The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as FR Yugoslavia, was the state which claimed successor status to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, following the Breakup of Yugoslavia, comprising the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro, the two last remaining republics of SFR Yugoslavia. In 2003, FR Yugoslavia was transformed from a Federal Republic to a political union, and became officially known as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2006, Montenegro would secede from the Union, following an independence referendum which narrowly passed.
The Union of European Football Associations is the administrative body for association football, futsal and beach soccer in Europe, although several member states are primarily or entirely located in Asia. It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. UEFA consists of 55 national association members.
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda, which translates into English as simply Red Star, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade commonly known elsewhere as Red Star Belgrade, the major part of the Red Star multi-sport club.
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade. It forms a major part of the Partizan multi-sport club. The club plays in the Serbian SuperLiga and has spent its entire history in the top tier of Yugoslav and Serbian football having won a total of 45 official trophies: 27 national championships, 16 national cups, 1 national supercup, 1 Mitropa Cup finishing in the Yugoslav league all-time table as second.
The Yugoslav First Federal Football League, was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992).
The Yugoslavia national football team represented Yugoslavia in international association football.
The Croatian Football Federation is the governing body of association football in Croatia. It was originally formed in 1912 and is based in the capital city of Zagreb. The organisation is a member of both FIFA and UEFA, and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in Croatia. Its current president is Davor Šuker.
The First Federal Basketball League was the name of the top-tier level professional basketball league that was played in SFR Yugoslavia, from 1945 to 1991–92, and run by Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia. The First Federal League was the top-tier level league in Yugoslavia, and the Second Federal League was the second-tier level league in Yugoslavia. With a total of 16 European-wide trophy winners and 11 finalists, the Yugoslav First Basketball League was one of the strongest European national domestic basketball leagues of all time.
The 1926 National Championship was a football competition held within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The two dominant teams of pre-World War II Yugoslav football, Jugoslavija and Građanski, began laying the foundations of the next seven decades of a deeply rooted rivalry between Zagreb and Belgrade. Both teams dominated the competition with comfortable margins, but were quite evenly matched in the finals.
The 1946–47 Yugoslav First League season was the first season of the First Federal League, the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, which ended the six-year period in which national football competitions were suspended due to World War II. It was also the first season in which the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) introduced the modern league system which included promotion and relegation between tiers of the football pyramid, as pre-war national championships held between 1927 and 1940 during Kingdom of Yugoslavia employed either a play-off tournament or a mini league format contested by regional champions.
The Partizan Stadium is a football and track-and-field stadium in Autokomanda, municipality of Savski Venac, Belgrade, Serbia, which has a seating capacity of 29,775. Situated on the Topčider Hill at Humska 1 street, it is a home field of Partizan Belgrade. Also, it was the home of Partizan's main rival Red Star Belgrade from 1959 to 1963, when they moved to the Rajko Mitić Stadium.
Fudbalski klub Borac 1926 Čačak, or simply Borac Čačak, is a professional football club based in Čačak, Serbia. The home ground is Čačak Stadium, which has seating capacity of 8,000. As of 2020–21 season, the club competes in second tier of the national system otherwise known as Serbian First League.
Montenegro was independent from the late middle ages until 1918, when it declared its union with Serbia and, subsequently, became part of various incarnations of Yugoslavia and the state union of Serbia and Montenegro. During this time, football in Montenegro was part of the wider Yugoslavian structures. As a result of the Montenegrin independence referendum held on May 21, 2006, Montenegro declared independence two weeks later, on June 3, and formed its own football association.
The Yugoslavia Davis Cup team competed from 1927–2003 and represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1927–1939, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1946–1992, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1995–2003. It was organised by the Yugoslav Tennis Association. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, separate teams were created for the new nations which split apart from Yugoslavia:
FK BASK is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It is one of the oldest clubs in Serbia. The club currently competes in the Zona Belgrade. BASK are the initials of Beogradski akademski sportski klub.
Fudbalski klub Mačva Šabac, commonly known as Mačva Šabac, is a football club from Šabac, Serbia. One of the oldest football clubs in Serbia, their nickname is " The Provincial Uruguayans " The nickname was used for the first time in 1927 when the Uruguay National Football Team were one of the best teams in the world and due to local people and media comparing Macva's style to that of the Uruguayan team, the main daily newspaper Politika consistently used the nickname Provincial Uruguayans.In the period of Yugoslavia, Macva mostly played in the lower tiers of the football system but did spend two seasons in national top flight of Yugoslavia, it was in seasons 1951 and 1952 Yugoslav First League. Afterwards, they would spend the next six decades in the Yugoslav lower-leagues but were a stable and respected lower tier club in the country. Macva has experienced greatest success since Serbia became independent, reaching the top tier the Serbian Super Liga for the first time ever in the season of 2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga. The club's name "Macva" is a geographical and historical region in the northwest of Central Serbia, on a fertile plain between the Sava and Drina rivers. The chief town is Šabac. The most famous player to represent the club is Miroslav Djukic who would go on to play two UEFA Champions League finals with Valencia CF.
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. They were among the most popular Serbian and Yugoslav clubs, and they were nicknamed as "Crveni" because of their red shirts, in opposition to their greatest rivals BSK, who wore blue and were known as "Plavi". Until 1941 the sports society Jugoslavija, beside football, also included sections for athletics, cycling, winter sports, basketball, boxing, wrestling, swimming and table tennis.
FK Naša Krila Zemun was a football club based in Zemun, Serbia.
The 1952 Yugoslav Cup was the 6th season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup, also known as the "Marshal Tito Cup", since its establishment in 1946.
