Red Star Belgrade (Serbian: Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, Serbian pronunciation: [tsrʋena zʋeːzda]) is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1945 and has traditionally worn a red and white home-kit since then. It is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.

Red Star Belgrade is the most successful club in Serbia, with a record of 25 national championships and 24 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions. They are the only Serbian (and ex-Yugoslav) club to have ever won the European Cup, having done so during the 1990–91 season, and the only team from the Balkans and East Europe to have ever won the Intercontinental Cup, which it won in 1991. In the following season, Red Star reached the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League. Before they reached 1956–57, 1970–71, the semi-finals, as well as 1957–58, 1973–74, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1986–87 the quarterfinals of the European Cup. 1978–79 they reached the UEFA Cup final, but lost unhappily against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Also, they reached 1974–75 the semifinals of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Red Star is the most successful club from Eastern Europe being the only club to win both European and World club champions.

Sportsko Društvo Crvena Zvezda Beograd (English: Sports Society Red Star Belgrade), is a sports association from Belgrade, Serbia.

Crvena zvezda has clubs in the following sports: [1]

Darko Pančev (Macedonian: Дарко Панчев [ˈdarkɔ ˈpantʃɛf] ( listen); born 7 September 1965 in Skopje) is a retired Yugoslav and Macedonian footballer, and winner of the Golden Boot award in 1991.

Pančev was the highest scorer in top-division European football in the 1990–91 season with 34 goals, and should have won the European Golden Boot award. However, UEFA decided to make the competition unofficial for the season because of suspect scoring sprees in Cyprus. Pančev did not get the prize at the time, but received it fifteen years later on 3 August 2006 in Skopje. The Golden Boot was presented at a special gala by Michel Platini, Dragan Stojković and Dragan Džajić.

His playing career started in 1982 at Vardar Skopje where he quickly developed into one of the most feared strikers in the Yugoslav First League, becoming league top scorer in the 1983-84 season. The skill and seeming ease of his goal scoring exploits in Skopje made him a target for bigger Yugoslav clubs.

During summer 1988, Pančev was snapped up by Red Star Belgrade, which beat cross-town rivals FK Partizan to the twenty-two-year-old's signature. Another talented youngester Dejan Savićević also arrived to the club during the same transfer window, but both promptly got sent to serve the mandatory Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) stint that kept them off the pitch for the entire league season.

Dragan Džajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Џајић) (born 30 May 1946 in Ub, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) is widely considered to have been one of the best Serbian football players to emerge from former Yugoslavia. Regarded as a preeminent and very proficient left winger, he is strongly reputed to have been one of the finest European players of his generation. Džajić has been known for his "great crosses and passes, unstoppable dribbling with great pace, natural technique and some of the best left footed free kicks ever seen". Through soccer fanatics, Džajić is viewed as perhaps one of the most underrated players in European football, partly because he played in Yugoslavia. In December 2011 Džajić was named in being part of "the greatest European Championship XI of all time" by Goal.com!

Džajić's professional career (1961–1978) was spent primarily with Red Star Belgrade. Džajić was a brilliant left winger who guided a Red Star Belgrade career spanning 590 games and 287 goals by winning five league titles and four Yugoslavian Cups. In 1969 Džajić received the Sport newspaper's Golden Badge, award for Yugoslavia's best athlete. He is considered one of the most important players in the history of the club and is one of only five players to have been awarded the Zvezdine zvezde status.