OFK Beograd

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OFK Beograd (Serbian Cyrillic: ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English: Belgrade Youth Football Club) is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, more precisely in Karaburma, an urban neighborhood of the municipality of Palilula. It is part of the OSD Beograd sport society.

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OFK Beograd
ОФК Београд
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Full nameOmladinski fudbalski klub Beograd
Nickname(s)Romantičari (The Romantics)
Founded6 July 1911; 112 years ago (6 July 1911) as Beogradski sport klub (disputed)
25 March 1945; 78 years ago (25 March 1945) as Radnički sportski klub Metalac
GroundOmladinski stadion
Capacity15,000
ChairmanDejan Vuksanović
Head coachSimo Krunić
LeagueSerbian First League
2022–23Serbian League Belgrade, 1st (promoted)
WebsiteClub website
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All up, the club has won 5 national championships, in the following seasons: 1930–31, 1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36, and 1938–39; the club won these titles under their old name of BSK (Beogradski Sport Klub).[1] The club has been cup winners five times also, winning in the following seasons: 1934, 1953, 1955, 1961–62, and 1965–66.

The club has also recorded significant results in European competition, reaching the 1962–63 European Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals where they lost to Tottenham Hotspur. They reached the 1972–73 UEFA Cup quarter-finals where they lost to FC Twente.