| Jovan Mijatović | |
| Birth Date: | 2005 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro |
| Height: | 1.79 m |
| Position: | Forward |
| Currentclub: | New York City |
| Clubnumber: | 7 |
| Youthclubs1: | Red Star Belgrade |
| Years1: | 2022–2024 |
| Clubs1: | Red Star Belgrade |
| Caps1: | 26 |
| Goals1: | 9 |
| Years2: | 2022–2023 |
| Clubs2: | → Grafičar Beograd (loan) |
| Caps2: | 13 |
| Goals2: | 5 |
| Years3: | 2024– |
| Clubs3: | New York City |
| Caps3: | 8 |
| Goals3: | 0 |
| Years4: | 2024– |
| Clubs4: | New York City II |
| Caps4: | 0 |
| Goals4: | 0 |
| Nationalyears1: | 2022 |
| Nationalteam1: | Serbia U17 |
| Nationalcaps1: | 7 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
| Nationalyears2: | 2022– |
| Nationalteam2: | Serbia U19 |
| Nationalcaps2: | 17 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 5 |
| Club-Update: | 16 June 2024 |
| Nationalteam-Update: | 21 November 2023 |
Jovan Mijatović (Serbian: Јован Мијатовић; born 11 July 2005) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club New York City.
Mijatović went through the junior selections of Red Star Belgrade. At the beginning of the spring of 2021, he suffered a serious knee injury, which caused him to be absent from the field in the following period.[1] With the cadet team, he participated in winning the title for the 2021/22 season,[2] while occasionally playing for the youth team.[3] At the beginning of the competition 2022/23. Mijatović played for Grafičar, where he scored five goals in eight games in the Serbian First League.[4] At the end of the summer transfer window of the same year, he was returned to his parent club and joined the first team. He took the number 9 jersey previously worn by Milan Pavkov.[5]
In 2019, Mijatović played for the Serbian under-15 national team. He scored a goal at the opening of the Trofej Crna Gora tournament in Podgorica, against the corresponding team of Slovenia.[6] He also made his debut for the under-16 team at a friendly match with his peers from Romania in March 2021.[7] Soon after that, he suffered an injury that kept him off the field for a long time.[8] So he joined the Serbia national under-17 football team a year later, performing at a friendly match with Bosnia and Herzegovina.[9] He participated in the European Championship for cadets,[10] where the selection of Serbia under the leadership of Radovan Krivokapić achieved third place.[11] The selector of the Serbia national under-19 football team, Jovan Damjanović, sent an invitation to Mijatović for the "Stevan Vilotić Ćele" Memorial Tournament in September 2022.[12]
| Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Red Star Belgrade | 2022–23 | Serbian SuperLiga | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | |
| 2023–24 | Serbian SuperLiga | 14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 8 | ||
| Total | 26 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 9 | |||
| Grafičar Beograd (loan) | 2022–23 | Serbian SuperLiga | 8 | 5 | — | — | — | 8 | 5 | ||||
| 2023–24 | Serbian SuperLiga | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 13 | 8 | — | — | — | 13 | 8 | ||||||
| New York City | 2024 | Major League Soccer | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 8 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 47 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 17 | |||
Individual