USD Bosna
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USD Bosna, or University Sport Society Bosna is a sports organization based in Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

, Bosnia.

History

It was founded on December 7, 1947 to organize the existing student sports clubs in Sarajevo. USD Bosna is the largest sport society in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

 with teams in 19 different sports. The most successful teams are basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 club KK Bosna
KK Bosna
KK Bosna is a basketball club in Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna...

 who Euroleague
Euroleague
Euroleague Basketball, commonly known as the Euroleague, is the highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–2011, it is...

 in 1979 and the chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 club ŠK Bosna
ŠK Bosna
ŠK Bosna, or Šahovski Klub Bosna is a chess club from Sarajevo, Bosnia. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna . This club has achieved considerable success at competitions on the international stage....

 that became the European champion four times.

Clubs

There are 19 competitive clubs that are part of USD Bosna.
Sport Team Name Founded
Soccer Fudbalski Klub Bosna
FK Bosna (Sarajevo)
Fudbalski Klub Bosna is a football club from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club was founded in 1947. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna , founded same year. This club is one of the oldest in the society....

1947
Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

Odbojkaški Klub Bosna
OK Bosna
Odbojkaški Klub Bosna is a volleyball club from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club was founded in 1947 and is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna...

1947
Handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

Rukometni Klub Bosna 1948
Athletics Atletski Klub Bosna
AK Bosna
AK Bosna or Atletski Klub Bosna is an athletics club from Sarajevo, Bosnia. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna . The club is part of the Athletic Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina....

1949
Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

Košarkaški Klub Bosna
KK Bosna
KK Bosna is a basketball club in Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna...

1951
Table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

Stoni Teniski Klub Bosna 1952
Wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

Hrvački Klub Bosna 1957
Judo
Judo
is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

Džudo Klub Bosna 1960
Chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

Šahovski Klub Bosna
ŠK Bosna
ŠK Bosna, or Šahovski Klub Bosna is a chess club from Sarajevo, Bosnia. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna . This club has achieved considerable success at competitions on the international stage....

1960
Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

Plivački Klub Bosna
PK Bosna
PK Bosna is a swimming club from Sarajevo, Bosnia. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna . It was formed in 1960 and is part of the Swimming Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.-History:...

1960
Weight Lifting Klub dizača tegova Bosna 1960
Karate
Karate
is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...

Univerzitetski Karate Klub Bosna
UKK Bosna
UKK Bosna or Univerzitetski Karate Klub Bosna is a karate club from Sarajevo, Bosnia. The club was founded in May 1967. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna...

1967
Diving
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

Ronilački Klub Bosna 1976
Gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

Gimnastički Klub Bosna 1978
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

Klub Ritmičke Gimnastike Bosna 1979
Hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

Hokej Klub Bosna
HK Bosna
HK Bosna is an ice hockey club from Sarajevo, Bosnia. The club was founded in 1980, and is the most established hockey club in the country. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna ....

1980
Skating
Ice skating
Ice skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as lakes and...

Klizačko Koturaljski Klub Bosna
KKK Bosna
KKK Bosna or Klizačko Koturaljski Klub Bosna is a skating club from Sarajevo, Bosnia. The club was founded in 1981. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna ....

1981
Waterpolo Vaterpolo Klub Bosna
VK Bosna
VK Bosna is a waterpolo club from Sarajevo, Bosnia. It was formed in 1984 and is the strongest waterpolo team in the Bosnia and Herzegovina Waterpolo League, which comprises five teams total. The club is part of the University Sport Society USD Bosna ....

1984
Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

Teniski Klub Bosna 1985
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