FK Vlasina
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| Full name | Fudbalski klub Vlasina |
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| Founded | 1920 |
| Ground | Stadion Rosulja |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Chairman | Slobodan Đorđević |
| Manager | Vitomir Dojčinović |
| League | Niška zona |
| 2012-13 | Niška zona, 5. |
FK Vlasina (Serbian Cyrillic: ФK Bлacинa) is a football club based in Vlasotince, Serbia.
The club is one of the oldest football clubs in former Yugoslavia. Founded by locals returning from higher education in major European capitals between the two World Wars, FK Vlasina exists since 1920. Symbolically, the club has been a sign of implementation of advanced European ideas in Serbian society. The development of FK Vlasina is directly linked to the social and economical development of the region around Vlasotince in south-eastern Serbia.
The founder and first president was Vojislav Popović, who brought the first football in the town. Since the foundation of the club football begin to have many enthousiasts among the population. Other clubs were also founded in Vlasotince, but FK Vlasina was always the most representative one. Some clubs such as SK Dečanski and SK Omladina were merged into FK Vlasina. VSK resisted and became the main local rival. The club competed in local leagues and played numerous tournaments having had as opponents some of the major national clubs, and from this period memorable was a 2-0 win over Belgrade´s SK Jugoslavija in one tournament in Niš. With the beginning of the Second World War the competitions in the region were interrompted.
In 1946 the sports activities restarted. After not managing it in the previous season, at the end of the season 1956-57 FK Vlasina archives the promotion to the 4th zone of the Yugoslav Second League. That season was memorable for club supporters that watched the club to rivalise against many clubs that were or would become members of the Yugoslav top league. At the end of that season the Second and lower leagues suffered a series of structural remodelations and FK Vlasina ended placed for the next season into the 3rd national league - zone Niš. Until the 1980s the club competed in regional leagues. In 1987-88 the club wins the South Morava League. Next year Vlasina wins the Serbian League South achieving promotion to the Serbian First League, then a 3rd tier within Yugoslav league system. In their first season they finished 3rd, but in the next one they finished only 17th ending up relegated. During the 1990s the club will mostly play between the 3rd and 4th tiers, however in the late 1990s the youth players of the club achieved a number of regional successes having some good generations of players, among them Danko Lazović announcing a brighter future.
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