FK Trepča

Not to be confused with KF Trepça.
FK Trepča Kosovska Mitrovica
Full name Fudbalski klub Trepča
Nickname(s) Rudari (The Miners)
Trepčani (Members of Trepča)
Founded 1932 (1932)
Ground Zvečan Stadium
Ground Capacity 3,500
Chairman Serbia Bratislav Radibratović
Manager Serbia Zoran Drobac
League Morava Zone League
2013/14 10th

FK Trepča Kosovska Mitrovica, also referred to as FK Trepča (Serbian: Фудбалски клуб Трепча/Fubalski klub Trepča), is a football club founded in 1932 and based in North Kosovska Mitrovica, in North Kosovo.[1][2][3] Located in the Kosovo[a], the club plays in the Serbian football league system, in the Morava Zone League.[3][4][5]

After the Kosovo war, many of the Kosovo Albanian players left the Serbian club FK Trepča and decided to found their own club, which was carried out in 1999.[5] The Albanian club received the name KF Trepça, the Albanian name for FK Trepča, thus there were two clubs in the city with virtually the same name. In 2010, the Serbian FK Trepča merged with the local Serbian club FK Partizan Kosovska Mitrovica and integrated with it.

Name

The football club Trepča was named after the former Trepča Mines, which are located north-east of Kosovska Mitrovica. It was first known as FK Rudar Kosovska Mitrovica until 1962 when it was named FK Trepča.[6]

History

The club was founded in 1932 under the name Trepča by workers of the Trepča Mines in Kosovska Mitrovica during the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From the founding year until 1938, the club did not have an own venue, so coached and played on a playing field in the neighboring town Zvečan. In 1938, a small field was built where they played until the Second World War. Later they received its own stadium, the Trepča Stadium, which offered then about 30,000 spectators. At that time, the club consisted mainly of Yugoslav players with Serbian background, but also few Kosovo Albanians played for the club.

During the Second World War, the Kosovo Albanian players of Trepča, played for the Albanian football club called KF Skënderbeu, which was active during the war and the fascist occupation. After the end of the war, Trepča was long in the shadow of numerous Yugoslav clubs. However, in 1977 came the first major success for the club, when they achieved the promotion to the Yugoslav First League.[3]

In the following 1977/78 season, the club relegated in the Yugoslav Second League, but managed to achieve the 1977–78 Yugoslav Cup final, where they lost against NK Rijeka by 0-1 after extra time. During this period, the clubs nickname Rudari (The Miners) was especially popular, and the Trepča players Dragan Mutibarić, Dragan Simeunović and Vladan Radača became members of the Yugoslav national football team.

Due to the consequences of the Kosovo war, in 1999, the Kosovo Albanian players decided to leave Trepča and found their own club. The Albanian club received the name KF Trepça, the Albanian name for FK Trepča, thus there were two clubs in the city with virtually the same name.

In the season 2001–02 they finished bottom of the Serbian League Morava and were relegated.[7] In the season 2003–04 they played in the 1/16 finals of the Serbia and Montenegro Cup.[8] In the season 2004–05 FK Trepča was playing in the Serbian fourth level, Šumadijska zona, and finished 15th. They played their matches in Zubin Potok.[9] In the season 2006–07 they played again in the Šumadija zone finishing 10th.[10]

FK Trepča reached the pre-eliminary round of the 2011–12 Serbian Cup. They played it after winning the Kosovo and Metohija qualifying group.[11]

In April 2013, Trepča attended a friendly match against the Serbian top level club Partizan in Belgrade, which symbolized the solidarity with Serbs from Kosovo, which Trepča narrowly lost with 2–3.[1] Both goals for Trepča were scored by Perica Ilić. A year later, they also played a friendly match with same character against the other Serbian top club Red Star Belgrade, which they lost by 0–3.[12]

Stadium

From 1932 to 1938 the club not have its own venue. They coached and played on a playing field in the neighboring town Zvečan. In 1938, a small field was built where they played until the Second World War. Later they received its own stadium, the Trepča Stadium, which offered then about 30,000 spectators. There they played it home games until the outbreak of the Kosovo war.[3]

After the war in 1999, the city was divided into a southern part with almost exclusively Kosovo Albanian and a northern part with non-Albanian or predominantly Serb population.[3] During the war, many Serbs and non-Albanians fled to the northern part of the city or were expelled. Its followed the 2004 unrest in Kosovo, the nationwide pogrom-like riots in March against the Serb and non-Albanian population from Albanian extremist only reinforced the ethnic division of the city.

The Trepča Stadium is located in the southern part of the city, thus the FK Trepča is not possible to play its home matches in their home stadium.[3][13] Currently, only Albanian teams play in Trepča Stadium, including the 1999 founded KF Trepça, who have the stadium virtually annexed and finally renamed.[3] The Trepča Stadium is called now by the Kosovo Albanian population as Olympik Stadiumi Adem Jashari, after Adem Jashari, a former leader of the Albanian paramilitary rebel organisation UÇK, but the non-Albanian population still called Stadion Trepča.[5] Because of these current difficult political situation, Trepča plays its home games near Zvečan, in 3.500 seater Zvečan Stadium.[5]

Club colors

The club colors are green and black, which are also included in the coat of arms of the city, and were also the colors prior to the merger and the integration of Partizan Kosovska Mitrovica. To the club color of Partizan Belgrade belonged also red and blue. Thus, the away kit of Partizan Kosovska Mitrovica wore these colors were symbolic the main colors of the Serbian flag. It was similar at Partizan Belgrade.

International matches

The club has played three international matches in 1977/78:

Honours

Yugoslav Second League (1)
Yugoslav Cup (1)
Regional Championship of the SAP Kosovo (5)
First League of North Kosovo (3)
Kosovo and Metohija Cup (5)

Notes

a.   ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has been recognised as an independent state by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.

References

  1. 1 2 Kurir:PROVUKLI SE: Šćepović sprečio bruku protiv Trepče (serbian)
  2. ↑ Serbian Broadcasting Corporation:Ko želi da postane sudija u Premijer ligi? - (serbian)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Radiosarajevo!:Pod zastavu Kosova ni za milion evra! (bosnian)
  4. ↑ Srbijasport:FK Trepča on Srbijasport (serbian)
  5. 1 2 3 4 Alo!:Pod zastavu Kosova ni za milion evra! (serbian)
  6. ↑ Book: "Rođeni - Prvoligaške generacije 1952 - 1991" by Zoran Mrđenović, pag. 39 (Serbian)
  7. ↑ Yugoslavia 2001/02 at RSSSF
  8. ↑ Serbia and Montenegro 2003/04 at RSSSF
  9. ↑ 2004/05 season in Serbia and Montenegro at RSSSF
  10. ↑ Serbia (fouth level) 2006/07 at RSSSF
  11. ↑ Serbia 2011/12 at RSSSF
  12. ↑ Red Star Belgrade:Crvena zvezda - Trepča 3:0 (2:0) (serbian)
  13. ↑ B92:Srbi s Kosova razočarani u FSS (serbian)
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 Trepča at Srbijasport

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