Montenegrin clubs in European football competitions

After the end of every competitive season, football clubs from Montenegro play in European competitions.
Teams from Montenegro have been playing on the international scene since they represented SFR Yugoslavia during the 1970s. Since 2006, Montenegrin teams have played as representatives of independent Montenegro, and qualified through the Montenegrin First League and Montenegrin Cup.
Currently, three Montenegrin clubs take part in UEFA European Cups. The champion of the First Montenegrin League plays in UEFA Champions League qualifiers. The second placed team from the First League play in UEFA Conference League qualifiers. The winner of the Montenegrin Cup also plays in the Conference league.

UEFA Country Ranking for league participation in 2026–27 European football season (Previous year rank in italics)

• 45 (47) Kategoria Superiore
• 46 (42) NIFL Premiership
• 47 (53) Montenegrin First League
• 48 (43) Luxembourg National Division
• 49 (46) Erovnuli Liga

Since independence (2006) and establishing of Montenegrin First League and other national competitions, Montenegro is a full-member of UEFA. Since then, Montenegrin League is present on UEFA Country Ranking system.
Below is a historical list of Montenegrin rankings and country coefficient.

Year	Position	Change	Coefficient	Teams
2008	51	-	0.500	4
2009	50		1.000	4
2010	47		2.125	4
2011	43		3.875	4
2012	42		4.375	4
2013	41		5.250	4
2014	39		6.000	4
2015	41		5.625	4
2016	44		4.875	4
2017	43		5.250	4
2018	43		5.000	4
2019	49		4.125	4
2020	50		4.375	4
2021	50		5.000	4
2022	53		4.875	4
2023	54		4.750	3
2024	53		5.708	3
2025	47		7.208	3

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Historically, Montenegrin football clubs played in four UEFA competitions for clubs - the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League (formerly UEFA Cup), UEFA Europa Conference League and Intertoto Cup.
The champions of Montenegro have never played in the group phase of the UEFA Champions League, and the most successful in the qualifiers was FK Zeta Golubovci in the 2007–08 season.
The best performances in the UEFA Europa League were FK Zeta who played in the playoffs, and OFK Titograd, FK Budućnost and FK Sutjeska which played in Round 3. The most successful in the Intertoto Cup was FK Budućnost Podgorica.
Below is a list of games of all Montenegrin clubs in UEFA competitions.

Season	Club	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
2007–08	Zeta	1QR	FBK Kaunas	3–1	2–3	5–4
		2QR	Rangers	0–1	0–2	0–3
2008–09	Budućnost	1QR	Tampere United	1–1	1–2	2–3
2009–10	Mogren	1QR	Hibernians	4–0	2–0	6–0
		2QR	Copenhagen	0–6	0–6	0–12
2010–11	Rudar	1QR	Tre Fiori	4–1	3–0	7–1
		2QR	Litex Lovech	0–4	0–1	0–5
2011–12	Mogren	2QR	Litex Lovech	1–2	0–3	1–5
2012–13	Budućnost	2QR	Śląsk Wrocław	0–2	1–0	1–2
2013–14	Sutjeska	2QR	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–5	1–1	1–6
2014–15	Sutjeska	2QR	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–3	0–2	0–5
2015–16	Rudar	2QR	Qarabağ	0–1	0–0	0–1
2016–17	OFK Titograd	2QR	Ludogorets Razgrad	0–3	0–2	0–5
2017–18	Budućnost	2QR	Partizan	0–0	0–2	0–2
2018–19	Sutjeska	1QR	Astana	0–2	0–1	0–3
2019–20	Sutjeska	1QR	Slovan Bratislava	1–1 (a.e.t.)	1–1	2–2 (3–2 p.)
		2QR	APOEL	0–1	0–3	0–4
2020–21	Budućnost	1QR	Ludogorets Razgrad	1–3
2021–22	Budućnost	1QR	HJK	0–4	1–3	1–7
2022–23	Sutjeska	1QR	Ludogorets Razgrad	0–1	0–2	0–3
2023–24	Budućnost	PR	Atlètic Club d'Escaldes	3–0
			Breiðablik	0–5
2024–25	Dečić	1QR	The New Saints	1–1	0–3	1–4

Season	Club	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
2005–06	Zeta	2QR	Široki Brijeg	0–1	1–4	1–5
2007–08	Budućnost	1QR	Hajduk Split	1–1	0–1	1–2
	Rudar	1QR	Omonia	0–2	0–2	0–4
2008–09	Mogren	1QR	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	0–3	1–1	1–4
	Zeta	1QR	Interblock	1–1	0–1	1–2
2009–10	Budućnost	1QR	Polonia Warsaw	0–2	1–0	1–2
	Petrovac	2QR	Anorthosis Famagusta	3–1 (a.e.t.)	1–2	4–3
		3QR	Sturm Graz	1–2	0–5	1–7
	Sutjeska	1QR	Partizan Minsk	1–1	1–2	2–3
2010–11	Budućnost	2QR	Baku	1–2	3–0[note 1]	4–2
		3QR	Brøndby	1–2	0–1	1–3
	Mogren	1QR	UE Santa Coloma	2–0	3–0	5–0
		2QR	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–1	0–2	2–3
	Zeta	1QR	Dacia Chişinău	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
2011–12	Budućnost	1QR	Flamurtari	1–3	2–1	3–4
	Rudar	2QR	Austria Wien	0–3	0–2	0–5
	Zeta	1QR	Spartak Trnava	2–1	0–3	2–4
2012–13	Čelik	1QR	Borac Banja Luka	1–1	2–2	3–3 (a)
		2QR	Metalurh Donetsk	2–4	0–7	2–11
	Rudar	1QR	Shirak	0–1	1–1	1–2
	Zeta	1QR	Pyunik	1–2	3–0	4–2
		2QR	JJK	1–0	2–3	3–3 (a)
		3QR	Sarajevo	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		PO	PSV Eindhoven	0–5	0–9	0–14
2013–14	Čelik	1QR	Budapest Honvéd	1–4	0–9	1–13
	Rudar	1QR	Mika	1–0	1–1	2–1
		2QR	Śląsk Wrocław	2–2	0–4	2–6
	OFK Titograd	1QR	Videoton	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		2QR	Senica	2–2	1–0	3–2
		3QR	Sevilla	1–6	0–3	1–9
2014–15	Budućnost	1QR	Folgore	3–0	2–1	5–1
		2QR	Omonia	0–0	0–2	0–2
	Čelik	1QR	Koper	0–5	0–4	0–9
	Lovćen	1QR	Željezničar Sarajevo	0–1	0–0	0–1
2015–16	Budućnost	1QR	Spartaks Jūrmala	1–3	0–0	1–3
	Sutjeska	1QR	Debrecen	2–0	0–3	2–3
	OFK Titograd	1QR	Neftchi Baku	1–1	2–2	3–3 (a)
		2QR	Kukësi	2–4	1–0	3–4
2016–17	Bokelj	1QR	Vojvodina	1–1	0–5	1–6
	Budućnost	1QR	Rabotnički	1–0	1–1	2–1
		2QR	Genk	2–0 (a.e.t.)	0–2	2–2 (2–4 p.)
	OFK Titograd	1QR	Kukësi	0–1	1–1	1–2
2017–18	Sutjeska	1QR	Levski Sofia	0–0	1–3	1–3
	OFK Titograd	1QR	Gandzasar	1–0	3–0	4–0
		2QR	Sturm Graz	0–3	1–0	1–3
	Zeta	1QR	Željezničar Sarajevo	2–2	0–1	2–3
2018–19	Budućnost	1QR	Trenčín	0–2	1–1	1–3
	Rudar	1QR	Partizan	0−3	0–3	0–6
	Sutjeska	2QR	Alashkert	0–1	0–0	0–1
	OFK Titograd	1QR	B36 Tórshavn	1–2	0−0	1–2
2019–20	Budućnost	1QR	Narva Trans	4–1	2–0	6–1
		2QR	Zorya Luhansk	1–3	0–1	1–4
	Sutjeska	3QR	Linfield	1–2	2–3	3–5
	OFK Titograd	1QR	CSKA Sofia	0−0	0–4	0−4
	Zeta	1QR	Fehérvár	1–5	0–0	1−5
2020–21	Budućnost	2QR	Astana	1–0
		3QR	Sarajevo	1–2
	Iskra	PR	FC Santa Coloma	0–0 (4–3 p.)
		1QR	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	0–1
	Sutjeska	1QR	Borac Banja Luka	0–1
	Zeta	PR	Engordany	3–1
		1QR	Progrès Niederkorn	0–3

Season	Club	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
2021–22	Budućnost	2QR	HB Tórshavn	0–2	0–4	0–6
	Dečić	1QR	Drita	0–1	1–2	1–3
	Podgorica	1QR	Laçi	1−0	0−3 (a.e.t.)	1–3
	Sutjeska	1QR	Gagra	1–0	1–1	2–1
		2QR	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–0	1–3	1–3
2022–23	Budućnost	1QR	Llapi	2–0	2–2	4–2
		2QR	Breiðablik	2–1	0–2	2–3
	Dečić	1QR	Dinamo Minsk	1–2	1–1	2–3
	Iskra	1QR	Laçi	0–1	0–0	0–1
	Sutjeska	2QR	KÍ Klaksvík	0–0	0–1	0–1
2023–24	Arsenal	1QR	Alashkert	1–6	1–1	2–7
	Budućnost	2QR	Struga	3–4	0–1	3–5
	Sutjeska	1QR	Cosmos	1–0	1–1	2–1
		2QR	Santa Coloma	2–0	0–3 (a.e.t.)	2–3
2024–25	Budućnost	1QR	Malisheva	3–0	0–1	3–1
		2QR	CSKA 1948	1–1 (a.e.t.)	0–1	1–2
	Dečić	2QR	Dinamo Batumi	0–0	2–0	2−0
		3QR	HJK	2–1	0–1	2–2 (3–4 p.)
	Mornar	1QR	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	1–1	3–2
		2QR	Radnički 1923	2–1 (a.e.t.)	0–1	2–2 (4–3 p.)
		3QR	Paksi	2–2	0–3	2–5

Season	Club	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1981	Budućnost	Group 4	Wacker Innsbruck	1–2	3–1	1st
			Östers	3–1	0–0
			Odense	4–2	1–1
1995	Budućnost	Group 7	Tervis Pärnu	3–1		4th
			Nea Salamis Famagusta	1–1
			Bayer Leverkusen	0–3
			OFI	3–4
2003	Sutjeska	1R	Union Luxembourg	3–0	1–1	4–1
		2R	Tampere United	0–1	0–0	0–1
2005	Budućnost	1R	Valletta	2–2	5–0	7–2
		2R	Deportivo La Coruña	2–1	0–3	2–4
2006	Zeta	2R	Maribor	1–2	0–2	1–4
2007	Grbalj	1R	Gloria Bistrița	1–1	1–2	2–3
2008	Grbalj	1R	Čelik Zenica	2–1	2–3	4–4 (a)
		2R	Sivasspor	2–2	0–1	2–3

16 different Montenegrin clubs have played in UEFA competitions. Before the founding of the Montenegrin First League and Montenegrin Cup, three clubs played in European Cups as a representatives of Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro. Eight other clubs played their first seasons in UEFA competitions after Montenegrin independence.
Below is a table with Montenegrin clubs' scores in UEFA competitions.

As of the end of UEFA competitions 2024–25 season.

Football clubs from Montenegro have played in three UEFA competitions. Below is a list of performances in every single competition.

As of the end of UEFA competitions 2024–25 season.

Below is the list of performances of Montenegrin clubs against opponents in UEFA competitions by their countries (football federations).

Opponents' country	G	W	D	L	GD
Albania	10	3	2	5	8:14
Andorra	7	5	1	1	13:4
Armenia	12	4	4	4	13:13
Austria	8	2	0	6	6:18
Azerbaijan	6	1	3	2	7:6
Belarus	4	0	2	2	4:6
Belgium	2	1	0	1	2:2
Bosnia and Herzegovina	14	2	4	8	13:21
Bulgaria	15	0	2	13	4:31
Croatia	2	0	1	1	1:2
Cyprus	9	1	2	6	5:13
Denmark	6	1	1	4	6:18
Estonia	3	3	0	0	9:2
Faroe Islands	6	0	2	4	1:9
Finland	10	2	2	6	8:16
Germany	1	0	0	1	0:3
Greece	1	0	0	1	3:4
Georgia	6	3	3	0	7:3
Hungary	10	2	2	6	7:28
Iceland	3	1	0	2	2:8
Israel	6	1	2	3	4:10
Kazakhstan	3	1	0	2	1:3
Kosovo	6	2	1	3	8:6
Latvia	2	0	1	1	1:3
Lithuania	2	1	0	1	5:4
Luxembourg	3	1	1	1	4:4
Macedonia	4	1	1	2	5:6
Malta	4	3	1	0	13:2
Moldova	6	0	3	3	2:12
Netherlands	2	0	0	2	0:14
Northern Ireland	2	0	0	2	3:5
Poland	6	2	1	3	4:10
Romania	2	0	1	1	2:3
San Marino	6	5	1	0	14:3
Serbia	8	1	2	5	3:16
Scotland	2	0	0	2	0:3
Slovakia	8	2	4	2	8:11
Slovenia	6	0	1	5	2:15
Spain	4	1	0	3	3:13
Sweden	2	1	1	0	3:1
Turkey	2	0	1	1	2:3
Ukraine	4	0	0	4	3:15
Wales	2	0	1	1	1:4
OVERALL	226	53	54	119	210:387

As of the end of UEFA competitions 2024–25 season.

The Balkans Cup was a regional football competition (1960–1994) in which Montenegrin clubs participated as a representatives of SFR Yugoslavia. Teams from Montenegro which played in the Balkans Cup were FK Budućnost Podgorica and FK Sutjeska Nikšić. FK Budućnost had the biggest success, playing in the 1991 final, after eliminating Galatasaray SK.
Below is a list of Montenegrin clubs in the Balkans Cup.

Season	Club	Round	Opponent	Home	Away		Aggregate
1973	Sutjeska	Group A	Labinoti Elbasani	0–1	1–0		3rd
			ASA Târgu Mureș	1–0	0–3
1977	Budućnost	Group B	Vllaznia Shkodër	2–0	1–1		2nd
			Panathinaikos	1–2	2–2
1990–91	Budućnost	QF	17 Nëntori Tirana	2–1	0–0		2–1
		SF	Galatasaray	0–0	1–1		1–1 (a)
		Final	Inter Sibiu	0–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)		0–1

• Football in Montenegro
• Montenegrin First League
• Montenegrin Second League
• Montenegrin Third League
• Montenegrin Cup
• Montenegrin clubs in Yugoslav football competitions (1946–2006)