Football in Leskovac, Serbia, among the Leskovac Roma, began to be played between the two world wars, and their first official match was recorded on July 26, 1926 in the then city weekly “Leskovački dnevnik”.

But the idea of ​​forming a Roma football club began a year earlier, on St. George’s Day in that distant year 1925, in a smoky tavern on the edge of this popular Roma neighbourhood.

Now the club apparently closed …

• UGAŠEN ROMSKI FUDBALSKI KLUB „VETERNICA“KOJI BI OVE GODINE OBELEŽIO STO GODINA OD OSNIVANJA. In: Rom Info Media. 06.05.2025. https://rominfomedia.rs/2025/05/06/ugasen-romski-fudbalski-klub-veternicakoji-bi-ove-godine-obelezio-sto-godina-od-osnivanja/