Ultras Mostar

Ultras-Zrinjski
Abbreviation	UM94
Founded	10 April 1994; 30 years ago (1994-04-10)
Type	Supporter's group, Ultras group
Club	HŠK Zrinjski Mostar
Location	Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Arenas	Stadion HŠK Zrinjski Bijeli Brijeg Hall
Stand	East (Tribina Stajanje)
Colours
Website	www.ultras-zrinjski.net

Ultras Mostar is HŠK Zrinjski Mostar supporters' group in Bosnia and Herzegovina^[1] Officially, the Ultras-Zrinjski Fan Club was founded in March 1994, when the Citizens' Associations Act entered into the Registry of Citizens' Associations in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, and exist as an unregistered supporter group.^[2] They promoted for all sections of the sports club Zrinjski, but they mostly follow its football department. They got their name in 1996, 6 years after Zrinjski's work was restored. They took the name of the fan-based Ultras Movement in European football. The official song of Ultras is “Gori brate”. Fans of HŠK Zrinjski Mostar support their club from the grandstand - Stajanje. Colours used by Ultras on transparencies and boards are black, white and red.

At the beginning of 1992, the work of HŠK Zrinjski Mostar was restored in Međugorje, and with its renewal, support in the town of Neretva slowly arises and is organized.^[3] As early as 1993, the idea of launching a fan group was created in the fans' minds, which would have the goal of organizing cheering at the matches of Zrinjski. In the course of that year, an idea arose, that those fiercest fans of Zrinjski are called Ultras, modeled on fan groups across Europe.^[4]

In April 1994, the Initiative Committee of the Fan Club Zrinjski, Ultras, was created, which was aimed at organizing a Fan Assembly within two years. However, because of the war circumstances, what could have been done within two years wasn't done. They played for the matches, and Zrinjski played very friendly games in Imotski and Široki Brijeg.

In 1994, in Mostar, the final match for the champion of the then Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia in Zrinjski was played at the stadium Zrinjski against the team Mladost Dubint from Široki Brijeg (today's NK Široki Brijeg). In quite an interesting game, fans failed to see a single goal, and the result remained 0:0. At that match, about 5,000 spectators were gathered, and there were around 300 - 400 of the most fervent ones, which were placed on the central western table of the HŠK Zrinjski stadium. In this game, for the first time, a transparency with the Ultras label was placed. This match has remained memorable after the first organized gathering of Ultras at the matches of its beloved club. This game has written a new history of organized cheering in the city of Neretva. A year later, the Ultras are gathering in basketball matches in Zrinjski, and there are frequent departures on the visiting courts also.

In 1997, in the Croatian Lodge "Herceg Stjepan Kosača", the first Assembly of the Fan Club was held in Mostar, where more than 400 members of this support group gathered. After that meeting, one of the ultras podium groups was a fan club named Zrinjevci, which was common in all games played by Zrinjski. During this period there are numerous guest appearances throughout Herzegovina, and go to Busovača, Kiseljak, Vitez, Prozor-Rama, Orašje and other cities where the First League of Herzeg-Bosnia was played.^[5]

One year later, Zrinjski is trying to compete for the Euro Cups for the first time in the playoffs for the champions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Premier League of BiH has not yet existed, and the Croatian League and the Bosniak Clubs were playing in the playoffs at UEFA's prizes ). The nuns were in the group together with the glorious Željezničar and Bosnia from Visoko, and all the matches were played at the Koševo Olympic Stadium in Sarajevo. It can be rightly said that Ultras were the ones who first crossed the then war line with the fanciful features and came to Sarajevo. Approximately 10,000 spectators gathered in the Koševo Stadium, about 50 Ultras, which were more than excellent, but neither their cheering helped Zrinjski to score a victory. Zrinjski was defeated with 2:1, and at that time Zrinjski was played by Blaž Slišković, one of the best players from the former Yugoslavia.

• KN Ultras Mostar (in Croatian)
• HŠK Zrinjski Mostar Official website (in Croatian)