Darko Pančev
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 September 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Skopje, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1983–1988 | Vardar | 151 | (84) |
| 1988–1992 | Red Star Belgrade | 91 | (84) |
| 1992–1995 | Internazionale | 19 | (3) |
| 1994 | → VfB Leipzig (loan) | 10 | (2) |
| 1995–1996 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 14 | (2) |
| 1996–1997 | Sion | 5 | (0) |
| Total | 290 | (175) | |
| National team | |||
| 1984–1991 | Yugoslavia | 27 | (17) |
| 1993–1995 | Macedonia | 6 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Darko Pančev nicknamed Kobra (Macedonian: Дарко Панчев, Macedonian pronunciation: [ˈdarkɔ ˈpantʃɛf], born 7 September 1965) is a retired Macedonian footballer and winner of the Golden Boot award in 1991.
Pančev was the highest scorer in top-division European football in the 1990–91 season with 34 goals, and should have won the European Golden Boot award. However, UEFA decided to make the competition unofficial for the season because of suspect scoring sprees in Cyprus. Pančev did not get the prize at the time, but received it fifteen years later on 3 August 2006 in Skopje. The Golden Boot was presented at a special gala by Michel Platini, Dragan Stojković and Dragan Džajić.
His playing career started in 1982 at Vardar Skopje where he quickly developed into one of the most feared strikers in the Yugoslav League, becoming league top scorer in the 1983–84 season. The skill and seeming ease of his goal scoring exploits in Skopje made him a target for bigger clubs.
During summer 1988, Pančev was snapped up by Red Star Belgrade, which beat cross-town rivals FK Partizan to the twenty-two-year-old's signature. Another talented youngster, 21-year-old Dejan Savićević, also arrived to the club during the same transfer window, but both promptly got sent to serve the mandatory Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) stint that kept them off the pitch for the entire league season.
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