4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vojvodina has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Vojvodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Slobodan Medojević is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The phone has started ringing about Matija Gočmanac again, and this time the name on the line is Kapaz. Vojvodina are listening politely and promising nothing.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vojvodina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Cukaricki have had the benefit of it.
Srđan Mijailović was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Getting past Đorđe Nikolić has become the hardest job in the division
14 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
Add another name to the list: TSC have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ismaël Maïga. The answer from Cukaricki has not changed — yet.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Milan Pavkov. 1‑0 against Napredak, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Mansilla is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Nemanja Žunić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Getting past Dragan Rosić has become the hardest job in the division
10 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Nobody at Vojvodina is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 11 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
12 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Đorđe Nikolić has given nobody the chance.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nenad Tomović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vojvodina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Vojvodina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Slobodan Medojević is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Mladost Lucani the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Cukaricki will enjoy reviewing.
Srđan Mijailović was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nenad Tomović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Christian Mignolet and Cukaricki agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nenad Tomović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Dušan Jovančić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Position 3, 19 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Uroš Miladinović has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Spartak Subotica made Cukaricki work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nenad Tomović falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vojvodina have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Slobodan Medojević was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
3 goals in 12 games at Radnicki Nis — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Vojvodina updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Cukaricki can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Mansilla is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Ismaël Maïga was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
7 new faces, and Cukaricki are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nenad Tomović falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cukaricki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Cukaricki are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vojvodina can pretend not to have heard.
The chase for Matija Marsenić ended with $260.0K changing hands and Cukaricki out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vojvodina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Add another name to the list: Crvena Zvezda have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dragan Kokanović. The answer from Vojvodina has not changed — yet.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ifet Đakovac was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.