Fudbalski savez Beograda

Fudbalski savez Beograda (FSB)

Founded	March 12, 1920 (as Beogradski loptački podsavez - BLP)
president	Slaviša Kokeza
address	Deligradska 27 / III 11000 Beograd
Master gentlemen	FK Zemun
Cup winners men	FK Zemun
Parent association	Fudbalski savez Srbije (FSS)
Subordinate Associations	Fudbalski savez Opštine Grocka Fudbalski savez Opštine Lazarevac Fudbalski savez Opštine Mladenovac Fudbalski savez Opštine Obrenovac Fudbalski savez Opštine Sopot
region	17 Belgrade municipalities
Clubs (approx.)	276 *
Members (approx.)	39,152 *
Teams (approx.)	552 * * As of April 3, 2015
Homepage	www.fsb.org.rs

The Fudbalski savez Beograda (FSB) ( Serbian - Cyrillic Фудбалски савез Београда - ФСБ ; Serbian for "Football Association of Belgrade", formerly Београдски лоптачки подсавез - БЛП, Beogradski loptački podsavez - BLP ; "Belgrade Fußballunternehmen Association") is the umbrella organization of all football associations and thus of all football clubs on the territory of the Serbian capital Belgrade . The March 12, 1920 as Beogradski loptački podsavez founded association was of the course of the ascent soccer sport in the postwar years and is one of five regional associations, the right Fudbalski savez Srbije (FSS) are subordinated to the Serbian Football Association.

The Football Association of Belgrade also includes the football associations of the Belgrade suburbs Grocka , Lazarevac , Mladenovac , Obrenovac and Sopot . The seat of the Belgrade Football Association is in the city center, more precisely in the building of the Gradski centar za fizičku kulturu (“Municipal Center for Physical Culture”), also known as Državni institut za fiskulturu - DIF (“State Institute for Physical Culture”) or Stari DIF (“Old DIF "), Which is located in the Savski venac district of Belgrade .

The association has 47 leagues and 39,152 members in 276 clubs with 552 teams , as well as 630 referees and up to 1000 coaches . There are also 335 football facilities on the association's territory (as of April 3, 2015).

history

After the end of World War I , the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was founded, which was to be renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929 , and the Kingdom of Serbia since 1918 . When the Jugoslovenski nogometni savez - JNS ("Yugoslav Football Association") was founded in Zagreb on September 18, 1919 , the founding meeting of which was chaired by the Serbian football pioneer Danilo Stojanović , it was determined that a total of four regional football sub -associations should arise. One of them should have the headquarters in the capital Belgrade, which should be responsible for the football organization in Serbia, which at that time still comprised the areas of today's Kosovo , Montenegro and Macedonia . Finally, on March 12, 1920, the Beogradski loptački podsavez - BLP ("Belgrade Football Sub-Association ") was founded in Belgrade, the founding meeting of which was organized by representatives of the Belgrade football clubs, who sent invitations to all the clubs that were under the responsibility of the new association , so also at clubs based far outside the capital.

The meeting took place in a hall of the Slavija restaurant , at which about forty delegates appointed a board , headed by Professor Dragutin Kostić. Immediately after the founding, a city championship was organized in which everyone competed only once and initially only four clubs participated, namely the Belgrade SK , SK Jugoslavija , BUSK and SK Soko , while the Srpski mač withdrew its participation at the end. The Belgrade SK won every match and eventually became the first official city champion of Belgrade. There followed a noticeable upswing in Belgrade football, as other clubs were soon founded and a league system was introduced. In the meantime, other associations were established in Subotica , Skoplje , Veliki Bečkerek , today's Zrenjanin , and Novi Sad . Until then, the Belgrade Football Association was by far the largest sub-association of the kingdom , so that it gained enormous importance within a very short time.

But it soon became clear that relief made sense for various reasons, for logistical reasons alone, because cities such as Skoplje, Niš and Subotica were relatively far away for the time, which made the association difficult to function. In 1930 the Belgrade Association was responsible for 91 clubs in the area, 51 of them in the city of Belgrade. This also contributed to the fact that the headquarters of the Yugoslav Football Association was relocated to the capital. However, this displeased the sports officials from Zagreb, so that the Croatians finally boycotted participation in the 1930 World Cup . The Yugoslav squad received 13 of 17 players from Belgrade clubs alongside coach Boško Simonović . Nevertheless, the team did extremely well.

Association area

The 17 Belgrade districts, which practically all have represented at least one club in the three top football leagues in Serbia.

The association area of the Fudbalski savez Beograda (FSB) extends to the area of the capital Belgrade. With 1.66 million inhabitants (2011 census), it is the most populous city in Serbia and, after Istanbul and Bucharest, the third largest metropolis in Southeast Europe . This means that just over 16 percent of the country's people live in the capital region, by far the largest agglomeration in Serbia. Belgrade is divided into 17 districts, more precisely into ten urban districts and seven suburban districts.

With 3227 km², the area of the Belgrade district is almost four times the size of Berlin , which consists of 14 districts. This makes the city not only the largest district in the country, but also the second largest in southeastern Europe after Istanbul and one of the largest in all of Europe . Belgrade thus also plays a central role in Serbia in terms of football , because there, due to the metropolitan area, most of the country's football players and clubs are concentrated in a very small area.

The 17 districts, which have practically all represented at least one club in the three highest leagues in Serbia, namely in the Superliga (1st division), Prva liga (2nd division) and the Srpska liga Beograd (3rd division), are the ten districts of Čukarica , Novi Beograd , Palilula , Rakovica and Savski venac , as well as Stari grad , Vračar , Voždovac , Zemun and Zvezdara . The seven suburbs, however, are Barajevo , Grocka , Lazarevac and Mladenovac , as well as Obrenovac , Sopot and Surčin .

The core city has an area of 359.96 km², the surrounding suburban areas 2862.72 km², with the area of some districts partly belonging to the core city and partly to the suburb. The three most populous districts are Novi Beograd with 212,104 inhabitants, Čukarica with 179,031 and Palilula with 170,593 inhabitants. The districts with the least population are, however, Sopot with 20,199 inhabitants, Barajevo with 27,036 and Savski venac with 38,660 inhabitants. Some of the Vostadt districts have their own football associations, including the Grocka, Lazarevac, Mladenovac, Obrenovac and Sopot districts, but they are all subordinate to the Belgrade Association.

The most successful clubs

This chapter looks at the most successful and historically significant clubs in the Belgrade area (as of July 18, 2015). This applies above all to the clubs that participate in the first three top divisions of Socialist Yugoslavia (1945–1992), the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003) or that of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006), as well as that of Serbia (2006 – today) participated. The latter applies particularly to the Superliga (1st division), Prva liga (2nd division) and the Srpska liga (3rd division). The 3rd division of Serbia is divided into four sections, of which the Srpska liga Beograd is one of the four sections in which, in contrast to the others, only clubs from the Belgrade area compete or which are subject to the Fudbalski savez Beograda.

Excellence

The 10 Belgrade boroughs within the boundaries of the core city . Most of them are south of the Sava and Danube . The major Serbian clubs FK Crvena zvezda and FK Partizan are only a few hundred meters apart, more precisely in Savski venac , in the center of the metropolis.

The most successful clubs in Belgrade, by far also those of former Yugoslavia and today's Serbia, as well as one of the most successful in Southeastern Europe, FK Crvena zvezda ("Red Star") and FK Partizan , which are only a few hundred meters apart, both come from the city center , more precisely from Savski venac. The third, but by far the driving force of capital city football is the OFK Belgrade , which is based in northern Belgrade , more precisely in the Karaburma district , which is located in Palilula. The OFK is followed by the FK Rad from the Banjica district , which lies between the central Savski venac and the southeastern Voždovac. The latter is the home of FK Voždovac . To the west of Voždovac, in the south-western part of Belgrade, there is FK Čukarički , currently one of the most up-and-coming Belgrade clubs, whose seat is Banovo brdo , a district of Čukarica. In the coming 2015/16 season, they will all play in the highest Serbian soccer league, the Superliga , which thus includes six out of 16 league clubs from the Belgrade area, what

FK BSK Borča also spent several seasons there. The club from Palilula, more precisely from the Borča settlement , played in the super league from 2009 to 2013. Even the FK Bežanija from the same district from the western Novi Beograd played between 2006 and 2008 in the makings. In contrast, FK Zemun , from the northwestern district of the same name, has only spent one season there, namely in the 2006/2007 season. Instead, it played a role in the 1st Yugoslav League (1923-1992) in the early 1980s and 1990s during the times of Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1992) , and from 1992 to 2006 in the 1st League of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2003 ) or in that of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), the Prva liga SR Jugoslavije / Srbije i Crne Gore (1992-2006). The 1920 founded FK Radnički Beograd from Novi Beograd, however, was important in the 1950s in the 1st Yugoslav league, and from 1992 to mid-2000 in the higher leagues of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in those of Serbia and Montenegro. For a long time, however, the club has only played in the lower Belgrade leagues.

Similar to Radnički Belgrade, FK Obilić , whose home is in the center of Belgrade, more precisely in Vračar, which, however, even played for the highest championship at the end of the 1990s and this as the only Belgrade club alongside Crvena zvezda, Partizan and OFK could win. From the mid-2000s, however, the club began to fall deeply into today's total sub-class. Also in 1930, launched FK Železnik from the district Železnik in Čukarica had emerged during this period its heyday from 2004, a third place in the first league of Serbia and Montenegro and in 2005 a surprising Cup victory. But also this club met a similar fate as Radnički and Obilić. In addition, the 1927 founded FK Radnički Obrenovac from western Obrenovac played between 2002 and 2004 in the top division of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which is currently in the 3rd division of Serbia.

Second rate

The clubs from the Belgrade area that have made it up to Prva liga , the 2nd Serbian league, include FK Kolubara, founded in 1919 from the southernmost suburb of Lazarevac, and FK Teleoptik from Zemun, which today acts as the Partizan's farm team . FK Kolubara even played in the 2nd division of Socialist Yugoslavia from 1983 to 1985 . Other clubs are in 1924 launched FK Mladenovac, from the same suburb, as well as in 1903 as SK Soko resulting FK BASK from the district Careva Cuprija in Čukarica, today oldest existing club of Belgrade, as well as one of the oldest in this part of Europe. Furthermore, the Prva liga also reached FK Sinđelić from Voždovac, founded in 1937, and FK Hajduk Belgrade, founded in the same year and based in the Lion district , which is located in eastern Zvezdara. With Bežanija, BSK Borča, Kolubara, Sinđelić and FK Zemun, five clubs from 16 second division clubs from the Belgrade area are currently coming. Bežanija spent the most time of all Belgrade clubs in the Prva liga with 7 seasons and is in 3rd place in the all-time table of the Prva liga behind FK Mladost Lučani and FK Inđija .

Third class

The Srpska liga , the 3rd division of Serbia, is divided into four sections, of which the Srpska liga Beograd is one of the sections in which, in contrast to the other sections, only clubs from the Belgrade area compete or which are subject to the Belgrade Football Association. Currently the BASK and Radnički Obrenovac as well as Teleoptik and Železnik are the most important clubs there.

Clubs in the top leagues in 2015/16

designation	number	Teams
Super league	6th	OFK Beograd , FK Crvena zvezda , FK Čukarički , FK Partizan , FK Rad , FK Voždovac
Prva liga	5	FK Bežanija , FK BSK Borča , FK Kolubara , FK Sinđelić , FK Zemun
Srpska liga Beograd	16	All from the Belgrade area