MITAR

He played five times for the national team of Yugoslavia and scored one goal. He made his debut when he was only 17 years, four months and seven days old on November 17, 1982 in Sofia against Bulgaria (1:0), and he recorded his last match on May 19, 1986 in Brussels against Belgium (3:1). At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, he won a bronze medal with the Yugoslav national team.

After finishing his career, he was the head of sports in the Belgrade city administration, junior coach of OFK Belgrade, director of the Crvena zvezda youth school from 2005 to December 2008, sports director of OFK Belgrade and director of junior categories in the Football Association of Serbia.

After seven years as the director of youth categories at the Football Association of Serbia, during which Serbia became the junior world champion in 2015 and the European youth champion in 2013, Mitar Mrkela returned to his club and was promoted to the position of sports director of Red Star on 5 June, along with the new head of the coaching staff, Vladan Milojević. He won eight Serbian championship titles in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Red Star played in the group stage for eight consecutive years, first the Europa League in 2017/18, and then two Champions Leagues in 2018/19. and 2019/20, and then again the Europa League 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, while in the 2023/24 season, Red Star returned to the Champions League. In addition, in the 2024/25 season, another great success was achieved, securing a place in the new format of the Champions League. Also, four double crowns were won.