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Jovan Mijatović
	Jovan Mijatović at Gazprom Arena
Personal information
Date of birth	11 July 2005 (age 19)
Place of birth	Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	New York City
Number	7
Youth career
	Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years	Team
2022–2024	Red Star Belgrade
2022–2023	→ Grafičar Beograd (loan)
2024–	New York City
2024–	New York City II
International career‡
2022	Serbia U17
2022–	Serbia U19
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 December 2024; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 November 2023

Jovan Mijatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Мијатовић; born 11 July 2005) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club New York City.

Club career

Mijatović went through the junior selections of Red Star Belgrade. At the beginning of the spring of 2021, he suffered a serious knee injury, which caused him to be absent from the field in the following period.^[2] With the cadet team, he participated in winning the title for the 2021/22 season,^[3] while occasionally playing for the youth team.^[4] At the beginning of the competition 2022/23. Mijatović played for Grafičar, where he scored five goals in eight games in the Serbian First League.^[5] At the end of the summer transfer window of the same year, he was returned to his parent club and joined the first team. He took the number 9 jersey previously worn by Milan Pavkov.^[6]

International career

Youth

In 2019, Mijatović played for the Serbian under-15 national team. He scored a goal at the opening of the Trofej Crna Gora tournament in Podgorica, against the corresponding team of Slovenia.^[7] He also made his debut for the under-16 team at a friendly match with his peers from Romania in March 2021.^[8] Soon after that, he suffered an injury that kept him off the field for a long time .^[1] So he joined the Serbia national under-17 football team a year later, performing at a friendly match with Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[9] He participated in the European Championship for cadets,^[10] where the selection of Serbia under the leadership of Radovan Krivokapić achieved third place.^[11] The selector of the Serbia national under-19 football team, Jovan Damjanović, sent an invitation to Mijatović for the "Stevan Vilotić Ćele" Memorial Tournament in September 2022.^[12]

Career statistics

As of 14 July 2024^[13]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National cup		Continental		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Red Star Belgrade	2022–23	Serbian SuperLiga	12	1	3	0	2^[a]	0	0	0	17	1
	2023–24	Serbian SuperLiga	14	8	1	0	4^[b]	0	0	0	19	8
	Total		26	9	4	0	6	0	0	0	36	9
Grafičar Beograd (loan)	2022–23	Serbian SuperLiga	8	5	—		—		—		8	5
	2023–24	Serbian SuperLiga	5	0	—		—		—		5	0
	Total		13	8	—		—		—		13	8
New York City	2024	Major League Soccer	11	0	0	0	—		—		11	0
New York City II	2024	MLS Next Pro	0	0	2	0	—		—		2	0
Career total			50	17	6	0	6	0	0	0	62	17