Ajazdin Nuhi, Former Partizan Player, Found Dead at 46
Former Partizan, Cukaricki and OFK Beograd defender Ajazdin Nuhi has died at 46, found in the family home in Borca. He won the Yugoslav title with Partizan in 2001/02.
Partizan’s dressing room in the early 2000s was no bad company for a young full back. Sasa Ilic, Igor Duljaj, Zvonimir Vukic, Ivica Iliev, Vladimir Ivic, Danko Lazovic: players who would go on to wear the national team jersey and play across Europe. Among them, in a shirt whose number fans quickly learned by heart, was Ajazdin Nuhi.
On Thursday, September 10, 2026, came the news that Nuhi had died at 46. Serbian media report that his body was found in the family home in Borca and that he had taken his own life. The authorities have not officially confirmed the circumstances of his death, and some outlets explicitly note that the details are still awaiting official confirmation. Until they arrive, that is how these reports should be treated.
Nuhi was born on October 10, 1979, in Dragas. He began his senior career in 1997 at Cukaricki, where he broke into the first team quickly enough to catch the eye of Partizan, a club that was looking for reinforcements at his exact position that year.
The road from Cukaricki to Humska
He moved to Partizan in 2001 and stayed until 2004, three full seasons. Already in his first, 2001/02, he won the FR Yugoslavia championship title, made 23 league appearances and played in the club’s European matches as well. Partizan won the title comfortably that season, finishing on 81 points, 15 ahead of Red Star and 23 ahead of third-placed Sartid. When fans voted for the club’s best player at the end of 2002, Nuhi finished in seventh place, behind names who were then Humska’s biggest stars.
During those three seasons at Partizan, he went out on loan twice. He spent six months in 2003 at Legia Warsaw, and was also loaned to Sartid from Smederevo. Neither loan cost him his place in the club’s plans once he returned to Humska.
Did he play for Yugoslavia’s senior national team?
Here the sources disagree. Mondo reports that Nuhi played for FR Yugoslavia’s senior national team on March 27, 2001, in Dravograd against Slovenia, coming on in the 48th minute for Nebojsa Vucicevic in a match Yugoslavia won 2-1 with goals from Bojan Brnovic. Sportska centrala, on the other hand, states that his only appearance in the national jersey came for the under-21 side, and only once. Which version is accurate remains open until the Football Association’s official records are checked.
Life after Partizan
After leaving Partizan, Nuhi continued his career around the region. He wore the shirts of Zeta, OFK Beograd and Mogren from Budva, with whom he won a second championship title in the 2010/11 season, this time in Montenegro, exactly ten years after the one with Partizan. At OFK Beograd he shared a dressing room with players such as Aleksandar Kolarov, Nenad Lalatovic and Dalibor Veselinovic, part of a generation that later produced several names who moved on to bigger leagues.
He later played for Napredak from Krusevac and BSK Borca, and ended his career in 2014 at Kolubara. After that, according to available information, he held several jobs connected to football.
His overall league record stands at 336 appearances and 25 goals. He is listed as a right back, though some sources also mention him as a defensive midfielder, a position where, by his teammates’ accounts, he did more running after the ball than picking out passes.
For Partizan fans, he remains a player from the generation that brought the title back in 2001 after a long wait, one of those who filled Humska without ever becoming the biggest name on the team sheet. The authorities are expected to confirm the circumstances of his death in the coming days. Partizan and its supporters, in the meantime, remember the full back who was part of a championship-winning squad twenty-five years ago.
