Nikola Milenković

Nikola Milenković
Personal information
Full name Nikola Milenković
Date of birth (1997-10-12) 12 October 1997
Place of birth Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia[1]
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position Centre-back
Club information
Current team
 Partizan
Number 31
Youth career
Partizan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015– Partizan 18 (2)
2015–2016 → Teleoptik (loan) 13 (0)
National team‡
2015–2016 Serbia U19 3 (1)
2016– Serbia U20 1 (0)
2016– Serbia 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 December 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 September 2016

Nikola Milenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Миленковић; born 12 October 1997) is a Serbian football defender who plays for Partizan.[2]

Career

Partizan

2015–16 season

Passing the youth categories of Partizan, Milenković was loaned to Teleoptik for the 2015–16 season.[3] Beginning of 2016, he joined the first team of Partizan under coach Ivan Tomić and signed five-year contract, and has also stayed with Teleoptik on dual registration until the end of season.[4] Several days after debut for U19 national team,[5] he made his debut for Partizan in the SuperLiga match against Mladost Lučani played on 10 April 2016.[6] Milenković also started match against Čukarički in 32 fixture match of the same season, but he got the red card and suspension for next 4 matches after one brutal foul on Petar Bojić.[7] Milenković scored his first senior goal for Partizan in the last fixture of the 2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga, against Vojvodina,[8] which was the hundredth goal for the season.[9]

2016–17 season

Milenković started new season pairing with Cédric Gogoua for the second qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League against Zagłębie Lubin. He also started SuperLiga competition in the first fixture match against Bačka Bačka Palanka, but later he spent next 2 rounds sitting on the bench. After several bad results and some injuries of the players in defense line, Milenković has started playing continuously from the 4th fixture match against Javor Ivanjica. He scored his first season goal in a match against Rad, played on 27 August 2016.[10] Milenković also made his Serbian Cup debut in the first round match, against Napredak Kruševac, played on 21 September 2016.[11] After Miroslav Vulićević's injury in a cup match against Žarkovo, played on 25 October 2016, Milenković succeeded a captain's armbrand.[12]

International Career

Milenković was a member of Serbia U19 in early 2016.[13] He made his international debut for the Serbia national football team in a friendly 3-0 loss to Qatar.[14] Later, same year, Milenković was called in Serbia U20 national squad by coach Nenad Lalatović, and made his debut for the team in a match against Montenegro.[15]

Career statistics

Club

As of 4 December 2016[13]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Teleoptik (loan) 2015–16[1] League Belgrade 130––––––130
Partizan 2015–16 SuperLiga 4100––––41
2016–17 1412020––181
Total 1822020––222
Career total 3122020––352

International

As of 29 September 2016[16]
Serbia
YearAppsGoals
201610
Total10

Honours

Partizan

References

  1. 1 2 "Nikola Milenković". srbijafudbal.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Milenković Nikola". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ↑ ""FUDBAL" number 32 - page 2866" (PDF). Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 12 August 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "ZIMSKI PRELAZNI ROK – FK PARTIZAN (18.01. – 12.02.2016.)" (PDF). FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 18 February 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Никола Миленковић: Живим за деби у Партизану!". Sportski žurnal (in Serbian). 1 April 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "PARTIZAN SPREMAN ZA DERBI Božinov se raspucao, majstorije Ilića presudile Mladosti /VIDEO/". Blic (in Serbian). 10 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Миленковићу четири, Јанковићу три утакмице паузе!". Sportski žurnal (in Serbian). 27 April 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Partizan nemilosrdan - Mihajlović već po navici odlučio; Voša videla koliko je teže kad moraš da napadneš večite (VIDEO)". mozzartsport.com (in Serbian). 21 May 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Partizan prebacio stotku: Milenković jubilarac". mozzartsport.com (in Serbian). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Partizan – Rad 4:0 (2:0)". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 27 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "Partizan – Napredak 3:1 (3:0)". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 21 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  12. ↑ "Žarkovo – Partizan 0:2 (0:0)". FK Partizan official website (in Serbian). 25 October 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  13. 1 2 3 Nikola Milenković profile at Soccerway
  14. ↑ "Qatar - Serbia match report". eurosport.com. 29 September 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  15. ↑ "Лалатовићева Србија (селекција до 20 година) боља од Црне Горе у Подгорици – 2:1(0:0)". Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 13 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  16. ↑ Nikola Milenković at National-Football-Teams.com

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