FK Čukarički
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| Surname | Sportsko društvo Čukarički (main club) Fudbalski klub Čukarički (professional football team) |
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| Seat | Belgrade , Serbia | ||
| founding |
July 4, 1926 (as Čukarički sportski klub - ČSK) |
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| Colours | black - white | ||
| president |
 Dragan Obradović
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| Website | fkcukaricki.rs | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Milan Lešnjak
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| Venue | Stadium na Banovom brdu | ||
| Places | 4,070 seats | ||
| league | Super league | ||
| 2019/20 | 6th place | ||
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The FK Čukarički (officially on Serbian : Фудбалски клуб Чукарички - ФК Чукарички, Fudbalski klub Čukarički - FK Čukarički ), usually , Čukarički pronounced [t͡ʃukarit͡ʃki] , mostly short Čuka, is the football department of Čukarički, a Serbian sports club from Banovo Brdo , a district in the Belgrade district of Čukarica . The club also known as “die Brđani” (“The Brđans”), which could be translated as “the inhabitants of Brdo”, currently plays in the Superliga , the top division of Serbian football.
The club was founded in 1926 and spent the first few years of its existence in the amateur field . At the time of Yugoslavia , FK Čukarički played mainly in the lower leagues of the country and caused a stir for the first time in the 1971/72 and 1994/95 seasons when they rose to the 2nd Yugoslav League and the 1st Yugoslav League , as well 1996 and 1997 , when they qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup .
On April 17, 2012 the association was bought by Dragan Obradović, owner of the Serbian construction and wholesale company ADOC. Since then, Čukarički has been considered the first professional football club in Serbia to be privatized and one of the few clubs in Southeastern Europe to be bought up at all.
The situation for Čukarički improved through privatization. The club soon celebrated its greatest success, when it reached 3rd place in the highest Serbian league in 2015 and also won the Serbian Cup . Previously, she had already returned to international football by participating in the 2014/15 Europa League .
history
1926–1942: The founding years
The roots of the association are in Čukarica , more precisely in the working-class district of Belgrade , which is located on the right bank of the Sava . There was the Majdan restaurant , in which a football club called Čukarički Sportski Klub - ČSK was founded during a meeting on July 4, 1926 , which was later to be renamed FK Čukarički. Black and white were chosen as the club colors and the first club president was Miloš Ilić, one of the first Serbian pilots and fighter pilots and at the time the club was founded, a reservist of the Yugoslav air forces of the 1st class. Čukarički started in the 3rd division of the Belgrade league system , but as early as 1928 they managed to move up to the 2nd Belgrade division, where the club was able to hold up successfully for several seasons.
In the 1931/32 season Čukarički was champion and thus achieved promotion to the 1st Belgrade B league, which should finally be won in 1935 as well. During this first period of success, striker Aleksandar Petrović, known as Pikavac, was one of the most important figures in the club's squad. During that time he was one of the most talented dribblers in the country and was part of the Yugoslav national team . From the 1935/36 season, the club played in the 1st Belgrade A-League, the then second-highest division in Yugoslav football, but rose again after two years.
In the following season, Čukarički was able to celebrate the rise and immediately won the championship. With Blagoje Marjanović , the club had a striker size at the time in the squad between 1939 and 1941. In the same year there was a merger with the local club FK Istra, which was not supported by all club members, by all supporters and much less by the players. For this reason, a majority of the players moved to the neighboring clubs Banovac, Makiš and Šećeranac. This led to the decline of the club, which lasted several years, which meant that he did not compete in any league for the time being.
1942–1944: Game operations during the Second World War
During the Second World War , the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded, occupied and divided up in April 1941 by Nazi Germany, supported by Italian and Hungarian troops. Parts of Serbia fell to the collaborating, fascist Independent State of Croatia , to the Kingdom of Hungary or were under German military administration by the Wehrmacht , including the capital Belgrade . However, under difficult circumstances, certain clubs were allowed to play football. This also included Čukarički, who was again a member of the Belgrade League from 1942. Without his star Blagoje Marjanović , who had become a prisoner of war, after six years of abstinence, the season started successfully, which could also be won immediately and thus promoted to the Serbian league, which was the top division of the country during the military occupation .
The 1942/43 season ended the club in fourth place and left favorites like Jedinstvo Belgrade or the BASK behind. During this period there was a domestic tournament called Letnji Pehar ("The Summer Cup"), in which the best clubs in the country participated, including the BSK , SK 1903 , Obilić and Čukarički, which eventually reached the semifinals but failed at SK 1903. From the 1943/44 season the club was again part of the newly formed 1st Belgrade League, which consisted of ten clubs, but was interrupted and never ended on the 8th match day due to the approaching Yugoslav People's Liberation Army .
1944–2003: From the subclass to the European Cup
After Belgrade was liberated from the National Socialist and Fascist occupying powers at the end of 1944 by the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army and the Red Army , the club was initially no longer allowed to play under his name, but in 1948 it was given its original name again, this time as the football department of the Čukarički sports club. That year the club played in the 2nd Belgrade League, which was now the 6th league of the newly formed and now Socialist Yugoslavia . Under the direction of coach Jovan Veselinović they ended the season in fourth place.
In the 1950/51 season they made the promotion to the 1st Belgrade League and finally the march through to the 3rd League. 1956 missed promotion to the 2nd division. After the end of the 1955/56 season, numerous players left the club, so that the decline of the club began in 1956, which was not to celebrate a success for a whole decade. For the first time, Čukarički caused a sensation again in the 1966/67 season, when the 2nd Belgrade League and immediately the Belgrade City Cup were won. After only one season in the 1st league of Belgrade they rose to the 1st Serbian league, which was then the third highest division in the Yugoslav football system.
The following seasons, the club competed for promotion to the 2nd division, which he finally reached as the champion of the 1971/72 season. There Čukarički stayed for several years, but the club did not manage to move up to the first division . In the early 1990s, Čukarički played again in the 3rd division and between 1993 and 1995 in the 2nd division. In the 1994/95 season, the club made it to the top class for the first time in its history, when it was promoted to the first division of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , where it played until 1998. In 1996 and 1997 they also took part in the European Cup for the first time , for example in the Intertoto Cup . After a year of second-rate play in 1999, Čukarički rose as the master of the group east and remained first-rate between 2000 and 2003. The highest ranking during these four seasons was a 6th place in the 1999/2000 season, when 21 teams took part in league action.
2003–2012: From bankruptcy to privatization
After four years in the first division, Čukarički rose in 2003. Although 2004 succeeded as champions of the group West, the direct rise, but in 2005 they rose again. The association was renamed in the early 2000s because the construction company Stankom became the main sponsor and donor. Therefore, the club was known for a long time under the name Čukarički Stankom . With the arrival of Stankom the club was stabilized and in 2007 it was promoted to the first division, the Serbian Super League . From August 2007 to December 2008, the former Bundesliga coach Dragoslav Stepanović coached the club. After seven defeats in a row and the meanwhile last place in the table in the 2008/09 season, he was removed from his position. At the end of the season the team still managed to the ninth place in the table under coach Dejan Djurdjevic relegation .
The 2009/10 season ended Čukarički in 13th place and narrowly escaped relegation with three points ahead of Napredak Kruševac . Belgrade should not have this luck in the 2010/11 season. The club could not win a single of its 30 league games and was knocked off bottom of the table with only five points. Čukarički was also not very successful in the second division . With 41 points they were tied with Banat Zrenjanin and Radnički Sombor. Due to the direct comparison of all three teams, only Radnički Sombor had to start 15th in the final table in the 3rd division .
The association was in an extremely difficult financial situation and was on the verge of bankruptcy , but 2011 also marked a turning point when the construction and trading company ADOC, which is active in pharmaceuticals , diagnostics and construction , bought the association and immediately invested in the club. This makes Čukarički the first professional football club in Serbia to be privatized, making it one of the few clubs in Southeastern Europe that are even privately owned.
Since 2012: promotion, cup win and Europa League
Due to the privatization by ADOC owner Dragan Obradović, the financial and organizational situation of the club improved considerably, but investments were also made in the infrastructure and in the squad. As the new head coach Vladan Milojević was committed. In the 2012/13 season, the club then got the runner-up in the 2nd division and the associated promotion.
In the following 2013/14 season , the upswing of the club continued, so Čukarički was able to secure relegation with a surprising 5th place at the end. At the same time, the club was happy to take part in the 2014/15 Europa League , as UEFA banned the Serbian champions Red Star Belgrade from the European Cup for violating financial fair play . Čukarički then slipped in fifth place and returned to the international stage after 14 years.
The 2014/15 season ended in 3rd place and qualified for the 2015/16 Europa League . They also won the Serbian Cup for the first time when they defeated Partizan 1-0 in the final. So far it is the most successful season in the club's history. Before the 2015/16 season there were significant departures at Čukaričk, as top performers such as Rajko Brežančić (to AZ Alkmaar ), Slavoljub Srnić (to Red Star Belgrade ) and Nikola Stojiljković (to Sporting Braga ) left the club. For the first time, Čukaričk was able to achieve transfer proceeds in the millions. Despite the departures, they reached 3rd place again at the end of the 2015/16 season and qualified for the 2016/17 Europa League . Before that, Vladan Milojević resigned after three years as a coach for the winter break and was replaced by youth director Zoran Popović. However, he soon gave up his post for private reasons. The youth coach Milan Lešnjak was introduced as the new head coach in March 2016.
Stadion
The club's home stadium is the Stadion na Banovom brdu , which opened in 1969 and currently has 4,070 seats. After the acquisition by the ADOC company, the association renovated the association's premises in the first phase in the summer of 2012, which, among other things, received two new auxiliary spaces. Both are equipped with a lighting system and covered with artificial turf . One was built with the dimensions prescribed by UEFA and is equipped with several rows of seats on one side. There the home games of the youth teams are played, while the other one serves as a small field for the E and F youth.
In addition, the club facilities were also renovated, including the west and east stands, the parking spaces , boxes , the changing rooms and other facilities. In August 2013, new floodlights with a power of 1400 lux were installed. The expansion of the west and east stands is planned in a second renovation phase; the latter is to be roofed over as well. Overall, the club's management plans to initially occupy the stadium with 8,000 seats, and to make further modifications in order to meet the UEFA safety standards for international football events.
Trainer
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Dragoslav Stepanović (2007-2008)
player
Former major players
Miloš Ninković , who came from his own youth school, was the first player in the club to wear the shirt of the Serbian national team in 2009 . Most recently it was Milan Vilotić with the debut for the Serbian selection in 2011. Goran Gavrančić , who was partly from the youth, played between 2002 and 2006 for the national soccer team of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1993-2003) and for the Serbian-Montenegrin national soccer team ( 2003–2006). 2006).
Milan Dudić was during his time with Čukarički national team of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia-Montenegro, while Albert Nađ , who also ran for these countries, ended his career there. Some of the club's players have also become Serbian national players at other clubs. Examples are Bojan Isailović , Aleksandar Kolarov , Pavle Ninkov and, most recently, Nikola Stojiljković ( Sporting Braga ). Kolarov is currently the best-known international player to have ever played for Čukarički. Blagoje Marjanović is considered the most legendary player ever to wear the club's jersey . He was a Serbian football pioneer, the third most successful goalscorer of the former Yugoslav national team (1920-1992), reached the semi-finals at the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay and was considered one of the world's best strikers in the 1930s.
The club also had players under contract who played for other national teams. With numerous games for Ghana and participation in the 2010 World Cup, Lee Addy is one of the most famous foreign national players who played for Čukarički. Most of the foreign national players who wore the club's jersey played for the Montenegrin selection , most recently Ivan Kecojević . Forty-time Namibian international Eliphas Shivute was the first national player from a non-European country.
Miloš Ninković in the Dynamo Kiev jersey
Milan Vilotić in the jersey of BSC Young Boys
Ivan Kecojević in Gaziantepspor's jersey
Lee Addy in the Red Star Belgrade polo shirt
Other former players
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successes
- Serbian Cup Winner : 2015
- Third in the 1st Serbian League : 2015 , 2016
- Runner-up in the 2nd Serbian League 2007, 2013
Coat of arms history
until 2011
since 2011
Shirt supplier
Between 2007 and 2010, Nike was the club's official supplier. From 2010 to 2014 Čukarički was equipped by the Kappa . Since the 2014/15 season, Adidas has been providing the club with jerseys, training and casual wear.
| Years | Outfitter |
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| 2007-2010 |
 Nike |
| 2010-2014 |
 Kappa |
| 2014– |
Adidas |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Press : I Čukarički u polufinalu! Brđani izbacili Vojvodinu! (Serbian)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Istorijat kluba. Official website of the Čukarički football club (Serbian).
- ↑ B92 : FK Čukarički dobio novog gazdu. (Serbian)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h MOZZART Sport: ČUKARIČKA BAJKA: Od ruševina do jedinog srpskog kluba bez dugovanja. ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Serbian)
- ↑ a b c d Politika : Posle privatizacije Čukarički uz rame prvaku. ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Serbian)
- ↑ Telegraph : OVAKO ZVEZDA MOŽE DA SE SPASI: Čukarički otkrio tajnu uspeha! (Serbian)
- ↑ a b c d e f Monografija 85 godina Sportskog društva Čukarički 1926–2011. ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Serbian)
- ↑ Stepi leaves Čukarički. (No longer available online.) In: transfermarkt.de. December 8, 2008; archived from the original on January 6, 2010 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine : And where exactly is this financial fair play now?
- ↑ a b MOZZART Sport: Brdo raste u planinu. (Serbian)
