Boban Bajković (; born 15 March 1985) is a Montenegrin former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Born in

Cetinje Cetinje (, ) is a town in Montenegro. It is the former royal capital (''prijestonica'' / приjестоница) of Montenegro and is the location of several national institutions, including the official residence of the president of Montenegro ...

, Bajković made his first senior appearances with his hometown club Lovćen in the

2001–02 Second League of FR Yugoslavia Second League of FR Yugoslavia 2001–02 (Serbian: Druga savezna liga) consist of three groups of 18 teams (Serbia) and 1 group of 12 teams (Montenegro). Due to a reduction in the number of teams in Serbian groups (North, East and West), there were ...

. He later spent some time on trial at Red Star Belgrade in 2003, but returned to his parent club eventually. In January 2004, Bajković was officially transferred to Red Star Belgrade. He subsequently went on loans to Jedinstvo Ub ( 2004–05),

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), Smederevo (

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), and Srem (

). In early 2008, Bajković returned to Red Star and made his first competitive appearances for the club in the

2007–08 Serbian SuperLiga The 2007–08 Serbian SuperLiga (known as the Meridian SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons) was the second since its establishment in 2006. Red Star Belgrade were the defending SuperLiga champions, having won their twenty-fifth national title th ...

. He failed to receive any playing time in the following two seasons. After the arrival of Robert Prosinečki midway through the 2010–11 season, Bajković became the first-choice goalkeeper. He also played regularly under Slaviša Stojanovič in the title-winning 2013–14 campaign. Subsequently, Bajković left the club following the expiration of his contract. In September 2014, Bajković signed with Belgian club

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on a one-year deal, rejoining his former manager Slaviša Stojanovič. He also played for Azerbaijani club Neftçi in the 2016–17 season, before hanging up his boots.

Statistics

Honours

;Red Star Belgrade * Serbian SuperLiga: 2013–14 * Serbian Cup: 2009–10, 2011–12

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