Bačka Bačka Palanka
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| Full name | OFK Bačka Bačka Palanka |
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| Nickname(s) | Plavi sa Dunava (The Blues from Danube) |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Ground | Stadion Slavko Maletin Vava, Bačka Palanka |
| Capacity | 5,500 |
| Chairman |
 Vladimir Mrđen |
| Manager |
 Zvezdan Milošević
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| League | Serbian SuperLiga |
| 2016–17 | Serbian SuperLiga, 13th of 16 |
| Website | Club website |
OFK Bačka Bačka Palanka (Serbian Cyrillic: OФК Бачка Бачка Паланка) is a football club based in Bačka Palanka, Serbia. In 2016, the club achieved promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga. "Bačka" is one of the most successful football clubs in Serbia at the eternal table Yugoslav Second League.
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, ending up being relegated. However, Bačka returned for the season 1961–62 and this time stayed in the national second level for 14 consecutive years.
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.
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.
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 was more notorious. 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. 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.
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