Red Star Belgrade in international football

Red Star's European story began in 1956–57 season with match in Kerkrade, Netherlands. The first rival in the first round of the 1956–57 European Cup were Dutch champions Rapid JC (the club later changed its name to Roda JC), with Bora Kostić scoring Red Star's first ever European goal. Since the first European Cup semi-final, when Red Star was eliminated by Fiorentina, Red Star participated 14 times in a European competition quarter-final (not counting the Mitropa Cup), and was a semi-finalist in each of the three UEFA competitions for a total of six appearances. Throughout this time, Red Star steadily kept its place among the top 15 European clubs on UEFA's ranking list, situated just behind Real Madrid and Barcelona for the number of season participations in European Cups.[2] In 1991, Red Star finally won the 1991 European Cup, in a game against Marseille.

From 1992 to 1995, the clubs from FR Yugoslavia were forbidden to take part in the European competitions, due to the sanctions against Yugoslavia. For two decades after 1995, Red Star has only made two group stage appearances of the second-tier competition UEFA Cup, in 2005–06 and 2007–08.

In 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, Red Star made another group stage appearance and even advanced to the "Round of 32" where it lost to CSKA Moscow. After 26 years of absence from the top-tier European competition, Red Star made group stage appearance of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League.[3] For the second season in a row, Red Star qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage.[4]

Red Star Belgrade	Seasons	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Match %W
Representing Serbia	17	131	47	38	46	178	176	35.88
Representing Serbia and Montenegro	11	66	26	20	20	109	80	39.39
Representing Yugoslavia	33	179	89	30	60	347	235	49.72
Total	61	376	162	88	126	634	491	43.09

As of 25 October 2023

UEFA Ranking

The following data indicates Red Star coefficient rankings.[5]

As of 26 October 2023[6] Rank Team Points 41 Real Sociedad 42.000 Slavia Prague 43 Copenhagen 41.500 44 Red Star Belgrade 40.000 Gent 46 LASK 37.000 Stade Rennais

Season	Achievement	Notes
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
1990–91	Winners	defeated Marseille 0–0 in Bari, 5–3 pen.
1956–57	Semi-finals	lost to Fiorentina 0–1 in Belgrade, 0–0 in Firenze
1970–71	Semi-finals	lost to Panathinaikos 4–1 in Belgrade, 0–3 in Athens
1991–92	Semi-finals	finished second in a group with Sampdoria, Anderlecht and Panathinaikos
1957–58	Quarter-finals	lost to Manchester United 1–2 in Manchester, 3–3 in Belgrade
1973–74	Quarter-finals	lost to Atlético Madrid 0–2 in Belgrade, 0–0 in Madrid
1980–81	Quarter-finals	lost to Internazionale 1–1 in Milan, 0–1 in Belgrade
1981–82	Quarter-finals	lost to Anderlecht 1–2 in Brussels, 1–2 in Belgrade
1986–87	Quarter-finals	lost to Real Madrid 4–2 in Belgrade, 0–2 in Madrid
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
1978–79	Runners-up	lost to Borussia Mönchengladbach 1–1 in Belgrade, 0–1 in Düsseldorf
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
1974–75	Semi-finals	lost to Ferencváros 1–2 in Budapest, 2–2 in Belgrade
1971–72	Quarter-finals	lost to Dynamo Moscow 1–2 in Belgrade, 1–1 in Moscow
1985–86	Quarter-finals	lost to Atlético Madrid 0–2 in Belgrade, 1–1 in Madrid
UEFA Super Cup
1991	Runners-up	lost to Manchester United 0–1 in Manchester
Intercontinental Cup
1991	Winners	defeated Colo-Colo 3–0 in Tokyo
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
1961–62	Semi-finals	lost to Barcelona 0–2 in Belgrade, 1–4 in Barcelona
1962–63	Quarter-finals	lost to Roma 0–3 in Rome, 2–0 in Belgrade
Mitropa Cup
1958	Winners	defeated Rudá Hvězda Brno 4–1 in Belgrade, 3–2 in Brno
1967–68	Winners	defeated Spartak Trnava 0–1 in Trnava, 4–1 in Belgrade
1957	Semi-finals	lost to Vasas 1–3 in Budapest, 2–3 in Belgrade

Biggest win in UEFA competition:

Note: Red Star score always listed first.

1956–70

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1956–57	European Cup	R1		Rapid JC Kerkrade	2–0	4–3	6–3
		Quarter final		CSKA Sofia	3–1	1–2	4–3
		Semi final		Fiorentina	0–1	0–0	0–1
1957–58	European Cup	QR		Stade Dudelange	9–1	5–0	14–1
		R1		Norrköping	2–1	2–2	4–3
		Quarter final		Manchester United	3–3	1–2	4–5
1959–60	European Cup	R1		Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–1	0–3	1–4
1960–61	European Cup	R1		Újpest Dózsa	1–2	0–3	1–5
1961–62	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1		Basel	4–1	1–1	5–2
		R2		Hibernian	4–0	1–0	5–0
		Quarter final		Espanyol	5–0	1–2	6–2
		Semi final		Barcelona	0–2	1–4	1–6
1962–63	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1		Rapid Wien	1–0	1–1	2–1
		R2		Barcelona	3–2	0–1	3–3 (1–0 play-off)
		Quarter final		Roma	2–0	0–3	2–3
1964–65	European Cup	R1		Rangers	4–2	1–3	5–5 (1–3 play-off)
1965–66	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1		Fiorentina	0–4	1–3	1–7
1966–67	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	R1		Athletic Bilbao	5–0	0–2	5–2
		R2		Valencia	1–2	0–1	1–3
1968–69	European Cup	R2		Celtic	1–1	1–5	2–6
1969–70	European Cup	R1		Linfield	8–0	4–2	12–2
		R2		Vorwärts Berlin	3–2	1–2	4–4 (a)

1970–80

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1970–71	European Cup	R1		Újpest Dózsa	4–0	0–2	4–2
		R2		UTA Arad	3–0	3–1	6–1
		Quarter final		Carl Zeiss Jena	4–0	2–3	6–3
		Semi final		Panathinaikos	4–1	0–3	4–4 (a)
1971–72	Cup Winners' Cup	R1		Komló Bányász	1–2	7–2	8–4
		R2		Sparta Rotterdam	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Quarter final		Dynamo Moscow	1–2	1–1	2–3
1972–73	UEFA Cup	R1		Lausanne-Sport	5–1	2–3	7–4
		R2		Valencia	3–1	1–0	4–1
		R3		Tottenham Hotspur	1–0	0–2	1–2
1973–74	European Cup	R1		Stal Mielec	2–1	1–0	3–1
		R2		Liverpool	2–1	2–1	4–2
		Quarter final		Atlético Madrid	0–2	0–0	0–2
1974–75	Cup Winners' Cup	R1		PAOK Thessaloniki	2–0	0–1	2–1
		R2		Avenir Beggen	5–1	6–1	11–2
		Quarter final		Real Madrid	2–0	0–2	2–2 (6–5 pen.)
		Semi final		Ferencváros	2–2	1–2	3–4
1975–76	UEFA Cup	R1		Universitatea Craiova	1–1	3–1	4–2
		R2		Hamburger SV	1–1	0–4	1–5
1976–77	UEFA Cup	R1		Lokomotiv Plovdiv	4–1	1–2	5–3
		R2		Austria Salzburg	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		R3		AEK Athens	3–1	0–2	3–3 (a)
1977–78	European Cup	R1		Sligo Rovers	3–0	3–0	6–0
		R2		Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–3	1–5	1–8
1978–79	UEFA Cup	R1		Berliner FC Dynamo	4–1	2–5	6–6 (a)
		R2		Sporting de Gijón	1–1	1–0	2–1
		R3		Arsenal	1–0	1–1	2–1
		Quarter final		West Bromwich Albion	1–0	1–1	2–1
		Semi final		Hertha Berlin	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		Final		Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–1	0–1	1–2
1979–80	UEFA Cup	R1		Galatasaray	3–1	0–0	3–1
		R2		Carl Zeiss Jena	3–2	3–2	6–4
		R3		Bayern Munich	3–2	0–2	3–4

1980–90

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1980–81	European Cup	R1		Viking	4–1	3–2	7–3
		R2		Basel	2–0	0–1	2–1
		Quarter final		Internazionale	0–1	1–1	1–2
1981–82	European Cup	R1		Hibernians Paola	8–1	2–1	10–2
		R2		Baník Ostrava	3–0	1–3	4–3
		Quarter final		Anderlecht	1–2	1–2	2–4
1982–83	Cup Winners' Cup	R1		Lillestrøm	3–0	4–0	7–0
		R2		Barcelona	2–4	1–2	3–6
1983–84	UEFA Cup	R1		Hellas Verona	2–3	0–1	2–4
1984–85	European Cup	R1		Benfica	3–2	0–2	3–4
1985–86	Cup Winners' Cup	R1		Aarau	2–0	2–2	4–2
		R2		Lyngby	3–1	2–2	5–3
		Quarter final		Atlético Madrid	0–2	1–1	1–3
1986–87	European Cup	R1		Panathinaikos	3–0	1–2	4–2
		R2		Rosenborg	4–1	3–0	7–1
		Quarter final		Real Madrid	4–2	0–2	4–4 (a)
1987–88	UEFA Cup	R1		Trakia Plovdiv	3–0	2–2	5–2
		R2		Club Brugge	3–1	0–4	3–5
1988–89	European Cup	R1		Dundalk	3–0	5–0	8–0
		R2		Milan	1–1	1–1	2–2 (2–4 Pen.)
1989–90	UEFA Cup	R1		Galatasaray	2–0	1–1	3–1
		R2		Žalgiris	4–1	1–0	5–1
		R3		Köln	2–0	0–3	2–3

1990–2000

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1990–91	European Cup	R1		Grasshopper	1–1	4–1	5–2
		R2		Rangers	3–0	1–1	4–1
		Quarter final		Dynamo Dresden	3–0	3–0	6–0
		Semi final		Bayern Munich	2–2	2–1	4–3
		Final		Olympique de Marseille	0–0 (5–3 pen.)
1991	European Super Cup	Final		Manchester United	—	0–1	—
1991	Intercontinental Cup	Final		Colo-Colo	3–0
1991–92	European Cup	R1		Portadown	4–0	4–0	8–0
		R2		Apollon Limassol	3–1	2–0	5–1
		Group A		Anderlecht	3–2	2–3	2nd out of 4
				Sampdoria	1–3	0–2
				Panathinaikos	1–0	2–0
1995–96	UEFA Cup	QR		Neuchâtel Xamax	0–1	0–0	0–1
1996–97	Cup Winners' Cup	QR		Heart of Midlothian	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		R1		Kaiserslautern	4–0	0–1	4–1
		R2		Barcelona	1–1	1–3	2–4
1997–98	Cup Winners' Cup	QR		HJK Helsinki	3–0	0–1	3–1
		R1		Germinal Ekeren	1–1	2–3	3–4
1998–99	UEFA Cup	QR1		Kolkheti-1913 Poti	7–0	4–0	11–0
		QR2		Rotor Volgograd	2–1	2–1	4–2
		R1		Metz	2–1	1–2	3–3 (4–3 pen.)
		R2		Olympique Lyonnais	1–2	2–3	3–5
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	QR		Neftçi Baku	1–0	3–2	4–2
		R1		Montpellier	0–1	2–2	2–3

2000–10

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2000–01	Champions League	QR1		KÍ Klaksvík	2–0	3–0	5–0
		QR2		Torpedo Kutaisi	4–0	0–2	4–2
		QR3		Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
	UEFA Cup	R1		Leicester City	3–1	1–1	4–2
		R2		Celta de Vigo	1–0	3–5	4–5
2001–02	Champions League	QR2		Omonia Nicosia	2–1	1–1	3–2
		QR3		Bayer Leverkusen	0–0	0–3	0–3
	UEFA Cup	R1		Arsenal Kyiv	0–0	2–3	2–3
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR		Kairat Almaty	3–0	2–0	5–0
		R1		Chievo Verona	0–0	2–0	2–0
		R2		Lazio	1–1	0–1	1–2
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR		Nistru Otaci	5–0	3–2	8–2
		R1		Odense	4–3	2–2	6–5
		R2		Rosenborg	0–1	0–0	0–1
2004–05	Champions League	QR2		Young Boys	3–0	2–2	5–2
		QR3		PSV Eindhoven	3–2	0–5	3–7
	UEFA Cup	R1		Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–2	0–4	1–6
2005–06	UEFA Cup	QR2		Inter Zaprešić	4–0	3–1	7–1
		R1		Braga	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		Group E		Basel	1–2		4th out of 5
				Tromsø		1–3
				Roma	3–1
				Strasbourg		2–2
2006–07	Champions League	QR2		Cork City	3–0	1–0	4–0
		QR3		Milan	1–2	0–1	1–3
	UEFA Cup	R1		Slovan Liberec	1–2	0–2	1–4
2007–08	Champions League	QR2		Levadia Tallinn	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		QR3		Rangers	0–0	0–1	0–1
	UEFA Cup	R1		Groclin Grodzisk	1–0	1–0	2–0
		Group F		Bayern Munich	2–3		5th out of 5
				Aris Thessaloniki		0–3
				Bolton Wanderers	0–1
				Braga		0–2
2008–09	UEFA Cup	QR2		APOEL Nicosia	3–3	2–2	5–5 (a)
2009–10	Europa League	QR2		Rudar Velenje	4–0	1–0	5–0
		QR3		Dinamo Tbilisi	5–2	0–2	5–4
		Play off		Slavia Prague	2–1	0–3	2–4

2010–20

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2010–11	Europa League	QR3		Slovan Bratislava	1–2	1–1	2–3
2011–12	Europa League	QR3		Ventspils	7–0	2–1	9–1
		Play off		Stade Rennais	1–2	0–4	1–6
2012–13	Europa League	QR2		Naftan Novopolotsk	3–3	4–3	7–6
		QR3		Omonia Nicosia	0–0	0–0	0–0 (6–5 pen.)
		Play off		Girondins de Bordeaux	0–0	2–3	2–3
2013–14	Europa League	QR2		ÍB Vestmannaeyja	2–0	0–0	2–0
		QR3		Chornomorets Odesa	0–0	1–3	1–3
2015–16	Europa League	QR1		Kairat Almaty	0–2	1–2	1–4
2016–17	Champions League	QR2		Valletta	2–1	2–1	4–2
		QR3		Ludogorets Razgrad	2–4	2–2	4–6
	Europa League	Play off		Sassuolo	1–1	0–3	1–4
2017–18	Europa League	QR1		Floriana	3–0	3–3	6–3
		QR2		Irtysh Pavlodar	2–0	1–1	3–1
		QR3		Sparta Prague	2–0	1–0	3–0
		Play off		Krasnodar	2–1	2–3	4–4 (a)
		Group H		Arsenal	0–1	0–0	2nd out of 4
				BATE Borisov	1–1	0–0
				Köln	1–0	1–0
		Round of 32		CSKA Moscow	0–0	0–1	0–1
2018–19	Champions League	QR1		Spartaks Jūrmala	2–0	0–0	2–0
		QR2		Sūduva Marijampolė	3–0	2–0	5–0
		QR3		Spartak Trnava	1–1	2–1	3–2
		Play off		Red Bull Salzburg	0–0	2–2	2–2 (a)
		Group C		Paris Saint-Germain	1–4	1–6	4th out of 4
				Liverpool	2–0	0–4
				Napoli	0–0	1–3
2019–20	Champions League	QR1		Sūduva Marijampolė	2–1	0–0	2–1
		QR2		HJK Helsinki	2–0	1–2	3–2
		QR3		Copenhagen	1–1	1–1	2–2 (7–6 pen.)
		Play off		Young Boys	1–1	2–2	3–3 (a)
		Group B		Bayern Munich	0–6	0–3	4th out of 4
				Tottenham Hotspur	0–4	0–5
				Olympiacos	3–1	0–1

2020–present

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2020–21	Champions League	QR1		Europa	5–0	—	5–0
		QR2		Tirana	—	1–0	1–0
		QR3		Omonia Nicosia	—	1–1	1–1 (2–4 pen.)
	Europa League	Play off		Ararat-Armenia	—	2–1	2–1
		Group L		Gent	2–1	2–0	2nd out of 4
				Hoffenheim	0–0	0–2
				Slovan Liberec	5–1	0–0
		Round of 32		Milan	2–2	1–1	3–3 (a)
2021–22	Champions League	QR2		Kairat Almaty	5–0	1–2	6–2
		QR3		Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1	0–1	1–2
	Europa League	Play off		CFR Cluj	4–0	2–1	6–1
		Group F		Braga	2–1	1–1	1st out of 4
				Ludogorets Razgrad	1–0	1–0
				Midtjylland	0–1	1–1
		Knockout round play-offs	Bye
		Round of 16		Rangers	2–1	0–3	2–4
2022–23	Champions League	QR3		Pyunik	5–0	2–0	7–0
		Play off		Maccabi Haifa	2–2	2–3	4–5
	Europa League	Group H		Monaco	0–1	1–4	4th out of 4
				Ferencváros	4–1	1–2
				Trabzonspor	2–1	1–2
2023–24	Champions League	Group G		Manchester City		1–3
				RB Leipzig		1–3
				Young Boys	2–2

As of 25 October 2023

Red Star Belgrade record in international football by country
Opponents	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Albania	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
Armenia	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8
Austria	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1
Azerbaijan	2	2	0	0	4	2	+2
Belarus	4	1	3	0	8	7	+1
Belgium	10	4	1	5	17	19	−2
Bulgaria	10	5	2	3	20	14	+6
Chile	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3
Croatia	2	2	0	0	7	1	+6
Cyprus	9	3	6	0	14	9	+5
Czech Republic	10	5	1	4	15	12	+3
Denmark	8	2	5	1	14	12	+2
England	22	7	6	9	21	35	−14
Estonia	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
Faroe Islands	2	2	0	0	5	0	+5
Finland	4	2	0	2	6	3	+3
France	16	1	4	11	16	37	−21
Georgia	6	4	0	2	20	6	+14
Germany	36	14	5	17	51	65	−14
Gibraltar	1	1	0	0	5	0	+5
Greece	13	7	0	6	19	15	+4
Hungary	10	3	1	6	21	18	+3
Iceland	2	1	1	0	2	0	+2
Israel	2	0	1	1	4	5	–1
Italy	27	3	10	14	21	40	−19
Kazakhstan	8	4	1	3	15	7	+8
Latvia	4	3	1	0	11	1	+10
Lithuania	6	5	1	0	12	2	+10
Luxembourg	4	4	0	0	25	3	+22
Malta	6	5	1	0	20	7	+13
Moldova	4	2	1	1	9	4	+5
Netherlands	6	4	1	1	12	12	0
Northern Ireland	4	4	0	0	20	2	+18
Norway	9	6	1	2	22	8	+14
Poland	4	4	0	0	5	1	+4
Portugal	7	2	3	2	7	9	−2
Republic of Ireland	6	6	0	0	18	0	+18
Romania	6	5	1	0	16	4	+12
Russia	10	3	2	5	11	16	−5
Scotland	15	5	5	5	20	21	−1
Slovakia	4	1	2	1	5	5	0
Slovenia	2	2	0	0	5	0	+5
Spain	29	10	4	15	39	44	−5
Sweden	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1
Switzerland	18	6	8	4	34	21	+13
Turkey	6	3	2	1	9	5	+4
Ukraine	6	0	4	2	4	7	−3

Rank	Player	Goals	Years
1	Zoran Filipović	28	1970–1980
2	Bora Kostić	20	1951–1961, 1962–1966
	Dušan Savić		1973–1982
4	Nikola Žigić	17	2003–2006
5	El Fardou Ben Nabouhane	15	2018–2022
	Aleksandar Katai		2014–2016, 2020–

Source

• UEFA European Cup Football Result and Qualification by Bert Kassies