1972–73 Yugoslav First League

Prva savezna liga
Season	1972–73
Dates	20 August 1972 – 24 June 1973
Champions	Red Star (11th title)
Relegated	Spartak Sutjeska
Top goalscorer	Vojin Lazarević Slobodan Santrač (25 goals each)
← 1971–72 1973–74 →

The 1972–73 Yugoslav First League season was the 27th season of the First Federal League of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. A total of 18 teams competed in the league, with the previous season's runners-up Red Star winning the title.

Teams

A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1971–72 season and two sides promoted from the 1971–72 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 34 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.

Radnički Kragujevac and NK Maribor were relegated from the 1971–72 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Bor and Spartak Subotica.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1971–72
Bor	Bor	SR Serbia	—
Borac Banja Luka	Banja Luka	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01313th
Čelik	Zenica	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01212th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0088th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	01010th
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0033rd
Olimpija Ljubljana	Ljubljana	SR Slovenia	0099th
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0055th
Radnički Niš	Niš	SR Serbia	01414th
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0022nd
Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01515th
Sloboda	Tuzla	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0077th
Spartak Subotica	Subotica	SR Serbia	—
Sutjeska Nikšić	Nikšić	SR Montenegro	01616th
Vardar	Skopje	SR Macedonia	01111th
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0066th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0044th
Željezničar	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0011st

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Star Belgrade (C)	34	21	10	3	71	28	+43	52	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Velež	34	17	12	5	48	27	+21	46	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	OFK Belgrade	34	16	13	5	52	31	+21	45	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Partizan	34	16	11	7	50	37	+13	43
5	Željezničar	34	18	6	10	59	41	+18	42
6	Sloboda Tuzla	34	8	18	8	34	32	+2	34
7	Sarajevo	34	12	10	12	48	50	−2	34
8	Dinamo Zagreb	34	11	11	12	39	47	−8	33	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
9	Hajduk Split	34	14	3	17	50	50	0	31
10	Vardar^[a]	34	10	11	13	35	50	−15	31
11	Radnički Niš	34	10	10	14	24	40	−16	30
12	Borac Banja Luka	34	9	11	14	30	26	+4	29
13	Vojvodina	34	10	9	15	39	46	−7	29
14	Čelik	34	9	10	15	27	44	−17	28
15	Bor	34	9	10	15	36	57	−21	28
16	Olimpija	34	9	8	17	35	43	−8	26
17	Spartak Subotica (R)	34	8	10	16	37	48	−11	26	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
18	Sutjeska Nikšić (R)	34	9	7	18	32	49	−17	25	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League

Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Vardar was invited to the Balkans Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	BOR	BBL	ČEL	DIN	HAJ	OFK	OLI	PAR	RNI	RSB	SAR	SLO	SPA	SUT	VAR	VEL	VOJ	ŽEL
Bor		0–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–5	4–1	0–0	4–1	1–0	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–2
Borac Banja Luka	3–1		0–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	6–0	0–1	2–0	1–2
Čelik	0–0	0–0		4–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	0–2	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–2
Dinamo Zagreb	4–1	1–0	0–0		1–0	0–4	7–3	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	4–3	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1
Hajduk Split	4–0	1–1	3–0	1–1		1–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	4–0	2–2	3–0	5–0	0–3	7–0	3–2
OFK Belgrade	3–1	1–0	1–0	4–2	2–0		4–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	4–3
Olimpija	1–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	4–0	0–0		2–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–2	0–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	3–1	0–1
Partizan	2–2	2–1	4–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0		2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0
Radnički Niš	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1		1–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0
Red Star	5–1	2–0	5–1	1–0	4–0	3–3	1–0	2–0	3–1		4–1	3–1	3–1	3–2	3–2	1–1	3–1	3–0
Sarajevo	3–1	0–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	3–0	1–2	2–2		0–0	4–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	3–2	2–4
Sloboda Tuzla	3–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–0		1–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–3
Spartak Subotica	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	4–0	1–1		2–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–1
Sutjeska	5–3	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–3	1–0	2–2	3–1		0–2	0–0	1–2	3–2
Vardar	1–0	1–0	2–0	4–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–3	0–0		1–0	2–1	4–1
Velež	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–3	4–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	4–0		2–1	2–1
Vojvodina	0–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	4–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	1–2		1–1
Željezničar	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	4–1	1–3	0–1	0–0	7–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–0

Source: DataSoccer.it
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Winning squad

Champions
Red Star Belgrade

Zoran Antonijević
Jovan Aćimović
Zoran Bingulac
Vladislav Bogićević
Kiro Dojčinovski
Ratomir Dujković
Milovan Đorić
Slobodan Janković
Živorad Jeftić
Nikola Jovanović
Stanislav Karasi
Mihalj Keri
Branko Klenkovski
Petar Krivokuća
Vojin Lazarević
Dušan Nikolić
Mile Novković
Miroslav Pavlović
Aleksandar Panajotović
Vladimir Petrović
Ognjan Petrović
Sead Sušić
Zoran Filipović
Dragan Džajić
^[1]

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Vojin Lazarević	Red Star	25
1	Slobodan Santrač	OFK Belgrade	25
3	Dušan Bajević	Velež	21
4	Petar Nadoveza	Hajduk Split	19
5	Stanislav Karasi	Red Star	17
6	Josip Bukal	Željezničar	15
7	Salem Halilhodžić	Velež	14
8	Nenad Bjeković	Partizan	13
9	Zvonko Ivezić	Vojvodina	12
10	Momčilo Vukotić	Partizan	11

External links

^ Championship Winners, Red Star Belgrade official site Archived 2009-12-13 at the Wayback Machine

Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables

Yugoslav First League (1923–1992)

1923–1940 — SHS / Yugoslavia
Seasons	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40
Clubs	Bačka BASK BSK Belgrade Concordia Crnogorac Građanski Niš Građanski Skoplje Građanski Zagreb Hajduk Split HAŠK Ilirija Jedinstvo Beograd Jugoslavija Krajišnik Banja Luka SK Ljubljana Mačva NAK Novi Sad Pobeda Skoplje Primorje Radnički Kragujevac SAŠK SAND Subotica Slavija Osijek Slavija Sarajevo Slavija Varaždin Somborski SK Sparta Zemun Viktorija Zagreb Vojvodina ŽAK Subotica ŽAK Velika Kikinda

1945–1992 — FPR / SFR Yugoslavia
Seasons	1945 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1950 1951 1952 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92
Clubs	14. Oktobar Bor Borac BL Budućnost Crvenka Čelik Dinamo Vinkovci Dinamo Zagreb Hajduk Split Iskra Lokomotiva Mačva Maribor Nafta Napredak Naša Krila Novi Sad OFK Belgrade Olimpija Osijek Partizan Pelister Ponziana Priština Proleter Rabotnički Rad Radnički Belgrade Radnički Kragujevac Radnički Niš Red Star Belgrade Rijeka Sarajevo Sloboda Spartak RNK Split Sutjeska Teteks Trepča Trešnjevka Vardar Velež Vojvodina NK Zagreb Zemun Željezničar

v t e 1972–73 in European football (UEFA)
« 1971–72 1973–74 »
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '72 '73 England Faroe Islands '72 '73 Finland '72 '73 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '72 '73 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '72 '73 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '72 '73 Spain Sweden '72 '73 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '72 '73 Finland '72 '73 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '72 '73 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '72 '73 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '72 '73 Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales
League cups	England West Germany Scotland Switzerland
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final)
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '72 '73 European Super Cup

This page was last edited on 9 July 2022, at 07:25

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia