NK GOŠK Dubrovnik
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| Full name | NK GOŠK 1919 Dubrovnik |
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| Nickname(s) | Gospari |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Ground | Gradski stadion Lapad |
| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Chairman | Miho Hendić |
| Manager | Milan Petrović |
| League | Treća HNL – South |
| 2015–16 | 1. ŽNL Dubrovnik-Neretva (promoted) |
NK GOŠK 1919 Dubrovnik is a Croatian football club based in the city of Dubrovnik. Its name comes from the Gruž neighbourhood of the city (Gruški Omladinski Športski Klub, in English Gruž Youth Sports Club).
GOŠK was founded in 1919 and spent four years in the 1. HNL.
Early in the 1980s, the two former rivals GOŠK and NK Jug were fused. The name of the new club was GOŠK-Jug and it continued under that name until Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia. GOŠK-Jug spent the entire 1980s in the Yugoslav Second League. Together with NK Sibenik and RNK Split, the club frequently came close to promotion to the first division in Yugoslavia. This period is regarded as the club's strongest period in its history.
After the breakup of Yugoslavia the club once again merged with a local side, this time HNK Dubrovnik. The new institution competed in the first 1. HNL since Croatian independence. The year was a very strange one with the war still raging on. The club were unable to play their home games in Dubrovnik due to security threats caused by Serbian aggression on the city and so played at a whole range of locations, including a famous match played at Korčula. It was very tough for the club to be competitive in these circumstances and lost their first nine games in the league. Luka Bonačić took over as manager and had many draws, many of them 0–0, with an ultra defensive style and doing so managed to lift the club of the bottom of the table and keep them in the first division.
The club managed to stay in the first division of Croatia for four years, but after relegation the club began to sink slowly into the mediocrity of the lower Croatian divisions.
Pero Vićan founded a new club in 1998 under the old name GOŠK. The old club disappeared due to financial difficulty while the new GOŠK continued to rise through the ranks. The new club reached the second division of Croatian football in 2000 and remained there until 2005. GOŠK finished second last in the 2. HNL season which meant they needed to play relegation play-offs – the first of which was against big rivals NK Konavljanin who they beat and then next against NK Karlovac to whom they lost.
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