Club Sportivo Olimpia
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| Full name | Club Sportivo Olimpia (from 1918 Olympia) | ||
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| Founded | 1904 | ||
| Dissolved | 1926 (becomes U.S. Fiumana) | ||
| Stadium | Kantrida Stadium | ||
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Club Sportivo Olimpia Fiume or Olimpia Fiume (later Olympia) was a sports and football club based in the city of Rijeka, which operated under the name Olimpia in the years 1904-1918 and Olympia between 1918 and 1926, when it merged with C.S. Gloria and became U.S. Fiumana, the predecessor of NK Rijeka.
History[edit]
In 1904, when Rijeka is part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy as a Corpus Separatum, the Mitrovic brothers, Carlo Colussi, Antonio Marchich, Aristodemo Susmel and Agesilao Satti found the Club Sportivo Olimpia with sections for tennis-lawn, foot-ball, swimming, cycling, athletics and boxing. The first session of the football section we know of was held on November 25, 1906. The first headquarters were in the Brajda suburb, at the site of today's entrance to the Rijeka Clinical Hospital. After the first Rijeka football club Atletico Fiumano ceased its activities between 1906 and 1907, Olimpia took over its role as the city's main football club. At the beginning, the club played in the courtyard of the local Honved office, then at Pioppi and later Scoglietto playing fields.
On October 5, 1913, the club was reorganized and opened new and better club premises at Remai Street no. 5, equipped with newspapers, games and club games. The club's character was purely multicultural in an age of ethnic tensions in the city and the wider region, when the other clubs in Rijeka, Opatija and Sušak were ethnically driven and characterized. Olimpia was an island of tolerance where by policy all main city ethnicities Italian, Croats, Hungarians, Germans and others where playing and working side by side without distinctions.
Olimpia was renamed Olympia on January 9, 1918 during a board meeting, and Antonio de Schlemmev became the new president. During these years, the club has won several city competitions in Rijeka and several championships in the Julian March. From April 1918, Olympia will play at the new stadium in the suburb of Kantrida, which also had an athletics track and other ancillary facilities and is classified as a modern facility of the time. On May 20, 1918, a friendly match was played against the military mission of the 29th Honved Infantry Regiment stationed in Rijeka. In the 1919/20 season The team competed in the city championship, but finished in last fourth place behind Juventus Enea, Gloria and Esperia.
The following season 1920/21. The club won the Free State of Rijeka championship and then played in the Venezia-Giulia regional title tournament. First in the semifinals the team won 2-0 and 3-0 against Grion Pole, then in the finals they beat Edera Trieste 7-0, winning the regional championship. This success enabled the team to compete in the Terza Divisione Venezia-Giulia (D3) championship in the 1921/22 season. He finished the season in first place, but failed to advance.mini | Attack C.S. Olimpie at Kantrida. The following season, 1922/23, after winning the group phase,it moved to the playoffs where it first won 7-1, 2-0 against Veneziane Virtus, and then 1-1 and 2-1 against Grion Pole, winning a promotion to the Seconda Divisione in the 1923 season. In the 1924/25 season the club was ranked second in Group D of the Seconda Divisione. After the 1925/26 season ended in which Olympia was third in Group D of the Second Divisione.
Rijeka was annexed by Italy in 1924 and the reorganization of the FIGC by Mussolini required that existing clubs be merged to create strong sides to represent all cities at the state level championships. Olympia and Gloria thus, after two years of resistance to the fascist authorities, were forced to mergeand become the Unione Sportiva Fiumana on September 2, 1926. The club becomes the sole representative of the city of Rijeka as a whole, a tradition the club kept until today despite the various regime changes that followed..
Chronology of Olimpia's name changes:
- 1904: Club Sportivo Olimpia
- 1918: Club Sportivo Olympia
- 1926: The club becomes a U.S. Fiumana
- 1946: S.C.F. Quarnero / S.D. Kvarner
- 1954: NK Rijeka
- 1995: HNK Rijeka
Fans and Rivals[edit]
A great rivalry with the other Rijeka based club Gloria is known to have developed in particular in the period the two were most successful, between 1918 and 1926. C.S. Olympia was most beloved by the wealthy middle class and the upper class, while Gloria was significantly loved by the working classes and the club of choice for the humble inhabitants of Rijeka's old town.
Over time, a greater rivalry developed also with the clubs from Sušak, which was part of a different city and also kingdom within the Austro / Hungarian Empire (Rijeka was part of the Hungarian crown and Sušak of the Kingdom Croatia-Slavonia). The biggest rivalry in that direction was with Victoria Sušak. The rivalry of the club with Trieste-based clubs would be at the root of the more famous Fiumana-Triestina rivalry in the '30s and '40s.
Fields[edit]
The club has had various official fields over time, especially in the early years of its existence when space for a field in the difficult terrain of the city was a luxury because of the large meadows needed to play. At the beginning, the club played in the courtyard of the local Honved office, today's Economics Faculty of Rijeka. Later, around year 1918 the club got its first modern field at Scoglietto, at the same time it started using Kantrida Stadium as its main location for official matches. Kantrida will be the main field also of Olympia's successor until 2015, when HNK Rijeka is playing temporarily at the Rujevica Stadium.
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