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| Full name | Nogometni klub Ponikve | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Gajničari | ||
| Founded | 1945 | ||
| Ground | SRC Ponikve | ||
| Capacity | 1,000 | ||
| President | Damir Kajba | ||
| Coach | Hrvoje Pipnić | ||
| League | Četvrta HNL – Central A | ||
| 2024-2025 | 13th | ||
NK Ponikve is a Croatian football club founded in 1945, based in Zagreb. [1]
Interest in football in Stenjevec rose immediately after the Second World War. At the current[ when? ] location of the club, Stenjevec residents enabled the construction of the first football field and gathered a group of youths in early June 1945.
On October 25, 1953, the constituent assembly of NK Ponikve convened for the first time;. It elected the first chairman, Jakov Horvat. [1] Under the new name, the team played its first official match in the national cup competition on March 7, 1954. The first team to play under its current[ when? ] name consisted of Bruno Žerjav, Ivan Podgoršek, Josip Marković, Željko Zlatić, Nikola Svetličanin, Drago Brož, Franjo Dukanović, Viktor Vuletić, Z. Milin, Anton Potočnik and Erich Štrukelj.
Currently,[ when? ] the club is training about 300 children registered in the soccer schools and children 4–6 years old; this is popularly known as "Little Green".[ citation needed ]
