2017–18 Serbian First League

The Serbian First League (Serbian: Prva liga Srbije) is the second-highest football league in Serbia. The league is operated by the Serbian FA. 16 teams compete in the league for the 2017–18 season. Two teams will be promoted to the Serbian SuperLiga. Four teams will be relegated to the Serbian League, the third-highest division overall in the Serbian football league system. Bratstvo Prigrevica, the winner of 2016–17 Serbian League Vojvodina decided to forfeit its promotion, as did the second-placed Omladinac Novi Banovci. As a consequence, third-placed TSC took the vacant place.^[1] The season begun in August 2017 and will end in May 2018.

Serbian First League

Season	2017–18
Champions	Proleter
Promoted	Proleter, Dinamo
Relegated	Radnički Pirot, Temnić 1924, ČSK, Jagodina
Matches played	240
Goals scored	551 (2.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Zakaria Suraka (Dinamo), 17 goals
Biggest home win	TSC 7–0 Temnić 1924 (31 May 2018)
Biggest away win	Jagodina 0–3 Radnički 1923 (9 September 2017) Radnički 0–3 Metalac (1 October 2017) Bežanija 0–3 Teleoptik (25 November 2017) ČSK 0–3 Sinđelić(10 March 2018) Sinđelić 0–3 Proleter (6 May 2018) Radnički 1923 0–3 Dinamo (31 May 2018) Sloboda 0–3 Radnički Pirot(31 May 2018)
Highest scoring	Radnički 3–5 Dinamo (16 September 2017)
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2016–17 season.

To First League

Promoted from Serbian League

• Teleoptik
• Temnić 1924
• TSC
• Radnički 1923

Relegated from Serbian SuperLiga

• Metalac
• Novi Pazar

From First League

Relegated to Serbian League

• Kolubara
• BSK Borča
• OFK Odžaci
• OFK Beograd

Promoted to Serbian SuperLiga

• Mačva Šabac
• Zemun

2017–18 teams

Belgrade

Dinamo

Proleter

Inđija

Sloboda

ČSK

Radnički

Metalac

Novi Pazar

Radnički 1923

Temnić

TSC

Jagodina

Belgrade clubs:

Bežanija
Budućnost
Sinđelić
Teleoptik

Location of teams in the 2017–18 Serbian First league

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Kit manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Bežanija	Belgrade	Stadion FK Bežanija	4,000	Sportika
Budućnost Dobanovci	Belgrade	Stadion FK Budućnost	1,000	Legea
ČSK Čelarevo	Čelarevo	Stadion Pivare	3,000	NAAI
Dinamo Vranje	Vranje	Stadion Yumco	4,000	Nike
Inđija	Inđija	Stadion FK Inđija	4,500	Jako	ZUTI Market
Jagodina	Jagodina	Jagodina City Stadium	15,000	Legea
Metalac Gornji Milanovac	Gornji Milanovac	Stadion Metalac	4,400	Image Sport	Metalac a.d.
Novi Pazar	Novi Pazar	Novi Pazar City Stadium	13,000	Givova
Proleter Novi Sad	Novi Sad	Stadion Slana Bara	2,000	Umbro
Radnički Kragujevac	Kragujevac	Čika Dača Stadium	15,100	NAAI	Grad Kragujevac
Radnički Pirot	Pirot	Stadion Dragan Nikolić	13,816	Asics	Tigar Tyres
Sinđelić Beograd	Belgrade	Stadion FK Sinđelić	1,500	NAAI	AMS Osiguranje
Sloboda Užice	Užice	Užice City Stadium	12,000	NAAI	UNITRAG
Teleoptik	Zemun	SC Partizan-Teleoptik	5,000	Adidas
TSC	Bačka Topola	Bačka Topola City Stadium	5,000	Adidas	SAT-TRAKT Communications
Temnić 1924	Varvarin	Mičetov stadion (Kruševac)	1,500	M-Sport	MAK 037 Trade d.o.o.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Proleter Novi Sad (C, P)	30	20	5	5	63	25	+38	65	Promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga
2	Dinamo Vranje (P)	30	20	3	7	47	24	+23	63
3	Metalac Gornji Milanovac	30	17	6	7	43	21	+22	57
4	TSC	30	15	9	6	49	22	+27	54
5	Inđija	30	12	9	9	30	25	+5	45
6	Sinđelić Beograd	30	13	6	11	31	32	−1	45
7	Bežanija	30	11	11	8	35	32	+3	44
8	Teleoptik	30	10	10	10	39	32	+7	40
9	Novi Pazar	30	9	13	8	28	33	−5	40
10	Budućnost Dobanovci	30	9	11	10	33	33	0	38
11	Radnički 1923	30	10	6	14	32	39	−7	36
12	Sloboda Užice	30	9	7	14	23	35	−12	34
13	Radnički Pirot (R)	30	8	7	15	28	39	−11	31	Relegation to the Serbian League
14	Temnić 1924 (R)	30	6	8	16	24	47	−23	26
15	ČSK (R)	30	4	10	16	30	53	−23	22
16	Jagodina[a] (R)	30	3	7	20	16	59	−43	10

Source: Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Due to not paying agreed transfer fee Jagodina received 6 points deduction.^[2]

Results

Home \ Away	BEŽ	BDO	ČSK	DVR	INĐ	JAG	MET	NPZ	PNS	RDK	RPI	SIN	SUŽ	TLO	TEM	TSC
Bežanija		2–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	4–0	0–3	0–0	2–1
Budućnost Dobanovci	1–1		1–1	1–2	1–0	4–0	0–0	1–1	1–3	2–0	3–1	0–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1
ČSK Čelarevo	0–0	2–2		0–1	1–1	5–1	1–3	2–2	1–3	0–0	2–1	0–3	3–1	3–2	2–2	0–3
Dinamo Vranje	3–1	1–0	1–0		2–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1
Inđija	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–1		3–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1
Jagodina	1–2	1–1	3–2	0–0	0–0		0–2	0–1	2–2	0–3	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–1
Metalac Gornji Milanovac	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–2	2–0	1–0		1–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–3	2–0	1–1
Novi Pazar	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	4–3	2–1	0–0		1–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–0
Proleter Novi Sad	3–2	3–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	6–0	2–3	5–0		2–0	5–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–2
Radnički 1923	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–3	1–0	5–0	0–1	2–0	1–3		0–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	4–2	2–2
Radnički Pirot	0–2	0–0	2–0	3–5	0–0	3–1	0–3	1–0	1–2	2–1		2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–2
Sinđelić Beograd	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–3	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–3	3–0	2–0		1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0
Sloboda Užice	0–0	0–2	5–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–3	1–0		2–1	2–0	2–3
Teleoptik	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–3	2–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	4–0	2–2	2–1	4–0	3–0		0–0	2–0
Temnić 1924	3–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	0–2	4–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–3		0–2
TSC	4–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	7–0

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

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 31 May 2018; Source: Prva liga official website

Pos	Scorer	Team	Goals
1	Zakaria Suraka	Dinamo	17
2	Milan Mirosavljev	Proleter	16
3	Slađan Nikodijević	Inđija	13
4	Slobodan Novaković	Proleter	12
5	Željko Dimitrov	Radnički Pirot	11

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Zakaria Suraka	Dinamo	Sinđelić	4:1	13 November 2017