The precise date of the founding of Zora, the forerunner of today's Buducnost, was probably first stated by Husein Tuzovic in the feuilleton “Golden Jubilee of the Football Club Budućnost”, which was published in Pobjeda from 13 to 18 December 1976. The same information was also included in the monograph “75 years of the Future” from 2001. Much earlier, on 20 April 1955, in the Belgrade newspaper Futbal, in the text “30 years of Titograd's Future” by the author Gojko Ivanovic, it is noted that “in the spring of 1925, the first football club was founded in Podgorica - SK Zora.
In the first issue of the FK Budućnost Review, printed in August 1980, in the article "Sketches for the Budućnost monograph: Workers' Sports Association Zora", Milorad Marković mentions “an unknown date in 1925”, while in the feuilleton “The Bright Past of the Future” (Pobjeda from 12 to 17 December 1985) it is written that “in mid-June 1925, in a booth in a progressive-oriented tavern Jola Vukčević, on the banks of Ribnica, an important agreement was held". Two sources dating from the 1920s state that Zora was founded in 1924. Snaga, an illustrated workers' newspaper for culture and sports that was published in Sarajevo from 1928 to 1941, in its issue dated October 1, 1928, pays attention to the Podgorica "reds".
"Back in 1924, the Workers' Sports Club Zora was founded in Podgorica by several young workers with the intention of gathering working-class youth there, and seeking entertainment there after hard and tiring work."
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It goes on to say that the team progressed and became one of the best in the Zeta region, but that it was also “exposed to attacks by the police in alliance with bourgeois clubs. However, all this is broken by the indomitable will of the youth in it; and the increasing reaction gives increasing enthusiasm to the young workers.”
In a short portrait of RSK Zora in Jugoslovenski sport, an almanac of Yugoslav sports clubs (Novi Sad, 1928), the introduction states: “Founded in 1924. Color: red. The club began its existence under very difficult conditions, yet it overcame all difficulties and is now on a constant rise.”
It was also mentioned that the goalkeeper stands out among the players. Musaja Celebicic and center half Gojko Mitrović, that the president Niko Keljevic, vice president “Becenin [Veselin?] Mašović”, secretary Vuko Vucinic, a captain Beco Abdomerovic.
However, there are also different testimonies about the “year zero”. In the report from the match between Zora and Balšić (3:0), published in Slobodna misla on 27 March 1927, we find the sentence that “The Workers’ Club was founded last year [i.e., 1926] and should be congratulated on such a great success”. The text is signed with N. K, which are the initials of both Zora presidents, not necessarily the author of the article, Nikola Kovačević i Nika Keljević. The Milan Raičević In his frequently mentioned book Lijeva obala, he indicated that "at the end of 1926, the workers' sports club Zora was formed."
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