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

Season	1972–73
Dates	20 August 1972 – 24 June 1973
Champions	Red Star (11th title)
Relegated	Spartak Sutjeska
Top goalscorer	Vojin Lazarević Slobodan Santrač (25 goals each)
← 1971–72 1973–74 →

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	—
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	—
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[a]	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.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Vardar was invited to the Balkans Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	BOR	BBL	ČEL	DIN	HAJ	OFK	OLI	PAR	RNI	RSB	SAR	SLO	SPA	SUT	VAR	VEL	VOJ	ŽEL
Bor		0–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–5	4–1	0–0	4–1	1–0	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–2
Borac Banja Luka	3–1		0–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	6–0	0–1	2–0	1–2
Čelik	0–0	0–0		4–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	0–2	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–2
Dinamo Zagreb	4–1	1–0	0–0		1–0	0–4	7–3	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	4–3	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1
Hajduk Split	4–0	1–1	3–0	1–1		1–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	4–0	2–2	3–0	5–0	0–3	7–0	3–2
OFK Belgrade	3–1	1–0	1–0	4–2	2–0		4–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	4–3
Olimpija	1–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	4–0	0–0		2–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–2	0–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	3–1	0–1
Partizan	2–2	2–1	4–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0		2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0
Radnički Niš	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1		1–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0
Red Star	5–1	2–0	5–1	1–0	4–0	3–3	1–0	2–0	3–1		4–1	3–1	3–1	3–2	3–2	1–1	3–1	3–0
Sarajevo	3–1	0–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	3–0	1–2	2–2		0–0	4–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	3–2	2–4
Sloboda Tuzla	3–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–0		1–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–3
Spartak Subotica	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	4–0	1–1		2–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–1
Sutjeska	5–3	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–3	1–0	2–2	3–1		0–2	0–0	1–2	3–2
Vardar	1–0	1–0	2–0	4–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–3	0–0		1–0	2–1	4–1
Velež	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–3	4–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	4–0		2–1	2–1
Vojvodina	0–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	4–1	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	1–2		1–1
Željezničar	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	4–1	1–3	0–1	0–0	7–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–0

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

Winning squad

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
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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