FK Spartak Subotica

Origins

Founded in 1921 as ŽAK Subotica, club of Subotica's railway, FK Spartak Subotica is the second most successful club in northern Serbia after Vojvodina. They participated in the first postwar club competition, the 1946–47 Yugoslav First League, and from then on were relegated to the second league then promoted again to the first league in a persistent cycle. Their biggest success was reaching the 1993–94 FR Yugoslavia Cup final against Partizan which they lost 1-6. However, football in Subotica has long tradition. During the pre-WWII period, the city was the seat of the Subotica Football Subassociation, one of the subassociations which existed within the Yugoslav Football Association, and which organised league competitions whose winners qualified for the Yugoslav championship where the national champion was decided. Subotica was home to three major clubs that made it to the Yugoslav championship before 1941: Bačka, SAND and ŽAK Subotica. Bačka has the distinction of being the oldest football club in the entire territory of former Yugoslavia. During World War Two, when Subotica was invaded by Axis forces in 1941 and incorporated into Hungary, its football clubs were likewise absorbed into the Hungarian league system. At the end of the war Yugoslavia regained control of Subotica. Some clubs such as SAND were dissolved; others, like Bačka, continued, but at a much lower level; and some new ones were formed, such as Radnički and Građanski. ŽAK Subotica remained…

League

National Championships – 1

People's Republic of Serbia League (Vojvodina group) Winners (1): 1945–46 Yugoslav Second League Winners (4): 1952, 1971–72, 1985–86 (West), 1987–88 (West)

Cup

Yugoslav Cup Runners-up (2): 1961–62, 1993–94