1961–62 Yugoslav First League

The 1961–62 Yugoslav First League season was the 16th 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. Twelve teams contested the competition, with Partizan winning their fourth title.

Prva savezna liga

Season	1961–62
Dates	20 August 1961 – 2 May 1962
Champions	Partizan (4th title)
Relegated	Vardar Borac Banja Luka
European Cup	Partizan
Cup Winners' Cup	OFK Belgrade
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	Red Star Dinamo Zagreb Vojvodina
Top goalscorer	Dražan Jerković (16)
← 1960–61 1962–63 →

Teams

At the end of the previous season RNK Split and Radnički Belgrade were relegated. They were replaced by FK Novi Sad and Borac Banja Luka.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1960–61
Borac	Banja Luka	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0044th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0033rd
Novi Sad	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	—
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0066th
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0011st
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0022nd
Rijeka	Rijeka	SR Croatia	0077th
Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0088th
Vardar	Skopje	SR Macedonia	01010th
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0099th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0055th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Partizan (C)	22	13	5	4	42	22	+20	31	Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2	Vojvodina	22	9	8	5	30	25	+5	26	Invitation for Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
3	Dinamo Zagreb	22	10	5	7	36	23	+13	25
4	Red Star Belgrade	22	9	6	7	35	25	+10	24
5	Hajduk Split	22	8	8	6	30	30	0	24
6	OFK Belgrade	22	7	8	7	37	28	+9	22	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round
7	Sarajevo	22	6	10	6	37	40	−3	22
8	Rijeka	22	5	12	5	17	21	−4	22
9	Velež	22	7	6	9	29	35	−6	20
10	Novi Sad	22	7	5	10	27	40	−13	19
11	Vardar (R)	22	7	4	11	30	37	−7	18	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
12	Borac Banja Luka (R)	22	3	5	14	26	50	−24	11

Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BBL	DIN	HAJ	NSD	OFK	PAR	RSB	RIJ	SAR	VAR	VEL	VOJ
Borac Banja Luka		0–3	1–0	2–3	2–2	4–7	2–1	2–3	1–3	3–0	1–1	0–1
Dinamo Zagreb	2–1		2–3	3–2	5–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	4–2	0–1
Hajduk Split	3–0	1–0		3–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–3	2–0	1–1
Novi Sad	2–1	1–1	2–4		1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	3–2	2–1	3–2	0–0
OFK Belgrade	0–0	1–0	5–1	3–0		1–2	0–1	0–0	6–1	3–2	3–1	0–0
Partizan	5–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	2–1		1–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	3–1	2–3
Red Star	2–0	1–0	3–0	4–2	1–4	0–0		1–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	2–0
Rijeka	3–2	1–3	0–0	0–3	2–1	1–3	1–1		0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0
Sarajevo	3–2	3–3	2–2	5–1	0–0	3–3	3–3	0–0		1–0	2–0	1–1
Vardar	4–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	0–1	0–5	1–1	4–0		1–0	2–4
Velež	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–2	2–1		4–1
Vojvodina	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	3–3	3–0	4–3

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

Winning squad

Champions:

• FK Partizan (head coach: Stjepan Bobek)

player (league matches/league goals)

• Velibor Vasović (22/2)
• Milutin Šoškić (22/0) (goalkeeper)
• Milan Galić (21/7)
• Fahrudin Jusufi (21/0)
• Vladica Kovačević (19/15)
• Milan Vukelić (17/6)
• Joakim Vislavski (17/3)
• Velimir Sombolac (17/0)
• Lazar Radović (16/2)
• Branislav Mihajlović (16/0)
• Zvezdan Čebinac (14/3)
• Milorad Milutinović (12/0)
• Radivoj Ognjanović (9/1)
• Dragoslav Jovanović (8/0)
• Ljubomir Mihajlović (6/0)
• Dragomir Slišković (4/1)
• Ivan Rajić (3/1)
• Miodrag Petrović (3/0)
• Vladimir Petrović (3/0)
• Bruno Belin (2/0)
• Mustafa Hasanagić (1/0)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dražan Jerković	Dinamo Zagreb	16
2	Vladimir Kovačević	Partizan	15
3	Đorđe Pavlić	Vojvodina	12
4	Andon Dončevski	Vardar	11
5	Zvonko Bego	Hajduk Split	10
6	Josip Skoblar	OFK Belgrade	9
	Dušan Maravić	Red Star
	Spasoje Samardžić	OFK Belgrade
9	Salih Šehović	Sarajevo	8
	Anton Rudinski	Red Star

See also

• 1961–62 Yugoslav Second League
• 1961–62 Yugoslav Cup

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables