FK Radnički Pirot

Radnički Pirot
Full name FK Radnički Pirot
Nickname(s) Beli (The Whites)
Founded 1945 (1945)
Ground Stadion Dragan Nikolić
Ground Capacity 13,816
President Dragan Dimitrijević
Head coach Vojkan Aleksić
League Serbian League East
2014–15 Serbian League East, 2nd

FK Radnički Pirot (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Раднички Пирот) is a professional football club from Pirot, Serbia. They currently compete in the Serbian League East, the third tier of the national league system.

History

The club was formed in 1945 immediately after World War II. They made their Yugoslav Second League debut in the 1969–70 season.[1] The club spent the following 12 consecutive seasons in the second tier of Yugoslav football, before being relegated in 1981. After only one year, they won the promotion back, spending the next six seasons in the Second League (19821988), when the competition was reorganized.[2]

The club made its debut in the newly formed Second League of FR Yugoslavia in the 1992–93 season. They would continue to compete between the second and third level leagues in the following decade.[3]

The club achieved one of the biggest results in its history by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2004–05 Serbia and Montenegro Cup, when they were eliminated by Rad after losing 0–1 at home.[4] At the end of the season, they also won the promotion to the Serbian First League after finishing first in the Serbian League East. The club spent the following three seasons in the second tier of Serbian football, before being relegated back to the Serbian League East in 2008. In the meantime, they repeated the success in the national cup by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2006–07 Serbian Cup, when they were eliminated by Vojvodina after losing 1–2 at home.

Honours

Serbian League East

Seasons

Season Division P W D L F A Pts Pos
2010–11 Div 3 3016410513452 2nd
2011–12 30101010343040 10th
2012–13 301947461461 3rd
2013–14 3015312443248 4th
2014–15 301857682559 2nd

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.[5]

Notable players

Nikola Đurđić, Andrija Kaluđerović, Mateja Kežman, Radivoje Manić, Jovan Stanković and Vladan Radača are former club players with senior national team appearances.[6] The following players are mentioned in the official website as the ones most contributed for their past archivements.[3][7]

  • SerbiaUroš Kostić
  • SerbiaDesimir Krstić
  • SerbiaDragomir Lazarević
  • SerbiaDimitrije Manić
  • SerbiaRadivoje Manić
  • SerbiaDanilo Medić
  • SerbiaBranko Mihajlović
  • SerbiaBožidar Mijalković
  • SerbiaBratislav Mijalković
  • MontenegroRista Mijušković
  • SerbiaMomčilo Mitić
  • SerbiaDragan Nikolić
  • SerbiaDušan Nikolić
  • SerbiaAleksandar Panajotović
  • SerbiaBogoljub Panić
  • SerbiaMiroslav Paunović
  • Republic of MacedoniaSloveniaDragi Pavlov

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

Coaches

There is a large number of coaches throughout the history of Radnički Pirot, but the ones that left an strongest impact in the club were Tomislav Kaloperović, Ostoja Simić, Neško Milovanović, Stole Mitić, Žika Stanković, Aleksandar Petković, Dimitar Jovanovski, Ilija Dimovski, Slobodan Ostojić, Mileta Tomić, Ljubomir Veljković, Ivan Jovanović, Ljuborad Stevanović, Čeda Matić, among others.[3][7]

Date Name
2005 Serbia Čedomir Matić
2006 Serbia Marjan Živković
2006 Serbia Vladimir Jocić
2006–2007 Serbia Nebojša Vignjević
2007 Serbia Cvijetin Blagojević
2007 Serbia Zoran Nikolić
2007 Serbia Miloš Joksić
2008 Serbia Ljubomir Veljković
2009 Serbia Goran Cvetković
2009 Serbia Slobodan Đošev
2009 Serbia Marjan Živković
2010 Serbia Slobodan Đošev
2010–2011 Serbia Vojkan Aleksić
2011–2012 Serbia Radivoje Manić
2012 Republic of Macedonia Milan Stojanoski
2012–2013 Serbia Mile Tomić
2013–2014 Serbia Aleksandar Kuzmanović

References

  1. "SISTEM TAKMIČENJA U JUGOSLAVIJI 1968.-1973." (in Serbian). fsgzrenjanin.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  2. "SISTEM TAKMIČENJA U JUGOSLAVIJI 1988.-1991." (in Serbian). fsgzrenjanin.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 History at FK Radnički Pirot official website (Serbian)
  4. "Fudbal u Pirotu" (in Serbian). radnicki-pirot.host.sk. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  5. "PIRGOSI – ISTOK 1990." (in Serbian). radnicki-pirot.host.sk. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  6. Radnički Pirot at National-Football-Teams.com
  7. 1 2 Club story at FK Radnički Pirot official website (Serbian)

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