Youth School
Partizan FC Youth Academy was founded in the 1950`s of the last century. This football school has no equal in the region for decades now and is of recent rubbing shoulders with the best ones in Europe.
Around four hundred talents age 10 to 18, classified by age categories, learn football algerbra on daily basis with care being taken on their growing-up and personality forming, as well as sporting spirit teaching. That all-expanding and expensive job needs right coordination and organisation. We are not developing just football players, but sportsmen and personalities, too. That requiers a lot of effort, will, patience, love, understanding..But, that a great investment for the future, as well.
Partizan is firmly behind conviction that this is the only right path and obligation towards sport of every big club.
Six selections of our academy have their own competition – U-17`s (youngsters born year 1992.), U-16`s (1993.), U-15`s (1994.) and U-`14`s (1995.) compete on Serbian FA level, while U-13`s and U-12`s compete on a Belgrade FA level. Four of the youngest categories (kids born between 1998. and 2001.) mainly train, play friendly games and various tournaments, but do not participate in official competitions.
Although it`s not a primary objective, Partizan FC Youth Academy sides have the greatest number of league titles and cup wins in the country, so far. This year too, out of four official youth leagues, our youth teams convincingly won in three of them.
For years now, we witness our best youth academy players moving directly to senior side or Partizan franchise FK Teleoptik.
In the last eight years, Partizan FC youth sides participated in 61 tournaments around Europe and achieved 16 top spots, 10 runner-up positions and 12 third place final standings.
Our club organised seven international U-17`s tournaments with participation of some of the top European clubs: Real Madrid (5 apps), Bajern, Panathanaikos, Roma, Olimpique Marseille, Porto, CSKA Moscow, Barcelona, Fiorentina, Olympiakos..
Our youngsters won this tournament on four and Real Madridn on three ocassions.
This year, come last week of August, we are hosting 8th international u-17`s tournament with participation of Real Madrid, Fiorentina and PAOK Thessaloniki.
Currently, Partizan Youth Academy provides various Serbian youth national selections with 32 players born between 1991. and 1996. Serbian u-21 side has 6 Partizan youth school graduates within its ranks while Partizan senior team boosts 7 players who learned their football trade via oour club`s youth categories: Obradovic, Brezancic, Knezevic, Ljajic, Tomic, Jovanovic and Stevanovic.
Partizan is also in the midst of “Partizan School of Football” project within whom we have Winter and Summer camps established in Montenegro, Zlatibor, Jahorina and Maribor.
Expertise and organisation of Partizan Youth Academy belongs to following people: President Ratimir Babic, Director Nedeljko Kostic, Secretary Dragan Susnjar, Scout Dusan Trbojevic, Coaches Sladjan Scepovic, Nebojsa Lucanin, Zvonko Popovic, Ivan Kostadinovic, Ilija Zavisic, Vanja Radinovic, Darko Tesovic, Milan Ristic and Predrag Jusic, as well as Kit Caretakers Slobodan Todorovic and Miodrag Stojanovic.
