Aleksandar Popović (footballer, born 1999)

Aleksandar Popović
Personal information
Full name Aleksandar Popović
Date of birth (1999-09-29) 29 September 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Užice, FR Yugoslavia
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 DAC Dunajská Streda
Number 41
Youth career
Sloboda Užice
Partizan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2023 Partizan 67 (0)
2017 → Teleoptik (loan) 4 (0)
2018 → Teleoptik (loan) 14 (0)
2023– DAC Dunajská Streda 48 (0)
International career‡
2015–2016 Serbia U17[a] 8 (0)
2017 Serbia U19[a] 2 (0)
2020 Serbia U21[a] 1 (0)
2021– Serbia 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 December 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 December 2021

Aleksandar Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Поповић; born 29 September 1999) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for DAC Dunajská Streda.

Club career

Partizan

After coming through the youth system of Partizan, Popović was loaned to affiliated club Teleoptik in the summer of 2017. He was promoted back to the Partizan first team during the 2018 winter transfer window.[1] After failing to make his official debut for the side, Popović was again loaned to Teleoptik in the summer of 2018. He was recalled back to Partizan in early 2019.

On 19 June 2020, Popović made his official debut for Partizan in a 1–0 away loss at Vojvodina in the last round of the COVID-19-shortened 2019–20 Serbian SuperLiga.[2] He would become the first-choice goalkeeper for the 2020–21 Serbian SuperLiga, mainly due to new league requirements for under-21 players, making 21 appearances in the process.

Upon the departure of Vladimir Stojković, Popović made his debut in European competitions on 29 July 2021, keeping a clean sheet and saving a penalty in a 2–0 away victory over Slovak club DAC Dunajská Streda in the UEFA Conference League.[3] He extended his contract with Partizan two months later, keeping him with the club until 2024.[4]

During 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League Group D, Popović kept a clean sheet twice against FC Köln.[5][6]

DAC Dunajská Streda

Aleksandar Popović officially left Partizan on July 28, 2023 and signed a contract with DAC Dunajská Streda. The young goalkeeper signed a three-year contract with the new club, while Partizan received €210,000 from the transfer, plus certain percentages from the next sale. Popović made his debut in goal on August 5, 2023 in a 5–2 win over FC Košice.[7]

International career

Popović was capped for Serbia at under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels in UEFA competitions.[8] He made his full international debut for Serbia in a goalless friendly with Panama on 28 January 2021.[9]

Career statistics

Club

As of 10 December 2024[10]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Partizan 2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2019–20 Serbian SuperLiga 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2020–21 Serbian SuperLiga 21 0 0 0 0 0 21 0
2021–22 Serbian SuperLiga 17 0 0 0 14 0 31 0
2022–23 Serbian SuperLiga 28 0 0 0 11 0 39 0
Total 67 0 0 0 25 0 92 0
Teleoptik (loan) 2017–18 Serbian First League 4 0 0 0 — 4 0
2018–19 Serbian First League 14 0 0 0 — 14 0
Total 18 0 0 0 — 18 0
DAC Dunajská Streda 2023–24 Slovak First Football League 31 0 3 0 0 0 34 0
2024–25 17 0 1 0 2 0 20 0
Career total 133 0 4 0 27 0 164 0

International

As of 7 October 2021[9]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Serbia 2021 1 0
Total 1 0

Honours

Partizan[10]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Official UEFA matches only

References

  1. ^ "Zimski prelazni rok u Partizanu" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  2. ^ "STOJKE, HVALA ZA PORUKU: Partizan pokazao novog golmana!" (in Serbian). mondo.rs. 20 June 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. ^ "PARTIZAN IMA ZAMENU ZA STOJKOVIĆA: Sjajni Popović odbranio penal protiv Dunajske Strede (VIDEO)" (in Serbian). novosti.rs. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Aleksandar Popović u Partizanu do 2024. godine" (in Serbian). partizan.rs. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  5. ^ "FC COLOGNE VS. PARTIZAN 0 - 1". Soccerway.com. 6 October 2022.
  6. ^ "PARTIZAN VS. FC COLOGNE 2 - 0". Soccerway.com. 13 October 2022.
  7. ^ "DAC 1904 VS. FC KOŠICE 5 - 2". Soccerway.com. 5 August 2023.
  8. ^ "Mlađi kadeti u Rumuniji" (in Serbian). fss.rs. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  9. ^ a b Aleksandar Popović at National-Football-Teams.com
  10. ^ a b Aleksandar Popović at Soccerway