2021–22 Serbian SuperLiga

The 2021–22 Serbian SuperLiga (known as the Linglong Tire SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons) was the 16th season of the Serbian SuperLiga. Red Star were the defending champions, having won their 7th SuperLiga and 32nd domestic title in the previous season. Start and end dates, fixtures and competition format were released on 22 June 2021.^[1]

SuperLiga

Season	2021–22
Dates	16 July 2021 – 22 May 2022[1]
Champions	Red Star Belgrade 8th SuperLiga title 33rd domestic title
Relegated	Metalac Proleter
Champions League	Red Star Belgrade
Europa League	Partizan
Europa Conference League	Čukarički Radnički Niš
Matches played	296
Goals scored	758 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ricardo Gomes (29 goals)[2]
Biggest home win	Čukaricki 6–1 Proleter Partizan 5–0 Spartak Čukaricki 5–0 Kolubara Red Star Belgrade 5–0 Novi Pazar
Biggest away win	Kolubara 1–7 Red Star Belgrade
Highest scoring	TSC 4–4 Radnički 1923 Kolubara 1–7 Red Star Belgrade
Longest winning run	Red Star Belgrade 10 games
Longest unbeaten run	Partizan, Red Star Belgrade 24 games
Longest winless run	Proleter 14 games
Longest losing run	Mladost, Radnički 1923, Vojvodina 6 games
← 2020–21 2022–23 → All statistics correct as of 22 May 2022.

Summary

The number of teams in the league for this season was reduced from 20 to 16 from last season which had increased number of teams due to COVID-19 pandemic. Before the start of the season, on 16 June 2021, it was announced that number of teams in the league will again be reduced at the end of season - this time to 14. Because of that 4 teams will be relegated while only 2 will be promoted from Serbian First League. Rule about bonus players was also changed for this season - each team now must have at least one player born in 2000 or younger in the squad for the duration of entire match.^[3]

Decision about decreasing number of teams for a next season was revised on 6 July 2021 when Football Association of Serbia decided that number of teams in top flight will remain 16. Format was officially reverted to the one used in 19–20 season - each team will play each other twice in round-robin format after which top half will play in Championship round and bottom half in Relegation-round play-offs. Last two teams from Relegation round will be relegated while teams finishing 13th and 14th will play Relegations play-off against teams who finished 3rd and 4th in Serbian First League. Rule about foreign players registration was also changed. Instead of maximum of 4 foreign players in match protocol teams can now have unlimited number of foreign players with maximum of 4 at the pitch at any time. For the first time in Serbian SuperLiga history Video assistant referee will be used on all matches.^[4][5]

This season marked the start of a new three-year TV deal. Deal was signed with Telekom Srbija and their subsidiary Arena Channels Group. They will pay 3 million-a-year for the next three seasons, a record breaking deal for Serbian SuperLiga.^[6]

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic

At the start of this season it was announced that, for the first time since 2019–20 season, attendance will be allowed for all matches. With limitation that no more than 50% of maximum capacity can be filled.^[5]

Teams

Belgrade

Kolubara

Metalac

Mladost

Napredak

Novi Pazar

Radnički 1923

Radnički

Radnik

Spartak

TSC

Novi Sad

Belgrade clubs:

Čukaricki
Partizan
Red Star
Voždovac

Novi Sad clubs:

Proleter
Vojvodina

Locations of the 2021–22 Serbian SuperLiga teams

Čukaricki

Partizan

Red Star

Voždovac

Locations of the 2021–22 Serbian SuperLiga teams on the territory of Belgrade

Sixteen teams competed in the league; the top 14 from previous season and two teams promoted from Serbian First League. Promoted teams were Radnički 1923 who returned to the top flight after an absence of six years, and Kolubara who were promoted to the SuperLiga for the first time in their history. They replaced Javor, Rad, Bačka, Inđija, Mačva and Zlatibor.

Venues

Čukarički	Kolubara	Metalac	Mladost
Čukarički Stadium	Kolubara Stadium	Metalac Stadium	Mladost Stadium
Capacity: 4,070	Capacity: 2,500	Capacity: 4,400	Capacity: 5,944
Napredak Kruševac	Novi Pazar	Partizan	Proleter
Mladost Stadium	City Stadium	Partizan Stadium	Karađorđe Stadium
Capacity: 10,331	Capacity: 13,000	Capacity: 29,775	Capacity: 14,458
Radnički 1923	Radnički Niš	Radnik	Red Star Belgrade
Čika Dača	Čair Stadium	City Stadium	Rajko Mitić Stadium
Capacity: 15,100	Capacity: 18,151	Capacity: 3,312	Capacity: 51,755
Spartak Subotica	TSC	Vojvodina	Voždovac
City Stadium	TSC Arena	Karađorđe Stadium	Shopping Center Stadium
Capacity: 13,000	Capacity: 4,500	Capacity: 14,458	Capacity: 5,175

Personnel, Kits and General sponsor

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	General Sponsor
Čukarički	Milan Lešnjak	Marko Docić	Adidas	Oliva
Kolubara	Dejan Đurđević	Nikola Vasiljević	Seven	Oktagonbet
Metalac	Milija Žižić	Ilija Milićević	NAAI	Metalac AD
Mladost	Dragiša Žunić	Ivan Milošević	Miteks	Miteks
Napredak	Zoran Milinković	Dejan Kerkez	Givova	mt:s
Novi Pazar	Tomislav Sivić	Mirza Delimeđac	Nike	Novi Pazar Put
Partizan	Aleksandar Stanojević	Lazar Marković	Nike	mt:s
Proleter	Dušan Bajić	Branislav Jovanović	Wulfz	Wulfz
Radnički 1923	Nenad Lalatović	Stevan Kovačević	Jako	Mozzart Bet
Radnički	Radoslav Batak	Nikola Stevanović	Macron	mt:s
Radnik	Dušan Đorđević	Uroš Stojanović	Jako	Efbet
Red Star Belgrade	Dejan Stanković	Milan Borjan	Macron	Gazprom
Spartak	Nebojša Vučković	Mihajlo Ivančević	Legea	Vinarija Čoka
TSC	Žarko Lazetić	Saša Tomanović	Capelli Sport	SAT-TRAKT
Vojvodina	Dragan Radojičić	Nemanja Čović	Kelme	Srbijagas
Voždovac	Aleksandar Linta	Stefan Hajdin	Adidas	Stadion SC

Nike is the official ball supplier for Serbian SuperLiga.

Kelme is the official sponsor of the Referee's Committee of the Football Association of Serbia.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in the table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Kolubara	Zoran Milinković[7]	Signed with Borac Banja Luka	24 May 2021	Pre-season	Dragan Radojičić[8]	9 June 2021
Novi Pazar	Davor Berber[9]	Contract expired	28 May 2021		Milan Milanović[10]
Radnik	Slavoljub Đorđević[11]	Signed with Vojvodina	9 June 2021		Igor Bondžulić[11]	14 June 2021
Vojvodina	Nenad Lalatović[12]	Signed with Radnički			Slavoljub Đorđević[12]	9 June 2021
Radnički 1923	Dejan Joksimović[13]	Contract expired	10 June 2021		Vladimir Radenković[13]	10 June 2021
Radnički	Aleksandar Stanković[14]		11 June 2021		Nenad Lalatović[14]	11 June 2021
Kolubara	Dragan Radojičić[15]	Sacked	13 June 2021		Dejan Đurđević[15]	13 June 2021
Mladost	Darko Rakočević[16]	Contract expired	19 June 2021		Ivan Stefanović[16]	19 June 2021
Radnički	Nenad Lalatović[17]	Signed with Al Batin	24 June 2021		Aleksandar Stanković[18]	26 June 2021
Proleter	Branko Žigić[19]	Sacked	4 August 2021	14th	Dušan Bajić[20]	8 August 2021
Čukarički	Dušan Đorđević[21]		16 August 2021	6th	Saša Ilić[22]	17 August 2021
Radnički	Aleksandar Stanković[23]		24 August 2021	12th	Radomir Koković[24]	1 September 2021
Radnik	Igor Bondžulić		10 September 2021	9th	Dušan Đorđević[25]	13 September 2021
Novi Pazar	Milan Milanović[26]		13 September 2021	15th	Kenan Kolašinac[27]	13 September 2021
Radnički	Radomir Koković[28]		21 September 2021	12th	Radoslav Batak[29]	23 September 2021
Voždovac	Predrag Rogan[30]		22 September 2021	9th	Aleksandar Linta[31]	24 September 2021
Spartak	Vladimir Buač[32]		3 October 2021	13th	Vladimir Gaćinović[33]	7 October 2021
Novi Pazar	Kenan Kolašinac		16 October 2021	16th	Dragan Radojičić[34]	16 September 2021
TSC	Mladen Krstajić[35]		19 October 2021	4th	Mirko Jovanović[36]	26 October 2021
Radnički 1923	Vladimir Radenković		15 November 2021	14th	Zoran Milinković[37]	15 November 2021
TSC	Mirko Jovanović		29 November 2021	8th	Žarko Lazetić[38]	29 November 2021
Metalac	Žarko Lazetić	Signed with TSC	29 November 2021	14th	Milija Žižić[39]	29 November 2021
Napredak	Milan Đuričić[40]	Mutual termination	27 December 2021	5th	Ivan Stefanović[41]	3 January 2022
Mladost	Ivan Stefanović[41]		3 January 2022	11th	Dragiša Žunić[41]	3 January 2022
Radnički 1923	Zoran Milinković	Sacked	7 February 2022	16th	Nenad Lalatović[42]	7 February 2022
Spartak	Vladimir Gaćinović[43]	Resigned	14 February 2022	10th	Nebojša Vučković	14 February 2022
Novi Pazar	Dragan Radojičić		22 February 2022	15th	Tomislav Sivić[44]	22 February 2022
Vojvodina	Slavoljub Đorđević[45]	Sacked	14 March 2022	5th	Dragan Radojičić[46]	15 March 2022
Napredak	Ivan Stefanović[47]		22 March 2022	8th	Zoran Milinković[48]	23 March 2022
Čukarički	Saša Ilić[49]	Mutual termination	11 April 2022	3rd	Milan Lešnjak[50]	12 April 2022

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Red Star Belgrade	30	26	3	1	79	17	+62	81	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Partizan	30	25	4	1	68	10	+58	79
3	Čukarički	30	14	12	4	48	27	+21	54
4	TSC	30	11	8	11	44	41	+3	41
5	Radnički Niš	30	9	13	8	32	33	−1	40
6	Voždovac	30	11	7	12	41	37	+4	40
7	Vojvodina	30	11	6	13	38	40	−2	39
8	Napredak Kruševac	30	10	7	13	31	36	−5	37
9	Mladost Lučani	30	10	6	14	38	44	−6	36	Qualification for the Relegation round
10	Radnik Surdulica	30	8	12	10	24	31	−7	36
11	Spartak Subotica	30	9	7	14	35	49	−14	34
12	Kolubara	30	10	4	16	32	56	−24	34
13	Radnički 1923	30	8	6	16	27	50	−23	30
14	Proleter Novi Sad	30	8	5	17	23	49	−26	29
15	Metalac G.M.	30	7	6	17	36	52	−16	27
16	Novi Pazar	30	5	10	15	25	49	−24	25

Source: SuperLiga (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	ČUK	KOL	MET	MLA	NAP	NPZ	PAR	PNS	RKG	RNI	RSU	RSB	SPA	TSC	VOJ	VOŽ
Čukarički		5–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	6–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1
Kolubara	3–1		0–1	2–2	1–0	3–0	0–4	2–1	0–0	2–3	1–1	1–7	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0
Metalac G.M.	0–3	3–1		0–2	2–3	1–0	0–3	3–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	2–4	2–3	0–1
Mladost Lučani	0–0	3–1	3–3		3–2	3–0	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–5	1–2	2–0	0–2	2–4
Napredak Kruševac	1–2	3–0	1–0	2–1		1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–3
Novi Pazar	2–2	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–0		1–4	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–4	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0
Partizan	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	0–0	2–0		0–0	2–0	4–0	2–0	1–1	5–0	2–0	4–1	4–0
Proleter Novi Sad	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–3	1–0	2–2	0–4		1–1	2–0	0–2	1–2	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–0
Radnički 1923	0–3	0–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–3	0–1		0–0	0–1	0–3	3–2	0–3	3–2	1–0
Radnički Niš	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	4–2	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–1		3–0	1–5	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–0
Radnik Surdulica	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–1		2–1	1–2	2–1	0–2	1–3
Red Star Belgrade	3–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	5–0	2–0	3–0	4–1	1–0	1–1		3–0	3–1	0–0	1–0
Spartak Subotica	1–2	4–3	2–0	0–0	3–2	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–3		0–0	2–2	0–4
TSC	1–2	4–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–3	2–1	4–4	1–1	0–0	2–3	2–1		1–0	2–1
Vojvodina	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–3	0–1		2–0
Voždovac	1–1	2–0	5–2	1–1	0–0	3–2	0–3	2–1	1–2	0–0	4–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	3–1

Source: SuperLiga (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

Championship 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		RSB	PAR	ČUK	RNI	VOŽ	TSC	VOJ	NAP
1	Red Star Belgrade (C)	37	32	4	1	95	19	+76	100	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round			0–0	1–0	4–1	3–1
2	Partizan	37	31	5	1	85	13	+72	98	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round				3–1	2–0		4–1	2–1
3	Čukarički	37	15	15	7	54	34	+20	60	Qualification to Europa Conference League second qualifying round					0–0	0–0	2–3		0–0
4	Radnički Niš	37	12	15	10	40	39	+1	51							0–0	2–0	1–0
5	Voždovac	37	13	10	14	48	45	+3	49				0–3					2–1	3–0
6	TSC	37	13	9	15	51	56	−5	48			0–4				1–1		0–2	2–0
7	Vojvodina	37	13	6	18	44	51	−7	45			0–3		0–3					2–0
8	Napredak Kruševac	37	10	8	19	31	51	−20	38			0–1	0–3		0–4

Source: SuperLiga (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

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	Qualification or relegation		RSU	KOL	MLA	SPA	NPZ	RDK	MET	PNS
9	Radnik Surdulica	37	12	15	10	37	37	0	51				3–0		2–0		1–1	3–3
10	Kolubara	37	14	4	19	42	65	−23	46					3–0		1–3		2–0	1–0
11	Mladost Lučani	37	12	9	16	46	52	−6	45			2–3			2–1		0–0		0–0
12	Spartak Subotica	37	12	8	17	45	60	−15	44				2–1			1–3	2–1		3–1
13	Novi Pazar	37	10	11	16	39	54	−15	41	Qualification for play-off		0–1		1–1			2–1
14	Radnički 1923	37	9	8	20	34	60	−26	35				1–2					1–2	2–1
15	Metalac G.M. (R)	37	8	9	20	42	65	−23	33	Relegation to Serbian First League				0–3	1–1	0–3
16	Proleter Novi Sad (R)	37	8	8	21	25	57	−32	32			0–0				0–2		0–0

Source: SuperLiga (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

Relegations play-off

Two legged relegation play-off matches^[51] will be played between the teams placed 13th and 14th at the end of relegation round and the teams placed 3rd and 4th at the end of Serbian First League Promotion round.

First legs

Železničar v Radnički 1923

25 May 2022	Železničar	1–3	Radnički 1923	Smederevo Stadium, Smederevo
17:00	Gigić 79' (pen.)	Report	Ubiparip 21', 29' Piščević 61'

IMT v Novi Pazar

25 May 2022	IMT	1–3	Novi Pazar	Čukarički Stadium, Belgrade
19:00	Lučić 39'	Report	Čečarić 6' Rubežić 45' Nikčević 69'

Second legs

Radnički 1923 v Železničar

29 May 2022	Radnički 1923	0–1 (3–2 agg.)	Železničar	Čika Dača Stadium, Kragujevac
16:00		Report	Grgić 26'

Novi Pazar v IMT

29 May 2022	Novi Pazar	0–2 (3(a)–3 agg.)	IMT	Novi Pazar City Stadium, Novi Pazar
18:30		Report	Luković 50' Zorić 90'

Individual statistics

Top scorers

As of matches played on 22 May 2022.^[2]

Pos	Scorer	Teams	Goals
1	Ricardo Gomes	Partizan	29
2	Aleksandar Katai	Red Star	24
3	Mirko Ivanić	Red Star	17
4	Ben	Red Star	13
	Uroš Đuranović	Kolubara

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Aleksandar Katai	Red Star	Mladost Lučani	5–1	21 November 2021
Aleksandar Katai	Red Star	Novi Pazar	5–0	6 March 2022
Aleksandar Katai	Red Star	Radnički Niš	5–1	2 April 2022
Mirko Ivanić	Red Star	TSC	4–0	20 April 2022

Player of the week

As of matches played on 22 May 2022.

Round	Player	Club	Goals	Assist	Ref.
1	Đorđe Jovanović	Napredak	2	1	[52]
2	Bibras Natkho	Partizan	2	0	[53]
3	Mihajlo Banjac	TSC	0	2	[54]
4	Uroš Đuranović	Kolubara	2	0	[55]
5	Saša Marjanović	Napredak	1	1	[56]
6	Srđan Hrstić	Spartak	2	0	[57]
7	Ricardo Gomes	Partizan	2	2	[58]
8	Aleksandar Katai	Red Star	2	0	[59]
9	Saša Jovanović	Mladost	1	2	[60]
10	Ivan Obradović	Partizan	1	1
11	Queensy Menig	Partizan	1	2	[61]
12	Ivan Milosavljević	Voždovac	0	3	[62]
13	Milan Rodić	Red Star	0	2	[63]
14	Nikola Terzić	Partizan	2	0	[64]
15	Miljan Škrbić	Radnički Niš	2	0	[65]
16	Nikola Petrić	Proleter	0	0	[66]
17	Aleksandar Katai (2)	Red Star	3	1	[67]
18	El Fardou Ben	Red Star	2	1	[68]
19	Aleksandar Stanisavljević	Voždovac	0	2	[69]
20	Uroš Đuranović (2)	Kolubara	2	0	[70]
21	Milan Pavkov	Red Star	2	0	[71]
22	Janko Tumbasević	Mladost	2	0	[72]
23	Miloš Đokić	Kolubara	0	2	[73]
24	Saša Marjanović (2)	Napredak	1	1	[74]
25	Marko Rakonjac	Čukarički	1	2	[75]
26	Aleksandar Katai (3)	Red Star	3	1	[76]
27	Siniša Babić	Radnik Surdulica	1	1	[77]
28	Stefan Vukić	TSC	2	0	[78]
29	Aleksandar Katai (4)	Red Star	3	1	[79]
30	Saša Marjanović (3)	Napredak	1	0	[80]
31	Miloš Filipović	Kolubara	2	0	[81]
32	Mirko Ivanić	Red Star	3	0	[82]
33	Nemanja Nikolić	Spartak	2	1	[83]
34	Aleksandar Katai (5)	Red Star	2	1	[84]
35	Miloš Spasić	Radnik	2	0	[85]
36	Ricardo Gomes (2)	Partizan	2	0	[86]
37	Nikola Jojić	Mladost	2	0	[87]