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{{short description|Serbian association football club}}
{{redirect|FK Crvena Zvezda|the parent multi-sport club|SD Crvena Zvezda}}
{{for|the American alternative country band|Red Star Belgrade (band)}}
{{other uses|Red star (disambiguation)}}
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| image = Red Star Belgrade crest.svg
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| fullname = Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда {{Clear}} Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda {{Clear}} (Red Star Football Club)
| nickname = Звезда / Zvezda (The Star) {{Clear}} Црвено-бели / Crveno-beli (The Red-Whites)
| short name = CZV, ZVE
| founded = {{Start date and age|1945|3|4|df=yes}}
| ground = [[Red Star Stadium|Rajko Mitić Stadium]]
| capacity = 51,755<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/en/klub/stadion-rajko-mitic|title=Stadium "Rajko Mitić"|website=crvenazvezdafk.com|access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref>
| owntitle = President
| owner = Svetozar Mijailović
| chrtitle = General director
| chairman = [[Zvezdan Terzić]]
| mgrtitle = Head coach
| manager = [[Dejan Stanković]]
| league = [[Serbian SuperLiga]]
| season = [[2024–25 Serbian SuperLiga|2024–25]]
| position = Serbian SuperLiga, 1st of 16 (champions)
| current = 2025–26 Red Star Belgrade season
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{{Crvena zvezda sections}}
'''Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda''' ({{lang-sr-cyrl|Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда|lit=Red Star Football Club}}), commonly referred to as '''Crvena zvezda''' ({{IPA|sh|tsř̩ʋenaː zʋěːzda|pron}}) and colloquially referred to as '''Red Star Belgrade''' in [[English-speaking world|Anglophone]] media, is a [[Serbia]]n professional [[Association football|football]] [[Football team|club]] based in [[Belgrade]], and a major part of the [[SD Crvena Zvezda|Red Star multi-sport society]].

They are [[List of football clubs by competitive honours won|the most successful club]] from the [[Balkans]] and [[Southeast Europe]], being the only club to have won both the [[1990–91 European Cup|European Cup]] and [[1991 Intercontinental Cup|Intercontinental Cup]], having done so in 1991, and only the second team from [[Eastern Europe]] to win the European Cup. With 36 national championships, 29 national cups, 2 national supercups, 2 national champions leagues and one league cup between Serbian and Yugoslav competitions, Red Star was the most successful club in Yugoslavia and finished first in the [[Yugoslav First League#All-Time First Yugoslav League table|Yugoslav First League all-time table]], and is the most successful club in Serbia.

According to 2008 polls, Red Star Belgrade is the most popular football club in Serbia, with 48% of the population supporting them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2008&mm=02&dd=27&nav_id=286765|title=Svaki drugi Srbin navija za Zvezdu|website=b92.net|date=27 February 2008|access-date=18 March 2008|archive-date=28 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728114236/http://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2008&mm=02&dd=27&nav_id=286765|url-status=live}}</ref> They have many supporters in other former Yugoslav republics and among the [[Serb diaspora]]. Their main rivals are fellow Belgrade side [[FK Partizan|Partizan]]. The championship matches between these two clubs are known as the [[Eternal derby (Serbia)|Eternal derby]].

According to the [[International Federation of Football History & Statistics]]' list of the Top 200 European clubs of the 20th century, Red Star is the highest-ranked Serbian and Balkan club, sharing the 27th position.

==History==
{{Main|History of Red Star Belgrade}}
[[File:Rajko Mitić (1970).jpg|190px|thumb|right|Red Star legend [[Rajko Mitić]].]]

===Yugoslavia and Serbia-Montenegro period===
In February 1945, during [[World War II]], a group of young men, active players, students and members of the Serbian United Antifascist Youth League, decided to form a Youth Physical Culture Society, that was to become Red Star Belgrade on 4 March. Previously, as of December 1944, all pre-war Serbian clubs were abolished, and on 5 May 1945, communist Secretary of Sports [[Mitra Mitrović|Mitra Mitrović-Djilas]] signed the decree dissolving formally all pre-war clubs on the territory of [[Socialist Republic of Serbia]]. The clubs were dissolved because during the [[Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia|German occupation]], there was an attempt to organize the league so all the clubs were labelled [[Collaboration during World War II|collaborators]] by [[Josip Broz Tito]]'s [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|communist]] regime.

The name Red Star was assigned after a long discussion. Other ideas shortlisted by the delegates included "People's Star", "Blue Star", "[[Proletariat|Proleter]]", "[[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]", "[[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]", ''etc.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp_r3XlXgAAPsfy.jpg|title=Sa proslave 57. rođendana crveno-belih: Lenjin i Staljin bili u "igri" za ime Crvene Zvezde|date=6 March 2002|work=Politika|access-date=24 July 2017|archive-date=28 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528220234/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp_r3XlXgAAPsfy.jpg|url-status=live}}</ref> The initial vice presidents of the Sport Society – Zoran Žujović and Slobodan Ćosić – were the ones who assigned it.<ref name="Start">{{cite web|url=http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/en/pages/details/3/History|title=History of Crvena zvezda|website=crvenazvezdafk.com|access-date=26 June 2018|archive-date=26 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626192527/http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/en/pages/details/3/History|url-status=live}}</ref> Red Star was soon adopted as a symbol of [[Serbian nationalism]] within Yugoslavia and a sporting institution which remains the country's most popular to this day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/news/y=2007/m=4/news=red-star-claim-gold-for-the-balkan-peninsula-510487.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626192515/https://www.fifa.com/news/y=2007/m=4/news=red-star-claim-gold-for-the-balkan-peninsula-510487.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 June 2018|title=Red Star claim gold for the Balkan peninsula|publisher=FIFA|access-date=25 June 2015}}</ref> On that day, Red Star played the first football match in the club's history against the First Battalion of the Second Brigade of KNOJ ([[People's Defence Corps of Yugoslavia]]) and won 3–0.

Red Star's first successes involved small steps to recognition. In the first fifteen years of existence, Red Star won one Serbian championship, six [[Yugoslav First League|Yugoslav championships]], five [[Yugoslav Cup]]s, one [[1958 Danube Cup|Danube Cup]] and reached the semi-finals of the [[1956–57 European Cup]]. Some of the greatest players during this period were [[Kosta Tomašević]], [[Branko Stanković]], [[Rajko Mitić]], [[Vladimir Beara]], [[Bora Kostić]], [[Vladica Popović]], [[Vladimir Durković]] and [[Dragoslav Šekularac]]. As champions, Red Star were Yugoslavia's entrants into the [[1957–58 European Cup]] where they were famously beaten 5–4 on aggregate by English champions [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] in the quarter-finals. Manchester United, managed by [[Matt Busby]] defeated Red Star 2–1 in the first leg in England before drawing 3–3 with them in Yugoslavia in the return match on 5 February at [[Partizan Stadium|JNA Stadium]].<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqruUngobE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/cwqruUngobE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Crvena Zvezda - Manchester United 3:3 (1958.)|date=26 June 2021|via=YouTube|access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The second leg is notable for being the last match played by the [[Busby Babes]]: on the return flight to England the following day, the plane [[Munich air disaster|crashed]] in [[Munich]], resulting in the deaths of 23 people, including eight Manchester United players.

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|GK  = [[Aleksandar Stojanović|'''Stojanović''']]
|RB  = [[Nikola Jovanović (footballer, born 1952)|'''Jovanović''']]| RB_shift = -1
|RCB = [[Ivan Jurišić|'''Jurišić''']]
|LCB = [[Dragan Miletović|'''Miletović''']]
|LB  = [[Milan Jovin|'''Jovin''']]
|RM  = [[Vladimir Petrović|'''Petrović (C)''']]| RM_shift = -1
|RCM = [[Đorđe Milovanović|'''Milovanović''']]
|LCM = [[Slavoljub Muslin|'''Muslin''']]
|LM  = [[Cvijetin Blagojević|'''Blagojević''']]
|RCF = [[Dušan Savić|'''Savić''']]
|LCF = [[Nedeljko Milosavljević|'''Milosavljević''']]
|caption = Red Star's starting lineup against Borussia in Düsseldorf, [[1979 UEFA Cup Final]]. (coach: [[Branko Stanković]]).
}}

During the [[Miljan Miljanić]] era, Red Star won four Yugoslav championships, three Yugoslav cups, two Yugoslav supercups, one Yugoslav league cup, one [[1967–68 Mitropa Cup|Mitropa Cup]] and reached the semi-finals of the [[1970–71 European Cup]]. A new generation of players emerged under Miljanić's guidance, led by [[Dragan Džajić]] and [[Jovan Aćimović]]. Red Star eliminated [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] in the second round of the [[1973–74 European Cup]] and [[Real Madrid CF|Real Madrid]] in the quarter-finals of the [[1974–75 European Cup Winners' Cup]]. [[Branko Stanković]], whose reign as head coach was to last four years, brought Red Star three trophies and the first great European final. After eliminating teams like [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]], [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] and [[Hertha BSC]], Red Star made for the first time the [[1979 UEFA Cup Final|UEFA Cup final]]. There, Red Star met [[Borussia Mönchengladbach]], who played five European finals from 1973 to 1980. The Germans fell behind one goal from [[Miloš Šestić]], but [[Ivan Jurišić]]'s own goal gave Gladbach a psychological advantage before the rematch. This game was played at the [[Rheinstadion]] in [[Düsseldorf]], where the Italian referee [[Alberto Michelotti]] gave a questionable penalty to the Germans, and the Danish player [[Allan Simonsen]] sealed Red Star's fate. ''The Foals'' won 2–1 on aggregate.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mECd2431pVY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/mECd2431pVY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Crvena zvezda - Borusija (M) 1:1, 0:1 (oba meča)|date=22 May 2018|via=YouTube|access-date=6 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

After the 1970s, historical matches against [[Udo Lattek]]'s [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]] followed during the [[1982–83 European Cup Winners' Cup]]. In both matches, Barcelona were the better team and Red Star was eliminated. Remarkably, when Barça's [[Diego Maradona]] scored his second goal in front of approximately 100,000 spectators at the [[Red Star Stadium|Marakana]], the Belgrade audience were so excited about the goal that even the loyal Belgrade fans applauded Maradona.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL4IDyqe-6I |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/rL4IDyqe-6I |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Crvena Zvezda - FC Barcelona 2:4 (1982.)|date=20 May 2021|via=YouTube|access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Gojko Zec]] returned to the team in 1983, finding only one player from the champions generation he was coaching back in [[1976–77 Yugoslav First League|1977]], [[Miloš Šestić]]. Zec similarly repeated the club's triumph from his previous mandate by winning the [[1983–84 Yugoslav First League|championship]] immediately upon his arrival. Zec would later leave the club in a controversial ''[[Slavko Šajber|Šajber]]'s case''-style scandal which was the result of irregularities in the [[1985–86 Yugoslav First League|1985–86 season]].

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| GK  = [[Stevan Stojanović|'''Stojanović (C)''']]
| RB  = [[Refik Šabanadžović|'''Šabanadžović''']]| RB_shift = -1
| RCB = [[Ilija Najdoski|'''Najdoski''']]
| LCB = [[Miodrag Belodedici|'''Belodedici''']]
| LB  = [[Slobodan Marović|'''Marović''']]
| RCM = [[Vladimir Jugović|'''Jugović''']]
| AM  = [[Robert Prosinečki|'''Prosinečki''']]
| LCM = [[Siniša Mihajlović|'''Mihajlović''']]
| RW  = [[Dragiša Binić|'''Binić''']]
| LW  = [[Dejan Savićević|'''Savićević''']]
| CF  = [[Darko Pančev|'''Pančev''']]
| caption = Red Star's starting lineup against Marseille in [[1991 European Cup Final]]. (coach: [[Ljupko Petrović]]).
}}

After Zec left in 1986, there were great changes in the club. The management of the club, run by [[Dragan Džajić]] and [[Vladimir Cvetković]], began to build a team that could compete with some of the most powerful European sides. During that summer, [[Velibor Vasović]] became coach and the side was strengthened by acquiring a number of talented young players, among whom [[Dragan Stojković]] and [[Borislav Cvetković]] stood out. In the first season that started with penalty points, Red Star focused on the European Cup and achieving good results. In 1986, a five-year plan was developed by the club and Prof. Dr Veljko Aleksić with the only goal being to win the European Cup.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/vest/16085/in-memoriam-prof-dr-veljko-aleksic|title=ИН МЕМОРИАМ: Проф. др Вељко Алексић|website=FK Crvena zvezda|date=11 March 2024|accessdate=11 March 2024|archive-date=11 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311214738/http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/vest/16085/in-memoriam-prof-dr-veljko-aleksic|url-status=live}}</ref> All that was planned was finally achieved. On the club's birthday in [[1986–87 European Cup|1987]], it started. [[Real Madrid CF|Real Madrid]] were defeated at the Marakana. From that day through to March 1992, Red Star enjoyed the best period of success in its history. In these five seasons, Red Star won four National Championships; in the last of those four years of heyday, the club won the [[1991 European Cup Final]], played in [[Bari]], Italy.

Red Star coach [[Ljupko Petrović]] brought the team to Italy a week before the final in order to peacefully prepare the players for a forthcoming encounter with [[Olympique de Marseille|Marseille]]. By that time, Red Star had 18 goals in 8 matches, whereas the French champions had 20. Therefore, the 100th European competing final was expected to be a spectacle of offense. Nonetheless, both Petrović and [[Raymond Goethals]] opted for defence and the match settled down into a war of attrition. After a 120-minute match and only few chances on both sides, the match was decided following the penalty shootout. After several minutes of stressful penalties, one of Marseille's players, [[Manuel Amoros]], missed a penalty, and [[Darko Pančev]] converted his penalty to bring the European Cup to Yugoslavia for the first time. Red Star won the shootout, 5–3, on 29 May 1991 in front of 60,000 spectators and the millions watching on television around the world. Twenty-thousand Red Star fans at the [[Stadio San Nicola]] and millions of them all over Yugoslavia and the world celebrated the greatest joy in Red Star's history.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEx2PNYbyg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/HUEx2PNYbyg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Crvena zvezda - Olimpik 0:0 (5:3)|date=28 May 2015|via=YouTube|access-date=6 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Red Star went unbeaten at the [[1990–91 European Cup]] in Bari and the [[1991 Intercontinental Cup]] in [[Tokyo]].

In 1992, the club was weakened by the departure of numerous players from the champions generation (new players were added, such as [[Dejan Petković]] and [[Anto Drobnjak]]). The success in the previous season caught the attention of European giants which rushed making lucrative offers to sign Red Star's best players. In addition, Red Star had to defend the continental trophy playing its home games in [[Szeged]], [[Budapest]] and [[Sofia]] due to the war in former Yugoslavia, thereby reducing their chances of defending their title. [[UEFA]] changed the format of the competition that year and the [[1991–92 European Cup]] was the first to be played in a format with two groups each having four teams. Despite the disadvantage of playing its home games abroad, Red Star still did well and finished second in the group behind [[U.C. Sampdoria|Sampdoria]]. In domestic competition, main rivals [[HNK Hajduk Split|Hajduk Split]] and [[GNK Dinamo Zagreb|Dinamo Zagreb]] left the league, just as all the other clubs from [[Croatia]], [[North Macedonia|Macedonia]] and [[Slovenia]] did, and the championship in Yugoslavia that was cut in size was played on the edge of observance of regulations around the beginning of the [[Bosnian War]]. At the end of May, the [[United Nations]] had the country under [[Sanctions against Yugoslavia|sanctions]] and dislodged Yugoslav football from the international scene. The [[Breakup of Yugoslavia]], the [[Yugoslav Wars]], the inflation and the UN sanctions have hit Red Star hard. In the period between May 1992 and May 2000, only one [[1994–95 First League of FR Yugoslavia|championship victory]] was celebrated at the Marakana. However, they did manage to win five [[Serbia and Montenegro Cup|cups]], along with several glorious European performances, including the famed [[1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|1996 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]] showdown against Barcelona side which featured [[Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)|Ronaldo]] and [[Hristo Stoichkov]].
[[File:Dejan Stanković - Inter Mailand (1).jpg|140px|thumb|left|[[Dejan Stanković]] was the youngest captain ever in Red Star's history.]]
Immediately after the [[NATO bombing of Yugoslavia]] ended, Red Star won the [[1998–99 FR Yugoslavia Cup|17th cup]] in its history by winning 4–2 against [[FK Partizan|Partizan]]. Two seasons later, the club returned to the European spotlight by making it to the [[2001–02 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds]], where Red Star was eliminated by [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen|Bayer Leverkusen]] (0–0 and 0–3), which would later be a finalist in the Champions League that year. [[Slavoljub Muslin]] left the bench in September 2001, after which Red Star's subsequent seasons became more volatile.

===Recent era===

In the [[2006–07 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds]], Red Star was eliminated (3–1 on aggregate) by the same [[A.C. Milan|Milan]] side which ultimately won that year's [[2007 UEFA Champions League Final|competition]]. Furthermore, the campaign in Group F of the [[2007–08 UEFA Cup]] was a large disappointment, especially given that the first game against [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] was a sensational last-minute loss (by a score of 2–3 in Belgrade). In those years, Red Star's teams featured the likes of [[Nikola Žigić]], [[Boško Janković]], [[Milan Biševac]], [[Dušan Basta]], [[Dejan Milovanović]], [[Segundo Castillo (footballer, born 1982)|Segundo Castillo]], [[Ibrahima Gueye (footballer, born 1978)|Ibrahima Gueye]], [[Nenad Milijaš]] and [[Ognjen Koroman]]. After a six-year drought, Red Star won their 26th league title in [[2013–14 Serbian SuperLiga|2013–14 season]].

[[File:CRVENA ZVEZDA-IBV ICELAND 18.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Crvena zvezda in 2013.]]

Despite Red Star's success on the pitch in 2013–14, the financial situation at the club has worsened, so much so that the club were banned from participating in the [[2014–15 UEFA Champions League]] for which they qualified by winning the Serbian SuperLiga. The UEFA Club Financial Control Body found Red Star's debts to players, some of whom had not been paid for at least six months, staff and other clubs, totalled €1.86&nbsp;million. The club board were also alleged to have hidden debts and falsified documents. This, on top of an earlier UEFA disciplinary measure in 2011, meant Red Star did not meet the necessary Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play criteria and, as such, should not have been granted a UEFA license by the Serbian FA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifpro.org/news/red-star-players-pay-a-hefty-price/en/|title=Red Star players pay a hefty price|work=fifpro.org|date=18 June 2014|access-date=26 June 2018|archive-date=26 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626192203/https://www.fifpro.org/news/red-star-players-pay-a-hefty-price/en/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rivals Partizan took Red Star's place in the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round.

After ten years of waiting, Red Star qualified for the [[2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage]]. Red Star progressed through four [[2017–18 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round|qualifying rounds]] and reached the [[2017–18 UEFA Europa League knockout phase|knockout phase]] of the tournament, becoming the first team in competition's history to reach the knockout phase after starting their season in the first qualifying round.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2017&mm=12&dd=07&nav_id=1333758|title=Niko kao Zvezda – crveno-beli u istoriji LE!|website=b92.net|date=12 July 2017|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-date=3 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703021908/https://www.b92.net/sport/fudbal/vesti.php?yyyy=2017&mm=12&dd=07&nav_id=1333758|url-status=live}}</ref> Although Red Star played in the group stage of the first edition in which groups format was introduced in the European Cup, [[1991–92 European Cup]], the designation "Champions League" was only adopted a season later in which Yugoslav clubs were already banned from participating in. Thus, when Red Star eliminated [[FC Red Bull Salzburg|Red Bull Salzburg]] in the [[2018–19 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round|2018–19 UEFA Champions League play-off round]], and qualified for the [[2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage|UEFA Champions League group stage]], it meant that Red Star competed for the first time since the new format was introduced.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rts.rs/page/sport/sr/story/36/fudbal/3242888/zvezda-u-salcburgu-za-plasman-u-ligu-sampiona.html|title=Istorija u Salcburgu, Zvezda u Ligi šampiona|website=rts.rs|access-date=29 August 2018|archive-date=30 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830111933/http://www.rts.rs/page/sport/sr/story/36/fudbal/3242888/zvezda-u-salcburgu-za-plasman-u-ligu-sampiona.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Red Star became the first Serbian team to win a match in the UEFA Champions League when they defeated Liverpool.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46087243|title=Red Star Belgrade 2-0 Liverpool: Reds 'lost mojo' in shock defeat|work=BBC Sport|access-date=6 November 2018|archive-date=6 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106125617/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46087243|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 14 May 2019, the 1946 People's Republic of Serbia League title was officially recognized by the Serbian FA, meaning that Red Star's triumph in the [[2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga]] was their 30th national championship. Red Star reached the [[2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage|UEFA Champions League group stage]] for the second successive season after eliminating [[FK Sūduva|Sūduva]], [[Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi|HJK Helsinki]], [[F.C. Copenhagen|Copenhagen]] and [[BSC Young Boys|Young Boys]]. On 5 November 2019, cable television channel Zvezda TV started airing.

In the [[2020–21 Serbian SuperLiga]], Red Star set a world record for the number of points gained in a single season with 108 points.<ref>{{cite web|title=Звезда са 108 бодова срушила светски рекорд|url=http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/vest/11486/zvezda-sa-108-bodova-srusila-svetski-rekord|website=crvenazvezdafk.com|date=19 May 2021|language=sr|access-date=19 May 2021|archive-date=21 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521080439/http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/vest/11486/zvezda-sa-108-bodova-srusila-svetski-rekord|url-status=live}}</ref> Red Star won their eighth Serbian SuperLiga title in a row and completed their fifth consecutive [[Double (association football)|double]] in the 2024–25 season.

==Crest and colours==
{{Commons|Red Star Belgrade kits}}
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Red Star initially wore yellow shirts with a red star which were acquired from ''FK Slavija'' (from [[Čubura]]). In 1946, the club switched to red shirts with white shorts and alternating red-white socks before adopting the signature red and white vertical striped shirts, with alternating white or red shorts and socks in 1950.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-21 |title=OVAKO JE IZGLEDAO PRVI ZVEZDIN MEČ U TIRANI: Žuti dresovi i Rajko Mitić u VOJNOJ uniformi! |url=https://www.sd.rs/sport/fudbal/ovako-je-izgledao-prvi-zvezdin-mec-u-tirani-zuti-dresovi-i-rajko-mitic-u-vojnoj-uniformi-2020-08-21 |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=www.sd.rs |language=sr |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814122342/https://www.sd.rs/sport/fudbal/ovako-je-izgledao-prvi-zvezdin-mec-u-tirani-zuti-dresovi-i-rajko-mitic-u-vojnoj-uniformi-2020-08-21 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/kup/48/osvajaci-kupa-1949|title=ФК Црвена звезда - Купови|website=FC Crvena Zvezda|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=17 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117181805/http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/kup/48/osvajaci-kupa-1949|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mojacrvenazvezda.net/98447/2014/11/19/na-danasnji-dan-rodjen-rajko-mitic/|title=На данашњи дан: Рођен Рајко Митић|date=2014-11-19|website=Moja Crvena Zvezda|language=sr-RS|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=15 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115164554/http://www.mojacrvenazvezda.net/98447/2014/11/19/na-danasnji-dan-rodjen-rajko-mitic/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.novosti.rs/dodatni_sadrzaj/clanci.119.html:666591-Osnivanje-Crvene-zvezde-i-Partizana|title=Osnivanje Crvene zvezde i Partizana|website=novosti.rs|language=sr-Latn|access-date=2019-09-16}}</ref> The red and white stripes have become indivisible to Red Star's image, conferring the popular nickname ''Crveno-beli'', "the red and white's" in [[Serbian language|Serbian]]. The club continued to wear the initial pre-stripe kit throughout its existence, but has generally declined in usage. During the 1950s and 1960s, the club also alternated between blue trunks, a long white V-neck on a red shirt, and a red shirt with thin white horizontal lines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mojacrvenazvezda.net/128137/2016/04/05/na-danasnji-dan-rodjen-lazar-tasic-3/|title=На данашњи дан: Рођен Лазар Тасић|date=2016-04-04|website=Moja Crvena Zvezda|language=sr-RS|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=15 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115170059/http://www.mojacrvenazvezda.net/128137/2016/04/05/na-danasnji-dan-rodjen-lazar-tasic-3/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-united-memory-busby-babes-9447502|title=Manchester United: The memory of Busby Babes will never die in Belgrade|last=Mitten|first=Andy|date=2015-06-13|website=men|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=1 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001134429/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-united-memory-busby-babes-9447502|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mojacrvenazvezda.net/33152/2012/05/23/na-danasnji-dan-poraz-u-finalu-kupa-uefa/|title=На данашњи дан : Пораз у финалу Купа Уефа|date=2012-05-23|website=Moja Crvena Zvezda|language=sr-RS|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=8 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908125325/http://www.mojacrvenazvezda.net/33152/2012/05/23/na-danasnji-dan-poraz-u-finalu-kupa-uefa/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Red Star have usually worn an all-white away kit, whilst also utilizing predominantly blue or red away or third kits, thereby incorporating the [[Flag of Serbia|Serbian tricolour]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kurir.rs/sport/fudbal/3018029/nova-pravila-u-ligi-sampiona-zvezdi-pare-i-zbog-1991|title=NOVA PRAVILA U LIGI ŠAMPIONA: Zvezdi pare i zbog 1991.|website=kurir.rs|language=en|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=15 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115164550/https://www.kurir.rs/amp/3018029/nova-pravila-u-ligi-sampiona-zvezdi-pare-i-zbog-1991|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espreso.co.rs/sport/fudbal/271517/ovako-izgledaju-novi-zvezdini-dresovi-premijera-protiv-spartaksa-foto|title=OVAKO IZGLEDAJU NOVI ZVEZDINI DRESOVI! Premijera protiv Spartaksa! (FOTO)|website=espreso.rs|date=17 July 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-09-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sport.blic.rs/fudbal/domaci-fudbal/zvezda-predstavila-nove-dresove-fudbaleri-ce-nositi-i-navijace-na-grudima-anketa/mzshwze|title=Zvezda predstavila nove dresove, fudbaleri će nositi i navijače na grudima /ANKETA/|last=Tašković|first=M.|website=Blic.rs|language=sr|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=26 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926032908/https://sport.blic.rs/fudbal/domaci-fudbal/zvezda-predstavila-nove-dresove-fudbaleri-ce-nositi-i-navijace-na-grudima-anketa/mzshwze|url-status=live}}</ref> The club crest is a red five-pointed star, white framed, on a red-white background. In addition, the whole crest is framed in gold. There are three golden stars on the top of the club emblem, symbolizing the 30 titles won.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/en/vest/8430/Sampioni|title=Champions!|website=crvenazvezdafk.com|date=5 May 2019|access-date=5 May 2019|archive-date=7 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507111632/http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/en/vest/8430/Sampioni|url-status=live}}</ref>

Despite the club's overtly [[Communism|Communist]] name and imagery, Red Star Football Club has become a symbol in its own right. The "[[Red star|''petokraka'']]" from which the club's name derives has paradoxically become a symbol of the club itself, moving further away from its original association with the [[Yugoslav Partisans|Partisans]] and the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Communist Party of Yugoslavia]]. Due to Red Star's popularity and sporting success, the club and its crest have become synonymous with broader [[Serbian national identity|Serbian identity]], and patriotism that echoes beyond the sporting landscape.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/red-star-serbia-never-yugoslavia-football-politics-and-national-i/|title="Red Star Serbia, never Yugoslavia!" Football, politics and national identity in Serbia|website=openDemocracy|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=14 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914131446/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/red-star-serbia-never-yugoslavia-football-politics-and-national-i/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/uncivil-war-why-partizan-belgrade-vs-red-star-more-game|title=Uncivil war: Why Partizan Belgrade vs Red Star is more than a game|last1=House|first1=Future Publishing Limited Quay|last2=Ambury|first2=The|date=2003-03-01|website=FourFourTwo|language=en|access-date=2019-09-14|last3=Engl|first3=Bath BA1 1UA All rights reserved|last4=number 2008885|first4=Wales company registration|archive-date=22 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422112816/https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/uncivil-war-why-partizan-belgrade-vs-red-star-more-game|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/istrazivanje-ko-ima-vise-navijaca-u-srbiji-zvezda-ili-partizan/wx9n86n|title=ISTRAŽIVANJE Ko ima više navijača u Srbiji, ZVEZDA ILI PARTIZAN?|last=Tašković|first=Marko|website=Blic.rs|date=23 September 2018|language=sr|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=1 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501144146/https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/istrazivanje-ko-ima-vise-navijaca-u-srbiji-zvezda-ili-partizan/wx9n86n|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Stadium==
{{Main|Red Star Stadium}}
Red Star's home ground is the Rajko Mitić Stadium (since 21 December 2014), formerly known as Red Star Stadium. With a seated capacity of 51,755 it is the largest stadium in Serbia and in the former Yugoslavia. The stadium was opened in 1963, and in the course of time and due to the fact that stadium's former capacity was about 110,000, it got the unofficial moniker Marakana, after the large and famous [[Maracanã Stadium]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil, and Belgrade's sold-out Marakana garnered the reputation of being a very tough ground for visiting teams to play in. Some of the biggest football events have been held at this stadium, such as the European Cup final between [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]] and [[Juventus FC|Juventus]] in [[1973 European Cup Final|1973]], [[UEFA European Championship]] final between [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] and [[Czechoslovakia national football team|Czechoslovakia]] in [[UEFA Euro 1976 Final|1976]], and the first leg of the UEFA Cup final between Red Star and Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1979. During the mid-1990s, in order to meet [[UEFA]] demands for spectators comfort and security, standing places at the stadium were completely done away with and seats were installed on all four stands. In the years, since the stadium's capacity was gradually decreased, followed different stadium modernisations. 
[[File:Fk Red Star stadium.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Red Star Stadium|Rajko Mitić Stadium]] viewed from the air.]]
In 2008, the club reconstructed the stadium's pitch, [[Under-soil heating|under-soil grass heaters]], improved drainage systems were installed and new modern turf replaced the old surface. The training pitch, located next to the stadium, was also renovated by laying down synthetic turf and installing new lighting equipment. In 2011, the stadium received also a new modern LED [[scoreboard]]. Today, the stadium has a central lodge, named ''5 Zvezdinih Zvezda'' (English: 5 Stars of Red Star), which consist of five segments, each bears the name of one of Red Star's legendary players ([[Rajko Mitić|Mitić]], [[Dragoslav Šekularac|Šekularac]], [[Dragan Džajić|Džajić]], [[Vladimir Petrović|Petrović]], [[Dragan Stojković|Stojković]]), two other [[VIP]] lounges and a special VIP gallery with over 450 seats. It has also a modern press box with a capacity of 344 seats including seven extra-comfortable seats, an extra media center, the Red Cafe and a restaurant. On the west stand of the stadium exist also an official Red Star shop along with a [[Delije]] shop. The playing field measures are 110 × 73&nbsp;m, and is illuminated by 1,400 [[lux]] [[Floodlights (sport)|floodlights]]. According to the known German [[Web portal]]'' "Stadionwelt"'', Belgrade's ''"Marakana"'' is in the top 50 football stadiums in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sport.blic.rs/Fudbal/Evropski-fudbal/212311/Stadion-Zvezde-medju-50-najznacajnijih-u-Evropi|title=Blic Sport&nbsp;– Stadion Zvezde među 50 najznačajnijih u Evropi|work=Blic Sport|access-date=25 June 2015|archive-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626115534/http://sport.blic.rs/Fudbal/Evropski-fudbal/212311/Stadion-Zvezde-medju-50-najznacajnijih-u-Evropi|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, American [[Bleacher Report]] ranked the Red Star Stadium, especially if it is sold out, as among the most intimidating stadiums in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1066879-top-10-most-hostile-football-stadiums/page/11|title=10 Most Hostile World Football Stadiums|author=Allan Jiang|work=Bleacher Report|access-date=25 June 2015|archive-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626104808/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1066879-top-10-most-hostile-football-stadiums/page/11|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Youth academy==

===History===
Some of the most notable home-grown players are [[Dragan Džajić]], named the all-time Serbian best player (the choice of the Football Association of Serbia on the 50th anniversary of [[UEFA]], known as the [[UEFA Jubilee Awards|Golden Player]]), who reached third place at the election for the [[Ballon d'Or|European Footballer of the Year]] in [[1968 Ballon d'Or|1968]], then [[Dragoslav Šekularac]] – a runner-up with [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]] at [[1960 European Nations' Cup]], [[Vladimir Petrović]] – the fourth [[#Stars of Red Star|Star of Red Star]], [[Vladimir Jugović]] – two times the European Cup winner (with Red Star and Juventus), as well as [[Dejan Stanković]] and [[Nemanja Vidić]].

Further notable home-grown players include [[Vladica Popović]], [[Ratomir Dujković]], [[Stanislav Karasi]], [[Slobodan Janković (footballer, born 1946)|Slobodan Janković]], [[Ognjen Petrović]], [[Vladislav Bogićević]], [[Dušan Nikolić]], [[Zoran Filipović]], [[Dušan Savić]], [[Milan Janković (footballer, born 1959)|Milan Janković]], [[Boško Gjurovski|Boško]] and [[Milko Djurovski|Milko Gjurovski]], [[Stevan Stojanović]], [[Vladan Lukić]], [[Zvonko Milojević]], [[Zoran Jovičić]], [[Ivan Adžić]], [[Nebojša Krupniković]], [[Goran Drulić]], [[Nenad Lalatović]], [[Marko Pantelić]], [[Ognjen Koroman]], [[Vladimir Dišljenković]], [[Marko Perović (footballer, born 1984)|Marko Perović]], [[Dejan Milovanović]], [[Dragan Mrđa]], [[Boško Janković]], [[Dušan Basta]], [[Vujadin Savić]], [[Slavoljub Srnić]], [[Filip Stojković]], [[Uroš Spajić]], [[Srđan Mijailović]], [[Marko Grujić]], [[Luka Jović]] and [[Strahinja Eraković]].

Former Red Star and Real Madrid coaching legend [[Miljan Miljanić]] was also a member of Red Star's youth school.

===Current coaching staff===
* U19s: [[Nenad Milijaš]]
* U17s: [[Aleksandar Linta]]

==Supporters==
{{Main|Delije}}
Red Star is the most popular football club in [[Serbia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/istrazivanje-ko-ima-vise-navijaca-u-srbiji-zvezda-ili-partizan/wx9n86n|title=ISTRAŽIVANJE Ko ima više navijača u Srbiji, ZVEZDA ILI PARTIZAN?|last=Tašković|first=Marko|website=Blic.rs|date=23 September 2018|language=sr|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=1 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501144146/https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/istrazivanje-ko-ima-vise-navijaca-u-srbiji-zvezda-ili-partizan/wx9n86n|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/sport.72.html:211202-Pola-Srbije-za-Crvenu-zvezdu|title=Pola Srbije za Crvenu zvezdu!|website=novosti.rs|language=sr-Latin|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=6 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106205723/http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/sport.72.html:211202-Pola-Srbije-za-Crvenu-zvezdu|url-status=live}}</ref> The club has fans and sympathisers throughout the whole country, but also throughout the regional and global [[Serbian diaspora]], making the club a symbol of&nbsp;[[Serbian nationalism|Serbdom]]. Fan groups are widespread throughout Serbia and [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia#Legacy|former Yugoslav republics]], and the club has the highest social media following amongst former Yugoslav football teams.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.srbijadanas.com/sport/fudbal/ovo-su-najpopularniji-klubovi-na-balkanu-evo-gde-su-zvezda-i-partizan-foto-2016-11-30|title=OVO SU NAJPOPULARNIJI KLUBOVI NA BALKANU: Evo gde su ZVEZDA i PARTIZAN (FOTO)|website=srbijadanas.com|date=30 November 2016|language=sr|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=31 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131101551/https://www.srbijadanas.com/sport/fudbal/ovo-su-najpopularniji-klubovi-na-balkanu-evo-gde-su-zvezda-i-partizan-foto-2016-11-30|url-status=live}}</ref> Traditionally, Red Star has been represented as the people's club, whilst always attracting support from all social classes, their fan base is not associated with any specific social group. Red Star [[ultras]] [[Delije]] espouse [[Patriotism|patriotic]], [[Serbian nationalism|nationalist]] and [[Far-right politics in Serbia|right-wing]] sentiments.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://crvenazvezda.tripod.com/Istorijadelija.html|title=Istorija Delija|website=crvenazvezda.tripod.com|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=12 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012204601/http://crvenazvezda.tripod.com/Istorijadelija.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.futbolgrad.com/a-culture-of-violence-the-politics-of-serbian-football-hooliganism/|title=A Culture of Violence - The Politics of Serbian Football Hooliganism|date=2015-11-10|website=Futbolgrad|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=22 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922110809/http://www.futbolgrad.com/a-culture-of-violence-the-politics-of-serbian-football-hooliganism/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The organized supporters of Red Star are known as&nbsp;[[Delije]], roughly translated in English as the "Heroes",&nbsp;"Braves",&nbsp;"Hardman"&nbsp;or&nbsp;"Studs". The term derives from the plural of the singular form "''Delija''", in [[Serbian language|Serbian]]. Delije support all branches of the&nbsp;[[SD Crvena Zvezda|Red Star multi-sport society]]. They are one of the most famous supporter groups in the world, renowned for their passion and fanaticism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thesetpieces.com/features/the-rise-fall-and-resurrection-of-red-star-belgrade-and-why-european-competition-still-means-so-much-to-them/|title=The rise, fall and resurrection of Red Star Belgrade – and why European competition still means so much to them|last=Schlewitz|first=Kirsten|date=2018-10-24|website=The Set Pieces|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-16}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=DELIJE CRVENA ZVEZDA ULTRAS - BEST MOMENTS|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1fHufCqk4U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/k1fHufCqk4U |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2019-09-16}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

[[File:Beograd 7652.jpg|230px|thumb|right|Delije section at Rajko Mitić Stadium.]]

Hardcore supporters began to emerge during the 1980s, with official inauguration taking place in 1989. Previously, Red Star fans were scattered amongst several organized fan groups within the north terrace of&nbsp;the [[Red Star Stadium|Rajko Mitić Stadium]], colloquially known as "''Marakana''". Their style of support is greatly influenced by [[Tifo|Italian]] and [[Football hooliganism in the United Kingdom|English]] football culture of the 1980s. It includes the use of widespread choreography, flares, flags, banners, and boisterous cheering.<ref>{{Citation|title=Dosije navijaci - Cela emisija|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6NeB6bXZc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/jt6NeB6bXZc |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2019-09-16}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The word Delije is displayed (in [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]]) on the north terrace seats of Rajko Mitić Stadium as a sign of appreciation, and fidelity between the club and supporters. Subgroups of Delije exist outside of&nbsp;[[Belgrade]], along with cities across&nbsp;Serbia&nbsp;and all other ex-Yugoslav republics. Despite Red Star's broad fan base, Delije have developed an infamous reputation for [[Football hooliganism|hooliganism]] amongst some segments of its ultras, especially during [[Eternal derby (Serbia)|Belgrade derbies]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/history-violence-behind-ultras-red-15293757|title=The history of violence behind the Ultras of Red Star Belgrade|last=Duffy|first=Tom|date=2018-10-21|website=liverpoolecho|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=5 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105223703/https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/history-violence-behind-ultras-red-15293757|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=The Most Intense Atmosphere in Football - Partizan v Red Star: Derby Days| date=4 May 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdj7jBT9tu0|language=en|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=15 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615203111/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdj7jBT9tu0|url-status=live}}</ref>

Due to historically warm [[Greece–Serbia relations|Serbo-Hellenic]] relations, Red Star's Delije ultras have developed a strong kinship with&nbsp;[[Olympiacos F.C.|Olympiacos]] ultras [[Gate 7 (supporter group)|Gate 7]]. The "Orthodox Brothers" friendship is based on mutual [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] faith, a strong cultural marker amongst the [[Serbs]] and [[Greeks]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.agonasport.com/agonasport-allnews/2016/5/8/r2sofvzobmw8g9o35pluhdoqs16y5i|title=Orthodox Brothers|website=AGONAsport.com|date=8 May 2016|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=31 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131055146/https://www.agonasport.com/agonasport-allnews/2016/5/8/r2sofvzobmw8g9o35pluhdoqs16y5i|url-status=dead}}</ref> Both clubs also share the same colours, and are from the national capitals. They are also the most decorated football teams in their respective countries. The brotherhood has evolved to include [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]] ultras [[Fratria]], owing to strong [[Russophilia]] and a shared [[Slavs|Slavic]] heritage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://02varvara.wordpress.com/tag/red-star-belgrade/|title=Red Star Belgrade|website=Voices from Russia|language=en|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=3 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803125948/https://02varvara.wordpress.com/tag/red-star-belgrade/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.futbolgrad.com/serbia-and-russia-in-football-orthodox-brotherhood-unorthodox-passion/|title=Serbia and Russia in Football – Orthodox Brotherhood Unorthodox Passion|date=2015-12-02|website=Futbolgrad|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-16|archive-date=13 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813085248/http://www.futbolgrad.com/serbia-and-russia-in-football-orthodox-brotherhood-unorthodox-passion/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==The Eternal derby==
{{main|Eternal derby (Serbia)}}
[[File:Beograd 7654.jpg|230px|thumb|right|Graffiti of the [[Delije]] at Rajko Mitić Stadium.]]
Red Star's fiercest and long-standing city rival is [[FK Partizan]], football section of the other large and popular multi-sports club in Serbia. The rivalry started immediately after the creation of the two clubs in 1945. Since then, both clubs have been dominant in domestic football. The match is particularly noted for the passion of the Red Star's supporters, called ''[[Delije]]'', and Partizan's supporters, the ''[[Grobari]]'' (English: "Gravediggers" or "Undertakers"). The stands of both teams feature fireworks, coloured confetti, flags, rolls of paper, torches, smoke, drums, giant posters and choreographies, used to create visual grandeur and apply psychological pressure on the visiting teams, hence the slogan, "Welcome to Hellgrade". Both sets of supporters sing passionate songs against their rivals, and the stadiums are known to bounce with the simultaneous jumping of the fans. The duel is regarded as one of the [[List of association football club rivalries in Europe|greatest football rivalries]] in the world and the matches between these rivals have been labeled as the '''Eternal derby'''. Given its widespread touch on the entirety of a major city, it is dubbed one of, along with the [[Old Firm]], the [[Derby della Capitale|Rome derby]] and the [[The Intercontinental Derby (football)|Istanbul derby]], the most heated rivalries in European football.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.theoffside.com/europe/the-inferno-at-yesterdays-biggest-rivalry-game.html | title=The Inferno at Yesterday's Biggest Rivalry Game | publisher=theoffside.com | access-date=9 April 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912071010/http://www.theoffside.com/europe/the-inferno-at-yesterdays-biggest-rivalry-game.html | archive-date=12 September 2012 }}</ref> The biggest attendance for a Red Star – Partizan match was about 108,000 spectators at the Rajko Mitić Stadium.

==Honours==
Red Star has won 4 international and 70 domestic trophies, making it the most successful football club in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia.

===Domestic competitions (70)===

'''National Championships – 36 (record)'''
* '''People's Republic of Serbia League (record)'''
** '''Winners (1):''' 1946<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/en/sampionat/28/sampioni-srbije-1946|title=Champions 1946.|website=crvenazvezdafk.com|access-date=9 May 2018|archive-date=9 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509151254/http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/en/sampionat/28/sampioni-srbije-1946|url-status=live}}</ref>
* '''[[Yugoslav First League]] (record)'''
** '''Winners (19):''' [[1951 Yugoslav First League|1951]], [[1952–53 Yugoslav First League|1952–53]], [[1955–56 Yugoslav First League|1955–56]], [[1956–57 Yugoslav First League|1956–57]], [[1958–59 Yugoslav First League|1958–59]], [[1959–60 Yugoslav First League|1959–60]], [[1963–64 Yugoslav First League|1963–64]], [[1967–68 Yugoslav First League|1967–68]], [[1968–69 Yugoslav First League|1968–69]], [[1969–70 Yugoslav First League|1969–70]], [[1972–73 Yugoslav First League|1972–73]], [[1976–77 Yugoslav First League|1976–77]], [[1979–80 Yugoslav First League|1979–80]], [[1980–81 Yugoslav First League|1980–81]], [[1983–84 Yugoslav First League|1983–84]], [[1987–88 Yugoslav First League|1987–88]], [[1989–90 Yugoslav First League|1989–90]], [[1990–91 Yugoslav First League|1990–91]], [[1991–92 Yugoslav First League|1991–92]]
* '''[[First League of Serbia and Montenegro]]'''
** '''Winners (5):''' [[1994–95 First League of FR Yugoslavia|1994–95]], [[1999–2000 First League of FR Yugoslavia|1999–2000]], [[2000–01 First League of FR Yugoslavia|2000–01]], [[2003–04 First League of Serbia and Montenegro|2003–04]], [[2005–06 Serbia and Montenegro SuperLiga|2005–06]]
* '''[[Serbian SuperLiga]] (record)'''
** '''Winners (11):''' [[2006–07 Serbian SuperLiga|2006–07]], [[2013–14 Serbian SuperLiga|2013–14]], [[2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga|2015–16]], [[2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga|2017–18]], [[2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga|2018–19]], [[2019–20 Serbian SuperLiga|2019–20]], [[2020–21 Serbian SuperLiga|2020–21]], [[2021–22 Serbian SuperLiga|2021–22]], [[2022–23 Serbian SuperLiga|2022–23]], [[2023–24 Serbian SuperLiga|2023–24]], [[2024–25 Serbian SuperLiga|2024–25]]

'''National Cups – 29 (record)'''
* '''[[Yugoslav Cup]] (record)'''
** '''Winners (12):''' 1948, 1949, 1950, [[1957–58 Yugoslav Cup|1957–58]], [[1958–59 Yugoslav Cup|1958–59]], [[1963–64 Yugoslav Cup|1963–64]], [[1967–68 Yugoslav Cup|1967–68]], [[1969–70 Yugoslav Cup|1969–70]], [[1970–71 Yugoslav Cup|1970–71]], [[1981–82 Yugoslav Cup|1981–82]], [[1984–85 Yugoslav Cup|1984–85]], [[1989–90 Yugoslav Cup|1989–90]]
* '''[[Serbia and Montenegro Cup]] (record)'''
** '''Winners (9):''' [[1992–93 FR Yugoslavia Cup|1992–93]], [[1994–95 FR Yugoslavia Cup|1994–95]], [[1995–96 FR Yugoslavia Cup|1995–96]], [[1996–97 FR Yugoslavia Cup|1996–97]], [[1998–99 FR Yugoslavia Cup|1998–99]], [[1999–2000 FR Yugoslavia Cup|1999–2000]], [[2001–02 FR Yugoslavia Cup|2001–02]], [[2003–04 Serbia and Montenegro Cup|2003–04]], [[2005–06 Serbia and Montenegro Cup|2005–06]]
* '''[[Serbian Cup]] (record)'''
** '''Winners (8):''' [[2006–07 Serbian Cup|2006–07]], [[2009–10 Serbian Cup|2009–10]], [[2011–12 Serbian Cup|2011–12]], [[2020–21 Serbian Cup|2020–21]], [[2021–22 Serbian Cup|2021–22]], [[2022–23 Serbian Cup|2022–23]], [[2023–24 Serbian Cup|2023–24]], [[2024–25 Serbian Cup|2024–25]]

'''National Super Cups – 2 (record)'''
* '''[[Yugoslav Super Cup]]'''
** '''Winners (2):''' 1969, 1971

'''National League Cup – 1 (shared record)'''
* '''Yugoslav League Cup'''
** '''Winners (1):''' 1972–73<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.strategija.org/kratak-vek-super-kupa-i-kupa-prvoligasa/|title=Kup prvoligaša i Superkup|language=sr|website=strategija.org|access-date=7 May 2019|archive-date=31 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131101544/http://www.strategija.org/kratak-vek-super-kupa-i-kupa-prvoligasa/|url-status=live}}</ref>

'''National Champions League – 2 (record)'''
* '''Yugoslav Summer Champions League'''
** '''Winners (2):''' 1971, 1973<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/sr/pages/details/53/Ostali-trofeji|title=Ostali trofeji|language=sr|website=crvenazvezdafk.com|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=2 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702194739/http://crvenazvezdafk.com/sr/pages/details/53/Ostali-trofeji|url-status=live}}</ref>

===International competitions (4)===
{{main|Red Star Belgrade in international football}}

Red Star is the most successful club from Serbia (and former Yugoslavia) in all European competitions, and the only club from [[Eastern Europe]] that has won both the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] and the [[Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)|Intercontinental Cup]]. On 27 October 2017, [[FIFA]] officially recognized all winners of the Intercontinental Cup as [[List of world champion football clubs|club world champions]], in equal status to the [[FIFA Club World Cup]]. The club competed in 62 European seasons, and the most notable results are:

* '''[[UEFA Champions League|European Cup / UEFA Champions League]]'''
** '''Winners (1):''' [[1990–91 European Cup|1990–91]]
* '''[[Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)|Intercontinental Cup]]'''
** '''Winners (1):''' [[1991 Intercontinental Cup|1991]]
* '''[[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League]]'''
** Runners-up (1): [[1978–79 UEFA Cup|1978–79]]
* '''[[UEFA Super Cup]]'''
** Runners-up (1): [[1991 European Super Cup|1991]]
* '''[[Mitropa Cup]]'''
** '''Winners (2):''' [[1958 Danube Cup|1958]], [[1967–68 Mitropa Cup|1967–68]]

===Friendly tournaments (21)===
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
* '''Torneo Internacional de Chile (1):''' 1962
* '''[[Tournoi de Paris]] (1):''' 1962
* '''Trofeo Ibérico (1):''' 1971
* '''[[Teresa Herrera Trophy]] (1):''' 1971
* '''[[Trofeo Costa del Sol]] (1):''' 1973
* '''[[Orange Trophy]] (1):''' 1973
* '''Danube Tournament (1):''' 1976
* '''[[World of Soccer Cup]] (1):''' 1977
* '''[[Lunar New Year Cup]] (1):''' 1980
* '''Belgrade Tournament (2):''' 1980, 1981
* '''[[Trofeo Villa de Gijón|Trofeo Costa Verde]] (1):''' 1982
* '''YU Tournament (1):''' 1984
* '''Mostar Tournament (1):''' 1991
* '''Torneo di Verona (1):''' 1991
* '''Tournoi de Corse (1):''' 1995
* '''Freiburg Tournament (1):''' 1997
* '''IFiZ Leipzig (1):''' 2004
* '''[[Chicago Sister Cities International Cup]] (1):''' 2010
* '''PARI Premier Cup (1):''' 2023
* '''Winline Summer Cup (1):''' 2024
{{div col end}}

===Individual awards===

====Domestic====
{{columns-start|num=2}}
'''[[Yugoslav First League|Yugoslav First League top scorers]]'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Season
! Name
! Goals
|-
| [[1951 Yugoslav First League|1951]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Kosta Tomašević]]
| 16
|-
| [[1952–53 Yugoslav First League|1953]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Todor Živanović]]
| 17
|-
| [[1958–59 Yugoslav First League|1959]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Bora Kostić]]
| 25
|-
| [[1959–60 Yugoslav First League|1960]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Bora Kostić]]
| 19
|-
| [[1968–69 Yugoslav First League|1969]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Vojin Lazarević]]
| 22
|-
| [[1972–73 Yugoslav First League|1973]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Vojin Lazarević]]
| 25
|-
| [[1974–75 Yugoslav First League|1975]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dušan Savić]]
| 20
|-
| [[1976–77 Yugoslav First League|1977]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Zoran Filipović]]
| 21
|-
| [[1978–79 Yugoslav First League|1979]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dušan Savić]]
| 24
|-
| [[1989–90 Yugoslav First League|1990]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Darko Pančev]]
| 25
|-
| [[1990–91 Yugoslav First League|1991]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Darko Pančev]]
| 34
|-
| [[1991–92 Yugoslav First League|1992]]
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Darko Pančev]]
| 25
|}
'''[[First League of Serbia and Montenegro|First League of Serbia and Montenegro top scorers]]'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Season
! Name
! Goals
|-
| [[1992–93 First League of FR Yugoslavia|1993]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Anto Drobnjak]]
| 22
|-
| [[1996–97 First League of FR Yugoslavia|1997]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Zoran Jovičić]]
| 21
|-
| [[1997–98 First League of FR Yugoslavia|1998]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Saša Marković (footballer, born 1971)|Saša Marković]]
| 27
|-
| [[2003–04 First League of Serbia and Montenegro|2004]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Nikola Žigić]]
| 19
|-
| [[2004–05 First League of Serbia and Montenegro|2005]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Marko Pantelić]]
| 21
|}
{{column}}
'''[[Serbian SuperLiga|Serbian SuperLiga top scorers]]'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Season
! Name
! Goals
|-
| [[2007–08 Serbian SuperLiga|2008]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia|2004}} [[Nenad Jestrović]]
| 13
|-
| [[2010–11 Serbian SuperLiga|2011]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Andrija Kaluđerović]]
| 13
|-
| [[2013–14 Serbian SuperLiga|2014]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Dragan Mrđa]]
| 19
|-
| [[2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga|2016]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksandar Katai]]
| 21
|-
| [[2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga|2018]]
| {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksandar Pešić]]
| 25
|-
| [[2024–25 Serbian SuperLiga|2025]]
| {{flagicon|Senegal}} [[Cherif Ndiaye]]
| 19
|}

;[[Croatian Footballer of the Year|Yugoslav Footballer of the Year]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Vladimir Petrović]] (1980)
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dragan Stojković]] (1988)
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dragan Stojković]] (1989)
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Robert Prosinečki]] (1990)
;[[DSL Sport#Golden Badge - Zlatna značka|Sportsperson of the Year in Yugoslavia]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dragan Džajić]] (1969)
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dejan Savićević]] (1991)
;[[Serbian SuperLiga|Serbian SuperLiga Footballer of the Year]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia|2004}} [[Nenad Milijaš]] ([[2008–09 Serbian SuperLiga|2009]])
* {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Hugo Vieira]] ([[2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga|2016]])
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksandar Pešić]] ([[2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga|2018]])
* {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Marko Marin]] ([[2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga|2019]])
* {{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Hwang In-beom]] ([[2023–24 Serbian SuperLiga|2024]])
;[[Serbian Football Coach of the Year|Serbian Coach of the Year]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Vladan Milojević]] (2017)
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Vladan Milojević]] (2018)
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Vladan Milojević]] (2024)
{{columns-end}}

====International====
{{columns-start|num=2}}
;[[Ballon d'Or]]
* 2nd: {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Darko Pančev]] ([[1991 Ballon d'Or|1991]])
* 2nd: {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dejan Savićević]] ([[1991 Ballon d'Or|1991]])
* 3rd: {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dragan Džajić]] ([[1968 Ballon d'Or|1968]])
;[[European Golden Shoe]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Darko Pančev]] (1991)
;[[List of UEFA Champions League top scorers#Top scorers by season|European Cup top scorer]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Borislav Cvetković]] ([[1986–87 European Cup|1987]])
;[[Bravo Award]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Robert Prosinečki]] (1991)
;[[UEFA Jubilee Awards|UEFA Jubilee Golden Player]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Dragan Džajić]] (2003)
* {{flagicon|North Macedonia}} [[Darko Pančev]] (2003)
;[[UEFA European Championship awards#Golden Boot|UEFA Euro Golden Boot]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dragan Džajić]] ([[UEFA Euro 1968|1968]])
{{column}}
;[[UEFA European Championship awards#Team of the Tournament|UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Vladimir Durković]] ([[1960 European Nations' Cup|1960]])
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dragoslav Šekularac]] ([[1960 European Nations' Cup|1960]])
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Bora Kostić]] ([[1960 European Nations' Cup|1960]])
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dragan Džajić]] ([[UEFA Euro 1968|1968]])
;[[FIFA World Cup awards#All-Star Team|FIFA World Cup All-Star Team]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Dragan Stojković]] ([[1990 FIFA World Cup|1990]])
;[[FIFA World Cup awards#FIFA Young Player Award|FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Robert Prosinečki]] ([[1990 FIFA World Cup|1990]])
;[[FIFA U-20 World Cup#Golden Ball|FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Ball]]
* {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Robert Prosinečki]] ([[1987 FIFA World Youth Championship|1987]])
;[[FIFA U-20 World Cup#Golden Glove|FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Glove]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Predrag Rajković]] ([[2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup|2015]])
{{columns-end}}

==Club records==
[[Dragan Džajić]] is Red Star's record appearance holder with 389 matches. The goalscoring record holder is [[Bora Kostić]] with 230 goals. Numerous Red Star players were in the [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia national team]] and [[Branko Stanković]], [[Rajko Mitić]], [[Vladimir Beara]], [[Bora Kostić]], [[Vladimir Durković]], [[Dragoslav Šekularac]], [[Miroslav Pavlović]], [[Jovan Aćimović]], [[Dragan Džajić]], [[Vladimir Petrović]], [[Dragan Stojković]] and [[Dejan Savićević]] are among them. Dragan Džajić played 85 matches for the Yugoslavia national football team, a national record.

Red Star holds records such as to be only the second foreign team that could beat [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] at [[Anfield]] (after [[Ferencvárosi TC|Ferencváros]] in the [[1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]]), which was also the only defeat of Liverpool at home in the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] history in the whole 20th century (during the [[1973–74 European Cup]]).<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvet5EO4mQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/EZvet5EO4mQ |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Liverpul - Crvena zvezda 1:2|date=7 November 2017|via=YouTube|access-date=6 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Red Star was also the first team that could beat [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] on the [[Olympiastadion (Munich)|Olympiastadion]] in its long UEFA competition history (during the [[1990–91 European Cup]]).<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InmdMJ5O0xY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/InmdMJ5O0xY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Bajern - Crvena zvezda 1:2|date=9 April 2017|via=YouTube|access-date=6 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

They are the only Serbian (and ex-Yugoslav) club, and only the second team from [[Eastern Europe]], to have won the European Cup, having done so in [[1991 European Cup Final|1991]], which was also the 100th UEFA competition final. Red Star is among the nine clubs which have ever won the European Cup unbeaten. They are also the only team from the Balkans and Southeast Europe to have won the [[Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)|Intercontinental Cup]], also in [[1991 Intercontinental Cup|1991]]. The Romanian football player [[Miodrag Belodedici]] was the first ever Red Star player to have won the European Cup with two different teams, [[FC Steaua București|Steaua București]] and Red Star; curiously, both of the team's names mean "Star". Later, double winners were also Dejan Savićević (Red Star and Milan) and Vladimir Jugović (Red Star and Juventus).

===Top ten most appearances of all-time===
{{updated|20 December 2025}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="width:40px;"|Rank.
! style="width:160px;"|Player
! style="width:160px;"|Period
! style="width:40px;"|Apps
|-
| 1 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dragan Džajić]] || 1963–75; 1977–78 || 389
|-
| 2 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Bora Kostić]] || 1951–61; 1962–66 || 341
|-
| 3 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladimir Petrović]] || 1972–82 || 332
|-
| 4 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Jovan Aćimović]] || 1965–76 || 318
|-
| 5 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Boško Gjurovski]] || 1978–89 || 299
|-
| rowspan=2| 6 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Rajko Mitić]] || 1945–58 || rowspan=2| 294
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Milan Rodić]] || 2017–25
|-
| 8 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|SRB}} '''[[Aleksandar Katai]]''' || 2014–16; 2020– || 293
|-
| 9 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladica Popović]] || 1953–65 || 291
|-
| 10 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|MNE}} '''[[Mirko Ivanić]]''' || 2019– || 288
|-
|}

===Top ten scorers of all-time===
{{updated|20 December 2025}}<ref>{{cite web | title = Иванић се осамио на десетом месту вечне листе стрелаца | url = https://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/vesti/ivanic-se-osamio-na-desetom-mestu-vecne-liste-strelaca | website = FK Crvena zvezda | date = 1 December 2025 | access-date = 3 December 2025 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="width:40px;"|Rank.
! style="width:160px;"|Player
! style="width:160px;"|Period
! style="width:40px;"|Goals
|-
| 1 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Bora Kostić]] || 1951–61; 1962–66 || 230
|-
| 2 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dragan Džajić]] || 1963–75; 1977–78 || 155
|-
| 3 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dušan Savić]] || 1973–82 || 149
|-
| 4 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|SRB}} '''[[Aleksandar Katai]]''' || 2014–16; 2020– || 148
|-
| 5 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Zoran Filipović]] || 1970–80 || 138
|-
| 6 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Kosta Tomašević]] || 1945–54 || 137
|-
| 7 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vojin Lazarević]] || 1966–70; 1972–74 || 134
|-
| 8 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Darko Pančev]] || 1988–92 || 116
|-
| 9 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Rajko Mitić]] || 1945–58 || 109
|-
| 10 || style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|MNE}} '''[[Mirko Ivanić]]''' || 2019– || 95
|-
|}

===Club all-time European record===
{{main|Red Star Belgrade in international football}}

{{#section:Red Star Belgrade in international football|all-time-record}}

====Best results in international competitions====
{{#section:Red Star Belgrade in international football|best-results}}

==Players==
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{{Fs player|no=33|pos=MF|nat=BIH|name=[[Rade Krunić]]|other=<small>[[Captain (association football)|3rd captain]]</small>}}
{{Fs player|no=37|pos=MF|nat=SRB|name=[[Vladimir Lučić (footballer)|Vladimir Lučić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=40|pos=MF|nat=SRB|name=[[Luka Zarić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=49|pos=MF|nat=SRB|name=[[Nemanja Radonjić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=50|pos=GK|nat=SRB|name=[[Savo Radanović]]}}
{{Fs player|no=66|pos=DF|nat=KOR|name=[[Seol Young-woo]]}}
{{Fs player|no=71|pos=DF|nat=SRB|name=[[Adem Avdić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=77|pos=GK|nat=SRB|name=[[Ivan Guteša]]}}
{{Fs player|no=80|pos=MF|nat=GAB|name=[[Shavy Babicka]]}}
{{Fs player|no=89|pos=FW|nat=AUT|name=[[Marko Arnautović]]}}
{{Fs end}}

====Players with multiple nationalities====
{{div col|colwidth=28em}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} {{flagicon|BIH}} [[Savo Radanović]]
* {{flagicon|SRB}} {{flagicon|MKD}} [[Vasilije Kostov]]
* {{flagicon|SRB}} {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Miloš Veljković]]
* {{flagicon|SRB}} {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Aleksa Damjanović]]
* {{flagicon|AUT}} {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Marko Arnautović]]
* {{flagicon|MNE}} {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Mirko Ivanić]]
* {{flagicon|BIH}} {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Rade Krunić]]
* {{flagicon|ARM}} {{flagicon|RUS}} {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nair Tiknizyan]]
* {{flagicon|ISR}} {{flagicon|ROM}} [[Omri Glazer]]
* {{flagicon|BRA}} {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Bruno Duarte]]
* {{flagicon|BRA}} {{flagicon|POR}} [[Matheus (footballer, born March 1992)|Matheus]]
* {{flagicon|ANG}} {{flagicon|POR}} [[Felício Milson]]
* {{flagicon|POR}} {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Tomás Händel]]
{{div col end}}

===On dual registration===
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=19|pos=FW|nat=SRB|name=[[Aleksa Damjanović]]|other=<small>with [[RFK Grafičar Beograd|Grafičar Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs player|no=40|pos=MF|nat=SRB|name=[[Luka Zarić]]|other=<small>with [[RFK Grafičar Beograd|Grafičar Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs player|no=45|pos=DF|nat=BIH|name=Stefan Gudelj|other=<small>with [[RFK Grafičar Beograd|Grafičar Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=50|pos=GK|nat=SRB|name=[[Savo Radanović]]|other=<small>with [[RFK Grafičar Beograd|Grafičar Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs player|no=71|pos=DF|nat=SRB|name=[[Adem Avdić]]|other=<small>with [[RFK Grafičar Beograd|Grafičar Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs end}}

===Other players under contract===
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=28|pos=GK|nat=SRB|name=[[Vuk Draškić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=41|pos=DF|nat=SRB|name=Balša Papović}}
{{Fs player|no=44|pos=FW|nat=SRB|name=Jovan Trač}}
{{Fs player|no=45|pos=DF|nat=BIH|name=Stefan Gudelj}}
{{Fs player|no=45|pos=MF|nat=SRB|name=Ignjat Miletić}}
{{Fs player|no=47|pos=DF|nat=SRB|name=Vuk Roganović}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=55|pos=MF|nat=SRB|name=Dimitrije Šarić}}
{{Fs player|no=60|pos=MF|nat=MKD|name=Matej Gashtarov}}
{{Fs player|no=65|pos=DF|nat=MKD|name=Gorazd Ristovski}}
{{Fs player|no=70|pos=FW|nat=SRB|name=Uroš Đorđević}}
{{Fs player|no=88|pos=DF|nat=SRB|name=Leon Ivanović}}
{{Fs end}}

===Out on loan===
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=8|pos=MF|nat=SRB|name=[[Jovan Šljivić]]|other=<small>at {{fbaicon|SRB}} [[OFK Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs player|no=31|pos=FW|nat=SRB|name=[[Uroš Sremčević]]|other=<small>at {{fbaicon|SRB}} [[FK Mladost Lučani|Mladost Lučani]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs player|no=33|pos=DF|nat=SRB|name=David Đurić|other=<small>at {{fbaicon|SRB}} [[RFK Grafičar Beograd|Grafičar Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=41|pos=MF|nat=GHA|name=[[Edmund Addo]]|other=<small>at {{fbaicon|SRB}} [[OFK Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs player|no=73|pos=MF|nat=RUS|name=[[Yegor Prutsev]]|other=<small>at {{fbaicon|SRB}} [[OFK Beograd]] until the end of the 2025–26 season</small>}}
{{Fs end}}

===Captains===
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Milovan Ćirić]] {{small|(1945–47)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Rajko Mitić]] {{small|(1947–58)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Ljubiša Spajić]] {{small|(1958–60)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Branko Zebec]] {{small|(1960–61)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladica Popović]] {{small|(1961–65)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vojislav Melić]] {{small|(1965–67)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dragan Džajić]] {{small|(1967–75)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladislav Bogićević]] {{small|(1975–77)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dragan Džajić]] {{small|(1977–78)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladimir Petrović]] {{small|(1978–82)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Miloš Šestić]] {{small|(1983–84)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Zlatko Krmpotić]] {{small|(1985)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Boško Gjurovski]] {{small|(1986–87)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dragan Stojković]] {{small|(1987–90)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Stevan Stojanović]] {{small|(1990–91)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dejan Savićević]] {{small|(1991–92)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Duško Radinović]] {{small|(1992–93)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Goran Vasilijević]] {{small|(1993–94)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Ivan Adžić]] {{small|(1994–96)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Zvonko Milojević]] {{small|(1996–97)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Zoran Jovičić]] {{small|(1997–98)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Perica Ognjenović]] {{small|(1998)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Dejan Savićević]] {{small|(1999)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Goran Bunjevčević]] {{small|(1999–01)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Nenad Lalatović]] {{small|(2001–02)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Ivan Gvozdenović]] {{small|(2003)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Nemanja Vidić]] {{small|(2003–04)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Vladimir Dišljenković]] {{small|(2004)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Marko Pantelić]] {{small|(2005)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Nenad Kovačević]] {{small|(2005–06)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB|2004}} [[Dejan Milovanović]] {{small|(2006–08)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB|2004}} [[Nenad Milijaš]] {{small|(2008–09)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB|2004}} [[Nikola Lazetić]] {{small|(2009–10)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Slavoljub Đorđević]] {{small|(2010)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Pavle Ninkov]] {{small|(2010–11)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nenad Kovačević]] {{small|(2011)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nikola Mikić]] {{small|(2011–12)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nenad Milijaš]] {{small|(2012–14)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nikola Mijailović (footballer)|Nikola Mijailović]] {{small|(2014)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Darko Lazović]] {{small|(2014)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Aleksandar Luković]] {{small|(2015–17)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nenad Milijaš]] {{small|(2017–19)}}
* {{flagicon|GER}} [[Marko Marin]] {{small|(2019)}}
* {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Milan Borjan]] {{small|(2020–23)}}
* {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Aleksandar Dragović]] {{small|(2023–24)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Uroš Spajić]] {{small|(2024)}}
* {{flagicon|MNE}} [[Mirko Ivanić]] {{small|(2025–present)}}
{{div col end}}

===Retired number(s)===
{{main|List of retired numbers in association football}}

{{big|'''11'''}} {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dragan Džajić]], [[Midfielder#Winger|winger]] (1963–1975, 1977–1978)

On 2 September 2022, Red Star Belgrade announced that the [[Squad number (association football)|squad number 11]] will be retired from the [[2023–24 Red Star Belgrade season|2023–24]] season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/vest/13778/postovanje-dzaji-dres-sa-brojem-11-se-povlaci-iz-upotrebe|title=Поштовање Џаји - дрес са бројем 11 се повлачи из употребе|website=FK Crvena zvezda|date=2022-09-02|accessdate=2022-09-04|archive-date=3 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903172609/http://crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/vest/13778/postovanje-dzaji-dres-sa-brojem-11-se-povlaci-iz-upotrebe|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{big|'''12'''}}&nbsp;–  [[Delije]] [[12th man (football)|(the 12th Man)]]

{{big|'''26'''}} {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Goran Gogić]], [[midfielder]] (2013−2014)&nbsp;– ''posthumous honour''.

Since 2014, Red Star Belgrade have not issued the [[Squad number (association football)|squad number 26]] in the [[Serbian SuperLiga]]. It was [[List of retired numbers in association football|retired]] in memory of [[Goran Gogić]], who died on 3 July 2015, aged 29.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraf.rs/sport/2861152-dve-godine-tuge-zvezda-i-delije-su-na-danasnji-dan-ostali-bez-gorana-gogica-video|title=Dve godine tuge: Zvezda i Delije su na današnji dan ostali bez Gorana Gogića (VIDEO)|website=telegraf.rs|date=3 July 2017|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721221805/http://www.telegraf.rs/sport/2861152-dve-godine-tuge-zvezda-i-delije-su-na-danasnji-dan-ostali-bez-gorana-gogica-video|url-status=live}}</ref> Gogić had also been assigned with jersey 25 for the [[2014–15 Red Star Belgrade season|2014–15]] season, which he had worn in [[FK Jagodina|Jagodina]] previously.<ref>{{Soccerway|goran-gogic/47236|Goran Gogić}}</ref> Since then some of players, like [[Marko Marinković]] and [[Milan Jevtović]] used to be registered for the [[UEFA]] competitions. Jevtović also made his debut for the club with 26 jersey in summer 2018, but later chose number 33 in the domestic competition.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.superliga.rs/sezone/2018-19/player/3-super-liga-srbije-2018-19/1591-33-jevtovic-milan|title=Jevtović, Milan 2018–19 season|website=Serbian SuperLiga official website|date=21 July 2017|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-date=22 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722011334/http://www.superliga.rs/sezone/2018-19/player/3-super-liga-srbije-2018-19/1591-33-jevtovic-milan|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Club officials==
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}

===Technical staff===
{| class="toccolours" style="border: #FF0000 solid 1px; background: #FFFFFD; font-size: 88%"
|+ style="background:#FF0000; color:white; font-size: 120%" | '''Current staff'''
|
* '''Head coach:''' {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Dejan Stanković]]
* Assistant coach: {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nenad Sakić]]
* Assistant coach: {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Nikola Mikić]]
* Assistant coach: {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Zoran Rendulić]]
* Analyst: {{flagicon|ITA}} Vincenzo Sasso
* Analyst: {{flagicon|ITA}} Andrea Fardone
* Analyst: {{flagicon|SRB}} Vladimir Simić
* Goalkeeping coach: {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Pierluigi Brivio]]
* Goalkeeping coach: {{flagicon|SRB}} Dušan Gašić
* Goalkeeping coach: {{flagicon|BIH}} [[Nemanja Supić]]
* Head fitness coach: {{flagicon|ITA}} Federico Pannoncini
* Fitness coach: {{flagicon|SRB}} Marko Vasiljević
* Fitness coach: {{flagicon|SRB}} Nikola Todorić
* Fitness coach: {{flagicon|SRB}} Nikola Perišić
* Doctor: {{flagicon|SRB}} Miodrag Mladenović
* Physiotherapist: {{flagicon|SRB}} Goran Zuvić
* Physiotherapist: {{flagicon|SRB}} Željko Vasojević
* Physiotherapist: {{flagicon|SRB}} Ivan Jovanović
* Physiotherapist: {{flagicon|SRB}} Nenad Kovačević
* Team manager: {{flagicon|SRB}} Goran Negić
* Kit manager: {{flagicon|SRB}} Stojan Milanović
* Kit manager: {{flagicon|SRB}} Dušan Maričić
|}
{{col-2}}

===Club management===
{| class="toccolours" style="border: #FF0000 solid 1px; background: #FFFFFD; font-size: 88%"
|+ style="background:#FF0000; color:white; font-size: 120%" | '''Current staff'''
|
* '''President:''' Svetozar Mijailović
* Honorary president: [[Dragan Džajić]]
* Vice president: [[Jovan Aćimović]]
* Vice president: Milenko Kostić
* General director: [[Zvezdan Terzić]]
* Sporting director: [[Mitar Mrkela]]
* Technical director: [[Marko Marin]]
* Chief operating officer: Marko Petrović
* Corporate affairs director: Aleksandra Milošević
* Youth school director: Nikola Jelić
* PR manager: Miljan Milošević
* Press officer: Tamara Popović
* Management Board: Svetozar Mijailović, [[Jovan Aćimović]], Milenko Kostić, Slobodan Babić, Jug Radivojević, Stojan Vujko, Velimir Marković, Miljko Ristić, Nikola Dumnić, [[Dušan Savić]], Zoran Avramović, Dušan Milosavljević
* Supervisory Board: Dejan Vasić, Vladimir Bubanja, Nenad Zlatanović, Pavle Kavran, Đorđe Bjelaković
|}
{{col-end}}

===Coaching history===
''For details see [[List of Red Star Belgrade football coaches]]''

{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Branislav Sekulić]] {{small|(1946)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Svetislav Glišović]] {{small|(1946–48)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Aleksandar Tomašević]] {{small|(1948–50)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Ljubiša Broćić]] {{small|(1951)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Žarko Mihajlović]] {{small|(1951)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Branislav Sekulić]] {{small|(1952)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Žarko Mihajlović]] {{small|(1952–53)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Ljubiša Broćić]] {{small|(1953–54)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Boško Ralić]] {{small|(1954)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Milovan Ćirić]] {{small|(1954–57)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Milorad Pavić (footballer)|Milorad Pavić]] {{small|(1957–64)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Ivan Toplak]] {{small|(1964–66)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Miljan Miljanić]] {{small|(1966–74)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Miljenko Mihić]] {{small|(1974–75)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Milovan Ćirić]] {{small|(1975–76)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Gojko Zec]] {{small|(1976–78)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Branko Stanković]] {{small|(1978–82)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Stevan Ostojić]] {{small|(1982–83)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Gojko Zec]] {{small|(1983–86)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Velibor Vasović]] {{small|(1986–88)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Branko Stanković]] {{small|(1988)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Dragoslav Šekularac]] {{small|(1989–90)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Ljupko Petrović]] {{small|(1990–91)}}
* {{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Vladica Popović]] {{small|(1991–92)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Milan Živadinović]] {{small|(1992–94)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Ljupko Petrović]] {{small|(1994–96)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Vladimir Petrović|Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović]] {{small|(1996–97)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Vojin Lazarević]] {{small|(1997)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Milorad Kosanović]] {{small|(1997–98)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Vojin Lazarević]] {{small|(1998–99)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} Miloljub Ostojić {{small|(1999)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} Zvonko Radić {{small|''(caretaker)'' (1999)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Slavoljub Muslin]] {{small|(1999–01)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Zoran Filipović]] {{small|(2001–03)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Slavoljub Muslin]] {{small|(2003–04)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Ljupko Petrović]] {{small|(2004)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Milovan Rajevac]] {{small|''(caretaker)'' (2004)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Ratko Dostanić]] {{small|(2004–05)}}
* {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Walter Zenga]] {{small|(2005–06)}}
* {{flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} [[Dušan Bajević]] {{small|(2006–07)}}
* {{flagicon|North Macedonia}} [[Boško Gjurovski]] {{small|(2007)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia|2004}} [[Milorad Kosanović]] {{small|(2007)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia|2004}} [[Aleksandar Janković]] {{small|(2007–08)}}
* {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Zdeněk Zeman]] {{small|(2008)}}
* {{flagicon|North Macedonia}} [[Čedomir Janevski]] {{small|(2008–09)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia|2004}} {{flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Siniša Gogić]] {{small|''(caretaker)'' (2009)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia|2004}} [[Vladimir Petrović|Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović]] {{small|(2009–10)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia|2004}} [[Ratko Dostanić]] {{small|(2010)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksandar Kristić]] {{small|(2010)}}
* {{flagicon|Croatia}} [[Robert Prosinečki]] {{small|(2010–12)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksandar Janković]] {{small|(2012–13)}}
* {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Ricardo Sá Pinto]] {{small|(2013)}}
* {{flagicon|Slovenia}} [[Slaviša Stojanović (footballer, born 1969)|Slaviša Stojanović]] {{small|(2013–14)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nenad Lalatović]] {{small|(2014–15)}}
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Miodrag Božović]] {{small|(2015–17)}}
* {{flagicon|North Macedonia}} [[Boško Gjurovski]] {{small|''(caretaker)'' (2017)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Vladan Milojević]] {{small|(2017–19)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Dejan Stanković]] {{small|(2019–22)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Miloš Milojević (footballer)|Miloš Milojević]] {{small|(2022–23)}}
* {{flagicon|Israel}} [[Barak Bakhar]] {{small|(2023)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Vladan Milojević]] {{small|(2023–25)}}
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Dejan Stanković]] {{small|(2025–present)}}
{{div col end}}

===Club presidents===
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Mita Miljković {{small|(1948–51)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Isa Jovanović {{small|(1951–52)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Sava Radojčić {{small|(1952–54)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dragoslav Marković]] {{small|(1954–55)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Milić Bugarčić {{small|(1955–56)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Dragoje Đurić {{small|(1956)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Dušan Blagojević {{small|(1956–60)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Milić Bugarčić {{small|(1960–63)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Radovan Pantović {{small|(1963–65)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Dušan Blagojević {{small|(1965–68)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Nikola Bugarčić {{small|(1968–77)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Radovan Pantović {{small|(1977–81)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Brana Dimitrijević {{small|(1981–82)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Vlastimir Purić {{small|(1982)}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} Miladin Šakić {{small|(1982–87)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} Svetozar Mijailović {{small|(1987–93)}}
* {{flagicon|SCG}} [[Dragan Džajić]] {{small|(1998–04)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB|2004}} [[Dragan Stojković]] {{small|(2005–07)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB|2004}} [[Toplica Spasojević]] {{small|(2007–08)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB|2004}} [[Dan Tana|Dobrivoje Tanasijević]] {{small|(2008–09)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Vladan Lukić]] {{small|(2009–12)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} [[Dragan Džajić]] {{small|(2012–14)}}
* {{flagicon|SRB}} Svetozar Mijailović {{small|(2014–present)}}
{{div col end}}

==Notable players==
{{main|List of Red Star Belgrade footballers}}

===Stars of Red Star===
Red Star has almost a 50-year-long tradition of giving the title of the ''Star of [Red] Star'' or ''The Star's star'' ({{langx|sr|Звездина звезда / Zvezdina zvezda}}) to the players that had a major impact on the club's history and have made the name of the club famous around the globe. So far, five players and the entire 1991 team were officially given the title. They are:

* The 1st Star of Red Star: [[Rajko Mitić]]
* The 2nd Star of Red Star: [[Dragoslav Šekularac]]
* The 3rd Star of Red Star: [[Dragan Džajić]]
* The 4th Star of Red Star: [[Vladimir Petrović|Vladimir Petrović "Pižon"]]
* The 5th Star of Red Star: [[Dragan Stojković|Dragan Stojković "Piksi"]]
* The 6th Star of Red Star: [[1990–91 Red Star Belgrade season|The 1991 European Cup Winner Generation]]

===The 1991 European Cup Winner Generation===
Generation 1991 with 21 players was presented at the ceremony by president Svetozar Mijailović.<ref name="Generation 1991">{{cite web | title = Generation 1991 | url = http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/zvezdina-zvezda/6/generacija-1991 | website = FK Crvena zvezda | access-date = 11 August 2021 | archive-date = 10 August 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210810080923/http://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/scc/zvezdina-zvezda/6/generacija-1991 | url-status = live }}</ref>

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{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=GK|name=[[Milić Jovanović]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=DF|name=[[Duško Radinović]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=DF|name=[[Slobodan Marović]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=DF|name=[[Refik Šabanadžović]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=ROU|pos=DF|name=[[Miodrag Belodedici]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=DF|name=[[Ilija Najdoski]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=DF|name=[[Goran Vasilijević]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=DF|name=[[Goran Jurić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=DF|name=[[Rade Tošić]]}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=MF|name=[[Vladimir Jugović]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=MF|name=[[Robert Prosinečki]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=MF|name=[[Dejan Savićević]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=MF|name=[[Siniša Mihajlović]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=MF|name=[[Vlada Stošić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=MF|name=[[Ivica Momčilović]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=FW|name=[[Darko Pančev]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=FW|name=[[Dragiša Binić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=FW|name=[[Vladan Lukić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=|nat=YUG|pos=FW|name=[[Ljubiša Milojević]]}}
{{Fs end}}

===Notable players===
:''To appear in this section a player must have played at least 80 matches for the club.''
:''Flags indicate national teams they played for, not nationality.''
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Jovan Aćimović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Zoran Antonijević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Petar Baralić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladimir Beara]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dejan Bekić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Cvijetin Blagojević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladislav Bogićević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Zdravko Borovnica]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Jovan Cokić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Borislav Cvetković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Milan Čop]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Kiril Dojčinovski]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Ratomir Dujković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladimir Durković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Predrag Đajić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Ranko Đorđić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Milovan Đorić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Žarko Đurović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} {{flagicon|SVN}} [[Marko Elsner]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Zoran Filipović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} {{flagicon|MKD}} [[Boško Gjurovski]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} {{flagicon|MKD}} [[Milko Djurovski|Milko Gjurovski]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Milan Janković (footballer, born 1959)|Milan Janković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Slobodan Janković (footballer, born 1946)|Slobodan Janković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Rajko Janjanin]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Zoran Jelikić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Živorad Jevtić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Nikola Jovanović (footballer, born 1952)|Nikola Jovanović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Milan Jovin]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Ivan Jurišić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Stanislav Karasi]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Mihalj Keri]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Branko Klenkovski]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Bora Kostić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Zlatko Krdžević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Miodrag Krivokapić (footballer)|Miodrag Krivokapić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Petar Krivokuća]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Srboljub Krivokuća]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Zlatko Krmpotić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vojin Lazarević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Ljubomir Lovrić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Živan Ljukovčan]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dušan Maravić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vojislav Melić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Trifun Mihailović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dragan Miletović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Tomislav Milićević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Goran Milojević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Nedeljko Milosavljević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Đorđe Milovanović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Mitar Mrkela]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} {{flagicon|BIH}} [[Husref Musemić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Slavoljub Muslin]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dušan Nikolić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Jovica Nikolić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Mile Novković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Tihomir Ognjanov]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Stevan Ostojić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Béla Pálfi]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Aleksandar Panajotović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Miroslav Pavlović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Ognjen Petrović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Vladica Popović|Vladimir Popović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Slavko Radovanović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Branko Radović (footballer, born 1950)|Branko Radović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Srebrenko Repčić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Antun Rudinski]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Dušan Savić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Ljubiša Spajić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Branko Stanković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Nikola Stipić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Aleksandar Stojanović]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Sead Sušić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Miloš Šestić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Slobodan Škrbić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Miroslav Šugar]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Lazar Tasić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Kosta Tomašević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Novak Tomić]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Ivan Toplak]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Branislav Vukosavljević]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Miljan Zeković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Siniša Zlatković]]
* {{flagicon|YUG}} [[Todor Živanović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Ivan Adžić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Srđan Bajčetić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Dušan Basta]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Dragan Bogavac]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Branko Bošković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Goran Bunjevčević]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Vladimir Dišljenković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Goran Drulić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Ivan Dudić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Milan Dudić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Slavoljub Đorđević]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Goran Đorović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Jovan Gojković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Ivan Gvozdenović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Dejan Ilić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Ilija Ivić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Branko Jelić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Dragoslav Jevrić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Zoran Jovičić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Aleksandar Kocić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Ognjen Koroman]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nenad Kovačević]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Radovan Krivokapić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Nebojša Krupniković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Nenad Lalatović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Leo Lerinc]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksandar Luković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Vinko Marinović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Marjan Marković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Dragan Mićić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Zvonko Milojević]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Dragan Mladenović (footballer)|Dragan Mladenović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Zoran Njeguš]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Perica Ognjenović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Miodrag Pantelić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Dejan Petković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Mihajlo Pjanović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Nikola Radmanović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Nenad Sakić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Dejan Stanković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nemanja Vidić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Milivoje Vitakić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nikola Žigić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro}} [[Bratislav Živković (footballer)|Bratislav Živković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Dušan Anđelković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Srđan Babić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Milan Biševac]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Strahinja Eraković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Milan Gajić (footballer, born 1996)|Milan Gajić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Marko Gobeljić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Boško Janković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksandar Katai]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nenad Krstičić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Darko Lazović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Srđan Mijailović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nikola Mikić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nenad Milijaš]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Dejan Milovanović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nemanja Milunović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Dragan Mrđa]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Veljko Nikolić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Pavle Ninkov]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Radovan Pankov (footballer)|Radovan Pankov]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Milan Pavkov]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Marko Perović (footballer, born 1984)|Marko Perović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksandar Pešić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Marko Petković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Njegoš Petrović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Nemanja Radonjić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Ivan Ranđelović]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Mihailo Ristić (footballer)|Mihailo Ristić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Milan Rodić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Vujadin Savić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Slavoljub Srnić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Saša Stamenković]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Đorđe Tutorić]]
* {{flagicon|Serbia}} [[Aleksa Vukanović]]
{{div col end}}

===Notable foreign players===
:''To appear in this section a player must have played at least 30 matches for the club.''
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* {{flagicon|Angola}} [[Felício Milson]]
* {{flagicon|Argentina}} [[Luis Ibáñez]]
* {{flagicon|Australia}} [[Miloš Degenek]]
* {{flagicon|Australia}} [[Milan Ivanović]]
* {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Aleksandar Dragović]]
* {{flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} [[Rade Krunić]]
* {{flagicon|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} [[Srđan Pecelj]]
* {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Cadú (footballer, born 1986)|Cadú]]
* {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Bruno Duarte]]
* {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Evandro (footballer, born 1986)|Evandro]]
* {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Matheus (footballer, born March 1992)|Matheus]]
* {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Sávio (footballer, born 1984)|Sávio]]
* {{flagicon|Burkina Faso}} [[Nasser Djiga]]
* {{flagicon|Canada}} [[Milan Borjan]]
* {{flagicon|Colombia}} [[Cristian Martínez (Colombian footballer)|Cristian Borja]]
* {{flagicon|Comoros}} [[El Fardou Ben Nabouhane|El Fardou Ben]]
* {{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[John Jairo Ruiz]]
* {{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[Segundo Castillo (footballer, born 1982)|Segundo Castillo]]
* {{flagicon|France}} [[Damien Le Tallec]]
* {{flagicon|Gabon}} [[Guélor Kanga]]
* {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Marko Marin]]
* {{flagicon|Ghana}} [[Lee Addy]]
* {{flagicon|Ghana}} [[Richmond Boakye]]
* {{flagicon|Ghana}} [[Osman Bukari]]
* {{flagicon|Ghana}} [[Abraham Frimpong]]
* {{flagicon|Ghana}} [[Mohammed-Awal Issah]]
* {{flagicon|Israel}} [[Omri Glazer]]
* {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Diego Falcinelli]]
* {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Filippo Falco]]
* {{flagicon|Ivory Coast}} [[Jean-Philippe Krasso]]
* {{flagicon|Ivory Coast}} [[Sékou Sanogo (footballer)|Sékou Sanogo]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Boban Bajković]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Igor Burzanović]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Mirko Ivanić]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Filip Kasalica]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Nemanja Nikolić (footballer, born 1988)|Nemanja Nikolić]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Savo Pavićević]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Milan Purović]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Vukan Savićević]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Filip Stojković]]
* {{flagicon|Montenegro}} [[Marko Vešović]]
* {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Lorenzo Ebecilio]]
* {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Marko Stamenić]]
* {{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Abiola Dauda]]
* {{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Peter Olayinka]]
* {{flagicon|North Macedonia}} [[Blaže Georgioski]]
* {{flagicon|North Macedonia}} [[Mitko Stojkovski]]
* {{flagicon|North Macedonia}} [[Ivan Trichkovski]]
* {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Tomané]]
* {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Hugo Vieira]]
* {{flagicon|Senegal}} [[Ibrahima Gueye (footballer, born 1978)|Ibrahima Gueye]]
* {{flagicon|Senegal}} [[Cherif Ndiaye]]
* {{flagicon|Slovenia}} [[Milenko Ačimovič]]
* {{flagicon|Slovenia}} [[Timi Max Elšnik]]
* {{flagicon|Slovenia}} [[Nejc Pečnik]]
* {{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Hwang In-beom]]
* {{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Seol Young-woo]]
* {{flagicon|Suriname}} [[Mitchell Donald]]
* {{flagicon|Zambia}} [[Kings Kangwa]]
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==Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
|-
! style="color:#fff; background:#e01837;"| Period
! style="color:#fff; background:#e01837;"| Kit manufacturer
! style="color:#fff; background:#e01837;"| Shirt sponsor
|-
|1977–78
|[[Admiral Sportswear|Admiral]]
| rowspan="2" | –
|-
|1979
|rowspan=7|[[Puma (brand)|Puma]]
|-
|1980–86
|Kristal Zaječar
|-
|1986–87
|de LUXE
|-
|1987–88
|[[Lee Cooper]]
|-
|1988–89
|Casucci
|-
|1989–90
|Mister Baby
|-
|1990–91
|DEXIM
|-
|1991–93
|rowspan=2|[[Hummel International|Hummel]]
|[[Philip Morris Operations|Classic]]
|-
|1993–94
|[[Komercijalna banka]]
|-
|1994–96
|[[Diadora]]
|rowspan=2|Beobanka
|-
|1996–98
|rowspan=2|[[Kappa (brand)|Kappa]]
|-
|1998–01
|[[Apatin Brewery|Pils Light]]
|-
|2001–03
|rowspan=3|[[Adidas]]
| –
|-
|2003–05
|[[Vienna Insurance Group|Wiener Städtische]]<br>[[Sharp Corporation|Sharp]]
|-
|2005–06
|rowspan=2|[[Toyota]]
|-
|2006–08
|rowspan=4|[[Nike, Inc.|Nike]]
|-
|2008–09
| –
|-
|2010
|2344 – Za moju Zvezdu
|-
|2010–12
|rowspan=4|[[Gazprom]]
|-
|2012–13
|[[Legea]]
|-
|2013–17
|[[Puma (brand)|Puma]]
|-
|2017–
|[[Macron (sportswear)|Macron]]
|}

==General sponsor==
The general sponsor of Serbia's most popular football club has, since 2010, been [[Gazprom Neft]], the majority shareholder in leading Serbian company [[Naftna Industrija Srbije|Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS)]], and the most important foreign investor in the country. The club has won ten Serbian championship titles and six Serbian Cups in that time, as well as regularly competing in European championships. This cooperation, as well as supporting Gazprom Neft's brands, also involves collaborating in youth football together with [[FC Zenit Saint Petersburg]], with the clubs exchanging youth players and holding friendly youth matches.

==In popular culture==
The club's name in Serbian is also the title of the 2013 Italian novel ''Crvena Zvezda'' by Enrico Varrecchione. Written in the [[alternate history]] genre, utilizing elements of [[uchronia]], its story is based on the premise of what if 9 November 1988 return leg of the [[1988–89 European Cup|European Cup]] second round clash between Red Star and [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]] hadn't been ordered abandoned by German referee [[Dieter Pauly]] in the 65th minute due to thick fog that night in Belgrade. Red Star were leading 1–0 after a goal by [[Dejan Savićević]] and were also a man up due to Milan striker [[Pietro Paolo Virdis]] receiving a red card. After abandonment, [[UEFA]] cancelled the match and ordered it replayed in full the next day. This time it finished 1–1 and went to penalties (the first leg in Milan also ended 1–1) where Milan won and went through to the quarter-finals, eventually [[1989 European Cup Final|winning]] the European Cup&nbsp;— thus getting the coveted trophy again after twenty years, the club's first under its recently arrived owner, ambitious businessman [[Silvio Berlusconi]]. In the novel's parallel universe, Red Star won 9 November 1988 match in Belgrade and eliminated AC Milan, which thus never won its 1989 European Cup, meaning that Berlusconi's ultimate entry into Italian politics had a much weaker background push, which adversely affected his performance at the [[Italian general election, 1994|1994 Italian general election]].<ref name="9novembre1988.wordpress.com">{{cite web|url=https://9novembre1988.wordpress.com/|title=Crvena Zvezda 09/11/1988|access-date=25 June 2015|archive-date=27 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627084951/https://9novembre1988.wordpress.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> The novel also follows the fate of Red Star's fictional striker, loosely based on Savićević, Jovan Eldzic who scored the famous goal in the fog and later went on to transfer to AC Milan where he achieved more accolades, eventually taking Italian citizenship, remaining living in Italy upon retiring from football before entering politics and running for mayor of a small town in [[Piedmont]]'s [[Province of Alessandria|Alessandria]] province.<ref name="9novembre1988.wordpress.com"/>

[[Billy Bragg]]'s 1991 UK top thirty hit song "[[Sexuality (Billy Bragg song)|Sexuality]]" contains the lyric ''"I had an uncle who once played for Red Star Belgrade."'' When interviewed many years later Bragg was asked if this was true, to which he replied that his uncle actually played for [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]] but that did not fit the rhyme with played.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.qthemusic.com/2009/09/billy_bragg_twitter_answers.html|title=Q Magazine&nbsp;– Music news & reviews, music videos, band pictures & interviewsQ Magazine|access-date=25 June 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002172306/http://news.qthemusic.com/2009/09/billy_bragg_twitter_answers.html|archive-date=2 October 2013}}</ref>

Two non-related bands, one of them from [[Great Yarmouth]], Great Britain,<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiK1LWL_HEY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/oiK1LWL_HEY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Too Far, Red Star Belgrade|date=9 November 2011|via=YouTube|access-date=25 June 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicfromtheeastzone.co.uk/bands_artists/REDSTAR_BELGRADE.htm|title=Red Star Belgrade|work=musicfromtheeastzone.co.uk|access-date=2 August 2016|archive-date=7 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407013720/https://www.musicfromtheeastzone.co.uk/bands_artists/REDSTAR_BELGRADE.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Red Star Belgrade (band)|the other one]] from [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]], United States,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/red-star-belgrade-p203630|title=Red Star Belgrade&nbsp;– Music Biography, Streaming Radio and Discography&nbsp;– AllMusic|author=Jason Ankeny|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=25 June 2015|archive-date=13 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513021225/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/red-star-belgrade-p203630|url-status=live}}</ref> shared the name ''Red Star Belgrade''.

A football club in Ecuador, in the city of [[Cuenca, Ecuador|Cuenca]], created in 1961, is inspired in Red Star Belgrade. It is named [[:es:Club Deportivo Estrella Roja|CDS Estrella Roja]]. Estrella Roja is the translation and the way Red Star is known in Spanish speaking countries. The club crest is even the same as the one Red Star had between 1995 and 2011.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/CSD-Estrella-ROJA-502132166494829/ CSD Estrella Roja] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511175945/https://www.facebook.com/CSD-Estrella-ROJA-502132166494829/ |date=11 May 2022 }} official Facebook page, retrieved 24 July 2017 {{in lang|es}}</ref>

A junior football team called 'Lenadoon Red Star' played in West [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], from 1972 to 1975 during the height of [[The Troubles]]. The team wrote to Red Star Belgrade in the early 1970s, asking if they could donate any kits to the young team, but Red Star Belgrade wrote back saying they couldn't afford to send over any kits.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://belfastmedia.com/lenadoon-red-star-coach-recalls-getting-stranded-due-to-1974-ucw-strike-689f9dc4-5320-4ea7-af6c-2dabd31be87f|title=Soccer: Lenadoon Red Star coach recalls getting stranded due to 1974 UCW Strike|website=belfastmedia.com|access-date=15 August 2022|archive-date=14 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314151659/https://belfastmedia.com/lenadoon-red-star-coach-recalls-getting-stranded-due-to-1974-ucw-strike-689f9dc4-5320-4ea7-af6c-2dabd31be87f|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of world champion football clubs]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{Official website|https://www.crvenazvezdafk.com/}}
* [https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/teams/50069--crvena-zvezda/ Red Star Belgrade] at [[UEFA]]

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