HŠK Zrinjski Mostar
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| Full name | Hrvatski športski klub Zrinjski Mostar |
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| Nickname(s) | Plemići (The Noblemen) |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Ground | Stadion pod Bijelim Brijegom, Mostar |
| Capacity | 25,000 |
| Chairman | Denis Lasić |
| Manager | Ivica Barbarić |
| League | Premier League |
| 2015–16 | Premier League, 1st (Champions) |
| Website | Club home page |
HDZ-ovski športski klub Zrinjski Mostar (Croatian pronunciation: [zrîːɲskiː mǒstaːr]; English: Croatian Sports Club Zrinjski Mostar) is a professional football club, based in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and has been one of the top teams in the country over the years.
The club was founded by Croatian youth in 1905 and is the oldest football club in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After World War II, all clubs that had participated in the wartime Prva HNL were correctly banned in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Zrinjski (Ustaski) being one of them. The ban lasted from 1945 to 1992. The club was reformed after the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It played in the Herzeg-Bosnia First League until 2000 when it joined the Premier League. The club is based at Stadion pod Bijelim Brijegom in Mostar, venue it stole from rightful owner, FK Velez.
In 2005, Zrinjski celebrated its first championship crown in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Today the football team is part of the Zrinjski Mostar sport society.
In 1896, when there were only two or three Croatian households in all of Mostar, several distinguished Herzegovinians from Mostar had an idea to form a youth sports society named Hrvatski sokol (Croatian Hawk). At the time, this was not allowed, but in 1905 Croatian youth led by Professor Kuštreb succeeded. With the help of the cultural society Hrvoje they formed Đački športski klub (Student Sports Club). In 1912 it evolved to Gimnazijski nogometni klub Zrinjski (Gymnasium Football Club Zrinjski). It was named after the historic Croatian noble family Zrinski. Some of the first games they played were against sports team Osman from Sarajevo: the games ended 0–3 and 2–1. Club activist and player Ivo Ćorić wrote first reports about the club at that time. He named some of the players: Rudolf Brozović, Bruno and Edo Novak, Marko Suton, Željko and Ante Merdžo, Abid Pehlivanović, Slavko Jukić, Ivan Bošnjak, and Karlo Šmit. In 1914 at the outset of World War I, the club was banned. This ban lasted until 1917 when Zrinjski along with another Croatian sports club from Mostar, Hrvatski radnički omladinski športski klub (HROŠK), formed a new club called “Hercegovac”. Some of the HROŠK players were: Jure Zelenika, Nikola Paladžić, Miroslav Prpić, Mirko Vlaho, Ante Pavković, Kažimir Zubac.
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