Born in Novi Sad, Pavković started out at his hometown club Vojvodina, making his Yugoslav First League debut in 1974.

[1] After a brief spell at Galenika Zemun in the Yugoslav Second League, Pavković moved abroad to Sweden and joined Degerfors IF.

At international level, Pavković played for the Yugoslavia under-18s at the 1974 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, where they lost 1–0 in the final to Bulgaria.

Between 2008 and 2014, Pavković served as technical director of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS).

[3][4] A childhood friend of Đorđe Balašević, Pavković was a guitarist for the Novi Sad-based rock band Rani Mraz in the late 1970s.