Association football club in Novi Sad, Serbia
For the parent multisport clubhouse, see SD Vojvodina
Football cabaret

Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( serbian Cyrillic : Фудбалски клуб Војводина ), normally known as Vojvodina Novi Sad ( serbian Cyrillic : Војводина Нови Сад ; pronounced [ ʋǒjʋodina nôʋiː sâːd ] ) or just Vojvodina and familiarly as Voša ( serbian Cyrillic : Воша ), is a serbian master football club based in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, the second largest city in Serbia, and one of the most popular clubs in the state. The club is the major part of the Vojvodina multi-sport club and presently the third oldest football clubhouse in the serbian SuperLiga and the most successful football club in Serbia next to the rivals Crvena zvezda and Partizan Belgrade. In its long history, Vojvodina were one of the most successful clubs in the early Yugoslavia, winning two First League titles, in 1966 and 1989, were runner-up in 1957, 1962 and 1975, achieved 3rd place in 1992 and finished 5th in the contest ‘s all-time postpone. [ 2 ] Vojvodina were besides runner-up in the Yugoslav Cup in 1951. They won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1976, the Mitropa Cup in 1977 and were besides runner-up of the Mitropa Cup in 1957 and the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1998. From 1993 to 1997, Vojvodina achieved in the national championship 3rd position five times in a row and were runners-up in the domestic cup in 1997. They were runner-up in the serbian SuperLiga in 2008–09 serbian SuperLiga and 3rd place in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2020. Vojvodina were besides runner-up of the serbian Cup in 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2013. The beginning cup trophy Vojvodina won in 2014 and second in 2020 .

history [edit ]

On 6 March 1914, in Sava Šijakov ‘s weave mill in the Temerinska Street 12, a group of students of the Serbian Orthodox high educate established with the help of intellectuals and craftsman a football club in Novi Sad. The club was founded in privacy, because the former Austro-Hungarian authorities banned larger organize gatherings of juveniles in the Vojvodina region which was inhabited by and large by Serbs. [ 3 ] The club took the name Vojvodina, in order to emphasize the memory of the political-territorial unit of the Serbs in the “ serbian Vojvodina “ in which the Serbs, at least on paper, get the same rights as all early citizens in the Habsburg Empire for which they have fought for years. The diagnose Vojvodina means in Serbian a character of duchy, more specifically, a voivodeship. It derives from the parole “vojvoda”, and means “ one who leads warriors ” or “ war drawing card ”. Among the club founders on that day were the future textile industrialist Milenko Šijakov, the future university professor Vladimir Milićević, the future chemists Milenko Hinić, the future lawyers Radenko Rakić and Kamenko Ćirić, Gojko Tosić, Đorđe Živanov, Branko Gospođinački, the future sophisticate of law Kosta Hadži and others. The newly club played its first match in the village of Kovilj against local anesthetic club FK Šajkaš. Vojvodina played in bright blue coloring material and white shorts and won by 5–0. Svetozar Jocković, Jovan Ljubojević, Milorad Milićević, Dušan Kovačev, Jovan Jocković, Ozren Stojanović, Sava Ignjačev, Gavanski, Predrag Stojanović Ciga, Živojin Đeremov and Uroš Čakovac entered the record books as the first players in the history of Vojvodina. The players were chiefly pupils and students, who came from Prague in the summer holidays and played alone that one match, because shortly before World War I broke out. The rigid hand of the Austro-Hungarian authorities stopped all serbian organizations in Novi Sad and Vojvodina was the beginning time in the situation to be shut down. [ 4 ]
masthead of Vojvodina Novi Sad. After the liberation, Vojvodina resumed the work thanks to the enthusiasm of serbian students from Prague. The first president of Vojvodina became Milenko Šijakov, son of weaving mill owner Sava Šijak, and the first secretary became Dr. Živko Bajazet, the longtime president of the Serbian merchant bank and member of the Sokol arrangement. The club financed entirely by membership fees and by generous contributions as by Maks Grin, Daka Popović, the Novaković brothers, Ilija Balabušić and the members of Dunđerski family. part of the Vojvodina players and management who studied in Prague, were besides members of football club Slavia Prague. The czech club supported the Vojvodina members during the unmanageable times before and during World War I and contributed in the exploitation of the club. In 1920, was brought from Prague the first gear fructify of crimson and white jerseys. At the club meeting held on 23 July 1922, it was decided that in honor of Slavia Prague the loss and white colors adorn the jersey of Vojvodina. The coat of arms was besides partially modeled after Slavia Prague ‘s coat of arms, where the bolshevik star of the Czech team was replaced with the blue star, so that Vojvodina ‘s coat of arms had all the colors of the serbian pin. The first coach, technical film director and foreman personal digital assistant of Vojvodina was the lawyer Dr. Kosta Hadži, one of the main founder of Vojvodina and the Novi Sad Football Subassociation. Under his leadership, Vojvodina won the Novi Sad Subassociation league in 1926, which was the first base trophy in its history. Vojvodina played with following players : Mihajlović, Živić, Kričkov, Popović, Vajs, Aleksić, Grgarov, Marjanović, Šević, Petrović, Dudás and Saraz. The club provided the beginning professional contracts to its players, and besides brought professional players from abroad such as Czech Josef Čapek and Hungarians Sándor Dudás and Abraham Saraz. [ 5 ] One of the best and most influential Vojvodina players at that clock time was Dušan Marković, an effective striker who played for Vojvodina from 1921 to 1935. end of the 1930s, Vojvodina brought many dear players into the team, which was late known as the Millionaires team and one of the best was Jožef Velker, which became to a crucial player of the cabaret. In 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937–1940, Vojvodina won the Novi Sad Football Subassociation league. Since then, Vojvodina begun having unplayful pretensions to gain forwarding to the Yugoslav First League. The club failed to immediately make an affect, but during the season 1940/41, Vojvodina contend for the top. [ 6 ] The final examination stage of the championship was interrupted by the begin of World War II, and the Axis bombing, mobilization and area ‘s occupation made the good continuation of the competition impossible. [ 7 ] In 1962, Vojvodina was runner-up. however, the results deteriorated in the keep up seasons and Vojvodina evening started fighting against relegation. In 1964 everything changed with Vujadin Boškov as the technical conductor and Branko Stanković as coach. Vujadin Boškov remodeled and modernized the baseball club. The infrastructure was improved and a new sports center was built. It besides organized a successful scouting network and the administration, headed by president Arsa Kovačević, was able to provide all necessary conditions for the rival. Coach Branko Stanković changed the dash of play and shifted the vehemence on discipline and running. The merely musician who had a loose hand was Silvester Takač, one of the best players of this coevals. In 1966, Vojvodina won the Yugoslav first league for the first time with eight points ahead of moment placed Dinamo Zagreb. Members of this generation were Silvester Takač, Ilija Pantelić, Žarko Nikolić, Ivica Brzić, Rajko Aleksić, Đorđe Pavlić, Dobrivoje Trivić, Stevan Sekereš, Đorđe Milić and Stevan Nešticki. In 1989, under the newfangled passenger car Ljupko Petrović, Vojvodina spent about the solid championship as league leaders. During the season, Vojvodina won at home against all exceed four yugoslav clubs. Partizan Belgrade was defeated by goals by 3–2, [ 8 ] Dinamo Zagreb by 4–1, [ 9 ] Hajduk Split by 2–0 [ 10 ] and finally Red Star by 3–1 in front man of more than 27,000 spectators. [ 11 ] Vojvodina played the decisive plot for the championship against Sloboda Tuzla and needed a winnings to clinch the title ahead of rival Red Star. Vojvodina won in presence of 27.000 spectator pump by goals from Šestić ( doubly ), Vorkapić and Vujačić with 4–2. [ 12 ] The final whistle sparked off a huge celebration inside the stadium deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as a massive celebratory sales talk invasion. [ 13 ] The second championship trophy was ultimately won with three points ahead, after 23 years of waiting, by the newfangled generation of players, such as Siniša Mihajlović, Miloš Šestić, Slaviša Jokanović, Budimir Vujačić, Ljubomir Vorkapić, Miroslav Tanjga, Goran Kartalija, Dušan Mijić, Svetozar Šapurić, Čedo Maras, Stevan Milovac, Dragan Punišić and Zoran Mijucić. The following season, Vojvodina fell sadly in the first round of european Cup against Honvéd Budapest, although most of the key players from the previous league-winning season remained. Losing the first leg by 1–0 at Honvéd was extremely disappointing. During the second leg, things went much better as Vojvodina got astir 2–0 by goals from Siniša Mihajlović and Miroslav Tanjga, however a late own goal by defender Dragan Gaćeša dashed Vojvodina hopes of progressing foster. [ 14 ] In 1990, Vojvodina failed to defend the previously acquired claim and finished the season as 11th. The decomposition of Yugoslavia, the civil war ( 1992–1995 ), the inflation and the UN sanctions have hit the Yugoslav football teams hard. The difficult position forced Vojvodina to sell its best players and the champions team broke up in the early nineties. however, Vojvodina ‘s management, led by Milutin Popivoda, succeeded to assemble a new team. The coaches, chiefly Milorad Kosanović, made besides a great combination of players from Vojvodina ‘s excellent youth like, Jovo Bosančić, Goran Šaula, Radoslav Samardžić, Goran Ćurko and Srđan Bajčetić, and players from early areas like Aleksandar Kocić, Dejan Govedarica, Goran Jezdimirović, Miodrag Pantelić, Vesko Mihajlović and Zoltan Sabo. From 1992, Vojvodina achieved in the backing always the third invest, 6 times in a row, and received the visit of the eternal third. In 1995, they finished the first base half of the temper on the first place. Because of the UN sanctions, in this period Vojvodina, as all the rest of the clubs from FR Yugoslavia, was not allowed to compete in european competitions and the interrogate on how this generation would have played on the international scene was left. however, in 1995, Vojvodina played a friendly catch in Amsterdam against Ajax, in the season when they won the UEFA Champions League, where the “ old lady ” of serbian football defeated them by 3–2. In 1997, Vojvodina achieved besides the cup concluding, but lost against Red Star. In 1998, Vojvodina started one after another victory in UEFA Intertoto Cup. After eliminating Stabæk ( 2–0, 2–2 ), Örebro SK ( 3–0, 1–0 ) and Baltika Kaliningrad ( 3–0, 1–0 ) in the first gear three rounds, Vojvodina played the semi-final against SC Bastia. In the foremost leg, held in Bastia, Vojvodina suffered a 2–0 frustration. Although they were not given any chances in the return leg in Novi Sad, Vojvodina pulled off a convert 4–0 succeed. The cup concluding was played against Werder Bremen. The first equal in Bremen was lost by 1–0 and the return game ended with 1–1. [ 15 ] Vojvodina coach was Tomislav Manojlović and the red-white new jersey was worn by players like Nikola Lazetić, Zdravko Drinčić, Vidak Bratić, Jovan Tanasijević, Vladimir Mudrinić, Zoran Janković, Dragan Žilić, Mićo Vranješ, Saša Cilinšek, Vladimir Matijašević and Leo Lerinc. [ 16 ]

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Brkić Vulićević Pekarić Stepanov Kizito Krasić Kačar Davidov Tadić Mrđa Jovanović
Vojvodina’s team of the decade 2000–2010, elected by the fans.[17]

In the 2000/01 season, Vojvodina fought by chance for competitive survival in the elect and the baseball club ran into fiscal problems. The departure of the cabaret conductor Svetozar Šapurić opened the descent and Vojvodina entered into a several-year long crisis. In a brusque period of clock, numerous managers and coaches were changed regularly and the situation deteriorated more and more. This was a period of average results and the set of selling the best players to richer european clubs after just a copulate of seasons of first-team football and replacing them with fresh new talents. Despite that, at that period, a big number of class players worn the new jersey of Vojvodina like Miloš Krasić, Milan Jovanović, Milan Stepanov, Ranko Despotović, Vlada Avramov, Bojan Neziri, Vidak Bratić, Jovan Tanasijević, Radoslav Batak, Milan Vještica, Milan Belić and Miodrag Stošić. In 2005, as a final examination act of despair, the mastermind supporters, the Firmaši and Vojvodina ‘s oldest supporters, called the Stara Garda ( english : Old Guard ), gathered and took over the assembly of the club to make the public aware on their dissatisfaction and the bad situation in the club. In the same year, the newly arrived clubhouse president Ratko Butorović announced a better future for club. The police squad was improved and in fact followed the stabilization and the rise of the club, both fiscal and in terms of results. besides, the management announced large reconstructions of the stadium and educate facility, which were realized in the follow years. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] many players contributed to these successes, some of them are Gojko Kačar, Dušan Tadić, Dragan Mrđa, Marcelo Pletsch, Aboubakar Oumarou, Ranko Despotović, Željko Brkić, Daniel Mojsov, Slobodan Medojević, Miroslav Stevanović, Vlatko Grozdanoski, Giorgi Merebashvili, Miroslav Vulićević, Brana Ilić, Branislav Trajković, Vuk Mitošević, Damir Kahriman, Janko Tumbasević, Darko Lovrić, Savo Pavićević, Joseph Kizito, Danijel Aleksić, Mario Gjurovski, Aleksandar Katai, Nino Pekarić, Vladimir Buač, Nikola Petković and Stephen Appiah .

Club colours and crest [edit ]

Vojvodina played its first equal in bright blue color and white shorts. Some of the foremost Vojvodina players and management studied in Prague and were besides members of football club Slavia Prague. The czech club supported the Vojvodina members during the unmanageable times before and during World War I and contributed in the development of the cabaret. In 1920, was brought from Prague the inaugural rig of red and white jerseys. At the club meeting held on 23 July 1922, it was decided that in respect of Slavia Prague the red and white colors adorn the jersey of Vojvodina. The coat of arms was besides partially modeled after Slavia Prague ‘s coat of arms, where the crimson star of the Czech club was replaced with the blue star, so that Vojvodina ‘s coat of arms had all the colors of the serbian pin. [ 20 ]

stadium and education facility [edit ]

stadium [edit ]

The home field of Vojvodina is the Karađorđe Stadium. It is named after Karađorđe, the leader of the First serbian rise against the Ottoman occupation. once, it was known as the City Stadium or Vojvodina Stadium, but it was renamed on request of the Vojvodina fans in 2007 to Karađorđe Stadium. however, it was in fact the older and original identify of the stadium that was used from its initiation until the end of World War II. With a entire capability of about 20 000, of which 15 000 seats, [ 21 ] it is one of the largest football stadiums in Serbia. The stadium has a new athletic path, and it is equipped with new Philips LED lights and 1700 lux potent floodlights. The stadium features a VIP sector with 150 seats, VIP café-restaurant, weigh center, and 14 fully equipped broadcast cabins. It is besides the dwelling ground for the serbian U-21 football team. [ 22 ] In 2012, the executive board announced foster reconstructions of Karadjordje Stadium. These will include a new South stand, the reconstruction of Eastern and Southwest stands, and the cover of the solid stadium. The reconstruction will increase the stadium ‘s capacity approximately to 19,500 seats.

Training adeptness [edit ]

The FC Vujadin Boškov is the baseball club ‘s trail facility and young academy free-base. The sports building complex is located in Veternik, Novi Sad and was named after football caption Vujadin Boškov. The center has over 85,000 squarely meters of sports facilities and 2,000 square meters of envelop space. It has six courts, one with artificial grass and two surrounded by bleachers. It has 8 doubling rooms and 2 lavishness suites, and each whole have most modern equipment. A kitchen supplies the senior team and all the younger categories. The sports complex has besides a change room, gymnasium, checkup center, laundry facilities and in the chief construction houses two crush centers. amateur facility and entertainment at both facilities include television receiver, billiards, mesa football, computers, publicize conditioners and other advanced equipment. The entire building complex is managed by a team of highly dependent personnel. A special serve for the 24-hour security of the sports facility is besides available. The sport complex is today among the highest prize in Southeast Europe. [ 23 ]

youth academy [edit ]

Famous for its excellent football youth cultivate, its good scout network, the mod club ‘s train ground and the youth academy base FC Vujadin Boškov, which is well equipped and one of the most prestigious in the Southeast Europe, Vojvodina has developed renowned professional footballers such as Miloš Krasić, Gojko Kačar, Milan Stepanov, Srđan Bajčetić ( retired ), Dušan Tadić, Željko Brkić, Danijel Aleksić, Slobodan Medojević, Aleksandar Katai, Goran Šaula, Jovo Bosančić, Damir Stojak, Miroslav Stevanović, Sergej Milinković-Savić, Mijat Gaćinović, Milan Jovanović among others. In 2008 and 2009, Vojvodina organized together with the A.C. Milan a educate camp at the FC Vujadin Boškov. The Vojvodina junior players were trained there by Milan training techniques and methods. In 2012, Vojvodina ‘s team, led by bus Milan Kosanović, won the serbian young person championship. [ citation needed ]

Supporters [edit ]

One of the foremost organized supports of Vojvodina fans was recorded in 1931, at the away game against Mačva Šabac. already in 1937, the first organize supporters club was established, credibly the first organized athletic supporter group in the former Yugoslavia. [ 24 ] Although the cabaret had numerous supporters throughout the history, more organized groups emerged end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. In 1989, for the beginning time starts the mind of unite of all the smaller athletic supporter groups. This estimate is realized and the group was named Red Firm. A few days late, several youngsters established the group Firma ( english : The firm ) as one of the subgroups, because they wanted a serbian name for their group. The decomposition of Yugoslavia and its follows led to stagnation in all yugoslavian patron groups so that in 1992, the Red Firm fell apart and the Firma took over the leadership of the organized supports. The members of Firma call themselves Firmaši ( english : Members of the Firma ), the plural of the remarkable form Firmaš, and belongs today to the top patron groups in Serbia. [ 25 ] They are more acknowledge as ultras, not hooligans. however, they constantly protected the appoint and honor of FK Vojvodina, Novi Sad and Serbia, putting themselves against all who were not doing enough for the club. [ 26 ] The Firmaši accumulate in the north stand of the Karađorđe Stadium, from where they ferociously support their club. Besides football, they besides support other fun sections of the Vojvodina Novi Sad Sport Association. The golf club besides has a group of their oldest supporters, called the Stara Garda ( english : Old Guard ) and who are for more than 40 years in the east stand of the stadium. [ 27 ]

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

league [edit ]

Cups [edit ]

Super Cups [edit ]

  • Yugoslav Super Cup
    • Runners-up: 1989

International [edit ]

individual awards [edit ]

Serbian SuperLiga Footballer of the Year
Serbian SuperLiga Young Footballer of the Year

club records [edit ]

Radomir Krstić is Vojvodinas ‘s record-breaker by number of appearances ( 613 matches ). The goal-scoring record-breaker is striker Todor Veselinović, with 586 goals ( of it 130 goals in the Yugoslav backing ). He was besides the top scorekeeper of the Yugoslav league in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1961. In accession, Vojvodina had two more acme scorers in its history. [ 29 ] In 1993, Vesko Mihajlović with 22 goals and in 2010, Dragan Mrdja besides with 22 goals. The first player of Vojvodina, who wore the example jersey of Yugoslavia was Abraham Saraz Eugen in 1922, where he scored two goals in the match against Czechoslovakia. [ 30 ] Since then, numerous Vojvodina football players were in the Yugoslav national team and Todor Veselinović, Vujadin Boškov, Zdravko Rajkov, Dobrosav Krstić, Silvester Takač, Žarko Nikolić, Dobrivoje Trivić and Siniša Mihajlović ( a former musician of Inter Milan ) are among them .

player records [edit ]

Club all-time european record [edit ]

As of 12 August 2021

UEFA ranking [edit ]

As of 30 March 2017[31]

Best results in european competitions [edit ]

Biggest win in UEFA competition:

european matches in 2010s [edit ]

stream team [edit ]

As of 6 September 2021 [ 32 ] [ 33 ]
notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Players with multiple nationalities [edit ]

Out on loan [edit ]

note : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

technical staff [edit ]

As of 26 May 2021 [ 34 ]

Club management [edit ]

As of 8 January 2021 [ 35 ]

celebrated players [edit ]

For all players, see: List of FK Vojvodina players.

To appear in this section a player must have either:
  • Played at least 100 games in Serbian top league.
  • Played at least 80 games for the club.
  • Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club.
  • Played at least one international match for their national team at any time.

For the list of all current and former players with Wikipedia article, please see: Category:FK Vojvodina players.

managerial history [edit ]

Period Kit Manufacturer Shirt Sponsor
1992–2007 Lotto Aleksandar Gradnja
2007–2012 Joma Aleksandar Gradnja
2012–2015 Volkswagen
2015–2017 Umbro Volkswagen
2017–2018 Viskol
2018–2019 Srbijagas
2019–present Kelme Srbijagas

References [edit ]

Official
Unofficial
Supporters
  • Firma1989.com ( in Serbian and English )
Other