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Fudbalski klub Sarajevo (English: Sarajevo Football Club) is a Bosnian professional football club based in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is one of the most successful clubs in the country.

This article presents an overview of the club's history from its founding in 1946 to the present day, summarized in ten epochs.

Club history

Origins and post World War II years (1946–1965)

A red star, Sarajevo's first ever club crest from 1946 until 1947

Less than two years after

Mantula, Glavočević, Tošić, Pecelj, Novo, Strinić, Đ. Lovrić and Alajbegović from the latter. The team played its first match on 3 November 1946 against Bratstvo Travnik, winning the fixture 6–0.[3] Another historical assembly was held on 5 October 1947 when it was decided, on the proposal of then editor of the popular daily newspaper Oslobođenje, Mirko Ostojić, that the club name shall be changed to SDM Sarajevo, before it was finally changed to the current name in 1949. Furthermore, in September 1948 SDM Sarajevo was joined by Yugoslav footballing legend, Miroslav Brozović, who brought in a largely needed level of experience to the new team. The Mostar-native previously wore the black and white jersey of FK Partizan, as well as captaining the Yugoslavia national team. Brozović was offered the position of player-manager which he accepted, turning his attention to promoting the team to the Yugoslav First League.[4]
Even though the team concluded the second part of the season without losing a single game, fans hoped for more persuasive results and weren't overly satisfied with the five draws that were mustered. Luckily, even this was enough for a first-place finish and a promotion to the top flight after a playoff series.

Mate, I can't play for cash while listening to others telling me how to play. I'm grateful to them, they were fair and didn't make an issue out of it. I told them I can only play for Sarajevo.

Asim Ferhatović, in an interview, after returning from a short stint with Fenerbahçe[5]

FK Sarajevo first entered the top-flight Yugoslav First League after eliminating

Lev Mantula
.

First championship generation (1965–1967)

By the mid-1960s legendary striker

Manchester United of England, despite hosting a goalless draw in the first leg.[22] The first leg was played before an audience of 40,000 spectators and refereed by the Italian Francesco Francescon. The second leg played at Old Trafford ended in controversy after the ball went out of bounds prior to the hosts scoring their second goal. Notable Sarajevo players during this era included Boško Antić, Mirsad Fazlagić, Vahidin Musemić, Fahrudin Prljača and Boško Prodanović
.

Period of stagnation (1967–1979)

Shortly after winning its first Yugoslav league title FK Sarajevo endured a period of general stagnation.

Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade, and in doing so signaled things to come.[24] Notable FK Sarajevo players in this period included Želimir Vidović, Radomir Savić, Edhem Šljivo, Srebrenko Repčić, Fuad Muzurović, Dragoljub Simić and Džemil Cerić
.

Second championship generation (1980–1985)

Former Sarajevo attacking midfielder and Bosnia and Herzegovina's UEFA Golden Jubilee inductee Safet Sušić
Former club winger Zijad Švrakić signing for Galatasaray

FK Sarajevo had a second successful spell between 1978 and 1985, led by the attacking duo

FK Priština, followed by a victory over NK Osijek on 4 November.[34]

Former captain and Real Betis defender Faruk Hadžibegić

The aforementioned win brought Sarajevo into pole position in the league standings, which it did not drop until the end of the season. A wonderful win over

Slaviša Vukićević.[34] The maroon-whites now needed five points from their three last fixtures to clinch the title. A routine 3:0 victory over Iskra was followed by a tough match against Vardar in Skopje that ended in a 2:2 draw, after the hosts went up 2:0 just before half time.[34] It all came down to the final league game against Red Star Belgrade, played at a sold out Koševo stadium, where the maroon-whites need just a point to mathematically clinch the title. Musemić broke the deadlock in the 23. minute and Jakovljević doubled Sarajevo's lead with fifteen minutes to go. The visitors were able to pull one back through Boško Gjurovski in the 85th. minute, but it was too little too late.[33] The celebrations began, Sarajevo had won its second Yugoslav league title.[35] The triumph qualified the club for the first round of the 1985–86 European Cup, where they shockingly lost both legs to Finnish side FC Lahti.[36]
This result is still considered Sarajevo's worst in major European competitions.

The championship winning generation included the likes of

Slaviša Vukićević, Zijad Švrakić, Senad Merdanović and Mehmed Janjoš.[37]

Pre-Bosnian war years (1985–1992)

Former Sarajevo midfielder and Switzerland manager Vladimir Petković

FK Sarajevo entered a turbulent period after clinching its second Yugoslav league title. Three major members of the championship winning squad left the team in the summer of 1985. Namely, star striker Husref Musemić joined Red Star Belgrade, Faruk Hadžibegić made a move to

Bosnian sides.[40] The club played its last game in the Yugoslav First League on 5 April 1992, just a day before the start of the Siege of Sarajevo
, away to Red Star Belgrade (2–5). Football was abruptly halted in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the duration of the war that would last for four years.

Notable FK Sarajevo players in the pre-war period were Miloš Nedić, Dragan Jakovljević, Boban Božović, Dane Kuprešanin and Dejan Raičković.

Sarajevo as a touring club (1992–1994)

The

Werder Bremen
. After reentering the besieged city, the team defeated a local UN peacekeeping force 4–1, in a hallmark game which was the first played at the Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium in over two years. The team's exit of the country and subsequent world tour during the siege has become something of a folk tale in Bosnia and Hezegovina.

Post-Yugoslavia (1994–2000)

In

NK Brotnjo
on a better goal difference.

Formation of the joint league (2000–2013)

Džemal Berberović earned 201 caps for the club

The

Dynamo Kiev who won 4:0 on aggregate.[49] The club made the play-offs round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League and faced CFR Cluj but lost 3–2 on aggregate. Team defeated Spartak Trnava and Helsingborg
to get to the play-offs round.

Vincent Tan era (2013–2019)

Vincent Tan is worth an estimated US$1.6 billion (2014)[50]
Dženan Uščuplić won the league and cup with the club

CSKA Sofia manager Miodrag Ješić took over the helm,[66] only to be sacked after a string of disappointing results, with Almir Hurtić leading the side to a disappointing 4th-place finish in the league.[67] On 29 August 2016, after another string of bad results at the start of the 2016–17 season, Hurtić was sacked and Mehmed Janjoš was named manager.[68]

Change of ownership (since 2019)

Tan sold FK Sarajevo to a Vietnamese businessman Nguyễn Hoài Nam as he wanted to focus on Cardiff primarily.[69]

The club has won back to back Premier League titles in Bosnia; 2018–19 under manager Husref Musemić and 2019–20 under Vinko Marinović. The club has also taken out the 2018–19 Bosnian Cup. The 2019–20 Premier League season ended abruptly on 1 June 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As result FK Sarajevo entered 2020–21 UEFA Champions League First qualifying round where they faced Connah's Quay Nomads at the Cardiff City Stadium. Sarajevo won 2–0 thanks to a brace from Benjamin Tatar.

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