	0.31							491	74		248	50.5%	0.35	23	0.51
	2023–24	Turkish Cup^[145]	3	12	82	6.83	4	0.33	–						151	9	10	78	51.7%	0.39	0	0
		Club World Championship^[146]	4	15	90	6	8	0.53	–						142	16		78	54.9%	0.44	4	0.33
		Champions League^[74]	11	42	259	6.17	17	0.40	–						454	35	24	221	48.7%	0.36	21	0.50
		Season Total	18	69	431	6.25	29	0.42							747	94		377	50.5%	0.38	25	0.36

Tijana Bošković

National team career

2013–2014: Junior team

2014–2016: Senior team debut and Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics

2017–2021: Continued success and Tokyo Summer Olympics

2022–present: Second World Championship title and Paris Summer Olympics

Club career

Early life

Recognition

Awards

National team

Junior team

Senior team

Club

Individual Awards (awarded)

National Team

Club

Individual awards (not awarded)

National Team

Club

Individual achievements

Career statistics

Junior team

National team

Major tournaments

Other tournaments

Season by club

League (regular season and finals)

Domestic cups and regional competitions

References

External links

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