Nemanja Milić

Nemanja Milić
Milić with Red Star in 2017
Personal information
Full name Nemanja Milić
Date of birth (1990-05-25) 25 May 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Sombor, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
0000–2007 OFK Beograd
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2013 OFK Beograd 89 (13)
2013–2016 Spartak Subotica 80 (17)
2017–2018 Red Star Belgrade 28 (3)
2019–2022 BATE Borisov 96 (21)
2023 Mladost GAT 17 (3)
Total 310 (57)
International career‡
2006 Serbia U17 2 (1)
2008–2009 Serbia U19 11 (2)
2011 Serbia U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 December 2016

Nemanja Milić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Милић; born 25 May 1990) is a Serbian retired professional footballer who played as a winger.

Club career

OFK Beograd

Born in Sombor, Milić started his career with OFK Beograd, where he passed youth categories. He made his senior debut for the club during the 2006–07 Serbian SuperLiga season,[1] as one of the academy players with the best prospects.[2] After he spent the next season playing with youth team, Milić joined the first team of OFK Beograd in the 2008–09 Serbian SuperLiga season. At the beginning of 2009, Milić was scouted by Liverpool.[3] For his first senior season, Milić made 26 appearances in all competitions including two matches in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. He scored his first senior goal on 23 May 2009 in away match against Borac Čačak. In the 2009–10 season, Milić scored 6 goals on 20 SuperLiga caps.[4] Scoring 4 goals on 28 matches in all competitions for the 2010–11 season, he was related with Aston Villa in autumn 2011.[5] Previously, he scored both goals in 2–0 victory against Jagodina in 2nd fixture match of the 2011–12 Serbian SuperLiga season, entering the game as a substitution.[6] Milić collected 11 more games, but without goals for the rest of that season.[4] Milić also scored 2 goals in the first half of the 2012–13 season, against Radnički Niš in the SuperLiga,[7] and against Sloga Kraljevo in the Serbian Cup match.[8] After many injury problems, Milić missed the whole spring half-season and left the club in summer 2013 as a free agent.[9]

Spartak Subotica

In July 2013, Milić joined Hajduk Kula at the first,[10] but later moved and signed a deal with Spartak Subotica.[11] During the first season with new club, Milić made 16 league and 5 cup appearances and scored 1 goal.[4] Scoring 7 league goals on 26 SuperLiga matches, he promoted himself as the best scorer of Spartak Subotica for the 2014–15 season.[4] In the 2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga season, coach Andrey Chernyshov paired Milić with Ognjen Mudrinski in attack. During the first half of 2016–17, Milić was mostly used second striker, scoring 6 SuperLiga goals.[4] Ending of 2016, he was elected for the best player of Spartak Subotica[12] and the best footballer of Sombor, who performs in the Serbian SuperLiga.[13]

Red Star Belgrade

On 10 January 2017, Milić signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Red Star Belgrade.[14] He made his debut for new club on 25 February 2017, replacing Srđan Plavšić in the second half of a match against Bačka Bačka Palanka.[15] Milić started his first match on the field in a 27 fixture match of the 2016–17 Serbian SuperLiga season against Čukarički, instead of injured John Jairo Ruiz.[16] Several days later, Milić was a scorer in a friendly match against Spartak Moscow, played at the Rajko Mitić Stadium.[17] Milić scored his first goal for the club in a regular game in 4–2 victory against Mladost Lučani.[18]

BATE Borisov

On 28 December 2018, Milić signed a three-year contract with FC BATE Borisov in a €300,000 transfer from Red Star Belgrade.[19]

Career statistics

Club

As of June 2022[4]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
OFK Beograd 2006–07[1] SuperLiga 1 0 0 0 0 0 — 1 0
2007–08[1] 0 0 0 0 — — 0 0
2008–09[1] 24 1 0 0 2 0 — 26 1
2009–10[1] 20 6 0 0 — — 20 6
2010–11[1] 23 3 1 1 4 0 — 28 4
2011–12[1] 12 2 0 0 — — 12 2
2012–13[1] 9 1 2 1 — — 11 2
Total 89 13 3 2 6 0 — 98 15
Spartak Subotica 2013–14 SuperLiga 16 1 5 0 — — 21 1
2014–15 26 7 2 0 — — 28 7
2015–16 19 3 3 0 — — 22 3
2016–17 19 6 2 0 — — 21 6
Total 80 17 12 1 — — 92 18
Red Star Belgrade 2016–17 SuperLiga 10 1 3 1 — — 13 2
2017–18 13 2 2 1 9 0 — 24 3
2018–19 5 0 0 0 6 0 — 11 0
Total 28 3 5 2 15 0 — 48 5
BATE 2019 Premier League 20 4 0 0 2 0 — 22 4
2020 24 8 5 0 3 0 — 32 8
2021 25 3 6 2 1 0 1[a] 0 33 5
2022 9 1 6 2 2 0 1[a] 0 18 3
Total 78 16 17 4 8 0 2 0 105 20
Career total 275 49 37 9 29 0 2 0 343 58
  1. ^ a b Appearance in Kazakhstan Super Cup

Honours

Club

Red Star Belgrade

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Milic, Nemanja". srbijafudbal.com (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Nemanja Milic". utakmica.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Centarfor "romantičara" na meti Liverpula". mondo.rs (in Serbian). 14 January 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Nemanja Milić at Soccerway
  5. ^ "Nemanja Milić meta Aston Vile?". B92 (in Serbian). 5 October 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  6. ^ "2.kolo OFK Beograd - Jagodina". Serbian SuperLiga official website (in Serbian). 20 August 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Radnički sa 5:1 poražen od OFK Beograda". juznevesti.com (in Serbian). 27 October 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  8. ^ "OFK Beograd - Sloga Kraljevo 5:0". OFK Beograd official website (in Serbian). 26 September 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  9. ^ "OFK Beograd: Otišao Milić". Večernje novosti (in Serbian). 5 June 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  10. ^ "Nemanja Milić u belom jatu". FK Hajduk Kula official website (in Serbian). 6 June 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  11. ^ "FK "Spartak" predstavio pojačanja i pozdravio zlatnog reprezentativca Vojvodića". subotica.com (in Serbian). 6 August 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  12. ^ "Spartakove "zlatne kopačke" su..." mondo.rs (in Serbian). 16 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  13. ^ "Dodeljena priznanja Gradskog fudbalskog saveza". soinfo.org (in Serbian). 24 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  14. ^ "Представљена појачања". Red Star Belgrade official website (in Serbian). 10 January 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  15. ^ "Бачка - Црвена звезда 0:3 (0:2)". Red Star Belgrade official website (in Serbian). 25 February 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  16. ^ "Чукарички - Црвена звезда 3:4 (1:2)". Red Star Belgrade official website (in Serbian). 19 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  17. ^ "Милић - Гол посвећујем сину". Red Star Belgrade official website (in Serbian). 25 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  18. ^ "Куп, Црвена звезда - Младост 4:2 (0:1)". Red Star Belgrade official website (in Serbian). 5 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  19. ^ "Zvanično: Milić prešao u BATE". Mozzart Sport (in Serbian). 28 December 2018.