 He started his youth football career with FK Beograd before joining his first professional football team, FK Rudar Prijedor playing back then in the Yugoslav Second League.He continued his professional career with famous Serbian football clubs FK Napredak Kruševac, FK Čukarički before returning to FK Beograd.Having spent the majority of his early football career in Serbia, Dončić decided to try the international waters by joining Valletta where he won all possible Maltese Cups in one season 2006–07 and was the top scorer in Malta by breaking the record of scoring 32 league goals in one season.