FK BASK TEK (Serbian Cyrillic: ФК БАСК ТЕК) is a football club from Savski Venac, Belgrade, Serbia.
One student, Andra Nikolić, became chairmen of the parliament, minister of education and foreign affairs, academic and writer (today in part of Belgrade called Senjak, there is a street named after him, Dr. Andra Nikolić"), together with Hugo Buli, was also the initiator of foundation "The first Serbian association for games with ball", on 1 May 1899.
This association for games with ball is considered also the first Serbian football club on territory of ex Yugoslavia and Serbia.
Inaugural meeting was held on 18 April 1903, under the clear sky, on unoccupied lot in Braće Jugovića Street, where in that time was summer playfield Belgrade's gymnastics association Soko.
People said that this debate had been very long and at some moments also very bitter, until Ljuba Jovanović, newly selected president, did not propose the name “Soko”.
The others have all agreed, so on 18 April 1903. of the old calendar, the first football club in Kingdom of Serbia appeared (Bačka from Subotica had been founded in 1901, two years before Soko, but on territory of Austro-Hungary in that time).
The field in Jugovićeva Street was too tight for the playground so another suitable place in the area known as Bara Venecija was found, between current Belgrade Fair and the main city railway station.
Although the playground was quite far from the city center at that time, "Soko" arranged it well and stayed there for a full 27 years, until the state expropriated it for railway needs.
It was the third international match of the Yugoslavia national team and it was played on 8 May 1922, in the honour of the wedding of King Alexander and Romanian Princes Maria, was attended by over 1,500 spectators, which was remarkable for that time.
It would be in 1911 and 1912 that Soko would gain the reputation of the strongest club in Serbia and included players such as Čedomir Nedić, Đoka Ilić, Mata Miodragović, Žika Popović, Jovan Viktorović, Elezović, Paja Vukićević and others, which formed the core of the group of the pioneer Serbian football stars.
In concurrence of events, after the Serbian Army retreat through Albania, very large group of players that formed the club ended up in Rome.
The final was played on June 16, 1918, on Piazza Dissiena, and after the triumph of Soko's players, the flag of the Kingdom of Serbia flew high on the mast.
Belgrade assembly for the necessities of the railway took away from BASK the playfield in Topčider, so, for some time, the club had no field of their own.
Later, BASK got the playing field behind Belgrade electrical plant, which was attributed to Radnički after the Second World War.
BASK had even struggled for permanent place in competition for the Yugoslav championship, which was played in the begin of 1930s using a cup system.
Next season, 1937–38, it accomplished the 4th place, and that was the highest achievement of the club, finishing behind the new champion HAŠK, BSK and Građanski.
In addition to the already mentioned Milovan Jakšić, dr Milutin Ivković and Branislav Hrnjiček, there were also Miodrag Ranojević, Stojan Popović, Miroslav Lukić, Đorđe Detlinger, Kolnago Ferante, Aleksandar Tomašević, Mladen Sarić and others.
He was the main coach of the three most successful Yugoslav clubs after the war: Partizan, Crvena Zvezda, Hajduk Split, and he was also the founder of Radnički Belgrade.
With the beginning of the Second World War and the Axis invasion and partition of Yugoslavia, the German authorities created a puppet state in a reduced Serbia.
As the winner, BASK qualified in Yugoslavia Cup, where it was eliminated in the second round (last 32) against Mladenovac after penalty shootout.