FK Radnički Pirot () is a

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club based in

Pirot Pirot ( sr-Cyrl, Пирот) is a city and the administrative center of the Pirot District in southeastern Serbia. According to 2022 census, the urban area of the city has a population of 34,942, while the population of the city administrative are ...

, Serbia. They compete in the

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, the third tier of the

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History

The club was founded immediately after

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in 1945. They made their

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 ...

debut in the 1969–70 campaign. Over the next 12 seasons, the club competed in the second tier of Yugoslav football, before being relegated in

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. They were promoted back the following year and played another six seasons in the Second League (

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– 1988), before the competition was reorganized. In the 1975–76 Yugoslav Cup, the club made one of the greatest accomplishments in its history by eliminating

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

to reach the quarter-finals, eventually losing to

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Cr ...

. Following the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, the club competed in the newly formed Second League of FR Yugoslavia in the 1992–93 season, but failed to avoid relegation. They returned to the second tier three years later and subsequently placed third in Group East in their comeback appearance. However, the club suffered relegation to the third tier in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. In the new millennium, the club surprisingly reached the quarter-finals of the

2004–05 Serbia and Montenegro Cup The 2004–05 Serbia and Montenegro Cup was the third season of the Serbia and Montenegro's annual football cup. The cup defenders was Red Star Belgrade, but was defeated by FK Železnik in the final. First round Thirty-two teams entered in the Fi ...

, being eliminated by Rad after losing 1–0 at home. They also earned promotion to the

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in the same season by winning the

. The club spent the next three seasons in the second tier of Serbian football, before being relegated back to the Serbian League East in 2008. In the meantime, they achieved another success in the national cup by reaching the

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quarter-finals, but lost 2–1 to

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at home. After spending eight consecutive seasons in the Serbian League East, the club was promoted as champions to the Serbian First League in

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

. They were relegated back to the third tier in

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, only to return to the second tier in

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Honours

*Serbian League Timok / Serbian League Niš /

(Tier 3) **Champions (5): 1995–96, 2000–01, 2004–05, 2015–16, 2018–19

Seasons

Supporters

The club's main supporters' group is known as ''Pirgosi''. They were founded in the summer of 1990. The group is traditionally situated in the east stand of the stadium.

Notable players

''This is a list of players who have played at full international level''. * Nikola Đurđić *

Andrija Kaluđerović Andrija Kaluđerović (; born 5 July 1987) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Club career The much-travelled Kaluđerović made his senior debut for OFK Beograd under manager Stevica Kuzmanovski, coming on a ...

* Ivan Gvozdenović * Nenad Jestrović * Mateja Kežman * Radivoje Manić * Zoran Ranković * Jovan Stanković * Jovan Anđelković ''For a list of all FK Radnički Pirot players with a Wikipedia article, see :FK Radnički Pirot players''.

Managerial history

References

External links

FK Radnički Pirot
at Srbijasport

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