NK Lokomotiva
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| Full name | Nogometni klub Lokomotiva Zagreb |
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| Founded | 1 May 1914 as ŽŠK Victoria |
| Ground | Stadion Kranjčevićeva |
| Capacity | 8,850 |
| Chairman | Tin Dolički |
| Manager | Mario Tokić |
| League | Prva HNL |
| 2015–16 | Prva HNL, 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
NK Lokomotiva Zagreb is a professional Croatian football club based in Zagreb. It competes in the Prva HNL, the country's top division. Founded in 1914, the club's only period of success came in the late 1940s and early 1950s before spending most of the following five decades as lower-level minnows.
In the mid-2000s Lokomotiva was turned into Dinamo Zagreb's farm team. Between 2007 and 2009 they won three consecutive promotions to rise from fourth level to first level in the Croatian football league system. They hosted their home matches at Dinamo's Stadion Maksimir for a couple of years before moving to NK Zagreb Stadion Kranjčevićeva, as their own ground in the Novi Zagreb's Kajzerica neighbourhood is unsuitable for top level football. They remain Dinamo's unofficial feeder club even when playing against them in 1.HNL, thus sparking numerous controversies.
NK Lokomotiva was founded as ŽŠK Victoria (Željezničarski športski klub "Victoria") in 1914.
After World War I the name of the club was changed to Željezničar, under which they competed between the two wars. At that time they were mostly in the shadow of the city's bigger clubs Građanski, Concordia and HAŠK. They played in first level only in 1940–41.
In 1945. the club was renamed Lokomotiva and soon their most productive years followed. They continuously played for 8 season (1947.-1955.) in the Yugoslav First League with best league result in 1952, when they finished third, behind Hajduk and Red Star Belgrade. Some of the players at that time were Vladimir Čonč, Vladimir Firm, Drago Hmelina, Franjo Beserdi and Oto Bobek, younger brother of legendary Stjepan Bobek. They won Yugoslav Second League in 1956, but were relegated again from the First League in the summer of 1957 and never returned to the yugoslav top flight again. They played in Yugoslav Second League until 1970 and then also in Yugoslav Inter-Republic League in the last years before the dissoluton of Yugoslavia.
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