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

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club from

Trbovlje Trbovlje (; german: Trifail''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 58.) is Slovenia's tenth-largest town, and the seat of the Municipality o ...

, which plays in the Ljubljana Regional League, the fourth level of the Slovenian football system. The club have a long-standing local rivalry with

NK Zagorje Nogometni klub Zagorje ( en, Zagorje Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Zagorje or simply Zagorje, is a Slovenian football club which plays in the town of Zagorje ob Savi. They competes in the Ljubljana Regional League, the fourth highe ...

, which is known as the Zasavje Derby.

History

History of football in

dates back to 1922, when ŠK Zora was established. In the same year, the club aroused a lot of interest in this sport among youth working class. In 1924, the club was banned after a political clash with

Orjuna The Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists (''Organizacija Jugoslavenskih Nacionalista'', ''ORJUNA''; ''Организација Југославенских Националиста'', ''ОРЈУНА''), was a political organization in Yugoslavia ...

. Some former members then founded DSK Svoboda, which renamed as SK Amater in 1927. On the 50th anniversary of the club, they won 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 ...

for the first time. A successful period lasted until 1980, as Rudar won the Republic titles two more times between 1974 and 1979. With the collapse of Yugoslavia and the independence of Slovenia, all Slovenian teams returned from the federal leagues. Some of the key players left the club and Rudar was relegated from the newly established

Slovenian PrvaLiga The Slovenian PrvaLiga ( sl, Prva slovenska nogometna liga, ), currently named Prva liga Telemach due to sponsorship reasons, also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the top level of the Football in Slovenia, Slovenian football league system. ...

in the inaugural 1991–92 season. They never returned to the first division.

Honours

''(third tier in Yugoslavia)'' **Winners: 1971–72, 1973–74, 1978–79 * Ljubljana Regional League ''(fourth tier in Slovenia)'' **Winners: 2011–12 *MNZ Ljubljana Cup **Winners: 1993

References

External links

Official website
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