1975–76 Yugoslav First League

Prva savezna liga
Season 197576
Champions Partizan (7th title)
Relegated Vardar
Radnički Kragujevac
European Cup Partizan
Cup Winners' Cup Hajduk Split
UEFA Cup Dinamo Zagreb
Red Star
Matches played 272
Goals scored 705 (2.59 per match)
Top goalscorer Nenad Bjeković (24)
Average attendance 11,670

Teams

A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1974–75 season and two sides promoted from the 1974–75 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.

FK Bor and Proleter Zrenjanin were relegated from the 1974–75 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Borac Banja Luka and Budućnost.

Team Location Federal Republic Position
in 1974–75
Borac Banja Luka Banja Luka  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina N/A
Budućnost Titograd  SR Montenegro N/A
Čelik Zenica  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 11th
Dinamo Zagreb Zagreb  SR Croatia 5th
Hajduk Split Split  SR Croatia 1st
OFK Belgrade Belgrade  SR Serbia 8th
Olimpija Ljubljana Ljubljana  SR Slovenia 12th
Partizan Belgrade  SR Serbia 6th
Radnički Kragujevac Kragujevac  SR Serbia 15th
Radnički Niš Niš  SR Serbia 10th
Red Star Belgrade  SR Serbia 3rd
NK Rijeka Rijeka  SR Croatia 14th
FK Sarajevo Sarajevo  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 13th
Sloboda Tuzla  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 7th
Vardar Skopje  SR Macedonia 16th
Velež Mostar  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 4th
Vojvodina Novi Sad  SR Serbia 2nd
Željezničar Sarajevo  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 9th

Managers

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Partizan (C) 34 22 6 6 60 30+30 50 1976–77 European Cup
2 Hajduk Split 34 19 11 4 57 22+35 49 01976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup0
3 Dinamo Zagreb 34 17 10 7 38 23+15 44 1976–77 UEFA Cup
4 Red Star 34 16 8 10 53 31+22 40
5 Vojvodina 34 11 12 11 41 421 34 1976 Intertoto Cup
6 Sloboda Tuzla 34 11 11 12 46 42+4 33
7 Sarajevo 34 12 9 13 45 516 33
8 OFK Belgrade 34 13 7 14 40 488 33
9 Velež 34 10 12 12 39 37+2 32
10 Borac Banja Luka 34 9 14 11 34 406 32
11 Rijeka 34 9 13 12 35 372 31
12 Željezničar 34 11 9 14 40 477 31
13 Čelik 34 10 10 14 29 356 30
14 Olimpija 34 10 10 14 37 447 30
15 Budućnost 34 11 8 15 25 4217 30
16 Radnički Niš 34 7 15 12 30 4111 29
17 Vardar (R) 34 8 12 14 27 369 28 1976–77 Yugoslav Second League
18 Radnički Kragujevac (R) 34 8 7 19 29 5728 23

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Winning squad

Champions:

players (league matches/league goals):
Momčilo Vukotić (33/7)
Rešad Kunovac (33/0)
Borislav Đurović (32/1)
Radmilo Ivančević (32/0)
Nenad Bjeković (31/24)
Ilija Zavišić (31/6)
Refik Kozić (30/0)
Ivan Golac (26/0)
Aranđel Todorović (25/2)
Boško Đorđević (23/5)
Predrag Tomić (23/1)
Vukan Perović (19/7)
Vladimir Pejović (19/0)
Dragan Arsenović (16/1)
Svemir Đorđić (14/1)
Nenad Stojković (14/0)
Pavle Grubješić (12/3)
Aleksandar Trifunović (8/0)
Radomir Antić (7/1)
Blagoj Istatov (3/0)
Sima Nikolić (3/0)
Xhevat Prekazi (3/0)
Nenad Cvetković (1/0)

Promoted from Yugoslav Second League for the next season:

Club
Napredak Kruševac
NK Zagreb

Attendance

Club Average home attendance Average away attendance
Red Star Belgrade 27,176 23,882
FK Partizan 22,647 24,412
Dinamo Zagreb 18,176 13,912
Hajduk Split 17,941 23,647
Budućnost Titograd 12,529 8,176
FK Vardar 12,235 7,265
Borac Banja Luka 10,147 9,412
NK Rijeka 9,176 7,794
Čelik Zenica 9,176 7,382
FK Sarajevo 9,147 9,412
FK Željezničar 9,000 10,647
Radnički Niš 8,941 8,941
FK Vojvodina 8,529 11,294
Radnički Kragujevac 8,029 7,912
NK Olimpija 7,265 8,765
FK Velež 7,235 11,324
OFK Beograd 6,382 8,441
Sloboda Tuzla 6,324 7,441

See also

External links

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