2019–20 Serbian First League

The 2019–20 Serbian First League was the 15th season of the Serbian First League since its establishment.

Serbian First League

Season	2019–20
Champions	Zlatibor
Promoted	Zlatibor Metalac Bačka Novi Pazar
Relegated	Sinđelić Smederevo 1924
Matches	240
Goals	516 (2.15 per match)
Top goalscorer	Aleksandar Katanić (19)
Biggest home win	Radnički 1923 5–1 Sinđelić Žarkovo 4–0 Budućnost Radnički Pirot 4–0 Smederevo 1924 Bačka 4–0 Novi Pazar
Biggest away win	Sinđelić 0–5 Grafičar
Highest scoring	Radnički 1923 5–1 Sinđelić Zlatibor 4–2 Sinđelić Metalac 4–2 Sinđelić Grafičar 4–2 Dinamo Smederevo 1924 3–3 Žarkovo Novi Pazar 2–4 Žarkovo
Longest winning run	Zlatibor 5 games
Longest unbeaten run	Kabel 12 games
Longest winless run	Budućnost 14 games
Longest losing run	Smederevo 1924 7 games
← 2018–19 2020–21 →

2019–20 league format

In 2019–20 season 16 teams competed in regular season. At the end of regular season top 8 teams were supposed to play promotion playoff round, while 8 lowest placed teams were supposed to play in the relegation playoff round. At the end of relegation playoff four bottom placed teams will be relegated to the Serbian League. At the end of promotion playoff round two top placed teams will earn promotion into Serbian SuperLiga, while third and fourth placed teams will play additional two round promotion playoff games against thirteen and fourteen placed teams from 2019–20 Serbian SuperLiga.^[1]

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2018–19 season.

To First League Promoted from Serbian League Grafičar Radnički Pirot Kabel Smederevo 1924 Kolubara[note 1] Relegated from 2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga Dinamo Zemun Bačka

From First League Relegated to Serbian League Bečej 1918 Teleoptik Sloboda Bežanija[note 1] Borac[note 1] Promoted to 2019–20 Serbian SuperLiga TSC Javor Inđija

Teams

Belgrade

Bačka

Dinamo

Kabel

Kolubara

Metalac

Novi Pazar

Radnički 1923

Radnički Pirot

Smederevo 1924

Trayal

Zlatibor

Belgrade clubs:

Budućnost
Grafičar
Sinđelić
Žarkovo
Zemun

Location of the 2019–20 Serbian First League teams

Budućnost

Grafičar

Sinđelić

Žarkovo

Zemun

Locations of the 2019–20 Serbian First League teams on the territory of Belgrade

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Bačka	Bačka Palanka	Stadion Slavko Maletin Vava	4,000
Budućnost Dobanovci	Belgrade	Stadion FK Budućnost	1,000
Dinamo Vranje	Vranje	Surdulica City Stadium	3,312
Grafičar	Belgrade	Topčiderska zvezda	1,000
Kabel	Novi Sad	Stadion FK Kabel	2,000
Kolubara	Lazarevac	Stadion FK Kolubara	2,500
Metalac	Gornji Milanovac	Stadion Metalac	4,400
Novi Pazar	Novi Pazar	Gradski Stadion	13,000
Radnički 1923	Kragujevac	Čika Dača	15,100
Radnički Pirot	Pirot	Stadion Dragan Nikolić	13,816
Sinđelić	Belgrade	Stadion FK Sinđelić	1,500
Smederevo 1924	Smederevo	Smederevo Stadium	17,200
Trayal	Kruševac	Stadion FK Trayal	1,500
Žarkovo	Belgrade	Stadion FK Žarkovo	610
Zemun	Belgrade	Zemun Stadium	9,588
Zlatibor	Čajetina	Stadion Švajcarija	1,040

Transfers

For the list of transfers involving First League clubs during 2019–20 season, please see: List of Serbian football transfers summer 2019, List of Serbian football transfers winter 2019–20.

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zlatibor	30	14	12	4	33	18	+15	54[a]	Promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga
2	Grafičar[b]	30	16	6	8	49	27	+22	54[a]
3	Bačka	30	16	5	9	40	26	+14	53[c]	Promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga
4	Metalac Gornji Milanovac	30	16	5	9	41	34	+7	53[c]
5	Kolubara	30	13	8	9	35	25	+10	47
6	Radnički Pirot	30	12	7	11	34	33	+1	43
7	Kabel	30	14	10	6	31	20	+11	42[d][e]
8	Radnički 1923	30	11	9	10	31	26	+5	42[d]
9	Žarkovo	30	10	10	10	35	36	−1	40[f]
10	Novi Pazar[g]	30	11	7	12	32	31	+1	40[f]	Promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga
11	Dinamo	30	10	7	13	34	38	−4	37
12	Zemun	30	8	9	13	25	29	−4	33
13	Trayal	30	7	10	13	21	30	−9	31
14	Sinđelić Beograd[h]	30	6	7	17	27	55	−28	25	Relegation to Serbian League
15	Budućnost	30	5	7	18	21	41	−20	22[i]
16	Smederevo 1924[j]	30	9	5	16	27	47	−20	22[i][k]	Relegation to Serbian League

Source: Prva Liga (in Serbian), 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) Fair play ranking; 9) Draw.
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Zlatibor 4, Grafičar 1.
2. Graficar decided to reject promotion to SuperLiga.^[3]
3. Head-to-head away goals: Metalac G.M. 1, Bačka 0.
4. Head-to-head points: Kabel 6, Radnički 1923 0.
5. Kabel were deducted 10 points due to match fixing.^[4]
6. Head-to-head points: Žarkovo 4, Novi Pazar 1.
7. Novi Pazar promotion to SuperLiga, after Graficar rejected.^[5]
8. Sinđelić were relegated due to financial issues.^[6]
9. Head-to-head points: Budućnost 6, Smederevo 1924 0.
10. Smederevo relegation to Serbian League due to match fixing.
11. Smederevo 1924 were deducted 10 points due to match fixing.^[4]

Results

Home \ Away	BAČ	BDO	DVR	GRA	KBL	KOL	MET	NPZ	RDK	RDP	SIN	SMD	TRA	ŽAR	ZEM	ZLA
Bačka		2–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	0–2	3–1	4–0	1–1	3–0	3–2	3–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–0
Budućnost	1–1		0–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–2
Dinamo	2–1	2–0		1–4	1–0	2–3	2–3	0–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	3–1	0–0	2–2	0–2	0–0
Grafičar	0–0	2–0	4–2		0–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–0	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–2
Kabel	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1		0–0	3–1	2–1	3–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0
Kolubara	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–2		3–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–2
Metalac Gornji Milanovac	2–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–3	2–1		2–0	0–0	1–0	4–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1
Novi Pazar	0–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	2–1		1–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	3–1	2–4	2–1	2–0
Radnički 1923	2–1	1–0	0–4	3–2	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–1		3–0	5–1	3–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–0
Radnički Pirot	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–3	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0		1–0	4–0	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–1
Sinđelić Beograd	0–2	3–2	1–0	0–5	1–1	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–1		1–3	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–1
Smederevo 1924	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	0–3	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–0		1–2	3–3	2–1	0–0
Trayal	0–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0		0–0	1–1	1–2
Žarkovo	1–0	4–0	0–0	0–3	0–1	2–1	1–3	0–0	2–0	1–3	2–3	1–2	1–1		0–1	0–3
Zemun	0–2	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	3–0	1–1	2–1	0–1		1–1
Zlatibor	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	4–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0

Source: Prva liga (in Serbian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Individual statistics

Top scorers

As of matches played on 20 June 2020.^[7]

Pos	Scorer	Teams	Goals
1	Aleksandar Katanić	Metalac	19
2	Dimitrije Pobulić	Radnički Pirot / Grafičar	14
3	Slađan Nikodijević	Radnički 1923	11
	Dejan Đenić	Kolubara
	Krsta Đorđević	Bačka

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Dejan Đenić	Kolubara	Smederevo 1924	3–0	10 August 2019
Aleksandar Katanić	Metalac	Dinamo	3–2	18 August 2019
Filip Kukuličić	Grafičar	Radnički Pirot	3–1	15 September 2019
Željko Gavrić	Grafičar	Dinamo	4–2	29 September 2019
Nikola Nedeljković	Zlatibor	Sinđelić	4–2	7 March 2020
Krsta Đorđević	Bačka	Novi Pazar	4–0	6 June 2020

Notes

1. Bežanija and Borac were relegated due to financial issues. Their places was taken by Kolubara who was promoted from Serbian League Belgrade and Novi Pazar who avoided relegation.^[2]