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FK Železničar is a football club based in Bara Venecija

Bara Venecija

Bara Venecija is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Savski Venac.-Location:...

, Belgrade

Belgrade

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, Serbia

Serbia

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History

FK Železničar Beograd was formed in 1924, when a group of workers from the Belgrade railway station began playing the game. Later that year, the first team was formed. In the 1927–28 season the club started to compete and, by the end of their first season, they finished fifth. The club had many problems with their financial status but they continued to play. In 1935, FK Železničar Beograd built a new stadium. In the opening match they crushed FK Građanski, from Zemun, 12–0, in a memorable match for the fans. The club stayed in the same league until the Second World War.

During the war, all games had been cut but, after it ended, the sport association of Železničar began to form new sport societies. The team began to compete in higher leagues. In the early 1950s, they competed in the "Unified Sport League" (Jedinstvena sportska Liga). Later they moved on to the First League of Belgrade

Serbian League Belgrade

Srpska Liga Belgrade is a section of the Srpska Liga, Serbia's third football league. Teams from Belgrade are in this section of the league. The other sections are Srpska Liga East, Srpska Liga West, and Srpska Liga Vojvodina.-Srpska Liga Beograd Teams 10/11:...

. In the 1989 season, the club was promoted to the Belgrade Zone, at that time the highest competition in Belgrade.

In 1995 it becomes member of the Serbian League Belgrade

Serbian League Belgrade

, however its major success was archived in 1999 when it gained promotion into the FR Yugoslav Second 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...

- group North, where it stayed until 2003, when it was relegated by administrative decision because of the restructuring of the league competition system.

Former players

Important players in club history, chronologically ordered:

Mikica Arsenijević
Rajko Mitić
Rajko Mitic
Rajko Mitić was a Serbian football player and coach. Mitić was born in the village Dolac, Bela Palanka in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes...
Sava Antić
Sava Antic
Sava Antić was a Serbian football player and manager.He won the Yugoslav Cup 3 times, in 1953, 1955, and 1962, being the scorer in all the 3 cup finals. He started his career as a football player in FK Brodarac in 1945. In 1948 he moved to Red Star where he played 36 games and scored 22 goals...
Sreten Davidović
Radomir Čabrić
Branimir Banjac
Dragan Nikolić
Duško Košutić
Branko Rajić
Nešat Sulejmani

Former coaches

Important coaches in club history:

Mikica Arsenijević
Rajko Mitić
Rajko Mitic
Rajko Mitić was a Serbian football player and coach. Mitić was born in the village Dolac, Bela Palanka in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes...
Miroljub Čolović
Božidar Milenković
Tomislav Savić
Goran Kalušević

External links

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