Fudbalski klub Goražde is a professional
association football
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club based in the city of
Goražde
Goražde ( cyrl, Горажде, ) is a city and the administrative center of Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of Drina river. As of 2 ...
in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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. The club was founded in 1918.
Goražde plays in the
, the second level of football in the country, and plays its home matches at the Midhat Drljević Stadium, which has a capacity of 1,500.
History
The first football club in
Goražde
Goražde ( cyrl, Горажде, ) is a city and the administrative center of Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of Drina river. As of 2 ...
was established in 1918 and it was named ''Herceg Stjepan'', after Herceg
Stjepan Vukčić Kosača
Stjepan Vukčić Kosača ( sr-Cyrl, Стјепан Вукчић Косача; 1404–1466) was the most powerful Bosnian nobleman whose active political career spanned the last three decades of medieval Bosnian history, from 1435 to 1465. D ...
, who lived between 1404 and 1466 and was one of the last rulers of
Herzegovina
Herzegovina ( or ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Hercegovina, separator=" / ", Херцеговина, ) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia. It has never had strictly defined geogra ...
. In 1922, the club changed its name to GOŠK who played their first match against Jugović from
Foča
Foča ( sr-Cyrl, Фоча, ) is a town and a municipality located in Republika Srpska in south-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the banks of Drina river. As of 2013, the town has a population of 12,234 inhabitants, while the municipality has 18 ...
.
The club kept that name until the
Second World War
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. After the city was liberated, in 1946, ''Fudbalski klub Bratstvo'' (translated to ''Brotherhood'') was founded, but it soon renamed itself to Sloga and keeps that name until 1952, before renaming it to ''Pobjeda'' (translated to ''Win''). It kept that name until 1957 when Pobjeda was split in two clubs; GOŠK and Radnički. Both clubs existed until 1960 when those two merge themself in today's FK Goražde.
Currently, Goražde plays in Bosnia and Herzegovina's second tier-
and has been a stable First League club since its third promotion in 2018. The two other promotions came in 2009 and 2014 respectively.
Honours
Domestic
League
*
:
**Winners (3): 2008–09 , 2013–14 , 2017–18
Club seasons
Source:
HISTORIJSKI REZULTATI
- SportSport
References
External links
FK Goražde
at Facebook
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Association football clubs established in 1918
Football clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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