2016–17 Serbian SuperLiga

The 2016–17 Serbian SuperLiga was the eleventh season of the Serbian SuperLiga. Red Star are the defending champions. The fixtures were announced on 15 June 2016.^[2] Red Star Belgrade drew the highest average home attendance of the league (9,056).^[3]

SuperLiga

Season	2016–17
Champions	Partizan 8th SuperLiga Title 27th domestic title
Relegated	Metalac, Novi Pazar
Europa League	Red Star, Vojvodina, Mladost
Matches played	296
Goals scored	718 (2.43 per match)
Top goalscorer	Uroš Đurđević, Leonardo (24)
Biggest home win	Red Star 5–0 Radnik Surdulica Vojvodina 5–0 Spartak Partizan 5–0 Mladost
Biggest away win	Novi Pazar 0–5 Čukarički
Highest scoring	Spartak 2–5 Novi Pazar Čukarički 3–4 Red Star
Longest winning run	Partizan 13 games
Longest unbeaten run	Partizan 31 games
Longest losing run	Borac, Novi Pazar 8 games
Highest attendance	41,132[1] (Crvena zvezda versus Partizan)
Average attendance	2,301
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Teams

The league consisted of 16 teams: fourteen teams from the 2015–16 Serbian SuperLiga and two new teams from the 2015–16 Serbian First League. Napredak Kruševac, the 2015–16 First League champion, joined the top level two years after being relegated. Runners-up Bačka joined SuperLiga for the first time in history.

Stadiums and locations

Belgrade

Bačka

Borac

Javor

Metalac

Mladost

Napredak

Novi Pazar

Radnički

Radnik

Spartak

Vojvodina

Belgrade clubs:

Čukaricki
Partizan
Rad
Red Star
Voždovac

Location of teams in the 2016–17 Serbian SuperLiga

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Front shirt sponsor
OFK Bačka	Zoran Govedarica	Veseljko Trivunović	Dmag	AD Podunavlje
FK Borac Čačak	Milorad Kosanović	Zoran Kostić	NAAI	Škoda Auto
FK Čukarički	Nenad Lalatović	Igor Matić	adidas	ADOC
FK Javor Ivanjica	Srđan Blagojević	Milovan Milović	Miteks	Matis doo
FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac	Nenad Vanić	Aleksandar Ivanović	Image Sport	Metalac Group
FK Mladost Lučani	Nenad Milovanović	Ivan Milošević	Miteks	Miteks
FK Napredak Kruševac	Vuk Rašović	Jovan Markoski	Puma	—
FK Novi Pazar	Neško Milovanović	Irfan Vusljanin	Nike	Dragolovcanin
FK Partizan	Marko Nikolić	Saša Ilić	Nike	mt:s
FK Rad	Nebojša Petrović	Nikola Maraš	NAAI	Rubikon
FK Radnički Niš	Milan Rastavac	Aleksandar Jovanović	Hummel International	Niška pivara
FK Radnik Surdulica	Simo Krunić	Vladan Pavlović	Jako	—
Red Star Belgrade	Boško Đurovski	Aleksandar Luković	Puma	Gazprom
FK Spartak Subotica	Andrey Chernyshov	Vladimir Torbica	Legea	Ždrepčeva krv
FK Vojvodina	Dragan Ivanović	Nino Pekarić	Umbro	Energotehnika Južna Bačka
FK Voždovac	Ilija Stolica	Miloš Pavlović	NAAI	Stadion SC

Nike, Inc. is the official ball supplier for Serbian SuperLiga.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing	Manner	Exit date		Position in table	Incoming	Incoming date		Ref.
			Announced on	Departed on			Announced on	Arrived on

Transfers

For the list of transfers involving SuperLiga clubs during 2016–17 season, please see: List of Serbian football transfers summer 2016 and List of Serbian football transfers winter 2016–17.

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Star Belgrade	30	25	4	1	75	25	+50	79	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Partizan	30	23	4	3	59	17	+42	73
3	Vojvodina	30	18	5	7	51	26	+25	59
4	Napredak Kruševac	30	15	7	8	35	23	+12	52
5	Mladost Lučani	30	14	6	10	35	29	+6	48
6	Radnički Niš	30	12	8	10	37	36	+1	44
7	Voždovac	30	13	4	13	35	38	−3	43
8	Javor Ivanjica	30	11	9	10	32	37	−5	42
9	Čukarički	30	11	7	12	40	42	−2	40	Qualification for the Relegation round
10	Spartak Subotica	30	10	8	12	38	47	−9	38
11	Rad	30	9	8	13	26	37	−11	35
12	Bačka	30	8	3	19	17	37	−20	27
13	Metalac	30	6	9	15	20	34	−14	27
14	Radnik Surdulica	30	6	7	17	24	42	−18	25
15	Novi Pazar	30	5	5	20	22	53	−31	20
16	Borac Čačak	30	4	6	20	22	45	−23	18

Source: UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored (if two teams tied); 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Fairplay ranking; 9) Draw.^[4]

Results

Each of the 16 competitors in the SuperLiga hosts every other team once in the regular season, for a total of 30 matches.

Home \ Away	BBP	BOR	ČUK	JAV	MET	MLA	NAP	NPZ	PAR	RAD	RNI	RSU	RSB	SPA	VOJ	VŽD
Bačka		1–0	3–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–2	0–3	1–3	0–1	2–1
Borac Čačak	1–0		2–3	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–3	0–1	1–2
Čukarički	1–0	1–1		2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–3	1–1	4–1	0–0	3–4	2–4	1–3	2–1
Javor Ivanjica	2–0	2–0	0–0		1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–4	2–3	2–1	0–1
Metalac	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–1		2–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	3–1	1–2	0–0	0–3	0–2
Mladost Lučani	1–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–1		1–0	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–4	4–1	2–0	0–1
Napredak Kruševac	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	0–0		3–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–0
Novi Pazar	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–2	0–1		1–3	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–4	2–4	1–2	0–1
Partizan	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	3–2	4–0		4–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–3	4–0
Rad	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	0–1		1–1	1–0	0–4	2–0	0–0	0–2
Radnički Niš	1–0	3–3	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–2	3–0		1–0	0–3	0–1	1–0	2–0
Radnik Surdulica	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–3	1–0	1–2		1–2	2–1	0–0	3–1
Red Star Belgrade	2–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	3–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	5–0		2–1	4–1	3–0
Spartak Subotica	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–5	2–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–1		1–4	0–2
Vojvodina	1–0	2–1	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	3–2	1–1	2–0	2–3	5–0		3–1
Voždovac	4–0	2–0	1–3	1–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–3	0–0	1–4	3–0	0–1	0–3[5]	4–1

Source: ^[6]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

Championship round

The top eight teams advance from the regular season. Points from the regular season are halved with half points rounded up. Teams play each other once.^[4]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Partizan (C)	37	30	4	3	78	22	+56	58	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Red Star Belgrade	37	30	4	3	93	33	+60	55	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round[a]
3	Vojvodina	37	22	6	9	58	31	+27	43
4	Mladost Lučani	37	18	6	13	46	44	+2	36
5	Radnički Niš	37	15	9	13	47	46	+1	32
6	Napredak Kruševac	37	16	8	13	44	36	+8	30
7	Voždovac	37	14	6	17	41	51	−10	27
8	Javor Ivanjica	37	11	10	16	34	50	−16	22

Source: UEFA, Soccereway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 1) Points in regular season; 2) Head-to-head points in regular season; 3) Head-to-head goal difference in regular season; 4) Head-to-head goals scored in regular season; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored in regular season (if two teams tied); 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Fairplay ranking; 9) Play-off (if two teams tied and need to decide champion or teams for UEFA competitions); 10) Draw.^[4]
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. Since the winners of the 2016–17 Serbian Cup, Partizan, qualified for European competition based on league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners (Europa League first qualifying round) was passed to the fourth-placed team.

Relegation round

The bottom eight teams from the regular season play in the relegation round. Points from the regular season are halved with half points rounded up. Teams play each other once.^[4]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
9	Čukarički	37	15	7	15	54	49	+5	32
10	Spartak Subotica	37	14	9	14	47	55	−8	32
11	Rad	37	11	9	17	29	45	−16	25
12	Radnik Surdulica	37	9	10	18	35	48	−13	25
13	Bačka	37	11	3	23	27	46	−19	23
14	Borac Čačak	37	8	7	22	29	51	−22	22
15	Metalac (R)	37	8	10	19	27	43	−16	21	Relegation to the Serbian First League
16	Novi Pazar (R)	37	7	6	24	29	68	−39	17

Source: UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 1) Points in regular season; 2) Head-to-head points in regular season; 3) Head-to-head goal difference in regular season; 4) Head-to-head goals scored in regular season; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored in regular season (if two teams tied); 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Fairplay ranking; 9) Play-off (if two teams tied and need to decide relegsation); 10) Draw.^[4]
(R) Relegated

Individual statistics

Top scorers

As of matches played on 21 May 2017.^[7]

Pos	Scorer	Team	Goals
1	Uroš Đurđević	Partizan	24
	Leonardo	Partizan
3	Milan Bojović	Mladost	16
	Filip Malbašić	Vojvodina
	Ognjen Mudrinski	Spartak
	Ognjen Ožegović	Čukarički

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Aleksandar Jevtić	Čukarički	Radnički Niš	4–1	19 November 2016
Ognjen Mudrinski	Spartak	Novi Pazar	2–4	4 December 2016
Uroš Đurđević	Partizan	Čukarički	1–3	11 December 2016
Milan Bojović	Mladost Lučani	Napredak Kruševac	3–2	17 May 2017
Ognjen Ožegović	Novi Pazar	Čukarički	0–5	17 May 2017
Richmond Boakye	Red Star	Radnički Niš	4–0	21 May 2017

Player of the week

Round	Player	Club	Goals	Assist
1	Darko Bjedov[8]	Javor	2	0
2	Josip Projić[9]	Napredak	1	0
3	Dejan Georgijević[10]	Voždovac	2	0
4	Enver Alivodić[11]	Novi Pazar	2	1
5	Aleksandar Katai[12]	Red Star	2	0
6	Aleksandar Paločević[13]	Vojvodina	2	0
7	Leonardo[14]	Partizan	1	1
8	Milan Pavkov[15]	Radnički	2	0
9	Ognjen Mudrinski[16]	Spartak	1	2
10	John Ruiz	Red Star	1	1
11	Leonardo (2)[17]	Partizan	1	1
12	Dušan Anđelković[18]	Red Star	0	2
13	Bogdan Mladenović[19]	Rad	2	0
14	Ibrahima N'Diaye[20]	Napredak	2	1
15	Marko Docić[21]	Čukarički	2	0
16	Aleksandar Jevtić[22]	Čukarički	3	0
17	Milan Bojović[23]	Mladost	2	0
18	Stefan Dražić[24]	Voždovac	1	1
19	Ognjen Mudrinski (2)[25]	Spartak	3	1
20	Uroš Đurđević[26]	Partizan	3	0
21	Leonardo (3)[27]	Partizan	2	0
22	Nemanja Krznarić[28]	Mladost	0	0
23	Filip Malbašić[29]	Vojvodina	1	2
24	Saša Stojanović[30]	Radnički Niš	2	0
25	Nemanja Kojić[31]	Radnički Niš	1	1
26	Petar Bojić[32]	Čukarički	2	0
27	Richmond Boakye[33]	Red Star	2	1
28	Srđan Vujaklija[34]	Red Star	2	0
29	Stefan Dražić (2) [35]	Voždovac	1	0
30	Ognjen Ožegović[36]	Čukarički	2	0
31	Leonardo (4)[37]	Partizan	2	0
32	Ivan Marković[38]	Novi Pazar	2	0
33	Leonardo (5)[39]	Partizan	1	1
34	Zoran Popović[40]	Voždovac	0	0
35	Mihailo Ristić[41]	Red Star	1	1
36	Ognjen Ožegović (2) [42]	Čukarički	3	1
37	Richmond Boakye (2)[43]	Red Star	3	0

Awards

Team of the Season

Popović

Planić

Ostojić

Vulićević

Anđelković

Everton

Donald

Malbašić

Leonardo

Paločević

Đurđević

Serbian SuperLiga Team of the Year^[44]

Position	Player	Team
GK	Zoran Popović	Voždovac
RB	Miroslav Vulićević	Partizan
CB	Bogdan Planić	Vojvodina
CB	Bojan Ostojić	Partizan
LB	Dušan Anđelković	Red Star
RM	Filip Malbašić	Vojvodina
CM	Everton Luiz	Partizan
CM	Mitchell Donald	Red Star
LM	Leonardo	Partizan
AM	Aleksandar Paločević	Vojvodina
FW	Uroš Đurđević	Partizan

Player of the season

• Uroš Đurđević (Partizan)^[44]

Coach of the season

• Marko Nikolić (Partizan)^[44]