1972–73 Yugoslav First League

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.

Prva savezna liga
Season1972–73
Dates20 August 1972 – 24 June 1973
ChampionsRed Star (11th title)
RelegatedSpartak
Sutjeska
Top goalscorerVojin Lazarević
Slobodan Santrač
(25 goals each)

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 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 N/A
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
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[lower-alpha 1] 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
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Vardar was invited to the Balkans Cup.

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
Slobodan Santrač OFK Belgrade
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

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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