Tempo (Serbian magazine)

This article is about the magazine. For other uses, see Tempo (disambiguation).

Tempo (Serbian Cyrillic: Teмпo) was a Serbia-based magazine devoted to sports, published weekly.

Tempo

Cover of Tempo's 1323th issue from July 1991, featuring the EuroBasket 1991-winning Yugoslav national basketball team.
Type	Sports magazine
Publisher	Politika AD
Founded	1966
Language	Serbo-Croatian, Serbian
Ceased publication	2004
Headquarters	Belgrade, Serbia

Beginnings

Tempo was founded in Belgrade in 1966, as a weekly sports magazine under Politika's umbrella. Most of its coverage centered on football, with basketball, handball, volleyball, and water polo also featuring prominently. For decades, Tempo was famous among the youth of SFR Yugoslavia for publishing glossy color posters of their favourite domestic and foreign sporting heroes.

With internet sporting sites and specialty TV sports channels gradually eating into its readership since the early 2000s, Tempo folded on July 7, 2004. It was the publication's 1879th issue and its cover featured the Greece national football team that had just won EURO 2004.

Brief rebirth (2007–2009)

In 2007, Tempo 21 launched. One of the main theories as to why the 21 was added to their name was that it was meant to symbolize the magazine's rebirth in the 21st century. A new issue was released every other Wednesday, and was sold in Serbia the Serbian diaspora. In early 2009 ceased publication.