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History

The club was founded on 27 June 1947 by the merger of three local rivals. Their first notable result was reaching the quarter-finals of the 1951 Yugoslav Cup, where they were heavily defeated by Dinamo Zagreb (8–0). In 1958, the club joined the reformed

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 ...

, competing in Group East for two seasons. They promptly returned to the league in 1961, spending the next six seasons in the second tier. In 1966–67, the club finished as champions and earned promotion to the Yugoslav First League for the first time ever. They placed eight in their debut appearance in the top flight. The club subsequently ended bottom of the table in 1968–69 and dropped to the Second League. In 1973, the club returned to the Yugoslav First League. They spent two seasons in the top flight, but suffered relegation in 1974–75. The club went on to compete in the Second League until 1990. They ended their comeback season in fourth place, their highest ever league finish. After the

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in 1992, the club competed in the First League of FR Yugoslavia for eight consecutive seasons. They placed fifth in the 1996–97 season, qualifying for the

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. The club was relegated to the Second League in 1999–2000. They were soon relegated to the Serbian League Vojvodina in 2002. The club was dissolved on 11 December 2005.

Honours

(Tier 2) ** 1966–67 (Group East), 1970–71 (Group East) * Serbian League Vojvodina (Tier 3) ** 2002–03

European record

Notable players

''This is a list of players who have played at full international level''. * Nenad Mišković * Amir Teljigović * Marko Baša * Vladimir Božović * Milan Stojanoski * Slobodan Dubajić * Dejan Govedarica * Ilija Ivić * Vladimir Ivić * Darko Kovačević * Zvonimir Vukić *

Aleksandar Rodić Aleksandar Rodić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Родић, ; born 26 December 1979) is a Slovenian retired Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. Club career At the beginning of his career, ...

* Zlatko Zahovič *

Radoslav Bečejac Radoslav Bečejac (; born 21 December 1941) is a Yugoslav former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career After starting out at Proleter Zrenjanin, Bečejac was transferred to Yugoslav First League club Partizan in 196 ...

* Nenad Bjeković * Milan Galić * Anton Herceg * Todor Veselinović ''For a list of all FK Proleter Zrenjanin players with a Wikipedia article, see :FK Proleter Zrenjanin players''.

Managerial history

References

External links

Club page
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