NK Mura

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This article is about the dissolved association football club. For the now dissolved "successor" club, see ND Mura 05. For the currently active club, see NŠ Mura.

Mura
Club crest
Full nameNogometni klub Mura Murska Sobota
Nickname(s)Muraši
Črno-beli (The Black and Whites)
Founded16 August 1924; 97 years ago (16 August 1924)
Dissolved2005; 16 years ago (2005)[1]
GroundFazanerija
Capacity3,782

Nogometni klub Mura (English: Mura Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Mura or simply Mura, was a Slovenian association football club based in Murska Sobota. The club was founded on 16 August 1924 as one of the first clubs in the Prekmurje region. The club had its golden years in the 1990s when they won the Slovenian Football Cup. During this period they were also the runners-up of the Slovenian PrvaLiga on two occasions. They played their home matches at Fazanerija City Stadium.

NK Mura was dissolved during the 2004–05 season after the club failed to obtain competition licences issued by the Football Association of Slovenia. The football association had allowed the club to finish the 2004–05 season, which was already in progress, and after finishing eighth in the national championship NK Mura effectively ceased all operations.

History[]

NK Mura was founded in Murska Sobota on 16 August 1924 in the congress hall of Hotel Dobraj. Their first match came on 31 August 1924 at home against SK Maribor, which was won by the visiting team 6–0. In the first year of the club the team played one more match. This was against SK Merkur from Maribor, which ended with another loss for Mura (3–1).

The best period in the history of the club was after 1991 when Slovenia gained independence. Their best result in the Slovenian PrvaLiga was finishing as the runners-up in the 1993–94 and 1997–98 seasons. In the 1993–94 season the club also finished as the runners-up in the Slovenian Cup. In May 1995, Mura won the 1994–95 Slovenian Cup with a 2–1 aggregate victory over Celje. With this title the club secured an invitation to play in the newly established Slovenian Supercup at the start of the next season. The match was played in Ljubljana and was won by Olimpija 2–1.

Mura had a string of mixed results for the remainder of their final seasons, despite acquiring highly regarded coaches such as Miroslav Blažević. The club became financially unstable; in their last season, the club had struggled on the pitch and failed to obtain competition licences issued by the Football Association of Slovenia, which led to its dissolution in 2005.[1] The club finished the last competitive season (2004–05) in eight place in a league with twelve teams. A successor club was established in 2005 under the name ND Mura 05; however, they are legally not considered to be the same club and their records and honours are kept separate by the Football Association of Slovenia.[2] Mura 05 was later disbanded in 2013.[3]

Honours[]

League

Winners: 1969–70
Runners-up: 1993–94, 1997–98

Cup

Winners: 1974–75
Runners-up: 1972–73
Winners: 1994–95
Runners-up: 1993–94
Runners-up: 1995

League history since 1991[]

Season League Position Notes
1991–92 1. SNL 7th /
1992–93 1. SNL 3rd /
1993–94 1. SNL 2nd Qualified for UEFA Cup
1994–95 1. SNL 4th Won Slovenian Cup. Qualified for UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
1995–96 1. SNL 3rd Qualified for UEFA Cup
1996–97 1. SNL 7th /
1997–98 1. SNL 2nd Qualified for UEFA Cup
1998–99 1. SNL 4th /
1999–2000 1. SNL 10th /
2000–01 1. SNL 4th /
2001–02 1. SNL 7th /
2002–03 1. SNL 9th /
2003–04 1. SNL 5th /
2004–05 1. SNL 8th Club dissolved during the season but played until the end.

European record[]

All results (home and away) list Mura's goal tally first.

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Agg.
1994–95 UEFA Cup PR Switzerland Aarau 0–1 0–1 0–2
1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup QR Lithuania Žalgiris 2–1 0–2 2–3
1996–97 UEFA Cup PR Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bečej 2–0 0–0 2–0
QR Denmark Lyngby BK 0–2 0–0 0–2
1998–99 UEFA Cup 1QR Latvia Daugava Riga 6–1 2–1 8–2
2QR Denmark Silkeborg IF 0–0 0–2 0–2
Notes
  • PR: Preliminary round
  • QR: Qualifying round
  • 1Q: First qualifying round
  • 2Q: Second qualifying round

References[]

  1. ^ a b J. K. (10 November 2010). "Simič: "Stefanović pošilja grožnje!"" [Simic: "Stefanovic is threatening me"]. zurnal24.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  2. ^ "SNL Statistika: Vse sezone" [SNL Statistics: All seasons] (in Slovenian). Slovenian PrvaLiga. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  3. ^ ""S takšnim odnosom se vsega tega ne da rešiti"" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
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