Sport inSerbia includesfootball,basketball,handball,tennis,volleyball, andwater polo. Professional sports in Serbia are organized by sporting federations and leagues (in case of team sports). Serbian professional sports includes multi-sport clubs (called "sports societies"), biggest and most successful of which areCrvena Zvezda (three world titles and seven European in various sports),Partizan (fourteen European titles in various sports),Radnički (three European titles in various sports) andBeograd inBelgrade,Vojvodina inNovi Sad,Radnički inKragujevac,Spartak inSubotica. Serbia had successes in basketball, winning the Olympic silver medal and Nikola Jokic winning 3 NBA MVPs, as well as the 2023 NBA Championship and Finals MVP, Novak Djokovic winning a record setting 24th Grand Slam, and in handball, volleyball and water polo as well.[1]
After folk games, athletics in the modern sense appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. Among the first events on the territory of Serbia was the race held in 1906 on the routeValjevo-Jovanje, and in 1908 the Gymnastics Association "Dusan Silni" founded the first athletic section. The founding of theSerbian Olympic Club in 1910 and the beginning of Serbia's participation in theOlympic Games were important for the further development ofathletics.
The European Open Championship was organized in Belgrade in 1962, theEuropean Indoor Games in 1966, and the European Club Championship for men in 1989. When it comes to the 21st century, the largest organized competition on the territory of Serbia is theEuropean Indoor Championship in 2017. From the athletic competitions, theBelgrade Marathon and the memorial rally in honor of Artur Takač are held every year.
The successes of athletes from Serbia includes:
The national team of Serbia were two-time world champions in bowling in 9 cones and broke the team world record.Vilmos Zavarko is the world record holder in individual competition, and he won four gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the world championships, as well as the first place on the world ranking list.
There are 46[when?] grandmasters (active and inactive) among Serbian chess players. At theChess Olympics in 1950, the Yugoslavia national team won a gold medal, and among the Serbian chess players in the national team werePetar Trifunović andSvetozar Gligorić, who won medals at other Olympics, as well as at European championships. Among the most successful Serbian grandmasters areBorislav Ivkov,Aleksandar Matanović,Milan Matulović,Ivan Ivanišević,Dragan Šolak, Aleksandar Kovačević,Branko Damljanović,Igor Miladinović ...
There are 11 grandmasters among the female competitors. The most successful Serbian chess player is the former Minister of Sports and Youth,Alisa Marić, who won two bronze medals at theChess Olympics, as well as a silver medal at the European Championship in 1999. Novi Sad hosted the Olympics in 1990, as well as the European Team Championship in 2009. In 1970, a match was held in Belgrade for the first time between the Soviet Union and the rest of the world.
Djordje Nesic participated in international bicycle races in Europe as a student. On his initiative, the First Serbian Bicycle Association was founded in 1884, and he was elected president.The first competition race was held in Belgrade in 1896, and the following year the first national championship was held.
TheDiving Association of Serbia is an organization that takes care of the development of diving on the territory of Serbia. It was founded in 1971 when it separated from the swimming association. There were a maximum of 13 clubs in the association. There are six members in the alliance, all from Belgrade. The greatest success of a Serbian competitor at the international level is the silver medal of Selena Trajković, under the flag of Yugoslavia, from the Mediterranean Games in 1979 in Split in the platform discipline. Belgrade hosted the firstWorld Diving Championship in 1973.
After theFirst World War, the Yugoslav Fencing Federation was founded with its headquarters in Belgrade, and later inZagreb. The first individual state championship was held in 1928, and the club championship in 1939. During theSecond World War, the Federation ceased to operate. In 1949, the work of the Alliance was renewed and it was renamed the Fencing Alliance of Yugoslavia. The main organization in charge of fencing in Serbia is theFencing Association of Serbia. The most successful Serbian swordswoman isTamara Savić-Šotra, a triple participant in the Olympic Games under the flag of FR Yugoslavia. The greatest success of the Serbian leadership since the independence of Serbia in 2006 is the bronze medal at the Mediterranean Games in Mersin in 2013, which was won by Smiljka Rodić.
Gymnastics appeared among Serbs in the middle of the nineteenth century. The director of the Serbian Great Orthodox Gymnasium in Novi Sad,Djordje Natosevic, introduced classes and descriptive assessment.Stevan Todorović founded the First Serbian Society for Gymnastics and Wrestling in 1857.
Tereza Kočiš is a Serbian gymnast, who won a silver medal on the ground floor at the 1950 World Championships, and won silver medals on the beam and two-height loom at the European Championships in 1963, as well as a bronze medal on the ground floor. At the same championship,Mirjana Bilić became the European champion in all-around and on the floor, and she also won bronze on the beam. As for rhythmic gymnastics,Milena Reljin took 5th place at the1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, andDanijela Simić 10. Belgrade hosted the European Men's Championship in 1963.
The Kayak Federation of Yugoslavia was formed in 1930, and the Federation of Serbia in 1953.Four world and one European championships were held in Belgrade. The best results in kayaking and canoeing were achieved at the1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, whenMirko Nišović won a gold medal in the double canoe at 500 (S-2) and a silver at 1000, andMilan Janić won silver in the single kayak. 2) at 1000 m. They were both three-time world champions and won more medals.
Milan Janić children are also kayakers.Mico andStjepan won a silver medal in the 1000 m at the 1998 World Championships. Later, they changed their citizenship, Mićo and Stjepan joined the Croatian national team, and Nataša competes under the Hungarian flag, for which she won medals.
Ognjen Filipović,Dragan Zorić,Bora Sibinkić andMilan Đenandić were trophy four-seater in a kayak. In the 200 m race, among other things, they won gold at the world and European championships. Filipović won medals in the one-seater, but also in the two-seater with Zorić.
Dusko Stanojevic andDejan Pajic won bronze at the 2010 World Championships and silver at the European Championships in 2011 in a two-seater kayak in the 500 meters. silver medals. In 2014, Novaković won a gold medal withNebojsa Grujić at the world championships in the two-seater 200 m, with the fastest time of all time in that discipline. Then they won a silver medal at the European Championships and a gold medal at theEuropean Games.
Antonija Nagy twice won a silver medal at the European championships in the 1000 meter race. The sisters,Nikolina andOlivera Moldovan, won three medals at the world championships, three at the European and one at the European Games.
Dalma Benedek, after being an eight-time world and seven-time European champion, has been competing under the Serbian flag since 2013 and in the same year won gold medals at the European Championships in the 500 and 1,000 meters, and then bronze in the 500 meters at the World Championships., as well as up to two or two bronze medals at the European Championship and gold at the European Games withMilica Starović.
Milos Pavlovic is a Serbian motorist. He was the champion in Nissan's world light series, and in 2007 he won third place in the Formula Renault series with two victories. He competed inFormula 2 in 2009 and took 9th place, he was on the podium twice.Dušan Borković won the title of champion in the European Mountain Racing Championship in 2012, winning eight of the eleven races.A year earlier, he took third place. As a representative of the NIS Petrol Racing Team in the European Touring Cup car in 2013 took third place in the overall standings, and since 2014 competes in theFIA World Touring Car Championship. TheBelgrade Grand Prix was the last Grand Prix motorcycle race, the forerunner ofFormula 1, before the start of World War II.
TheRowing Federation of Serbia, then Yugoslavia, was founded in 1922. The European Championships were held in Belgrade in 1932 and 2014. Zoran Pančić and Milorad Stanulov are Serbian rowers, who won a silver medal (M2x) for Yugoslavia in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and a bronze medal in Los Angeles in 1984. The most successful rowers in independent Serbia areNikola Stojić andGoran Jagar, who were European champions as a duo without a coxswain (M2 -).Nikola Stojić won a gold medal withJovan Popović at the 2006 World Championships in the doubles with a coxswain (M2 +), while with Jagar, Popović andMarko Marjanović he won silver in the quadruple with a coxswain (M4 +) in 2007. Stojić also won with Nenad Bedjik. in the discipline, the duo without a coxswain won a bronze (2012) and a gold medal (2013) at the European Championships. Besides them,Goran Nedeljković,Miloš Tomić,Nenad Babović,Dušan Bogićević andVeselin Savić won medals at competitions.Iva Obradović won two silver medals at the European Championships.
Shooting is one of the oldest sports in Serbia. The first shooting club was founded inBela Crkva in 1777, and the Association of Shooting Societies of the Kingdom of Serbia was formed in 1887. The European Championship was held twice in Belgrade, in 2005 and 2011.Jasna Šekarić won a gold medal (10m air pistol discipline) at the1988 Olympics. At the same Games, she won a bronze medal in the sport pistol discipline. She continued her success in Barcelona in 1992, Sydney in 2000, and Athens in 2004, winning three silver medals in the air pistol disciplines. In addition, she was a three-time world champion and a four-time European champion, and also broke the world record.Goran Maksimović won a gold medal in the air rifle disciplines at the 1988 Olympic Games, andIvana Maksimović won silver in the small-caliber rifle three positions at the 2012 Olympic Games.Damir Mikec andZorana Arunović won the gold medal in 2024 Olympic Games in themixed 10 metre air pistol team
In addition to them, the shooters who won Olympic medals from Serbia are:
World records in the triple jump were broken byVladimir Grozdanović and Mirjana Mašić (European Championship and double championship in air rifles), and in air riflesSrećko Pejović (silver with European Championship) and Ten Sasen-on foot, gold with European Championship.Zorana Arunović became the world champion in 2010 in the air pistol disciplines and won a gold medal at theEuropean Games in 2015, while among the successful shooters are Dušan Efafanić (bronze with the world championship),Nemanja Mirosavljev (bronze with WC, silver and bronze from the European Championship,Damir Mikec (silver at the European Championship, two gold medals at the European Games), Bobana Veličković (two-time European champion), Andreja Arsović (gold at the European Championship and European Games).
Milorad Čavić won a silver medal in swimming (discipline100 meters butterfly) at the2008 Olympic Games, and a gold and a silver medal at the2009 World Championships. He won ten medals at the European Championships. He broke world and European records several times.
Nađa Higl became the world champion in the200-meter breaststroke in 2009, breaking the European record.
Velimir Stjepanović won gold medals in the 200 m and 400 m freestyle at theEuropean Championships in 50-meter pool, as well as a bronze medal at the World Championships in 25-meter pools in the400 m freestyle.
Andrej Barna won the bronze medal in 100m freestyle in2024 European Championships.
Serbian 4x100m freestyle relay team won the gold medal in2024 European Championships.
Ivan Lenđer,Čaba Silađi,Miroslava Najdanovski andSzebasztián Szabó won medals at theUniversiade, the Mediterranean Games, the European Championship in 25-meter pools, and junior championships. The first World Aquatics Championships in water sports was held inBelgrade in 1973.
In table tennis, Serbian athletes are most successful in the doubles game.Ilija Lupulescu won a silver Olympic medal in men's doubles in 1988, andJasna Fazlić andGordana Perkučin won a bronze medal in women's doubles.Zoran Kalinic won one world title and 3 European doubles titles. He has 3 more silver medals from the world championships.Aleksandar Karakašević was the European champion in mixed doubles three times, in 2000, 2005 and 2007, all three times in a pair with the LithuanianRuta Pakauskiene. He won five more medals at the European Championships, including a bronze medal in the individual competition in 2011. In 2003, Silvija Erdelji won a bronze medal in the individual competition at the European Championships, as well as in doubles with her sister Anamarija Erdelji. In 1981, Novi Sad hosted competitors at the 36thWorld Table Tennis Championships (SPENS). Belgrade hosted the European Championship in 2007.
Recent success ofSerbian tennis players has led to a growth in the popularity of tennis in Serbia.Novak Djokovic holds the all-time record with 24Grand Slam titles, a record 40Masters, a record sevenyear-end championships, 8 year end number 1 titles, and the only player in singles to have wonall of the Big Titles over the course of his career. He spent a record 428 weeks asATP world number 1.[2]
Monica Seles, a formerworld no. 1, member of theInternational Tennis Hall of Fame, won eight Grand Slam singles titles (while representing FR Yugoslavia).
Ana Ivanovic (champion of2008 French Open) andJelena Janković were both rankedNo. 1 in the WTA rankings. Janković was a Grand Slam champion in mixed doubles (2007 Wimbledon Championships). There were two No. 1 ranked-tennis double players as well:Nenad Zimonjić (three-time men's double and five-time mixeddouble Grand Slam champion) andSlobodan Živojinović (champion of1986 US Open). TheSerbia men's tennis national team won the2010 Davis Cup, and2020 ATP Cup, also twoWorld Team Cup (in 2009 and 2012) whileSerbia women's tennis national team reached the final at2012 Fed Cup.[3]
Serbia men's national basketball team have won twoWorld Cups in1998 and2002, so as silver medal in2014 and2023, threeEuropean Championships in1995,1997, and2001, oneFIBA Diamond Ball in2004, twoOlympic silver medals in1996 and2016, and bronze medal in2024
The women's national basketball team won theEuropean Championship twice (2015 and2021) andOlympic bronze medal in 2016.
Serbia men's national 3x3 team have won sixFIBA 3x3 World Cups (in 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2023), and fiveFIBA 3x3 Europe Cup (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023).
A total of 34 Serbian players (five with an NBA ring) have played in theNBA in last three decades,[when?] includingNikola Jokić (2023 NBA champion, three-timeNBA Most Valuable Player and a six-timeNBA All-Star),Predrag "Peja" Stojaković (three-timeNBA All-Star) andVlade Divac (2001 NBA All-Star andBasketball Hall of Famer).[4] European basketball coachŽeljko Obradović who won 9Euroleague titles as a coach. The first foreign coach in the history of any NBA team isIgor Kokoškov.KK Partizan basketball club was the1992 European champion andŽKK Crvena zvezda women's basketball club was1979 European champion.
Miloš Teodosić (2010) andNemanja Bjelica (2015) received the award for the most useful player in the Euroleague, andPredrag Danilović,Žarko Paspalj,Zoran Savić,Željko Rebrača and twiceDejan Bodiroga were named the most useful players in the final tournament.Radivoj Korać,Dragan Kićanović,Vlade Divac, Zoran Slavnić andDražen Dalipagić, who is also a member of theNBA Hall of Fame, were admitted to theFIBA Hall of Fame.Aleksandar Nikolić andRanko Žeravica were received from the coaches, andObrad Belošević from the basketball referees.
Due to the many successes, basketball is currently the second most popular sport in the country, trailing only slightly behind football. It is also the most popular sport played by women, sharing the position with volleyball.
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Football is the most popular sport in Serbia, and theFootball Association of Serbia with 146,845 registered players, is the largest sporting association in the country.[5]Dragan Džajić was officially recognized as "the best Serbian player of all times" by the Football Association of Serbia,[when?] and more recently players such asNemanja Vidić,Dejan Stanković,Branislav Ivanović,Aleksandar Kolarov,Nemanja Matić andDušan Tadić played in theUEFA Champions League and achieved a lot of success in their careers.[6] TheSerbia national football team lacks relative success although it qualified for four five[when?]FIFA World Cups. Serbia national youth football teams have won2013 U-19 European Championship and2015 U-20 World Cup. The two main football clubs in Serbia areCrvena Zvezda who won under Yugoslavia the1991 European Cup and1991 Intercontinental Cup) andPartizan being the (finalist of the1966 European Cup), both from Belgrade. The rivalry between the two clubs is known as the "Eternal Derby", and is often cited as one of the most exciting sports rivalries in the world.[7]
In addition, the Serbian football players who won theChampions League with their clubs areVelibor Vasović,Boriša Đorđević,Vladimir Jugović,Perica Ognjenović,Nemanja Vidić, Dejan Stanković, Branislav Ivanović andLuka Jović and in women's footballJovana Damnjanović.Bora Milutinović led a large number of world clubs and national teams, and participated in theWorld Cups with five different national teams. The House of Football, the sports center of theFootball Association of Serbia, was opened inStara Pazova in 2011.
TheHandball Federation of Serbia is a house that organizes domestic leagues and manages the women's and men's handball national teams of Serbia. The federation was founded in 1949. Serbia hosted the 2012 European Championship in men's competition where the Serbian national team won second place and a silver medal. In the same year, the women's championship was organized, and the next world championship for women, at which the Serbian national team won silver.RK Metaloplastika has twice been the champion of theChampions League.Dragan Skrbic were named IHF Player of the Year. One of the players from the so-called of the golden generation isMile Isaković. In 1988, Svetlana Kitić was named IHF Player of the Year.Andrea Lekić is the winner of the award for the best handball player in the world in 2013.
In 1924, several American sports were demonstrated in Belgrade and Novi Sad, includingvolleyball. Serbia’smen's national team won thegold medal at 2000 Olympics, silver and bronze medal at theWorld Championship, theEuropean Championship on 3 occasions (2001,2011 and2019) as well as the 2016FIVB World League.
Thewomen's national volleyball team have wonWorld Championship two times (2018 and2022),European Championship three times (2011,2017 and2019) as well as silver medal in the2016 Olympics and bronze in2020 Olympics.
Ivan Miljković was named the most useful player of the European Championship in 2001 and 2011, andJovana Brakočević in 2011.Vladimir Grbić is a member of the Volleyball Hall of Fame, as well as the Volleyball Hall of Fame together with his brotherNikola Grbić.Tijana Bošković was named by the FIVB and CEV as the most useful volleyball player of the European Championship in 2017 and the World Championship in 2018, as well as CEV Female Volleyball Player of the Year three times (2017,2018,2019).
TheVolleyball Federation of Serbia is in charge of the development ofbeach volleyball in Serbia. Beach volleyball was first played in Serbia in the early 1990s. A year later, the Volleyball Association of Belgrade launched an initiative to create a section within the association, which was also the beginning of organized work. The first championship was held in 1997, and a year later the tournament in San Diego was won. There are currently two competitions in Serbia: the Championship and the Cup, which are played according to the tournament system. Since 2008, the European Masters Tournament has been organized in Novi Sad, with the participation of players from different countries. The most successful competitors are Stefan Basta andIgor Tešić, the champions of the Balkans.
In Serbia, water polo was originally played on the territory of Vojvodina, the first matches were played inSombor at the beginning of the 20th century. Students who have studied in Hungary, Austria and Germany, where this sport has already been developed, are most responsible for the arrival of water polo.
TheSerbia men's national water polo team is the second most successful national team after Hungary in the history of sport, having won threeOlympic gold medals (in 2016, 2020, and 2024), threeWorld Championships (2005, 2009 and 2015). The last 3FINA World Cups in 2006, 2010, 2014. A record 12FINA World Leagues and eightEuropean Championships in 1991, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, respectively.[8]VK Partizan has won sevenEuropean champion titles,VK Bečej andVK Crvena zvezda one.
The most famous players of the golden generation of Serbian water polo were:Igor Milanović,Aleksandar Šoštar,Vladimir Vujasinović,Aleksandar Šapić,Aleksandar Ćirić andVanja Udovičić.
Filip Filipovic receivedFINA Water polo player of the year award in 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2021.Vanja Udovicic received it in 2010, andDušan Mandić in 2020.
Igor Milanović andMirko Sandić are members of the House of Famous Water Sports.
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Serbian sports athletes are regular participants in theWinter Olympics, but as of 2022Serbia has not yet won a single medal.
The first organized skiing was in 1922 in the winter-mountaineering section of the Serbian Mountaineering Association, and in the sports sense in 1929, when a cross-country skiing competition was organized onAvala. In 1935, the Mountaineering Association built a mountain lodge onKopaonik, which was used by skiers from Belgrade, and the following year the first championship in alpine disciplines was held.
According to some data, skating has been practiced in Novi Sad since the end of the nineteenth century. It was originally skated on frozen natural water surfaces. The first artificial ice rink was built in 1890.The best Serbian skater isTrifun Živanović. He won medals at prestigious international competitions, was a participant in World and European Championships. He participated in the Olympic Games in Turin in 2006, which no Serbian competitor managed to repeat. Among skaters,Helena Pajović andKsenija Jastsenjski achieved more significant results.
Jelena Lolović is the most successfulalpine skier. She won medals at theWinter Universiade.Nevena Ignjatović, a gold medalist in slalom at the 2013 Universiade, is also a successful alpine skier. The largest ski centers in Serbia are located on Kopaonik, Zlatibor and Stara Planina.
Milanko Petrovic achieved the greatest success in cross-country skiing in Serbia. He won a gold medal at the 2013 Universiade in the 10 km freestyle.
At the European Biathlon Championships in 2012 in the sprint discipline,Milanko Petrović took 9th place, and at the 2013 World Cup race in Oberhof, Germany, he won the first points, which are also the first points of Serbia ever at the World Cup and the most valuable. the result of Serbian biathlon. At the Universiade in 2013, he won a gold medal in the 10 km sprint and a bronze medal in the individual 20 km.
The most successful and most trophy-winning Serbian snowboarder isNina Micic. She won silver at the2007 European Youth Olympic Festival in Haki, which is also the only international medal in winter sports under the Serbian flag, participates in the World Cup and regularly wins points.The first snowboarding park in Serbia was opened on Kopaonik in 2012.The Serbian bobsled team competed in the2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, where it finished 25th. and Vancouver in 2010, where he was 18th.The best place at the European Championships was 10th place in 2013 in Austria. The most successful Serbian bobsledder isVuk Radjenovic, who is currently among the top 50 in the world.
Among the most trophy-winning clubs in the national hockey championship arePartizan,Crvena zvezda andVojvodina. Since the founding of theSerbian Hockey League, no more than 5 clubs have participated. Partizan won every championship, and counting the Yugoslav championships, he was the champion 16 times. Partizan also triumphed twice in the regionalSlohokej league.
Five ski jumps were built on the territory of Serbia. They were located on Avala, Košutnjak, Fruška gora, Goč and Kopaonik. Currently, there is only a ski jump on Goč, but it is not in use either.
In 2005, Belgrade hosted theWorld Junior Speed Skating Championships.
TheParalympic Committee of Serbia is a national Paralympic Committee that organizes and sends athletes to competitions adapted for competitors with disabilities, primarily theParalympic Games. The chairman of the committee is Zoran Mićović. The most developed throwing disciplines are in athletics. Zeljko Dereta became the Paralympic champion in shot put in 1984, breaking the world record, and he also won a silver medal in shot put and a bronze medal in discus throw. Nada Vuksanović won gold (with a world record) and silver in shot put and gold in discus throw.Draženko Mitrović won two silver Paralympic medals in discus throw, as well as five silver medals from world championships and other throwing disciplines, he was a three-time European champion and broke the world record.Tanja Dragić also broke the world record, and in 2011 she became the champion at the world championships, and the next Paralympic ones in javelin throwing.Zeljko Dimitrijevic broke the world record in shot put in 2012 and won the Paralympic gold. Milos Grlica won a bronze medal in javelin throw in 2004, and he was also the European champion. Slobodan Adzic won Paralympic medals in racing disciplines, silver in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters, two bronze medals in the 400 and one in the 5,000 meters.
In 1988, the SFRY national team won a gold medal in goalball. Miroslav Jančić was a member of the team, but he also competed in athletics and won gold in pentathlon, as well as silver in javelin throw and bronze in fast walking.
The most successful competitors in table tennis are Svetislav Dimitrijevic, winner of two gold and one silver Paralympic medal,Zlatko Kesler, one gold, two silver and bronze, world and European champion,Borislava Peric, two silver medals from 2008 and 2012, as well as gold from European Championships,Zoran Gajić two bronze medals from the Paralympic Games.
In archery, Ružica Aleksov won two gold and one silver medal at the Paralympic Games, Simo Kecman was the Paralympic champion, and Radomir Rakonjac won a silver medal. Drago Ristic and Sinisa Vidic broke world records.
The greatest successes in swimming were achieved by Nenad Krišanović, who won gold and two silver medals, and Jovo Cvetanovski was the world champion.
Lazar Filipović won a silver medal at the 2012 World Paratriathlon Championships.
International (men)
Serbia national football team results:
Serbian football clubs in European competitions:
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| World Cup | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| European Championship | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Total | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
Serbia men's national basketball team:
Serbia men's national under-20 basketball team:
Serbia men's national under-19 basketball team
Serbia men's national under-18 basketball team
Serbia men's national under-17 basketball team
Serbia men's national under-16 basketball team
Serbian men's university basketball team
Serbia men's national 3x3 team
Serbia men's national under-18 3x3 team
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| European Championship | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Serbia women's national basketball team:
Serbia women's national under-20 basketball team:
Serbia women's national under-18 and under-19 basketball team:
Serbia women's national under-16 and under-17 basketball team:
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| World Championship | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| European Championship | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| Total | 4 | 2 | 8 | 14 |
Serbia men's national volleyball team:
Serbia men's national under-21 volleyball team
Serbia men's national under-19 volleyball team
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| World Championship | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| European Championship | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| Total | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
Serbia women's national volleyball team:
Serbia women's national under-20 volleyball team:
Serbia women's national under-18 volleyball team:
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Championship | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| European Championship | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Total | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Serbia men's national handball team:
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Championship | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Total | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Serbia women's national handball team:
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| World Championship | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| European Championship | 7 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Total | 13 | 5 | 7 | 25 |
Serbia men's national water polo team:
Serbian water polo teams in junior categories won medals in the following competitions:
Players Grand Slam Singles-Doubles-Mixed Doubles
The Anti-Doping Agency of theRepublic of Serbia (ADAS) deals with the control of doping in sports in Serbia. Tests athletes at domestic and international competitions in the country, as well as when there is no competition, performs analyzes, determines the penalty after a possible violation of the rules, gives recommendations and advice to combat doping, etc. In November 2005, theSerbian Parliament adopted law on the prevention of doping in sports, which established the agency. In addition to athletes, ADAS also tests horses inequestrian sports. The agency punishes athletes who use funds from the illicit list, as well as coaches who give them to athletes. Penalties are most often in the form of a ban on competition for a certain period of time, sometimes for life, and there are also fines.
Serbian fan groups have a long history. They follow their clubs at home matches, but also abroad. Many groups are extreme. Serbian fan groups are connected in fraternal relations with fans fromRussia andGreece.
Interrupted matches:
Serbian fans hold the record for the largest visit to theEuroCup Basketball
Highest attendance records:
Serbian fans hold the record for the largest visit to theEuroleague
| Rank | Home team | Score | Away team | Attendance | Arena | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Partizan | 63–56 |  Panathinaikos | 22,567 | Belgrade Arena | 5 March 2009 | [1] |
| 2 | Partizan | 76–67 |  Maccabi Tel Aviv | 21,367 | Belgrade Arena | 1 April 2010 | [2] |
| 3 | Partizan | 56–67 |  CSKA Moscow | 21,352 | Belgrade Arena | 31 March 2009 | [3] |
| 4 | Partizan | 81–73 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 20,783 | Belgrade Arena | 30 March 2010 | [4] |
Season averagesEuroleague:
| Season | Total gate | Games | Average | Change | High avg. | Team | Low avg. | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013–14 | 2,063,600 | 248 | 8,130 | +10.4% | 12,578 | Partizan NIS | 3,960 |  Budivelnyk |
| 2014–15 | 2,013,305 | 251 | 8,184 | +0.1% | 14,483 | Crvena Zvezda Telekom | 1,949 |  PGE Turów |
Largest derbies:
Belgrade derbies:
Others derbies:
National teams:
