Nogometni klub Fužinar ( en, Fužinar Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Fužinar or simply Fužinar, is a Slovenian

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club from

Ravne na Koroškem Ravne na Koroškem (; until 1952: ''Guštanj''; german: Gutenstein in Kärnten) is a town in northern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Ravne na Koroškem, and the largest town and the capital of Slovenia's Carinthia region. The tow ...

which plays in the

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under the sponsorship name Fužinar Vzajemci. The club was founded in 1937.

History

The club was founded in August 1937 as SK Slovan Guštanj. They joined subassociation competitions in the 1939–40 season and won the second tier Koroška group ahead of their neighbors SK Mislinja. In the next year, they played in Maribor League West, but the season was interrupted because of the outbreak of

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. After the war they first competed as a football section of Partizan Guštanj, but then formed ŠD Fužinar in 1947. They again played in Maribor subassociation leagues until 1950, when they qualified for SR Slovenia second division. Fužinar finished dead last and immediately returned to local level. Their biggest success in the time of

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came in the 1965–66 season, when they played on a new stadium in newly-formed Slovenian Zonal League East and finished second. Therefore they played in qualifiers for the

Slovenian Republic League The Slovenian Republic Football League ( sl, Slovenska republiška nogometna liga) was the highest football league in Slovenia within the Yugoslav football system. During the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia it was known as the Ljubljana Subas ...

with Svoboda, but lost 6–4 on aggregate. After that Fužinar continued playing in zonal and regional leagues until 1988, but they never came close to promotion again. There was also an attempt of merging all the clubs from the region under the name of Koroška in the 1979–80 season, but the short-lived project proved to be unsuccessful. After Slovenia's independence in 1991, they found themselves in the lowest possible league and the club was reorganized as KNK Fužinar in the mid-1990s. They qualified for the

Slovenian Third League The Slovenian Third Football League ( sl, Tretja slovenska nogometna liga or commonly 3. SNL) is the third tier of the Football in Slovenia, Slovenian football system. Since 2019 the league consists of two regional groups (East and West). They ar ...

in 1999, but were soon relegated again. Their climb started in 2012, when former top division player Niko Podvinski came to the club as player/manager, and the club gained promotion from fifth to third division in two years. In 2017 they finished third, but the champions Maribor B declined promotion, so Fužinar was promoted to the

for the first time in the club's history.

Honours

*Slovenian Fourth Division :: Winners: 1998–99, 2001–02, 2013–14 *Slovenian Fifth Division :: Winners: 2012–13 *Slovenian Sixth Division :: Winners: 2010–11 *MNZ Maribor Cup :: Winners: 2014–15

References

External links

Official website
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