FK Železničar Niš () was a
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club based in
Niš
Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names of European cities in different languages (M–P)#N, names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the list of cities in Serbia, third largest city in Serbia and the administrative cente ...
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Serbia
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History
Founded in 1928, the club initially competed in the
Niš Football Subassociation League, winning the title in 1939 and 1941. They subsequently participated in the
1946–47 Yugoslav First League as 14. Oktobar, immediately suffering relegation. Later on, the club competed for five seasons in the
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 ...
from
1962
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
Events January
* January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
to
1967
Events January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...
.
Notable players
;National team players
*
Saša Simonović
References
External links
Club pageat Srbijasport
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1928 establishments in Serbia
2012 disestablishments in Serbia
Association football clubs disestablished in 2012
Association football clubs established in 1928
Defunct football clubs in Serbia
Football clubs in Yugoslavia
Railway association football clubs in Serbia
Sport in Niš