Mura

Nogometna sola Mura, commonly referred to as NS Mura or simply Mura, is a Slovenian football team, playing in the town of Murska Sobota. Founded in 2012, the team currently plays in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, the top tier of Slovenian football. The club's home ground is Fazanerija stadium with a capacity of 3,782 seats.

History

After the 2012–13 season, the old ND Mura 05 experienced financial difficulties and was dissolved. The newly established club used its youth club to register a team for the 2013–14 season under the name NS Mura. Their first season of play was in 1. MNL Murska Sobota (fourth tier), where they finished second and earned promotion to the Slovenian Third League. In 2016–17 and 2017–18, Mura earned consecutive promotions to reach the top flight of Slovenian football for the first time. In 2018–19, the club finished fourth in the PrvaLiga and qualified for the UEFA Europa League, their first European competition. The club won its first major honour in 2020, defeating second division side Nafta 1903 in the final of the Slovenian Football Cup on 24 June.

In 2020–21, Mura won its first Slovenian national league title after beating Maribor 3–1 in the final round of the season and finished with the same number of points as Maribor, but with a better head-to-head record.

On 26 August 2021, Mura made history by qualifying for their first ever group stage of European club competition. They played against Sturm Graz in the play-off round of the Europa League but lost 5–1 on aggregate. As a result they dropped into Europa Conference League, becoming only the second ever Slovenian side, after Maribor, to play in a group stage of European competition. Subsequently, Mura were drawn into a group alongside Vitesse, Rennes and Tottenham Hotspur.

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