FK Drina is a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club from the town of Zvornik

Zvornik

Zvornik is a city on the Drina river in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located south of the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town Mali Zvornik lies directly across the river in Serbia, and not far north is Loznica.-History:Zvornik is first mentioned in 1410, although it was...

, in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

. The club competes in the First League of the Republika Srpska

First League of the Republika Srpska

First League of the Republika Srpska is a second level football competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since there were three different football championships in country, organized on ethnic principles, the "First League of the Republika Srpska" was the top flight in Republika Srpska before 2002....

.

History

Football first begin being played in Zvornik soon after World War I. The first football match was played in 1924 between a team from Zvornik against visitors from Srebrenica

Srebrenica

Srebrenica is a town and municipality in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Bosnian Serb entity of Republika Srpska. Srebrenica is a small mountain town, its main industry being salt mining and a nearby spa. During the Bosnian War, the town was the site of the July 1995 massacre,...

. The first football club was formed in 1933 and named Zmaj od Noćaja. A year latter another club named Sloga was formed so the city of Zvornik had two football clubs in the period between the two world wars. Just before the start of the Second World War the two clubs are dismembered and a new club named Omladinac is formed.

Just after the end of the war a new club, FK Drina was formed. The first club president was Mr. Nikola Mastilica. The first match recorded by the press and probably the first match in competition was played on May 17th, 1946, in Tuzla

Tuzla

Tuzla is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time of the 1991 census, it had 83,770 inhabitants, while the municipality 131,318. Taking the influx of refugees into account, the city is currently estimated to have 174,558 inhabitants...

 against FK Sloboda Tuzla

FK Sloboda Tuzla

FK Sloboda is a football club from the city of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The English translation of the team's name is Football Club Freedom...

. During the period within SFR Yugoslavia the club played mostly in lower national leagues.

During 1990s, another team from Živinice

Živinice

Živinice is a town and municipality in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located south of Tuzla. It is part of the Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.-History:The origin of the name Živinice is still not established. According to M...

 also represented Drina Zvornik, but played at Bosniaks Football League. With the break-up of Yugoslavia, in 1992, the Football Association of Republika Srpska

Football Association of Republika Srpska

The Football Association of Republika Srpska is a football association in the Serb run entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina called Republika Srpska. The association supervises over 300 football clubs of which 3 are women's teams. The referee association has around 1,200 members. There are also around...

 is formed. Drina Zvornik was a member of the first league season in 1995-96 to be organised by the FAoRS. The league was divided into two groups and the club played in the First League - East. In this first season the club ended up relegated but after only one season the club as champion of the Second League - group Bijeljina was promoted and played in the First League in the season 1997-98. The club suffered relegation once more but will return to First League in the season 2002-03 this time staying in the league all the way until 2010. In the session 2009/10, the club was the league champion, and now being the First League of Republika Srpska part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina league system, the club archived its greatest result ever and earned a promotion to the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the top football league in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the country's most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs with last two teams relegated at the end of every season....

. But it was relegated again to the lower tier, after finishing last in its first session (2010/11) after promotion in the Premier league of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Current squad

Squad for the 2010-11 season.

Honours

• First League of Republika Srpska: 2009-10

External sources

• Official site
• Club page at Transfermarkt.
• Blog about the club.