1952 Montenegrin Republic League

The 1952 Montenegrin Republic League was seventh season of Montenegrin Republic League. Season began in March 1952 and ended in June same year.[1]

Montenegrin Republic League
Season1952
DatesMarch – June 1952
ChampionsBudućnost
Matches played26
Goals scored108 (4.15 per match)
← 1951
1953 →

Season
Locations of the 1952 Montenegrin Republic League teams

At the end of 1951, Football Association of Yugoslavia disbanded Yugoslav Second League. So, Montenegrin teams from higher level (Budućnost and Bokelj) were moved to Montenegrin Republic League. On season 1952, Republic League was second-tier competition in Yugoslav Second League, which meant that the winner of competition will play qualifiers for Yugoslav First League.
Except Budućnost and Bokelj, members of 1952 Montenegrin Republic League were Sutjeska, Lovćen, Iskra, Bratstvo Bijelo Polje, Radnički Ivangrad and Arsenal.

Qualifiers

While seven members placed directly, Arsenal gained participation in 1952 season through qualifiers. Below are the results of qualifying rounds.
Round one: Mladost - Breznik 0-0, 0-4; Jedinstvo - Arsenal 0-0, 0-2.
Semifinals: Arsenal - Mornar 5-0, 3-3; Breznik - Gorštak 2-0, 7-1.
Qualifier finals: Breznik - Arsenal 1-0, 0-2.

First phase

For the first time in history, Montenegrin Republic League was divided into two regional groups during the First phase of competition.[2]
In Northern group participated Budućnost, Bratstvo, Iskra and Radnički, while in Southern group played Sutjeska, Lovćen, Arsenal and Bokelj.

Norhern group

As a former member of Yugoslav First League, Budućnost dominated in Northern group competition. During the third week, guest players attacked the referee on game Iskra - Radnički in Danilovgrad. That was the reason why Radnički was disqualified from the rest of competition.[3]
 Budućnost finished group with five wins and one defeat. Most goals (9) was seen on the game Budućnost - Bratstvo (9-0).

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts BUD ISK BRA RAD
1 Budućnost (F) 6 5 0 1 21 6 +15 10 2–1 9–0 3–0
2 Iskra 6 4 0 2 16 8 +8 8 1–3 3–0 4–0
3 Bratstvo Bijelo Polje 6 2 0 4 8 22 −14 4 1–0 3–4 1–6
4 Radnički Ivangrad 6 1 0 5 7 23 −16 2 3–4 0–3 0–3
Source:
(F) Qualified for 1952 Montenegrin Republic League finals.

Southern group

Until the last week, three teams had chances to win the first place in Southern group. At the end, the winner was Sutjeska, with one point more than Lovćen and Bokelj.[4]
Sutjeska finished group with four wins and two defeats. Most goals (7) was seen on the game Lovćen - Arsenal (7-0).

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts SUT LOV BOK ARS
1 Sutjeska (F) 6 4 0 2 17 8 +9 8 3–1 3–1 5–1
2 Lovćen 6 3 1 2 15 9 +6 7 2–1 1–1 7–0
3 Bokelj 6 3 1 2 11 10 +1 7 3–1 2–1 3–1
4 Arsenal 6 1 0 5 7 23 −16 2 0–4 2–3 3–1
Source:
(F) Qualified for 1952 Montenegrin Republic League finals.

Championship finals
See also: Montenegrin Derby

Finalists of 1952 Montenegrin Republic League were Budućnost and Sutjeska. Two Montenegrin Derby games decided about the title and about the team which participated in the qualifiers for 1953 Yugoslav First League.
Budućnost made significant result in the first final game (3-0) in Titograd. Second match finished with another win of Budućnost (2-1).

Budućnost3 — 0Sutjeska
Attendance: 5,000
Sutjeska1 — 2Budućnost
Attendance: 3,000

As a winner of Montenegrin Republic League, Budućnost participated in qualifiers for Yugoslav First League.

Qualifiers for Yugoslav First League

In the qualifiers, Budućnost played against champions of Republic Leagues of SR Serbia (Spartak Subotica and SR Macedonia (Pobeda Prilep. After four games, Budućnost and Spartak have equal points at the top of the table, but the team from Subotica had better goal difference.[5] So, Budućnost failed to make a comeback to Yugoslav First League.

Team 1 Team 2 Home Away
Budućnost Titograd Pobeda Prilep
5:2
1:6
Spartak Subotica Budućnost Titograd
1:1
3:4

See also

References
  1. 'Crnogorski klubovi u fudbalskim takmičenjima 1946-2016', Podgorica, 2016.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20160514110508/http://www.exyufudbal.in.rs/tabele/9-sezone-tabele-sfrj/12-1952
  3. Novak Jovanović: Fudbalska takmičenja u Crnoj Gori : 1925-1985 , Cetinje, 1991., UDK: 796.332.093(497.16)"1925/1985
  4. http://www.fklovcen.me/?page_id=902
  5. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/joeg52.html
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