FC Ljubljana

Football club infobox
clubname = FC Ljubljana


fullname = Nogometno Društvo FC Ljubljana
nickname = Šiškarji
founded = 1909
ground = ŽŠD, Ljubljana
capacity = 5,000
chairman = Alojz Krapež
manager = Filip Mendaš
league = Legea league
season = 2007-08
position = Legea league, 4th
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FC Ljubljana is a Slovenian football club, based in the capital, Ljubljana. The team currently plays in Legea league, fourth tier of slovenian football.

=History=

The club was formed in 1909 as students club NK Hermes and is one of the oldest football clubs in Slovenia. They played the first football match in the country, scoring a victory 18:0 against Ilirija, with which they merged in 1914. After the Second World War club was reestablished as NK Železničar Ljubljana, which is sometimes still commonly used name, due to club playing in the framework of Railway Sports Society (Slovenian: Železničarsko Športno Društvo) on the ŽŠD Ljubljana stadium. Železničar won its first Slovenian Republic League title in 1949 and played in one-off Slovene-Coatian league 1952/53, which was at the time second level of yugoslav football system. They finished ninth and were relegated due to dissolution of the league. The club was then renamed to ŽNK Ljubljana and played in third level inter-republic league. They finished second in 1954, but lost the qualifying match for second league. After the reorganization of yugoslav football, they played in newly established Yugoslav Second League A Zone from 1955 until 1958, finishing on 5th, 8th and 10th place. This league system was then changed again and Ljubljana was relegated back to Slovenian Republic League. They have won it three times, in 1963, 1967 and 1968, before finally returning to Yugoslav Second League, where they played until 1972. After three solid seasons, finishing 11th, 10th and 6th, Ljubljana was unexpectedly relegated with 17th place in its forth appearance. Their status of city's second club was taken over by finantially much stronger Svoboda. Ljubljana then managed to win Slovenian Republic League again only in 1989. After the indepedence, they have played in Slovenian First League for four seasons. In 1991/92 they played as Eurospekter Ljubljana and Finished fifth, before renaming to AM Cosmos Ljubljana. 1992/93 was their best season, as they were in serious competition for the title after the fall season, but finished forth due to poor finish. In 1993/94 they finished 11th, but then renamed back to Železničar Ljubljana, having new president and bigger ambitions for 1994/95 season. They started quite well, but fell again in the spring period, specially with three defeats in last three rounds, which pushed them to final 10th place. Due to reduction of Slovenian First League to 10 teams, they had to play additional releagtion play-off, in which they went as clear favourites, but failed in second round against Izola after 1:1 and 0:0, due to away goal rule. Železničar then won the Slovenian Second League easily in 1996, but was refused a licence for top flight football, so they stayed in second league, but withdrew during the next season. They were later passed a third league licence from feeder club Komenda and renamed to Viator&Vektor Ljubljana. In 2000 they have won the 3.SNL Centre by one point margin over Bela krajina. In next two seasons Ljubljana has played in Slovenian Second League, finishing seventh in 2001 and second in 2002, which was enough for comeback to Slovenian First League after seven years. This time they stayed there for three seasons, finishing on solid 10th, 7th and 9th place. After the 2004/05 season they were refused a licence again, so the club was excluded from the competition, together with another two slovenian giants, Olimpija and Mura. The club was then reestablished as FC Ljubljana and started allover again in fifth league. In 2006 they have finished second after Olimpija, scoring 15 wins and 66 goals in 17 matches. Next season they finished second again, but were promoted, due to forced relagation of Svoboda.

Achievements

*Slovenian Republic League: 5:: 1949, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1989

Recent seasons

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