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'''Borac''' is a [[sports society]] with several teams, from the city of [[Banja Luka]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. ''Borac'' stands for "Fighter" in [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]]. Borac's supporters are called Lešinari which means Vultures.
'''Borac''' is a [[sports society]] with several teams, from the city of [[Banja Luka]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. ''Borac'' stands for "Fighter" in [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]] and [[Serbian language|Serbian]] language. Borac's supporters are called Lešinari which means Vultures.


== Football ==
== Football ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.borac-sport.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.borac-sport.com/ Official Site of Sports society Borac]
* [http://www.lesinari1987.net/ Lešinari (Vultures) - Supporters of Borac] {{sr icon}}
* [http://www.lesinari1987.net/ Lešinari (Vultures) - Supporters of Borac] {{sr icon}}
* [http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/club=50104/domestic.html Borac at UEFA.COM]
* [http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/club=50104/domestic.html Borac at UEFA.COM]

Revision as of 10:43, 22 June 2010

Borac Banja Luka
Full nameBorac Banja Luka
Founded1926
GroundCity Stadium of Banja Luka, Banja Luka
Capacity12,000
Chairman Mićo Milovanović
Manager Zoran Marić
LeaguePremijer Liga
2009-103rd,

Borac is a sports society with several teams, from the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Borac stands for "Fighter" in Bosnian and Serbian language. Borac's supporters are called Lešinari which means Vultures.

Football

The 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 supporters such as FK Sarajevo and Zeljeznicar

Honours and achievements

  • Winners (1): 2009-10
  • Runners-up (1): 2003–04
  • Winners (3): 2000/01, 2005/06, 2007/08
  • Winners (3): 1994/95, 1995/96, 2008/09
  • Winners (1): 1992

European record

As of January, 2009:
Season Competition Round Club Home Away
1975-76 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1R Luxembourg US Rumelange 9-0 5-1
2R Belgium Anderlecht 1-0 0-3
1988-89 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1R Soviet Union Metalist Kharkov 2-0 0-4

Current squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Marko Sušac
2 FW Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Petar Kunić
3 DF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Denijel Savić
4 DF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Bojan Petrić
5 DF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Leonid Čorić
6 DF Serbia SRB Milan Stupar
7 DF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Bojan Puzigaća
8 MF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Aleksandar Petrović
9 FW Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Saša Kajkut
10 FW Serbia SRB Ljubiša Vukelja
11 MF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Srđan Grahovac
12 GK Serbia SRB Marko Knežević
14 FW Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Mladen Bojić
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 MF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Marko Maksimović
17 FW Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Nemanja Aleksić
18 MF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Duško Sakan
19 DF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Nemanja Damjanović
20 MF Serbia SRB Dragomir Vukobratović
21 MF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Oliver Jandrić
22 DF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Draško Žarić
23 MF Serbia SRB Sreten Stanić
24 MF Serbia SRB Miroslav Stevanović
25 GK Serbia SRB Miloš Milinović
26 DF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Vule Trivunović
27 FW Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Srđan Stojnić
28 MF North Macedonia MKD Perica Stančeski

Notable former players

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.