From mid-1932 to mid-1934, Budućnost built its status as the most successful and best Montenegrin club; its away games in neighboring cities aroused special interest among spectators and represented small football holidays. During that period, the Podgorica team would win three consecutive Cetinje Football Sub-Association championships, with victories in the finals over Lovćen.
Premiered on November 6, 1932, in an exciting match in Podgorica, in which the home team led 3:0, only to have the goalkeeper injured and forced off the field. Jovo Šutulović, Cetinje equalized. With the return of the goalkeeper to the game, the hosts regained their supremacy, and in grand style, with a score of 6:3, they captured their first title of champion of the Cetinje Football Sub-Association.
As the best teams in the territory of the Sub-Confederation, the two workers' clubs met in a new final on July 23, 1933, at the same venue.
"There were about 1.000 spectators - 50 percent without tickets," reported Slobodna misao.
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Although they played without four regular first-team players and played "one of the worst games in recent times", Buducnost, with goals Veljko Zeković i Djordje Premovic, led twice, but Lovćen managed to draw (2:2). The rules required that extra time of 2 x 15 minutes be played seven days later. On July 30, “the same number of spectators gathered at the Balšić stadium, cheering their team on the whole time”. There were no goals in extra time, so a new match was played, which started at 18 pm. Budućnost took advantage of the first half with goals Bozidar Ulic i Milo Popovic.
"The second half belongs to Lovćen and darkness," he writes. Bosko Nilevic in a report published in Zeta.
"Now it's getting so dark that you can barely see the player, let alone the ball. The future is all about defense."
Understandable, because she played with ten men for a long time, due to exclusions. Voja Mugose. The lock did not give way: Buducnost secured the championship title in the Sub-Association with a 2:0 victory. And it reached the ceiling with its head. It could not go any further than that, because the Cetinje Sub-Association was a football island, and its champion still did not have a pass to the federal league.
“Budućnost has held the championship of the Cetinje Football Sub-Association for the last two years... and with its play, discipline and work it carries that title with great honor,” wrote Pravda on September 9, 1933, in a text with the suggestive headline: “Why does the champion of the Cetinje Football Sub-Association not participate in the qualifying matches for the National League?”
"It is a great pity that this club is not given the opportunity to compare itself with other large clubs from our country, where it would be seen that good sport is also nurtured and spread in these regions and that the clubs from this region are of undoubted value in our country."
The author of the article blames the Yugoslav Football Association for the fact that Buducnost did not get the chance to compete with the best clubs in the kingdom. Allegedly, at the Assembly session, the champion of the CNP was included in the qualifications for the federal league, but this decision was not entered into the minutes, so it did not become enforceable. Different tones were heard in Montenegro itself. On the same day as the small report from the final match between Buducnost and Lovćen, Slobodna misao published a critical review of the (in)work of the Cetinje Football Sub-Association. “The conditions in the Cetinje Sub-Association are bad. Every day, we hear from the lips of all sports fans: The Sub-Association is not working or the Sub-Association is dying... Athletes who are condemned to live in this area that is passive in every way, including in terms of sports people, must take care of maintaining the Football Sub-Association, because if there are no sports people in Cetinje to run this institution, then the headquarters should be moved to Podgorica... Clubs in Boka are very dissatisfied with the work and conditions in the Cetinje Sub-Association, and are expressing their dissatisfaction to the point of secession from the Cetinje Sub-Association and joining some other sub-association.”
Ticket sales paid for the organization of the matches.
Playing matches for Montenegrin football clubs in the interwar period could have been profitable.
"Regulations on income and expenses when playing championship matches"
in the area of the Cetinje Football Sub-Association, the financial aspect of organizing matches was regulated. First, about income: the price of tickets ranged from three to 10 dinars (a copy of a newspaper, for comparison, cost one dinar). From the collected amount, expenses were paid: marking the field, police fees, referee fees, and a percentage to the Federation and the Sub-Association. Five percent of the gross income belonged to the owner of the field. The rest of the money - if there was any left at all - was divided equally between the clubs, with the proviso that guests, if they came from another place, could also count on travel expenses being paid.
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