Slobodan Pavković (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Павковић, pronounced [slobǒdan pǎːʋkoʋitɕ]; born 24 October 1955) is a Serbian former football manager and player.

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Slobodan Pavković

Personal information
Date of birth	(1955-10-24) 24 October 1955 (age 68)
Place of birth	Novi Sad, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1970–1974	Vojvodina
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1974–1978	Vojvodina	124	(10)
1978–1983	Partizan	50	(3)
1983	Galenika Zemun	14	(1)
1984–1987	Degerfors IF
Total		188	(14)
International career
1974	Yugoslavia U18	7	(1)
1977–1978	Yugoslavia U21	6	(0)
Managerial career
1996–2000	Kuwait SC
2000–2001	Radnički Niš
2001–2002	Vojvodina
2002–2003	Serbia and Montenegro U19
2003–2004	Ruwi
2004–2005	Al-Nasr
2005	Kuwait
2006	Al Ittihad
2015	Fanja
Medal record UEFA Under-21 Championship 1978 UEFA Under-18 Championship 1974
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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Born in Novi Sad, Pavković started out at his hometown club Vojvodina, making his Yugoslav First League debut in 1974. He helped the team win the 1976–77 Mitropa Cup. In 1978, Pavković was signed by Partizan, spending the next five seasons with the Belgrade club. He made two appearances in the title-winning 1982–83 season.^[1] After a brief spell at Galenika Zemun in the Yugoslav Second League, Pavković moved abroad to Sweden and joined Degerfors IF.

At international level, Pavković played for the Yugoslavia under-18s at the 1974 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, where they lost 1–0 in the final to Bulgaria. He was later a member of the Yugoslavia under-21 team that won the 1978 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.^[2]

After hanging up his boots, Pavković was manager of several clubs in the Middle East. He also served as manager of the Kuwait national football team in 2005.

Between 2008 and 2014, Pavković served as technical director of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS).^[3][4]

A childhood friend of Đorđe Balašević, Pavković was a guitarist for the Novi Sad-based rock band Rani Mraz in the late 1970s.^[5]