OFK Sinđelić Niš

Sinđelić Niš
Full name	OFK Sinđelić Niš
Nickname(s)	Sinđa
Founded	1918; 106 years ago
Ground	Stadion u Durlanu
Capacity	750
President	Zoran Anđelković
Head coach	Stevan Stefanović
League	Serbian League East
2023–24	Serbian League East, 2nd of 16
Home colours	Away colours

OFK Sinđelić Niš (Serbian Cyrillic: ОФК Синђелић Ниш) is a football club based in Niš, Serbia. They compete in the Serbian League East, the third tier of the national league system.

History

Founded in 1918, the club initially competed in a local league organized by the Niš Football Subassociation, winning the title in the competition's inaugural 1932 season.

After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the club won the newly formed Serbian League Niš in the 1995–96 season and took promotion to the Second League of FR Yugoslavia. They placed second from the bottom in Group East in their debut appearance and were instantly relegated from the second tier.^[1] Between 1997 and 2004, the club played seven seasons in the third tier, including six in the Serbian League Niš and one in the Serbian League East. They subsequently won the Niš Zone League in 2004–05, thus returned to the third tier.^[2]

The club achieved one of its biggest results in history by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2007–08 Serbian Cup, but eventually lost 5–1 to Partizan.^[3] After finishing as runners-up in the 2007–08 Serbian League East, they finished as champions in the 2009–10 season and earned promotion to the Serbian First League. The club placed fifth in its debut appearance in the second tier of Serbian football. They also repeated their best result in the national cup by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2010–11 Serbian Cup, when they were again eliminated by Partizan after losing 4–0.^[4] The club was relegated from the First League in the 2011–12 season.^[5]

Between 2012 and 2021, the club played in the Serbian League East for eight seasons. They marked their 100th anniversary in October 2018.^[6]

Honours

Serbian League Niš/Serbian League East (Tier 3)
- Champions (2): 1995–96, 2009–10
Niš Zone League/Zone League Centre (Tier 4)
- Champions (2): 2004–05, 2022–23

Notable players

This is a list of players who have played at full international level.^[7]

Aleksandar Pantić

For a list of all OFK Sinđelić Niš players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:OFK Sinđelić Niš players.

Managerial history

Period	Name
	Saša Mrkić
	Slobodan Halilović
	Saša Mrkić
2012–2013	Aleksandar Kuzmanović
2013	Milan Dimoski
	Slobodan Halilović
	Nenad Milanović
2014–2017	Zoran Dimitrijević

Period	Name
2017–2018	Predrag Stamenković
2018–2019	Zoran Dimitrijević
2019	Saša Jovanović
2019–2020	Andrej Raičević
2020	Zoran Dimitrijević
2020–2021	Saša Jovanović
	Zoran Dimitrijević
	Stevan Stefanović

References

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^ "Serbia and Montenegro 2004/05". rsssf.org. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
^ "Goleada u Humskoj" (in Serbian). politika.rs. 19 March 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
^ "Stanojević: "Niš se budi"" (in Serbian). b92.net. 10 November 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
^ "SISTEM TAKMIČENJA 2006.-2012" (in Serbian). fsgzrenjanin.com. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
^ "Sinđelić na rođendan izgubio od Radničkog" (in Serbian). juznevesti.com. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
^ "Sinđelić Niš". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 26 December 2021.