Sarajevo
Club Sport Leagues Venue Est
Željezničar Football Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina Grbavica Stadium 1921
Sarajevo Football Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina Asim Ferhatović Hase 1946
Olimpik Football First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Otoka Stadion 1993
RK Bosna Handball Handball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dvorana Mirza Delibašić 1948
KK Bosna Basketball Premier League of Basketball of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dvorana Mirza Delibašić 1951
HK Bosna Ice Hockey Bosnia and Herzegovina Hockey League Olympic Hall Zetra 1980
VK Bosna Waterpolo Bosnia and Herzegovina Waterpolo League Olimpijski Bazen Otoka 1984
SDI Spid Volleyball Bosnia Sitting Volleyball Championships Dvorana Ramiz Salčin 1994
Fantomi Volleyball Bosnia Sitting Volleyball Championships Dvorana Ramiz Salčin 1995
Culture -- Sports
Postage stamps depicting 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . Bosnian football player Edin Džeko was born in Sarajevo . He is the all-time leading goalscorer of the BiH national football team . [ 116 ] [ 117 ] Koševo City Stadium , home to FK Sarajevo , is the largest stadium in Bosnia and Herzegovina . [ 118 ] Damir Džumhur , a Sarajevo born multi–Grand Slam tennis player . Stadion Grbavica , home-ground of FK Željezničar . Mirza Delibašić Hall , home venue of KK Bosna . The city hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics . Yugoslavia won one medal , a silver in men 's giant slalom awarded to Jure Franko . [ 119 ] Many of the Olympic facilities survived the war or were reconstructed , including Olympic Hall Zetra and Asim Ferhatović Stadion . In an attempt to bring back some of Sarajevo 's Olympic glory , [ 120 ] the original Olympic luge and bobsled tracks are being repaired , due to the efforts of both the Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina [ 121 ] and local sports enthusiasts . [ 122 ] After co-hosting the Southeast Europe Friendship games , Sarajevo was awarded the 2009 Special Olympic winter games , [ 123 ] but cancelled these plans . [ 124 ] [ 125 ] The ice arena for the 1984 Olympics , Zetra Stadium , was used during the war as a temporary hospital and , later , for housing NATO troops of the IFOR . In 2011 Sarajevo was the host city of the 51st World Military Skiing Championship with over 350 participants from 23 different nations . This was the first international event of such standing since the 1984 Olympics . [ 126 ] Football ( soccer ) is popular in Sarajevo ; the city hosts FK Sarajevo and FK Željezničar , which both compete in European and international cups and tournaments and have a very large trophy cabinet in the former Yugoslavia as well as independent Bosnia and Herzegovina . Other notable soccer clubs are FK Olimpik , SAŠK and Slavija . One of only two stadiums in Bosnia and Herzegovina that has the UEFA category 3 is the Stadion Grbavica , the home stadium of FK Željezničar . Another popular sport is basketball ; the basketball club KK Bosna Sarajevo won the European Championship in 1979 as well as many Yugoslav and Bosnian national championships making it one of the greatest basketball clubs in the former Yugoslavia . The chess club , Bosna Sarajevo , has been a championship team since the 1980s and is the third ranked chess club in Europe , having won four consecutive European championships in the nineties . RK Bosna also competes in the European Champions League and is considered one of the most well organised handball clubs in South-Eastern Europe with a very large fan base and excellent national , as well as international results . Sarajevo often holds international events and competitions in sports such as tennis and kickboxing . The popularity of tennis has been picking up in recent years . Since 2003 , BH Telecom Indoors is an annual tennis tournament in Sarajevo . Since 2007 , the Sarajevo Marathon is being organized in late September . Giro di Sarajevo is also run in the city with over 2,200 cyclists taking part in 2015 . [ 127 ] In February 2019 , Sarajevo and East Sarajevo hosted the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival ( EYOWF ) .
Sarajevo ; see names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area, including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities, is home to 555,210 inhabitants. [a] Nestled within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of the Balkans. Sarajevo is the political, financial, social and cultural center of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a prominent center of culture in the Balkans, with region-wide influence in entertainment, media, fashion and the arts. Due to its long history of religious and cultural diversity, Sarajevo is sometimes called the Jerusalem of Europe or Jerusalem of the Balkans. It is one of only a few major European cities to have a mosque, Catholic church, Orthodox church and synagogue within the same neighborhood. A regional center in education, the city is home to the Balkans first institution of tertiary education in the form of an Islamic madrasa, today part of the University of Sarajevo. Although settlement in the area stretches back to prehistoric times, the modern city arose as an Ottoman stronghold in the 15th century. Sarajevo has attracted international attention several times throughout its history. In 1885, Sarajevo was the first city in Europe and the second city in the world to have a full-time electric tram network running through the city, following San Francisco. In 1914, it was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by local Young Bosnia activist Gavrilo Princip that sparked World War I, which also ended Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and resulted in the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Later, after World War II, the establishment of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the Second Yugoslavia led to a massive expansion of Sarajevo, then the constituent republic's capital, which culminated with the hosting of the 1984 Winter Olympics marking a prosperous era for the city.