ŽAK Subotica
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ŽAK Subotica was a football club based in Subotica
, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The name comes from the initials of Željezničarski atletski klub, and it was formed in 1921. It was known for being backed by the railway company.
It played in the 1935–36 Yugoslav Football Championship where it was eliminated in the round of sixteen by Slavija Osijek
. Afterwords, it played in the 1940–41 Serbian League where it finished 5th out of 10.
After the end of the Second World War, the club made a tour troughout Serbia in order to prepare for competition, however the new socialist authorities demanded that most of the pre-1945 clubs to be desbanded and new clubs to be formed. ŽAK was dissolved in 1945 and its players made a meating where they decided to join the newly founded FK Spartak Subotica
which beside the players, the stadium, the colors and the fans, it also inherited the tradition of being backed by the railways.
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a state stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultuous interwar era of 1918–1941...
The name comes from the initials of Željezničarski atletski klub, and it was formed in 1921. It was known for being backed by the railway company.
It played in the 1935–36 Yugoslav Football Championship where it was eliminated in the round of sixteen by 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....
. Afterwords, it played in the 1940–41 Serbian League where it finished 5th out of 10.
After the end of the Second World War, the club made a tour troughout Serbia in order to prepare for competition, however the new socialist authorities demanded that most of the pre-1945 clubs to be desbanded and new clubs to be formed. ŽAK was dissolved in 1945 and its players made a meating where they decided to join the newly founded FK Spartak Subotica
FK Spartak Zlatibor Voda
FK Spartak Zlatibor Voda is a football club from Subotica, Serbia, that plays in the Serbian SuperLiga . The club was founded in 1945 and was named after Jovan Mikić Spartak, the leader of the Partisans in Subotica, and a national hero who was killed in 1944...
which beside the players, the stadium, the colors and the fans, it also inherited the tradition of being backed by the railways.