NK Ponikve
| Full name | Nogometni klub Ponikve | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Gajničari | ||
| Founded | 1945 | ||
| Ground | SRC Ponikve | ||
| Capacity | 1,000 | ||
| President | Damir Kajba | ||
| Coach | Hrvoje Pipnić | ||
| League | Četvrta HNL - Central A | ||
| 2013/14 | 3rd | ||
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NK Ponikve is a Croatian football club founded in 1945, based in the district of Gajnice in Zagreb.
Interest in football in Stenjevcu started rising immediately after the World War 2. At the current location of the club, Stenjevec residents enabled the construction of the first football field and gathered a group of youth in early June 1945.
October 25, 1953 The Constituent Assembly of NK Ponikve convened for the first time; it elected the first chairman of NK Ponikve, Jacob Horvat. Under the new name, the team played the first official match, and in the national cup competition for the sport, on March 7, 1954. The first team to play under its current name consisted of Žerjav Bruno, John Podgoršek, Josip Markovic, Željko Zlatic, Nikola Svetličanin, Drago Broz, Francis Dukanović, Viktor Vuletic, Z. Milin, Anton Potocnik and Erich Štrukelj.
Currently the club is training about 300 children registered in the soccer schools are active and children 4–6 years old; this is popularly known as "Little Green".