1956–57 Yugoslav First League

The 1956–57 Yugoslav First League season was the 11th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football league of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. Fourteen teams contested the competition, with Red Star winning their fourth title.

Prva savezna liga

Season	1956–57
Dates	5 August 1956 – 23 June 1957
Champions	Red Star (4th title)
Relegated	FK Sarajevo Lokomotiva
European Cup	Red Star
Top goalscorer	Todor Veselinović (28)
← 1955–56 1957–58 →

The season featured an unusually long four-month winter break — from 28 October 1956 until 3 March 1957 — during which the Yugoslav Olympic national team, which entirely consisted of players from the Yugoslav First League, participated at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and won the silver medal.

Teams

At the end of the previous season Željezničar and Proleter Osijek were relegated from top level. They were replaced by Lokomotiva and Vardar.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1955–56
BSK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	01010th
Budućnost	Titograd	SR Montenegro	01111th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0044th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	01212th
Lokomotiva	Zagreb	SR Croatia	—
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0022nd
Radnički Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0033rd
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0011st
FK Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0066th
Spartak Subotica	Subotica	SR Serbia	0099th
Vardar	Skopje	SR Macedonia	—
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0077th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0055th
NK Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0088th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Star Belgrade (C)	26	17	5	4	66	23	2.870	39	Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2	Vojvodina	26	16	3	7	64	38	1.684	35
3	Hajduk Split	26	12	6	8	45	31	1.452	30
4	Partizan	26	10	6	10	51	45	1.133	26
5	Dinamo Zagreb	26	10	6	10	51	51	1.000	26
6	BSK Belgrade^[a]	26	9	7	10	41	47	0.872	25
7	NK Zagreb	26	9	7	10	39	45	0.867	25
8	Radnički Beograd	26	8	7	11	41	47	0.872	23
9	Budućnost	26	9	5	12	38	47	0.809	23
10	Velež	26	9	5	12	44	57	0.772	23
11	Vardar	26	9	5	12	30	44	0.682	23
12	Spartak Subotica	26	7	8	11	44	46	0.957	22
13	Sarajevo (R)	26	9	4	13	38	52	0.731	22	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
14	Lokomotiva (R)	26	10	2	14	44	63	0.698	22

Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal average
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. After this season, BSK Belgrade changed their name to OFK Belgrade, in an attempt to appeal to the rising numbers of fans in the younger generation.

Results

Home \ Away	BUD	BSK	DIN	HAJ	LOK	PAR	RBE	RSB	SAR	SPA	VAR	VEL	VOJ	ZAG
Budućnost		3–0	0–3	1–0	6–3	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–0
BSK Belgrade	5–2		1–1	2–0	3–0	1–3	0–1	1–4	2–2	4–1	0–0	1–0	4–1	3–2
Dinamo Zagreb	2–1	3–3		1–2	5–1	4–3	3–1	3–2	0–1	0–0	4–1	1–4	5–4	2–1
Hajduk Split	5–1	3–1	3–0		2–1	0–2	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	5–0
Lokomotiva	3–2	1–2	3–3	1–0		3–0	0–8	1–0	4–3	3–1	5–0	5–2	0–2	0–1
Partizan	1–2	5–2	2–0	1–1	2–0		0–0	1–0	3–1	3–1	2–3	7–1	1–1	2–5
Radnički Beograd	3–2	1–1	4–2	0–5	1–2	3–1		1–1	3–1	3–1	1–2	3–2	0–6	1–1
Red Star	5–3	2–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	3–1		2–0	1–0	2–2	6–1	4–0	6–0
Sarajevo	1–0	4–0	1–2	3–1	5–3	1–4	2–2	0–4		2–2	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–1
Spartak Subotica	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	4–0	3–2	2–2	1–1	5–1		4–0	2–1	1–2	0–0
Vardar	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–1	4–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–5		0–0	1–2	3–1
Velež	3–1	2–2	4–2	1–3	3–1	3–1	4–1	0–2	4–2	4–1	1–0		1–1	0–1
Vojvodina	2–0	4–1	3–1	3–2	2–1	5–2	0–0	1–2	2–0	5–2	4–1	6–0		2–4
NK Zagreb	0–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	2–7	4–0	2–0	2–0	5–2	2–3

Source: DataSoccer.it
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Todor Veselinović	Vojvodina	28
2	Bora Kostić	Red Star	27
3	Tihomir Ognjanov	Spartak Subotica	18
4	Zoran Prljinčević	Radnički Belgrade	17
5	Dionizije Dvornić	NK Zagreb	15
6	Vladimir Zelenika	Velež	14
7	Sava Antić	BSK Belgrade	13
	Živko Josić	BSK Belgrade
9	Anton Rudinski	Red Star	12
	Radivoj Ognjanović	Radnički Belgrade
	Mladen Krgin	Budućnost
	Dobrivoje Živkov	Sarajevo

See also

• 1956–57 Yugoslav Second League
• 1956–57 Yugoslav Cup

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables