2021–22 Serbian First League

The 2021–22 Serbian First League is the 17th season of the Serbian First League since its establishment.

Serbian First League

Season	2021–22
Dates	7 August 2021 – 22 May 2022[1]
Champions	Mladost GAT
Promoted	Mladost GAT Javor
Relegated	Kabel Timok 1919 OFK Bačka Budućnost Žarkovo
Matches played	296
Goals scored	691 (2.33 per match)
Top goalscorer	Milan Vidakov (18 goals)[2]
Biggest home win	Zlatibor 7–0 Kabel
Biggest away win	Zlatibor 0–5 Žarkovo
Highest scoring	Inđija 5–3 Grafičar
Longest winning run	IMT 7 games
Longest unbeaten run	IMT 14 games
Longest winless run	Kabel 19 games
Longest losing run	Kabel 11 games
← 2020–21 2022–23 →

League format

The league consist of 16 teams: eight teams from the 2020–21 Serbian First League, six teams relegated from 2020–21 Serbian SuperLiga and two new teams promoted from Serbian League.^[3]

Teams

Belgrade

Novi Sad

OFK Bačka

Inđija

Javor

Loznica

Mačva

Radnički S.M.

Železničar

Zlatibor

Timok 1919

Belgrade clubs:

Budućnost
Grafičar
IMT
Žarkovo
Rad

Novi Sad clubs:

Kabel
Mladost GAT

Location of teams in the 2021–22 Serbian First league

Budućnost

Grafičar

IMT

Rad

Žarkovo

Locations of the 2021–22 Serbian First League teams from Belgrade

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Budućnost	Belgrade	Stadion FK Budućnost	1,000
Grafičar	Belgrade	Topčiderska zvezda	1,000
IMT	Belgrade	Stadion FK IMT	1,150
Inđija	Inđija	Inđija Stadium	4,500
Javor Matis	Ivanjica	Javor Stadium	3,000
Kabel	Novi Sad	FK Kabel Stadium	2,000
Loznica	Loznica	Lagator Stadium	5,000
Mačva	Šabac	Mačva Stadium	5,494
Mladost GAT	Novi Sad	Stadion FK Mladost	200
OFK Bačka	Bačka Palanka	Stadion Slavko Maletin Vava	4,000
Žarkovo	Belgrade	Žarkovo Stadium	610
Rad	Belgrade	King Peter I Stadium	3,919
Radnički	Sremska Mitrovica	Stadion FK Radnički	2,000
Timok 1919	Zaječar	Zaječar City Stadium	10,000
Železničar	Pančevo	SC Mladost	1,200
Zlatibor	Čajetina	Užice City Stadium	15,000

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Inđija	30	17	7	6	48	29	+19	58	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Mladost GAT	30	16	9	5	35	17	+18	57
3	Javor Matis	30	15	11	4	46	22	+24	56
4	Železničar	30	15	7	8	42	31	+11	52
5	IMT	30	13	10	7	49	30	+19	49
6	Radnički	30	13	7	10	39	29	+10	46
7	OFK Žarkovo	30	12	6	12	35	32	+3	42
8	Loznica	30	11	8	11	29	26	+3	41
9	Mačva	30	10	9	11	26	37	−11	39	Qualification for the Relegation round
10	Grafičar	30	10	5	15	44	43	+1	35
11	Rad	30	9	8	13	28	34	−6	35
12	Budućnost	30	9	8	13	30	41	−11	35
13	Zlatibor	30	8	10	12	28	35	−7	34
14	Timok 1919	30	9	6	15	29	35	−6	33
15	OFK Bačka	30	6	15	9	22	30	−8	33
16	Kabel	30	1	6	23	12	71	−59	9

Source: First league (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) Head-to-head away goals scored (if two teams tied); 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Fair play ranking; 9) Draw.

Results

Home \ Away	INĐ	MNS	JAV	ŽEL	MAČ	ŽAR	IMT	RSM	LOZ	RAD	BAČ	ZLA	GRA	BDO	TMK	KBL
Inđija		2–1	0–2	1–3	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	5–3	2–1	0–1	3–0
Mladost GAT	2–3		0–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	2–0	1–0	2–1	4–0
Javor Matis	1–3	0–1		3–3	0–0	3–2	1–2	4–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	4–0
Železničar	0–0	3–0	1–3		1–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–0
Mačva	2–1	0–0	1–4	0–1		0–2	1–1	0–3	0–1	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0
OFK Žarkovo	1–2	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–3		2–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–3	1–1	2–1	2–0
IMT	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	6–1	0–1		1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	3–2	4–0	4–1
Radnički	0–3	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–2		1–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	5–2	2–3
Loznica	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	4–1	0–1	2–1	1–2		0–0	2–0	4–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–0
Rad	4–0	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0		1–1	2–1	2–1	3–4	1–2	3–2
OFK Bačka	0–0	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	3–1	0–1		2–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–0
Zlatibor	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–5	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0		2–0	0–2	0–1	7–0
Grafičar	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–3	3–0	3–0	1–3	0–2	2–1	3–1	4–0	5–1		2–2	2–0	3–1
Budućnost	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–0	2–3	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–2		0–2	1–0
Timok 1919	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	5–0		2–0
Kabel	0–3	0–3	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–3	0–3	0–4	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–1	1–4	0–0	0–3

Source: First league (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.

Play-offs

Promotion round

The top eight teams advanced from the regular season. Teams played each other once.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mladost GAT (C, P)	37	21	9	7	48	24	+24	72	Promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga
2	Javor Matis (P)	37	19	12	6	57	30	+27	69
3	Železničar	37	20	8	9	54	36	+18	68	Qualification for play-off
4	IMT	37	19	10	8	69	37	+32	67
5	Inđija	37	19	7	11	55	38	+17	64
6	Žarkovo[a] (R)	37	14	7	16	40	41	−1	49	Relegation to Serbian League
7	Radnički	37	13	9	15	42	45	−3	48
8	Loznica	37	12	9	16	31	38	−7	45

Source: First league (in Serbian)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points in regular season; 3) Head-to-head points in regular season; 4) Head-to-head goal difference in regular season; 5) Head-to-head goals scored in regular season; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored in regular season (if two teams tied); 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Fair play ranking; 10) Drawing of lots.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. OFK Žarkovo were relegated due to financial issues.^[4]

Results

Home \ Away	IMT	INĐ	JAV	LOZ	MNS	RSM	ŽAR	ŽEL
IMT						5–0	2–1	1–2
Inđija	0–1		0–1		1–2	2–0
Javor Matis	2–4			1–0		3–1		1–1
Loznica	0–4	2–1			0–2
Mladost GAT	2–3		0–2				2–0	2–0
Radnički				0–0	1–3		1–1
OFK Žarkovo		0–2	2–1	1–0
Železničar		3–1		3–0		2–0	1–0

Source: First league (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.

Relegation round

The bottom eight teams from the regular season play in the relegation round. Teams play each other once.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
9	Grafičar	37	15	6	16	62	48	+14	51
10	Mačva	37	12	12	13	33	45	−12	48
11	Rad	37	13	9	15	40	41	−1	48
12	Zlatibor	37	12	11	14	38	44	−6	47
13	Budućnost (R)	37	11	12	14	40	49	−9	45	Relegation to Serbian League
14	Timok 1919 (R)	37	11	7	19	38	44	−6	40
15	OFK Bačka (R)	37	8	15	14	30	43	−13	39
16	Kabel (R)	37	2	7	28	15	89	−74	13

Source: First league (in Serbian)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Points in regular season; 3) Head-to-head points in regular season; 4) Head-to-head goal difference in regular season; 5) Head-to-head goals scored in regular season; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored in regular season (if two teams tied); 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Fair play ranking; 10) Drawing of lots.
(R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BDO	GRA	KBL	MAČ	BAČ	RAD	TMK	ZLA
Budućnost		0–2			4–1	2–1		1–1
Grafičar			5–0			4–0	2–0	3–1
Kabel	1–1			2–1				0–1
Mačva	1–1	1–1					1–0	1–3
OFK Bačka		3–1	3–0	0–1
Rad			2–0	1–1	2–0		3–0
Timok 1919	1–1		5–0		3–0
Zlatibor					2–1	0–3	2–0

Source: First league (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 22 May 2022.^[2]

Pos	Scorer	Teams	Goals
1	Milan Vidakov	Mladost GAT	18
2	Pavle Ivelja	Javor	14
3	Borisav Burmaz	Grafičar	12
	Vladimir Lučić	IMT
5	Luka Gojković	Rad	11
	Vladan Milosavljev	Inđija
	Lazar Milošev	Železničar
	Vladimir Radočaj	IMT

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Brana Ilić	Železničar	Grafičar	3–0	21 August 2021
Nikola Žakula	Inđija	IMT	4–0	10 October 2021
Luka Čumić 4	Zlatibor	Kabel	7–0	6 December 2021
Borisav Burmaz	Grafičar	Zlatibor	5–1	28 March 2022
Lazar Nikolić	Javor	Kabel	4–0	10 April 2022
Borisav Burmaz	Grafičar	Kabel	5–0	15 April 2022
Borisav Burmaz 4	Grafičar	Rad	4–0	8 May 2022

⁴ Player scored four goals