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FK Železnik 1930

association football club in Serbia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2662692 ↗
Source-derived summary

FK Železnik 1930 (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Железник 1930) is a football club based in Železnik, Belgrade, Serbia. They compete in the Belgrade First League, the fifth tier of the national league system. The team plays its home games at the Železnik Stadium.

The club competed in the First League of Serbia and Montenegro from 1996 to 2005. They made their European debut in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup and went on to win the Serbia and Montenegro Cup later that season, before merging with FK Voždovac.

History

Founded as Železnički SK on 28 May 1930, the club became more organized during the 1950s. They changed their name to FK Železnik in 1961, following a merger with FK Napredak, which was originally created by the Ivo Lola Ribar Institute. Between 1963 and 1967, the club competed in the Serbian League North, the third tier of Yugoslav football. They lost to Sloboda Užice in the promotion playoffs to the Yugoslav Second League in 1965.

The club continued to participate at regional level without notable achievements until 1993, when Jusuf "Jusa" Bulić acquired the club.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “FK Železnik 1930” as association football club in Serbia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 1996, 2005, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1930. The account is most persuasive where Železnik, association and football can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as association football club in Serbia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2662692. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1996, 2005 and 2004.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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This entry incorporates text from “FK Železnik 1930” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.