FK Vojvodina (
Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Војводина) is a
football club from
Novi Sad,
Serbia. The club currently competes in the
Serbian SuperLiga. FK Vojvodina is the third oldest football club in Serbia's
SuperLiga, after
OFK Beograd which was founded in 1911 and
FK Javor which was founded in 1912.
History
FK Vojvodina was founded March 6, 1914 on the eve of
World War I in an apartment building located at 12 Temerinska Street. The club was founded in secrecy as Austro-Hungarian authorities instituted and closely administered a ban on organized gathering in southern parts of the kingdom populated by Slavs, especially Serbs. The new club played its first match in the village of
Kovilj against local club FK Šajkaš, winning 5-0. At that time Vojvodina played in bright blue colours, however, they soon changed it to red-white, inspired by Czech club
SK Slavia Prague.
The club's biggest successes on the national level came during the
SFRY when it won the
Yugoslav First League in
1966 and
1989, and was the runner-up in 1957, 1962 and 1975. In 1967, Vojvodina reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup, before being knocked out in dramatic circumstances 2-1 on aggregate by eventual champions, Glasgow Celtic, thanks to a last minute goal by Celtic captain
Billy McNeill. After winning the European Cup by beating Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon on May 25, 1967, Celtic players said later that Vojvodina was the best side they had...
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