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The Roots of the Ultras Subculture in Croatia: Once Upon a Time in Yugoslavia a New Subcultural Style Was Born

Organised supporter groups were formed and began to function in the early 1980s in Yugoslavia. After the death of lifelong Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito in 1980, the political crisis reached its peak. The growth in political tensions was especially apparent at football stadiums, which were locations in which forbidden political narratives were expressed en masse. The supporter scene formed within this context. The secret service monitored members of supporter groups due to their flirting with nationalism. By using a historical and sociological approach, we wish to avoid numerous mystifications about the supporter scene. The thesis of this presentation is that young supporters in the 1980s, interacting with their peers and society in general, created new forms of collective action. In addition to violence and nationalism, which represent important elements of the supporter scene at the time, we claim that the subculturalisation process itself was key in creating a specific subcultural style of football hooligan, which indelibly marked the 1980s in Croatia and other parts of the former Yugoslavia. Understanding the origins of the supporter subculture in the 1980s is also key to an understanding of the political dimension of the modern ultras subculture in Croatia

Politics, Football, Ultras, Yugoslavia, Croatia

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