Radnicki

FK Radnicki (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Раднички) is a Serbian football club based in New Belgrade.

The club was until recently known by its sponsor name of FK Radnicki Jugopetrol (ФК Раднички Југопетрол), and is also often named as FK Radnicki Novi Beograd (ФК Раднички Нови Београд), although the club is officially named simply as FK Radnicki Beograd because it was initially formed in Belgrade proper, and only later moved to New Belgrade area.

History

Early history

Inspired by the matches between the existing clubs in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia the students of Belgrade's construction-craft school held the constituent assembly in their school on April 20, 1920 and formed a football club named BSK Radnicki (БСК Раднички). Among the 29 founding members, Ilija Krstic was elected the first club President. After collecting enough money to buy their first ball, a rarity in those days, the next main problem was to find a proper pitch to play on. Some members lobbied for the club to play at the ground of another Belgrade club, Srpski Mac, while others wanted to play in the area named Bara Venecija at a ground that FK Zeleznicar Beograd still uses today. The decision was made that Radnicki's first pitch was going to be in Bara Venecija, a Belgrade urban neighbourhood located on the right bank of the Sava river.

Unfortunately, there is no record of the first matches played during 1920; the first match covered by the newspapers was against Brdanin from Senjak during the autumn of 1921 which Radnicki lost by 0–4. On March 22, 1921 the club joined the Belgrade Football Association and started competing in the Second Division group B, finishing in 5th place among six clubs. During the 1922–23 season, playing in the same league and with a mixed squad together with FK Graficar, they finished 6th out of eight. Radnicki's first major success was achieved when they were league champions in the 1924–25 season. They finished the season with 9 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats, and the playe

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