Budućnost PodgoricaFK Budućnost Podgorica is a Montenegrin football club founded on 12 June 1925 as a workers' sports association under the name Zora. The club went through a turbulent history even before the Second World War — in 1928 it adopted the name Budućnost (Future), in 1937, amid repression of workers' sports clubs, it was renamed Crna Gora, and in 1941, with the outbreak of war in the Balkans, it suspended its activities. The team returned to its historic name, Budućnost, only in 1945, after the war had ended.
Already during the interwar period, the club won the Montenegrin championship four times — in 1932 (autumn), 1933 (spring and autumn) and 1934, placing it among the most decorated sides in the region at the time. In 1946, Budućnost, playing in blue and white, was promoted to the Yugoslav First League, in which it went on to play a combined 26 seasons up to the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992 — making it the Montenegrin club with the most appearances in that competition.
The club's most significant international achievement remains winning the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1981 — still the only European trophy in Budućnost's cabinet. The club is also remembered by fans for a sensational run in the 1991 Balkans Cup, when, representing Yugoslavia, it eliminated Albania's KF Tirana in the quarter-finals and then, to widespread surprise, defeated Turkey's Galatasaray over two legs in the semi-final, reaching the final, where it ultimately lost to Romania's Inter Sibiu.
Since Montenegro gained independence in 2006, Budućnost, sharing the status of the country's most decorated club with Sutjeska Nikšić, has won seven league titles and three Montenegrin Cups. The team plays its home matches at the Stadion pod Goricom, and its loyal supporters, organised since 1987 into the Varvari (Barbarians) group, rank among the strongest fan organisations in the former Yugoslav region.
