Leotar

Full name	Fudbalski klub Leotar
Nickname(s)	Tigrovi (The Tigers)
Founded	19 August 1925 ; 98 years ago  ( 19 August 1925 )
Ground	Police Stadium , Trebinje
Capacity	8,550
Chairman	Rajko Mi?eta
Manager	Vacant
League	First League of RS
2023?24	First League of RS, 4th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

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 [ edit ]

Yugoslavia [ edit ]

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. ^{[ citation needed ]} Leotar never managed to gain promotion to the Yugoslav First League .

Bosnia and Herzegovina [ edit ]

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. ^[1] In 2001?02, Leotar won the last league championship in the Republika Srpska before the entity's clubs were integrated into a national league. ^[2] In its first season in the national league in 2002?03, Leotar became the champion of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the only time, denying ?eljezni?ar Sarajevo a third consecutive title by gaining 85 points to their 82. ^[3] The club fell to fourth in the next season. ^[4]

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.

Honours [ edit ]

Domestic [ edit ]

League [ edit ]

• Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina :
  • Winners (1): 2002?03
• First League of the Republika Srpska :
  • Winners (1): 2001?02
  • Runners-up (1): 2020?21
• Second League of the Republika Srpska :
  • Winners (1): 2019?20 (east)

Cups [ edit ]

• Republika Srpska Cup :
  • Winners (3): 2002, 2004, 2021

European record [ edit ]

Summary [ edit ]

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Last season played
UEFA Champions League	4	1	1	2	3	4	2003?04
Total	4	1	1	2	3	4

Source: uefa.com , Last updated on 5 July 2013
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

By season [ edit ]

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.
2003?04	Champions League	QR1	Grevenmacher	2?0	0?0	2?0
		QR2	Slavia Prague	1?2	0?2	1?4

Players [ edit ]

Current squad [ edit ]

As of 26 December 2023 ^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF   BIH đoko Milovi? ( captain ) 3 MF   BIH Matija Glogovac 4 DF   SRB Dejan Uzelac 5 DF   BIH Bo?o Prusina (on loan from ?iroki Brijeg ) 6 DF   BIH Marko ?ubrilo 8 DF   BIH Zoran Mili? 9 MF   BIH Nikola Leko 10 FW   BIH Danilo ?ipovac (on loan from Zrinjski Mostar ) 11 FW   BIH Milo? A?imovi? 13 DF   BIH Darko đaji? 15 MF   SRB Milo? Stanojevi? 16 MF   BIH Amar Tahri? 17 MF   BIH Ammar đuderija

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF   SRB Mihailo Cmiljanovi? 19 MF   BIH Mahir Kari? 21 FW   BIH David ?avi? (on loan from Borac Banja Luka ) 23 MF   BIH Luka Kne?evi? 27 MF   BIH Aleksandar Milakovi? 46 FW   BIH Aleksa Spai? 55 GK   SRB Du?an Puleti? 77 FW   MKD Boban Georgiev 97 GK   BIH Risto Peri?i? — DF   SRB Nemanja Cvetkovi? — DF   BIH Andrej đuri? — MF   BIH Kerim Tatar

Players with multiple nationalities [ edit ]

• Dennis Stojkovi?
• Luka Kne?evi?

Club officials [ edit ]

Coaching staff [ edit ]

Current technical staff

Head coach : Vacant Goalkeeping Coach: Veselin Klimovi? Doctor: Vlado Ra?ovi? Physiotherapist: Rade Bo?kovi? Physiotherapist: Bojan Piljevi?

Other information [ edit ]

Current management

President : Gordan Mi?elji? Vice president: Milan Tomanovi? Sports director: Jovica Vico

Managerial history [ edit ]

• ?arko Nedeljkovi?
• Marcel ?igante (1965?1966)
• Ibrahim Muratovi?
• Franjo D?idi? (1984?1988)
• Miodrag Radanovi?
• Milan Jovin (2002?2004)
• Vladimir Pecelj
• Brajan Nenezi?
• Srđan Baji? (1 July 2007 ? 3 September 2009)
• Bor?e Sredojevi? (4 September 2009 ? 20 January 2010)
• Goran Skaki? (21 January 2010 ? 3 September 2010)
• Vuka?in Vi?njevac (7 September 2010 ? 25 October 2010)
• Dragan Spai? (28 October 2010 ? 30 June 2011)
• Slavko Jovi? (8 June 2011 ? 2 September 2011)
• Bogdan Korak (2 September 2011 ? 21 December 2011)
• Bor?e Sredojevi? (21 December 2011 ? 6 July 2012)
• Vladimir Ga?inovi? (9 July 2012 ? 6 June 2013)
• Dragan Spai? (8 July 2013 ? 18 February 2014)
• Vladimir Ga?inovi? (18 February 2014 ? 17 March 2014)
• Rajko Mi?eta (1 July 2014 ? 24 March 2019)
• Oleg ?uri? (1 July 2019 ? 23 June 2021)
• Branislav Kruni? (23 June 2021 ? 13 December 2021)
• Miodrag Bodiroga (14 December 2021 ? 1 June 2022)
• Marko Vidojevi? (16 June 2022 ? 6 September 2022)
• Marko Maksimovi? (16 September 2022 ? 10 July 2023)
• Oleg ?uri? (17 July 2023 ? 25 April 2024)

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website (in Serbian)
• FK Leotar at UEFA.com
• FK Leotar at FSRS (archived 24 April 2014)
• Weltfussballarchiv profile . Archived 2 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine .