FK BASK Beograd
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FK BASK is a football
club from Belgrade
, Serbia
. It is one of the oldest clubs in Serbia. The club currently competes in the Serbian First League
(2nd tier).
there had been many sports sections and societies, whose members were constantly increasing in number. So in the year of 1891 Belgrade gymnastics society “Soko” was established. One student, Andra Nikolić, became chairmen of the parliament, minister of education and foreign affairs, academic and writer (today in part of Belgrade called Senjak, there is a street named after him, Dr. Andra Nikolić”), together with Hugo Buli, was also the initiator of foundation “The first Serbian association for games with ball”, on 1 May 1899. This association for games with ball is considered also the first Serbian football club on territory of ex Yugoslavia and Serbia. Unfortunately, this club had been closed very soon and it disappeared. Nevertheless, it succeeded in organizing one real contest on the new football field built in Guberevac.
Members of Gymnastics association SK Soko continued with ball games, and their enthusiasm had not diminished. They have been gathering on one meadow in Jugovićeva Street. The new younger members had constantly joined them, and then started generation replacement. These lovers of ball decided finally to organize again and once more to establish their own club. On member’s gathering, after the usual training, under the open sky on their field, they have founded their club. Among others, unavoidable Hugo Buli, Steva Stefanović, Milan Bajić, Ljuba Jovanović, Mita Đorđević, Mita Stamenković, Boba Marković, Momir Korunović, M.Milosavljević and others were present.
Inaugural meeting was held on 18 April 1903, under the clear sky, on unoccupied lot in Braće Jugovića Street, where in that time was summer playfield Belgrade’s gymnastics association “SOKO”.
Assembly’s Participants had by acclamation elected Ljubomir Jovanović, who later became minister in governments of Kingdom of Serbia and president of national assembly, and satisfied with the work done, went home. When had met the following day on the playfield, somebody said: “Oh, my God, people, we have founded a club, and nobody had remembered that we should give it a name.” Really, in very big exaltation the previous day they have completely forgotten about that “detail”.
They have assembled again and then they have started making suggestion. People said that this debate had been very long and at some moments also very bitter, until Ljuba Jovanović, newly selected president, did not propose the name “SOKO”. The others have all agreed, so on 18 April 1903. of the old calendar, the first football club in Kingdom of Serbia appeared (FK Bačka from Subotica had been founded in 1901, two years before „SOKO“, but on territory of Austro-Hungary in that time).
Some years later, the stadium got an athletics track and a small tribune for standing. Together with “SOKO”, this playground entered into the history. Apart from many local games, the first international match in Serbia, between the national team of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
and national team of Romania was played on it, which ended with the victory of the later, with by 2:1.
It was the third international match of the Yugoslav national team at all. The match with Romania that was played on 8 May 1922, in the honour of the wedding of HRH King Alexander and Romanian Princes Maria, was observed by over 1,500 spectators, which is remarkable for that time. The Yugoslav team, which was in that period called “White Eagles”, played in a following line-up: Fridrih, Kujundžić, Šifer, Šterka, Dubravčić, Pupec, Babić, Zinaja, Perška, Vinek, Šojat, and the shooter of the single goal we made, was Šifer. At the start of its work, SK SOKO had faced a problem playing games, because it was the only club in this country and it simply could not find any rival. Because of that, the players of SK SOKO usually played among themselves.
It was noted that one of the first and the biggest public games among two teams of SK SOKO had been played on "St. George´s Day" (Đurđevdan), on May 6, 1904, in the honour of the celebration of the centenary of the First Serbian Uprising
. In that match (the score is unknown) following players participated: Stevan Stefanović, Milan Bajić, Vladimir Skobla, Dimitrije Đorđević Piperski, Dimitrije Stamenković, Nikola Spasić, Hugo Buli, Vlada Krstić and others. Six months after the clubs foundation, Serbian football and engineering pioneer, Danilo Stojanović–uncle Dacha, on 14 September 1903, founded the football club Šumadija
so SOKO got their first domestic rival.
Nevertheless, two years have passed until the match between two oldest clubs in the Kingdom of Serbia took place, mostly because of very bad traffic relations between the two cities. Finally, on July 20, 1906, Šumadija and SOKO met in Kragujevac
, and SOKO won by 6:1. In the rematch, on August 27, 1906, SOKO won again, but this time more convincingly, with the score of 9:0. Unknown chronicle registered that the crown prince himself, HSH George Karađorđević
, was also present. For the history of Serbian football, it is very important to mention that these were the first matches played between two domestic clubs. This tradition of the rival matches between FK BASK (former SOKO) and FK Šumadija, only be held again in 1993 on the occasion of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of FK BASK. Since then, every year on St. George's Day, on May 6, and on Krstovdan, on September 14, when they celebrate their respective holiday Slava
´s, this two clubs visit each other and continue the tradition of playing friendly matches.
retreat through what would be called the "Calvary in Albania", very large group of players that formed the club ended up in Rome
. Very soon, they agreed to renew their club while in the exile, so they joined Italian club Pro-Roma
and, as a special section under the name Soko Pro-Roma, they started playing matches with other Italian clubs. During 1918, as the war drew to its end, Soko Pro-Roma played in the Cup of the city of Rome, and after they defeated all the rivals, mostly renowned Italian football clubs of that period, they won the first place and the first international trophy of the Serbian football. The final was played on June 16, 1918, on Piazza Dissiena, and after the triumph of SOKO’s players, the flag of the Kingdom of Serbia flew high on the mast.
The following players played in the team and reached this success: Dušan Elezović, Pavle Bajić, Brana Veljković, Jug Nikašinović, Miloš Simović, Milan Miodragović, Svetozar Popović- Kika, Denić, Pavle Lukićević and Živojin Simonović.
Hard days of postwar renewal also hit SK Soko. The club was immediately re-established and continued with work, but the results of the team were alarmingly bad. At beginning, the club was suffering heavy defeats, but this did not discourage the management and players. In constant struggle with problems, at the end of the second decade of the 20th century, the club was neck to neck with the best Belgrade clubs, BSK and SK Jugoslavija
, and in 1929 Soko made their first triumphs. In the same year, they also successfully played against other Yugoslav First League
clubs from Zagreb, Građanski, HAŠK
, Concordia
, and in Split, in the same year, they defeated Hajduk as well. It was the first defeat of Hajduk on its own playing field and in front of its own public by another club from Yugoslavia.
For the first World Championship in Montevideo, in 1933, SOKO had three of its players in the Yugoslav national team: Milovan Jakšić
, goalkeeper, who with great displays in Uruguay deserved the nickname “El grande Milovan”, Milutin Ivković
, captain and the best player of the team, and Branislav Hrnjiček
, as a reserve player.
But then, in the days od SOKO’s climax, the members of the same-named gymnastics society, whom it belonged since the founding, and whose name it carried so high and proudly for a long time, did not want SOKO more in their surroundings. The management and the players of SOKO have accepted this decision placidly, and on the assembly held in 1933, they decided to become independent, and they gave the club a new name - BASK, Belgradian academic sport club.
Almost simultaneously, the club ran into another, harder misfortune. Belgrade assembly for the necessities of the railway took away from BASK the playfield in Topčider, so for some time, the club literally ended up on the street. Later, the BASK got the playfield behind Belgrade electrical central, which Radnički got after the Second World War, whose players became known as the “Masters from the Danube”, the name they still have today, even though they are today located in New Belgrade but this playfield ceased to exits long time ago. The resolute management and great team nothing could put out of track. BASK had even struggled for permanent place in competition for the Yugoslav championship, which was played in the begin of 1930s using a cup system. In the season 1932-33, BASK was a member of the Yugoslav First League
, which had double score system. In competition of 11 teams, BASK took the 5th place behind the champion–BSK
, second-standing Hajduk Split, FK Jugoslavija and HAŠK
, but in front of Građanski Zagreb, Concordia
, Primorje Ljubljana, Slavija Sarajevo, Slavija Osijek
and FK Vojvodina
. In the next championship BASK archived 7th place. In the season 1936-37, it was 6th once more. Next season, 1937-38, it accomplished the 4th place, and that was the highest achievement of the club behind the new champion HAŠK, and behind BSK and Građanski, but again in front of clubs such as Slavija Sarajevo, Jugoslavija, Hajduk Split and others.
The following year, the league grew to 12 clubs and BASK was on the 8 place. In the last championship, before the Second World War, which had been played in two leagues–the Serbian and Croato-Slovenian, with 10 clubs each, final mini league was held with 3 the best clubs from each group. BASK did not get the standing required for the finals. During all this championships, BASK had brought out many excellent players. In addition to mentioned Milovan Jakšić
, dr Milutin Ivković
and Branislav Hrnjiček
, there were also and Miodrag Ranojević, Stojan Popović, Miroslav Lukić, Đorđe Detlinger, Kolnago Ferante, Aleksandar Tomašević
, Mladen Sarić and others. Among all these names, the name of Aleksandar Tomašević should be especially distinguished, because he was one of the main top scorers in the third decade, and in that regard also and the biggest rival of the famous Blagoje Marjanović
. Tomašević left a deep mark in Yugoslav football as a trainer as well in the period after the war. He was the main coach of the biggest Yugoslav clubs such as FK Partizan
, Crvena Zvezda
, Hajduk Split, and the founder of the Radnički Belgrade
. He also coached FK Sarajevo
, Olimpija Ljubljana
and Vardar Skopje
.
After the Second World War, many of the clubs mentioned in the earlier did not exsist. A similar thing happened with BASK. New football collectives were founded, with new names that were appropriate to new times and circumstances.
and Topčider
hill, therefore mostly on territory of former BASK, club named Senjak has been founded, and it competed with a lot of success in Belgrade leagues. In this environment was born the idea, that this club could take over the tradition of BASK of gathering young people from that part of the city, especially because the club had got the playfield on the edge of Topčider park, very close to former stadium of SK SOKO, where it is today.
The idea, nevertheless, could have not been realized immediately. No sooner than 1953, on 50-anniversary of Soko and BASK, on the Annual assembly, in the presence of many members of the pre-war club, FK Senjak took over the name BASK and all glorious traditions of this oldest football collective in former Kingdom of Serbia. For the first president of renewed club, with votes of assembly participants, famous representative Milovan Jakšić
, “El Grande Milovan“ was chosen. Since then, until 2005, the FK BASK competes more or less successfully in Serbian League Belgrade
.
In this period, the biggest success had been the winning of Cup of the Belgrade liberation in 1958, the victory in the Cup of Yugoslavia in territory of Belgrade football association, and in the same year, the defeat in the final game of Yugoslav Cup
for the Serbian territory from FK Borac Čačak
. In addition, after the convincing triumph and the first place with nine points of advantage in the first Belgrade league, in 1971, the FK BASK competed in the Serbian league–north group. More recently, FK BASK has been competing in the Serbian First League
, whose member it is since 2005.
Milutin Ivković
Kolnago Ferante Milorad Mitrović
Aleksandar Tomašević
Slavko Šurdonja
Ratomir Čabrić
Miroslav Lukić Miodrag Ranojević Mladen Sarić
Played for national team Milan Biševac
Milan Stojanovski Dušan Petronijević
Bojan Zajić
Football (soccer)
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club from Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Serbia
Serbia
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. It is one of the oldest clubs in Serbia. The club currently competes in the Serbian First League
Serbian First League
Serbian First League is the name for the second tier in Serbia's football league. The league is operated by the Football Association of Serbia. 18 teams are set to compete in this league for the 2009-10 season...
(2nd tier).
Formation of the Club
In the Kingdom of SerbiaKingdom of Serbia
The Kingdom of Serbia was created when Prince Milan Obrenović, ruler of the Principality of Serbia, was crowned King in 1882. The Principality of Serbia was ruled by the Karađorđevic dynasty from 1817 onwards . The Principality, suzerain to the Porte, had expelled all Ottoman troops by 1867, de...
there had been many sports sections and societies, whose members were constantly increasing in number. So in the year of 1891 Belgrade gymnastics society “Soko” was established. One student, Andra Nikolić, became chairmen of the parliament, minister of education and foreign affairs, academic and writer (today in part of Belgrade called Senjak, there is a street named after him, Dr. Andra Nikolić”), together with Hugo Buli, was also the initiator of foundation “The first Serbian association for games with ball”, on 1 May 1899. This association for games with ball is considered also the first Serbian football club on territory of ex Yugoslavia and Serbia. Unfortunately, this club had been closed very soon and it disappeared. Nevertheless, it succeeded in organizing one real contest on the new football field built in Guberevac.
Members of Gymnastics association SK Soko continued with ball games, and their enthusiasm had not diminished. They have been gathering on one meadow in Jugovićeva Street. The new younger members had constantly joined them, and then started generation replacement. These lovers of ball decided finally to organize again and once more to establish their own club. On member’s gathering, after the usual training, under the open sky on their field, they have founded their club. Among others, unavoidable Hugo Buli, Steva Stefanović, Milan Bajić, Ljuba Jovanović, Mita Đorđević, Mita Stamenković, Boba Marković, Momir Korunović, M.Milosavljević and others were present.
Inaugural meeting was held on 18 April 1903, under the clear sky, on unoccupied lot in Braće Jugovića Street, where in that time was summer playfield Belgrade’s gymnastics association “SOKO”.
Assembly’s Participants had by acclamation elected Ljubomir Jovanović, who later became minister in governments of Kingdom of Serbia and president of national assembly, and satisfied with the work done, went home. When had met the following day on the playfield, somebody said: “Oh, my God, people, we have founded a club, and nobody had remembered that we should give it a name.” Really, in very big exaltation the previous day they have completely forgotten about that “detail”.
They have assembled again and then they have started making suggestion. People said that this debate had been very long and at some moments also very bitter, until Ljuba Jovanović, newly selected president, did not propose the name “SOKO”. The others have all agreed, so on 18 April 1903. of the old calendar, the first football club in Kingdom of Serbia appeared (FK Bačka from Subotica had been founded in 1901, two years before „SOKO“, but on territory of Austro-Hungary in that time).
The early years
The first and foremost problem of newly founded club was a playfield. The field in Jugovićeva Street was too tight for the playground so another suitable place in Venice bog was found, between current Belgrade fair and railway station. However, they could not stay there because the river Sava had risen up, flooded and destroy the playfield. Finally, an adequate playground was found in part of Topčider and at foot of Košutnjak’s wood, in the place of current Range station Topčider. Although the playground was quite far from the city in that time, “SOKO” arranged it very well and stayed there for a full 27 years, until the state did not expropriated it for railway needs.Some years later, the stadium got an athletics track and a small tribune for standing. Together with “SOKO”, this playground entered into the history. Apart from many local games, the first international match in Serbia, between the national team of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia national football team
The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...
and national team of Romania was played on it, which ended with the victory of the later, with by 2:1.
It was the third international match of the Yugoslav national team at all. The match with Romania that was played on 8 May 1922, in the honour of the wedding of HRH King Alexander and Romanian Princes Maria, was observed by over 1,500 spectators, which is remarkable for that time. The Yugoslav team, which was in that period called “White Eagles”, played in a following line-up: Fridrih, Kujundžić, Šifer, Šterka, Dubravčić, Pupec, Babić, Zinaja, Perška, Vinek, Šojat, and the shooter of the single goal we made, was Šifer. At the start of its work, SK SOKO had faced a problem playing games, because it was the only club in this country and it simply could not find any rival. Because of that, the players of SK SOKO usually played among themselves.
It was noted that one of the first and the biggest public games among two teams of SK SOKO had been played on "St. George´s Day" (Đurđevdan), on May 6, 1904, in the honour of the celebration of the centenary of the First Serbian Uprising
First Serbian Uprising
The First Serbian Uprising was the first stage of the Serbian Revolution , the successful wars of independence that lasted for 9 years and approximately 9 months , during which Serbia perceived itself as an independent state for the first time after more than three centuries of Ottoman rule and...
. In that match (the score is unknown) following players participated: Stevan Stefanović, Milan Bajić, Vladimir Skobla, Dimitrije Đorđević Piperski, Dimitrije Stamenković, Nikola Spasić, Hugo Buli, Vlada Krstić and others. Six months after the clubs foundation, Serbian football and engineering pioneer, Danilo Stojanović–uncle Dacha, on 14 September 1903, founded the football club Šumadija
FK Šumadija 1903
FK Šumadija 1903 was a football club in Kragujevac, Serbia. In 2009 was merged with FK Radnički Kragujevac and formed a new club named FK Šumadija Radnički 1923.-History:...
so SOKO got their first domestic rival.
Nevertheless, two years have passed until the match between two oldest clubs in the Kingdom of Serbia took place, mostly because of very bad traffic relations between the two cities. Finally, on July 20, 1906, Šumadija and SOKO met in Kragujevac
Kragujevac
Kragujevac is the fourth largest city in Serbia, the main city of the Šumadija region and the administrative centre of Šumadija District. It is situated on the banks of the Lepenica River...
, and SOKO won by 6:1. In the rematch, on August 27, 1906, SOKO won again, but this time more convincingly, with the score of 9:0. Unknown chronicle registered that the crown prince himself, HSH George Karađorđević
George, Crown Prince of Serbia
George, Crown Prince of Serbia was the older brother of Alexander I of Yugoslavia and younger brother of Helen of Serbia, son of Peter I, King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and Princess Ljubica of Montenegro and grandson of King Nicholas I of Montenegro.-Early life:George was born in...
, was also present. For the history of Serbian football, it is very important to mention that these were the first matches played between two domestic clubs. This tradition of the rival matches between FK BASK (former SOKO) and FK Šumadija, only be held again in 1993 on the occasion of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of FK BASK. Since then, every year on St. George's Day, on May 6, and on Krstovdan, on September 14, when they celebrate their respective holiday Slava
Slava
The Slava , also called Krsna Slava and Krsno ime , is the Serbian Orthodox tradition of the ritual celebration and veneration of a family's own patron saint. The family celebrates the Slava annually on the patron saint's feast day...
´s, this two clubs visit each other and continue the tradition of playing friendly matches.
Troubling times
Everything died with the beginning of the First World War. The footballers replaced the ball with a rifle. In concurrence of events, after the Serbian ArmySerbian Army
-Objectives:The Serbian Army is responsible for:* deterring armed threats* defending Serbia's territory* participation in peacekeeping operations* providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief-Personnel:...
retreat through what would be called the "Calvary in Albania", very large group of players that formed the club ended up in Rome
Rome
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. Very soon, they agreed to renew their club while in the exile, so they joined Italian club Pro-Roma
Fortitudo-Pro Roma S.G.S.
Fortitudo-Pro Roma Società di Ginnastica e Scherma was an Italian football club from the Rione Borgo area of Rome, originally founded in 1908. The club is most noted for competing in the early Italian Football Championship competitions, before in 1927 becoming one of three Rome based clubs merging...
and, as a special section under the name Soko Pro-Roma, they started playing matches with other Italian clubs. During 1918, as the war drew to its end, Soko Pro-Roma played in the Cup of the city of Rome, and after they defeated all the rivals, mostly renowned Italian football clubs of that period, they won the first place and the first international trophy of the Serbian football. The final was played on June 16, 1918, on Piazza Dissiena, and after the triumph of SOKO’s players, the flag of the Kingdom of Serbia flew high on the mast.
The following players played in the team and reached this success: Dušan Elezović, Pavle Bajić, Brana Veljković, Jug Nikašinović, Miloš Simović, Milan Miodragović, Svetozar Popović- Kika, Denić, Pavle Lukićević and Živojin Simonović.
Hard days of postwar renewal also hit SK Soko. The club was immediately re-established and continued with work, but the results of the team were alarmingly bad. At beginning, the club was suffering heavy defeats, but this did not discourage the management and players. In constant struggle with problems, at the end of the second decade of the 20th century, the club was neck to neck with the best Belgrade clubs, BSK and SK Jugoslavija
SK Jugoslavija
Sportski klub Jugoslavija, commonly known as SK Jugoslavija was a Serbian football club from Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija in 1913 and changed its name to SK Jugoslavija in 1919.-History:...
, and in 1929 Soko made their first triumphs. In the same year, they also successfully played against other Yugoslav First League
Yugoslav First League
The Yugoslav First League was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and socialist Yugoslavia...
clubs from Zagreb, Građanski, HAŠK
HAŠK
HAŠK was a Croatian football club established in Zagreb in 1903 which ceased operating in 1945. The club was one of the most successful sides in Zagreb and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the period between the two World Wars...
, Concordia
HŠK Concordia
HŠK Concordia was a Croatian football club formed in Zagreb. The club was founded asthe Srednjoškolski športski klub in 1906.By the end of the First World War the club had played many matches with both domestic and foreign clubs...
, and in Split, in the same year, they defeated Hajduk as well. It was the first defeat of Hajduk on its own playing field and in front of its own public by another club from Yugoslavia.
For the first World Championship in Montevideo, in 1933, SOKO had three of its players in the Yugoslav national team: Milovan Jakšić
Milovan Jakšić
Milovan Jakšić was a Serbian football goalkeeper....
, goalkeeper, who with great displays in Uruguay deserved the nickname “El grande Milovan”, Milutin Ivković
Milutin Ivkovic
Dr.Milutin Ivković was a Serbian football defender who played for Yugoslavia at 1928 Summer Olympics and FIFA World Cup 1930...
, captain and the best player of the team, and Branislav Hrnjiček
Branislav Hrnjiček
Branislav Hrnjiček was a Serbian football player and manager.All of his playing career he spend in Belgrade, having played mostly for SK Jugoslavija being the exception the two seasons he spent playing between 1930 and 1932 with BSK Belgrade.He played a total of five matches for the Yugoslavia...
, as a reserve player.
But then, in the days od SOKO’s climax, the members of the same-named gymnastics society, whom it belonged since the founding, and whose name it carried so high and proudly for a long time, did not want SOKO more in their surroundings. The management and the players of SOKO have accepted this decision placidly, and on the assembly held in 1933, they decided to become independent, and they gave the club a new name - BASK, Belgradian academic sport club.
Almost simultaneously, the club ran into another, harder misfortune. Belgrade assembly for the necessities of the railway took away from BASK the playfield in Topčider, so for some time, the club literally ended up on the street. Later, the BASK got the playfield behind Belgrade electrical central, which Radnički got after the Second World War, whose players became known as the “Masters from the Danube”, the name they still have today, even though they are today located in New Belgrade but this playfield ceased to exits long time ago. The resolute management and great team nothing could put out of track. BASK had even struggled for permanent place in competition for the Yugoslav championship, which was played in the begin of 1930s using a cup system. In the season 1932-33, BASK was a member of the Yugoslav First League
Yugoslav First League
The Yugoslav First League was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and socialist Yugoslavia...
, which had double score system. In competition of 11 teams, BASK took the 5th place behind the champion–BSK
OFK Beograd
Omladinski fudbalski klub Beograd, commonly referred to as OFK Beograd , is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia, more precisely from the Karaburma urban neighborhood. It currently is the oldest team playing in the Serbian SuperLiga. The name means "Youth Football Club Belgrade" in Serbian...
, second-standing Hajduk Split, FK Jugoslavija and HAŠK
HAŠK
HAŠK was a Croatian football club established in Zagreb in 1903 which ceased operating in 1945. The club was one of the most successful sides in Zagreb and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the period between the two World Wars...
, but in front of Građanski Zagreb, Concordia
HŠK Concordia
HŠK Concordia was a Croatian football club formed in Zagreb. The club was founded asthe Srednjoškolski športski klub in 1906.By the end of the First World War the club had played many matches with both domestic and foreign clubs...
, Primorje Ljubljana, Slavija Sarajevo, Slavija Osijek
Slavija Osijek
Slavija Osijek was a Croatian football club formed in Osijek. The club was founded in 1916. It was the most influential club from the city in the period prior to World War II....
and FK Vojvodina
FK Vojvodina
FK Vojvodina is a football club from Novi Sad, Serbia. The club currently competes in the Serbian SuperLiga. FK Vojvodina is the third oldest football club in Serbia's SuperLiga, after OFK Beograd which was founded in 1911 and FK Javor which was founded in 1912.-History:FK Vojvodina was founded...
. In the next championship BASK archived 7th place. In the season 1936-37, it was 6th once more. Next season, 1937-38, it accomplished the 4th place, and that was the highest achievement of the club behind the new champion HAŠK, and behind BSK and Građanski, but again in front of clubs such as Slavija Sarajevo, Jugoslavija, Hajduk Split and others.
The following year, the league grew to 12 clubs and BASK was on the 8 place. In the last championship, before the Second World War, which had been played in two leagues–the Serbian and Croato-Slovenian, with 10 clubs each, final mini league was held with 3 the best clubs from each group. BASK did not get the standing required for the finals. During all this championships, BASK had brought out many excellent players. In addition to mentioned Milovan Jakšić
Milovan Jakšić
Milovan Jakšić was a Serbian football goalkeeper....
, dr Milutin Ivković
Milutin Ivkovic
Dr.Milutin Ivković was a Serbian football defender who played for Yugoslavia at 1928 Summer Olympics and FIFA World Cup 1930...
and Branislav Hrnjiček
Branislav Hrnjiček
Branislav Hrnjiček was a Serbian football player and manager.All of his playing career he spend in Belgrade, having played mostly for SK Jugoslavija being the exception the two seasons he spent playing between 1930 and 1932 with BSK Belgrade.He played a total of five matches for the Yugoslavia...
, there were also and Miodrag Ranojević, Stojan Popović, Miroslav Lukić, Đorđe Detlinger, Kolnago Ferante, Aleksandar Tomašević
Aleksandar Tomašević
Aleksandar Tomašević was a Serbian Yugoslav international football player and manager.-Playing career:...
, Mladen Sarić and others. Among all these names, the name of Aleksandar Tomašević should be especially distinguished, because he was one of the main top scorers in the third decade, and in that regard also and the biggest rival of the famous Blagoje Marjanović
Blagoje Marjanovic
Blagoje "Moša" Marjanović was a Serbian football forward who played for Yugoslavia at FIFA World Cup 1930. He scored one goal in that tournament in the game versus Bolivia . During the tournament his club was BSK....
. Tomašević left a deep mark in Yugoslav football as a trainer as well in the period after the war. He was the main coach of the biggest Yugoslav clubs such as FK Partizan
FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...
, Crvena Zvezda
Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...
, Hajduk Split, and the founder of the Radnički Belgrade
FK Radnicki Jugopetrol
FK Radnički Beograd is a football club from Novi Beograd, Serbia.The club was until recently know by its sponsor name of FK Radnički Jugopetrol, and is also often named as FK Radnički Novi Beograd, although the club is officially named simply as Beograd because it was initially formed in Belgrade...
. He also coached FK Sarajevo
FK Sarajevo
FK Sarajevo is a professional football club based in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina and is one of the most popular clubs in the country. Founded on October 24, 1946, the club was the most successful club from SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in former Yugoslavia, winning two First League...
, Olimpija Ljubljana
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1911)
NK Olimpija Ljubljana was a Slovenian association football club based in Ljubljana. The club had traced its origin back to 1911 when it was originally founded as SK Ilirija. It had gone through a series of mergers in the first half of the 20th century before adopting the name Olimpija in 1962...
and Vardar Skopje
FK Vardar
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.
After the Second World War, many of the clubs mentioned in the earlier did not exsist. A similar thing happened with BASK. New football collectives were founded, with new names that were appropriate to new times and circumstances.
Recent history
In parts of Belgrade, SenjakSenjak
Senjak is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. Located in Savski Venac, one of the three municipalities that constitute the very center of the city, it is an affluent and distinguished neighborhood lavished with embassies, diplomatic residences, and mansions...
and Topčider
Topcider
Topčider is a forest park and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is divided between in the municipalities of Čukarica, Rakovica and Savski Venac...
hill, therefore mostly on territory of former BASK, club named Senjak has been founded, and it competed with a lot of success in Belgrade leagues. In this environment was born the idea, that this club could take over the tradition of BASK of gathering young people from that part of the city, especially because the club had got the playfield on the edge of Topčider park, very close to former stadium of SK SOKO, where it is today.
The idea, nevertheless, could have not been realized immediately. No sooner than 1953, on 50-anniversary of Soko and BASK, on the Annual assembly, in the presence of many members of the pre-war club, FK Senjak took over the name BASK and all glorious traditions of this oldest football collective in former Kingdom of Serbia. For the first president of renewed club, with votes of assembly participants, famous representative Milovan Jakšić
Milovan Jakšić
Milovan Jakšić was a Serbian football goalkeeper....
, “El Grande Milovan“ was chosen. Since then, until 2005, the FK BASK competes more or less successfully in Serbian League Belgrade
Serbian League Belgrade
Srpska Liga Belgrade is a section of the Srpska Liga, Serbia's third football league. Teams from Belgrade are in this section of the league. The other sections are Srpska Liga East, Srpska Liga West, and Srpska Liga Vojvodina.-Srpska Liga Beograd Teams 10/11:...
.
In this period, the biggest success had been the winning of Cup of the Belgrade liberation in 1958, the victory in the Cup of Yugoslavia in territory of Belgrade football association, and in the same year, the defeat in the final game of Yugoslav Cup
Yugoslav Cup
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for the Serbian territory from FK Borac Čačak
FK Borac Cacak
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. In addition, after the convincing triumph and the first place with nine points of advantage in the first Belgrade league, in 1971, the FK BASK competed in the Serbian league–north group. More recently, FK BASK has been competing in the Serbian First League
Serbian First League
Serbian First League is the name for the second tier in Serbia's football league. The league is operated by the Football Association of Serbia. 18 teams are set to compete in this league for the 2009-10 season...
, whose member it is since 2005.
Club name
- SK Soko (1903–33)
- BASK (1933–45)
- FK Senjak (1945–53)
- FK BASK (1953-)
Squad 2010-11
Last update: December 8, 2010.Notable players
Played before the World War II Milovan JakšićMilovan Jakšić
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Milutin Ivković
Milutin Ivkovic
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Kolnago Ferante Milorad Mitrović
Milorad Mitrovic
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Aleksandar Tomašević
Aleksandar Tomašević
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Slavko Šurdonja
Slavko Šurdonja
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Ratomir Čabrić
Ratomir Čabrić
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Miroslav Lukić Miodrag Ranojević Mladen Sarić
- Stojan Popović
- Đorđe Dellinger
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Played for national team Milan Biševac
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Milan Stojanovski Dušan Petronijević
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Bojan Zajić
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