 the football federation of bosnia and herzegovina (bosnian, croatian, serbian: nogometni/fudbalski savez bosne i hercegovine or n/fsbih, cyrillic: ÐÐ¾Ð³Ð¾Ð¼ÐµÑÐ½Ð¸/Ð¤ÑÐ´Ð±Ð°Ð»ÑÐºÐ¸ Ð¡Ð°Ð²ÐµÐ· ÐÐ¾ÑÐ½Ðµ Ð¸ Ð¥ÐµÑÑÐµÐ³Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ð½Ðµ), based in sarajevo, is the chief officiating body of football in bosnia and herzegovina. the bosnian football association was founded as the sarajevo football sub-association of former yugoslavia in 1920. in 1992 the association was re-founded as the football federation of bosnia and herzegovina. in may, 2002, football federation of bosnia and herzegovina was unified to include both bosnian ethnic football associations. == history - 20th century == === pre-independence (1903â1992) === the game reached bosnia and herzegovina at the start of the 20th century, with sarajevo (in 1903) and mostar (in 1905) being the first cities to embrace it. banja luka, tuzla, zenica and bihaÄ were next along with numerous smaller towns as the sport spread. the country was under austro-hungarian rule when official competition began in 1908, though these activities were on a small scale within each territory. at the outbreak of world war i, there were four clubs in sarajevo; saÅ k, slavija, Äerzelez (also known as sarajevski), and makabi sarajevo (also known as barkohba){{cite web |url=http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/joeg39.html |work=rsssf.com|author=rsssf.com |title=regional leagues 1938/39 sarajevski podsavez|date=12 august 2014 |accessda
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