Full name | FK Hajduk Kula |
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Nickname(s) | Hajduci (The Outlaws) |
Founded | 1925 |
Dissolved | 2013 |
Ground | Hajduk Stadium, Kula |
Capacity | 5,973 |
FK Hajduk Kula (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Хајдук Кула), or simply Hajduk Kula was a Serbian football club based in Kula. The club was named after a Hajduk, a much celebrated hero figure in the Serbian epic poetry. On 30 July 2013, just eleven days before start of new season it was announced that club resigned from the SuperLiga and dissolved its first team due to financial problems, while the youth teams continue to participate in competitions in the club's successor OFK Hajduk. It is planned that the new first of OFK Hajduk team start in the season 2014–15 in the 3rd League. OFK Hajduk is using FK Hajduk's symbols stadium, auxiliary fields, and has complete FK Hajduk's management, youth squads and PR service. In August 2013, a group of citizens founded a separate football club called is FK Hajduk Kula 1925, which registered in March 2014.
In summer 2015, the club residence moved to Novi Sad.
The first registered football club in Kula was the KAFK (Kulski atletski fudbalski klub, Kula athletic football club) in 1912. In 1920, already within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the club is incorporated in the league of the sub-association of Subotica. Ferenc Plattkó was the coach and one of the most notable player from that period. In 1925, a fraction of the club is named SK Hajduk (Sportski klub Hajduk, Sports club Hajduk) and in 1926 what was left of KAFK becomes Radnički which will be renamed in 1938 to JSK (Jugoslovenski sportski klub, Yugoslavian sport club). During the 1930s, the club never archived the level from the earlier decade and by the beginning of the Second World War it was disbanded.
SK Hajduk played its first match in 1925 against SK Rusin from Ruski Krstur. In opposition to KAFK which was mostly formed and supported by the local German community, Hajduk was known for his multi-cultural element. The club started competing in the third league of the Subotica sub-association and progressively achieved promotions, in 1929 to the second, and 1933 to the first league of Subotica sub-association. With the beginning of the Second World War and the subsequent occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the club is disbanded in 1941 by the German authorities. Still during the war, the club was allowed to restore activities however with the condition of changing the name, so it existed as Ifjusag (meaning Youth in Hungarian) but only played friendly matches against neighbouring local teams. A number of club officials, players and supporters joined resistance against the Axis occupation and lost their life during the war.