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FK Bor

Coordinates: 44°04′17″N 22°06′05″E / 44.071276°N 22.101381°E / 44.071276; 22.101381
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Bor
Full nameFudbalski klub Bor
Nickname(s)Real sa Pirita
Founded1919; 105 years ago (1919)
GroundFK Bor Stadium
Capacity5,000
LeagueZone League East
2021–224th

FK Bor (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Бор) is a football club based in Bor, Serbia.[1]

History

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Bor manager Milija Brkić during a Yugoslav Second League match (1990s)
FK Bor stadium

Early Years (1920s to 1960s)

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The club was founded in 1919 as a Serbian-French sports society under the name Association Sportive Bor (ASB). The club was financed by the French Society of the Bor Mines and managed by a Frenchman named Loren, the director of mechanical services in Bor mining company. Not much is recorded about the early club activity, until the first official game played in 1920. First ASB's head coach was Gallois, who also played for the club as well as for France national football team. ASB played only friendlies until early 1930s when it joined the Niš Football Subassociation where it played in the Timok Valley regional league with moderate success until the beginning of the Second World War.

At the beginning of the Second World War, the club was renamed BSK. This was the most successful club in the area of the Eastern Serbia and achieved good results in the Serbian football competitions during the war.

BSK and another local team Rudar merged in early 1945, to form a club with the name of Radnički. Next year, the club officially changed its name to FK Bor and was engaged in the first organized post-war competitions. Soon the prefix rudarski (meaning the miners) was added to the name and the club was known as RFK Bor until 1974, when it changed back to FK Bor.

Rise to Prominence (1960s and 1970s)

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Victories over Radnički Niš by 7–0 and Radnički Kragujevac by 9–1 are good examples of some great exhibitions made in the '50s. Bor played in the Eastern Serbia regional leagues until 1963, when it qualified for the Yugoslav Second League by defeating FK Sloboda Užice in a 3-game playoff. In 1963–64, their first season in the national level, they finished 2nd behind FK Sutjeska Nikšić. FK Bor stayed in the Second League for five consecutive seasons.[2]

The season 1967–68 was by far the best one in the club's history. Coached by Radojica Radojičić, Bor not only won the East Division of the 1967–68 Yugoslav Second League, therefore getting promotion to the top division, the Yugoslav First League, but it also reached the final of the 1967–68 Yugoslav Cup and qualified for the 1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup. Goalkeeper Jovan Hajduković was voted the best player of the East Division of the Second League.

In the domestic cup campaign Bor achieved two major upsets. In the round of 16, they eliminated the top side FK Radnički Niš in an away match by 2–3, with two goals in the extra time. After eliminating FK Sloboda Tuzla in the quarter-finals, Bor was drawn with another top Yugoslav club, FK Vojvodina. Vojvodina, who were crowned Yugoslav Champions just one year ago, was a clear favorite to win the game. However, backed by some 10,000 home supporters, Bor pulled off a 2–1 victory and qualified for a final with Yugoslav and European powerhouse Red Star Belgrade.

The final was played on 22 May 1968 in Belgrade. Although Red Star won easily with 7–0 securing the Double, Bor earned the right to represent Yugoslavia in the next year's Cup Winners' Cup.

Originally, Bor was drawn against Union Berlin but after the East German clubs withdrew from the competition, they were drawn against the Czechoslovak side Slovan Bratislava. Slovan won 3–2 on aggregate and eventually won the 1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup trophy.

Bor finished its first season in the top level at 13th place among 18 clubs. They were selected to represent Yugoslavia in the 1969 Balkans Cup – a minor international club competition for Balkan nations. They were eliminated in the group stage with Dinamo Tirana from Albania and Universitatea Craiova from Romania.

After three seasons in the top division they were relegated in 1971, but immediately bounced back, finishing the 1971–72 Second League in front of Priština and eliminating Rudar Ljubija and FK Crvenka in the playoffs. Bor played three more seasons in the Yugoslav First League until 1975. They reached the quarter-finals of the 1970–71 Yugoslav Cup where they were again defeated by the eventual winner Red Star Belgrade.

Bor played two more seasons in the Second League. After 14 consecutive years of playing in the national levels, they got relegated back to the Serbian Republic league (3rd level) in 1977. They were promoted back to the Second League after two seasons and in 1979–80 Yugoslav Second League nearly missed out the promotion back to the top national league. Before the last matchday up to 5 teams, including Bor, were contesting the first place. Eventually, after allegations of match fixing and an investigation by Yugoslav Football Association, OFK Beograd, Radnički Kragujevac and FK Bor all finished with 37 points, however, OFK Beograd was promoted due to the best goal-difference.

1980s and 1990s

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The club played in the Second Yugoslav League with moderate success during the first half of the 80s. In 1986 they got relegated to the Serbian Republic League and, in the late 80s, a new third-level competition was formed - the Inter-Republic Leagues. Bor played alongside some solid teams from Serbia proper, Kosovo and Macedonia. In 1990 Bor won this league and promoted to the 1990–91 Yugoslav Second League. In 1992, SFR Yugoslavia collapsed, and Bor continued to play in the 1992–93 Second League of FR Yugoslavia with teams from Serbia and Montenegro but soon got relegated to the Serbian League East.

The club was always relying on RTB Bor for financing and the decline of copper production in the '90s due to the country's economic isolation took its toll on FK Bor as well. Bor saw its last period of playing in the national football level in the late 90s, playing in the Second League of Serbia and Montenegro between 1996 and 2001.

Financial struggles in recent years and lower league football (2000s and 2010s)

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Over the last two decades, Bor has been struggling between Serbian League East and the Serbian Zone League (3rd and 4th competition level) even spending a season in the Bor District League (5th level). In 2012, while playing in the 4th league, the club changed its name to OFK Bor. In 2017, after relegation from the Zone League, club folded due to financial difficulties. The next year, they reorganised under the name FK Bor 1919 and they currently compete in Zone League East, the fourth-highest football league in Serbia.

Records and highlights

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FK Bor played in the national Cup Finale in season 1967–68:

Honours

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  • Yugoslav Second League
    • Winners: 1967–68, 1971–72
  • Yugoslav Cup
    • Runners-up: 1967–68
  • Serbian League
    • Winners: 1962–63, 1979–80, 1989–90, 1995–96
  • Niš Zone League
    • Winners: 1960–61, 1961–62
  • Bor and Zaječar District Cup
    • Winners: 1935–36, 1936–37, 1938–39, 1995–96, 1996–97
  • Niš Football Association Cup
    • Winners: 1953–54
  • RTB Trophy
    • Winners: 1957

FK Bor in Europe

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season competition round land team result
1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup 1st round Czechoslovakia Slovan Bratislava 0–3, 2–0

FK Bor Supporters Player of the Year

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Managerial history

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  • Serbia Marko Terzić (2017–?)
  • Serbia Ivan Bešinić (5 September 2014 – 2017)
  • Serbia Hakija Rovčanin (August 2013 – 5 September 2014)
  • Serbia Rajko Mitić (December 2011 – August 2013)
  • Serbia Milija Brkić (5 September 2010 – December 2011)
  • Serbia Miodrag Milić (1–5 September 2010 – only one game)
  • Serbia Emil Salifovski (March, 2010 – September 2010)
  • Serbia Vojkan Aleksić (August 2009 – March, 2010)
  • Serbia Miodrag Nikolić (2008 – August, 2009)
  • Serbia Nenad Branković (May, 2007–2008)
  • Serbia Vojkan Aleksić (August 2006 – May, 2007)
  • Serbia and Montenegro ? (July, 2004–2006)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Zaviša Milosavljević (24 July 2002 – July, 2004)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Nemanja Radulović (February 2001 – 20 June 2002)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Dragan Ivanov (August 2000 – February, 2001)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Zaviša Milosavljević (September 1999 – August, 2000)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Vladimir Petrović (January, 1999 – September, 1999)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Hakija Rovčanin (Summer, 1998 – January, 1999)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Milenko Kiković (July, 1997 – Summer, 1998)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Zoran Čolaković (June, 1995 – July, 1997)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Vladimir Petrović (May 16, 1994 – June, 1995)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Slobodan Perišić (August, 1993 – May 15, 1994)
  • Serbia and Montenegro Budislav Pajić (February, 1993 – August, 1993)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Perišić (September, 1990 – February, 1993)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Hakija Rovčanin (April, 1990 – September, 1990)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ištvan Šorban (December, 1987 – April, 1990)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Radović (April, 1987 – December, 1987)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Nedeljko Pilčević (June, 1986 – April, 1987)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Damnjanović (January, 1986 – June, 1986)
 
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Perišić (August, 1978 – January, 1986)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Radojica Radojičić (1977/78)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Pavao Rajzner (May, 1976 – until the end of the season 1976/77)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragutin Spasojević (October, 1974 – May, 1976)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Ilić-Meda (Autumn, 1973 – October, 1974)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Boris Marović (June, 1965 – Autumn, 1973)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragutin Spasojević (December, 1972–1973)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sima Vilić (August, 1972 – December, 1972)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Marcel Žigante (1968–1972)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Radojica Radojičić (1966–1968)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milivoje Bakovljev (June, 1965– December, 1965)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Branislav Aćimović (January, 1964– June, 1965)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Boris Marović (October, 1963 – until the end of the season 1963/64)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miodrag Arunović (August, 1963 – October, 1963)
  • Albania Asim Fehmi (June, 1963 – August, 1963)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Petar Purić (January, 1963 – June, 1963)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Abdulah Gegić (1961–1963)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ilija Rajković (January, 1961 – until the end of the season 1960/61)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Babanović (1960 – until the second half of the season 1960/61)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragoljub Nikolić (1960 – only coached 5 competitive matches in 1960/61)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Boško Ralić (1958–1960)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Petar Purić (1956–1958)
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Budimir Milivojević (first professional manager (1952–1956))
  • France Gallois (1919–?)

References

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  1. ^ "Slavna istorija FK Bora" (in Serbian). mojsport.net. Archived from the original on 2009-05-15. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  2. ^ "SISTEM TAKMIČENJA U JUGOSLAVIJI 1968.-1973" (in Serbian). fsgzrenjanin.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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44°04′17″N 22°06′05″E / 44.071276°N 22.101381°E / 44.071276; 22.101381