Borac (translation "Fighter") is the name of several sports clubs from Banja Luka in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mayor Dragoljub Davidović Area  - Total 93. ... Republika Srpska shaded red Official languages Serbian, Croatian, Bosniak Capital Banja Luka Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % water  24,811 km²  n/a Population  â€“ Total (2001)  â€“ Density  1,490,993  60/km² Ethnic groups (1996) Serbs: 90% Bosniaks: 7% Others: 3% President Dragan ÄŒavić Prime minister Pero Bukejlović Anthem Bože Pravde (God...

Football

The football club Borac was founded on July 4, 1926. Originally it was named Radnički Sportski Klub Borac, meaning Workers' Sports Club Fighter. It was founded by a group of football aficionados including Veselin Masleša, Rudolf-Rudi Hiter, Savo Novaković, Mustafa Softić, Nikola Kuković and others. The first success of Borac in this early period came in 1928 when it won a tournament played in Sarajevo. Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sarajevo at night. ...

Borac was renamed Fudbalski Klub Borac (Football Club Borac, FK Borac) in 1945. It played two years in the Yugoslav Third League before it advanced to the Second League in 1953. 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state that existed from 1945 to 1992. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

It became part of the Yugoslav First League in 1961/62 but dropped back out next season. It returned to the First League in 1970/71, all seasons between 1972 and 1980, and between 1989 and 1992. Its best placement in the First League was 1990/91 when it finished fourth. The Yugoslav First League (Prva Liga) was the premier football league in the former Yugoslavia (1945-1991), and served the same role in Serbia and Montenegro before the countrys name change (1991-2003). ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

FK Borac was the runner-up in the 1975 Yugoslav Cup, and won it in 1988 as the only Second League club to ever achieve this. The club also won the Mitropa Cup (Central European Cup) in 1992. It played a total of eight games in UEFA competitions. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UEFA logo The Union of European Football Associations, almost always referred to by the acronym UEFA (pronounced you-AY-fuh), is the administrative and controlling body for European football. ...

Seven Borac players participated in the Yugoslav national football team and its stadium, the City Stadium of Banja Luka (capacity: 30,000), hosted five international matches. First International Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Antwerp, Belgium; 28 August 1920) Last International Netherlands 2 - 0 Yugoslavia (Amsterdam, Netherlands; 25 March 1992) Largest win Yugoslavia 10 - 1 India (Helsinki, Finland; 15 July 1952) Yugoslavia 9 - 0 Zaire (Gelsenkirchen, Germany; 18 June 1974) Worst defeat Czechoslovakia 7 - 0 Yugoslavia (Antwerp, Belgium...

FK Borac currently competes in the First League of the Republika Srpska.

Handball

The handball club Borac was founded in 1950. Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

This club won the European Men's Championship of 1976 after being the runner-up in 1975. In 1991 they won the IHF Cup. 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... IHF stands for: International Healing Foundation International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights International Handball Federation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Domestically, they were the national champions of former Yugoslavia seven times and are the most successful handball club ever from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

External link

• http://www.boracbl.org/