FK Inđija

Fudbalski klub Inđija (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Инђија) is a football club based in the city of Inđija, Serbia. The club plays in the Serbian SuperLiga.

Inđija
Full nameFudbalski Klub Inđija
Founded1933
GroundInđija Stadium
Capacity4,000
ManagerSrđan Blagojević
LeagueSerbian SuperLiga
2019–20Serbian SuperLiga 14th,
WebsiteClub website

The club's biggest success were two promotions to the Serbian SuperLiga for 2010–11 and 2019–20 seasons.

History

FK Inđija was established in 1933 as a railroad employees club, initially named ŽAK Inđija and later FK Železničar Inđija. In 1969, Železničar was renamed to FK PIK Inđija. In 1975 the name changed, this time to FK Agrounija after the club's sponsor at that time. In 1994, the name become FK Inđija and it lasts til nowadays, exception was the period between 2001 and 2003 when for sponsorship reasons the clubs was known as FK Brazda Coop.

In 1941, they won the Novi Sad Football Subassociation First League.[1] Later during the SFR Yugoslavia period, the club competed mostly in the third national level. On several occasions it played the qualifiers for the Yugoslav Second League, until they finally achieved promotion in 1992. The next notable achievement was in season 2005–06 when they reached the quarter-finals of the Serbia and Montenegro Cup, and also won the Serbian league – group Vojvodina and got promoted to the Serbian First League (national second level).

In 2010, FK Inđija finished first in the Serbian First League and was promoted to the Serbian SuperLiga, Serbia's highest professional football league.

In 2019, FK Inđija was promoted to the Serbian SuperLiga through play-offs, Serbia's highest professional football league.

Honours

Serbian First League:

Novi Sad Football Subassociation:

  • Winner (1): 1941

Current squad

First team
As of 10 March 2018

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  SRB Dejan Stanivuković
2 DF  SRB Luka Cucin
3 DF  SRB Nikola Dimitrijević
4 DF  SRB Miloš Mihajlov
5 DF  SRB Mihailo Jovanović
7 MF  SRB Ognjen Krasić
8 MF  SRB Nemanja Bosančić
9 FW  SRB Miroslav Marković
10 MF  SRB Srđan Dimitrov
11 DF  SRB Milijan Ilić
12 GK  SRB Miloje Preković
17 FW  SRB Nebojša Bastajić
18 MF  SRB Mihajlo Banjac
20 MF  SRB Aleksa Jovanović
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF  SRB Nikola Anđelković
22 MF  SRB Milan Janjić
23 MF  MNE Vojin Pavlović
24 MF  SRB Stefan Purtić
25 FW  SRB Vasilije Janjić
27 FW  SRB Branislav Tomić
29 GK  SRB Marko Knežević
30 FW  SRB Brana Ilić
31 DF  SRB Luka Čermelj
32 FW  SRB Filip Rajevac
35 FW  SRB Vladan Milosavljev
37 DF  CHN Siqi Li
40 DF  SRB Nemanja Vidić
— MF  SRB Boško Vraštanović

For recent transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers summer 2019.

Notable players

Dragoljub Pejović was one of the most successful players of the club and later in his career his he played for FK Vojvodina and FK Hajduk Kula. Other players are Bojan Banjac who after playing with FK Inđija played for Lille in France, Ratko Vukčević who played for FK Obilić and Ljubiša Kekić. Altogether there have been 35 players from FK Inđija that played in top leagues, not only in Serbia but in other European leagues as well.

Players that played in the club and that have national team appearances are Bojan Neziri (Serbia), Jovan Tanasijević and Nikola Vukčević (Montenegro), Zoran Janković (Bulgaria), Yaw Antwi (Ghana) and Badara Badji (Senegal).[2]

Stadium

Stadion FK Inđija is a stadium among longest sport tradition in Srem and Vojvodina, it is located in near center of the town, near railroad station and main railroad direction Belgrade-Subotica-Budapest. It is built on a place where locomotive depot was at. For decades it is a center of main football and other sports in town.

At the time when FK Železničar was founded to today, FK Inđija, the pitch was made and with it wooden stands with a roof 600 was the capacity. Changing rooms were made in 1962. In 1970, the stands went under renovation because the wood started to fall apart. In 2006, the stadium got its today look When first built the stadium could hold up to 4,000 to 5,000 people. Over the years the capacity dropped due to safety precautions, the capacity fell to 3,500.

In 2006, FK Inđija has revealed plans for a new stadium, the capacity is going to be 10,000. When finished it will fulfill the club's ambitions. The Club's president has stated that FK Inđija goals are to be a standard club in the Serbian SuperLiga and to play in the UEFA Europa League. The new stadium is expected to fulfill UEFA's criteria for playing games in the UEFA Europa League, and is expected to be finished in 2012.

Fans

Fans of FK Inđija are called "Zelena Armija" (Green Army).

References
  1. Fudbal u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji, Sijić, pag. 126
  2. FK Inđija at National-Football-Teams.com
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