Dragutin Spasojević (15 February 1934 – 21 May 2016) was a Montenegrin football player and manager. He managed

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FK Rad FK Rad () is a football club based in Banjica, Belgrade, Serbia. They compete in the Belgrade Zone League, the fourth tier of the national league system. Founded in 1958, the club spent a total of 30 seasons in the top flight between 1987 and 2 ...

FK Sutjeska Nikšić Fudbalski klub Sutjeska (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Сутјеска) is a professional association football club from Nikšić, Montenegro, currently competing in the Montenegrin First League. The club was established in ...

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, FK Budućnost Titograd,

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, NK GOŠK-Jug and

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. He was also president of the board for

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and

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. He is most famous for winning the 1978 Yugoslav Cup with

Managerial career

Spasojević began his coaching career in

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, 1962 where he formed a football school for youth players. With Sloga he won

Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...

in 1970, but failed to qualify for First League losing to

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. He began coaching Sutjeska Nikšić a year later and won the Second League and gained promotion. He also managed

two times in 1972–73 and 1974–1976. Spasojević became manager of

in April 1976 replacing

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. He stayed with club for two years accumulating over 100 matches. In 1978 he led the club to the Yugoslav Cup final where Rijeka beat his former club Trepča. The same year he also won the

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. He became a club legend after winning the clubs first trophies.

Personal life

He was married to Leposava and father of Krsto, Ilija and Mirko.Preminuo Dragutin Spasojević
- Onogost Spasojević was a big supporter of Sutjeska

Managerial statistics

: *Dates of first and last games under Spasojević; not dates of official appointments

Honours

;Sloga Kraljevo *

East: 1969–70 ;Sutjeska Nikšić *

South: 1970–71 ;Rijeka *

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup (; ; , ), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup (; , and between 1947 and 1991 as the Marshal Tito Cup (; ; ; ), was one of two major association football, football competitions in Socialist Federal Re ...

: 1977–78 *

: 1977–78 ;Borac Čačak *

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: 1993–94

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