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Yugoslavia and Serbia-Montenegro period

In February 1945, during World War II, a group of young men, active players, students and members of the Serbian United Antifascist Youth League, decided to form a Youth Physical Culture Society, that was to become Red Star Belgrade on 4 March. Previously, as of December 1944, all pre-war Serbian clubs were abolished, and on 5 May 1945, communist Secretary of Sports Mitra Mitrović-Djilas signed the decree dissolving formally all pre-war clubs on the territory of Socialist Republic of Serbia. The clubs were dissolved because during the German occupation, there was an attempt to organize the league so all the clubs were labelled collaborators by Josip Broz Tito's communist regime. The name Red Star was assigned after a long discussion. Other ideas shortlisted by the delegates included "People's Star", "Blue Star", "Proleter", "Stalin", "Lenin", etc. The initial vice presidents of the Sport Society – Zoran Žujović and Slobodan Ćosić – were the ones who assigned it. Red Star was soon adopted as a symbol of Serbian nationalism within Yugoslavia and a sporting institution which remains the country's most popular to this day. On that day, Red Star played the first football match in the club's history against the First Battalion of the Second Brigade of KNOJ (People's Defence Corps of Yugoslavia) and won 3–0. Red Star's first successes involved small steps to recognition. In the first fifteen years of existence, Red Star won one…

Red Star has won 4 international and 72 domestic trophies, making it the most successful football club in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia.

Domestic competitions (72)

National Championships – 37 (record)

People's Republic of Serbia League (record) Winners (1): 1946 Yugoslav First League (record) Winners (19): 1951, 1952–53, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1963–64, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1972–73, 1976–77, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92 First League of Serbia and Montenegro Winners (5): 1994–95, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2005–06 Serbian SuperLiga (record) Winners (12): 2006–07, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26 National Cups – 30 (record)

Yugoslav Cup (record) Winners (12): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1963–64, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1989–90 Serbia and Montenegro Cup (record) Winners (9): 1992–93, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2005–06 Serbian Cup (record) Winners (9): 2006–07, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26 National Super Cups – 2 (record)

Yugoslav Super Cup Winners (2): 1969, 1971 National League Cup – 1 (shared record)

Yugoslav League Cup Winners (1): 1972–73 National Champions League – 2 (record)

Yugoslav Summer Champions League Winners (2): 1971, 1973

International competitions (4)

Red Star is the most successful club from Serbia (and…