Associazione sportiva dilettantistica – Nogometni klub Kras Repen, or simply Kras Repen or Kras, is a semi-professional Italian association football club located in Repen, a village in the comune of Monrupino, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The fanbase of the club is the Slovene community that populate the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. The president of the club is Goran Kocman. Kras in Slovene means Karst. History The Kras Football Club was formally established in Repen, part of the municipality of Monrupino, in 1986. The partnership was born from the ashes of the football section of Olimpija, a club founded in the hamlet of Gabrovizza, in Sgonico. In 1974 the section passed to the Kras Sports Club in Sgonico, a sports club that also boasts a volleyball and table tennis section. The home games of CS Kras, a team that plays in Terza Categoria (the lowest in Italy), are played on the Repen pitch. 1986 is the year of the turning point. The football section detaches itself from the defensive sports club becoming an independent association: under the presidency of Andrej Race the Football Club Kras is born. The red and white team plays in Terza and Seconda Categoria until the 2004-05 season, when the club, then chaired by Domenico Centrone, wins promotion to Prima Categoria with a perfect score. That historic result starts an extraordinary five-year period. Already in the following season Kras makes another leap in category by accessing the Promozione. After two years finished on the threshold of the play-offs. In 2007–08, the club was coached by former Soviet Union and Belarus international player Sergei Aleinikov. The contact was made due to the club's main sponsor, Koimpex, working with companies in Belarus. In the 2008-09 season Kras dominated the tournament, obtaining its first promotion to Eccellenza. The following season, the terrible red furies of the Karst obtained a resounding second place in the standings, thus winning the right to participate in the national play-offs to access to Serie D. The play-offs are a crescendo of emotions. In the semifinal Kras got the better of the Lombards from Verbano; in the double final, however, Monrupino's team beat Jesina 3-0 in the first leg, then losing 3-2 in the Marche region, an irrelevant defeat: Kras landed for the first time in its history in Serie D. In the first season on the threshold of professionalism (2010-2011) the Kras does not go beyond the 17th