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| Full name | Fudbalski klub Novi Pazar | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Plavi (The Blues) | ||
| Founded | 1928[1] | ||
| Ground | Novi Pazar City Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 10,000 | ||
| President | Bajro Župić | ||
| Manager | Tomislav Sivić | ||
| League | Serbian SuperLiga | ||
| 2022–23 | Serbian SuperLiga, 6th | ||
| Website | fknovipazar | ||
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Fudbalski klub Novi Pazar (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Нови Пазар) is a Serbian professional football club from Novi Pazar. The club was formed in 1928 as FK Sandžak. FK Novi Pazar competes in the Serbian SuperLiga and play their home games at the 12,000 capacity Novi Pazar City Stadium. The club has a B team, FK Novi Pazar 1928, which plays in the Serbian Zone League.
The club has achieved its greatest successes since Serbia has become an independent country, reaching the top tier of national competition for the first time ever in the 2011–12 Serbian SuperLiga. Novi Pazar was granted promotion after 2010–11 Serbian First League champions BASK withdrew from the SuperLiga due to limited funds and not meeting the required stadium criteria set out by the Football Association of Serbia.
In 2019–20 they finished mid-table in the Serbian First League (second tier) but due to the FSS (Football Association of Serbia) re-structuring the Serbian SuperLiga and due to FK Novi Pazar having a modern UEFA standard stadium when most clubs in Serbia don't, they were awarded a place/took the place of FK Grafičar Beograd, a Belgrade club who basically had a pitch/field and no stadium to speak of and hence had to withdraw from the Serbian SuperLiga due to limited funds and not meeting the required stadium criteria set out by the Football Association of Serbia.
- ^ "FK Novi Pazar". Serbian First League. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2011.