Fudbalski Klub Radnik Hadžići is a professional

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club from the town of

Hadžići Hadžići ( sr-cyrl, Хаџићи) is a town and municipality located in Sarajevo Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located south west of the city of Sarajevo. According to the 2013 ...

that is situated in

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. Currently, Radnik plays in the

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and plays its home matches on the Hadžići city stadium which has a capacity of 500 seats. The club's golden years were in the mid 1990s, when it, under the guidance of club legend Sedik Fejzić, won the 1995–96

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(South) and got promoted to the

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season.

History

Foundation and time in Yugoslavia

FK Radnik was founded in 1948 in the town of

. In the following years the club played variably until the season 1971–72, when lead by manager Ivica Petković took the first place in the Sarajevo zone, gaining the right to play in the

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(Group South). In the 1973–74 season, the club got relegated back to the republic league.

Golden years

At the beginning of the

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, the club stopped all of its activities. Finally in 1994, in the free part of Hadžići, in

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, former club players started an initiative to restart the club. In the 1995–96 season, the club finished in 1st place in the

(Group South) and got promoted to the First League. In its only top tier season, the 1996–97 season, Radnik finished in last place, recording 1 win, 1 draw and 28 losses. In those two seasons, Radnik managed club legend Sedik Fejzić (1995–96 season) and former Radnik Hadžići player Abdulah Oruč (1996–97 season).

Present

Since the 1996–97 relegation, the club had its ups and downs, got relegated from the First League of FBiH in the early 2000s and had played in the Second League of FBiH (Group Center), though they were one of the best clubs in the league and on several occasions were close to promotion. In the 2009–10 season, Radnik won the Second League of FBiH (Group Center) and got promoted back to the First League of FBiH, but after only one season of First League football since 2005, the club got relegated from the league in the

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season. After nine years of their first promotion, in the 2018–19 season, under the guidance of local manager and also former club player

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, Radnik got once again promoted to the First League of FBiH two games before the end of the season, beating Pobjeda Tešanjka 6–0 at home on 22 May 2019, securing that spot.

Honours

Domestic

League

: **Winners (1): 1995–96 *

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: **Winners (2): 2009–10 , 2018–19

Players

Current squad

Notable and academy players

1951–1992

* Dževad Kulenović *

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* Abdulah Oruč * Sabit Sadiković * Rešad Kulenović * Sead Bećirević

1992–1993

1993–present

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Alen Bašić Alen Bašić (born 20 September 1980) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired defender who last played for Olimpic Sarajevo in the Premier League. Bašić's family fled Bosnia during the war and moved to Germany where he was a part of the VfB St ...

* Dženan Osmanović *

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* Semir Kerla *

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Notable managers

* Ivica Petković * Dževad Kulenović *

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* Abdulah Oruč *

References

External links

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