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Leotar

Full name	Fudbalski klub Leotar
Nickname(s)	Tigrovi (The Tigers)
Founded	19 August 1925; 99 years ago (19 August 1925)
Ground	Police Stadium, Trebinje
Capacity	8,550
Chairman	Rajko Mičeta
Manager	Zoran Šaraba
League	First League of RS
2023–24	First League of RS, 4th of 18
Website	http://fkleotar.org
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

Yugoslavia

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. Leotar never managed to gain promotion to the Yugoslav First League.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

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

Domestic

League

• 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

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

European record

Summary

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

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

Current squad

As of 26 December 2023

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 2 DF  BIH Đoko Milović (captain) 3 MF  BIH Matija Glogovac 4 DF  SRB Dejan Uzelac 5 DF  BIH Božo Prusina (on loan from Široki Brijeg) 6 DF  BIH Marko Čubrilo 8 DF  BIH Zoran Milić 9 MF  BIH Nikola Leko 10 FW  BIH Danilo Šipovac (on loan from Zrinjski Mostar) 11 FW  BIH Miloš Aćimović 13 DF  BIH Darko Đajić 15 MF  SRB Miloš Stanojević 16 MF  BIH Amar Tahrić 17 MF  BIH Ammar Đuderija

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF  SRB Mihailo Cmiljanović 19 MF  BIH Mahir Karić 21 FW  BIH David Čavić (on loan from Borac Banja Luka) 23 MF  BIH Luka Knežević 27 MF  BIH Aleksandar Milaković 46 FW  BIH Aleksa Spaić 55 GK  SRB Dušan Puletić 77 FW  MKD Boban Georgiev 97 GK  BIH Risto Perišić — DF  SRB Nemanja Cvetković — DF  BIH Andrej Đurić — MF  BIH Kerim Tatar

Players with multiple nationalities

• Dennis Stojković
• Luka Knežević

Club officials

Coaching staff

Other information

Historical list of coaches

• Žarko Nedeljković
• Marcel Žigante (1965–1966)
• Ibrahim Muratović
• Franjo Džidić (1984–1988)
• Miodrag Radanović
• Milan Jovin (2002–2004)
• Vladimir Pecelj
• Brajan Nenezić
• Srđan Bajić (1 July 2007 – 3 September 2009)
• Borče Sredojević (4 September 2009 – 20 January 2010)
• Goran Skakić (21 January 2010 – 3 September 2010)
• Vukašin Višnjevac (7 September 2010 – 25 October 2010)
• Dragan Spaić (28 October 2010 – 30 June 2011)
• Slavko Jović (8 June 2011 – 2 September 2011)
• Bogdan Korak (2 September 2011 – 21 December 2011)
• Borče Sredojević (21 December 2011 – 6 July 2012)
• Vladimir Gaćinović (9 July 2012 – 6 June 2013)
• Dragan Spaić (8 July 2013 – 18 February 2014)
• Vladimir Gaćinović (18 February 2014 – 17 March 2014)
• Rajko Mičeta (1 July 2014 – 24 March 2019)
• Oleg Ćurić (1 July 2019 – 23 June 2021)
• Branislav Krunić (23 June 2021 – 13 December 2021)
• Miodrag Bodiroga (14 December 2021 – 1 June 2022)
• Marko Vidojević (16 June 2022 – 6 September 2022)
• Marko Maksimović (16 September 2022 – 10 July 2023)
• Oleg Ćurić (17 July 2023 – 25 April 2024)
• Zoran Šaraba (26 June 2024 – present)

References

1. Bosnia-Hercegovina 1995/96
2. Bosnia-Hercegovina 2001/02
3. Bosnia-Hercegovina 2002/03
4. Bosnia-Hercegovina 2003/04
5. "LEOTAR FUDBAL / MUŠKARCI". SportDC. Retrieved 19 January 2023.

External links

• 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.

• FK Leotar
• Association football clubs established in 1925
• Football clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Football clubs in Republika Srpska
• Football clubs in Yugoslavia
• Trebinje
• 1925 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina