page_title: History of Red Star Belgrade
section_title: The dark nineties (1992–2000)
hierarchical_section_title: History of Red Star Belgrade / History / The dark nineties (1992–2000)
caption_attribution_description: Português: O jogador Petkovic após receber a Ordem do Rio Branco.
context_page_description: The history of Red Star Belgrade's football team began with its establishment by a committee of Yugoslav Communists on 4 March 1945. Slobodan Penezić supervised the committee which founded Red Star, composed largely of communist veterans from World War II. From its creation to the 1980s, many club presidents were selected from the state police authorities, and for a period of several decades Red Star was known as the "police club". This was in contrast to Partizan, as it was founded by high-ranking generals and members of the Yugoslav People's Army.
context_section_description: In 1992, the club was weakened by the departure of almost the whole champions generation (new players were later added, such as Drobnjak and Ivić). In addition, Red Star had to defend the trophy out of their country due to the war in former Yugoslavia (not even in Serbia, although there was possible), thereby reducing their chances of defending their title. The UEFA changed the form of the championship that year and instead of the cup they started the 1991–92 Champions League, in which eight best teams from the continent participated. On their way to the group stage, Red Star beat Portdown in Szegedin and Apollon Limassol, and as their opponents in the group they got Sampdoria, R.S.C. Anderlecht and Panathinaikos. It all started with the defeat 0–2 at Marassi, the first after 17 matches (the fifth longest series without defeat in the elite European competition), after which Anderlecht was defeated in Budapest, and Panathinaikos in Athens and Sofia. The key game Red Star played against Sampdoria in Sofia, when they lost the 1–0 lead and were defeated 1–3, with the Italian club winning the place in the final. The end of a long era, in which Red Star have, in 22 years, progressed 11 times to the spring rounds in Europe and played 24 successive seasons in one of the European competitions, ended in Brussels, where Red Star were defeated 3–2 in a match without any significance for the competition.
  In domestic competition, rival, Dinamo, left the league, just as all the other clubs from Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia did, and the championship in a Yugoslavia that was cut in size was played on the edge of observance of regulations, because, in April, the war broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the end of May the UN had the country under sanctions and dislodging Yugoslav football from the international scene, the slogan - politics has no place in sport - was not considered here. The disintegration of Yugoslavia, the civil war (1992–1995), the inflation and the UN sanctions have hit Red Star hard. However, they defended its title and for the second time made a champion hat-trick (for the first time since the era of Miljanić), but at the Cup's finals, won by Partizan, it was already clear that hard days for the club were ahead. It followed a series of victories by the  Black & Whites. The 14th cup arrived to the glass closet in 1995, and it was brought by another generation of great players, such as Dejan and Jovan Stanković, Kovačević, Ognjenović, Đorović, Stefanović, Sakić, Živković, Krupniković, Petković, Milojević and Stojkovski. Heading for the title, the legendary 100th Belgrade derby was also won in front of 80,000 spectators by goals from Kovačević and Stojkovski with 2–1, and Petrović was again sitting on the bench. Still, it was a short break during unsuccessful years, and under new and strange circumstances it was difficult for the club to find the right way. As the nineties were approaching their end, the 1998/99 championship was not finalized due to the Kosovo War, and Red Star finished at the third place, which was the club's only placement below the second position in the league in the previous 20 years. In the period between May 1992 and May 2000, only one championship victory was celebrated at Marakana. However, they did manage to win five cups, along with several glorious European performances.
caption: Dejan Petković wore the Red Star jersey 132 times.
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