Nogometni klub Krivaja Zavidovići (, short NK Krivaja) is a professional

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club based in

Zavidovići Zavidovići ( sr-cyrl, Завидовићи) is a city and municipality located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located be ...

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that competes in the

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History

The club was founded in 1919 and thus became the first sports club in the town of Zavidovići. An urban legend states that the first club meeting was held in local resident Mamil Musafija's restaurant. In the pre-

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period from the early 1930s until the Axis invasion of the

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, the club was considered among the best in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the end of the Second World War the club was reestablished and took part in lower levels of the Yugoslav league system. After the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Krivaja has competed in the second and third-tier. Krivaja is a regular member in the Second league of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (third-tier).

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