NK Travnik ( bs, Nogometni Klub Travnik), commonly known as Travnik is a professional
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club from the city of
Travnik
Travnik is a town and a municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the administrative center of Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, west of Sarajevo. As of 201 ...
that is situated in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
Currently, Travnik plays in the
and plays its home matches on
Stadion Pirota
Stadium Pirota (''Stadion Pirota'') is a multi-use stadium in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of NK Travnik
NK Travnik ( bs, Nogometni Klub Travnik), commonly known as Tra ...
which has a capacity of 4,000 seats.
History
Early period
NK Travnik was founded in 1922. The club is not really known for its period during the former
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...
, as its mostly known since the end of the
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...
and since the mid 1990s.
Post-Yugoslav period
The club played in the
First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, Prva liga Bosne i Hercegovine / Прва лига Босне и Херцеговине) operated by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina (abbreviation: ''N/FSBiH'') was the top tier ...
from 1995 to 1998, finishing 11th in the
1995–96 season, 14th in the
1996–97 and then getting eliminated in the
1997–98 after finishing on 15th place.
After winning the
Second League of BiH in the 1999–2000 season, Travnik got promoted to the first
2000–01 Bosnian Premier League season, but got relegated after only one year of playing top league football. The club played two years in the
First League of FBiH, before once again getting promoted in the
2002–03 season. The
2005–06 season got saw Travnik get relegated from the Premier League for the second time, but it got promoted the next year in the
2006–07 First League of FBiH season.
Present years
Since the 2006–07 promotion, Travnik played in the Premier League for 9 seasons in a row, finishing almost every season in the lower part of the league table. It got relegated for a third time in the
2015–16 season, and has not got promoted to the Premier League ever since, even getting relegated from the First League of FBiH in the
2017–18 season.
Travnik did get promoted right away from the
Second League of FBiH (West division) to the First League in the 2018–19 season, and currently plays in the already mentioned second tier of the
Bosnia and Herzegovina football league system
The Bosnia and Herzegovina football league system is a series of connected leagues for football clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The system is hierarchical, with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels. The top division is o ...
.
Honours
Domestic
League
*
:
**Winners (3): 1999–00,
2002–03,
2006–07
*
:
**Winners (1): 2018–19
Players
Current squad
Players with multiple nationalities
* Marko Baltić
Club officials
Coaching staff
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Other information
References
External links
NK Travnikat
Facebook
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1922 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association football clubs established in 1922
Football clubs in Yugoslavia
Football clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina