Just two weeks after its founding, the Cetinje Football Association (CNP) organized the first championship matches under its control in the spring of 1931. The competition system - one match per match, with a relegation play-off - was copied from the Split Football Association (SNP): in the first phase, games were played in cities, then in wider territorial units, whose best teams met in the final.
For Budućnost, it meant a rematch with their arch-rival - Balšić. Unlike the internal wrestling in the Split sub-league, the quality of the match was in the team's favor. Šefket Šabanadžović.
At the opening of the first spring season of the Cetinje Football Sub-Association, Budućnost defeated their eternal rival 4:1 on March 22, 1931. As Njegoš from Berane, who was free in the first round, withdrew, the champion from Podgorica secured a place in the semi-finals of the championship with an official score of 3:0, and a match with Obilić from Nikšić.
The picture shows Budućnost from 1934. At the top are: Jovo Šutulović, Ahmet Jakupović, Pavle Vujović. Below them: Blažo Đurović, Šefket Šabanadžović, Blažo Šutulović, Sergije Stanić. Bottom row: Božo Ulić, Arsen Marković, Mustafa Hodžić, Ivo Milošević, Mihailo Popović. At the very bottom: Gojko Mitrović.
The duel, which was scheduled for April 19, 1931 in Nikšić, ended goalless. Seven days later, the team from Nikšić won the replay 5:3, although Buducnost led 2:0 at half-time and “played a strong, sharp and understanding game”, and advanced to the final match against the Montenegrin team.
The match with Obilić also had a third half. More precisely, taking into account that two games were played - the fifth. Buducnost complained to the Podsavez that it was being deprived of money. The CNP made, from this perspective, two contradictory decisions - to suspend Obilić until it pays the Podgorica residents a debt of 336 dinars, but also to reject the appeal of Buducnost, which claimed that on April 19, the host earned 1.000 dinars from ticket sales.
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The Nikšić club proved “ticket sales in the amount of 250 dinars”. A major breakthrough in results for Buducnost will follow. How much of this was influenced by the “double ve” system, how much by the strengthening of the team’s players, and how much by changes at the club’s helm - on August 9, 1931, at an extraordinary Assembly, the new president was elected Simo Popović, a clerk at the Singer company - only Budućnost reached the finals four times in the next five CNP championships. Starting in the fall of 1931, when, after triumphing over Balšić (6:2, September 13) and Gorštak from Kolašin (3:1, September 27), they lost to Crnogorec in a title match in Cetinje (2:1) on October 25, in a match that followed the conclusion of the Podsavez electoral assembly. Reporting on that match for the Novi Sad Ilustrovani sportsi list, a Cetinje journalist Arsenije Simovic He called Budućnost "a great young team" that played excellently.
"The forward [attack] stands out, which is represented only by younger players aged 17-20, who play technically and combinatively, but are poor scorers."
At the beginning of the following year, 1932, the CNP addressed the Yugoslav Football Association with a protest note, requesting, among other things, that it “declare itself permanent and as such participate in the national championship.” Speculating on what would happen if the Montenegrin team, as the champion, were included in the federal ranks, the Cetinje Zetski glasnik, the official CNP newspaper, wrote that, in the absence of the Cetinje team, it would be difficult to predict who could be the best in the championship.
"However, of all of them, Budućnost from Podgorica has the best chance of success, whose team today truly represents a strong and homogeneous team in every respect."
The Yugoslav Football Association remained deaf and mute to the demands from Cetinje, which meant that Crnogorac was also among the teams that started the spring championship. Buducnost traditionally opened the season with a duel with Balšić on March 27, 1932, which - and this was becoming a tradition - was resolved through administrative means. The match ended in a draw (1:1).
The future was in favor of playing extra time immediately, which was also the referee's position. Blaž Mrvaljević from Cetinje. Balšić players were against it, so they left the field. The Podsavez Business Board had no dilemma: according to the official result, the victory was attributed to Budućnost.
If extra time was not played then, it was in the semi-final match with Obilić, on May 15th in Podgorica. After the regular time was 1:1, the team from Nikšić advanced to the final with a goal Djordje PremovicIt was the only defeat for Buducnost in 1932. Along with Premović, the best players in the winning team were: Veljko Zeković, the first goal scorer, and Blazo ĐurovićAll three will soon play for the Podgorica club.
The picture shows Budućnost from 1934. At the top are: Jovo Šutulović, Ahmet Jakupović, Pavle Vujović. Below them: Blažo Đurović, Šefket Šabanadžović, Blažo Šutulović, Sergije Stanić. Bottom row: Božo Ulić, Arsen Marković, Mustafa Hodžić, Ivo Milošević, Mihailo Popović. At the very bottom: Gojko Mitrović.
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