FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac

FK Metalac

Full name	Fudbalski Klub Metalac
Founded	June 12, 1961
Ground	Stadion kraj Despotovice (Capacity: 6,000)
President	Dušan Dražović
Head Coach	-
League	Serbian SuperLiga
2010–11	Serbian SuperLiga, 14th
Home colours Away colours

FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac (Serbian Cyrillic: ФK Meтaлaц Гopњи Mилaнoвaц) is a professional football club based in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. Metalac was founded on June 12, 1961. The club currently competes in the Serbian Superliga.

History

On June 12, 1961 in Gornji Milanovac, by the initiative of former FK Takovo footballer Miroslav Spasojević, was held the first foundational assembly of the newly created football club. The assembly was attended by the sindical union members of the companies "Graditelj" and "Metalac" and they suggested that the workers of the city companies should actively play football in the club. The club was founded as FK Radnik and the club menagment was elected. The presidents of the companies "Metalac" and "Graditelj" were elected president and vice-president respectively. The coaching position was attributed to Miroslav Spasojević, nicknamed "Era", who was also the team captain and main player. The club started competing within the league of the football association of Čačak. In the season 1963-64 FK Radnik won the championship and got promoted. At the end of the 1964-65 season, by the initiative of the general menager of Metalac company, Milan Mišović, the club changed its name into FK Metalac, and the company begins to support financially the club. The new club president was Veljo Perišić and a new age begins for the club. In 1968 the club is promoted to the Western Morava League (Zapadnomoravska Liga), in 1970 is promoted to the Morava-Šumadija League (Moravsko-šumadijska Liga) and again two seasons later, the club starts competing in the Serbian League South, Yugoslav fourth tier back then. In that period the club also won the Serbian Cup by wining FK Rudar Kostolac by 4-0, and reached the 1/16 finals of the Yugoslav Cup where they lost after extra-time in Travnik against Borac by 1-2.

By the early 1990s and after the break up of Yugoslavia the club competed in regional leagues. In 1995 the company Metalac becomes the club main sponsor. It is then when the club begins climbing up the leagues, reaching by 2000 the Second League of FR Yugoslavia. They didn´t menaged to hold on in their first attempt and were relegated, but next season the won the Serbian League West and returned to Second League staying there this time two seasons. In 2007 they won again the third league and played the 2007–08 Serbian First League surprisingly menaging to finish sixth, which gave them access to the SuperLiga play-offs. That year the club failed, but next season, 2008-09 Metalac finished even better, fifth, and this time was promoted to the Serbian SuperLiga. At the end of the 2009–10 Serbian SuperLiga they finished 9th.^[1]

There are around 300 athletes in several age levels competing in the club.

Current squad

As on August 2011.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Živko Živković 2 DF Boško Dopuđ 3 DF Nikola Karčev 4 MF Nikola Lukić 5 DF Dejan Stamenković 6 MF Bojan Gojak 7 FW Nebojša Stojanović 8 MF Milan Svojić 9 FW Darko Isidorović 10 MF Ivan Petrović 11 MF Srđan Simović 12 GK Filip Kljajić 13 DF Zoran Antić 14 FW Misdongarde Betolngar 15 FW Owusu-Ansah Kontoh

No. Position Player 17 MF Kwame Boateng 18 MF Đorđe Ružičić 20 MF Vladimir Krnjinac 21 FW Bojan Živković 22 DF Marko Mitrušić 23 FW Nemanja Đorić 24 MF Gjorgji Mojsov 25 DF Stefan Mitrović 30 MF Nikola Ćirković 31 MF Darko Pavlović  ? MF Svetislav Milić  ? DF Nenad Stjepić  ? MF Aleksandar Naglić  ? GK Saša Mišić

For recent transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers summer 2011.

Notable former players

This is a list of club players with national team appearances: ^[2]

• Janko Simović
• Marko Mirić

For a list of current and former players with wikipedia article, please see Category:FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac players.

References

1. ^ About the club at club official website.
2. ^ FK Metalac G. Milanovac at National-Football-Teams.com.

External links

• Official website
• Club profile and squad at Srbijafudbal.
• Profile on srbijasport.net
• FK Metalac GM info
• Club page at Transfermarkt.
• Metalac Stats at Utakmica.rs