FK Radnički Pirot

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

Radnički Pirot
Full nameFK Radnički Pirot
Nickname(s)Beli (The Whites)
Founded1945 (1945)
GroundStadion Dragan Nikolić
Capacity13,816
PresidentZoran Nikolić
Head coachDejan Čelar
LeagueSerbian First League
2018–19Serbian League East, 1st of 18 (promoted)

History

The club was founded immediately after World War II in 1945. They made their Yugoslav Second League debut in the 1969–70 campaign.[1] Over the next 12 seasons, the club competed in the second tier of Yugoslav football, before being relegated in 1981. They were promoted back the following year and spent another six seasons in the Second League (19821988), when the competition was reorganized.[2] In the 1975–76 Yugoslav Cup, the club made one of the greatest accomplishments in its history by eliminating Red Star Belgrade to reach the quarter-finals, eventually losing to Dinamo Zagreb.

Following the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, the club competed in the newly formed Second League of FR Yugoslavia in the 1992–93 season, but failed to avoid relegation.[3] They returned to the second tier three years later and subsequently placed third in Group East in their comeback appearance.[3] However, the club suffered relegation to the third tier in 1998.[3]

In the new millennium, the club surprisingly reached the quarter-finals of the 2004–05 Serbia and Montenegro Cup, being eliminated by Rad after losing 1–0 at home.[4] They also earned promotion to the Serbian First League in the same season by winning the Serbian League East. The club spent the next three seasons in the second tier of Serbian football, before being relegated back to the Serbian League East in 2008. In the meantime, they achieved another success in the national cup by reaching the 2006–07 Serbian Cup quarter-finals, but lost 2–1 to Vojvodina at home.

After spending eight consecutive seasons in the Serbian League East, the club was promoted as champions to the Serbian First League in 2016.[5] They bounced back to the third tier in 2018, only to return to the second tier in 2019.

Honours

Serbian League Timok / Serbian League Niš / Serbian League East (Tier 3)

Seasons

Season League Cup
Division P W D L F A Pts Pos
 Serbia and Montenegro
1992–93 2 381342136673018th
1993–94 3 – East 34161267045444th
1994–95 3 – East 3420598337652nd
1995–96 3 – Timok 34272510023831st
1996–97 2 – East 34171165641623rd
1997–98 2 – East 341631545595113th
1998–99[lower-alpha 1] 3 – Niš 17295th
1999–2000 3 – Niš 381971210559643rd
2000–01 3 – Niš 3317978345601st
2001–02 2 – East 34167116345556th
2002–03 2 – East 33136145257458th Round of 16
2003–04 2 – East 36166145445548th
2004–05 3 – East 34236511433751st Quarter-finals
2005–06 2 – Serbia 381371850524613th
 Serbia
2006–07 2 38178135236596th Quarter-finals
2007–08 2 3416271655918th Round of 32
2008–09 3 – East 28951422303210th Preliminary round
2009–10 3 – East 30124145143404th
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
2017–18 2 30871528393113th Round of 16
2018–19 3 – East 3427439619851st Round of 32
Notes
  1. The season was cut short due to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

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.[6]

Players

First-team squad

As of 10 April 2020[7]

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

No. Position Player
1 GK Stefan Stojanović
2 DF Nikola Vlajković
3 DF Božidar Mančić
5 DF Dimitrije Mijalković
6 MF Filip Tolić
7 MF Irfan Vusljanin
8 DF Bojan Dojkić
9 FW Mitar Radivojević
10 MF Miloš Spasić
11 FW Konstantinos Galeadis
17 MF Guy Edoa
18 DF Dušan Savićević
19 MF Joseph Bempah
No. Position Player
20 MF Marko Šarić
21 DF Novak Petrović
22 DF Stefan Marković
23 MF Uroš Mirković
25 MF Miodrag Kamenović
28 MF Aleksa Kostić-Milutinović
30 MF Strahinja Petrović
31 GK Nikola Stanimirović
32 DF Marko Milenković
33 MF Bojica Nikčević
37 GK Milorad Kojić
44 MF Nemanja Spasojević
69 GK Viktor Ganchev

For recent transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers winter 2019–20.

Notable players

National team players[8]

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. Archived from the original on 26 July 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  5. "Radnički ponovo u društvu najboljih" (in Serbian). RTS. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  6. "PIRGOSI" (in Serbian). FK Radnički Pirot. Archived from the original on 26 July 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  7. "RADNIČKI P." (in Serbian). Prva liga Srbije. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  8. "Radnički Pirot". National Football Teams. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
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