N. Nikolić

Twelve goals in thirty games for Spartak Subotica in 2017–18 put a striker who had spent most of his twenties on the move into the SuperLiga Team of the Season — and, in May 2018, into Partizan for €350,000.

The route there was not direct. Nikolić came through the youth sides of his home city, Kraljevo — Bubamara, Sloga and Metalac — before starting his senior career at Grbalj, where he scored eight in 37. A move to Rostov in 2013 brought a Russian Cup winner's medal in 2013–14 but only five league appearances; a spell at Aktobe in Kazakhstan produced another five. Subotica was where the goals came.

His first period at Partizan ran to seven goals in 29 league games and the Serbian Cup in 2018–19, interrupted by loans to Vojvodina and back to Subotica, where he scored six in eight. Then came a lap of the map: Al-Raed in Saudi Arabia, Tobol in Kazakhstan — eight goals in 17 — and a third stint at Subotica, 11 in 24. A season at Vojvodina in 2022–23 yielded four in 31.

Partizan took him back on a free transfer in July 2023, and he ended a barren spell in front of goal with 15 in 59 league appearances across two seasons. Since mid-2025 he has moved again: Buriram United in Thailand, then Budućnost Podgorica in Montenegro, 15 games and two goals.

Known as Taki, he has no senior caps for Serbia. He is regularly confused with the Nemanja Nikolić born in 1987, who plays for Hungary.