Olympia is an otherwise small place in the Peloponnese, where the ancient Greeks lived between the 8th century before our era and 4th century AD organized the ancient Olympic Games. The place also gave its name to the modern Olympic Games and, of course, to some sports clubs, the most famous of which are the Greek Olympiakos and the Paraguayan Olimpia Asuncion. How was it with us?

In 1955, at a time when the club was called Odred, a sports association was founded at the University of Ljubljana as an umbrella organization for student sports activities. On the suggestion of one of the founding members, Dušan Brglez, the new association was named Olympia.

When the Bežigrad football club left the Odred sports club a few years later and briefly changed its name to the generic All-Slovenian Triglav, the Academic Sports Club was already the strongest and best-organized sports organization in Ljubljana. At the end of 1961, the long-planned merger of Triglav with AŠD Olimpija finally materialized and the football club received the name it still bears today. The club entered the spring part of the 1961/62 season as Olimpija.

The club played its first official match under the new name on March 25, 1962, in Nova Gorica. 2,500 spectators gathered, who, despite the good conditions for the game, witnessed an average football performance. Olimpija recorded a routine victory with goals from Živko Velkavrh and Danilo Brezigar. In that season, Olimpija returned to the Second Federal League by finishing first in the Slovenian National League and, within a few years, also climbed to the highest level of competition. From 1965 onwards, the name Olimpija has been synonymous with Slovenian football.