OFK Vršac was established only in 2007 as OFK Vršac United. Since 2017 it has the current name.

Last year it was promoted for the first time to the Serbian second league. In the current standings, they are in 8th place with 25 points from 19 matches, which is the last play-off qualifying position. There are 16 teams, including Železničar Pančevo (also from Serbian Banat, it’s in 3rd place) and Rad Belgrade (15th place).

The captain of the team is former North Macedonian international Aleksandar Lazevski (35), a left-back with 14 caps. He started football at Banat Vršac and has played for Partizan Belgrade and NK Olimpija Ljubljana, among others, and has been at OFK since 2018.

OFK’s home stadium is called Gradski (photo; source: Wikipedia) and has 5,000 seats.

The city’s old club is FK Vršac, which existed from 1913-2017 and played its maximum in the 3rd tier.

Vršac (in Cyrillic alphabet Вршац, in Romanian Vârșeț) is a town in the Serbian Banat, located immediately next to the Romanian border in the direction of Moravia. It has a population of 35,701 inhabitants, including an important historical Romanian community. Among the sights are the Cula, the Romanian Orthodox cathedral and the Etno kuća Dinar restaurant. The sports hall, Centar Milenijum, has 4,400 seats and has hosted matches at the Men’s Basketball EC (2005), Summer Universiade (2009), Men’s Handball EC (2012) and Women’s Handball EC (2012)!