FK Novi Sad

FK Novi Sad

Full name	Fudbalski klub Novi Sad
Nickname(s)	Kanarinci (The Canaries)
Founded	June 23, 1921 (1921-06-23)
Ground	Detelinara Stadium, Novi Sad
Ground Capacity	6,000
President	Milan Đurović
Head Coach	Zoran Janković
League	Zone League
2013–14	Serbian League Vojvodina, 16th (relegated)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FK Novi Sad (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Нови Сад) is professional football club from Novi Sad, Serbia, more precisely from the Detelinara urban neighborhood. The club currently playing in the Zone Leagues, the fourth tier in Serbia's football league system.

History

The club was founded in 1921 with the name NTK (Novosadski Trgovački Klub, Novi Sad Commercial Club), and played in the regional leagues. In 1923, they won the local Novi Sad football league. In 1954, FK Eđšeg (named Jedinstvo) and FK Radnički (NTK) were merged into one club, renamed into RFK Novi Sad (Radnički Fudbalski Klub Novi Sad). The club moved to the stadium which was formerly of Jedinstvo and the yellow and blue colors were inspired by the pre-war club NAK Novi Sad.

Since then, the club started improving in the competition, and in 1961 they earned promotion to the Yugoslav First League. They played 3 seasons in the national highest level, with best Yugoslav teams coming to play to Detelinara Stadium. In their first top flight season they experienced difficulties and finished in 10th place out of 12 teams, avoiding relegation by only one spot. However in 1962–63 their performance was much stronger and they finished in 8th in an expanded 14 teams competition in front of traditionally stronger teams such as Hajduk Split or their main city rivals, Vojvodina. However in 1963–64 they finished 13th and by only one point they did not manage to avoid relegation. The competitiveness that season was so tough that at the end only 4 points separated the 7th-placed Vojvodina from the bottom team, 14th, FK Vardar. Ever since, RFK Novi Sad never managed again to play in the national top flight, playing mostly in the Yugoslav Second League during Yugoslav period.

After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, RFK Novi Sad became the only club to play in 14 consecutive editions of the Second League of FR Yugoslavia. In 2006, they were relegated, however, after only one season, they were back to the, now renamed, Serbian First League. In 2011, the club celebrated its 90th birthday. In 2012, the club has changed its name in FK Novi Sad.

Club colours and crest

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  Old crest used till 2015

Stadium

Clubs stadium is located in Detelinara neighbourhood, in Novi Sad, and can hold up to 6,000 people.

Support

The organized supporters of FK Novi Sad are known as Korida, which was founded in 1990.

Honours and achievements

• Serbian League Vojvodina
  • Winners (1): 2007

Current squad

As of May 2013. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Darko Ristić GK Srđan Popin GK Vladimir Kalajdžić DF Bojan Babić DF Kiril Chobanov DF Marko Zečević DF Dušan Mijić DF Vukašin Jelić DF Marko Strugar DF Marko Novaković DF Aleksandar Mijatović DF Milovan Petrić (on loan from Vojvodina) MF Bojan Ilić MF Saša Vidović MF Novica Maksimović MF Stefan Radoja

No. Position Player MF Thierry Ako MF Predrag Jerinić MF Zoran Vuković MF Milorad Balabanović MF Aleksandar Jovanović MF Filip Bajić MF Marko Renić MF Uroš Nenadović MF Uroš Puškaš FW Saša Bogunović FW Damir Čeković FW Marko Spasojević FW Darko Roksa FW Nemanja Grujić FW Šaleta Kordić (on loan from Vojvodina) FW Milan Đanković

For the list of current and former players with Wikipedia articles, please see: Category:FK Novi Sad players.

Results and fixtures

2014

FK Novi Sad v Lugansk People's Republic

August Friendly	FK Novi Sad	v	Lugansk People's Republic	TBA

Notable players

List of current and former players with senior national team appearances:

• Ivica Brzić
• Aleksandar Kozlina
• Lazar Lemić
• Živan Ljukovčan
• Zoran Marić
• Josip Pirmajer
• Ljubiša Dunđerski
• Slaviša Jokanović
• Milan Jovanić
• Miodrag Pantelić
• Almir Memić
• Zlatomir Zagorčić
• Anto Grabo
• Predrag Bošnjak
• Slobodan Drapić
• Milan Rakič

For the list of all current and former FK Novi Sad players with Wikipedia article, please see Category:FK Novi Sad players.

Coaches

• Dragan Radojičić 2009–2012

External links

• Official website
• Korida 1990 Fans website
• naprednovisad.blogspot.com
• Club profile and squad at Srbijafudbal.
• prvaligasrbije about FK Novi Sad at Prva Liga site. (Serbian)
• FK Novi Sad info at srpskistadioni.in.rs