FK Inđija

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Inđija

Full name	Fudbalski Klub Inđija
Nickname(s)	The Green Army
Founded	1933
Ground	Toyo Tires Arena
Capacity	4,000
Manager	Goran Milojević
League	Serbian First League
2020–21	Serbian SuperLiga, 17th (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Fudbalski klub Inđija (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Инђија) is a football club based in the city of Inđija, Serbia. They compete in the Serbian First League, the second tier of the national league system.

During Yugoslavia the club mainly participated in the amateur ranks of competition.

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 Yugoslav Railways 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 they played the qualifiers for the Yugoslav Second League, until they finally achieved promotion to it 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, an achievement they would repeat in 2019.

Honours[]

• Serbian First League: 2009–10

• Novi Sad Football Subassociation: 1941

• Serbian League Vojvodina: 2005–06

Current squad[]

First team[]

As of 9 September 2021^[2]

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 Miloš Čupić 5 MF  SRB Nikola Nedeljković 7 FW  SRB Nikola Vukajlović 8 MF  SRB Branko Riznić 9 FW  SRB Marko Kovačević 10 MF  SRB Vladan Milosavljev 11 FW  SRB Miloš Kukolj 13 DF  SRB Aleksa Jovanović 14 MF  MNE Milisav Perošević 15 DF  SRB Strahinja Ševo 16 FW  SRB Stefan Đurić 20 MF  SRB Nikola Žakula 21 MF  SRB Marko Stojanović 22 MF  SRB Aleksandar Desančić

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  SRB Slavoljub Đokić 24 MF  SRB Boško Trivić 26 FW  SRB Dušan Vukčević 27 FW  SRB Stefan Gajilović 28 FW  SRB Nikola Rađen 29 DF  SRB Uroš Ignjatović 30 MF  SRB Milan Srbijanac 31 GK  SRB Darko Vukašinović 32 DF  SRB Igor Nedeljković 44 DF  SRB Nikola Đurić 57 MF  SRB Miloš Plavšić 77 MF  SRB Nikola Mrđa 99 GK  MNE Krsto Ljubanović

Notable players[]

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, who played for FK Obilić and . 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).^[3]

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[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Serbian)
• Zelena Armija fans
• Club profile and squad at Srbijafudbal
• Inđija Stats at Utakmica.rs