Leotar
Wikipedia - FK Leotar
FK Leotar (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Леотар), commonly known as Leotar Trebinje or simply Leotar, is a professional football club based in the city of Trebinje that is situated in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Founded in 1925 and named after the mountain located just north of the city, the club's home ground is the 8,550-seater Stadion Police.
They currently play in the First League of the Republika Srpska, the second-tier competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Founded in 1925, Leotar was a member of the First League of the Republika Srpska after the 1992–95 Bosnian War, winning its final season before integration in the 2001–02 season. In its first season in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Leotar won its only national championship and qualified for the UEFA Champions League.
History
Yugoslavia
Founded in 1925 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the club served as a training ground for many players who went on to enjoy notable careers elsewhere.[] Leotar never managed to gain promotion to the Yugoslav First League.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leotar entered the first-ever season of the First League of Republika Srpska in 1995–96, playing in the Eastern Group and failing to reach the play-offs. In 2001–02, Leotar won the last league championship in the Republika Srpska before the entity's clubs were integrated into a national league. In its first season in the national league in 2002–03, Leotar became the champion of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the only time, denying Željezničar Sarajevo a third consecutive title by gaining 85 points to their 82. The club fell to fourth in the next season.
The following season, Leotar played in the qualification stages for the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League. The club defeated Grevenmacher of Luxembourg in the first qualifying round, but was defeated by Czech club Slavia Prague 1–2 at home and 2–1 away in the second.
Štadión Leotaru sa volá Poličky a má kapacitu 8 550 miest. Klubové farby sú modrá a biela. Prezývka klubu je Plavi (Modrí).
Leotar vyhral Bosnianský pohár v roku 2000 a tiež Bosnianský superpohár v roku 2002. Na európskej scéne sa klub zúčastnil Pohára UEFA v sezóne 2000/01, kde vypadol v prvom kole s tureckým klubom Gençlerbirliği.
Medzi známych hráčov, ktorí hrali za Leotar, patria napríklad:
* Zoran Đukić
* Duško Bajić
* Miroslav Stevanović
* Stevo Nikolić
* Srđan Grahovac
Leotar je jedným z najúspešnejších futbalových klubov v Bosne a Hercegovine a má veľkú fanúšikovskú základňu. Klub je známy svojou oddanou podporou zo strany svojich fanúšikov, ktorí sú známi ako "Plavi Ultras".