Nenad Bjeković
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nenad Bjeković | ||
| Date of birth | 5 November 1947 | ||
| Place of birth | Zrenjanin, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Zadrugar Lazarevo | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1965–1969 | Proleter Zrenjanin | 103 | (27) |
| 1969–1976 | Partizan | 198 | (82) |
| 1976–1981 | Nice | 143 | (85) |
| Total | 444 | (194) | |
| National team | |||
| 1968–1976 | Yugoslavia | 22 | (4) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1982–1984 | Partizan (assistant) | ||
| 1984–1987 | Partizan | ||
| 1987–1989 | Nice | ||
| 1990 | Partizan | ||
| 1990–2007 | Partizan (director) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Nenad Bjeković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Бјековић; born 5 November 1947) is a former Yugoslav and Serbian football player, manager and administrator.
Playing career
Born in Lazarevo, a village near Zrenjanin, Bjeković began playing football with local Zadrugar Lazarevo, but shortly switched to more famous Proleter Zrenjanin. After several seasons there, already playing in the Yugoslav First League, Bjeković was transferred to Partizan in the summer of 1969.
Bjeković spent seven seasons at Partizan, scoring 82 league goals in 198 appearances for the Black and Whites. He was the top scorer of the Yugoslav First League in the 1975–76 season with 24 goals, thus helping Partizan win their seventh national title, his first.
In the summer of 1976, Bjeković moved abroad for the first time in his career and signed with Nice. After playing five seasons in the French Division 1, he scored a total of 85 league goals in 143 appearances.
Bjeković made 22 appearances for the Yugoslav national team and scored four goals. He scored on his debut for the national team in a friendly match against Brazil in Belo Horizonte on 19 December 1968.
Post-playing career
Bjeković started his coaching career in 1982 as an assistant coach to Miloš Milutinović at Partizan. After two years of gaining experience, he replaced Milutinović at the start of the 1984–85 season. As head coach of Partizan, Bjeković won two consecutive league titles in 1986 and 1987.
In 1987, Bjeković was appointed as head coach by his former club Nice, but was released after two years. In 1990, he again managed Partizan for two months.
After his coaching career, Bjeković served as a sporting director of Partizan for almost two decades from 1990 to 2007.
Career statistics
Club statistics
| Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Yugoslavia | League | Yugoslav Cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
| 1965–66 | Proleter Zrenjanin | Second League | 21 | 7 | ||||||
| 1966–67 | 21 | 4 | ||||||||
| 1967–68 | First League | 28 | 10 | |||||||
| 1968–69 | 33 | 6 | ||||||||
| 1969–70 | Partizan | 32 | 7 | |||||||
| 1970–71 | 33 | 8 | ||||||||
| 1971–72 | 33 | 14 | ||||||||
| 1972–73 | 33 | 13 | ||||||||
| 1973–74 | 32 | 14 | ||||||||
| 1974–75 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1975–76 | 31 | 24 | ||||||||
| France | League | Coupe de France | Europe | Total | ||||||
| 1976–77 | Nice | Division 1 | 32 | 19 | ||||||
| 1977–78 | 35 | 29 | ||||||||
| 1978–79 | 28 | 17 | ||||||||
| 1979–80 | 35 | 15 | ||||||||
| 1980–81 | 13 | 5 | ||||||||
| Total | Yugoslavia | 301 | 109 | |||||||
| France | 143 | 85 | ||||||||
| Career total | 444 | 194 | ||||||||
International statistics
| Yugoslav national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1968 | 1 | 1 |
| 1969 | 3 | 1 |
| 1970 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971 | 7 | 0 |
| 1972 | 3 | 0 |
| 1973 | 5 | 2 |
| 1974 | 1 | 0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 22 | 4 |
Personal life
His son Nenad also played professional football for teams such as Partizan, Marseille and Nantes.
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