FK Radnički Pirot

Radnički Pirot
Full name FK Radnički Pirot
Nickname(s) Beli (The Whites)
Founded 1945 (1945)
Ground Stadion Dragan Nikolić
Capacity 6,816
President Zoran Nikolić
Head coach Goran Lazarević
League Serbian First League
2017–18 Serbian First League, 13th (relegated)

FK Radnički Pirot (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Раднички Пирот) is a professional football club from Pirot, Serbia. They compete in the Serbian First League, the second tier of the national league system.

History

The club was formed in 1945 immediately after World War II. They made their Yugoslav Second League debut in the 1969–70 season.[1] The club spent the following 12 seasons in the second tier of Yugoslav football, before being relegated in 1981. After only one year, they won promotion back, spending the next six seasons in the Second League (1982–1988), when the competition was reorganized.[2]

Following the breakup of the former country, the club made its debut in the newly formed Second League of FR Yugoslavia in the 1992–93 season. They would continue to compete between the second and third level leagues over the following decade, finishing third in the 1996–97 Second League of FR Yugoslavia.[3]

The club achieved one of the biggest results in its history by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2004–05 Serbia and Montenegro Cup, when they were eliminated by Rad after losing 0–1 at home.[4] At the end of the season, they also won promotion to the Serbian First League after finishing first in the Serbian League East. The club spent the following three seasons in the second tier of Serbian football, before being relegated back to the Serbian League East in 2008. In the meantime, they repeated the success in the domestic cup by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2006–07 Serbian Cup, when they were eliminated by Vojvodina after losing 1–2 at home.

Honours

Serbian League East

Seasons

Season League Cup
Division P W D L F A Pts Pos
2010–11 3 – East 30164105134522nd —
2011–12 3 – East 3010101034304010th —
2012–13 3 – East 3019474614613rd —
2013–14 3 – East 30153124432484th —
2014–15 3 – East 3018576825592nd —
2015–16 3 – East 3019925420661st —
2016–17 2 30127113031436th —

Supporters

The club's main supporters group is known as "Pirgosi". They were founded in the summer of 1990. The group is traditionally situated in the east stand of the stadium.[5]

Current squad

First team

As of 10 March 2018[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Serbia GK Ivan Bulajić
2 Republic of Macedonia DF Filip Stojanovski
3 Serbia DF Božidar Mančić
4 Serbia DF Stefan Petrić
5 Serbia DF Milan Nikolić
6 Serbia MF Filip Tolić (3rd captain)
7 Serbia MF Uroš Filipović
8 Serbia DF Bojan Dojkić
9 Serbia FW Marko Mančić (captain)
10 Serbia MF Jordan Jovanović
11 Serbia FW Miloš Spasić
No. Position Player
12 Serbia GK Miroslav Stamenković
13 Serbia MF Zlatko Liščević
14 Serbia DF Lazar Anđelković (on loan from Radnički Niš)
15 Serbia DF Miloš Nikolić (vice-captain)
16 Serbia MF Davor Petrov
17 Serbia FW Predrag Ivković
18 Serbia MF Nemanja Mančić
19 Serbia FW Željko Dimitrov
20 Serbia MF Nemanja Petrov
21 Serbia FW Željko Žerađanin

Youth & reserves

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
— Serbia GK Zvezdan Cvetanović
— Serbia DF Darko Vasić
— Serbia DF Dimitrije Mijalković
— Serbia DF Miodrag Kamenović
No. Position Player
— Serbia FW Aleksandar Đorđević
— Serbia Sava Lučić
— Serbia Jovan Lučić
— Serbia Vukota Mijatović

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
— Serbia GK Vojislav Ilić (at Balkanski until the end of the 2017–18 season)
— Serbia GK Nemanja Đorđević (at Lužnica until the end of the 2017–18 season)
— Serbia GK Nikola Savić (at Zaplanjac until the end of the 2017–18 season)
— Serbia DF Marko Davidović (at Balkanski until the end of the 2017–18 season)
— Serbia MF Igor Kostadinović (at Jedinstvo Bošnjace until the end of the 2017–18 season)
No. Position Player
— Serbia MF Stefan Todorović (at Balkanski until the end of the 2017–18 season)
— Serbia FW Uroš Đurić (at Tanasko Rajić until the end of the 2017–18 season)
— Serbia Jovan Velev (at Tanasko Rajić until the end of the 2017–18 season)
— Serbia Darko Bogdanović (at Tanasko Rajić until the end of the 2017–18 season)
— Serbia Nikola Ćirić (at Balkanski until the end of the 2017–18 season)

For recent transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers winter 2017–18. For summer transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers summer 2017.

Notable players

National team players[7]

For a list of all FK Radnički Pirot players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:FK Radnički Pirot players.

Managerial history

References

  1. ↑ "SISTEM TAKMIČENJA U JUGOSLAVIJI 1968.-1973" (in Serbian). FSG Zrenjanin. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "SISTEM TAKMIČENJA U JUGOSLAVIJI 1988.-1991" (in Serbian). FSG Zrenjanin. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "RAT, RASPAD SFR JUGOSLAVIJE, SANKCIJE" (in Serbian). FSG Zrenjanin. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "ISTORIJA" (in Serbian). FK Radnički Pirot. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "PIRGOSI" (in Serbian). FK Radnički Pirot. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "Radnički poražen na "generalnoj probi"". pirotskevesti.rs (in Italian). 12 August 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  7. ↑ "Radnički Pirot". National Football Teams. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
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