FK Vrbas

Vrbas

Full name	FK Vrbas
Founded	27 August 1969
Dissolved	30 July 2007
Ground	Stadion kraj Šlajza
Capacity	10,000
2006–07	Vojvodina League West, 16th of 16 (relegated)
Home colours Away colours

FK Vrbas (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Врбас) is a defunct football club based in Vrbas, Vojvodina, Serbia.

History

The club was founded on 27 August 1969 as a result of a merger between two local rivals, OFK Vrbas and FK Kombinat. They subsequently won the Novi Sad-Srem Zone League in their inaugural 1969–70 season, earning promotion to the Vojvodina League, the third tier of Yugoslav football. Over the next two campaigns, the club finished runners-up to Srem (1970–71) and Radnički Sombor (1971–72), before winning first place in both 1972–73 (lost in the promotion playoffs against Dinamo Pančevo) and 1973–74, eventually securing a spot in the Yugoslav Second League.^[1] They spent the following two years in the second tier, between 1974 and 1976, before being relegated back to the Vojvodina League.^[1] The club again won the Vojvodina League in 1976–77, but immediately suffered relegation from the Second League in 1978.^[1] They were promoted back to the second tier in 1979, spending two seasons in the league, before being relegated again in 1981.^[2] The club returned to the Yugoslav Second League in 1983 and stayed for four years until 1987.^[3]

Before the final breakup of Yugoslavia, the club competed in the 1991–92 Yugoslav Second League.^[4] They continued participating in the 1992–93 Second League of FR Yugoslavia, but instantly suffered relegation to the Serbian League North.^[4] Later on, the club played five consecutive seasons in the third tier, before being promoted back to the Second League in 1998.^[4] They subsequently spent the next six years in the Second League, having been relegated in the 2003–04 campaign.^[5] After two successive seasons in the Serbian League Vojvodina, the club dropped to the Vojvodina League West in 2006.^[5] Following its relegation to the fifth tier for the first time in history, the club was eventually dissolved on 30 July 2007 by its board's decision due to financial troubles.^[6] Simultaneously, it was announced that the newly formed club, OFK Vrbas, would start competing in the Vrbas-Bečej-Titel Intermunicipal League, the sixth tier of Serbian football.^[6]

Honours

• Vojvodina League (Tier 3)
  • 1972–73, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1982–83
• Novi Sad-Srem Zone League (Tier 4)
  • 1969–70

Notable players

This is a list of players who have played at full international level.^[7]

• Goran Kartalija
• Radoslav Batak
• Vojin Lazarević

For a list of all FK Vrbas players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:FK Vrbas players.

Managerial history

Period Name 1969–1971 Đorđe Bjelogrlić 1971–1975 Joakim Vislavski 1975 Vojin Lazarević 1976 Joakim Vislavski 1976–1977 Dušan Drašković 1977–1978 Radivoje Ognjanović 1978–1980 Ilija Tojagić 1980 Dragan Bojović 1981–1982 Joakim Vislavski 1982–1985 Slobodan Zečević 1985–1986 Dušan Drašković 1986 Slobodan Zečević 1987 Joakim Vislavski 1987–1988 Jovan Kovrlija 1988–1989 Milorad Sekulović

Period Name 1989–1990 Vojin Čolaković 1990 Momčilo Raičević 1990–1991 Joakim Vislavski 1992 Radosav Perišić 1992 Milorad Sekulović 1993 Momčilo Raičević 1993–1994 Ilija Tojagić 1994 Boško Đorđević 1995 Dragan Škorić 1995–1996 Dragan Vraneš 1996 Joakim Vislavski 1996–1997 Milorad Sekulović 1997 Zoran Đurović 1998 Milovan Mitić 1998–2000 Nikola Rakojević

Period Name 2000–2001 Milan Kovrlija 2001–2002 Željko Račić 2002 Zvonko Ivezić 2002 Zoran Golubović 2003 Milan Jocović 2003 Puniša Mehmedović 2003 Zoran Đurović 2004 Radovan Drinčić 2004 Risto Pavić 2005 Ljubiša Aleksić 2005 Zoran Vujinović 2005 Radovan Drinčić 2006 Željko Račić 2006 Risto Pavić 2007 Mićan Šumić

References

External links

• Unofficial website