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Fudbalski klub Partizan (Serbian: Фудбалски клуб Партизан, IPA: [partǐzaːn]), commonly known as Partizan Belgrade, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade. It forms a major part of the Partizan Sports Association. The club plays in the Serbian SuperLiga and has spent its entire history in the top tier of Yugoslav and Serbian football having won a total of thirty-nine trophies, including a record of twenty-six national championships, twelve national cups, one national super-cup as well as one Mitropa Cup, and finished in the Yugoslav league all-time table as 2nd.
Partizan was founded by young high officers of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in 1945 in Belgrade, as part of the Yugoslav Sports Association Partizan. Their home ground is the Partizan Stadium in Belgrade, where they have played since 1949. Partizan holds records such as playing in the first European Champions Cup match in 1955, as well as becoming the first Balkan and Eastern European football club to reach the European Champions Cup final, when it did so in 1966. Partizan recently has made it to the UEFA Champions League on some occasions.