Fudbalski klub Goražde is a professional
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
club based in the city of
Goražde
Goražde ( sr-cyrl, Горажде, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of the Drina rive ...
in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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. The club was founded in 1918.
Goražde plays in the
, the second level of football in the country, and plays its home matches at the Midhat Drljević Stadium, which has a capacity of 1,500.
History
The first football club in
Goražde
Goražde ( sr-cyrl, Горажде, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Goražde of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of the Drina rive ...
was established in 1918 and it was named ''Herceg Stjepan'', after Herceg
Stjepan Vukčić Kosača
Stjepan Vukčić Kosača (1404–1466) was a powerful Bosnian Nobility, nobleman who was politically active from 1435 to 1466; the last three decades of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages, Bosnian medieval history. During this period, ...
, who lived between 1404 and 1466 and was one of the last rulers of
Herzegovina
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. In 1922, the club changed its name to GOŠK who played their first match against Jugović from
Foča
Foča ( sr-Cyrl, Фоча, ) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the south-east on the banks of Drina river. As of 2013, the town has a population of 12,234 inhabitants, while the municipality has 1 ...
.
The club kept that name until the
Second World War
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. After the city was liberated, in 1946, ''Fudbalski klub Bratstvo'' (translated to ''Brotherhood'') was founded, but it soon renamed itself to Sloga and keeps that name until 1952, before renaming it to ''Pobjeda'' (translated to ''Win''). It kept that name until 1957, when Pobjeda was split in two clubs; GOŠK and Radnički. Both clubs existed until 1960, when those two merged in today's FK Goražde.
Currently, Goražde plays in Bosnia and Herzegovina's second tier-
and has been a stable First League club since its third promotion in 2018. The two other promotions came in 2009 and 2014 respectively.
Honours
Domestic
League
*
Second League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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:
**Winners (3): 2008–09 , 2013–14 , 2017–18
Club seasons
Source:
HISTORIJSKI REZULTATI
- SportSport
References
External links
FK Goražde
at Facebook
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Association football clubs established in 1918
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