Saturday, July 07, 2007

Hajduk - Sparta (soccer match from 1913)


Hajduk Split was founded in the famous, centuries old pub Flek in Prague (then also a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire) by a group of students from Split (Fabijan Kaliterna, Lucijan Stella, Ivan Šakić and Vjekoslav Ivanišević). They went to the pub right after the match between Sparta and Slavia and decided it was high time their own town founded it's professional club. They all knew how popular the sport was back home, and how well their friends back home played. The club was officially registered with the authorities on February 13, 1911 and is, thus, the oldest football club in Croatia. The name originates from the hajduk's, romanticized bandits that fought the Ottoman Turks.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The first football club in Croatia was founded in 1903. It's name was PNISK (Prvi Nogometni I Sportski Klub, i.e. First Football And Sport Club).
Therefore, Hajduk is not the oldest FC in Croatia.

Anonymous said...

that club died so hajduk is zhe oldest