Nenad Bjeković
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nenad Bjeković | ||
| Date of birth | 5 November 1947 | ||
| Place of birth | Zrenjanin, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Second Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Zadrugar Lazarevo | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1965–1969 | Proleter Zrenjanin | 103 | (27) |
| 1969–1976 | Partizan | 198 | (82) |
| 1976–1981 | Nice | 143 | (85) |
| Total | 444 | (194) | |
| National team | |||
| 1968–1976 | Yugoslavia | 22 | (4) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1982–1984 | Partizan (assistant) | ||
| 1984–1987 | Partizan | ||
| 1987–1989 | Nice | ||
| 1990 | Partizan | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Nenad Bjeković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Бјековић; born 5 November 1947) is a former Yugoslav and Serbian football player, manager and administrator.
Born in Lazarevo, a village near Zrenjanin, Bjeković started out at his local club Zadrugar Lazarevo, before switching to Proleter Zrenjanin. He stayed there for four years, making his Yugoslav First League debut in the 1967–68 season. Finally, Bjeković was transferred to Partizan in the summer of 1969.
Bjeković spent seven seasons at Partizan, scoring 82 league goals in 198 appearances for the Black-Whites. He was the top scorer of the Yugoslav First League in the 1975–76 season with 24 goals, thus helping Partizan win its seventh national title.
In the summer of 1976, Bjeković moved abroad for the first time in his career and signed with Nice. He stayed the following five seasons at the club, scoring a total of 85 goals in 143 league appearances. In 2013, Bjeković was named the club's player of the century.
Bjeković made 22 appearances for Yugoslavia and scored four goals. He scored on his debut for the national team in a friendly match against Brazil in Belo Horizonte on 19 December 1968.
Bjeković started his managerial career in 1982 as an assistant to Miloš Milutinović at Partizan. He subsequently replaced Milutinović at the start of the 1984–85 season. As the club's manager, Bjeković won two consecutive league titles in 1986 and 1987.
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