HNK Borovo is a Croatia

Croatia

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Football (soccer)

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 club based in the Borovo Naselje

Borovo Naselje

Borovo Naselje is a Vukovar borough located on the right bank of the Danube river in the Croatian region of Slavonia, 4 kilometers northwest of Vukovar town centre; elevation 90 m. The economy is based on rubber and shoe industries...

 area of the river port of Vukovar

Vukovar

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Historic names

• SK Bata Borovo (1933–1941)
• HŠK Bata Borovo (1941–1945)
• FD Bata (1945–1946)
• SFD Slaven (1946–1954)
• NK Borovo (1954–1991)
• HNK Borovo (2005-)

History

The club was formed in 1933 as Bata SK and it was the promotional team for the Bata Borovo factory. Initially the company didn´t had its own club, but it was represented by the earlier existing VASK (Vukovarski Amaterski Sportski Klub). With the creation and official opening of a new football field in 1933, VASK was disestablished, and in its place was created in October 1933 a new club, SK Bata.

Between 1933 and 1939 the club competed in the regional league of Osijek

Osijek

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. In 1939 in competed in the Serbian League, that in 1940, after the creation of a separate league of the Banovina of Croatia

Banovina of Croatia

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, became the only Croatian club to compete in the 1940-41 Serbian League. After that season, however, it joined other Croatian clubs in the 1942 Croatian First League.

After the end of the Second World War and with the re-establishment of the Yugoslav league system, the club changed its name to SFD Slaven, to be renamed again in 1954 into NK Borovo and to play as such all the way until the Croatian War of Independence

Croatian War of Independence

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 and subsequent disintegration of Yugoslavia beginning in 1991. Its more successful period was between the mid 1950s until mid 1970s when the club in several occasions fights for promotion into the Yugoslav First League

Yugoslav First League

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. It played mostly in the Yugoslav Second League

Yugoslav Second League

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 and on three occasions reaches the quarter-finals of the Yugoslav Cup

Yugoslav Cup

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The club was re-established in 2005 as HNK Borovo and begins competing in the local lower leagues. After a series of promotions, HNK Borovo reaches in 2010 the Croatian Third League

Treća HNL

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Notable players

• Milan Antolković
  Milan Antolkovic
  Milan Antolković was a Croatian footballer who played international football for the both the Croatian and Royal Yugoslav national teams....
  
  
• Ratimir Car
• Nikola Perlić
• Antun Nagyszombaty
• Slavko Šurdonja
  Slavko Šurdonja
  Slavko Šurdonja was a Croatian, Yugoslav international, football player.-Career:...
  
  
• Stevan Becin
• Mile Stamenković
• Ivan Gotal
• Stanislav Karasi
  Stanislav Karasi
  Stanislav Karasi is a Serbian striker who played at FIFA World Cup 1974 for SFR Yugoslavia....
  
  
• Željko Jurčić

• Slavko Baketa
• Ivan Polhert
• Gordan Gotal
• Alojzije Lukić
• Enes Biogradlija
• Ivica Tunjić
• Ante Miše
  Ante Miše
  Ante Miše is a former Croatian footballer who in the 1980s and 90s spent most of his career at Hajduk Split. During his playing career with Hajduk he won the Yugoslav cup, three Croatian titles and three Croatian cups...
  
  
• Siniša Mihajlović
  Siniša Mihajlovic
  Siniša Mihajlović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010 to November 2011....
  
  
• Ratomir Dujković
  Ratomir Dujkovic
  Ratomir Dujković is a Serbian football manager and a former player.-Playing career:...
  
  

External links

• HNK Borovo unofficial website