UNIVERSITY SPORTS UNION OF
Founded in
1968, University Sports Union of Nis (USUN) actually consists of sports
associations of the faculties of
University Sports Union of Nis organizes many students'
sports events, but most important one is University Sports League, for the men
and women competition in futsal, basketball, volleyball, handball, table
tennis, chess, shooting and tennis. Also, students' open championships are
organized, in judo, karate, cross, swimming, skiing and athletics. During the
year, cup competitions take place as well, in the sports mentioned above
(University Cup, USUN Cup, City Cup, etc). Beside sports competition, USUN
organizes recreational sportive activities for students (swimming school,
skiing course, etc).
USUN founded few students' sports clubs, under the name
"Student": futsal, basketball (men, women), volleyball (men, women),
chess, rugby and go club. All of them are now independent and they compete as
professional clubs.
From 2000, within the USUN, there are new students' sports
clubs, in futsal and volleyball, which compete under the name
"Academian".
USUN is member of University Sports Union of Serbia, so it
participates in the National University Championships and Universiades, both as
competitor and organizer.
International program is realized through participating of
students of
From year 2005, many sports teams from
basketball in Poland - 2005 (silver medal); football in Serbia (Nis) - 2005; handball in France - 2006; volleyball in Netherlands - 2006; football in Netherlands - 2006
(bronze medal); tennis in Netherlands - 2006; basketball in Portugal - 2006; futsal in Serbia - 2006; handball in Poland - 2007; volleyball
in Italy - 2008; table tennis in Italy - 2008; futsal in Poland - 2008;
handball in Serbia (Nis) - 2008.
Basketball team took part at
USUN organized great sports events, domestic and
international. In year 1989, USUN was host of 8th Univerziade of SFR
Yugoslavia, and in year 1997 organized first and only Univerziade of SR
Yugoslavia. Two times, in 1994 and 1996, USUN was organizer of state
championship of futsal. The most important international events were 3rd
European university football championship (11th to 17th July 2005) and 3rd
European university handball championship (21st -26th July 2008).
Members of the USUN Executive committee:
MA Nebojsa Jovanovic, president
Vesna Marinkovic, generaly secretar
Marko Djordjevic- PMF
Uros Urosevic - GAF
Nikola Andrejevic - Ekonomski
Bratislav Vukajlovic - Elektronski
Aleksandar Vuckovic - Pravni
Mihajlo Ilic - Filozofski
Marko Popovic - Fakultet sporta
Lazar Sosic - FZNR
Zoran Vujic - Visa