Sportski klub Jugoslavija ( en, Sport Club Yugoslavia), commonly known as SK Jugoslavija (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Cпортски клуб Југославија) was a
Serb
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The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
ian
football club from
Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija ( en, SC Great Serbia) in 1913 and changed its name to SK Jugoslavija in 1919. They were among the most popular Serbian and Yugoslav clubs, and they were nicknamed as "Crveni" (''The Reds'') because of their red shirts, in opposition to their greatest rivals
BSK BSK is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:
Sports
* OFK Beograd, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Borča, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Batajnica, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Banja Luka, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football club
* FK BSK L ...
, who wore blue and were known as "Plavi" (''The Blues''). Until 1941 the
sports society
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Jugoslavija, beside football, also included sections for
athletics
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* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
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* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
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cycling
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,
winter sport
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s,
basketball
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,
boxing
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,
wrestling
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,
swimming
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, and
table tennis
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.
History
The club was founded on August 6, 1913
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at mojacrvenazvezda.net in the restaurant "Kasino" in
Belgrade, by a group of dissidents from another Belgrade football club –
BSK BSK is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:
Sports
* OFK Beograd, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Borča, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Batajnica, Serbian football club
* FK BSK Banja Luka, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football club
* FK BSK L ...
. Dissatisfied over a decision to travel to
Austria-Hungary
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in order to play a friendly match with
Hajduk Split, this group left BSK and formed their own club, naming it Sportski klub Velika Srbija. The leader of the group was
Danilo Stojanović, better known as ''Čika Dača'', considered one of the major pioneers of football in the
Kingdom of Serbia.
Beside a group of former BSK players, the squad was formed by footballers from another Belgrade club,
SK Slavija from Belgrade suburb
Vračar
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, a number of players from another club formed by Stojanović,
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, and Czech footballers Edvard Mifek, Venčel Petrovický and
Alois Machek
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The first match was played against BSK, a 2–0 loss.
In 1914 they become the champions of the
Serbian Olympic Cup which was considered to be the first organised football club competition in the Kingdom. The final was played on May 11 in Košutnjak in the field of BSK in which Velika Srbija won Šumadija by 3–1 with two goals from Alois Machek and one from Mileta Jovanović.
With the beginning of the
First World War
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in 1914 the club suspended its activities. It reappeared in 1919 renamed SK Jugoslavija, as the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
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(renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929) was created a year earlier and colloquially named ''Jugoslavija'' from the beginning. The first post-war match was played against a team of British sailors, a 9–0 win, which was the first time the club played with a red kit, which will characterize them from then on and become the main reason for their nickname The Reds.
Until then, they had been wearing green. That same year the field where the matches were played was reconstructed and an athletic track and a new football and tennis fields were created. That field, named ''Trkalište'', located close to city centre, will be demolished in 1925 when the club moved to a new one, founded in the area of Belgrade known as
Topčidersko Brdo
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Location
Topčidersko Brdo (from T ...
, exactly in the area the
Red Star Stadium
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is located now. The new stadium had a capacity of 30,000 spectators, and included an athletics track, a grass pitch, a training field and a club house. It was officially inaugurated on 24 April 1927.
In 1932 illumination system was installed. The exhibitional match against
Racing Club Paris on June 22, 1932, became the first ever night match to be played in Yugoslavia. In the period between the wars, there were two sports newspapers in Belgrade which also followed the trend marked by the rivalry of the city derby, ''Sportista'', which was close to BSK, and ''Sport'', close to Jugoslavija.
SK Jugoslavija won the
Yugoslav Championship in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...
and
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Itali ...
, and participated in 14, out of 17, final stages of the Yugoslav Championship. Jugoslavia also won the
Yugoslav Cup
The Yugoslav Cup ( hr, Pokal Jugoslavije; sr, Куп Југославије; sl, Pokal Jugoslavije, mk, Куп на Југославија), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kup kralja Aleksandra, ...
in 1936.
In 1941 the club changed its name to SK 1913 after the
Axis invasion of Yugoslavia
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.
During the years of occupation, the Yugoslav Championship was no longer played, with SK Jugoslavija continuing to compete in the
Serbian League
The Serbian League () is the third level football league in Serbia. It consists of four groups, namely Belgrade, East, Vojvodina, and West. The winner of each group earns promotion to the Serbian First League.
History
1992–1995
In the summer of ...
, which had been earlier a qualifying league for the final stage of the Yugoslav Championship, but now became the national championship of the
German occupied Serbia. The Serbian League as top tier was played from 1941 until 1944 and had three editions, the first of which was won by SK Jugoslavija, and the following two by BSK.
Dissolution and establishment of Red Star
Prominent clubs throughout Yugoslavia that were considered politically and ideologically incompatible by the new
Communist regime
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were dissolved and remodelled along Soviet sporting lines. In February 1945 the Serbian
United Antifascist Youth League commenced the establishment of a new multi-sports society. Toward that end the remaining footballers and sporting facilities of SK Jugoslavija were expropriated by the
Communist Party
A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...
. On 4 March a mass meeting was held in the Belgrade's State Institute for Physical Culture (old DIF), during which a new sports society dubbed "''
Crvena Zvezda
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional Association football, foot ...
''" was proclaimed. The
football branch was composed of former "''reds''"
Milovan Ćirić
Milovan Ćirić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Ћирић; 12 February 1918 – 14 October 1986) was a Serbian football coach and former player. He was the last player to captain SK Jugoslavija and the first captain of Red Star Belgrade (1945 ...
(the first captain of Red Star),
Predrag Đajić,
Božidar Drenovac
Božidar Drenovac (; 2 January 1922 – 24 July 2003) was a Serbian football player and manager.
Club career
He was born in Ćuprija in 1922. Still young he joined Belgrade club SK Jugoslavija in 1936, making his senior debut in the 1938–39 ...
,
Ljubomir Lovrić
Ljubomir Lovrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Ловрић; 28 May 1920 – 26 August 1994) was a Serbian football goalkeeper and later a football manager and journalist.
Career
On the national level he played for Yugoslavia national team ...
, Mladen Kašanin,
Mile Kos, Milivoje Đorđević, Dragomir Diklić, Miomir Petrović,
Aleksandar Petrović, and Miodrag "Mališa" Petrović amongst others. The new squad was further amalgamated by a substantial contingent of BSK players, which included
Svetislav Glišović
Svetislav Glišović (Serbian Cyrillic: Светислав Глишовић; 17 September 1913 – 10 March 1988) was a Serbian international football player and manager.
Club career
Glišović played in the youth team of SK Soko before becomin ...
(serving as the first coach of Red Star),
Kosta Tomašević
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,
Rajko Mitić
Rajko Mitić ( sr-Cyrl, Рајко Митић, ; 19 November 1922 – 29 March 2008) was a Serbian footballer, coach, executive and journalist.
Mitić is considered one of the most important players in the history of Red Star Belgrade as he is th ...
,
Branko Stanković
Branko "Stane" Stanković ( sr-Cyrl, Бранко "Стане" Станковић, ; 31 October 1921 – 20 February 2002) was a Bosnian Serb footballer and manager, from Sarajevo.
Playing career Club
He started his career in SK Slavija Sarajevo ...
,
Miodrag Jovanović,
Srđan Mrkušić
Srđan Mrkušić (May 26, 1915 – October 30, 2007) was a Serbian football goalkeeper, legendary "third back" and forestry engineer.
With a long professional football career that spanned more than two decades, he is known for representing Yugosl ...
, and Đura Horvatinović. Slobodan Ćosić and Zoran Žujović from Slavija Belgrade were appointed as club directors.
On 5 May 1945, Communist Party Secretary of Sports
Mitra Mitrović-Djilas officially signed a decree dissolving all football clubs without formal ties to the regime. Labelled as "bourgeois collaborators", these included most major pre-war clubs who continued playing during the
occupation
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. The new club carried much of SK Jugoslavija's fan base and served as the national team of
SR Serbia
, life_span = 1944–1992
, status = Constituent state of Yugoslavia
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, winning the
first post-war tournament in September 1945, before officially commencing the
1946-47 Yugoslav First League season as Red Star.
The SK Jugoslavija Stadium, colloquially named "''Avala''" was appropriated and renamed "''Red Star Stadium''". The club also inherited the red and white colours of ''Jugoslavija'', reviving the now iconic vertical stripe jersey in 1950, as worn by ''Jugoslavija'' in season 1943-44. That year the club also adopted a new crest resembling ''Jugoslavija's'' shield albeit with a superimposed
''petokraka''.
Although Red Star Belgrade has at times acknowledged its historical links with SK Jugoslavija it does not consider itself a formal successor, unlike, for example
OFK Belgrade
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and
Dinamo Zagreb
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who claim continuity with the respective local pre-war football clubs. By the late 1980s all living former ''Jugoslavija'' players were inducted as honorary
Crvena Zvezda
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional Association football, foot ...
veterans in an association headed by Rajko Mitić. In 2020 Miodrag "Mališa" Petrović died at the age of 94. He was the last surviving former member of SK Jugoslavija and the last witness to the formation of
Crvena Zvezda
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional Association football, foot ...
.
Name
*SK Velika Srbija (1913–1919)
*SK Jugoslavija (1919–1941)
*SK 1913 (1941–1945)
Honours
*
Yugoslav Championship: 2
::
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...
,
1925
Events January
* January 1
** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
* January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Itali ...
*
Serbian League
The Serbian League () is the third level football league in Serbia. It consists of four groups, namely Belgrade, East, Vojvodina, and West. The winner of each group earns promotion to the Serbian First League.
History
1992–1995
In the summer of ...
: 2
:: 1922,
1941–42
*
Yugoslav Cup
The Yugoslav Cup ( hr, Pokal Jugoslavije; sr, Куп Југославије; sl, Pokal Jugoslavije, mk, Куп на Југославија), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kup kralja Aleksandra, ...
: 2
:: 1936, 1939
*
Serbian Olympic Cup: 1
:: 1914
*
Belgrade Football Subassociation The Belgrade Football Subassociation, commonly known by its initials, BLP ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: ''Beogradski loptački podsavez'' / Београдски лоптачки подсавез - БЛП) was one of the regional football governing bodi ...
: 6
:: 1924, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1932
Former players
''For all former club players with Wikipedia articles, please see:
:SK Jugoslavija players.''
Coaches
This is an incomplete chronological list of SK Jugoslavija coaches:
*
Alois Machek
Alois Machek (known in Serbian as Alojz Mahek/Алојз Махек) was a Czech football player and coach. Considered by Czech historiographers as one of the best Czech players prior First World War, (1913–1914)
*
Danilo Stojanović (1922–1923)
* Karel Bláha (1923–1926)
* Harry Lank (1927)
*
Jovan Ružić (1927)
*
Johann Strnad
Johann "Hans" Strnad (~1893 – ~1950) was an Austrian football player and manager.
Club career
Born in Vienna. While playing with Wiener Sport-Club, he played one match for the Austria national football team on April 14, 1918 in a match in Buda ...
(1928–1929)
*
Dragan Jovanović (1929–1933)
*
Károly Nemes
Károly Nemes (also Dragan/Dragutin Nemeš) was a Hungarian football goalkeeper and coach. He is best known for his work on champion teams of SK Rapid Wien and SK Jugoslavija. He coached throughout Central and South-Eastern Europe.
Career
P ...
(1934)
*
Bane Sekulić (1934)
*
Ivan Kumanudi (1935–1936)
*
Franjo Giler
Franjo Giler (1 September 1907 – 20 December 1943) was a Yugoslav footballer. He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Club career
Born in Sremska Mitrovica, (1937)
*
Božidar Đorđević (1938)
*
Gyula Feldmann
Gyula Feldmann ( hu, Feldmann Gyula; 16 November 1880, Szeged — 31 October 1955) was a Hungarian football player and coach.
Playing career
During his playing career he played with Nemzeti SC and MTK Budapest in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I.
C ...
(1938–1939)
Gyula Feldmann profile
at magyarfutball.hu
* Robert Lang (1939–1940)
* Mira Stevanović (1940–194?)
References
External sources
Jugoslavija (Beograd)
at exyufudbal.in.rs
Club players by seasons
at National-football-teams.com
SK Jugoslavija
at EU-Football.info
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Defunct football clubs in Serbia
Football clubs in Yugoslavia
Association football clubs established in 1913
Association football clubs disestablished in 1945
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1945 disestablishments in Serbia