Football in Serbia

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Football in Serbia
Home stadium of club Red Star Belgrade
Country	Serbia
Governing body	Football Association of Serbia
National team(s)	Serbia national football team
First played	1896
Registered players	120,194
Clubs	2,770
National competitions
FIFA World Cup UEFA European Championship UEFA Nations League
Club competitions
League Serbian SuperLiga Serbian First League Cups Serbian Cup
International competitions
FIFA Club World Cup UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League UEFA Conference League UEFA Super Cup

Football is the most popular sport in Serbia. The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) is the national governing body and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in the country, both professional and amateur. The association organizes the professional Serbian Superliga (top tier) and is responsible for appointing the management of the men's, women's, and youth national football teams in Serbia. The association also organizes the Serbian First League (second) and Serbian League (third), operating the top 3 leagues.

The FSS is also responsible for organizing the Serbian Cup, the country's league cup competition. It has been played from the end of the 19th century and there were a number of very successful Serbian football players and coaches throughout history.

One of Serbia's top football clubs Red Star Belgrade has won the prestigious European Champions Cup in 1991 and has also won the Intercontinental Cup the same year.^[1] Its local rival Partizan Belgrade was the first Southeast and Eastern European football club to reach the European Champions Cup final, when it did so in 1966. The most successful and popular teams are Red Star and Partizan from Belgrade as well as Vojvodina from Novi Sad. An important role also played OFK Belgrade and Radnički Niš in the history of the Serbian football