Dejan Uzelac

Dejan Uzelac
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-08-27) 27 August 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Zrenjanin, FR Yugoslavia
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 SCM Zalău
Number 5
Youth career
0000–2010 Banat Zrenjanin
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2013 Banat Zrenjanin 3 (0)
2011–2012 → Zadrugar Lazarevo (loan) 3 (0)
2013–2014 Proleter Novi Sad 3 (0)
2014 Drina Zvornik 7 (0)
2015 Željezničar 5 (0)
2016 Olimpik 7 (1)
2016–2017 Metalac Gornji Milanovac 3 (0)
2017 Olimpik 2 (1)
2018–2019 Olimpik 21 (2)
2019–2021 Sloboda Tuzla 22 (1)
2021–2022 Borac Banja Luka 14 (2)
2022 Kolubara 5 (0)
2022–2023 Leotar 15 (2)
2023–2024 Makedonikos 1 (0)
2024– SCM Zalău 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dejan Uzelac (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Узелац; born 27 August 1993) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga III club SCM Zalău.

Career

Born in Zrenjanin,[1] Uzelac started his career with local club Banat, where he made his senior debut in last fixture of the 2010–11 Serbian First League season, against Mladi Radnik.[2]

He was also loaned to Zadrugar Lazarevo for the 2011–12 Serbian League Vojvodina season.[1] Returning to his home club, Uzelac was also used two times for the 2012–13 season. After he spent a season with Proleter Novi Sad, Uzelac joined Bosnian Premier League side Drina Zvornik in the summer of 2014.[3]

At the beginning of February 2015, he signed a two-year contract with Željezničar,[4] but a year later he moved to other club from the same city, Olimpik.[5] In the summer of 2016, Uzelac joined Metalac Gornji Milanovac.[6] At the beginning of 2017, he returned to Olimpik.[7] He left Olimpik in June 2017.

In January 2018, Uzelac again came back to Olimpik.[8] On 15 July 2019, he signed with Sloboda Tuzla.[9] Uzelac made his debut for Sloboda on 21 July 2019, in a 2–1 home league win against Radnik Bijeljina.[10] He scored his first goal for Sloboda in a 2–1 away league loss against Borac Banja Luka on 8 December 2019.[11]

On 20 January 2021, Uzelac signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Borac Banja Luka.[12] He debuted in a league game against Velež Mostar on 5 March 2021.[13] Uzelac scored his first goal for Borac in a league game against his former Olimpik on 11 April 2021.[14] He won his first trophy with Borac on 23 May 2021, getting crowned Bosnian Premier League champions one game before the end of the 2020–21 season.[15]

Honours

Borac Banja Luka[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Uzelac, Dejan". srbijafudbal.com (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b Dejan Uzelac at Soccerway
  3. ^ "Uzelac: U Sarajevo idemo rasterećeni". zvornikdanas.com (in Serbian). 23 September 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Dejan Uzelac potpisao dvogodišnji ugovor sa Željezničarom". Klix.ba (in Serbian). 1 February 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Dejan Uzelac novi fudbaler Olimpica". Dnevni avaz (in Serbian). 4 February 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Uzelac napustio Olimpic, karijeru nastavlja u Metalcu". Klix.ba (in Serbian). 5 July 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Dejan Uzelac se vratio na Otoku". sport1.ba (in Serbian). 13 January 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  8. ^ S. Mlaćo (27 January 2018). "Olimpik u utorak protiv Bosne, na treninzima i Dejan Uzelac" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  9. ^ R. Pašić (15 July 2019). "Dejan Uzelac novo pojačanje FK Sloboda" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  10. ^ K.H. (21 July 2019). "Sloboda na Tušnju pobjedom protiv Radnika otvorila novu sezonu" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  11. ^ K.H. (8 December 2019). "Banja Luka sanja titulu: Borac se pobjedom protiv Slobode poravnao sa Željezničarom" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  12. ^ M. Šljivak (20 January 2021). "Dejan Uzelac novi igrač FK Borac!" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  13. ^ H.H. (5 March 2021). "Velež savladao slabi Borac i stigao na diobu drugog mjesta na tabeli" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  14. ^ M. Šljivak (11 April 2021). "Sigurna pobjeda Borca protiv Olimpika" (in Bosnian). sportsport.ba. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  15. ^ N.K. (23 May 2021). "Borac nakon 10 godina postao prvak Bosne i Hercegovine u nogometu" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 23 May 2021.