Radnički Niš
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| Full name | Fudbalski klub Radnički |
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| Nickname(s) |
Real sa Nišave (Real from the Nišava) Real iz Niša (Real from Niš) |
| Founded | 24 April 1923 |
| Ground | Čair Stadium, Niš |
| Capacity | 18,151 |
| President | Ivica Tončev |
| Manager | Milan Rastavac |
| League | Serbian SuperLiga |
| 2015–16 | Serbian SuperLiga, 5th |
| Website | Club home page |
Fudbalski klub Radnički (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Раднички), commonly known as Radnički Niš (Serbian Cyrillic: Раднички Ниш), is a Serbian professional football club based in Niš. Its name means " Labourers' " in Serbian and stems from the relationship with the Labour movement which the club had during the first half of the 20th century.
Radnički Niš was one of the most stable clubs in the former Yugoslavia; the team spent a total of 29 seasons in the Yugoslav First League, achieved the 3rd place in 1980 and 1981, and finished in the Top 10 in the Yugoslav First League all-time table. In international competition, Radnički Niš won the 1975 Balkans Cup, reached the final in 1989, and played against Hamburger SV in the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1982.
The club was founded on April 24, 1923, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. One of its founders was the communist activist Miloš Marković (who also founded Sloboda Užice in 1925). In the same year, the club played its first unofficial matches. Two years later, in the 1925–26 season, the club became part of the professional league of the Morava Banovina, and won the championship on two occasions, in the 1924–25 and 1927–28 seasons. Following the proclamation of the royal dictatorship in 1929, the government began to persecute leftist activists, and Radnički changed its name to Građanski. As Građanski Niš, the club played in the 1935–36 Yugoslav Football Championship which was played in a straight-knockout competition format, and was eliminated in the round of sixteen by Građanski Skoplje. At the end of that season the club reinstated its original name, and played until 1941, when, because of the war, the club ceased its activities and its members and players joined the resistance.
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