FK Cetinje

FK Cetinje

Full name	Fudbalski klub Cetinje
Founded	1975;51 years ago (1975)
Ground	Sveti Petar Cetinjski Cetinje, Montenegro
Capacity	5,192
Chairman	Igor Raičević
Manager	Dušan Vlaisavljević
League	Third League South
2024–25	Montenegrin Third League, 7th of 7
Home colours Away colours

FK Cetinje is a Montenegrin football club based in Cetinje. They currently compete in the Montenegrin Third League.

History

Founded in 1975, Football club Cetinje started as a team of printing house Obod. ^[1] The first name of the club was FK Štampar. From 1978, the team participated under the name FK Tara, and since 1991 its name changed to FK Cetinje. The club comes from a town with a strong football tradition, and their neighbouring FK Lovćen is the oldest Montenegrin sports club and member of the Montenegrin First League. ^[2]
The first significant success the team made was in the 1980–81 season, when they won the title in the Fourth League - Southern region, gaining promotion to the Montenegrin Republic League. ^[3]
During the eighties and nineties, FK Cetinje spent many seasons in the third and fourth rank of the Yugoslav football pyramid, but always in the shadow of the oldest city rival - FK Lovćen.
Following Montenegrin independence, FK Cetinje became a member of the Montenegrin Third League, where they spent three consecutive seasons. In the 2009–10 season, they won the title in Third League - Southern Region, but with losses against FK Iskra and FK Pljevlja in the promotion playoffs, they failed to qualify for the Montenegrin Second League.
Historical success came in the 2012–13 season when FK Cetinje won another title in the Third League, but this time they won the promotion playoffs against FK Pljevlja and FK Kom. ^[4] With that result, FK Cetinje gained promotion for the first time to the Montenegrin Second League. In the first game in the Second League, they played against FK Igalo (1:0).
After two seasons spent in the second-tier, FK Cetinje made notable success during the 2015–16 season. After autumn half-season, they finished as the leader of the Second League, but during the spring FK Cetinje lost a first-place struggle against FK Jedinstvo and finished second. With that result, FK Cetinje qualified for their first performance in the Montenegrin First League playoffs, where they met OFK Petrovac. After a goalless draw in Cetinje, OFK Petrovac won second game (1–0), so FK Cetinje remained a member of the Second League.
After five consecutive seasons in Second League, FK Cetinje was relegated to the bottom-tier in 2018. But, after three seasons spent in Third League - South, they made returned to the Montenegrin Second League on the 2021–22 season.

Honours and achievements

• Montenegrin Second League  – 0
  • runner-up(1): 2015–16
• Montenegrin Third League  – 3
  • winners(2): 2009–10, 2012–13, 2020–21
• Montenegrin Fourth League  – 5
  • winners(5): 1980–81, 1988–89, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2003–04
• Southern Region Cup  – 1
  • winners(1): 2008
  • runner-up(2): 2010, 2012

Players

Current squad

^[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   MNE Veljko Bajković 3 DF   SRB Aleksandar Colić 8 DF   MNE Milo Ćetković 45 MF   MNE Edin Nikočević 5 DF   MNE Miodrag Stanojevic 20 FW   MNE Branko Martinović 10 MF   MNE Andrija Mirković — MF   MNE Balša Bogićević — MF   MNE Igor Marković

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 GK   MNE Veljko Bajković 14 FW   MNE Marko Strugar -- MF   MNE Aldin Šabotić 22 FW   MNE Đorđe Mujović 16 DF   MNE Nikola Mijanović 13 MF   MNE Luka Ćeranić 7 MF   MNE Ilija Radunović — DF   MNE Marko Roganović — FW   KOS Arbër Sahiti — MF   MNE Ivan Batrićević — MF   MNE Malic Mucevic(on loan from FK Mornar)

Notable players

For the list of former players with Wikipedia article, please see Category:FK Cetinje players.

Stadium

Main article: Stadion Sveti Petar Cetinjski

FK Cetinje play their home games in Stadion Sveti Petar Cetinjski. They share the stadium with local rival FK Lovćen. The stadium has a capacity of 5,192 spectators.

See also

• Montenegrin Third League
• Football in Montenegro
• Montenegrin clubs in Yugoslav football competitions (1946–2006)
• Cetinje
• FK Lovćen

References

1. "Prijestonica Cetinje".
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
3. 'Crnogorski klubovi u fudbalskim takmičenjima 1946-2016', Podgorica, 2016.
4. "Portal Analitika - najvažnije vijesti iz Crne Gore i svijeta".
5. "Fudbalski savez Crne Gore".