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OFK Bačka (Serbian Cyrillic: ОФК Бачка) is a football club based in Bačka Palanka, Serbia. In 2016, the club achieved promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga. It is known as one of the most successful football clubs in Serbia at the all time table of the Yugoslav Second League.

OFK Bačka

Full name	OFK Bačka
Nickname(s)	Plavi sa Dunava (The Blues from the Danube)
Founded	1945; 77 years ago (1945)
Ground	Stadion Slavko Maletin Vava
Capacity	4,000
Chairman	Marjan Rnić
Manager	TBA
League	Serbian First League
2020–21	Serbian SuperLiga, 20th (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Origins and rise

The club was founded in 1945 and plays in the stadium Stadion Slavko Maletin Vava, capacity of 2,500, which was officially inaugurated on 7 July 1951. In 1959, Bačka achieved promotion to the Yugoslav Second League group East, but, at the end of the 1959–60 season, ended up being relegated. However, a bright sign was the fact that Bačka striker Petar Remete became league top-scorer in 1960.[1] Bačka returned to Second League in the 1961–62 season and this time stayed in the national second level for 14 consecutive years.[2]

Its major accomplishment was the promotion to the 1988–89 Yugoslav Second League which was a unified second league. This edition of the Second League, compared to the previous ones Bačka played in, was stronger because it was a unified Second League in which clubs from all over Yugoslavia played in, thus more restricted and difficult to qualify to, while the other editions from the 1960s and 1970s had the second league divided into two groups, East and West. In total, during the Yugoslav period, Baćka spent 16 seasons in the Second League.[2]

In the Yugoslav Cup, Bačka best performance was in the 1968–69 edition when Bačka reached the quarter-finals, not advancing further because they were stopped by one of the Yugoslav "Big Four", Hajduk Split, who got to eliminate Bačka by 2–1 only after extra-time. Bačka managed to qualify to the final stages of the national cup on several occasions, the next being in the 1993–94 FR Yugoslavia Cup when they lost in the last 16 against Radnički Niš.[2]

After the 1988–89 season in the Second League, during the following two decades, the club played mostly in the third national level, the Serbian League Vojvodina, occasionally dropping to the Bačka Zone League at times when the financial crisis in the club was more notorious.

Recent history

The rise started when Bačka won the 2012–13 Vojvodina League West. Immediately afterwards, Bačka won the 2013–14 Serbian League Vojvodina thus qualifying to the Serbian First League, the second national level.[2] It only took two seasons in the first league for Bačka to finish second in the 2015–16 edition and this way directly qualified for the Serbian SuperLiga. The 2016–17 Serbian SuperLiga was the first time in the club's history that Bačka played in the national top level. Soon after they were relegated, but did manage to secure promotion back to the Serbian SuperLiga by claiming 3rd spot in the 2019–20 Serbian First League.

Name

The name of the club always was FK Bačka. It comes from the region of Bačka where the city Bačka Palanka is located. The club should not be confused with another ones with same name, like FK Bačka 1901 or FK Bačka Mol, or another with similar name, FK TSC Bačka Topola. OFK Bačka never played in Yugoslav highest level, but in 2016 got to be promoted to the Serbian SuperLiga. In summer 2015, club name changed to OFK Bačka.[3]

Honors

• Serbian League Vojvodina
  • Champions: 2013–14[2]
• Vojvodina League West
  • Champions: 2012–13[2]

Stadium

The Bačka stadium, known as Stadion Slavko Maletin Vava, was inaugurated on the date the city of Bačka Palanka celebrates its slava, July 7, 1951. It has a capacity of 5,500. The west stand is completely covered while the east stand is not. The stadium is located in downtown of Bačka Palanka.[4]

The first field where FK Bačka played was where the old railway station was located. As the club was growing and gaining popularity, a decision was made to relocate the stadium from the outskirts to the city center where it still stands. Its location is in an exclusive part of the town, 20 meters from the city center and the pedestrian area.[4]

The stadium is known for its high attendance. The biggest one recorded was on March 12, 1969, in a Yugoslav Cup quarter-finals game against Hajduk Split, when 10.000 spectators were present inside.[4]

Players

Current squad

As of 9 September 2021[5][6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  SRB Ognjen Mažić 3 FW  SRB Danilo Milenković 4 DF  SRB Veljko Bogdanović (on loan from Vojvodina) 5 DF  SRB Milovan Petrić 6 DF  SRB Matija Košanin 7 DF  SRB Aleksandar Kostić 8 MF  SRB Nikola Ristovski 9 FW  SRB Tomislav Todorović 10 MF  SRB Strahinja Karišić 14 DF  SRB Slađan Mijatović 16 FW  SRB Nikola Njamculović 17 MF  SRB Petar Tanasić 18 FW  SRB Vukašin Bogdanović (on loan from Vojvodina)

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW  SRB Nenad Radonjić 20 MF  SRB Stefan Levićanin 22 MF  SRB Marko Keča 23 DF  BIH Nemanja Vještica 24 MF  SRB Marko Džodan 27 DF  SRB Marko Mandić 28 FW  SRB Luka Marković (on loan from Red Star Belgrade) 30 FW  SRB Miloš Janković 32 MF  SRB Nemanja Trifunović 35 FW  SRB Miljan Marinković 36 MF  SRB Nikola Zindović 40 GK  SRB David Matić 99 GK  SRB Danijel Mićanović

Players with multiple nationalities

• Nikola Eskić

For recent transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers summer 2019.

Notable former players

For the list of all current and former players with Wikipedia article, please see: Category:OFK Bačka players.

In the 2019/20 season the club included in its squad two of the most preeminent players of the Abkhazia national football team, namely, Shabat Logua and Daur Chanba.

Coaches

In April 1947 Bačka got his first professional coach, Vladimir Jurak from Zagreb, and ever since a number of paid professional coaches came, like Ilija Ranković from Belgrade, László Bozóky from Hungary, Josip Takač from Subotica and Gojko Džepina from Belgrade.[7]

Fans

In addition to a number of audiences and supporters Bačka has its ardent fans. They gather in the eastern stand.

References

External links

• Official website
• FK Bačka Forum
• FK Bačka at Srbijasport.net

На других языках

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[de] FK Bačka

Der FK Bačka (offiziell auf serbisch: Фудбалски клуб Бачка;– ФК Бачка, Fudbalski klub Bačka – FK Bačka) ist ein serbischer Fußballverein aus Bačka Palanka, der in der Super liga spielt, der höchsten Spielklasse im serbischen Fußball.

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- [en] OFK Bačka

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