FK Mladost Apatin (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК Младост Апатин) is a football club based in Apatin, Vojvodina, Serbia.
The club was founded in 1924 under the name SK Tri Zvezde (SC Three Stars) by an industrialist named Šefer who owned a clothing factory in Apatin named Tri zvezde and intended to advertise his factory ttough the name of the club. A couple of years later he left the club because of debts, and the club direction was taken by two lawyers, Špepf and Berleković, and the president of the Apatin district, Jozef Šnajzer, who managed to gather donations from town citizens and save the club. The founder, Šefer, left the club direction, however in this pre-WWII period numerous players worked in his factory as well.
The club changed its name to FK Mladost (FC Youth) in 1950. After the break-up of Yugoslavia, the club became more significant in Serbian football, being funded by Apatin Brewery. After several seasons of competing in the Second League of FR Yugoslavia, the club finally got promotion to the First League of FR Yugoslavia in 2001. However, they were relegated after only one season, finishing second from the bottom in 2001–02. In 2006, the club was promoted to the Serbian SuperLiga, finishing 6th despite horrible results in the second half of the 2006–07 season. However, due to financial problems, the club officially announced their withdrawing from the top tier in July 2007, and was later replaced by Napredak Kruševac.
FK Mladost Podgorica (Montenegrin Cyrillic: ФК Младост Подгорица; pronounced [mlâdoːst pǒdɡorit͡sa]) is a professional football club based in Podgorica, Montenegro. Founded in 1950, they play in the First League of Montenegro.
FK Mladost were formed in Titograd in 1950, before changing their name to OFK Titograd in 1960. The club renamed themselves back to Mladost in 1992. Until 2008, and moving to their new stadium on Ćemovsko polje, it was the only club from old Podgorica Town (Drač neighbourhood).
Most of their seasons during the SFR Yugoslavia era, Mladost spent in Yugoslav Second League and in the Third Republic League – Montenegro. After the SFR Yugoslavia was dissolved, Mladost, under their old name, participated in the Third Republic League – Montenegro, and in the Second League of FR Yugoslavia.
Following the 2006 independence of Montenegro, Montenegro's best clubs joined the newly formed First League. As the second-placed team in the Third League, in the summer of 2006, Mladost won through play-offs against Zora Spuž (4–0, 0–2) and the club from Podgorica were among the first 12 participants of newly formed competition.
Mladost (meaning "youth" in Slavic languages) may refer to:
Apatin (Serbian Cyrillic: Апатин) is a town and municipality in the Vojvodina administrative region of Serbia, located in the West Bačka District, at 45°40′N 18°59′E / 45.667°N 18.983°E / 45.667; 18.983. The town of Apatin is the administrative, economic, cultural, educational and tourist centre of the municipality of Apatin (333 km²). The population of the town is 17,411, while the municipality has 28,929 inhabitants.
In Serbian, the town is known as Apatin (Апатин), while the same name is also used in German, Romanian, Croatian (Šokac), and Hungarian. According to some claims, the name Apatin is derived from the old form Opaty, by which the town was first mentioned in the 11th century.
The Municipality of Apatin is located on the left bank of the Danube river (natural border with Croatia), between the Municipality of Sombor (in the northeast) and Municipality of Odžaci (in the southeast).
Apatin is situated in the north-western part of the spacious plain in Bačka, on the left side of the Danube. It is in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.