History
Founded on October 4, 1945, in Belgrade under the name Fiskulturno društvo Centralnog doma Jugoslovenske armije Partizan (roughly translated to English as Sport Society of the Central House of the Yugoslav Army Partizan). Among the first teams in the club were soccer and athletics. By 1946 there were more sections: Basketball, Chess, Volleyball, Tennis, and Swimming. The next year, 1947, some more sections were founded: biking, boxing, hockey, table tennis, and motorcycling. And later some more – wrestling, judo, weight lifting, waterpolo, shooting, bowling, rowing, jumping in water, and handball.
The clubs official name was changed in 1950.
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