Dušan Jovančić ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Јованчић; born 19 October 1990) is a
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
n professional
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for
Kazakhstan Premier League club
Astana.
Club career
Borac Čačak
Jovančić joined Borac Čačak in 2012 at the invitation of club director Slobodan Ilić, who noticed him after he played for the amateur selection of the Football Federation of Belgrade.
On 2 December 2015 Jovančić played for Borac Čačak in a 1-5
upset which eliminated heavily favored
Red Star Belgrade
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...
in the
second round of the 2015-16 Serbian Cup.
He played a total of 88 games and scored one goal playing for Borac Čačak from 2012 to 2016.
Vojvodina
Jovančić signed a two-year contract with Vojvodina in January 2016. In January 2018, he signed a half-season extension, rejecting an offer from
Partizan Partizan may refer to:
Sport
* JSD Partizan, a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia, which includes the following clubs:
**AK Partizan, athletics
** Biciklistički Klub Partizan, cycling
** Džudo Klub Partizan, judo
**FK Partizan, association fo ...
. By the time he left Vojvodina, he had played as the team captain.
Red Star Belgrade
On 29 May 2018 Jovančić signed a two-year contract with Red Star Belgrade, with an optional one-year extension.
He was signed as a replacement for
Mitchell Donald
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, who had been one of Red Star's defensive midfielders.
On 6 November 2018, he injured his hamstring in a 2–0 win against
Liverpool
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in the
Champions League.
Astana
On 16 December 2022,
Astana announced the signing of Jovančić.
Personal life
On 22 June 2020 he tested positive for
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
.
Career statistics
Club
Honours
Club
;Red Star Belgrade
*
Serbian SuperLiga (2):
2018–19,
2019–20
;Tobol
*
Kazakhstan Premier League (1):
2021
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Individual
*
Serbian SuperLiga Team of the Season:
2018–19
References
External links
*
Dušan Jovančić statsat utakmica.rs
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jovancic, Dusan
1990 births
Living people
Footballers from Belgrade
Men's association football midfielders
Serbian men's footballers
FK Zemun players
FK Borac Čačak players
FK Vojvodina players
Red Star Belgrade footballers
Çaykur Rizespor footballers
FC Tobol players
Serbian First League players
Serbian SuperLiga players
Süper Lig players
Kazakhstan Premier League players
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan