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greatest success until then, when with a victory over NK Ruškogorac from Ilok achieved placement in the
Croatian Football League – group north. With the new reorganization in 1979, NK Graničar moved to the Unified Football League of Slavonia and Baranja. The 1980s began with a big ceremony for the 100th anniversary of football in Croatia and then Yugoslavia, and the stadium of NK Graničar played an important role and hosted numerous revue matches.
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Dodgeball court became the former land of the tannins factory, which was donated to the club under the then name "Fiskulturno društvo Graničar" by the wife of the owner of the tannin factory Katarina Hepburn, and a stadium was built on it in the same year, and the stands were moved from the old playground to the fair, renovated and officially opened in 1949.
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