FK Železničar Lajkovac
Full name | FK Železničar Lajkovac | ||
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Nickname(s) | Želja | ||
Founded | 1927 | ||
Ground | Stadion Lajkovac | ||
Capacity | 3,000 | ||
League | Kolubara-Mačva Zone League | ||
2020–21 | Serbian League West, 15th (relegated) | ||
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FK Železničar Lajkovac (
.History
The club was formed in 1927 by the initiative of a group of important citizens of Lajkovac and was initially named as Sport Klub Železničar (SK Železničar). The first matches took place only in 1929 the year when the first field was made. The chairman of the club was Mr. Aleksandar Drašković who was the person who brought the first football to the town and was also in this initial period the club's main player. Since the owner of the field didn't allowed the tree that was standing in the halfline to be cut the club had to move to a new one. But, it was soon, after this anegdotical event, that the club settled in a new definitive field in 1933, when the new club president, Dr. Eng. Miroslav Marković was already in charge. That year the club was registered in the Football Federation of Belgrade and it qualified to the league of the county of Kolubara.
Between 1934 and 1937 the club had some difficulties to form a squad, but it was in 1938 that the club returns to competition. The locals remember with enthusiasm the train travels they made to follow the team in their visiting matches. In the season 1938–39 three players are called to represent the team of the Kolubara county: Miladin Ilić, Jakov Vidović and Dunda Kučenović. However, the best club player of this period was Stanko Milovanović, nicknamed Pop ("The priest"), who played at the higher lever with several times national champions, Belgrade's SK Jugoslavija and later for FK Partizan.
The
By the end of 1946 and beginning of 1947 the town lives a sports revival. The Serbian Gymnastics Federation opens its branch in the town, and there is created a section dedicated to athletics named "Partizan". Železničar also creates sections dedicated to
It is perhaps in the late 1990s until 2002 that the club achieved its maximum success by participating in the
References
- ^ History Archived 2010-11-15 at the Wayback Machine at official club website.
- ^ League stands between 1998 and 2010 at clubs page at Srbijafudbal.
External sources
- Official website
- Club profile and squad at Srbijafudbal