Vozdovac

Fudbalski klub Vozdovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Вождовац), commonly known as Vozdovac, is a professional football club located in Vozdovac, a municipality of Belgrade, in Serbia.

They are one of the few clubs in the world who have a modern stadium on top of a shopping centre, the stadium was built in 2012 and opened in August 2013.

The club is nicknamed "The Dragons", they experienced little success in the Yugoslavian era, but have become one of Belgrade's best and most stable clubs in modern times since Serbia's independence.

The name Vozdovac is derived from the word vozd meaning leader (literally, a "duke", "supreme vojvoda"), one of the titles used by Karadorde, the leader of the First Serbian Uprising.

History

The club was formed in 1912, under the name SK Dusanovac and its president in that year was Danilo Stojanovic, "Cika Daca" who was also the coach in that year. The club was named after Dusanovac, a suburb in Belgrade where the club was formed. Initially it was a club whose players and followers were mostly students from the Economics Gymnasium. After the end of World War I the club substantially improved however it never archived to be in the top like other clubs such as BSK Belgrade or SK Jugoslavija.

In 1929, it is renamed into Vozdovacki SK (Vozdovacki sport klub). The main success in this period was the winning of the II League of Belgrade Football Subassociation in the 1933–34 season, and the III League of Belgrade in 1948–49. In the 1963–64 season, they won the Serbian Republic League, then the Yugoslav third tier, and promoted to the Yugoslav Second League. After Red Star Belgrade's new ground Marakana was built between 1959–63, Vozdovacki SK played its home matches on Marakana's secondary pitch with bleachers around it.

In 1973, another local club, Sloboda Belgrade, formed in 1953 and Belgrade League champion in 1968, was dissolved. The municipal authorities decided to hand Sloboda's ground over to Vozdovacki, which

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