1972–73 Yugoslav First League

Prva savezna liga
Season 1972–73
Champions Red Star (11th title)
Relegated Spartak
Sutjeska
Top goalscorer Vojin Lazarević
Slobodan Santrač
(25 goals each)

The 1972–73 Yugoslav First League season was the 27th season of the First Federal League of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: 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 N/A
Borac Banja Luka Banja Luka  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 13th
Čelik Zenica  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 12th
Dinamo Zagreb Zagreb  SR Croatia 8th
Hajduk Split Split  SR Croatia 10th
OFK Belgrade Belgrade  SR Serbia 3rd
Olimpija Ljubljana Ljubljana  SR Slovenia 9th
Partizan Belgrade  SR Serbia 5th
Radnički Niš Niš  SR Serbia 14th
Red Star Belgrade  SR Serbia 2nd
Sarajevo Sarajevo  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 15th
Sloboda Tuzla  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 7th
Spartak Subotica Subotica  SR Serbia N/A
Sutjeska Nikšić Nikšić  SR Montenegro 16th
Vardar Skopje  SR Macedonia 11th
Velež Mostar  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 6th
Vojvodina Novi Sad  SR Serbia 4th
Željezničar Sarajevo  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 1st

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 1973–74 European Cup
2 Velež 34 17 12 5 48 27 +21 46 1973–74 UEFA Cup
3 OFK Belgrade 34 16 13 5 52 31 +21 45
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 1973–74 European Cup Winners' Cup
9 Hajduk Split 34 14 3 17 50 50 0 31
10 Vardar 34 10 11 13 35 50 −15 31 1974 Balkans Cup
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 1973–74 Yugoslav Second League
18 Sutjeska Nikšić (R) 34 9 7 18 32 49 −17 25
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

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]

See also

  • 1972–73 Yugoslav Second League
  1. ↑ Championship Winners, Red Star Belgrade official site Archived 2009-12-13 at the Wayback Machine.
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