Lazar Pajović (Serbian Cyrillic: Лазар Пајовић; born 26 August 1991) is a Serbian footballer. He can perform as a centre-back, or as a defensive midfielder eventually.[1][2]

Lazar Pajović
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-08-26) 26 August 1991 (age 32)
Place of birth Novi Pazar, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
AS Novi Pazar
Novi Pazar
OFK Beograd
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2012 Hajduk Beograd 70 (4)
2012 Kolubara 0 (0)
2013 Hajduk Beograd 10 (0)
2013 Sopot 3 (0)
2014–2017 Novi Pazar 31 (1)
2017 Borac Čačak 4 (0)
2018–2019 Petrovac 44 (0)
2019–2021 Novi Pazar 17 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2021

Club career edit

Hajduk Beograd edit

Born in Novi Pazar, Pajović started playing football with local football "AS" academy. In 2007, he joined FK Novi Pazar,[3] and later moved to OFK Beograd, where he completed his youth categories.[4] He has begun his senior career with Hajduk Beograd in 2009 and made 25 Serbian League Belgrade caps for the 2009–10 season.[5] Pajović also continued playing for the club and scored 2 goals for each of the next 2 seasons, collecting 70 league matches with 4 goals at total between 2009 and 2012.[5] After he spent the first half of the 2012–13 season as a member of the Serbian First League side Kolubara without official matches, Pajović returned to Hajduk Beograd, where he spent the rest of season.[5]

Novi Pazar edit

After he spent the first half of 2013–14 Serbian League Belgrade season playing with FK Sopot, making just 3 league appearances until the winter break off-season,[5] Pajović returned to his home town and joined FK Novi Pazar at the beginning of 2014.[6] Pajović made his Serbian SuperLiga debut for Novi Pazar in the last fixture match of the 2013–14 season, against Radnički Niš, but he got a red card during the first half.[7] Pajović also made 2 league caps for the next season. In summer 2015, Pajović played several friendly matches during the pre-season and scored 1 goal, in 1–0 victory against Velež Mostar.[8] During the regular season, he noted 10 caps for the 2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga season, scoring a goal in the last fixture match against Metalac Gornji Milanovac.[9] In a match Spartak Subotica, played on 15 May 2016, he succeeded a captain armbrand after Irfan Vusljanin was substituted off.[3] Pajović also started 2016–17 season as a starting centre-back, pairing with Miloš Tintor, but after he earned red card in the opening match against Javor Ivanjica, he was replacing by Darko Stanojević from the next fixture match.[10] After Tintor's injury, Pajović returned in squad for the postponed match of the first fixture, against Vojvodina, played on 14 September 2016.[3] Pajović made his first SuperLiga assist in the 17 fixture match of 2016–17 season, against Javor Ivanjica, when he passed a ball to Enver Alivodić for a goal.[11] In summer 2017, Pajović left the club as a free agent.[12]

Borac Čačak edit

Several days after he left his former club, Pajović joined Borac Čačak on 21 July 2017.[13]

Career statistics edit

As of 22 March 2017[7]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Hajduk Beograd 2009–10[5] Serbian League Belgrade 25 0 25 0
2010–11[5] 24 2 24 2
2011–12[5] 21 2 21 2
2012–13[5] 10 0 10 0
Total 80 4 80 4
Kolubara 2012–13[5] Serbian First League 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sopot 2013–14[5] Serbian League Belgrade 3 0 3 0
Novi Pazar 2013–14 Serbian SuperLiga 1 0 0 0 1 0
2014–15 2 0 0 0 2 0
2015–16 10 1 0 0 10 1
2016–17 18 0 1 0 19 0
Total 31 1 1 0 32 1
Borac Čačak 2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga 0 0 0 0 0 0
Career total 114 5 1 0 115 5

References edit

  1. ^ "Pajovic Lazar 2015". YouTube. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Pajović, Lazar". Serbian SuperLiga official website (in Serbian). Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Lazar Pajović: Možda je ovo moj trenutak". Danas. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Lazar Pajović". nasteren.com (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Pajovic, Lazar". srbijafudbal.com (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  6. ^ "Novi Pazar izmirio dugovanja". b92. 14 February 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  7. ^ a b Lazar Pajović at Soccerway
  8. ^ "Novi Pazar- Velež 1:0". sandzakpress.net. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  9. ^ "37.Kolo: Metalac - Novi Pazar". Serbian SuperLiga. 21 May 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Četiri crvena na 4 meča: Voždovac utišao Banjicu, Caki Stojanović ponovo dao gol (VIDEO)". telegraf.rs. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  11. ^ "17.Kolo: Novi Pazar - Javor-Matis". Serbian SuperLiga official website. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  12. ^ ""FUDBAL" 29/17 - page 1137" (PDF). Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 16 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  13. ^ ""FUDBAL", vanredni broj 11/17 - page 11" (PDF). Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 21 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.

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