FK Radnički Pirot

Radnički Pirot

Full name	FK Radnički Pirot
Nickname(s)	Beli (The Whites)
Founded	1945
Ground	Stadion Dragan Nikolić
Capacity	13,816
President	Dragan Dimitrijević
Head coach	Marjan Živković
League	Serbian First League
2015–16	Serbian League East, 1st Promoted
Home colours Away colours

FK Radnički Pirot (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Раднички Пирот) is a professional football club from Pirot, Serbia. They currently compete in the Serbian League East, the third tier of the national league system.

History

The club was formed in 1945 immediately after World War II. They made their Yugoslav Second League debut in the 1969–70 season.^[1] The club spent the following 12 consecutive seasons in the second tier of Yugoslav football, before being relegated in 1981. After only one year, they won the promotion back, spending the next six seasons in the Second League (1982–1988), when the competition was reorganized.^[2]

The club made its debut in the newly formed Second League of FR Yugoslavia in the 1992–93 season. They would continue to compete between the second and third level leagues in the following decade.^[3]

The club achieved one of the biggest results in its history by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2004–05 Serbia and Montenegro Cup, when they were eliminated by Rad after losing 0–1 at home.^[4] At the end of the season, they also won the promotion to the Serbian First League after finishing first in the Serbian League East. The club spent the following three seasons in the second tier of Serbian football, before being relegated back to the Serbian League East in 2008. In the meantime, they repeated the success in the national cup by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2006–07 Serbian Cup, when they were eliminated by Vojvodina after losing 1–2 at home.

Honours

Serbian League East

• 2004–05

Seasons

Season	Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Pos
2010–11	Div 3	30	16	4	10	51	34	52	2nd
2011–12	30	10	10	10	34	30	40	10th
2012–13	30	19	4	7	46	14	61	3rd
2013–14	30	15	3	12	44	32	48	4th
2014–15	30	18	5	7	68	25	59	2nd

Supporters

The club's main supporters group is known as "Pirgosi". They were founded in the summer of 1990. The group is traditionally situated in the east stand of the stadium.^[5]

Current squad

As of 25 October 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ivan Bulajić 2 DF Stefan Jovanović 3 DF Božidar Mančić 4 DF Stefan Marković 5 DF Mioš Nikolić 6 MF Filip Tolić 7 MF Nemanja Petrov 8 MF Miloš Ožegović 9 FW Marko Mančić (captain)

No. Position Player 10 FW Denis Ristov 11 FW Miloš Spasić 12 GK Ivan Kostić 13 DF Darko Vasić 14 MF Ivan Milić 15 MF Nemanja Mančić 16 MF Stefan Čolović 17 DF Miloš Perišić (on loan from Partizan) 18 FW Stefan Stojanović

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player — GK Nemanja Đorđević (dual with Lužnica until the end of 2016–17 season) — GK Boris Dimitrov (at Balkanski until the end of 2016) — GK Milan Filipović (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — DF Marko Davidović (dual with Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — DF Branislav Pešić (dual with Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — MF Stefan Todorović (at Lužnica until the end of 2016) — FW Uroš Đurić (dual with Car Konstantin until the end of 2016) — Nikola Ćirić (at Lužnica until the end of 2016) — Nikola Rančić (at Lužnica until the end of 2016)

No. Position Player — Lazar Filipović (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — Miloš Milojević (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — Filip Đorđev (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — Željko Stamenković (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — Nikola Ilić (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — Mladen Veljković (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — Jovan Živković (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016) — Veljko Ćirić (at Jedinstvo Pirot until the end of 2016)

For recent transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers summer 2016.

Notable players

Nikola Đurđić, Andrija Kaluđerović, Mateja Kežman, Radivoje Manić, Jovan Stanković and Vladan Radača are former club players with senior national team appearances.^[6] The following players are mentioned in the official website as the ones who contributed most to their past achievements.^[3][7]

Jovan Anđelković Radovan Anđelković Mehmed Avdagić Gano Ćerić Miloš Drobnjak Miroljub Đorđević Slobodan Đošev Bojan Filipović Aleksandar Gruber Ivan Gvozdenović Boban Ignjatović Slavko Ilić Slobodan Janjuš Žarko Jeličić Nenad Jestrović Mateja Kežman Siniša Kostić

Uroš Kostić Desimir Krstić Dragomir Lazarević Dimitrije Manić Radivoje Manić Danilo Medić Boris Milošević Branko Mihajlović Božidar Mijalković Bratislav Mijalković Rista Mijušković Momčilo Mitić Dragan Nikolić Dušan Nikolić Aleksandar Panajotović Bogoljub Panić Miroslav Paunović Dragi Pavlov

Slavoljub Pavlović Milan Pejčić Vladimir Petković Milan Radović Saša Sokolov Jovan Stanković Živorad Stanković Ljuba Stevanović Slobodan Stoiljković Zoran Stojadinović Zoran Stojanović Vlatko Šimek Ljubomir Veljković Milan Vlatković Nikola Vujadinović Marjan Živković Mihajlo Živković

For the list of all current and former players with Wikipedia article, please see: Category:FK Radnički Pirot players.

Coaches

There is a large number of coaches throughout the history of Radnički Pirot, but the ones that left an strongest impact in the club were Tomislav Kaloperović, Ostoja Simić, Neško Milovanović, Stole Mitić, Žika Stanković, Aleksandar Petković, Dimitar Jovanovski, Ilija Dimovski, Slobodan Ostojić, Mileta Tomić, Ljubomir Veljković, Ivan Jovanović, Ljuborad Stevanović, Čeda Matić, among others.^[3][7]

Date	Name
2005	Čedomir Matić
2006	Marjan Živković
2006	Vladimir Jocić
2006–2007	Nebojša Vignjević
2007	Cvijetin Blagojević
2007	Zoran Nikolić
2007	Miloš Joksić
2008	Ljubomir Veljković
2009	Goran Cvetković
2009	Slobodan Đošev
2009	Marjan Živković
2010	Slobodan Đošev
2010–2011	Vojkan Aleksić
2011–2012	Radivoje Manić
2012	Milan Stojanoski
2012–2013	Mile Tomić
2013–2014	Aleksandar Kuzmanović

References

1. "SISTEM TAKMIČENJA U JUGOSLAVIJI 1968.-1973." (in Serbian). fsgzrenjanin.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
2. "SISTEM TAKMIČENJA U JUGOSLAVIJI 1988.-1991." (in Serbian). fsgzrenjanin.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
3. History at FK Radnički Pirot official website (Serbian)
4. "Fudbal u Pirotu" (in Serbian). radnicki-pirot.host.sk. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
5. "PIRGOSI – ISTOK 1990." (in Serbian). radnicki-pirot.host.sk. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
6. Radnički Pirot at National-Football-Teams.com
7. Club story at FK Radnički Pirot official website (Serbian)

External links

• Club page at srbijasport.net