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The Serbian Football Championship was the unofficial championship of Serbia organized by the Belgrade Football Subassociation (a Belgrade branch of the Football Association of Yugoslavia was covering territory of former Kingdom of Serbia, Vojvodina and eastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and had two editions in 1920 and 1921, before Subotica Football Subassociation started its own championship in 1922 in Bačka region. It was a pioneer football championship in Serbia, and one of the predecessors of the Yugoslav Football Championship which started being played in 1923.

The Belgrade Football Subassociation, commonly known by its initials, BLP was one of the regional football governing bodies under the tutorial of the Football Association of Yugoslavia. It was formed on 12 March 1920, and included the clubs from the geographical territories of Vojvodina, Central Serbia, Old Serbia (Kosovo) and South Serbia (Macedonia). The increase of number of clubs made that progressively other subassociations become formed by separating them from Belgrade's one. By 1932 its territory included beside Belgrade metropolitan area only the districts of Kolubara, Braničevo, Podunavlje and Jasenica-Kosmaj.

Football Association of Yugoslavia association football governing body in Yugoslavia

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The Kingdom of Serbia was created when Milan I, ruler of the Principality of Serbia, was proclaimed king in 1882.

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The Serbian Football Championship season of 1919–20 was the first held after the end of the First World War. With the football championships still not organised at national level in the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the clubs from Serbia joined together to play in this championship organised by the Serbian Football Federation.

OFK Beograd association football club in Belgrade, Serbia

Omladinski fudbalski klub Beograd, commonly known as OFK Beograd, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade. It is one of the oldest football clubs in Serbia, currently competing in Serbia's third tier. The club is one of the most respected due to numerous players of high quality coming through its youth ranks through the years. OFK Beograd is part of the OSD Beograd sport society.

The Serbian Football Championship season of 1920–21 was the second championship organised by the Serbian Football Federation after the 1919–20 season. Played among the clubs from the territory of the city of Belgrade, the Belgrade Football Subassociation.

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The 1927 National Championship was the first year in which the championship was played in a league system, with Hajduk Split being the first national league champion. Newcomer BSK Beograd replaced Jugoslavija Beograd as Serbia's top-performing club, this was due to half of the Jugoslavija players switching clubs to play for BSK. Hajduk and second-place club BSK entered the 1927 Mitropa Cup.

The 1929 National Championship was won by Hajduk Split.

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Football in Serbia association football practiced in Serbia

Football is the most popular sport in Serbia. The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) is the national governing body and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in the country, both professional and amateur. The association organizes the professional Serbian Superliga and is responsible for appointing the management of the men's, women's and youth national football teams in Serbia. The association also organizes the Serbian First League (second) and Serbian League (third), operating the top 3 leagues. The FSS is also responsible for organizing the Serbian Cup, the country's league cup competition. It has been played from the end of the 19th century and there were a number of very successful Serbian football players and coaches throughout history. One of Serbia's top football clubs Red Star Belgrade has won the prestigious European Champions Cup in 1991 and has also won the Intercontinental Cup the same year. Its local rival Partizan Belgrade was the first Southeast and Eastern European football club to reach the European Champions Cup final, when it did so in 1966. The most successful and popular teams are Red Star and Partizan from Belgrade as well as Vojvodina from Novi Sad. An important role also played OFK Belgrade and Radnički Niš in the history of the Serbian football

FK Mačva Šabac association football club in Serbia

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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.

The 1928 National Championship proclaimed Gradanski Zagreb once again as the reigning champions, with Hajduk and BSK following closely behind.

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Sport Klub Ljubljana, commonly referred to as SK Ljubljana or simply Ljubljana, was a Slovenian football club from Ljubljana. The club was founded in the mid-thirties after merging with Primorje. SK Ljubljana was dissolved in 1941, when the World War II breaks up in Yugoslavia. The club colours were black and white. Although the 1935–36 Yugoslav Championship was played in a cup format, by playing in the semi-finals SK Ljubljana was among the top 4 clubs, which is the best result ever of a Slovenian club in the Yugoslav highest level.

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