GFK Dubocica

Gradski fudblski klub Dubocica (Serbian Cyrillic: Градски фудбалски клуб Дубочица), commonly known as Dubocica is a Serbian football club based in the southern city of Leskovac. They currently compete in the third division Serbian League East. The club's name derives from a traditional synonym for Leskovac and the surrounding region.

History

Early years (1923–1941)

On May Day, 1924 the trade unionist and revolutionary Kosta Stamenkovic initiated the establishment of a football physical-cultural society in Leskovac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The club's explicit aim was the propagation of Marxists-Leninist ideology amongst the working-class youth of Leskovac, and to serve as a front for assembling members of the underground Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Radnicki sportski klub Crvena zastava (English: Workers Sporting Club Red Flag) was co-founded by Kosta Stamenkovic, first club president Jovan Zivkovic, and ten other trade unionists during an annual meeting on 20 August 1923.

The new club came under immediate suspicion by the authorities who refused to register the association due to its overtly political name and membership, nonetheless RSK Red Flag continued playing unofficial matches, the first-ever being a 3–2 win over Jug Bogdan from Prokupje in August 1923. Red Flag changed its name the following year to Radnicki sportski klub Proleter (English: Workers Sporting Club Proletarian), but continued having issues with the authorities and failed to have its registration approved.

On 18 January 1925, RSK Proleter officially changed its name to Leskovacki radnicki sportski klub Sloboda (English: Leskovac Sporting Club Liberty), this time the club's registration was excepted by the Belgrade Football Subassociation, and the club was allowed to compete in the Morava District League for season 1925–26 under instructions that further political activism would lead to its suspe