Dejan Milovanović

Dejan Milovanović
Milovanović with Lens in 2009
Personal information
Full name Dejan Milovanović
Date of birth (1984-01-21)21 January 1984
Place of birth Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Date of death 16 September 2025(2025-09-16) (aged 41)
Place of death Belgrade, Serbia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position Midfielder
Youth career
Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2008 Red Star Belgrade 155 (17)
2008–2011 Lens 40 (2)
2010–2011 → Red Star Belgrade (loan) 18 (3)
2011–2013 Panionios 16 (0)
2013–2014 Voždovac 23 (0)
Total 252 (22)
International career
2003–2007 Serbia U21 23 (6)
2008 Serbia 2 (0)
Medal record
UEFA Under-21 Championship 2004
UEFA Under-21 Championship 2007
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dejan Milovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Миловановић; 21 January 1984 – 16 September 2025) was a Serbian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Red Star Belgrade

Milovanović was a member of the talented 1984 generation, and was the first to become a first team player from that group. He made his debut for Red Star Belgrade on 17 November 2001 when he was 17. In that match Zvezda won against FK Zemun, the score finishing 2–0. He gathered the attention of the public on his debut, in a derby game against Partizan in which he worked his way past three players in fantastic style, scoring a goal that wrapped up the 3–0 victory.

Milovanović played for the Red Star Belgrade first team from 2001, becoming the captain of the club in 2006. He was also team captain of the Serbian under-21 team who finished second at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in the Netherlands. Milovanović played over 200 games for Red Star Belgrade and won three doubles.

Lens

On 4 July 2008, Milovanović officially signed a four-year contract with Lens for an undisclosed fee. Milovanović has been announced as one of the main new signings in the club's effort to return to the top French league. In the summer of 2010, Lens allowed Milovanović to return to his former club, Red Star, on a season-long loan with an option for a permanent deal.

Voždovac

Milovanović signed with newly promoted Serbian side FK Voždovac in August 2013.[1]

International career

Milovanović was capped twice for Serbia in 2008.[2] With Serbia U21 he played in three UEFA European Under-21 Championships, in 2004, 2006 and 2007. He has won two silver medals in these competitions. He was also part of the Serbia and Montenegro squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

He especially made a good impression in the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in the Netherlands, carrying the captain's armband, on the way to the finals; in the first match he scored a winning goal against Italy.

Personal life

Dejan Milovanović was the son of Đorđe Milovanović, a member of Red Star Belgrade in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s. Dejan was also the cousin of former Serbian international Branislav Ivanović.[3]

Death

Milovanović died from a heart attack on 16 September 2025, at the age of 41, after collapsing on the pitch during his veteran team football match in Belgrade.[4]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Red Star Belgrade 2001–02 Serbian SuperLiga 18 2 3 0 0 0 21 2
2002–03 26 1 5 0 4 1 35 2
2003–04 21 0 3 0 2 0 26 0
2004–05 18 0 3 0 4 0 25 0
2005–06 23 2 5 2 4 0 32 4
2006–07 23 3 5 1 6 1 34 5
2007–08 26 9 3 2 5 0 34 11
Total 155 17 27 5 25 2 207 24
Lens 2008–09 Ligue 2 24 2 0 0 0 0 24 2
2009–10 Ligue 1 16 0 2 0 0 0 18 0
Total 40 2 2 0 0 0 42 2
Red Star Belgrade (loan) 2010–11 Serbian SuperLiga 18 3 3 1 2 0 23 4
Panionios 2011–12 Super League Greece 14 0 0 0 0 0 14 0
2012–13 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Total 16 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
Voždovac 2013–14 Serbian SuperLiga 23 0 2 0 0 0 25 0
Career total 252 22 34 6 27 2 313 30

Honours

Red Star Belgrade

Lens

Notes

References

  1. ^ [1] Blic Sport: Liveblog: Transferi: Milan zove Kačara, Milovanović u Voždovcu, Kasiljas razmišlja i o Arsenalu (in Serbian) 21 August 2013
  2. ^ "Dejan Milovanović, international football player". EU-football.info. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  3. ^ Blic (12 April 2009). "Bane ima dušu veliku kao Srem" (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Tuga na Marakani: Dejan Milovanović preminuo tokom meča". Srpska Cafe. 16 September 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
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