1960–61 Yugoslav First League

The 1960–61 Yugoslav First League season was won by FK Partizan, which was the club's third title and its first in twelve years. The season was also a coming-out party of sorts for the club's talented new generation of young players known as "Partizan's babies" that would dominate Yugoslav football for the next few years and would even go on to make it to the 1966 European Cup final.

Prva savezna liga
Season1960–61
Dates18 September 1960 – 11 June 1961
ChampionsPartizan (3rd title)
RelegatedRNK Split
Radnički Belgrade
European CupPartizan
Cup Winners' CupVardar
Inter-Cities Fairs CupRed Star
Dinamo Zagreb
Vojvodina
Top goalscorerZoran Prljinčević
Todor Veselinović
(16 goals each)

The season began later than usual in order to accommodate the Yugoslav Olympic national team's late August and early September 1960 participation at the 1960 Rome Olympics where they won the gold medal with a roster consisting entirely of players from the Yugoslav First League.

Teams

At the end of the previous season Budućnost and Sloboda were relegated. They were replaced by Vardar and RNK Split.

Team Location Federal Republic Position
in 1959–60
Dinamo Zagreb Zagreb  SR Croatia 0022nd
Hajduk Split Split  SR Croatia 0055th
OFK Belgrade Belgrade  SR Serbia 0077th
Partizan Belgrade  SR Serbia 0033rd
Radnički Belgrade Belgrade  SR Serbia 0099th
Red Star Belgrade  SR Serbia 0011st
Rijeka Rijeka  SR Croatia 0088th
Sarajevo Sarajevo  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 0066th
RNK Split Split  SR Croatia N/A
Vardar Skopje  SR Macedonia N/A
Velež Mostar  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 01010th
Vojvodina Novi Sad  SR Serbia 0044th

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Partizan (C) 22 15 2 5 53 23 +30 32 Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2 Red Star Belgrade 22 13 5 4 38 21 +17 31 Invitation for Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
3 Hajduk Split 22 13 4 5 32 22 +10 30
4 Dinamo Zagreb 22 10 7 5 36 27 +9 27 Invitation for Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
5 Vojvodina 22 10 3 9 32 29 +3 23
6 OFK Belgrade 22 8 7 7 30 30 0 23
7 Rijeka 22 10 2 10 32 36 −4 22
8 Sarajevo 22 6 6 10 33 39 −6 18 Invitation for Balkans Cup
9 Velež 22 5 7 10 27 39 −12 17
10 Vardar 22 6 5 11 21 36 −15 17 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
11 RNK Split (R) 22 5 6 11 29 38 −9 16 Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
12 Radnički Beograd (R) 22 4 0 18 33 58 −25 8
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

CHAMPIONS: FK Partizan (head coach: Stjepan Bobek)

player (league matches/league goals)
Tomislav Kaloperović (22/7)
Milutin Šoškić (22/0) (goalkeeper)
Velibor Vasović (22/1)
Fahrudin Jusufi (22/0)
Milan Galić (21/14)
Milan Vukelić (20/8)
Joakim Vislavski (20/5)
Vladica Kovačević (18/4)
Lazar Radović (17/3)
Jovan Miladinović (16/2)
Branislav Mihajlović (12/5)
Aleksandar Jončić (11/0)
Velimir Sombolac (9/0)
Bora Milutinović (6/2)
Bruno Belin (5/0)
Ilija Mitić (5/0)
Božidar Pajević (5/0)
Milorad Milutinović (2/0)
Miodrag Petrović (1/0)
Dragomir Slišković (1/0)

Top scorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Zoran Prljinčević Radnički Belgrade 16
Todor Veselinović Vojvodina
3 Andrija Anković Hajduk Split 15
4 Milan Galić Partizan 14
5 Tonči Gulin RNK Split 13
6 Anton Rudinski Red Star 10
Željko Matuš Dinamo Zagreb
8 Bora Kostić Red Star 9
Bruno Veselica Rijeka
Zijad Arslanagić Sarajevo

See also
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