FK Zemun

Zemun

Full name

Fudbalski klub Zemun

Founded

1946

Ground

Zemun Stadium

Capacity

10,000

President

Dušan Ostojić

Head coach

Nebojsa Maksimović

League

Serbian First League

2014–15

Serbian League Belgrade, 1st

Home colours

Away colours

FK Zemun (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Земун) is a football club located in Zemun, a municipality of Belgrade, Serbia.

History

Immediately after the end of the Second World War, the sports activities in Zemun were restored. By early 1945, a club FK Maksim Divnić was formed, named in honour of a player with that name that played before the war and who died as Partisan fighter during the war. After just a couple of played matches the club changed its name into FK Sremac Zemun. By the end of that year another club is also formed in Zemun, FK Sparta Zemun. On October 20, 1946, the two clubs were merged to form a new sports society whose football section was FK Jedinstvo Zemun.^[1]

By 1962 the club got promotion into the group East of the Yugoslav Second League, that was divided back then into two geographical groups, East and West. It stayed at Second national level for two seasons, after which it returned into the Serbian republic league, Yugoslav third tier. In the late 1960s, the club struggled financially, and on February 23, 1969, it is merged with FK Galenika, a club sponsored by the Galenika a.d., a pharmaceutical company located in Zemun. Under the new name FK Galenika Zemun, and with new financial backing, the club soon returned to the higher leagues, winning promotion as soon as 1970 to the Yugoslav Second League.^[2]

Coached by Ivan Čabrinović, the club became one of the strongest teams in the second league, and after several times being close, it finally reached promotion to the Yugoslav First League in 1982. In that same season, the club reached the semi-finals of the 1981–82 Yugoslav Cup where they lost against the cup winners Red Star Belgrade. The club played in the 1982–83 Yugoslav First League however it finished bottom of the table subsequently relegated back to the Second League. On January 1, 1985, the club changed its name into the one that still carries nowadays, FK Zemun.^[3]

During the late 1980s, the club had fallen into the lower leagues, but after the stabilization of their financial situation the club began rising again. In 1990, after two consecutive promotions, the club was back in the 1990–91 Yugoslav First League. This time the club stabilized in the top league and even managed to achieve good results, like fourth place in the 1992–93 First League of FR Yugoslavia, just behind the best Serbian clubs Partizan, Red Star and Vojvodina, or the 5th place archive in the 1993–94 First League of FR Yugoslavia. In the 1992–93 season the club had reached again the semi-finals of the Yugoslav Cup.^[4]

FK Zemun competed in the top league all the way until 2007. In the season 2004–05 they managed to achieve 5th place once more.^[5]

In 2007 Zemun competed in the Serbian First League and came away with the 15th position and an automatic relegation to the Serbian League Belgrade, third tier. FK Zemun played in the 2007–08 Serbian Cup and found its way to the final. The club won three matches after penalties, defeated two first league sides and goalie Nemanja Jovšić was voted most valuable player. They lost the final 3–0 to Serbian team Partizan but since Partizan had already qualified for the Champions League Zemun were given the UEFA Cup spot as they were the runners-up. During the summer however, Zemun was not able to obtain a license from UEFA and had to give their spot to fourth-placed side Borac Čačak. Borac then gave their Intertoto Cup spot to OFK Beograd.

In 2008–09, Zemun became the champion of Serbian League Belgrade and were back to the Serbian First League after only one season.

Honours

Yugoslav Second League (2)

1981–82 Group east, 1988–89

Serbian Cup

finalist: 2007–08

Serbian League Belgrade

2014–15

Serbian Republic League

1977–78, 1986–87, 1987–88

Stadium

The official stadium of FK Zemun is Zemun Stadium and can host up to 10,000 spectators.

Current squad

As of 19 March 2016

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

No.	Position	Player
—	GK	Miloš Stepandić
—	GK	Ivan Babović
—	GK	Aleksandar Kirovski
—	GK	Miloš Krunić

—	DF	Ivan Božović
—	DF	Slavko Ćulibrk
—	DF	Dalibor Rodić
—	DF	Miloš Zečević
—	DF	Miloš Malović
—	DF	Danilo Kuzmanović
—	DF	Saša Kolunija
—	DF	Lazar Đokić

—	MF	Ivan Šubert
—	MF	Slaviša Jeremić

No.	Position	Player
—	MF	Đorđe Radovanović (on loan from Čukarički)
—	MF	Stevan Matić
—	MF	Vasilije Janjić
—	MF	Nikola Simić
—	MF	Goran Potkozarac
—	MF	Ibrahima Sory Camara

—	FW	Srđan Ajković
—	FW	Miodrag Gemović (on loan from Čukarički)
—	FW	Ognjen Đuričin
—	FW	Stefan Beko
—	FW	Milanko Rašković
—	FW	Dušan Đokić
—	FW	Vladimir Tufegdžić
—	FW	Aleksa Marković

Out on loan

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

No.	Position	Player
—	DF	Nemanja Jevtić (at Crvena Zvezda MML)
—	MF	Milijan Ilić (at IMT)
—	MF	Luka Pavlović (at GSP Polet)

No.		Position	Player
—		MF	Mladen Preradović (at Dorćol)
—			Nikola Živović (at Srem Jakovo)

Notable players

The following list contains players that played in the club and that have national team appearances:^[6]^[7]

Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia

Other

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

Coaching history

Milija Brkić
Miloljub Ostojić
Dragoslav Filipović
Miodrag Martać

Supporters

The supporters of the club are known as the Taurunum Boys. The group was formed in 1987.

The first organised supporting groups of back then FK Galenika begin to appear by mid-1980s. In 1986 the first ultras groups were formed under the names of Testas Caldas, Pajtosi and Godfathers. In 1987 the three groups united under the name Taurunum. The name comes from the Latin name of a settlement that existed in Roman period in the place where Zemun is located nowadays, and that was named Taurunum. The group stands in the north stand of the stadium. Some supporting groups out of the town of Zemun are formed, the most important being the Rangers from Pančevo. In 1995 by the end of the Yugoslav Wars there is a generational turn-over, and the group standing in the east stand formed by younger supporters and named The Boys – Dragons, joins Taurunum in the north stand forming a bigger group renamed Taurunum Boys. The moto of the group becomes "One city, one club, only Zemun".^[8]

Nowadays the group is composed of several sub-groups, and beside supporting their club FK Zemun, they are usually present at the matches of the Serbian national team. They have friendly relationships with the fan group of Radnički Kragujevac, Crveni Đavoli.^[9] and Young Rats Firm of Krylia Sovetov Samara.^[10]

References

↑ Copy of the history page of former official website at ticketservis.com
↑ Copy of the history page of former official website at ticketservis.com
↑ Copy of the history page of former official website at ticketservis.com
↑ Copy of the history page of former official website at ticketservis.com
↑ FK Zemun league standings since 2001 at Srbijafudbal
↑ FK Zemun at National-Football-Teams.com
↑ Galenika Zemun at National-Football-Teams.com
↑ http://www.ultras-tifo.net/interviews/412-interview-with-taurunum-boys-zemun-serbia.html
↑ History at Taurunum Boys official website
↑ http://www.ultras-tifo.net/interviews/3063-young-rats-firm-interview.html

Intertoto Cup, Uefa,
Zemun odbijen, Borac u Kupu UEFA, B92,

External links

Official website (Serbian)
Official Facebook Page (Serbian)
Fans website
UEFA Profile
Club profile and results at Srbijasport.
FK Zemun info at srpskistadioni.in.rs

Serbian First League

2015–16 teams	Bačka (BP) Bežanija BSK Borča ČSK Pivara Dinamo Vranje Donji Srem Inđija Kolubara Loznica Napredak Proleter (NS) Radnički 1923 Sinđelić Beograd Sloboda Užice Sloga (PM) Zemun

Seasons	2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Serbian SuperLiga

2015–16 clubs

Former clubs (2006–present)

Former clubs (1992–2006)

Serbian SuperLiga seasons

Serbia and Montenegro seasons

FR Yugoslavia:	1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02

Serbia and Montenegro:	2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005−06

Associated competitions

The league was preceded by Yugoslav First League and since 2006 Montenegro separated and formed their own First League.

Yugoslav First League

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1923–1940)

Seasons	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40

Former clubs	Bačka BASK BSK Belgrade Concordia Crnogorac Građanski Niš Građanski Skoplje Građanski Zagreb Hajduk Split HAŠK Ilirija Ljubljana Jedinstvo Beograd Jugoslavija Krajišnik Banja Luka Ljubljana Mačva NAK Novi Sad Pobeda Skoplje Primorje Ljubljana Radnički Kragujevac SAŠK SAND Subotica Slavija Osijek Slavija Sarajevo Slavija Varaždin Somborski SK Sparta Zemun Viktorija Zagreb Vojvodina ŽAK Subotica ŽAK Velika Kikinda

FPR Yugoslavia / SFR Yugoslavia (1945–1992)

Seasons	1945 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1950 1951 1952 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92

Former clubs	14. Oktobar Bor Borac Budućnost Crvenka Čelik Dinamo Vinkovci Dinamo Zagreb Hajduk Split Iskra Lokomotiva Mačva Maribor Nafta Napredak Naša Krila Novi Sad OFK Belgrade Olimpija Osijek Partizan Pelister Ponziana Priština Proleter Rabotnički Rad Radnički Belgrade Radnički Kragujevac Radnički Niš Red Star Belgrade Rijeka Sarajevo Sloboda Spartak RNK Split Sutjeska Teteks Trepča Trešnjevka Vardar Velež Vojvodina NK Zagreb Zemun Željezničar

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