FK Mornar Bar
Also written as Mornar Bar.
The club
FK Mornar Bar were founded in December 1923 as JSK Crnojević, in the coastal Montenegrin town of Bar. The club has carried several names since, including Jadran, Obnova and Tempo, before settling on Mornar, Montenegrin for "Sailor", a nod to the port town it represents. Mornar is not to be confused with any other club of the same name elsewhere in the Balkans; this is the Bar club, on the Adriatic coast south of Podgorica.
The ground is the Stadion Topolica, built on the coast near the city beach and the Port of Bar, with floodlights and a capacity of 2,500. The club's home kit is white and navy; the away colours were not established from the sources read here.
The head coach is Vesko Stešević, appointed in September 2025. He succeeded Zoran Đurašković, who had been in charge since May 2023. The chairman is Mitar Novaković.
Recent seasons
Mornar finished fifth in the Montenegrin First League in 2021/22 with 13 wins, 11 draws and 12 defeats from 36 matches, and eighth in 2022/23. In 2023/24 they were runners-up, 17 wins, 13 draws and 6 defeats, 45 goals scored and 32 conceded. They dropped back to fifth in 2024/25, then finished as runners-up again in 2025/26 with 20 wins, 9 draws and 7 defeats from 36 matches, 51 scored and only 29 conceded, their best points return of the decade. The low point of the club's recent history was 2018/19, when Mornar took only 12 points from 36 games, winning just once and enduring a 12-match losing streak.
Honours and landmarks
Mornar have never won the Montenegrin First League, finishing runners-up in 2023/24 and 2025/26. They won their first Montenegrin Cup in 2025/26, beating FK Dečić 1-0 in the final. Before the top flight's current runner-up finishes, the club won the Montenegrin Second League twice, in 2017/18 and 2020/21, and in the pre-independence era won the Montenegrin Republic League three times, in 1988/89, 1994/95 and 2000/01. The 2025/26 Cup win was the club's first major domestic trophy and opened the door to European football.
Notable scorelines
In the 2024/25 Conference League first qualifying round Mornar beat Dinamo Tbilisi 3-2 on aggregate, then went out on penalties to Radnički 1923 in the second qualifying round after a 2-2 aggregate draw. The heaviest recent European defeat is 2-5 on aggregate to Paksi in the 2024/25 Conference League third qualifying round, and 2-4 on aggregate to Atlètic d'Escaldes in the 2026/27 first qualifying round, lost 1-2 both home and away. The club's all-time domestic record win and record defeat were not established from the sources read here.
European record
Mornar's European history is recent and short. They entered the Conference League for the first time in 2024/25 as Montenegrin Cup winners were not yet the route in that campaign; the exact qualification path for that season was not established from the sources read here. They beat Dinamo Tbilisi 3-2 on aggregate in the first qualifying round, edged Radnički 1923 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 aggregate draw in the second, and lost 2-5 on aggregate to Paksi of Hungary in the third qualifying round, the same Paksi covered elsewhere in this corpus. In 2026/27, entering via their Montenegrin Cup win, Mornar lost 2-4 on aggregate to Atlètic d'Escaldes of Andorra in the first qualifying round, beaten 1-2 at home and 1-2 away.
Head-to-head notes
Head-to-head records against Montenegrin rivals such as Budućnost Podgorica, Sutjeska Nikšić, Zeta and fellow coastal side Petrovac were not established from the sources read here.
Right now (2026/27)
Vesko Stešević remains head coach. Mornar are in the 2026/27 Montenegrin First League, but the specific current league position, points and recent match results were not established from the sources read here.
In Europe, Mornar entered the 2026/27 Conference League first qualifying round as Montenegrin Cup holders and were eliminated by Atlètic d'Escaldes of Andorra, losing 1-2 at home and 1-2 away for a 2-4 aggregate defeat. Exact dates, goalscorers, venues and attendances for those legs were not established from the sources read here.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK_Mornar_Bar
Researched and written for not4quarters. Where a fact could not be established from the sources read, this page says so rather than guessing.