OFK Beograd
OFK Belgrade (full official name in Serbian: Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, Omladinski Fudbalski Klub Beograd; German: Youth Football Club Belgrade ), commonly known as OFK, is the football section of OFK Belgrade, a Serbian sports club from the capital, Belgrade, in the Super League play, the top division in the Serbian football.
The club was founded in 1911 under the name of BSK, who was with five championships won the most successful football club in the Kingdom of Serbia, and later in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After two name changes in 1957, the club received its present name. In the 1950s and 1960s OFK Belgrade celebrated his greatest successes when he first runner-up of the Yugoslav league was twice and four times Cup winners.
In European football, the club reached the semi-finals of the 1960 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the forerunner to the UEFA Cup, but failed at FC Barcelona, who eventually won the cup. In the following season 1960/61 they reached the quarter-finals in the same competition, but against Inter Milan was the last stop.
1963 reached OFK Belgrade in the European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final, but lost to the eventual winners Tottenham Hotspur. The last time you reached a European quarter-final in 1973 when they failed to Twente Enschede in the UEFA Cup. Finally followed a decade- long dry spell, nationally and internationally. The last major success of the club was reaching the national cup final 2006.
- 4.1 Football
History
1898-1911: The history
Beginning of 1911 there was a dispute between several players in the football department founded in 1907, founded in 1898 in Belgrade Fencing Association Srpski Mac (English Serbian sword) and the Association President Radivoje Novakovic, who disagreed with the host a friendly match against the Hask. The association founded in 1903 from Zagreb, who then was under the Hungarian Football Association, it was at that time forbidden by the Association to stage international matches. Reason was a law from 1907, should be exclusively Hungarian are spoken after at all stations in the former Croatia and Slavonia, which belonged to Austria - Hungary, which the Croatians, supported by the Serbian, opposed in the regions.
The Czech Miloš Ekert, who was previously changed from Hask to Srpski mac, kept in touch with his former teammates and saw it as an opportunity to stage a match between these two teams. The players of Srpski Mac agreed to in contrast to the club president, a flatly rejected this proposal. He saw in it no sense, because he believed that his association was much weaker than the Hask, who was already an established club indeed. So the club's management decided that all the players who went to Zagreb nevertheless, they should be excluded from the club due to undisciplined behavior. Aware of this, however, motivated by this challenge, drove many players, accompanied by some players of SK Soko, the encounter to Zagreb and claimed to be national of the Kingdom of Serbia.
Once there, you graduated in May two games in two days, you both clearly lost. The former Zagreb newspapers praised the Serbian team for their efforts and their courage to challenge the better and clearly experienced Hask while one was at home on hold due to irresponsible unilateralism great criticism, mainly because you do not aground under the name Srpski mac, but themselves as national the Kingdom designated. At the same time, of course, the play was criticized. Ultimately, the dissidents were banished from the clubs who decided in July 1911 to create a new football club, which should eventually lead to the emergence of OFK Belgrade.
1911-1941: The early years
At the first inaugural meeting of former players Srpski mac, was Andre Jovic as club president, Danilo Stojanović, better known determined by his nickname Cika Daca, one of the greatest pioneers of Serbian football, and Jevrem Pantelic as Vice President and Dušan Milošević as Vereinssekräter. As treasurer Miloš Ekert was chosen, who was also one of the first foreign players in the country, as well as its proposal, the club got its first name. Beogradski sports skiing club ( Belgrade Sports Club), the association officially established - Finally, on September 1, 1911 under the name of BSK. The first pitch of the BSK was on a former horse racing track, where today the Technical Faculty of the University of Belgrade, and the Hotel Metropol. His first encounter was played by the club on October 13, 1911 against Šumadija 1903, a club from the city of Kragujevac, whose foundation had also previously performed Danilo Stojanović, they could decide for themselves with 9:1. Between 1923 and 1941, the BSK won five championships and became the most successful football club in the Kingdom of Serbia, and later in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1945-present: Golden Years and drought
Between 1945 and 1950 the club was Metalac again, then BSK. In 1957 he received the current name OFK Belgrade. In the 1950s and 1960s, the club celebrated his greatest successes in the Yugoslav football. At the time the club played a particularly attractive and successful football, so he also received the nickname Romantičari ( " The Romantics "). He was born in 1955 and 1962 runner-up, as well as 1953, 1955, 1962 and 1966 Cup winner, still standing in the shadow of the big city rivals Red Star Belgrade and Partizan.
In European football, the club reached the semi-finals of the 1960 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the forerunner to the UEFA Cup, but failed at FC Barcelona, who eventually won the cup. In the following season 1960/61 they reached the quarter-finals in the same competition, but against Inter Milan was the last stop. 1963 reached OFK Belgrade in the European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final, but lost to the eventual winners Tottenham Hotspur. In 1973, another European quarter-final, this time you failed in the UEFA Cup at Twente Enschede.
Finally, followed a year-long losing streak, nationally and internationally. In the 1980s and 1990s the club was not as strong. Only in 2003 and 2004 played the OFK Belgrade in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and in 2005 and again in 2006 in the UEFA Cup. The last major success of the club was reaching the national cup final in 2006. In the 2009/2010 season was the club, thanks to a third-place finish to qualify for the UEFA Europa League.
Stadium
The Omladinski Stadium is the home ground of OFK Belgrade. It is expected to soon be completely renovated to become the UEFA security standards for national and international football events justice.
Known player
1930 - 1950
- Aleksandar Tirnanić
- Blagoje Marjanović
1950 - 1970
- Blagoje Krivokuća
- Srboljub Krivokuća
- Spasoje Samardzic
- Sava Antic
- Dragoslav Stepanovic
- Josip Skoblar
- Petar Radenković
- Milos Milutinovic
1970 - 1990
- Slobodan Santrač
- Ilija Petković
- Petar Borota
1990 - 2010
- Nenad Erić
- Branislav Ivanović
- Aleksandar Kolarov
- Djordje Rakic
- Ognjen Koroman
- Marko Baša
- Nemanja Vučićević
- Vanja Grubač