NK Ljubljana

Foundation

The club was founded in 1909 as students club Hermes and was one of the oldest football clubs in Slovenia. The club was reformed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as SK Hermes in late 1918 and played in the Ljubljana Subassociation League from 1920 on, scoring best result with fourth place on four occasions. In 1925, the club added a prefix Železničarski (lit. 'Railway's') to its name. ŽSK Hermes was from then on clearly defined as a workers club.

Time of SFR Yugoslavia

After the Second World War, the club was reestablished as Železničar Ljubljana, which was later still commonly used name, due to club playing in the framework of Railway Sports Society (Slovene: Železničarsko Športno Društvo) on the ŽŠD Ljubljana stadium. Železničar won its first Slovenian Republic League title in 1949 and played in one-off Slovene-Croatian 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 as 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,…

Slovenian Republic Football League Winners: 1948–49, 1962–63, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1988–89 Slovenian Second League Winners: 1995–96 MNZ Ljubljana Cup Winners: 2000–01, 2001–02