1997–98 First League of FR Yugoslavia

The 1997–98 First League of FR Yugoslavia was the sixth season of the FR Yugoslavia's top-level football league since its establishment.

First League of FR Yugoslavia

Season	1997–98
Champions	Obilić 1st domestic title
Champions League	Obilić
UEFA Cup	Red Star
Cup Winners' Cup	Partizan
Intertoto Cup	Vojvodina
Goals scored	560
Top goalscorer	Saša Marković (27)
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

Overview

The league was divided into 2 groups, A and B, consisting each of 10 clubs. Both groups were played in league system. By winter break all clubs in each group meet each other twice, home and away, with the bottom four classified from A group moving to the group B, and being replaced by the top four from the B group. At the end of the season because the two groups league format was being abandoned for the next season and replaced by a single league consisting of 16 clubs, more clubs were relegated, six, and only the two first classified from the Second League of FR Yugoslavia would be promoted.

At the end of the season FK Obilić became champions for the first time in their history.

The league's top-scorer with a total of 27 goals was Saša Marković who played the first half of the season with FK Železnik and moving during the winter break to Red Star Belgrade where he played the rest of the season.

Six clubs were relegated at the end of the season: FK Budućnost Valjevo, FK Rudar Pljevlja, FK Sutjeska Nikšić, FK Loznica, FK Borac Čačak and FK Bečej.

Teams

Belgrade

Bečej

Borac

Budućnost P.

Budućnost V.

Hajduk

Loznica

Mladost

Priština

Proleter

Radnički K.

Radnički Niš

Rudar

Sartid

Spartak

Sutjeska

Vojvodina

Belgrade clubs:

Čukarički
Obilić
OFK Beograd
Partizan
Rad
Red Star
Zemun
Železnik

Location of teams in the 1997–98 First League
Red: 1A League; Blue: 1B League.

1A League

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Partizan	Belgrade	Partizan Stadium	32,710
Red Star	Belgrade	Red Star Stadium	55,538
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	Karađorđe Stadium	17,204
Zemun	Zemun, Belgrade	Zemun Stadium	10,000
Rad	Belgrade	Stadion Kralj Petar I	6,000
Proleter	Zrenjanin	Stadion Karađorđev park	13,500
Hajduk Kula	Kula	Stadion Hajduk	6,000
Budućnost Podgorica	Podgorica	Podgorica City Stadium	12,000
Obilić	Belgrade	FK Obilić Stadium	4,500
Železnik	Belgrade	Železnik Stadium	8,000
Mladost Lučani	Lučani	Mladost Stadium	8,000
Čukarički	Belgrade	Stadion Čukarički	7,000

1B League

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Priština	Priština	Priština City Stadium	25,000
Radnički	Kragujevac	Čika Dača Stadium	15,000
Loznica	Loznica	Stadion Lagator	4,000
Borac	Čačak	Čačak Stadium	6,000
Sutjeska	Nikšić	Gradski stadion (Nikšić)	10,800
OFK Beograd	Karaburma, Belgrade	Omladinski Stadium	20,000
Spartak	Subotica	Subotica City Stadium	13,000
Radnički Niš	Niš	Čair Stadium	18,000
Bečej	Bečej	Stadion kraj Tise	3,000
Budućnost Valjevo	Valjevo	Park Pećina	6,000
Sartid	Smederevo	Smederevo City Stadium	17,200
Rudar Pljevlja	Pljevlja	Stadion pod Golubinjom	10,000

IA league

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Obilić (C)	33	27	5	1	72	19	+53	86	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Red Star	33	27	3	3	86	22	+64	84	Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Partizan	33	22	4	7	73	38	+35	70	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
4	Vojvodina	33	14	7	12	57	63	−6	49	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
5	Rad	33	12	6	15	35	39	−4	42
6	Zemun	33	10	9	14	38	50	−12	39
7	Hajduk Kula	33	10	5	18	32	51	−19	35
8	Budućnost Podgorica	33	8	9	16	27	53	−26	33
9	Proleter Zrenjanin	33	10	2	21	40	64	−24	32
10	Železnik	33	9	5	19	43	62	−19	32
11	Čukarički (R)	33	9	4	20	32	45	−13	31	Qualification for relegation play-off
12	Mladost Lučani (R)	33	9	3	21	25	54	−29	30	Relegation to Second League of FR Yugoslavia

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

First and second round

Home \ Away	BPO	ČUK	HAJ	MLA	OBI	PAR	PRO	RAD	RSB	VOJ	ZEM	ŽEL
Budućnost Podgorica		0–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–3	1–1	4–2
Čukarički	2–0		4–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	3–1	1–2	1–3	2–1	1–1	1–1
Hajduk Kula	2–0	1–0		3–1	0–4	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–2	4–1	1–0
Mladost Lučani	1–0	0–0	2–1		1–5	0–2	2–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–2
Obilić	2–0	1–0	6–0	4–0		1–2	1–0	1–0	4–2	1–0	2–1	3–1
Partizan	6–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	1–2		4–1	2–1	1–2	5–6	10–3	3–0
Proleter Zrenjanin	2–1	0–3	3–1	2–0	1–2	1–2		2–2	0–3	2–0	0–1	2–1
Rad	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–4	1–1	2–0		0–1	0–2	4–0	0–1
Red Star	2–0	2–0	4–1	4–0	0–1	2–0	5–0	1–0		5–0	4–1	2–1
Vojvodina	2–2	4–2	3–1	3–2	1–1	2–3	3–1	3–1	1–7		1–1	3–2
Zemun	5–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–2		3–1
Železnik	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	3–4	1–1	1–4	2–0	3–4	1–1	2–1

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

Third round

Home \ Away	BPO	ČUK	HAJ	MLA	OBI	PAR	PRO	RAD	RSB	VOJ	ZEM	ŽEL
Budućnost Podgorica		2–0	0–0	2–0			2–1					1–0
Čukarički			1–0		1–3	0–1					0–0	1–0
Hajduk Kula				1–0			3–1	2–1	0–1	2–0
Mladost Lučani		3–0			0–2	2–0					0–1	2–1
Obilić	2–0		2–0					2–1	2–2	4–0		2–0
Partizan	4–0		1–1		0–1			1–0		2–1		4–0
Proleter Zrenjanin		2–1		1–0	1–1	0–1					1–0
Rad	4–0	2–1		1–0			2–1		0–1	2–0
Red Star	4–0	3–0		2–0		4–0	5–1				3–1
Vojvodina	0–0	2–0		3–1			3–2		1–3		3–1
Zemun	0–0		1–0		0–1	2–3		4–0				2–2
Železnik			2–1				2–3	1–1	2–1	2–1

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

IB league

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	OFK Beograd (P)	33	19	8	6	61	34	+27	65	Promotion to First League of FR Yugoslavia
2	Sartid (P)	33	19	6	8	46	23	+23	63
3	Priština (P)	33	17	9	7	57	28	+29	60
4	Spartak Subotica (P)	33	17	5	11	56	40	+16	56
5	Radnički Niš (P)	33	14	12	7	49	35	+14	54
6	Radnički Kragujevac (P)	33	16	5	12	50	43	+7	53	Qualification for relegation play-off
7	Budućnost Valjevo (R)	33	13	6	14	43	52	−9	45	Relegation to Second League of FR Yugoslavia
8	Rudar Pljevlja (R)	33	13	4	16	44	54	−10	43
9	Sutjeska (R)	33	8	8	17	34	43	−9	32
10	Loznica (R)	33	7	7	19	24	46	−22	28
11	Borac Čačak (R)	33	7	7	19	32	65	−33	28
12	Bečej (R)	33	8	3	22	22	54	−32	27

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

First and second round

Home \ Away	BEČ	BOR	BVA	LOZ	OFK	PRI	RDK	RNI	RUD	SAR	SPA	SUT
Bečej		3–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–3	0–4	1–2	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–0
Borac Čačak	1–3		0–1	0–1	0–4	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–1
Budućnost Valjevo	2–0	3–1		3–1	0–2	2–0	3–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	0–3	1–1
Loznica	2–0	1–0	2–2		1–2	1–2	3–0	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0
OFK Beograd	3–2	1–2	4–1	3–0		0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	3–3	2–0
Priština	5–0	5–1	4–0	1–1	2–0		3–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–0
Radnički Kragujevac	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–1	2–4	1–3		2–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	3–1
Radnički Niš	3–1	3–0	3–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–1		5–1	1–1	2–1	1–0
Rudar Pljevlja	1–0	2–1	5–0	1–0	1–3	3–1	1–1	1–1		1–0	2–1	3–0
Sartid	3–0	4–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–3	2–1	4–1	5–0		1–0	3–1
Spartak Subotica	1–0	3–1	4–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–4	1–0	3–1	0–1		1–0
Sutjeska	1–0	4–0	4–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–1

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

Third round

Home \ Away	BEČ	BOR	BVA	LOZ	OFK	PRI	RDK	RNI	RUD	SAR	SPA	SUT
Bečej			1–0			0–1	0–1	0–0				2–2
Borac Čačak	2–0		0–2	2–2					3–0			2–1
Budućnost Valjevo				1–0		3–1		1–0	1–1
Loznica	2–1				0–2				1–1	0–2	1–2
OFK Beograd	1–0	3–2	1–1				5–2	4–1				2–1
Priština		0–0		2–0	0–0				3–0	0–1	0–0
Radnički Kragujevac		4–1	3–2	2–0		2–2		0–0	2–0		1–2
Radnički Niš		1–1		0–0		0–3			5–3	1–0	1–1
Rudar Pljevlja	5–1				1–0					0–1	1–0	2–1
Sartid	1–0	2–0	3–1		0–0		1–0					2–0
Spartak Subotica	3–0	2–0	2–1		5–3					5–0		2–0
Sutjeska			1–1	2–0		2–1	0–0	1–2

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

Relegation playoff

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Čukarički	1–1 (4–5 p)	Radnički Kragujevac	1–0	0–1

Winning squad

Champions: FK Obilić (Coach: Dragan Okuka)

Players (league matches/goals)

• Milan Lešnjak
• Miroslav Savić (32/1)
• Nenad Lukić (32/0)
• Saša Kovačević (30/7)
• Zoran Ranković (29/23)
• Nenad Grozdić (29/4)
• Kuzman Babeu (29/4)
• Dragan Šarac (29/3)
• Marjan Živković (28/7)
• Živojin Juškić (28/4)
• Darko Nović (27/1)
• Ivan Vukomanović (24/3)
• Saša Viciknez (16/3)
• Sahmir Garčević (16/1)
• Darko Vargec (14/0)
• Goran Serafimović (8/0)
• Siniša Jelić (7/3)
• Veselin Popović (7/3)
• Ivan Litera (7/2)
• Predrag Filipović (7/0)
• Miroslav Milošević (7/0)
• Vladan Milosavljević (5/0)
• Duško Košutić (2/0)
• Zoran Ivić (2/0)
• Mirko Babić (1/1)
• Radovan Gajić (1/0)
• Slaviša Mitić (1/0)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Saša Marković	Red Star	27
2	Zoran Ranković	Obilić	23
3	Dejan Stanković	Red Star	15
4	Zoran Jovičić	Red Star	13
5	Dragan Isailović	Partizan	12
6	Aleksandar Jović	Čukarički	11
	Zoran Janković	Železnik
	Goran Obradović	Partizan
9	Radovan Marković	Mladost Lučani	10
	Dragan Jović	Proleter Zrenjanin

External sources

• Obilic team in Tripod.com

External links

• Tables and results at RSSSF