Dejan Stanković

Dejan Stanković
Stanković with Red Star Belgrade in 2022
Personal information
Full name Dejan Stanković
Date of birth (1978-09-11) 11 September 1978
Place of birth Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Spartak Moscow (manager)
Youth career
1985–1992 Teleoptik
1992–1995 Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1998 Red Star Belgrade 85 (29)
1998–2004 Lazio 137 (22)
2004–2013 Inter Milan 231 (29)
Total 453 (80)
International career
1998–2013 Serbia 103 (15)
Managerial career
2019–2022 Red Star Belgrade
2022–2023 Sampdoria
2023–2024 Ferencváros
2024– Spartak Moscow
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dejan Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Станковић, Serbian pronunciation: [dějan stǎŋkoʋitɕ], born 11 September 1978) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player. He captained the Serbia national team from 2007 until 2011, when he announced his retirement from international football. He is the manager of Russian team Spartak Moscow.

Stanković began his career at Red Star Belgrade before joining Lazio in 1998. He spent more than five years with the latter club before joining Inter Milan, where he remained until his retirement in 2013. Stanković is the only man to represent three differently named nations at FIFA World Cups – Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia.