FK Napredak Kruševac

FK Napredak Kruševac

Full name	Fudbalski klub Napredak Kruševac
Nickname(s)	Čarapani
Founded	1946
Ground	Stadion Mladost, Kruševac, Serbia (Capacity: 10,811 all seated)
President	Dragiša Binić
Head Coach	Dragan Antić
League	Serbian First League
2010-11	Serbian First League, 6th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FK Napredak (Serbian Cyrillic: ФK Haпpeдaк) is a football club based in the city of Kruševac, Serbia. The club was founded on December 8, 1946, through a fusion of three local area clubs: Zakić, Badža and 14. Oktobar. The club played its first official game against FK Makedonija, a team from Skopje, in January 1947.

History

In 1949, the team became champions of Serbia and therefore joined the Yugoslav First League for the first time. It was immediately relegated the next season. After 1978, Napredak became regulars in the Yugoslav First League and was viewed as a great club. Two years later, the team reached the UEFA Cup. They were eliminated in the first round by Eastern Germany's powerhouse Dynamo Dresden.

In domestic competitions, Napredak's biggest success is reaching the Yugoslav Cup final in 2000, losing to Red Star Belgrade. Their presence in the national cup final earned them a spot in the UEFA Cup the next season. This time, the team had a little more success, eliminating Estonian representants JK Viljandi Tulevik in the first round, but getting eliminated in the second by Greek club OFI Crete. Reaching the second round of the UEFA Cup is their biggest success in history.

Throughout its history, FK Napredak produced some great players such as Vladimir Durković, Ognjen Petrović, Zoran Simović, Dušan Pešić and Dragiša Binić.

On July 19, 2007, the Football Association of Serbia decided that Napredak will be promoted to the Serbian Superliga and replace FK Mladost Apatin who withdrew from the competition after being unable to bear the financial burden of playing in a top division.

Stadium

Napredak Kruševac's stadium holds 11,150 seats.

Supporters

FK Napredak's supporters are known as Jakuza.

FK Napredak in Europe

• QR = Qualifying Round
• R1 = 1st Round

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away
1980/81	UEFA Cup	R1		Dynamo Dresden	0-1	0-1
2000/01	UEFA Cup	QR		JK Viljandi Tulevik	5-1	1-1
2000/01	UEFA Cup	R1		OFI Crete	0-0	0-6

Current squad

As of February 2011. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Slobodan Janković 2 MF Nenad Milunović 3 DF Đorđe Tadić 4 DF Danijel Gašić 5 MF Dejan Radosavljević 6 DF Marko Paunović 7 FW Dragan Milovanović 8 MF Marko Spasojević 9 DF Igor Petrović 10 FW Marko Radovanović 12 GK Dalibor Milenković 15 DF Predrag Alić 17 FW Marjan Jugović 18 FW Srđan Ristić 19 MF Nemanja Milovanović

No. Position Player 20 DF Bogdan Marjanović 21 MF Vladimir Miljković 22 GK Bratislav Jovanović 23 MF Nikola Bogoslovski 24 FW Marko Ignjatović 25 DF Stefan Milosavljević 26 FW Miloš Novaković 27 MF Nikola Milošević DF Bojan Đorđević MF Marko Nikolić FW Pavle Delibašić DF Dušan Punoševac DF Nemanja Milosavljević MF Slobodan Marković MF Stefan Jovanović

Notable former players

Dragiša Binić Davor Čop Dragan Ćulum Marko Đorđević Zivorad Djokic Vladimir Durković Milan Gajić Vasil Gunev Ivan Gvozdenović Dragiša Ilić Milomir Jakovljević Slavoljub Janković Pavle Jevtic Goran Jezdimirović Milorad Jovanović - Mića 'Božja volja'

Nebojša Karamarković Branislav Kojičić Dragoljub Kostić Slavoljub Krnjinac Vlade Lazarevski Jugoslav Lazić Nikola Mikić Bojan Miladinović Vladimir Milosavljević Predrag Pavlović Aleksandar Perović - Aca Grba Svetomir Petrović Dušan Pešić Miladin Pešterac

Ivan Petrović Ljubomir Petrović - Ljuba Pita Ognjen Petrović Svetomir Petrović - Grof Branislav Popović - Firga Kosta Radovanović Milenko Rajković Nenad Sakić Zoran Simović-Čoče Saša Stamenković Milutin Stepić Stevan Stošić Jovica Škoro Bojan Zajić Bratislav Punoševac

External links

• Official Website
• Club profile and squad at Srbijafudbal.
• Club page at Transfermarkt.
• SL: Nastavljena "seča", pao Jovica Škoro, MTS Mondo, December 15, 2008
• Sakić novi trener Napretka, B92, December 20, 2008
• Team profile 2009/2010 at MojSport
• FK Napredak Kruševac info