1975–76 Yugoslav First League

1975–76 Yugoslav First League was the 49th season of the Yugoslav First League, the top tier of football in SFR Yugoslavia, contested from 17 August 1975 to 11 July 1976. It featured eighteen teams playing a double round-robin schedule, totaling 272 matches and 705 goals (2.59 per match).

FK Partizan claimed their seventh national championship, finishing first with 22 wins, 6 draws, and 6 losses, earning 50 points and securing qualification for the European Cup. Hajduk Split, under manager Tomislav Ivić, finished second with 49 points and qualified for the Cup Winners’ Cup.

The top scorer of the season was Nenad Bjeković of Partizan, who netted 24 goals. Meanwhile, Vardar and Radnički Kragujevac were relegated to the Second League.

In addition to league play, league teams also earned spots in European competitions the following season, and notable performances in domestic cups and continental tournaments underscored the strength of Yugoslav football during this era.

Prva savezna liga

Season	1975–76
Dates	17 August 1975 – 11 July 1976
Champions	Partizan (7th title)
Relegated	Vardar Radnički Kragujevac
European Cup	Partizan
Cup Winners' Cup	Hajduk Split
UEFA Cup	Dinamo Zagreb Red Star
Matches played	272
Goals scored	705 (2.59 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nenad Bjeković (24)
Average attendance	11,670
← 1974–75 1976–77 →

Teams

A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1974–75 season and two sides promoted from the 1974–75 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.

FK Bor and Proleter Zrenjanin were relegated from the 1974–75 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Borac Banja Luka and Budućnost.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1974–75
Borac Banja Luka	Banja Luka	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Budućnost	Titograd	SR Montenegro	—
Čelik	Zenica	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01111th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0055th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0011st
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0088th
Olimpija Ljubljana	Ljubljana	SR Slovenia	01212th
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0066th
Radnički Kragujevac	Kragujevac	SR Serbia	01515th
Radnički Niš	Niš	SR Serbia	01010th
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0033rd
NK Rijeka	Rijeka	SR Croatia	01414th
FK Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01313th
Sloboda	Tuzla	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0077th
Vardar	Skopje	SR Macedonia	01616th
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0044th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0022nd
Željezničar	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0099th

Managers

Club Managers Borac Banja Luka Miljenko Mihić Budućnost Dušan Varagić Čelik Alojz Renić Dinamo Zagreb Mirko Bazić Hajduk Split Tomislav Ivić OFK Belgrade Milutin Šoškić Olimpija Ljubljana Slavko Luštica Partizan Tomislav Kaloperović Radnički Kragujevac Zoran Ristić

Club Managers Radnički Niš Ðorđe Kačunković Red Star Belgrade Milovan Ćirić Rijeka Gojko Zec Sarajevo Vukašin Višnjevac Sloboda Josip Duvančić Vardar Petar Šulinčevski Velež Sulejman Rebac Vojvodina Todor Veselinović Željezničar Milan Ribar

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Partizan (C)	34	22	6	6	60	30	+30	50	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Hajduk Split	34	19	11	4	57	22	+35	49	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Dinamo Zagreb	34	17	10	7	38	23	+15	44	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Red Star Belgrade	34	16	8	10	53	31	+22	40
5	Vojvodina	34	11	12	11	41	42	−1	34	Qualification for Intertoto Cup
6	Sloboda Tuzla	34	11	11	12	46	42	+4	33
7	Sarajevo	34	12	9	13	45	51	−6	33
8	OFK Belgrade	34	13	7	14	40	48	−8	33
9	Velež	34	10	12	12	39	37	+2	32
10	Borac Banja Luka	34	9	14	11	34	40	−6	32
11	Rijeka	34	9	13	12	35	37	−2	31
12	Željezničar	34	11	9	14	40	47	−7	31
13	Čelik	34	10	10	14	29	35	−6	30
14	Olimpija	34	10	10	14	37	44	−7	30
15	Budućnost	34	11	8	15	25	42	−17	30
16	Radnički Niš	34	7	15	12	30	41	−11	29
17	Vardar (R)	34	8	12	14	27	36	−9	28	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
18	Radnički Kragujevac (R)	34	8	7	19	29	57	−28	23

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

Results

Home \ Away	BOR	BUD	ČEL	DIN	HAJ	OFK	OLI	PAR	RDK	RNI	RSB	RIJ	SAR	SLO	VAR	VEL	VOJ	ŽEL
Borac Banja Luka		0–0	3–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–1
Budućnost	0–0		0–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–3	1–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0
Čelik	2–1	2–0		2–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	0–3	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–4	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–1
Dinamo Zagreb	1–0	1–0	3–1		0–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0
Hajduk Split	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–1		4–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–3	4–0	4–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	5–1
OFK Belgrade	0–3	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–1		1–1	2–1	5–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	3–0	3–2	1–0	1–3	3–1	1–0
Olimpija	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	4–2	2–1		0–1	1–0	3–2	2–2	1–1	1–3	1–1	3–1	1–2	3–2	1–1
Partizan	4–0	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–6	2–0	1–0		3–0	2–0	1–4	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	5–2	0–0
Radnički Kragujevac	4–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–3	1–2		2–1	0–0	3–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	3–0	1–0
Radnički Niš	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	4–1	2–0	0–2	0–0		0–0	2–2	2–0	2–2	0–0	4–3	1–0	0–1
Red Star	2–1	4–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	5–0	3–0		2–1	5–1	1–3	3–1	1–0	1–1	3–0
Rijeka	0–0	5–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–1		2–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–3
Sarajevo	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	6–0	2–1	3–5	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–0		3–3	3–1	0–0	3–0	2–2
Sloboda Tuzla	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	6–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0		0–0	1–0	2–0	2–2
Vardar	2–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–0		1–0	2–0	1–0
Velež	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	4–2	2–0		2–2	2–2
Vojvodina	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	4–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0		2–0
Željezničar	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–3	3–0	0–1	1–4	5–3	0–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	4–2

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

Winning squad

Champions: FK Partizan

Player	League
	Matches	Goals
Momčilo Vukotić	33	7
Rešad Kunovac	33	0
Borislav Đurović	32	1
Radmilo Ivančević	32	0
Nenad Bjeković	31	24
Ilija Zavišić	31	6
Refik Kozić	30	0
Ivan Golac	26	0
Aranđel Todorović	25	2
Boško Đorđević	23	5
Predrag Tomić	23	1
Vukan Perović	19	7
Vladimir Pejović	19	0
Dragan Arsenović	16	1
Svemir Đorđić	14	1
Nenad Stojković	14	0
Pavle Grubješić	12	3
Aleksandar Trifunović	8	0
Radomir Antić	7	1
Blagoj Istatov	3	0
Sima Nikolić	3	0
Xhevat Prekazi	3	0
Nenad Cvetković	1	0
Head coach: Tomislav Kaloperović

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nenad Bjeković	Partizan	24
2	Dragutin Vabec	Dinamo Zagreb	19
3	Vahid Halilhodžić	Velež	17
4	Slaviša Žungul	Hajduk Split	14
5	Jovan Geca	Sloboda Tuzla	13
6	Jurica Jerković	Hajduk Split	12
7	Zoran Filipović	Red Star	11
8	Srebrenko Repčić	Sarajevo	10
	Muhamed Ibrahimbegović	Borac Banja Luka
	Goran Jurišić	Olimpija
	Vili Ameršek	Olimpija

Attendance

Club	Average home attendance	Average away attendance
Red Star Belgrade	27,176	23,882
FK Partizan	22,647	24,412
Dinamo Zagreb	18,176	13,912
Hajduk Split	17,941	23,647
Budućnost Titograd	12,529	8,176
FK Vardar	12,235	7,265
Borac Banja Luka	10,147	9,412
NK Rijeka	9,176	7,794
Čelik Zenica	9,176	7,382
FK Sarajevo	9,147	9,412
FK Željezničar	9,000	10,647
Radnički Niš	8,941	8,941
FK Vojvodina	8,529	11,294
Radnički Kragujevac	8,029	7,912
NK Olimpija	7,265	8,765
FK Velež	7,235	11,324
OFK Beograd	6,382	8,441
Sloboda Tuzla	6,324	7,441

• Overall league attendance per match: 11,670 spectators

See also

• 1975–76 Yugoslav Cup
• Yugoslav League Championship
• Football Association of Yugoslavia

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables