FK Jagodina

Fudbalski klub Jagodina (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Јагодина) is a Serbian professional football club based in the city of Jagodina, who plays in the Serbian SuperLiga, the top division in Serbian football. The club was founded in 1919 under the name JSK Zora, just months after the end of World War I. After numerous name changes and a merger of several clubs, the present name was created in 1962.

At the times of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro, FK Jagodina played mostly in the lower-tier leagues of the country, except 1957–58, than under the name FK Morava, and 1993–94, when they spent one season in the second division. In 2007, the club won the Serbian League East, one of four sections of the Serbian League, the third national tier, and managed the direct walkover in the first league for the first time in its history, the SuperLiga.

Finally making a long spell in top-flight football, FK Jagodina developed itself in recent years as one of the most stable Serbian football clubs. Jagodina won its first Serbian Cup in 2013 and subsequently reached the 2014 Serbian Cup final, and finished at an all-time-high third place in the 2014 SuperLiga season.

Jagodina

Jagodina (Serbian Cyrillic: Јагодина [jâɡodina]) is a city located in Serbia, 136 kilometres (85 miles) south of Belgrade, on the banks of Belica River. Its name derives from the word for strawberry (Јагода) in Serbian. It is the administrative centre of the Pomoravlje District of Serbia. The city proper has a population of 37,282 inhabitants, while administrative area has a population of 71,852. Jagodina was given the status of a city in December 2007.

Name

The town was first mentioned in 1399 as "Jagodna", derived from the Serbian word for 'strawberry' - Jagoda. From 1946 to 1992 the town was renamed Svetozarevo (Serbian: Светозарево, [sʋetozǎːreʋo]) after the 19th-century Serbian socialist Svetozar Marković.

History

Early history

"Juhor-type" gold bracelets dating from the Middle Bronze Age have been found in Trcevac. Remains of a Bronze Age settlement were found in a part of town called Sarina Međa. In the village of Belica, near Jagodina, the Europe's oldest sanctuary is found. In the early Neolithic settlement, the world's largest collection of prehistoric artefacts was found, with nearly a 100 manlike figures made of stone, bones and clay, about 8000 years old. Geophysical research in 2012. in the area of Belica uncovered a prehistoric settlement, surrounded by a circular trench that has a 75 meters long diameter. Inside that circle, triangular, trapezoid and circular shaped foundations of monumental structures were found, unlike any found in other early Neolithic settlements.