Although the arrival of football on the sports scene in Ljubljana did not go unnoticed or unrecorded in the
history of sports, iris not thoroughly researched. At least not the main turning points and events in the history of
this sport The following article, however, focuses on the appearance of the phenomenon of football amongst
the high-school students of Slovenia and the inhabitants of Ljubljana. The author depicts how the founding of the
first football club as an institute of civil society was a turning-point in the development and popularizing of this
modern sport in Slovenia.