FK Mladost Apatin

OFK Mladost APA (Serbian Cyrillic: ОФК Младост АПА) is a football club based in Apatin, Vojvodina, Serbia. They compete in the Vojvodina League North, the fourth tier of the national league system.

Mladost Apatin

Full name	OFK Mladost APA
Nickname(s)	Pivari (The Beer Men)
Founded	1928; 97 years ago (1928) 2011; 14 years ago (2011) (refounded)
Ground	SC Rade Svilar
Capacity	3,000
President	Goran Runjaić
League	Vojvodina League North
2022–23	Vojvodina League North, 12th of 16
Website	ofkmladostapa.rs
Home colours Away colours

History

The original club was founded in 1928 as SK Tri zvezde.^[1] They played qualifications for the Yugoslav Football Championship in 1933, losing to Split in a two-legged playoff tie (5–4 on aggregate).^[2] The club would change its name several times during the late 1930s and early 1940s, competing as Apatinski SK, SK Apatin, and SU Apatin.

In 1951, the club became known as FK Mladost.^[1] They competed in the Vojvodina League, the third tier of Yugoslav football, in two spells between 1969 and 1972,^[3] and again from 1980 until 1988,^[4] when the competition was demoted to become the fourth tier.^[5]

After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the club earned promotion to the newly formed Serbian League Vojvodina in 1995.^[6] They spent two seasons in the third tier, finishing as champions in 1996–97 to earn promotion to the Second League of FR Yugoslavia.^[6] The club played in the second tier for four seasons until 2001, before winning first place in Group North and taking promotion to the First League of FR Yugoslavia for the first time in history.^[7] They spent one season in the elite division, finishing second from the bottom.^[7]

In 2006, the club earned promotion to the newly formed Serbian SuperLiga.^[7] They finished in sixth place in their comeback appearance in the top flight, but were forced to withdraw from the league due to financial difficulties.^[8] The club subsequently spent three seasons in the Serbian First League, before suffering relegation to the Serbian League Vojvodina in 2010.^[9] They would suffer another relegation in the following 2010–11 season.^[9]

In the summer of 2011, when the old club folded, a new club was formed and named OFK Mladost APA, starting off in the Sombor-Apatin-Kula-Odžaci Intermunicipal League, the sixth tier of Serbian football.^[10] They would immediately gain promotion to the fifth tier in 2012 and later to the fourth tier in 2014.^[11]

Honours

• Second League of FR Yugoslavia (Tier 2)
  • 2000–01 (Group North)
• Serbian League Vojvodina (Tier 3)
  • 1996–97
• Sombor-Apatin-Kula-Odžaci Intermunicipal League (Tier 6)
  • 2011–12

Seasons

Season	League									Cup
	Division	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Pos
Serbia and Montenegro
1995–96	3 – Vojvodina	34	19	8	7	79	39	65	4th	—
1996–97	3 – Vojvodina	34	28	5	1	82	20	89	1st	—
1997–98	2 – East	34	20	5	9	57	27	65	3rd	Round of 32
1998–99	2 – East	21[a]	11	1	9	43	21	34	8th	—
1999–2000	2 – North	34	15	6	13	55	32	51	6th	—
2000–01	2 – North	34	24	5	5	65	27	77	1st	Semi-finals
2001–02	1	34	4	12	18	26	64	24	17th	Round of 32
2002–03	2 – North	33	21	9	3	60	18	72	2nd	Round of 16
2003–04	2 – North	36	21	10	5	79	32	73	2nd	Round of 32
2004–05	2 – Serbia	38	17	12	9	50	31	63	4th	Round of 32
2005–06	2 – Serbia	38	23	9	6	56	18	78	2nd	Round of 32
Serbia
2006–07	1	32	11	8	13	25	33	41	6th	Quarter-finals
2007–08	2	34	13	8	13	30	31	47	8th	Round of 32
2008–09	2	34	11	10	13	29	30	43	10th	Round of 32
2009–10	2	34	7	7	20	24	61	28	18th	Round of 32
2010–11	3 – Vojvodina	30	2	7	21	20	67	12[b]	15th[c]	Round of 32

1. The season was cut short due to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
2. The club was docked one point.
3. The club ceased to exist at the end of the 2010–11 season. However, a phoenix club was formed shortly afterwards.

Notable players

This is a list of players who have played at full international level.^[12]

• Nenad Mišković
• Radoslav Batak
• Miloš Kosanović
• Veseljko Trivunović
• Đorđe Tutorić
• Bojan Brnović
• Nenad Brnović
• Nikola Malbaša
• Boris Vasković

For a list of all FK Mladost Apatin players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:FK Mladost Apatin players.

Managerial history

Period Name Dragi Bogić 2001 Slobodan Dogandžić 2002 Čedomir Đoinčević 2002 Željko Račić Dragi Bogić 2006–2007 Petar Kurćubić 2007 Aleksandar Smiljanić 2007–2008 Milan Gutović 2008 Momčilo Raičević

Period Name 2009 Momčilo Raičević 2009–2010 Nikola Vukša 2010 Dušan Bugarin 2010 Ljubomir Kasalović Slobodan Bačić 2014–2016 Sreten Vilotić 2016 Blaško Milojev 2016–2018 Zoran Stamenić 2018–2019 Slobodan Bačić