FK Rudar Prijedor
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| Full name | Fudbalski klub "Rudar-Prijedor" Prijedor |
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| Founded | 1928 |
| Ground | Gradski stadion |
| Capacity | 6,000 |
| Chairman | Goran Bojić |
| Manager | Zlatko Jelisavac |
| League | First League RS |
| 2015–16 | Premier League, 14th (relegated) |
Fudbalski klub "Rudar-Prijedor" Prijedor (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб "Pудаp-Пpиjeдop" Пpиjeдop) is a football club from the city of Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Rudar Prijedor is a member of the Football Association of Republika Srpska and is currently now active in the First League of the Republika Srpska again.
The first football was brought to Prijedor in 1918 by Sveto Radetić, Stevan Mitrinović and Pero Čanak, who bought the ball from Austria. In 1919 the first football club was formed by the name of "PNK – Prijedorski nogometni klub" and in 1925 renamed into "Slavija". The first official match was played against FK Sloboda Bosanski Novi, a defeat by 0–10, and it was played so the club could formally join the regional federation and start competing. In 1925 another club was formed in the town FK Građanski, and in 1925 the first field with stands for spectators was built.
More clubs were being formed in the decade of the 1920s. FK Borac was created in 1925 with its field in Lukavica, FK Rudar Ljubija in 1928 and still before the beginning of World War II, the clubs of FK Hajduk in Prijedor, and FK Zmaj from Kozarac, were formed.
The predecessor of today's Rudar Prijedor is FK Rudar Ljubija that was formed on May 3, 1928, in the mining town of Ljubija.
After the end of the war, much help for the development of football in Prijedor was provided by the local paper factory and the iron mining company "Ljubija" from neighbouring Ljubija. The clubs of Grmeč, Željezničar, Jedinstvo and Mladost were formed. In 1954 FK Celuloza was formed, followed by the merger with Mladost and its renaming into FK Radnički in 1958. FK Željezničar merged with FK Radnički, forming OFK Prijedor in 1965. During the following decades great cooperation existed between OFK Prijedor and FK Rudar Ljubić, resulting in a merger between these two clubs in 2005 and subsequent creation of today's FK Rudar Prijedor.
The first official match that Rudar Ljubija played was against local Hajduk in 1929. The match ended with a 2–1 victory for Rudar, and the players in that match were Branko Bjekić, Sadik Burazerović, Milan Prerad, Ivan Sedlaček, Toni Hribar, Drago Nedić, Poldek Mastinjak, Jovo Gvozden, Tone Vikić, Josip Brečević and Božidar Veslić. Among the best players from that early period are also worth mentioning: Ivica Sedlaček, Božo Jelisić and Nikola Lukić.
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