Milan Pecelj

Miljan Pecelj
Personal information
Full name	Miljan Pecelj
Date of birth	13 April 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth	Mostar, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Velež Mostar
	Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995–1997	Lokomotíva Košice
1997–1998	Austria Wien
1998	Galatasaray
1999–2000	Radnički Niš
2000–2001	Hajduk Kula
2001–2002	AEL Limassol
2002–2003	Brotnjo
2003–2004	Zrinjski Mostar
2004–2005	Leotar
2005–2006	Inter Zaprešić
2006–2007	Leotar
2007–2008	Sloboda Tuzla
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miljan Pecelj (Serbian Cyrillic: Миљан Пецељ; born 13 April 1979) is a Serbian retired footballer.

Club career[edit]

Born in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, his football career started in the youth squad of his home town club FK Velež Mostar. Next, he moved to Belgrade, in Serbia to play in the youth squad of the 1992 European and World Champions Red Star Belgrade. In 1995, he moved to Slovakia to be one of the first foreigners in Lokomotíva Košice, where he stayed two seasons. Then, he moved to Austrian Bundesliga club FK Austria Vienna,^[1] but next summer he moved to Turkey to play in the great Galatasaray. After only half a season, in January 1999, he was back to Serbia, this time, to play in Radnički Niš, and next in Hajduk Kula. In summer 2001, he moved to Cyprus club AEL Limassol, where he stayed one season. Since 2002, he was back to Bosnia to play in a number of clubs: HNK Brotnjo, his home town HŠK Zrinjski, FK Leotar from Trebinje (twice), and Sloboda Tuzla, his last club. In between, he had a spell in Croatia in Prva HNL club Inter Zaprešić, in the season 2005–06.

His brother Srđan is also a footballer.

Galatasaray