FK Radnik Surdulica

FK Radnik Surdulica (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Радник Сурдулица) is a professional football club based in Surdulica, Serbia. They compete in the Serbian First League, the second tier of the national league system.

Radnik Surdulica

Full name	FK Radnik Surdulica
Founded	1926; 99 years ago (1926)
Ground	Surdulica City Stadium
Capacity	3,312
President	Stanislav Tončev
Head coach	Marko Jakšić
League	Serbian SuperLiga
2024–25	Serbian First League, 1st of 16
Website	fk-radnik.com
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was founded as Surdulički sportski klub (SSK) in 1926 on the initiative of Gradimir Antić, a local shoemaker, who brought the first football ball to Surdulica.^[1] They stopped operating with the onset of World War II and Axis occupation of Serbia.^[1] In 1946, the club was reestablished as FK Polet on the initiative of Borivoje Milenković and Božidar Stanković.^[1] They subsequently changed their name to FK Hidrovlasina in 1950.^[1] Later the same year, the club merged with FK Molidben from Belo Polje and was named FK Radnik.^[1]

In July 2008, the club merged with FK Železničar from Vranjska Banja,^[2] taking its spot in the Serbian League East. They spent the next five seasons in the third tier of Serbian football. After winning the title in 2013, the club was promoted to the Serbian First League.^[3] They spent the next two seasons in the second tier before placing first in the 2014–15 Serbian First League and earning promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga for the first time in their history.^[4] In the 2020–21 season, the club achieved its highest ever league finish of sixth place and also reached the semi-finals of the national cup.

Honours

• Serbian First League (Tier 2)
  • 2014–15
• Serbian League East (Tier 3)
  • 2012–13

Seasons

Season	League									Cup
	Division	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Pos
Serbia
2008–09	3 – East	28	8	7	13	31	35	31	12th	—
2009–10	3 – East	30	10	8	12	42	41	38	7th	—
2010–11	3 – East	30	14	4	12	43	35	46	3rd	—
2011–12	3 – East	30	14	6	10	55	48	48	4th	—
2012–13	3 – East	30	21	3	6	62	34	65[a]	1st	—
2013–14	2	30	10	8	12	31	36	38	10th	—
2014–15	2	30	19	7	4	41	14	64	1st	Round of 32
2015–16	1	37	11	11	15	41	65	25	8th	Round of 32
2016–17	1	37	9	10	18	35	48	25	12th	Round of 16
2017–18	1	37	13	7	17	42	60	28	9th	Round of 32
2018–19	1	37	13	8	16	38	45	28	9th	Quarter-finals
2019–20	1	30[b]	8	7	15	34	50	31	11th	Quarter-finals
2020–21	1	38	16	7	15	55	49	55	6th	Semi-finals
2021–22	1	37	12	15	10	37	37	51	9th	Round of 16
2022–23	1	37	8	11	18	28	50	35	15th	Quarter-finals
2023–24	1	37	3	9	25	24	59	18	16th	Round of 32
2024-25	2	37	23	9	5	64	19	78	1st	Round of 16

1. The club was docked one point.
2. The season was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia.

Players

First-team squad

As of 15 August 2025^[5]

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 4 MF  BIH Haris Hajdarević 6 DF  SRB David Stojanović 7 FW  GHA Douglas Owusu 8 MF  SRB Luka Puzović 9 FW  SRB Vukašin Bogdanović 10 MF  SRB Vladimir Petrović 14 DF  SRB Uroš Ilić 17 FW  UKR Evgeniy Pavlov 18 DF  MAD Sandro Trémoulet 19 FW  SRB Andrija Lazarević 20 FW  SRB Lazar Stojanović 24 MF  SRB Mlađan Stevanović 26 GK  SRB Stefan Ilić 28 MF  SRB Aleksandar Pejović

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 DF  SRB Luka Dimitrijević 30 MF  SRB Martin Novaković 31 FW  SRB Petar Jović 33 DF  SRB Uroš Blagojević 37 DF  GHA Sadick Abubakar 47 FW  GHA Emmanuel Quarshie 49 FW  BIH Darije Markočević 66 DF  SRB Mateja Gašić (captain) 80 MF  SRB Savo Rašković 88 FW  SRB Đorđe Jovanović 91 FW  SRB Stefan Vidaković 99 GK  SRB Stefan Ranđelović — DF  MNE Luka Bubanja — MF  SRB Uroš Filimonović

Out on loan

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

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Marko Jakšić
Assistant manager	Predrag Ranđelović Boban Cenić
Goalkeeping coach	Dušan Đokić
Physiotherapist	Uroš Cvetković Ivana Tasić Brankica Ivanović Miljan Stanković
Doctor	Danilo Popović Aleksandar Tasić

Notable players

This is a list of players who have played at full international level.^[6]

• Ognjen Čančarević
• Samuel Owusu
• Witan Sulaeman
• Milan Purović
• Nedeljko Vlahović
• Nenad Lukić
• Milan Makarić
• Miljan Mutavdžić
• Miloš Simonović
• Nemanja Tomić
• Aleksandar Pantić

For a list of all FK Radnik Surdulica players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:FK Radnik Surdulica players.

Managerial history

Period Name 2011 Goran Jocić 2011 Branislav Stošić 2012 Dragan Antić 2012 Dragan Nikolić 2012 Ljubomir Crnokrak 2012 Goran Jocić (caretaker) 2013 Cvijetin Blagojević 2013 Žarko Đurović 2013–2014 Saša Nikolić 2014 Neško Milovanović 2014–2015 Mladen Milinković 2015–2016 Miloš Veselinović 2016 Goran Lazarević

Period Name 2016 Neško Milovanović 2016 Milorad Kosanović 2017 Bratislav Živković 2017–2018 Simo Krunić 2018 Mladen Dodić 2018 Goran Jocić (caretaker) 2018–2019 Milan Milanović 2019 Slaviša Božičić 2019 Nenad Vanić 2019–2020 Simo Krunić 2020 Dejan Đuričić (caretaker) 2020–2021 Slavoljub Đorđević 2021 Igor Bondžulić

Period Name 2021–2022 Dušan Đorđević 2022 Aleksandar Linta 2022 Nikola Stojanović (caretaker) 2022 Dragan Radojičić 2022 Dragan Perišić 2022 Simo Krunić 2022–2023 Slavoljub Đorđević 2023 Zoran Ljubinković 2023 Milan Milanović 2024 Dušan Đorđević 2024 Dejan Đuričić (caretaker) 2024 Slobodan Halilović