Red Star Belgrade

Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda (<a href="/facts/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet/d5s1lFk2">Serbian Cyrillic</a>: Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, <a href="/facts/Literal_translation/0cF1oFRh">lit.</a> 'Red Star Football Club'), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda (pronounced [tsř̩ʋenaː zʋěːzda]) and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a <a href="/facts/Serbia/U0LVzPdI">Serbian</a> professional <a href="/facts/Association_football/yttjeD0D">football</a> <a href="/facts/Football_team/659Hw2dW">club</a> based in <a href="/facts/Belgrade/Xeaz5zIy">Belgrade</a>, and a major part of the <a href="/facts/SD_Crvena_Zvezda/PTAndA0L">Red Star multi-sport society</a>.
They are <a href="/facts/List_of_football_clubs_by_competitive_honours_won/Sy5UPdHu">the most successful club</a> from the <a href="/facts/Balkans/5Hy8ly0d">Balkans</a> and <a href="/facts/Southeast_Europe/zxgEvCdQ">Southeast Europe</a>, being the only club to have won both the <a href="/facts/1990%25E2%2580%259391_European_Cup/j715LUFL">European Cup</a> and <a href="/facts/1991_Intercontinental_Cup/S5BKrIe3">Intercontinental Cup</a>, having done so in 1991, and only the second team from <a href="/facts/Eastern_Europe/f5CDGzNA">Eastern Europe</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Yugoslav_First_League/bDzyUwIX">Yugoslav First League all-time table</a>, 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. They have many supporters in other former Yugoslav republics and among the <a href="/facts/Serbian_diaspora/TLBGcpm4">Serbian diaspora</a>. Their main rivals are fellow Belgrade side <a href="/facts/FK_Partizan/lhkdkwTL">Partizan</a>. The championship matches between these two clubs are known as the <a href="/facts/Eternal_derby_(Serbia)/WBd5sWUr">Eternal derby</a>.
According to the <a href="/facts/International_Federation_of_Football_History_%2526_Statistics/YaSbtAQg">International Federation of Football History & Statistics</a>' 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.

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Red Star Belgrade