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Ilirija 1911
File:ND Ilirija.png
Full name Nogometno Društvo Ilirija 1911
Founded 9 June 1911; 112 years ago (1911-06-09)[1]
Ground Ilirija Sports Park,
Ljubljana
Ground Capacity 1,440
President Marjan Dermastija
Head Coach Žiga Starič
League 3. SNL – Centre
2014–15 2nd
Website Club home page

Nogometno Društvo Ilirija 1911 is a Slovenian football club from Ljubljana, which plays in the Slovenian Third League, the third level of the Slovenian football. The club was founded in 1911 and is the oldest football club in the country.[1]

History

SK Ilirija (1911–1941)

Ilirija's original kit
SK Ilirija squad, which won the inaugural Slovenian regional championship in 1920.

In the beginning of the 20th century football came to Ljubljana from Vienna, and was played mostly by the students. Football club Ilirija was founded on 9 June 1911[2] in a pub called Roža on Židovska cesta in Ljubljana. Albin Kandare was elected as the first president of Ilirija, and their first ground was at Tivoli Park.[3] Ilirija's first match was played on 1 January 1912, and ended in an 18–0 defeat against Hermes, the local students' club which had been founded in 1910.[3] Soon after their first match Ilirija merged with Hermes in 1913. In the first few years Ilirija had no competition in Slovenia and they mainly played friendly matches against Zagreb-based Croatian clubs such as HAŠK, Građanski and Concordia.[3] An important turning point was a friendly with the Czech side Slavia Prague in Ljubljana played on 5 August 1913, which Ilirija lost 10–0. However, Ilirija's players and staff were impressed by Slavia's display of professionally trained football so much that they convinced Slavia's player Jirkovský to stay in Ljubljana and work as Ilirija's first manager after the match.[3] The best and most popular players of Ilirija of that time were Stanko Tavčar, Ernest Turk, Stanko Pelan and Oto Oman.[3]

At the onset of World War I, Ilirija and Slovan (founded in 1913 and still active today) were the only two football clubs in Slovenia, and during the war all football activities were suspended. In 1919 Ilirija was re-activated, and was soon followed by Slovan.[3] Football rapidly gained popularity and a number of other Slovenian clubs came into life around the same time such as Olimp in Celje, I. SSK Maribor in Maribor and ASK Primorje in Ljubljana, with the latter becoming Ilirija's biggest rivals in the following decade.[3]

Ilirija then became the first regional champions of Slovenia (which was at the time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), winning the inaugural Slovenian championship in 1920, and proceeded to win a total of 12 Slovenian titles between 1920 and 1935.[3] By the mid-1930s both Ilirija and Primorje encountered financial difficulties which led to their merger and the formation of SK Ljubljana football club in 1936.[3] Between 1936 and 1941 SK Ljubljana was one of the top sides in Slovenia (winning the 1935–36 and 1940–41 Slovenian championships) and also competed in the Yugoslav First League, Kingdom of Yugoslavia's top national competition formed in 1923. In addition, Ilirija's Stanko Tavčar was the only Slovenian player who was capped for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national football team in the period between the two world wars.[4] He was member of their 1920 Olympics squad and appeared in matches against Czechoslovakia and Egypt, the first two games in the history of the team.[4] SK Ljubljana operated until 1941 and the outbreak of World War II, when all sports activities in Ljubljana were suspended.[3]

NK Ilirija (1950–91)

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Since 1991

Since the independence of Slovenia, Ilirija played a couple of seasons in the newly established Slovenian Second League. However, after finishing third in the 1991–92, they finished 15th in the 1992–93 season and were subsequently relegated to the Slovenian Third League. Since then, Ilirja have been a member of leagues outside of the top two divisions.

Honours

Yugoslavia

League

Winners (12): 1920, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1929–30, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1934–35
Runners-up: (1): 1971–72

Slovenia

League

Winners (1): 2015–16
Runners-up (1): 2014–15
Winners (1): 1995–96
Runners-up (2): 1994–95, 2013–14[5]
Winners (1): 2012–13[6]

Cup

Runners-up (1): 2014–15

References

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