| VK Novi Beograd | |
| Pixels: | 180px |
| Nicknames: | Wolves |
| Sport: | Water polo |
| League: | Serbian League Regional League A1 LEN Champions League |
| Stadium: | SC 11. april |
| City: | New Belgrade, Serbia |
| Managing Director: | Goran Mandić |
| Coach: | Živko Gocić |
VK Novi Beograd (Serbian: ВК Нови Београд) is a professional water polo club based in New Belgrade, Serbia. As of 2023–24 season, the club competes in the Serbian League, Regional League A1 and LEN Champions League.
The club was founded in 2015, by Serbian politician and former water polo player Aleksandar Šapić.[1] In 2020–21 season, the club made its debut in top-tier Serbian Water Polo League A, where they finished as runners-up. Also, they made the semi-finals of the Serbian Water Polo Cup. In second-tier European competition LEN Euro Cup, Novi Beograd made it to the eight-finals.
In 2021–22 season, the club significantly improved its roster, and made debut in the Regional League and LEN Champions League.[2] [3] Also, Novi Beograd was named as host of LEN Champions League final tournament from 2021 to 2023. After coming up short in the Serbian Water Polo Cup, losing to VK Radnički Kragujevac in the final game, Novi Beograd eventually won the Regional League in 2021–22 by defeating the VK Jadran Split with 14–11 in the final game, securing their first trophy in history.[4] Duško Pijetlović was named the MVP of the final tournament. It was also only the second trophy for the Serbian clubs in the competition's history. Novi Beograd won the 2021–22 Serbian Water Polo League A as well.[5] Novi Beograd finished their most successful season in club's history by losing in the final of 2021–22 LEN Champions League to Pro Recco on penalties.[6]
In 2022–23 season, Novi Beograd managed to defent the national championship, but was eliminated in the Regional League in semifinals, and was a runner-up in the Serbian Cup competiotion and the LEN Champions League. In 2023–24 season, Novi Beograd was triple-champion, having been crowned the Serbian League champion, the Regional League champion (for the second time) and Serbian Cup champion.[7] [8]
| Season | Tier | League | Regional League | Domestic cup | European competitions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023–24 | 1 | bgcolor=gold align=center | Champions | bgcolor=gold align=center | Champions | bgcolor=gold align=center | Champions | align=center bgcolor= | 4th place | |
| 2022–23 | 1 | bgcolor=gold align=center | Champions | Semi-finalist | align=center bgcolor=silver | Runners-up | align=center bgcolor=silver | Runners-up | ||
| 2021–22 | 1 | bgcolor=gold align=center | Champions | bgcolor=gold align=center | Champions | align=center bgcolor=silver | Runners-up | align=center bgcolor=silver | Runners-up | |
| 2020–21 | 1 | bgcolor=silver align=center | Runners-up | align=center | - | Eight–finals | ||||
| 2019–20 | 2 | align=center style="background:black; color:white" | align=center | - | align=center | - | ||||
| 2018–19 | 2 | 2nd place | align=center | - | align=center | - | align=center | - | ||
| 2017–18 | 2 | 10th place | align=center | - | align=center | - | align=center | - | ||
| 2016–17 | 2 | 6th place | align=center | - | align=center | - | align=center | - | ||
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | Euro Cup | Round of 16 |  Vouliagmeni | 7-7 | 8-9 | 15–16 | ||
| 2021-22 | Champions League Finalist | Preliminary round (Group A) |  Ferencváros | 11-14 | 10-11 | align=center rowspan=7 | 3rd place | |
| Olympiacos | 9-12 | 12-12 | ||||||
 Barceloneta | 11-9 | 12-12 | ||||||
 Radnički Kragujevac | 16-10 | 13-11 | ||||||
 Dinamo Tbilisi | 19-7 | 17-8 | ||||||
 Brescia | 11-11 | 16-13 | ||||||
| Jadran Split | 14-7 | 17-12 | ||||||
| Quarter-final (F8) |  Marseille | 16–10 | ||||||
| Semi-final (F8) | Brescia | 14–13 | ||||||
| Final (F8) | Pro Recco | 13–13 | ||||||
| 2022-23 | Champions League Finalist | Preliminary round (Group B) | Ferencváros | 14-13 | 12-14 | align=center rowspan=7 | 2nd place | |
| Marseille | 11-4 | 17-13 | ||||||
 Jug Dubrovnik | 12-12 | 11-11 | ||||||
| Sabadell | 16-11 | 8-6 | ||||||
 Spandau 04 | 13-8 | 16-5 | ||||||
| Orvosegyetem SC | 17-9 | 11-9 | ||||||
| Brescia | 11-9 | 9-12 | ||||||
| Quarter-final (F8) | Olympiacos | 13–11 | ||||||
| Semi-final (F8) | Barceloneta | 8–8 | ||||||
| Final (F8) | Pro Recco | 11–14 | ||||||