FK Å umadija 1903

The FK Šumadija (full official name in Serbian: Фудбалски клуб Шумадија, Fudbalski klub Šumadija ) is a Serbian football club from the city of Kragujevac. The association in 1903 by Danilo Stojanović, one of the most famous pioneer of Serbian football, founded belongs next to the BASK and FK Backa 1901 to the three oldest existing football clubs in Serbia. In its 110-year history has the FK Šumadija - unlike most of today higher class gambling clubs - never changed his name.

History

Association was founded

When the club was founded on September 14, 1903 on the initiative of the then 24 -year-old Danilo Stojanović under its present name in Kragujevac, the team next to the SK Soko, today FK BASK, only the second football club in the Kingdom of Serbia was. Thus, it is one of the pioneer teams of at this time are not yet widely popular sport in Serbia. As a student in Mittweida he learned of the then German Reich playing football at a Polish club called " Wisła ". Stojanović was so excited about the football, that for him back then, it was clear also introduce the new sport in his homeland. To this end, he brought the first footballs from Germany to Kragujevac. After his return, he first worked as a teacher at a school. There he taught the students also play football. Stojanović was player-coach, and the first elected club president of the association and suggested his name. The name Šumadija is a heavily forested region, therefore, is also the name of the association as " Šuma " in the Serbian forest. The City of Kragujevac is still regarded as the center of this region.

First encounters

After the FK Šumadija his games before, " Vašarište " graduated on the urban playground, at the initiative of the Association on May 6, 1904, opened with the first official match of the Association, the first soccer field of Serbia in Kragujevac. The opening match was played between two teams of the club on djurdjevdan, in commemoration of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman occupation of a hundred years ago, and ended with the 1-0 victory for the A- team. Independently, the first official game of the SK Soko took place in Belgrade on the same day.

The next whit the first meeting between the two teams was held in Belgrade, which the FK Šumadija lost with 0:9. This match was the first official meeting of two Serbian football clubs, which also pursued the crown prince Đorđe Karadjordjević. The return match in Kragujevac was held in September of the same year and ended with a 5-1 defeat for the hosts FK Šumadija.

Danilo Stojanović should stay for three years, then in 1906 he moved to Belgrade, where he played for SK Soko. At the same time moved Sevan Stevanovic, son of a wealthy cannery owner and founding member of the SK Soko, for FK Šumadija. He took over the club's management for a total of four decades. The first victory they picked 1907 in Aleksinac against FK Deligrad, the one defeated in a friendly match 5-0. In the same year they also played against FK Backa 1901 in Subotica.

Subotica was still under Austria - Hungarian administration, not all players of FK Šumadija allowed entry, it also Sevan Stevanovic was affected. So we first went to only eight players and lost with 1:5. The consolation goal came in the second half, when the FK Backa presented to guests three of his players. The rematch took place in Belgrade in the same year. The encounter was wearing MAC on the field of Srpski. This association was created in 1905 as a football section of the Fencing Association and in 1906 became an independent football club. The second game we lost, this time with 1:3.

Development

In the following years, the FK Šumadija developed one of the leading clubs in the country. As the National Olympic Committee in Belgrade organized the first tournament of the country, the club reached the final. It was held on May 11 in " Košutnjak " on the field of BSK, SK Velika Srbija that the 3-1 could decide for themselves. After the First World War, the FK Šumadija could not build on the old development and played from then mostly in the minor leagues in the country.

Former notable players

• Danilo Stojanović

Swell

• Serbian football club
• Kragujevac
• Established in 1903