Olimpik Sarajevo

Early years

Olimpik was formed amidst the Bosnian War on 3 October 1993 in Sarajevo. Figures associated with the club in its early days included Ramiz Krilašević, brothers Šefkija and Edhem Okerić, Mustafa Ruvić, Suad Osmanagić and Sakib Trtić, who between themselves organised equipment and kits for training. The club's first manager was Slobodan Rajević., and early players included Kolar, Demirović, Subašić, Sužnjević, Ahmetagić, Muhović, Toromanović, Memišević, Tozo, Ćurt, Babić, Dogan, Salman, Smajović.

The team managed to win the Asim Ferhatović "Hase" Memorial Cup in futsal in 1993. Later that year, regional competitions for membership of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian football leagues were played. Olimpik participated in the Sarajevo Canton, and were advanced to the next tier, after playing a total of 8 matches and scoring 28 goals while conceding only 1. In 1994, the team competed in the next tier within the Tuzla inter-cantonal group, where they met opponents such as Sloboda (Tuzla), Gradina (Srebrenik), Turbina (Jablanica), Natron (Maglaj) and Travnik (Travnik). Olimpik finished as runners-up and thereby guaranteed themselves a place in the new First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, organised by the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Around this time, the team also won the War Olympiad in Tuzla.

Post-war period

The 1995–96 season saw the team play in the First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but they were relegated at the end of the season. The team alternated between promotion and relegation for several years. During this time, the club brought through several future Bosnia and Herzegovina national team players.

Well-known post-war Olimpik players have included Almedin Hota, Zajko Zeba, Samir Muratović, Munever Rizvić, Šopović, the brothers Dalibor and Miodrag Nedić, Muamer Vukas, Muamer Jahić and Sead Bučan.

Olimpik in the merged league

During the seasons of 2000–01 and 2001–02 will remain in the history of the club as some of the most successful. The team managed in those two seasons, led by the trainers Boris Bračulj and after him Jusuf Čizmić, to carve out a spot in the newly merged league with the previous First league of Herceg Bosna, in which the team competed with a force equal to many other clubs who competed with them there, and in the last round of the season 2000–01 with a win against FK Sarajevo and the goals made by Gredić and Cerić, made sure they would remain in the elite for another year.

The team consisted of the following players at the time:

Alen Krak, Dženan Uščuplić, Almir Seferović, Nihad Suljević, Nihad Alić, Muamer Jahić, Samir Mekić, Emir Obuća, Almir Gredić, Tarik Cerić, Aner Ljeljak, Sead Bučan, Zajko Zeba, Elvir Ljubunčić, Ahmed Hadžispahić, Hasanović and Edis Čindrak.

After the successful run to remain in the league, the team was relegated the following year, and in that moment difficult times came upon the club. What was stated earlier was being iterated again, that the club did not have a strategy nor vision of development and even if it had a good quality at the time for competition in the Bosnian top league, simply experienced relegation.

On the edge of existence

Namely from the season of 2002–03 until the season of 2006–07 the club was being abandoned, almost to the point of being left to its own devices completely, and was at the brink of existence. The club kept falling all the further down so that at one point the survival of the club was being questioned. The club first fell into the First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina so that it would later fall into the Second League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Center.

Alongside the club remained only a handful of enthusiasts who would not allow the club to be shut down. Damir Hadžić as the district head of the municipality Novi Grad helped the club as much as he possibly could as well as people like Kolar, Spahić, Trtić, and the occasional person who would show up every now and then to help the club within the limits of their ability.

Players who played for the club then were young men who were looking for affirmation or some old players who found their refuge in Olimpik. Timkov, Čakić, Močević, Kapetanović, Janjoš, Đuderija, Fatić, Garčević, Dudo, Derviši, Murtić, Ortaš, Suković, Šabotić, Kaljanac, Dević, Šišić, Kaljić, Imširović are just some of the players who wore the jersey of Olimpik back then. Throughout this entire dark stage Kolar has been with the team as head of the coaching staff even if at times Asim Saračević and Samir Jahić would take the lead.

New horizons

The season of 2006–07 the trainer Kolar starts off with the junior team at the start of the season. In the 8th round in the position of the president of the club comes Nijaz Gracić, a prominent businessman, and former president of FK Sarajevo, who starts to organize the club with the clear goal of entrance into the Premier League by his extended experience of organization from leading a company and the experience from Koševo. Even if many at that moment pronounced him to be Don Quixote in the struggle against windmills, mr. Gracić rolled up his sleeves and started slowly sorting the mosaic tiles with his collaborators. The first thing that was important was that the club had huge debts to former and contemporary employees which they needed to solve, the club did not have a stadium neither for training nor for playing matches, and they did not even have kits; the club was unintelligibly "deep in the negative". Halfway into the season a few experienced players come in who made up the backbone of the team. Due to the bad start of the team, with only 3 points away from the first place that year, the team does not manage to place themselves in the First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during which Ozren leaves the club.

The players which were carriers of the game that year were: Bećirović, Žerić, Garčević, Radonja, Smječanin, Redžović, Makić, Toromanović, Kapetanović and Timkov.