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| Full name | Fudbalski klub Radnik Bijeljina | ||
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| Founded | 14 June 1945; 80 years ago (1945-06-14) | ||
| Ground | Gradski Stadion, Bijeljina | ||
| Capacity | 6,000 | ||
| Chairman | Nedeljko Ćorić | ||
| Manager | Duško Vranešević | ||
| League | Premier League BH | ||
| 2024–25 | Premier League BH, 8th of 12 | ||
Fudbalski klub Radnik Bijeljina (Serbian Cyrillic:Фудбалски клуб Радник Бијељина) is a professionalassociation football club based in the city ofBijeljina that is situated in northeastBosnia and Herzegovina. The club plays its home matches on theBijeljina City Stadium, which has a capacity of 6,000 seats. They compete in thePremier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The nameRadnik means worker.
Radnik won its firstFirst League of the Republika Srpska title in the 1998–99 season, and the second in the 2004–05 season, after which the club got promoted to the Bosnian Premier League. The club was relegated from the Bosnian Premier League in the2006–07 season.
In the2011–12 season, Radnik once again won the title in the First League of RS and won a second promotion to the Premier League, where they played until the2021–22 season.
In the2015–16 season, Radnik had, so far, their biggest success, winning its first national trophy, theBosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup, after they beatFK Sloboda Tuzla in the two-legged cupfinal (1–1 in Bijeljina and 0–3 inTuzla). Winning the cup, the club qualified to the2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds, its firstUEFA competition.
The first football was brought toBijeljina in 1916. The first football club wasFK Podrinje which was formed in 1919. Later other clubs were formed such as FK Zora in 1920, FK Građanski in 1923, and FK Semberija in 1935. The clubs from this entire region of Posavlje and Podrinje played in the provincial leagues of theBelgrade Football Subassociation.[1] After the end ofWorld War II, FK Radnik was formed.
FK Radnik Bijeljina was founded on 14 June 1945. It didn't take long for Radnik to win their first trophy. In 1948 they became champions of theTuzla District beatingFK Sloboda Tuzla in the final. A year later, the club reached the 1/16 round of theYugoslav Cup. In 1957, Radnik entered into theNovi Sad/Srem zone (regional league). In season 1971–72, Radnik became champions of the regional Republic League of Bosnia and Herzegovina and they entered a playoff for a place in theYugoslav Second League. The club played FK Sloga from Vukovar in the playoff where it won both matches, 4–0 in Bijeljina and 8–0 inVukovar. It entered the 2nd League of Yugoslavia playing against clubs such asFK Proleter Zrenjanin andFK Bečej. They stayed in the Yugoslav Second League for six seasons, being its best classification in the season 1977–78 when they finished 10th.[2]
Another great achievement of FK Radnik Bijeljina was when the junior team won the Bosnia and Herzegovina Cup in 1987. In the semi-final, they beatFK Velež Mostar inMostar by 5–2. In the final, Radnik beatFK Polet Bosanski Brod in the penalties to win the trophy.
From 1995 to 1997, the club was called FK Panteri Bijeljina and played under that name in the first two seasons of theFirst League of the Republika Srpska.[2] In the 1998–99 season, Radnik Bijeljina won their first First League of RS title, an achievement reached again in the 2004–05 season.[2]
In the season 2004–05, Radnik won their second Republika Srpska title which got them a place in theBosnian Premier League for the2005–06 season. In the 2005–06 season, Radnik finished 13th.[2] A year earlier it had reached the 1/4 finals of the Bosnian Cup.[2]
In theRepublika Srpska Cup, after being twice a losing finalist in the 2005–06 and 2008–09 editions, it finally won the Cup in the 2009–10 cup season.[2]
Radnik won its first national trophy in 2016, winning theBosnian Cup in the2015–16 season, beatingSloboda Tuzla in the final (agg. 4–1).[3] This way Radnik won a spot in the2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds. Even though they put up a good fight, Radnik got eliminated in thefirst qualifying round byBulgarian First League clubPFC Beroe Stara Zagora (agg. 2–0).[4][5]
In the2018–19 Bosnian Premier League season, Radnik finished on 5th place, but as 4th placedFK Željezničar Sarajevo didn't get an UEFA license to compete in that season's league, Radnik got qualified by default to the2019–20 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds.[6] The club got eliminated byFC Spartak Trnava in thefirst qualifying round, after beating Spartak in the first match inBanja Luka 2–0, but it got eliminetd by Spartak inTrnava in the second match after penalties (2–3 on penalties for Spartak), since the Slovak side defeated Radnik 2–0 in regular time as well.[7][8]
On 28 March 2020, five years after becoming club chairman of the board,Mladen Krstajić decided to leave Radnik, with Predrag Perković becoming the new club chairman.[9]
In September 2022, fans waved a flag of theTotenkopf Division which is widely viewed as a hate symbol.[10]
| Competition | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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| UEFA Europa League | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 |
| Total | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | –2 |
P = Matches played;W = Matches won;D = Matches drawn;L = Matches lost;GF = Goals for;GA = Goals against;GD = Goals difference. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.
| Season | Competition | Round | Opponent | Home | Away | Agg. |
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| 2016–17 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  Beroe Stara Zagora | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q |  Spartak Trnava | 2–0 | 0–2 (a.e.t) | 2–2 (2–3p) |
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Miroslav Milanović Dušan Jevrić Nikola Bala Dragan RadovićDarko Nestorović (1 July 2011 – 27 August 2012) Srđan Bajić (1 September 2012 – 3 September 2014)Slavko Petrović (5 September 2014 – 23 August 2016)Nebojša Milošević (24 August 2016 – 9 May 2017)Mladen Žižović (9 May 2017[nb 1] – 11 November 2019)Slobodan Starčević (11 November 2019 – 13 January 2020)Slavko Petrović (13 January 2020 – 16 November 2020)Darko Nestorović (24 November 2020 – 16 April 2021)Vlado Jagodić (21 April 2021 – 25 October 2021)Velibor Đurić (25 October 2021 – 1 April 2025) Duško Vranešević (2 April 2025 – present)
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