FK Zemun

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FK Zemun
Full name Fudbalski klub Zemun
Nickname(s) Zemunci, Munze konza
Founded 1946
Ground Zemun Stadium, Zemun, Belgrade
Ground Capacity 10,000
Chairman Dušan Ostojić
Manager Slobodan Kustudić
League Serbian League Belgrade
2009-10 Serbian First League, 12th
Home colours
Away colours

FK Zemun (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Земун) is a football club located in Zemun, a municipality of Belgrade, in Serbia.

History

Immediately after the end of the Second World War, the sports activities in Zemun were restored. By early 1945, a club FK Maksim Divnić was formed, named in honour of a player with that name that played before the war and who died as Partisan fighter during the war. After just a couple of played matches the club changed its name into FK Sremac Zemun. By the end of that year another club is also formed in Zemun, FK Sparta Zemun. On October 20, 1946, the two clubs were merged to form a new sports society whose football section was FK Jedinstvo Zemun.[2]

By 1962 the club got promotion into the group East of the Yugoslav Second League, that was divided back then into two geographical groups, East and West. It stayed at Second national level for two seasons, after which it returned into the Serbian republic league, Yugoslav third tier. In the late 1960s, the club struggled financially, and on February 23, 1969, it is merged with FK Galenika, a club sponsored by the Galenika a.d., a pharmaceutical company located in Zemun. Under the new name FK Galenika Zemun, and with new financial backing, the club soon returned to the higher leagues, winning promotion as soon as 1970 to the Yugoslav Second League.[3]

Coached by Ivan Čabrinović, the club became one of the strongest teams in the second league, and after several times being close, it finally reached promotion to the Yugoslav First League in 1982. In that same season, the club reached the semi-finals of the 1981–82 Yugoslav Cup where they lost against the cup winners Red Star Belgrade. The club played in the 1982–83 Yugoslav First League however it finished bottom of the table subsequently relegated back to the Second League. On January 1, 1985, the club changed its name into the one that still carries nowadays, FK Zemun.[4]

During the late 1980s, the club had fallen into the lower leagues, but after the stabilization of their financial situation the club began rising again. In 1990, after two consecutive promotions, the club was back in the 1990–91 Yugoslav First League. This time the club stabilized in the top league and even managed to achieve good results, like fourth place in the 1992–93 First League of FR Yugoslavia, just behind the best Serbian clubs Partizan, Red Star and Vojvodina, or the 5th place archive in the 1993–94 First League of FR Yugoslavia. In the 1992-93 season the club had reached again the semi-finals of the Yugoslav Cup.[5]

FK Zemun competed in the top league all the way until 2007. In the season 2004-05 they managed to achieve 5th place once more.[6]

In 2007, Zemun had one of the most memorable seasons in recent history. They competed in the Serbian First League and came away with the 15th position and an automatic relegation to the Srpska Liga, third tier. However FK Zemun enjoyed an unbelievable run in the 2007–08 Serbian Cup and found its way to the final. The club won three matches after penalties, defeated two first league sides and goalie Nemanja Jovšić was voted most valuable player. They lost the final 3-0 to Serbian team Partizan but since Partizan had already qualified for the Champions League Zemun were given the UEFA Cup spot as they were the runners-up. During the summer however, Zemun was not able to obtain a license from UEFA and had to give their spot to fourth-placed side Borac Čačak. Borac then gave their Intertoto Cup spot to OFK Beograd.

In 2008-09, Zemun became the champion of Serbian League Belgrade and were back to the Serbian First League after only one season.

Honours

Yugoslav Second League (2)
  • 1981–82 Group east, 1988-89
Serbian Cup
Serbian Republic League
  • 1977–78, 1986–87, 1987–88

Stadium

The official stadium of FK Zemun is Zemun Stadium and can host up to 10,000 spectators.

Current squad

As of November 2010. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Serbia GK Aleksandar Marinković
Serbia GK Marko Milošević
Serbia DF Milan Zagorac
Serbia DF Mile Dragišić
Serbia DF Vladisalv Rosić
Serbia DF Jovica Jokić
Republic of Macedonia DF Stefan Josifoski
Serbia DF Saša Janacković
Serbia DF Đorđe Salatić
Bosnia and Herzegovina DF Nemanja Lekanić
Serbia DF Dejan Blagojević
Serbia DF Luka Rašović
Serbia DF Stefan Radovanović
Serbia DF Vladan Simunović
Serbia MF Boško Čvorkov
Serbia MF Stefan Gacić
United States MF George Pantelic
No. Position Player
Serbia MF Stefan Bogdanović
Serbia MF Dragan Nikolić
Serbia MF Goran Cvetković
Cameroon MF Thierry Ako
Serbia MF Vladimir Jovanović
Serbia MF Njegoš Bulatović
Serbia MF Dušan Tesić
Bosnia and Herzegovina MF Vladanko Komlenović
Serbia MF Saša Teofanov
Serbia MF Aleksandar Mirković
Serbia FW Nikola Vujošević
Montenegro FW Bogdan Bogdanović
Serbia FW Danilo Vukobrat
Montenegro FW Miloš Milivojević
Serbia FW Miloš Vidić
Bosnia and Herzegovina FW Emir Hamzić
Serbia FW Darko Roksa
Serbia FW Dejan Georgijević

Notable players

The following list contains players that played in the club and that have national team appearances:[7][8]

Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaYugoslavia,
Federal Republic of YugoslaviaSerbia and Montenegro,
SerbiaSerbia

Other

For the list of all current and former players with wikipedia article, please see Category:FK Zemun players.

Coaching history

References

External links

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