Nenad Savić

Early years

Savić's family moved to Switzerland while he was still very young. He started his youth football with local amateur club FC Dietikon and as 12-year-old he moved on to the youth department of FC Zürich. In 1997 he moved from their U-21 team to the U-21 of Grasshopper Club Zürich and a year later advanced to their first team for the 1998–99 season. After having two league appearances in the first half of the season he moved on to Xamax in the winter break to play the second half of the season, in which he had nine league appearances, with them.

Basel

Savić joined Basel's first team for their 1999–2000 season under their new head coach Christian Gross. After playing in two test games, Savić played his debut for the club in the 1999 UIC on 11 July. He also scored his first goal for his new team in the same match. It was the team's third goal as Basel won 4–2 against Boby Brno to advance to the next round. He played his domestic league debut for the team in the home game at the Stadion Schützenmatte on 14 July as Basel played a 1–1 draw with Xamax. He scored his first league goal with the team on 11 September in the away game in the Stadion Brügglifeld as Basel won 3–1 against Aarau. Basel started somewhat irregularly into the 2000–01 league season, a number of high scoring games, three victories, three defeats. They then gathered themselves and climbed to the top of the table. However, four defeats in the last five games, through them back to fifth…

On 1 March 2012, Savić was convicted of dealing cocaine by a district court in Zurich and given a three-year sentence. Savić appealed. The appeal was partially successful, but he was sentenced to three years, ten months of which conditionally.

Basel Swiss Super League: 2001–02 Swiss Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03 Wil Swiss Cup: 2003–04 Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona Toto Cup (Leumit): 2009–10