[1] NK Branik was disbanded on 11 August 1960 due to the food poisoning affair before their promotional qualifications match for the Yugoslav Second League against Karlovac.

[1] Due to the difficult situation after World War II several sports departments within SŠD Polet started to organize as individual entities.

[10] During their first years of operation in early 1950s the club focused all of their efforts in the renovation of the Ljudski vrt area which was devastated during World War II.

[2][3][4][5] Karlovac has won the first leg 2–0, however, one week later in Maribor during their stay in hotel Orel, the whole squad was hospitalised with a severe case of diarrhoea, the players being poisoned ahead of the game: someone had put something in their pancakes.

[5] Although the true culprit remains unknown to this day – the hosts were disgraced, the club disqualified and disbanded.

[6] The officials of NK Branik later established a new club, under the same name, which competed with minor success in the lower Yugoslav leagues and was eventually dissolved in the late 1970s.

[12] NK Maribor eventually became the most successful club in history of Slovenian football[12] and joined MŠD Branik organization in 1988.