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FK Bačka 1901 Full name Fudbalski klub Bačka 1901 Subotica Nickname(s) crveno-bili (The Red-Whites) Founded August 3, 1901 Ground Stadion na Somborskoj kapiji
SuboticaChairman Zoran Marković Manager Josip Zemko League Vojvodina League - East 
Home coloursAway coloursFK Bačka 1901 is a football club from the city of Subotica in Bačka, autonomous province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia.
The club is the oldest in Vojvodina as well as Serbia, and also, it was the oldest club of former Yugoslavia.
At the time of its founding it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It's the club of Croat[1] community, although club has regularly been accepting the players of other nationalities, never making the difference.Club's colors are red and white.
Club's anthem is Pivaj Bačka veselo.
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History
This club played a big role in cultural and sport autonomy of Bačka Croats in southern Hungary in Austria-Hungary, and later in Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
The club was founded in 1901. Its original name in Hungarian was Bácska Szabadkai Athletikai Club. Among its founders the most common nationality was Croatian, and the club's emblem bore the Croatian chequy in the upper-left corner.[2][3]
The club played in Hungarian leagues in its early years, regularly winning the league of Southern Hungary. It later participated in the Yugoslav championship twice, in its 1923 inaugural season and in 1925. During this time the club was named JSD Bačka. Upon the formation of the Croatian-Slovenian League and later the Croatian First League within the Banovina of Croatia, the club changed its name to HAD Bačka and competed with Croatian clubs.After Hungary annexed the Bačka region in 1941, the club was forced to compete in the Hungarian League, where it entered competition in its third-tier. In 1945 the club was renamed to HAŠK Građanski (Croatian Academical Sports Club Građanski) after the famous Zagreb side. Soon after the Communist Yugoslav regime, in the action of extinguishing the Croatian sport and cultural societies and clubs in autonomous province of Vojvodina, forced the club to be renamed to FD Sloboda, removing the attribute "Croat" from the club's name, as it has been done with all other Croat societies and clubs in Vojvodina. After a few more name changes, the club returned to the name Bačka in 1963, but still without the Croat attribute in the club's name.
NK Bačka 1901 currently (as of Feb 2008) competes in a regional league North within Vojvodina.
In May 2007 the president of club was Dragan Vujković, one of most famous Croats from Vojvodina, former member Yugoslav national boxing team and silver medalist from two World Amateur Championships.[4][5]
NK Bačka 1901 gave several players that played for the team of Croats in Serbia, that became European runners-up and silver medalists in Europeada 2008.
Names through history
- Bácska Szabadkai Athletikai Club
- JSD "Bačka"
- Hrvatski akademski športski klub "Građanski"
- FD "Sloboda"
- FD "Zvezda"
- FK "Bačka"
Famous players [6]
In order of birth:
- Zoltán Wagner
- Ivan Sarić
- Antun Copko, national team player of Hungary and Kingdom of SHS (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)
- Remija Marcikić - Kapetan, national team player of Hungary and Kingdom of SHS (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)
- Andrija Kujundžić
- Nesto Kopunović
- Stjepan Gabrić
- Dezider Slezak
- Beno Cvijanov
- Mihály Kecskés, Yugoslav national team player
- Mirko Evetović
- László Varga
- Lajoš Jakovetić, Yugoslav national team player
- Nikola Matković
- Tihomir Ognjanov, Yugoslav national team player
- István Kenyeres
- Tomo Malagurski
- Mijo Bukvić
- Antun Rudinski, Yugoslav national team player
- Josip Zemko, Yugoslav national team player
- Marinko Poljaković
- Miloš Zakić
- Josip Lerinc
- Josip Rajčić
- Tibor Rehm
- Ivan Budimčević
- Marko Vujković
- Nikola Sadojević
- Stanko Bogojević
- Pero Remeš
- Slobodan Šujica
- Ivica Bošnjak
- Gordan Lazić
- Zoran Mandić
- Radovan Šimun
- Tomislav Sivić
- Zoran Trivunov
- József Szili
- Zoltan Kujundžić
- Ivan Skenderović - Čedo
- Dejan Vilotić
- Attila Szabados
- Zoran Bogešić
- Csaba Béres
Besides these above, among Bačka's legendary persons are Lajos Vermes, Nikola Matković and Đuro Stantić.
FK Bačka in art
Croatian writer from Bačka, Milivoj Prćić, has written a monodrama, Pivaj Bačka veselo, dedicated to this club.
Later in 2006, Rajko Ljubič made a movie of the same name after Prćić's work.
References
- ^ (Croatian) LZMK - Nogometni leksikon Club's first emblem
- ^ (Croatian) LZMK - Nogometni leksikon
- ^ (Croatian) LZMK - Nogometni leksikon Club's first emblem
- ^ (Serbian) Subotičke Oni su gradili "grad sportova"
- ^ (Serbian) Subotičke U znaku crveno-belog, 29. veljače 2008.
- ^ From official site famos players list
External links
- Official website
- Vojvodina league - East at SrbijaSport
- (Croatian) Radio Subotica «Crveno bijela zabava» podsjetila na povijest «Bačke»
- "Povratak dostojanstva najstarijem klubu" (in Croatian). Hrvatska riječ. 2006-03-17. http://www.hrvatskarijec.rs/arhiva.php?zg=2282099&no=159. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ""Bačka" na filmu" (in Croatian). Hrvatska riječ. 2006-11-06. http://www.hrvatskarijec.rs/arhiva.php?zg=2282921&no=190. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- (Croatian) Radio Subotica «Crveno-bijela zabava» NK «Bačka 1901»
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- Association football clubs established in 1901
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