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Borac (Cyrilic: Борац) is a sports society with several teams, from the
city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The
meaning of Borac is "Fighter" (male). FC Borac's
supporters are called Lešinari which means Vultures.
The football Bosnian Serb football club Borac
was founded on July 4, 1926. Originally it was named Radnički
sportski klub Borac, meaning Workers' Sports Club Borac. It
was founded by a group of football aficionados including Veselin
Masleša, Rudolf "Rudi" Hiter, Savo Novaković, Mustafa Softić,
Nikola Kuković and others. The club's first success in this early
period came in 1928 when it won a tournament played in Sarajevo.
Borac was renamed Fudbalski klub Borac (Football Club
Borac, FK Borac) in 1945. It played two years in the Yugoslav Third
League before it advanced to the Second League in 1953.
It gained promotion to Yugoslav First League for the 1961/62 season, but promptly dropped back
down at the end of it. The club would wait almost a decade for a
return to top flight - 1970/71 was the season, and the stay in top
league was longer this time around - four consecutive seasons. The
1974/75 season was spent in Second League where the club achieved
quick promotion and thus ensured the beginning of a new 5-year
First League period that lasted until 1980. The following nine
seasons were spent in Second League, before a final top league
stint between 1989 and 1992. Borac's best placement in the First
League was 1990/91 when it finished fourth.
FK Borac was the runner-up in the 1975 Yugoslav Cup, and won it
in 1988 as the only Second League club to ever achieve this. The
club also won the Mitropa Cup (Central European Cup) in 1992. It
played a total of eight games in UEFA competitions.
Seven Borac players participated in the Yugoslav national football team and its
stadium, the City Stadium of Banja Luka
(capacity: 12,000), hosted five international matches.
Borac Banja Luka in recent times had great success by winning
two Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.Liga
titles, first in 2000/2001 and the second in 2005/2006.
FK Borac Banja Luka is one of the oldest football clubs from
former Yugoslavia. It celebrated it's 80th anniversary on September
6, 2006 when the team played a friendly match against FC Red
Star.Borac supporters group are known as "Vultures" who been
involved in a number of fights with rival muslim supporters such as
FK Sarajevo and Zeljeznicar
Honours
European
record
- As of January, 2009:
Current
squad
As of January, 2009.
Transfers
in 2009/10
Transfers out 2009/10
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
|
 |
DF |
Bojan Puzigaca |
|
|
DF |
Miodrag Babic |
|
|
MF |
Zoran Deket |
|
|
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
|
|
MF |
Nikola Kolarov |
|
|
FW |
Dejan Rasevic |
|
|
GK |
Sinisa Marcetic |
|
|
FW |
Slavisa Rikanovic |
|
|
FW |
Dario Urukalo |
|
|
FW |
Milan Bijelic |
|
|
FW |
Nenad
Novakovic |
|
|
FW |
Branko Ojdanic |
|
|
MF |
Ognjen Kremenovic |
|
Notable
former players
 Petar
Ađanski- Dževad
Agić
- Zlatan
Arnautović
- Mensur
Bajagilović
- Zdravko
Barišić
- Zoran
Batrović
- Pašo
Bećirbašić
- Suad
Beširević
- Franko
Bogdan
- Drago
Bogojević
- Berislav
Buković
- Zeljko
Buvač
- Berislav
Buković
- Miloš
Cetina
- Slaviša
Čula
- Vladimir
Ćulafić
- Fuad
Đulić
- Miodrag
Đurđević
- Husnija
Fazlić
- Nenad
Gavrilović
- Dragan
Gugleta
- Muhamed
Ibrahimbegović
- Marjan
Jantoljak
- Emir
Jusić
- Slobodan
Karalić
- Adem
Kasumović
|
|
Handball
The handball
club Borac was founded in 1950.
This club won the European Men's Championship of 1975/1976. In
1990/91 they won the IHF Cup.
Domestically, they were the national champions of former Yugoslavia seven times and are the
most successful handball club ever from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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