FK Radnički Niš
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| Surname | Fudbalski klub Radnički Niš (professional football team) |
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| Seat | Niš , Serbia | ||
| founding | April 23, 1923 | ||
| Colours | blue - white , red | ||
| president |
 Ivica Tončev
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| director |
Rade Basta
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| Website | fkradnickinis.rs | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Ivan Jevic
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| Venue | Čair Stadium | ||
| Places | 18,151 | ||
| league | Super League | ||
| 2019/20 | 5th place | ||
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The FK Radnički Niš (full official name in Serbian : Фудбалски клуб Раднички Ниш, Fudbalski klub Radnički Niš ), usually as Radnički Niš , discloses a Serbian football club based in Nis , the third largest city in Serbia, and plays in the Super League , the highest league in Serbian football .
In the former Yugoslavia Radnički Niš was one of the most stable clubs and spent 29 seasons in the 1st Yugoslav league . In 1980 and 1981, the club made it into the top 3 and landed on 11th place in the all-time table of the Yugoslav league (1946-1992).
The greatest international success Radnički Niš could book in 1982 , when the team advanced to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup . On the way there, clubs like SSC Napoli , Grasshopper Club Zurich , Feyenoord Rotterdam and Dundee United were defeated. In the semi-finals, they lost to Hamburger SV .
The club plays its home games in the Čair Stadium , which is part of the Čair Sports Center , to which other football fields , the Čair hall and a swimming pool are connected and is located in the city center.
history
1921–1945: The association was founded
The association was founded on April 23, 1923 in Niš , which is now the third largest city in Serbia . One of the most famous founding members was the communist activist Miloš Marković, on whose initiative the Sloboda Užice football club was founded two years later . The establishment of Radnički Niš actually took place as early as 1921 as Proleter Niš by members of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia . However, due to the pro-communist activities of its founders, this was not allowed by the Yugoslav sports association on the grounds that the communist party wanted to use the club for political purposes.
After the founders left the communist party and renamed the club Radnički Niš, the official approval to found the club was given. The new name Radnički means something like "worker" and comes from the association's relationship with the workers' movement . “Radnički Niš” can therefore be translated as “Workers' Association Niš”. Until 1925 the club played mostly friendly games , then he took part in the Yugoslav league events.
During the Second World War , Radnički Niš had to stop its activities because the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded, occupied and divided up by the Axis powers in April 1941 . The region around Niš fell under German administration. During the occupation, one of the first concentration camps in the former Yugoslavia, the Crveni Krst concentration camp , was established in the city , in which several thousand people were murdered. Association members and supporters of the association were among the victims. The camp memorial is now located on Bubanj Hill, not far from today's Čair Stadium , the club's venue. Football could be played again in 1945 after the city was liberated by Operation Niš at the end of 1944.
1962–1985: The greatest successes
1962 managed Radnički Niš under coach Miroslav Glišović with a win in the playoff against Vardar Skopje for the first time promotion to the highest Yugoslav league, the 1st Yugoslav league . 1975 won the overall victory over the Turkish representative Eskişehirspor, the Balkan Cup , the first title in the club's history and the first of European importance. In the summer of 1979 a three-year period of success finally began under the direction of Dušan Nenković. In the 1979/1980 season Radnički Niš made it into the top 3 Yugoslavia and qualified for the first time for an international competition, in this case the UEFA Cup . In the 1980/81 UEFA Cup , the club made it as a debutant to the round of 16 and failed at the later finalists AZ Alkmaar . In the league it was also successful, in which you could repeat the third place of the previous season and thus start in the UEFA Cup 1981/82 , in which you should achieve your greatest international success to date.
Already in the first round you had to play away against a strong SSC Napoli . In front of 70,000 spectators at the Stadio San Paolo , the score was 2-2. After a goalless second leg, the club finally managed to eliminate the favored Azzurri from the competition. In the second round they met Grasshopper Zurich . The Swiss achieved a 2-0 victory in Zurich , which Radnički Niš was able to equalize at home and ultimately stayed in the tournament with a convincing 3-0 on penalties . Feyenoord Rotterdam was waiting for the round of 16 . In Niš they won 2-0 while in De Kuip kanapp they lost 0-1.
In the quarterfinals, Radnički Niš was drawn by Dundee United , against whom they lost 2-0 in Scotland . Although the chances of reaching the semi-finals were extremely unfavorable, the turnaround finally succeeded and the club won a 3-0 home win. Another spectacle awaited the Čair Stadium in the semifinals, due to the clash with the star ensemble of Hamburger SV . In Niš they won 2-1 against the North Germans in front of 38,500 frenetic spectators, but in the second leg they ultimately went down 5-1 against the future finalists and later winners of the 1982/83 European Cup . After a year of abstinence from the international stage and now with Ilija Dimoski as coach, they qualified for the 1983/84 UEFA Cup , where they ended up in the round of 16 against league rivals Hajduk Split . In total, Radnički Niš played 22 times on the international stage during this period. You never lost a game against a foreign team at home.
1985–1995: decline, rebuilding and years of sadness
After several successful national and international seasons, Radnički Niš rose in 1985, despite several coach changes, completely unexpectedly after 23 years of membership in the first division as last placed in the second division. But under coach Josip Duvančić in 1986 the direct resurgence and they remained first class until the breakup of Yugoslavia . In 1989 the club reached the Balkan Cup final with Slobodan Halilović after 1975, but this time they lost to OFI Crete . In 1990 the club took part in the Mitropa Cup for the first time .
In national competition, however, the clubs from Croatia and Slovenia left the league after the 1990/91 season after these countries had declared their unilateral independence. The Macedonian clubs followed them after the 1991/92 season, while the teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina did not finish the season, except for Borac Banja Luka , as the Bosnian War broke out there in April . After Yugoslavia broke up into its individual states, Serbia and Montenegro came to terms and formed a new Yugoslavia in April 1992 , but UN sanctions were already imposed on the country at the end of May due to the civil war .
After UEFA decided to exclude the Yugoslav national football team , which had already arrived in the European Championship district, from the 1992 European Championship , all Yugoslav clubs were also excluded from all European competitions. This ultimately led to the suppression of the previously successful Yugoslav football from the international football scene, so that the slogan "Sport is sport, there is no place for politics" was not taken into account here. During the 1994/95 season, UEFA allowed all Yugoslav football clubs to return to the European Cup, while the national team remained excluded.
Finally, another fate struck the Yugoslav clubs. Because instead of being able to pick up where the clubs had to leave off in the spring of 1992, UEFA decided that the points that had been achieved by then for the UEFA five-year ranking of all Yugoslav clubs should be canceled. This decision, the collapse of the country, the league and its immediate consequences were ultimately to have catastrophic long-term effects on all of Yugoslav football, including Radnički Niš.
1995–2014 - doldrums and comeback
The following years were marked by a descent of the team to the mediocrity of the league. In the 2000/2001 season, the club was unable to compensate for a chain of negative consequences and was relegated for the second time in its history, but this time too, as a champion, the direct rise was achieved, but the direct relegation also followed. Thereafter, the club appeared in the following five seasons in the second division. During the 2008/09 season they even played in the third division, which they could win. The following season 2009/2010 you ended on a relegation place, but you rose again in 2010/11. This was finally followed by the championship title of the Prva Liga and thus again the first class after ten years of abstinence.
New momentum was given in the SuperLiga with a stadium that is still being renovated today. Since then, the club has been able to hold its own in the first division. For the city of Niš , the association is the figurehead and the largest advertising medium, which is reflected in the sponsors of the association, as some foreign investors also invest in the association. An important part of the club is also its youth department, which was founded in 1963. The youth department had its greatest success in 1991 when they became Yugoslav champions.
Stadion
The club's home stadium is the Čair Stadium , which was built in 1963 and has been operated by Radnički Niš since 1969. It is part of the Čair sports complex, to which the Čair hall and a swimming pool are connected. The stadium has been completely renovated since 2011 in order to meet the UEFA security standards for national and international football events. When the stadium is completed, the seating capacity will be over 25,000.
The stadium was opened for the domestic league on September 15, 2012, which officially opened with the game against FK Smederevo . Although only the west and south stands were released, Radnički Niš won the game 1-0 in front of 7,000 spectators. The north and east stands have now also been released.
Coat of arms and colors
Initially, the club wore a green and white split jersey, with a red five-pointed star on the left, white side, which symbolized the labor movement . In addition to the star, the color red was also used as a symbol, which was later adopted as the main jersey color alongside white. On the other hand, the club uses a blue jersey as the away jersey in order to use all the colors that the Serbian flag contains . The club coat of arms also contains the colors red and white, as well as the year of foundation and the medieval fortress of Niš, which is an important cultural and historical monument of the city. A modernization of the club logo is planned in the near future.
successes
Championship successes
- Twice third in the 1st Yugoslav League : 1980, 1981
- Once champion of the 2nd Yugoslav league: 1986
- Three times runner-up in the 2nd Yugoslav League: 1957, 1958, 1962
- Once runner-up in the 3rd Yugoslav league: 1955
- Once third in the 2nd division of Serbia and Montenegro: 2004
- Two times champions of the 2nd Serbian league : 2002, 2012
- Two times champions of the 3rd Serbian league : 2009, 2011
Cup successes
- Three times semi-finalist of the Yugoslav Cup : 1952, 1970, 1977
- Once semi-finalist in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Cup : 1994
- Once semi-finalist in the Cup of Serbia and Montenegro : 2006
International success
- One time UEFA Cup semi-finalist: 1982
- Twice the eighth-finalist in the UEFA Cup: 1981 , 1984
- Once Balkan Cup winner: 1975
- Once a finalist in the Balkan Cup: 1989.
More Achievements
Radnički Niš once provided a top scorer . In 2012, striker Ivan Pejčić was the top scorer in the Serbian 2nd division with 13 goals. In the all-time table of the Yugoslav league, the club occupies 11th place. Out of 953 games in 29 seasons, Radnički Niš won 330, lost 365 and drew 255 times. The goal difference is 1067: 1157.
Trainer
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Dragoslav Stepanović (2014)
player
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Dragan Holcer (1963-1967) -
Dragan Stojković (1981–1986)
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Predrag Ocokoljić (1997-1998) -
Petar Đenić (1997–2000, 2010–2011)
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Outfitter
The club's supplier was the Italian sports brand Lotto between 2002 and 2007 . Legea, also an Italian brand, took over equipment for the club until 2011 . For the 2011/2012 season it was the German sporting goods manufacturer Adidas . Since the 2012/2013 season, Legea has been responsible for the equipment again.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Official homepage of Radnicki Nis: Istorijat Kluba (Serbian) ( Memento of the original from March 1, 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.
- ↑ Official homepage of the Meraklije fan group : Историја Радничког (Serbian)
- ↑ Srpskifudbal (Serbian) - Reconstruction se i zapad Čaira
- ↑ Sportske - Premijera na Čairu začinjena evrogolom! (Serbian) Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Perpetual table of the 1st Yugoslav football league.
