1962–63 Yugoslav First League

The 1962–63 Yugoslav First League season was the 17th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football league of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. Fourteen teams contested the competition, with Partizan winning their fifth title.

Prva savezna liga

Season	1962–63
Dates	19 August 1962 – 9 June 1963
Champions	Partizan (5th title)
Relegated	Sloboda Budućnost
European Cup	Partizan
Cup Winners' Cup	Dinamo Zagreb
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	OFK Beograd Trešnjevka
Top goalscorer	Mišo Smajlović (18)
← 1961–62 1963–64 →

Teams

Due to the expansion of the league from 12 to 14 clubs two teams were relegated at the end of the previous season (Vardar and Borac) and four were promoted - Budućnost, Radnički Niš, Željezničar and Sloboda.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1961–62
Budućnost	Titograd	SR Montenegro	—
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0033rd
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0055th
Novi Sad	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	01010th
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0066th
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0011st
Radnički Niš	Niš	SR Serbia	—
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0044th
Rijeka	Rijeka	SR Croatia	0088th
Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0077th
Sloboda	Tuzla	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0099th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0022nd
Željezničar	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Partizan (C)	26	16	8	2	58	22	+36	40	Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2	Dinamo Zagreb	26	14	7	5	52	35	+17	35	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Željezničar	26	11	7	8	49	31	+18	29
4	Velež	26	10	8	8	33	31	+2	28
5	OFK Belgrade	26	10	8	8	42	40	+2	28	Invitation for Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
6	Radnički Niš	26	10	6	10	43	33	+10	26
7	Red Star Belgrade	26	7	11	8	21	26	−5	25
8	Novi Sad	26	7	10	9	29	37	−8	24
9	Sarajevo	26	9	5	12	28	40	−12	23
10	Rijeka	26	10	3	13	28	41	−13	23
11	Hajduk Split	26	9	5	12	26	43	−17	23
12	Vojvodina	26	9	4	13	43	40	+3	22
13	Sloboda Tuzla (R)	26	8	4	14	29	43	−14	20	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
14	Budućnost (R)	26	5	8	13	19	38	−19	18

Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BUD	DIN	HAJ	NSD	OFK	PAR	RNI	RSB	RIJ	SAR	SLO	VEL	VOJ	ŽEL
Budućnost		1–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–2	3–1	0–0	1–3	0–1	2–1	3–3	1–0	0–0
Dinamo Zagreb	2–0		0–1	0–3	1–0	3–3	4–1	0–0	5–0	4–0	5–2	2–1	1–0	2–1
Hajduk Split	1–2	1–4		2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–0
Novi Sad	0–0	1–2	0–0		1–2	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0
OFK Belgrade	2–1	3–3	1–0	1–1		1–3	3–3	2–2	6–1	5–3	2–1	0–1	3–2	2–0
Partizan	3–0	1–1	4–1	5–1	2–1		0–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	4–0	4–1	4–3	1–1
Radnički Niš	0–0	3–1	5–1	2–0	3–0	0–1		3–0[a]	3–0	2–0	0–2	3–0	5–3	1–1
Red Star	0–0	1–1	1–0	4–2	0–0	0–5	1–0		1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	3–0
Rijeka	2–0	0–2	4–0	2–1	2–2	0–2	0–0	1–0		1–2	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–0
Sarajevo	1–0	2–0	2–2	3–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0		2–1	0–0	0–3	1–2
Sloboda Tuzla	1–0	5–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0		1–1	3–1	0–2
Velež	3–1	2–3	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	4–0		3–2	1–0
Vojvodina	2–3	2–3	7–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–1		0–2
Željezničar	6–0	1–1	2–0	4–1	5–2	2–1	2–2	3–2	6–1	2–3	4–2	1–1	2–3

Source: DataSoccer.it
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Match awarded 3–0 to Radnički.

Winning squad

Champions: FK Partizan (head coach: Stjepan Bobek)

Player (league matches/league goals)

• Vladica Kovačević (26/14)
• Milutin Šoškić (26/0) (goalkeeper)
• Milan Galić (25/16)
• Fahrudin Jusufi (25/0)
• Velibor Vasović (24/2)
• Ljubomir Mihajlović (23/0)
• Milan Vukelić (18/2)
• Joakim Vislavski (16/7)
• Zvezdan Čebinac (16/0)
• Bora Milutinović (15/1)
• Velimir Sombolac (14/0)
• Mustafa Hasanagić (12/4)
• Anton Rudinski (8/6)
• Aleksandar Jončić (8/0)
• Ivan Rajić (6/1)
• Lazar Radović (5/2)
• Milorad Milutinović (5/0)
• Ilija Mitić (5/0)
• Dragomir Slišković (5/0)
• Branislav Mihajlović (4/1)
• Mane Bajić (4/0)
• Miodrag Petrović (3/1)
• Vladimir Petrović (3/0)
• Dragoslav Jovanović (2/0)
• Milan Damjanović (1/0)
• Zenun Brovina
• Dimitrije Davidović
• Poljan
• Jankulovski
• Milanović

Source:^[1]

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mišo Smajlović	Željezničar	18
2	Slaven Zambata	Dinamo Zagreb	17
3	Đorđe Pavlić	Vojvodina	16
	Milan Galić	Partizan
5	Vladimir Kovačević	Partizan	15
6	Dražan Jerković	Dinamo Zagreb	12
7	Josip Skoblar	OFK Belgrade	11
8	Mirko Gašić	Željezničar	10
	Silvester Takač	Vojvodina
	Vinko Zadel	Rijeka
	Vitomir Sovrović	Radnički Niš

See also

• 1962–63 Yugoslav Second League
• 1962–63 Yugoslav Cup