Dragoslav Šekularac (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Шекуларац; born 30 November 1937) is a Serbian former football player and coach. Nicknamed Šeki, he was quick and crafty with the ball, displaying creative skills that turned a lot of heads. Possessing supreme self-confidence along with impeccable technical ability, he was one of the biggest showmen and crowd draws in the history of Yugoslav football. His enormous popularity throughout FPR Yugoslavia during the early 1960s transcended sports as he easily became one of the most recognizable individuals in the country. As a coach, he led several clubs in Canada, Colombia, Australia, Serbia, Mexico, and Spain, and the Guatemala national team in the 1986 World Cup qualification.

Šekularac is considered one of the most important players in the history of Red Star Belgrade, he is one of only five players to have been awarded the Zvezdina zvezda status.

Šekularac was born in Štip, Republic of Macedonia, to a Serbian father Bogosav hailing from the Vasojevići region in northern Montenegro and mother Donka Markovska from Macedonia. His father was a lawyer whose job took him to Štip where he got married and started a family. Dragoslav was an infant when the family moved to Belgrade due to his father getting a job at the Ministry of Agriculture.

He took up football very early, right after World War II ended, and came up through the Red Star Belgrade youth system.

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