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| Full name | Fudbalski Klub Spartak Ždrepčeva Krv | ||
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| Founded | 21 April 1945; 80 years ago (1945-04-21) | ||
| Ground | Subotica City Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 13,000 | ||
| President | Nikola Simović | ||
| Head coach | Đorđe Tutorić (caretaker) | ||
| League | Serbian SuperLiga | ||
| 2024–25 | Serbian Superliga, 12th of 16 | ||
| Website | fkspartak.com | ||
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Fudbalski klub Spartak Ždrepčeva Krv (Serbian Cyrillic:Фудбалски клуб Спартак Ждрепчева Крв) is a professionalfootball club fromSubotica,Serbia, that plays in theSerbian SuperLiga.
The club was founded in 1945 and was named afterJovan Mikić Spartak, the leader of thePartisans inSubotica, who was a national hero and was killed in 1944.
After the end of the2007–08 Serbian League Vojvodina, the club merged withZlatibor Voda which won promotion to theSerbian First League thus gaining the nameSpartak Zlatibor Voda. In 2013, the board decided to return to the original name of the club.
Founded in 1945, FK Spartak Subotica is the second most successful club in northern Serbia afterVojvodina. They participated in the first postwar club competition, the1946–47 Yugoslav First League, and from then on were relegated to the second league then promoted again to the first league in a persistent cycle. Their biggest success was reaching the 1993–94 FR Yugoslavia Cup final againstPartizan which they lost 1-6.
However, football in Subotica has long tradition. During the pre-WWII period, the city was the seat of the Subotica Football Subassociation, one of the subassociations which existed within the Yugoslav Football Association, and which organised league competitions whose winners qualified for the Yugoslav championship where the national champion was decided. Subotica was home to three major clubs that made it to the Yugoslav championship before 1941:Bačka,SAND andŽAK Subotica. Bačka has the distinction of being the oldest football club in the entire territory of former Yugoslavia.
During World War Two, when Subotica was invaded by Axis forces in 1941 and incorporated into Hungary, its football clubs were likewise absorbed into the Hungarian league system. At the end of the war Yugoslavia regained control of Subotica. Some clubs such as SAND were dissolved; others, like Bačka, continued, but at a much lower level; and some new ones were formed, such as Radnički and Građanski. ŽAK Subotica remained active until their main sponsor,Yugoslav Railways, dissolved it to form a new club named "Spartak", the nickname of a legendary athlete from Subotica,Jovan Mikić who, during the war, was aPartisan commander. Besides the players, the stadium, the team colours and the fans, Spartak also inherited from ŽAK the backing of the Yugoslav Railways.[1]
During the period of socialist Yugoslavia, Spartak played in either theYugoslav First orSecond league. Although they never won the national championship, they produced good home grown players who succeeded domestically and abroad, brought in talented players from other regions of Yugoslavia, and contributed a number of players to the national team. During this period, the highlight was their appearance in the1961–62 Yugoslav Cup, even though they lost.
Spartak was a finalist again in1994. By then the oldSFR Yugoslavia had broken up after which Serbia and Montenegro establishedFR Yugoslavia. Spartak was a regular participant of theFirst League of FR Yugoslavia until the1999–2000 season when they were relegated and a period of decline began which lasted until 2008 when they merged withFK Zlatibor Voda from neighbouring town ofHorgoš. Playing under the name FK Spartak Zlatibor Voda, the club was promoted to the2009–10 Serbian SuperLiga.
Spartak's biggest success since the establishment of Serbia in 2006, came in the2018–19 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds. They first defeated Northern Irish clubColeraine F.C. in Round 1, then went on to achieve what is considered their brightest moment in club history, defeating Czech powerhouseAC Sparta Prague. They were eventually eliminated from the UEFA Europa League in the 3rd qualifying round, losing to Danish clubBrøndby IF over two legs.[2]
Spartak's fans are known asMarinci (Marines), which were formed in early 1989.
Subotica City Stadium (Gradski stadion[3]) is a multi-usestadium inSubotica,Serbia. It is currently used mostly forfootball matches and is the club's home ground since 1945. The stadium holds 13,000 people. There is a football pitch and a registered track for athletics suitable for competitions. One part of the Stadium is covered. There are also two subsidiary football pitches.
The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale, was one of the first really international major European football cups that the club participated in. After World War II, in 1951, a replacement tournament named Zentropa Cup was held to resume the rich tradition of this competition.
| Season | Contest | Round | State | Club | Score | Place |
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| 1987 | Mitropa Cup | Semi-finals |  Italy | Ascoli | 1–2 | Ascoli |
| Third-place match |  Hungary | Vasas | 0–2 | Porto Sant'Elpidio |
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 2010–11 | Europa League | QR2 |  Differdange 03 | 2–0 | 3–3 | 5–3 |
| QR3 |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 | ||
| 2018–19 | Europa League | QR1 |  Coleraine | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 |
| QR2 |  Sparta Prague | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | ||
| QR3 |  Brøndby | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–4 |
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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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Marin Dulić
Ilija Babić Stefan Stojanović Dario Pavković
Muhamed Bešić
Boris Sekulić
Yohan BilingiNote: 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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Milan JovanićAndrija KaluđerovićDejan KekezovićOgnjen KoromanZoran LjubinkovićPredrag MijićIgor PopovićDejan RončevićLazar TufegdžićVojo UbiparipVladimir VeselinovNemanja VidićNikola Žigić
Miloš CetinaZvonko ĆirićZoran DimitrijevićMilorad ĐukanovićMiloš GlončakLajoš JakovetićGojko JanjićSenad KaračZoltan KujundžićZoran KuntićSlobodan KustudićRanko LeškovDušan MaravićNenad MaslovarDragan MiranovićTihomir OgnjanovBela PalfiAntal PuhalakZvonko RašićAntun RudinskiŽivko SlijepčevićDimitrije StefanovićMiloš StojiljkovićSlobodan ŠujicaJožef TakačAntal TapiškaTomislav Taušan
Tim ChowRisto IvkovićIvo Šeparović
Edmund Addo
Dejan AntonićZsombor KerekesFlórián Urbán
Maxim Fedin
Noboru Shimura
Nikola DrinčićVladimir JovovićMladen KašćelanNemanja NikolićSavo PavićevićMilan PurovićJanko TumbasevićNikola VujovićAndrija Vukčević
Morice AbrahamFor the list of all current and former players with Wikipedia article, please see:Category:FK Spartak Subotica players.
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