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| Full name | Nogometna šola Mura | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Čarno-bejli orČrno-beli (The Black and Whites) | |||
| Founded | 14 May 2012; 12 years ago (14 May 2012)[1] | |||
| Ground | Fazanerija | |||
| Capacity | 4,506 | |||
| President | Robert Kuzmič | |||
| Head coach | Matjaž Kek Jr. | |||
| League | Slovenian PrvaLiga | |||
| 2023–24 | Slovenian PrvaLiga, 6th of 10 | |||
| Website | www | |||
Nogometna šola Mura (English:Mura Football School), commonly referred to asNŠ Mura or simplyMura, is a Slovenian professionalfootball club fromMurska Sobota. Founded in 2012, the team currently plays in theSlovenian PrvaLiga, the top tier of Slovenian football. The club's home ground isFazanerija City Stadium with a capacity of 4,506 seats.
The club started competing in the fourth tier of Slovenian football in 2013, and was promoted to the top flight by 2018. In 2020, Mura won its first major trophy after winning theSlovenian national cup. A year later, they became the champions of the Slovenian top division. Nicknamed the "Black and Whites" (Prekmurje Slovene:Čarno-bejli), they play their home games in black-and-white striped kits.
After the 2012–13 season, the oldND Mura 05 experienced financial difficulties and was dissolved.[2] The newly established club used its youth club to register a team for the 2013–14 season under the nameNŠ Mura.[3] Their first season of play was in1. MNL Murska Sobota (fourth tier), where they finished second and earned promotion to theSlovenian Third League. In2016–17 and2017–18, Mura earned consecutive promotions to reach the top flight of Slovenian football for the first time. In 2018–19, the club finished fourth in thePrvaLiga and qualified for theUEFA Europa League, their first European competition. The club won its first major honour in 2020, defeatingsecond division sideNafta 1903 in the final of theSlovenian Football Cup on 24 June.[4]
In2020–21, Mura won its first Slovenian national league title after beatingMaribor 3–1 in the final round of the season and finished with the same number of points as Maribor, but with a better head-to-head record.[5]
On 26 August 2021, Mura made history by qualifying for their first ever group stage of European club competition. They played againstSturm Graz in the play-off round of theUEFA Europa League, and lost 5–1 on aggregate.[6] As a result, they dropped intoUEFA Europa Conference League, becoming only the second ever Slovenian side, after Maribor, to play in a group stage of European competition.[7] Subsequently, Mura was drawn into a group withVitesse,Rennes andTottenham Hotspur.[8] After losing the first four games in the group, Mura caused an upset by beating Tottenham 2–1 at home with a last-minute goal fromAmadej Maroša.[9] The result was labelled by the English press as one of the most humiliating defeats in Tottenham's entire history, given that they had played in theUEFA Champions League final as recently as 2019.[10] Mura finished the competition in fourth place, with five defeats in six games.[11]
Mura play their home matches at Fazanerija City Stadium inMurska Sobota. The stadium was originally built in 1936 and has been expanded and renovated several times since then. It currently has a capacity of 4,506 covered seats.[12] With the standing area included, the total capacity of the stadium is around 4,700.[13]
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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| Season | League | Position | Record | Cup |
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| 2013–14[15] | 1. MNL (level 4) | 2nd | 15–7–4 | did not qualify |
| 2014–15 | 3. SNL – East | 4th | 15–3–8 | did not qualify |
| 2015–16 | 3. SNL – East | 2nd | 18–3–5 | Round of 16 |
| 2016–17 | 3. SNL – East | 2nd | 20–3–3 | did not qualify |
| 2017–18 | 2. SNL | 1st | 23–3–4 | Quarter-finals |
| 2018–19 | 1. SNL | 4th | 13–13–10 | Semi-finals |
| 2019–20 | 1. SNL | 4th | 14–14–8 | Winners |
| 2020–21 | 1. SNL | 1st | 17–12–7 | Round of 16 |
| 2021–22 | 1. SNL | 4th | 15–12–9 | Quarter-finals |
| 2022–23 | 1. SNL | 5th | 13–13–10 | Round of 32 |
| 2023–24 | 1. SNL | 6th | 11–10–15 | Semi-finals |
| Competition | Record | |||||||
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| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | |||
| UEFA Champions League | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | ||
| UEFA Europa League | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | ||
| UEFA Conference League | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | ||
| Total | 23 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 29 | 35 | ||
All results (home and away) list Mura's goal tally first.
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Agg. |
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| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | First qualifying round |  Maccabi Haifa | 2–3 | 0–2 | 2–5 |
| 2020–21[a] | UEFA Europa League | First qualifying round |  Nõmme Kalju | — | 4–0[b] | — |
| Second qualifying round |  AGF | 3–0 | — | |||
| Third qualifying round |  PSV Eindhoven | 1–5 | — | |||
| 2021–22 | UEFA Champions League | First qualifying round |  Shkëndija | 5–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 |
| Second qualifying round |  Ludogorets Razgrad | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–3 | ||
| UEFA Europa League | Third qualifying round |  Žalgiris | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| Play-off round |  Sturm Graz | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–5 | ||
| UEFA Europa Conference League | Group G | Vitesse | 0–2 | 1–3 | — | |
 Tottenham Hotspur | 2–1 | 1–5 | ||||
 Rennes | 1–2 | 0–1 | ||||
| 2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | First qualifying round |  Sfîntul Gheorghe | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–2 |
| Second qualifying round |  St Patrick's Athletic | 0–0[c] | 1–1 | 1–1[d] | ||
Mura je po Mariboru šele drugi slovenski klub, ki bo zaigral v skupinskem delu evropskih tekmovanj.
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