FK Takovo ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Таково) is a football club from

Gornji Milanovac Gornji Milanovac ( sr-Cyrl, Гoрњи Милановац, ) is a town and municipality located in the Moravica District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 24,216, while the population of the municipality is 44,406. The town was found ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

. The club is a part of the ''Sports Society Takovo''. The team plays in

Serbian League West Serbian League West ( sr, Српска лига Запад, Srpska liga Zapad) is one of four sections of the Serbian League, the third national tier. The other three sections are Serbian League Belgrade, Serbian League East and Serbian League V ...

, the third tier of the

Serbian football league system The Serbian football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for association football clubs in Serbia. The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels. Format The number of teams ...

. The club was founded in July 1911 and is one of the oldest clubs in Serbia. It is named after nearby historic village of

Takovo Takovo ( sr-cyr, Таково) is a village in the municipality of Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 458 people.Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etni� ...

, where the

Second Serbian uprising The Second Serbian Uprising ( sr, Други српски устанак / ''Drugi srpski ustanak'', tr, İkinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was the second phase of the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re ...

started in 1815.

History

The club was founded in July 1911 through the initiative of Gornji Milanovac's school youth led by Dušan Borisavljević and Petar Trifunović, who brought the first football ball, that same year, from Belgrade to Milanovac.

FK Takovo in recent years

Notable former players

Radmilo Ivančević Radmilo Ivančević ( sr-cyr, Радмило Иванчевић; born 4 September 1950) is a Serbian football manager and former footballer. Coaching career Ivančević's career began in 1983 as manager of Serbian amateur club Šumadija Aranđ ...

, 5 appearances for Yugoslavia Olympic team * Dragan Rogić * Svetozar Pavlović * Predrag Radmilac *

Saša Zorić Saša Zorić (; born 2 September 1974) is a Serbian former footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Born in Gornji Milanovac, Zorić started out at local club Takovo, before joining the youth system of Red Star Belgrade. He would make ...

(Youth team), 2 appearances for FR Yugoslavia national team. *

Slobodan Santrač Slobodan Santrač (, ; 1 July 1946 – 13 February 2016) was a Serbian football manager and player. He is the all-time top scorer of the Yugoslav First League with a total of 218 goals, as well as the top scorer in the history of OFK Beograd. A ...

(Youth team), 8 appearances for Yugoslavia national team.

Notes and references

Sources

External links

Official website

FK Takovo
at srbijasport.net

1911 establishments in Serbia Gornji Milanovac {{Serbia-footyclub-stub