FK Sevojno
Encyclopedia
For the current club competing in the Serbian SuperLiga
Serbian Superliga
Serbian SuperLiga is a Serbian professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Serbian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 16 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with the Serbian First League...

, see FK Sloboda Point Sevojno.


FK Sevojno Point (Serbian Cyrillic
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

: Фудбалски клуб Севојно Ужице) was a football club from Sevojno
Sevojno
Sevojno is a local community in western Serbia, situated in Užice city, in Zlatibor District. The population of the town is 7,445 people . Sevojno is also an industrial center of the region with the Aluminum and Copper Factory . The town is also home to the football club FK Sevojno....

, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

.

History

By middle May in 1950 begins the construction of the copper rolling mill. The workers formed a football team that soon after, on 25 June 1950, played its first unofficial match against neighbouring and future city rivals FK Sloboda Užice
FK Sloboda Užice
FK Sloboda Užice is a football club from Užice, Serbia. In 2010 Sloboda merged with Sevojno Point, which had just been promoted to the Super Liga, and from then the club plays in the Super Liga, under the new name FK Sloboda Point Sevojno, until the name "Sloboda Užice" was restored as the club's...

. Afterwords, ambitious workers lead by the construction executives Mr. Rada Popović and Mr. Raco Jovović officially form a football club in 7 July 1951 initially named "FK Radnički". Its first match takes place on 2 August same year against FK Borac Čačak
FK Borac Cacak
Fudbalski klub Borac Čačak is a professional football club based in Čačak, Serbia.It was founded in 1926. Borac plays at the Čačak Stadium which has a capacity of 5,000....

 and despite a minimal defeat by 2-3, a bright future for the club is announced.

In 1952 the club begins competing in the football League of Užice. In its first official match the club archived a win against FK Zlatibor Čajetina by 2-0. The years after were successful for the club and a series of promotions were archived. In 1957 the club is promoted to the Kragujevac
Kragujevac
Kragujevac is the fourth largest city in Serbia, the main city of the Šumadija region and the administrative centre of Šumadija District. It is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River...

 regional League.

In 1961 the Sports society of Sevojno is formed and the club begins competing under this new name.

In the season 1968-69 the club finishes second in the inter-regional League Užice/Čačak by this achieving promotion to the Second Serbian League (4th national tier). The club spends three seasons playing in this league, but afyterwords is relegated and plays in the League of Morava and Šumadija (until 1976-77), regional and inter-regional leagues, until the season 1989-90 when it returns to the Second Serbian League. It only menages to stay one season in that league, afterwords being relegated to the League of Morava and Šumadija where plays all the way until the season 1995-96 when is promoted to the Serbian League West
Serbian League West
Srpska Liga West is a section of the Srpska Liga, Serbia's third football league. Teams from the western part of Serbia are in this section of the league...

 (group Morava) where plays until it reaches promotion to the Serbian First League
Serbian First League
Serbian First League is the name for the second tier in Serbia's football league. The league is operated by the Football Association of Serbia. 18 teams are set to compete in this league for the 2009-10 season...

 (second national tier).

It was in 2004 that the club was promoted to the First League by finishing second behind FK Radnički Kragujevac
FK Radnicki Kragujevac
Fudbalski Klub Radnički 1923 is a professional football club from Kragujevac, Serbia....

 in the Serbian League West
Serbian League West
Srpska Liga West is a section of the Srpska Liga, Serbia's third football league. Teams from the western part of Serbia are in this section of the league...

. The qualification was not direct, and was archived trough wins against FK Železničar Niš
FK Železnicar Niš
FK Železničar Niš was a football club based in Niš, Serbia.-History:FK Železničar Niš was formed in 1928. It was dissolved on 6 September 2009.The club was for a short period renamed into 14...

 (7-1) and FK Radnički Obrenovac
FK Radnicki Obrenovac
FK Radnički Obrenovac is a football club from Obrenovac, Serbia.-History:The greatest club archivements were the 12th place in the First League of Serbia and Montenegro archived in the 2003-04, and the reaching of the quarter-finals of the Cup in 2000-01.-Recent seasons:- Squad :As of November...

 (2-0 and 1-0). In the following seasons the club consolidated its participation in the league and was even close to archive promotion to the SuperLiga
Serbian Superliga
Serbian SuperLiga is a Serbian professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Serbian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 16 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with the Serbian First League...

.

The biggest success in club's history is reaching Serbian Cup
Serbian Cup
The Serbian Cup is the national football cup of Serbia. For sponsorship reasons it is referred to in the media as Lav Cup of Serbia since 2007.The winner of the competition gets a spot in the UEFA Europa League qualifying round.-Sponsorship:...

 final in season 2008-09. After beating few Serbian SuperLiga
Serbian Superliga
Serbian SuperLiga is a Serbian professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Serbian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 16 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with the Serbian First League...

 clubs on penalties - Hajduk Kula in 1/16, Borac Čačak in 1/8 and Napredak Kruševac in 1/4, they won 2-1 against Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...

 in the semi-final played on May 6, 2009. In final, Sevojno Point faced current Serbian champions and Cup holders Partizan Belgrade
FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...

. Even though they lost the final 3-0 they appeared in the new UEFA Europa League 2009–10, as Serbian Cup runners-up.
They went on to put in a credible performance by a second division team in the UEFA Cup by beating FBK Kaunas
FBK Kaunas
Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas is a Lithuanian football club from the city of Kaunas, that currently plays in the A Lyga, the top level of Lithuanian football.- History :...

 and then losing to Lille
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

 in the third round 2-0 home and away.

On July 1, 2010, FK Sevojno Point merged with FK Sloboda Užice
FK Sloboda Užice
FK Sloboda Užice is a football club from Užice, Serbia. In 2010 Sloboda merged with Sevojno Point, which had just been promoted to the Super Liga, and from then the club plays in the Super Liga, under the new name FK Sloboda Point Sevojno, until the name "Sloboda Užice" was restored as the club's...

 and they agreed to played under a new name, FK Sloboda Point Sevojno. The terms of the merger were such that the newly merged entity gets Sevojno's leadership and league standing as well as Sloboda's infrastructure (24 November Stadium in Užice being the most important) and assumes historical continuity with FK Sloboda's heritage.

In the 2010-11 season, FK Sloboda Point Sevojno will compete in the Superliga - Serbia's highest tier league competition. Same season newly created club which took name FK Sloboda, started to play from the lowest tier of Serbian league system.

Sevojno in Europe

Season Competition Round Club Home Away
2009-10 UEFA Europa League 2QR   FBK Kaunas
FBK Kaunas
Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas is a Lithuanian football club from the city of Kaunas, that currently plays in the A Lyga, the top level of Lithuanian football.- History :...

0-0 1-1
2009-10 UEFA Europa League 3QR   Lille
Lille OSC
LOSC Lille Métropole is a French association football club based in Lille. The club was founded in 1944 as a result of a merger and currently play in Ligue 1, the first division of French football. Lille plays its home matches at the Stade Lille-Metropole in nearby Villeneuve-d'Ascq. In 2012, the...

0-2 0-2

Notable players

Players that have more, or around, 100 league matches, and the ones that played for the national team. Mile Andrić Branko Božović Radoš Bulatović
Radoš Bulatović
Radenko "Radoš" Bulatović is a Serbian professional football player. He is considered to be one of the strongest central defenders in Serbian football...

 Goran Ćosić Nenad Divac Njegoš Goločevac
Njegoš Goločevac
Njegoš Goločevac is an Serbian footballer currently playing with FK Sloboda Point Sevojno in the Serbian SuperLiga.-Career:...

 Lazar Jovičić Radenko Kamberović
Radenko Kamberović
Radenko Kamberović is a Serbian footballer currently playing with FK Teleoptik on loan from FK Partizan.-External sources:* at Srbijafudbal.* at Srbijafudbal....

 Radivoje Manić Marko Pavićević Predrag Popović Savo Raković
Savo Raković
Savo Raković is a Serbian football player who currently plays for Diósgyőri VTK.-Career:Born in Požega, Raković began playing football for local side FK Sloga Požega. In 2004, he joined FK Sevojno, playing in the third level of Serbian football. He spent more than six seasons with Sevojno, helping...

 Radan Šunjevarić
Radan Šunjevarić
Radan Šunjevarić is a Serbian football player. The forward currently plays for FK Novi Pazar in Serbian SuperLiga.-Early career:...

 Vladislav Virić

For more information on players with article, see :Category:FK Sevojno players.

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK