GFK Sloven Ruma

Sloven Ruma
Full nameGFK Sloven Ruma
Founded1924; 100 years ago (1924)
GroundStadion Sloven
Capacity1,000
PresidentMilorad Batalo
Head coachBranko Žigić
LeagueSerbian First League
2023–24Serbian League Vojvodina,
2nd (promoted)
Websitegfksloven.rs

GFK Sloven Ruma is a Serbian football club from Ruma that competes in Serbian First League, the second tier.

History

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The club was founded in 1924.

From 1959 to 1977, Sloven played for 18 years without interruption in the third tier of Yugoslav football, the Vojvodina League, i.e. the Northern Group of the Serbian League.[1]

Sloven came closest to being placed in the federal competition in the 1965/66 season. At the end of the season, Sloven was tied at the top of the table with FK Crvenka with 43 points. However, due to a slightly better goal difference, Crvenka took first place and thus directly qualified for the Eastern Group of the Yugoslav Second League. Crvenka reached the First League a few seasons later, and Sloven continued to compete in the third tier with solid success until 1977, but never repeated the result of 1966.

After several years of playing in the fourth tier (Srem district league and Vojvodina zone league), Sloven again reached the third tier as a member of the Serbian League of Vojvodina in the 1995/96 season. After five seasons of competition with mediocre results, he was relegated to the Vojvodina zone.

The last time Sloven returned to the Serbian League was in the 2007/08 season. After winning a high fifth place, the following season 2008/09. finished as the last and was relegated to the Vojvodina League and after only one year to the Regional League of Sremska Mitrovica. Sloven spent more than a decade playing in the Regional League, and in one season he even fell to the local inter-municipal league (sixth ranking competition in Serbia).

In the course of 2020, the results recovery of the club began. At the end of the 2021/22 season, Sloven won first place in the Regional Football League of Srem and placed in the Vojvodina League South, from where they returned to the Serbian League Vojvodina after just one season.

In the 2023/24 season, Sloven took second place in the table of the Serbian League Vojvodina, behind Železničar Inđija. Due to the administrative failure of the club from Inđija, Sloven took their place and thus, for the first time in the history of the club, ensured participation in the federal level, the Serbian First League.

Stadium

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Sloven plays its matches at the Stadium in Borkovačka dolina, on the way to Lake Borkovac, a famous Romanian picnic spot. The stadium was renovated at the end of 2020, has floodlights and one tribune with chairs.

Current squad

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As of 23 November 2024[2]

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 Serbia SRB Matija Šegavac
2 DF Serbia SRB Danilo Simić
3 DF Serbia SRB Nikola Radović
4 MF Serbia SRB Srđan Oparušić
5 DF Serbia SRB Stefan Vilotić
6 MF Serbia SRB Saša Tomanović
7 FW Serbia SRB Vladimir Jandrić
8 MF Serbia SRB Milivoje Marinković
9 FW Serbia SRB Brana Ilić (captain)
10 MF Serbia SRB Dragan Perošević
11 DF Serbia SRB Vladimir Ilić
14 DF Serbia SRB Boško Trivić
15 DF Serbia SRB Aleksandar Radišić
16 DF Serbia SRB Luka Stojsavljević (on loan from Red Star Belgrade)
17 MF Serbia SRB Lazar Arsić
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW Serbia SRB Marko Stanković (on loan from OFK Beograd)
19 FW Serbia SRB Jovan Mitrović
20 MF Serbia SRB Ognjen Lovrić
21 DF Serbia SRB Miloš Ostojić
22 DF Serbia SRB Aleksandar Ignjić
23 DF Serbia SRB Miroljub Pešić
24 MF Serbia SRB Nikola Stanković (on loan from Partizan)
25 GK Serbia SRB Mihailo Dragičević
26 MF Serbia SRB Edin Ajdinović
27 FW Serbia SRB Filip Avrić
28 MF Serbia SRB Stefan Stefanović
29 FW Serbia SRB Matija Petrović
30 GK Serbia SRB Andrej Borak
55 MF Serbia SRB Ognjen Dimitrić

Out on loan

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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
MF Serbia SRB Nikola Matić (at Sloboda DT)

References

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  1. ^ "srbijasport.net - GFK Sloven - Ruma - Rezultati". srbijasport.net. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Sloven Igrači" (in Serbian). prvaliga.rs. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
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