FK Rudar Prijedor

Early years

The first football was brought to Prijedor in 1918 by Sveto Radetić, Stevan Mitrinović and Pero Čanak, who bought the ball from Austria. In 1919 the first football club was formed by the name of "PNK – Prijedorski nogometni klub" and in 1925 renamed into "Slavija". The first official match was played against FK Sloboda Bosanski Novi, a defeat by 0–10, and it was played so the club could formally join the regional federation and start competing. In 1925 another club was formed in the town FK Građanski, and in 1925 the first field with stands for spectators was built. More clubs were being formed in the decade of the 1920s. FK Borac was created in 1925 with its field in Lukavica, FK Rudar Ljubija in 1928 and still before the beginning of World War II, the clubs of FK Hajduk in Prijedor, and FK Zmaj from Kozarac, were formed. The predecessor of today's Rudar Prijedor is FK Rudar Ljubija that was formed on May 3, 1928, in the mining town of Ljubija. After the end of the war, much help for the development of football in Prijedor was provided by the local paper factory and the iron mining company "Ljubija" from neighbouring Ljubija. The clubs of Grmeč, Željezničar, Jedinstvo and Mladost were formed. In 1954 FK Celuloza was formed, followed by the merger with Mladost and its renaming into FK Radnički in 1958. FK Željezničar merged with FK Radnički, forming OFK Prijedor in 1965. During the following decades great cooperation existed between OFK Prijedor and FK…

Radoslav Zubanović Srboljub Markušević Mladen Zgonjanin Milko Djurovski (2003) Vito Samardžija Mihajlo Bošnjak Darko Nestorović (2009–2010) Zoran Bujić (interim) (19 March 2010 – 25 March 2010) Boris Gavran (26 March 2010 – 13 June 2011) Dragan Radović (13 June 2011 – 25 March 2012) Velimir Stojnić (26 March 2012 – 23 March 2013) Vlado Čapljić (25 March 2013 – 31 May 2013) Slobodan Starčević (11 June 2013 – 18 September 2013) Boris Gavran (18 September 2013 – 3 February 2014) Gorazd Mihajlov (3 February 2014 – 19 March 2014) Darko Nestorović (19 March 2014 – 26 December 2014) Zoran Bujić (January 2015 – June 2015) Boris Gavran (18 June 2015 – 1 November 2015) Zlatko Jelisavac (4 November 2015 – 3 May 2018) Nedžad Žerić (3 May 2018 – 22 June 2019) Igor Janković (22 June 2019 – 12 May 2020) Boris Savić (21 May 2020 – 18 April 2021) Nikica Milenković (June 11 2021 – 11 October 2021) Marko Tešić (14 October 2021 – 5 March 2022) Srđan Marjanović (5 March 2022 – 6 June 2022) Zoran Bujić (7 June 2022 – 6 October 2022) Bojan Krulj (11 January 2023 – 25 September 2023) Vule Trivunović (9 October 2023 – 24 January 2025) Goran Kecman (31 January 2025 – 18 June 2025) Perica Ognjenović (18 June 2025 – 30 June 2026)

Domestic

League

First League of the Republika Srpska Winners (3): 2008–09, 2014–15, 2020–21 Runners-up (3): 1995–96, 2017–18, 2019–20

Cups

Republika Srpska Cup Winners (1): 2014–15 Runners-up (3): 1994–95, 2005–06, 2013–14