Matija Gočmanac
Serbian footballer (born 2003)
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Matija Gočmanac (Serbian Cyrillic: Матија Гочманац; born 5 August 2003) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serbian SuperLiga club Vojvodina.[1]
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Gočmanac in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Matija Gočmanac | ||
| Date of birth | 5 August 2003 | ||
| Place of birth | Kruševac, FR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Vojvodina | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2016 | Kopaonik Brus | ||
| 2016–2017 | OFK Beograd | ||
| 2017–2021 | Partizan | ||
| 2018–2019 | → Teleoptik (loan) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021–2023 | Partizan | 0 | (0) |
| 2021–2023 | → Teleoptik (loan) | 48 | (0) |
| 2023 | Mačva Šabac | 18 | (0) |
| 2024– | Vojvodina | 15 | (0) |
| 2024 | → Mačva Šabac (loan) | 16 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2018 | Serbia U15 | 1 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Serbia U16 | 3 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Serbia U17 | 3 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Serbia U19 | 7 | (0) |
| 2022– | Serbia U21 | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 2 March 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 27 September 2023 | |||
Club career
Early career
Gočmanac started training at the local Kopaonik Brus.[2] From there, he moved to OFK Beograd,[3] and after spending a year at that club,[4] in the summer of 2017, he joined the youth team of Partizan.[5] After another year, he was transferred to Teleoptik, and later signed a scholarship contract with the club.[6][7][8] The following year, he signed a professional contract,[9] and thereafter, he was a regular goalkeeper in the cadet category.[10]
Partizan
He joined the first team training in early February 2021,[11] and for the first time, he was on the roster for a match against Novi Pazar in the 21st round of the Serbian SuperLiga.[12] By the end of the season, he was on the bench a few more times and regularly played for the youth team.[13] After that, he was loaned to Teleoptik, where he spent two seasons and played in the Serbian League Belgrade.[14] During this time, he occasionally trained with the first team.[15]
Mačva Šabac
In 2023, he joined Mačva Šabac, signing a one-year contract with an option for an additional season.[16][17] He became a regular in the team at the start of the 2023–24 season in the Serbian First League.[18]
Vojvodina
In mid-February 2024, Gočmanac signed a contract with Vojvodina,[19] but according to the agreement, he remained on loan at Mačva until the end of the season.[20] According to Sport Klub, the transfer fee was estimated at five million dinars, with ten percent of the next transfer included.[21] He reported to the coach of the Novi Sad club, Božidar Bandović, at the beginning of preparations for the 2024–25 Serbian SuperLiga season.[22] On 31 July 2025, Gočmanac signed a contract extension with the club until the end of 2029 season.[23]
International career
Gočmanac attended the winter school of the Football Association of Serbia in early 2017.[24] He made his debut for Serbia national under-15 football team in a victory over Hungary in June 2018.[25] He later played for the under-16 national team,[26] and was later included in the squad of the under-17 national team.[12] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the elite round of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifiers and the final tournament were canceled.[27] In June 2021, he played for the under-19 team in a double match against Romania.[28] He then won the Stevan Vilotić Ćele Memorial Tournament with the national team.[29] He was part of the squad at the 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship.[30] The coach of the under-21 national team, Goran Stevanović, called him up for friendly matches during the November international window that same year.[31] He made his debut against North Macedonia, replacing Veljko Ilić in the 75th minute of the match.[32]