Stefan Panić

Stefan Panić

Personal information
Date of birth	(1992-09-20) 20 September 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth	Topola, FR Yugoslavia[1]
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	RFS
Number	26
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010	Mladenovac	11	(0)
2011	Nacional	0	(0)
2011	Mladenovac	1	(0)
2012	Kovačevac	27	(1)
2013–2017	Metalac Gornji Milanovac	117	(11)
2017	Baník Ostrava	5	(0)
2018	Javor Ivanjica	14	(2)
2018–2020	Riga	58	(8)
2021–2022	Pafos	47	(3)
2022–	RFS	80	(13)
International career^‡
2017	Serbia	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 November 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 January 2017

Stefan Panić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Панић; born 20 September 1992) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for RFS in Latvia.

Club career

Early years

Born in Topola, Panić started his career in Mladenovac. Playing for the club with same name, he made 12 appearances from 2010 to 2011, and also spent a period in Portugal with C.D. Nacional in the meantime.^[2] In 2012, Panić was with Kovačevac. Playing for that club, he made 27 appearances, and scored 1 goal in the Serbian League Belgrade. He also played 1 cup match against Hajduk Kula, previously won the Belgrade Cup, and also was a scorer in the final of that competition.^[3]

Metalac Gornji Milanovac

Panić joined Metalac Gornji Milanovac for the second half of the 2012–13 season. He made 2 appearances until the end of season.^[2] After adapting period, he spent mostly on the bench, or out of 18 players, he next season very well, and became constant in starting 11. He also played some matches in defence, as a centre-back. He played 25 league appearances, and one cup match, against Partizan, and scored 3 goals. He was a member of play-off match, against Rad, played in Gornji Milanovac.^[4] He missed only one match in the 2014–15 Serbian First League, because of yellow card suspension, he scored 3 league goals, as the previous season,^[2] he also made 2 cup appearances and 2 play-off match against Napredak Kruševac, after which Metalac promoted in the Serbian SuperLiga. He made his SuperLiga debut in the first fixture of 2015–16 season.^[5] Panić scored his first SuperLiga goal for Metalac in the 20th fixture, against Novi Pazar.^[6] In January 2016, Panić signed new contract with Metalac.^[7] On 26 November 2016, Panić scored a goal against Red Star Belgrade in his 100th league match for Metalac.^[8]

Baník Ostrava

In summer 2017, Panić signed a two-year deal with Baník Ostrava.^[9] He made his debut for new club in the first fixture of the 2017–18 Czech First League season, replacing Tomáš Poznar in 86 minute of the match against Zbrojovka Brno.^[10]

International career

In January 2017, Panić was elected in a group of players from the Serbian football competition for a friendly match in San Diego,^[11] where he made his debut for the National team in a 0–0 draw against the United States.^[12] In May 2018, Panić was overlooked after the club's disappointing season from Serbia's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.^[13]

Career statistics

Club

As of 2 August 2017^[12]

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
Mladenovac[2]	2010–11	Serbian League Belgrade	11	0	—		—		—		11	0
	2011–12	Serbian First League	1	0	—		—		—		1	0
	Total		12	0	—		—		—		12	0
Kovačevac[2]	2011–12	Serbian League Belgrade	14	0	—		—		—		14	0
	2012–13		13	1	1	0	—		1[a]	1	15	2
	Total		27	1	1	0	—		1	1	29	2
Metalac	2012–13	Serbian First League	2	0	—		—		—		2	0
	2013–14		25	3	1	0	—		1[b]	0	27	3
	2014–15		29	3	2	0	—		2[c]	0	33	3
	2015–16	Serbian SuperLiga	28	2	1	0	—		—		29	2
	2016–17		33	3	1	0	—		—		34	3
	Total		117	11	6	0	—		3	0	126	11
Baník Ostrava	2017–18	Czech First League	5	0	1	0	—		—		6	0
Career total			161	12	8	0	—		4	1	173	13

1. Including final match of the Belgrade Cup, against Grafičar^[3]
2. Appearance in league play-offs
3. Appearances in league play-offs

International

As of 30 January 2017^[14]

Serbia
Year	Apps	Goals
2017	1	0
Total	1	0

Honours

Mladenovac

• Serbian League Belgrade: 2010–11^[2]

Kovačevac

• Belgrade Cup: 2012^[3]

References

1. "Stefan Panić". FK Metalac official website (in Serbian). Retrieved 13 August 2015.
2. "Panic, Stefan". srbijafudbal.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 26 November 2016.
3. "FK "Kovačevac" pobednik Kupa Fudbalskog saveza Beograda". fsb.org.rs (in Serbian). 13 June 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
4. "Bez golova u Gornjem Milanovcu, Rad i Metalac na Banjici odlučuju o poslednjem superligašu za narednu sezonu". Večernje novosti (in Serbian). 1 June 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
5. "1.Kolo: Partizan - Metalac". Serbian SuperLiga official website (in Serbian). 19 July 2015. Archived from the original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
6. "20.Kolo: Metalac - Novi Pazar". Serbian SuperLiga official website (in Serbian). 4 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
7. "Panić veran Metalcu". sport.rs (in Serbian). 31 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
8. "17.Kolo: Metalac - Crvena zvezda". Serbian SuperLiga official website (in Serbian). 26 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
9. "Baníku se upsal srbský záložník Stefan Panić". FC Baník Ostrava official website (in Czech). 28 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
10. "CELÝ SESTŘIH: Brno - Baník 1:3. Úspěšný vstup Ostravy, rozhodl Baroš". iSport.cz (in Czech). 28 July 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
11. Селектор Славољуб Муслин позвао 18 играча за дуел против САД у Сан Дијегу, 29. јануара. Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 17 January 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
12. Stefan Panić at Soccerway
13. Kulaš, Damir (22 May 2018). "Krstajić – Who will make Serbia's World Cup squad?". Futbolgrad. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
14. Stefan Panić at National-Football-Teams.com

External links

• Stefan Panić stats at utakmica.rs (in Serbian)
• Stefan Panić at WorldFootball.net
• Stefan Panić at Soccerbase