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| Full name | Fudbalski klub Modriča | ||
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| Founded | 1922; 103 years ago (1922) | ||
| Ground | Stadion Dr. Milan Jelić | ||
| Capacity | 6,000 | ||
| Chairman | Petar Jelić | ||
| League | Second League of RS | ||
| 2023–24 | First League of RS, 17th (relegated) | ||
Fudbalski klub Modriča (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Модрича), known asAlfa Modriča for sponsorship reasons, is a professionalfootball club based inModriča that is situated inRepublika Srpska,Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The club was founded in 1922 and it is currently active in theSecond League of the Republika Srpska. The club plays its home matches at theDr. Milan Jelić Stadium, which has a capacity of 6,000 seats.
Modriča became champions in the First League of RS in the2002–03 season, which secured them a place in thePremier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club's big success came in the2003–04 season when it won thenational cup. Due to this victory, Modriča qualified for the following season'sUEFA Cup tournament. It played againstFC Santa Coloma ofAndorra and won both games, but was later knocked out by Bulgarian sidePFC Levski Sofia.
However, its biggest success was when it won the2007–08 Bosnian Premier League and qualified for the2008–09 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds where they played againstFK Dinamo Tirana andAalborg BK.
The club is sponsored by Meridianbet.[1]
The origins of Modriča's history of professional sports are connected tofootball, and they date back to 1921.
The first football was brought fromPrague by a student Đoka Petrović. The first football club was founded in Modriča in 1922.The club was originally namedRogulj, but it soon changed its name toZora. In the first years of development of the sport, there were no official competitions – only friendly matches played between teams from neighbouring locations, and the players purchased sports equipment for themselves alone. The first official match Zora played was against the neighbouring team of "Bosanac" fromBosanski Šamac in 1923, which resulted in a 2–2 draw.
Zora existed up until 1927, when the authorities forbade its operation. Soon after, however, another club was founded under the nameOlimpija, which existed under this name until 1938, when it changed its name toFK Dobor. After the beginning ofWorld War II, all sports activities ceased, and only when the war was over, in August 1945, a new football club was founded, namedSloga. The club later changed its name toNapredak until it finally got the nameModriča. For sponsoring reasons, Modriča later received for a long time the surnameMaxima. What was later changed again in summer 2017 because of sponsor change toAlfa.
The biggest successes of the club during the years of the formerYugoslavia were in the season 1968/69, when it won first place and the title of amateur champion ofSR Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the second place in the competition for amateur champion of Yugoslavia.
The shirt of FK Modriča Maxima has been worn, among others, by:Nikola Nikić,Goran Peleš,Džemal Đedović,Slavko Cvijić,Dragan Voćkić,Rade Radulović,Slavko Mamuzić andMustafa Čoralić. Coaches FK Modriča MaximaDušan Radoja,Mitar Lukić,Slaviša Božičić,Zoran Ćurguz,Nikola Nikić,Marko Stojić.
The2003–04 season saw Modriča's first participation in thePremier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The same season saw Modriča lift theBosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup on 26 May 2004.
In the2007–08 season, Modriča won its first and so far only league title, which ranks as the biggest success in the long history of the club.
The stadium was built and opened in 1962. FK Modriča was formed in 1922 as a club and played its home games at Vranjak.
At the time, the stadium was mainly built with wooden stands and could have an attendance of 3,000 spectators. Modriča, being an industrial city and having the oil refinery as the main provider for most of the population of the city, needed to provide some kind of job offer for its hard workers.
Now, the decision was made to build a larger stadium since FK Modriča was taking part in the country's top league.The stadium "Dr. Milan Jelić" was named after the former president ofRepublika Srpska. After Dr.Milan Jelić's death on 30 September 2007, the club decided to change the name of their stadium in his honour. The stadium has changing rooms, offices for the hosts, chairs for its main stand, and the capacity altogether is 6,000.
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | |
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| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | 1QR |  | FC Santa Coloma | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| 2QR |  | Levski Sofia | 0–3 | 0–5 | ||
| 2008–09 | UEFA Champions League | 1QR |  | Dinamo Tirana | 2–1 | 2–0 |
| 2QR |  | Aalborg BK | 1–2 | 0–5 |
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