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Nogometni klub Maribor is a professional association football club from Maribor, Slovenia. Founded in 1960, the club joined the Football Association of Yugoslavia during the same year and was a member thereof until 1991 and the independence of Slovenia when the club joined the Football Association of Slovenia, where it remains to the present day.

Maribor was founded on 12 December 1960 when it entered the Republic League, the third tier of the Yugoslav football system. During its time in the Yugoslav leagues, Maribor was one of only three Slovenian clubs to participate in the Yugoslav First League, the system's top division. In 31 seasons before the independence of Slovenia in 1991, the club played five seasons in the top Yugoslav division, seventeen in the Second League and nine in the Third League (six seasons as part of the Republic League and three in the Inter-Republic League formed at the end of the 1980s). Apart from winning the Yugoslav second division once and the third division five times, the club had no major success during its Yugoslav period; the closest it came to winning a major trophy was in the 1967–68 season, when it reached the semi-finals of the Yugoslav Cup.

Since 1991, Maribor has competed in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, the highest level of football in the country. The team was one of the league's founding members and is one of only two clubs that have competed in every season of the Slovenian top division since its establishment. The first major success for the club was during its first season as part of the Slovenian football system when it won the Slovenian Cup, a feat it has repeated eight times to date for a total of nine cup titles. The club has won the league championship 16 times in 33 seasons and is the most successful club in the country. In 2009, the club also won the Slovenian Supercup for the first time, the last domestic trophy missing among the club's honours.

As of the end of the 2023–24 season, the team have spent 38 seasons in the top division, 17 in the second division and 9 in the third. To date, the club has won a total of 29 domestic trophies. The team plays at the Ljudski vrt stadium since 1961 and played there even during the stadium's construction. This list details the club's achievements in senior league and cup competitions, and the top scorers for each season.

Key

Domestic record

Correct as of the end of the 2023–24 season. Top scorer's goal tallies are for league goals only. Due to differences in the competition's structure over time (NK Maribor competed in both the Yugoslav Cup and the Slovenian Cup), performances cannot be easily compared, and are therefore not available for sorting.

Footnotes

• The Slovenian Republic League, the highest football league in SR Slovenia, was regarded as the third level league within the Yugoslav football system for most of the time. In 1988 Football Association of Yugoslavia reorganized its competitions and replaced the Republic leagues with the newly formed Inter-Republic league which effectively became the third tier of Yugoslav football.
• The 1974–75 Yugoslav Cup edition was not held, due to the rescheduling purposes as the Football Association of Yugoslavia had decided to move the date of cup final from 29 November (or Republic Day, the anniversary of the establishment of communist Yugoslavia) to on or around 25 May (or Youth Day, a national holiday which doubled as the official celebration of Josip Broz Tito's birthday). As a direct consequence, the 1975–76 Cup edition was contested for almost two years.
• The club was relegated after a verdict by the Disciplinary Committee of the Football Association of Yugoslavia due to the "Ball" (Žoga) bribery scandal.
• After Slovenia's independence in 1991, Maribor joined the Football Association of Slovenia, the governing body of Slovenian football. The team was one of the founding members of the Slovenian PrvaLiga and played there ever since.
• As of the 2023–24 season, Maribor is the only Slovenian club to have appeared in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League.
• UEFA acknowledges Maribor as one of the winners of the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup, however, the trophy itself was awarded to Newcastle United, the team that advanced farthest in UEFA competitions that season.
• As of the 2023–24 season, Maribor is the only Slovenian club to have appeared in the group stages of the UEFA Europa League.

References

General

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Specific

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3. "Cup of Yugoslavia 1967/68". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). 6 June 2008. Archived from the original on 8 January 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
4. ^ "Zgodovina: 1991–2000" (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
5. "Statistika – Vse sezone" [Statistics – All seasons] (in Slovenian). Slovenian PrvaLiga. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
6. Gluhak, Bojan (23 July 2020). "Celje šampion". Primorske novice (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 11 June 2022. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
7. "Lovorike" (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
8. "Lovorike – Državni prvaki" (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
9. A. G. (8 July 2009). "Bunderla Mariboru priigral prvi superpokal" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
10. "Zgodovina: Statistika" (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Archived from the original on 8 May 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
11. "Osebna izkaznica" (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
12. "Ljudski vrt: Zgodovina" (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
13. NK Maribor. "Zgodovina: 1981–1990" (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
14. BIH Soccer. "Kup Jugoslavije (Kup Maršala Tita)" (in Bosnian). bihsoccer. Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
15. BIH Soccer. "Prvenstva i kupovi Jugoslavije" (in Bosnian). bihsoccer. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
16. Gomzi, Zmago (23 November 2020). "Dinarji, marke, šilingi ... Kako je afera žoga leta 1981 ustavila NK Maribor". Večer (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
17. "Deseta obletnica lige prvakov" (in Slovenian). NK Maribor. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
18. Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). "NK Maribor profile". UEFA. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
19. "Newcastle to lift Intertoto Cup". BBC Sport. 16 December 2006. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
20. T. O. (25 August 2011). "Video: Maribor junaško zdržal pritisk Ibrox Parka" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2012.

External links

• Official website Archived 6 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine (in Slovene)
• Official supporters' website Archived 18 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine (in Slovene)

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