Red Star, founded in 1945, remain one of Serbia’s central football institutions, playing at Stadion Rajko Mitić and operating from a position of domestic strength. They ended the previous SuperLiga campaign in first place, with a squad valued at around £86.5m by Transfermarkt.
Their squad profile is substantial rather than bloated: 35 players, with an average age of 26. That points to a side built around established professionals, though their late league form was not without a wobble. A 5-0 win over Macva and a 3-0 victory against Partizan sat alongside home defeats to OFK Beograd and Novi Pazar, with a goalless draw at Radnik Surdulica in between.
Red Star also featured in Champions League qualifying at the second qualifying round stage. For Celtic supporters, they sit as credible European opposition: a Serbian side with domestic authority, a sizeable squad, and enough recent inconsistency to make the details matter.
