1989–90 Yugoslav First League

The 1989–90 Yugoslav First League season was the 44th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946.

Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije

Season	1989–90
Dates	29 July 1989 – 16 May 1990
Champions	Red Star
Relegated	Vardar
European Cup	Red Star
Cup Winners' Cup	Hajduk Split
UEFA Cup	Dinamo Zagreb Partizan
Matches played	306
Goals scored	748 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Darko Pančev (25)
← 1988–89 1990–91 →

Two points were awarded for a win, none for a loss, while in case of a draw a penalty shootout was taken with the winner of the shootout being awarded one point.

Red Star won the 17th title.

The season began on 29 July 1989 with its fall part completing on 17 December 1988. Following a two-month winter break, the season resumed on 18 February 1990 and ran until 16 May 1990.

Dinamo Zagreb

Red Star

Partizan

Borac

Hajduk

Vojvodina

Rad

Osijek

Radnički Niš

Sarajevo

Velež

Olimpija

Rijeka

Željezničar

Budućnost

Sloboda

Spartak

Vardar

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Location of teams competing in the 1989–90 Yugoslav First League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PKW	PKL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Star Belgrade (C)	34	24	3	2	5	79	29	+50	51	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Dinamo Zagreb	34	16	8	3	7	53	25	+28	40	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Hajduk Split	34	18	2	1	13	50	35	+15	38	Banned from European competition^[a]
4	Partizan	34	18	1	3	12	51	42	+9	37	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
5	Rad	34	16	4	2	12	41	31	+10	36
6	Rijeka	34	14	5	1	14	29	35	−6	33
7	Željezničar	34	14	4	2	14	37	40	−3	32
8	Olimpija	34	14	2	4	14	49	40	+9	30	Qualification for Intertoto Cup
9	Sloboda Tuzla	34	15	0	4	15	43	46	−3	30
10	Budućnost	34	13	3	5	13	30	35	−5	29	Qualification for Balkans Cup
11	Vojvodina	34	13	3	3	15	43	51	−8	29
12	Spartak Subotica	34	12	4	2	16	28	40	−12	28
13	Sarajevo	34	13	1	3	17	46	49	−3	27
14	Borac Banja Luka	34	12	3	4	15	28	40	−12	27
15	Radnički Niš	34	12	2	6	14	42	48	−6	26
16	Osijek	34	12	2	2	18	28	47	−19	26	Qualification for Intertoto Cup
17	Velež	34	11	3	3	17	38	51	−13	25	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
18	Vardar (R)	34	8	1	1	24	33	64	−31	17

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

1. In November 1987, UEFA banned Hajduk Split from European competitions for two seasons. The immediate catalyst for the punishment was crowd trouble during club's 1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup match against Marseille on 5 November 1987, however, repeated prior incidents at Hajduk's European home matches throughout early-to-mid 1980s (such as the 1983–84 UEFA Cup semifinal first leg infamous 'rooster incident' against Tottenham Hotspur) also contributed to the decision. Since Hajduk's 1987–88 Yugoslav League performance failed to qualify the club for 1988–89 European competition, the punishment was enacted for seasons when Hajduk did manage to qualify: 1989–90 and 1990–91.

Results

Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.

Home \ Away	BBL	BUD	DIN	HAJ	OLI	OSI	PAR	RAD	RNI	RSB	RIJ	SAR	SLO	SPA	VAR	VEL	VOJ	ŽEL
Borac Banja Luka		0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1^(4–5)	1–2	1–0	1–1^(5–4)	0–0^(4–5)	2–1	2–0	0–0^(5–4)	3–1	2–0	1–0	2–2^(1–3)	1–0
Budućnost	2–1		2–0	1–0	0–0^(3–4)	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–0^(5–4)	0–0^(2–4]	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0^(2–4)	1–0	1–0	3–1	4–1
Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	0–0^(4–3)		2–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	0–0^(4–5)	3–0	0–3^[a]	1–1^(4–3)	6–0	5–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	2–0
Hajduk Split	1–0	2–0	2–3		3–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1^(5–6)	0–0^(4–3)	2–0	3–0	3–0	4–3	6–0	2–0
Olimpija	4–1	3–1	3–0	3–1		1–0	5–1	0–1	1–1^(1–3)	1–1^(6–5)	2–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–0
Osijek	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0		0–1	1–1^(1–3)	2–1	0–5	0–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1
Partizan	2–1	2–0	1–1^(3–4)	1–0	2–0	6–4		0–2	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–1^(3–5)	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	4–0	0–2
Rad	2–0	2–2^(2–3)	0–2	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1^(6–5)		3–0	1–2	4–0	3–0	2–1	0–0^(6–5)	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0
Radnički Niš	1–0	2–1	1–1^(5–6)	5–1	2–1	4–1	1–1^(3–5)	2–2^(4–3)		1–3	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	0–3	1–0
Red Star	3–0	5–1	0–0^(2–3)	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	4–2	1–0		1–0	3–0	6–1	3–0	5–2	4–0	3–1	2–2^(4–3)
Rijeka	1–0	0–0^(5–4)	1–1^(4–1)	1–0	0–0^(3–2)	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–4		1–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0
Sarajevo	2–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	5–1	3–1	2–0		2–1	3–3^(2–4)	6–1	0–0^(3–4)	3–2	1–3
Sloboda Tuzla	4–1	2–0	0–0^(3–5)	2–2^(4–5)	2–0	2–0	3–1	1–2	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–0		2–0	1–0	1–1^(4–5)	2–0	4–1
Spartak Subotica	2–0	1–0	1–1^(5–6)	1–0	2–3	1–0	0–4	1–0	1–1^(4–3)	1–3	0–1	2–0	0–1		2–0	2–1	0–0^(4–2)	1–0
Vardar	3–0	4–1	0–4	1–2	3–3^(5–4)	0–1	2–3	2–1	3–0	0–2	0–0^(4–5)	2–1	2–0	1–2		4–1	1–2	0–1
Velež	0–0^(3–4)	0–0^(4–5)	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–1^(3–4)	3–1	3–0	3–2	0–3	3–2	3–1	3–0	1–3	2–1		0–0^(6–5)	5–1
Vojvodina	0–1	1–2	1–1^(3–4)	2–3	3–1	1–1^(5–3)	3–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–0		1–1^(5–4)
Željezničar	1–1^(4–3)	1–0	0–0^(2–0)	0–1	2–2^(5–4)	3–0	0–2	1–0	1–1^(4–2)	3–0	4–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–1

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

1. Match awarded after it was not played due to the riots at the Maksimir stadium.

Winning squad

Champions: Red Star Belgrade

Player	League
	Matches	Goals
Darko Pančev	32	25
Dragan "Piksi" Stojković	31	10
Robert Prosinečki	31	5
Duško Radinović	29	2
Ilija Najdoski	29	1
Dragi Kanatlarovski	29	1
Stevan Stojanović (goalkeeper)	29	0
Slobodan Marović	27	2
Dejan Savićević	25	10
Vladan Lukić	25	10
Vlada Stošić	24	4
Mitar Mrkela	23	2
Goran Jurić	21	0
Zoran Vujović	15	0
Miodrag Belodedici ^[a]	14	1
Miloš Drizić	11	1
Refik Šabanadžović	10	0
Zvonko Milojević (goalkeeper)	4	0
Slavoljub Janković	2	0
Zoran Pavlović	2	0
Zoran Dimitrijević	2	0
Ivan Adžić	1	0
Vladimir Jugović	1	0
Head coach: Dragoslav Šekularac

1. only played the second part of the season due to being suspended by UEFA for breach of contract with Steaua

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Darko Pančev	Red Star	25
2	Meho Kodro	Velež	18
3	Josip Višnjić	Radnički Niš	16
4	Aljoša Asanović	Hajduk Split	14
5	Boban Božović	Sarajevo	13
6	Davor Šuker	Dinamo Zagreb	12
	Alen Bokšić	Hajduk Split
	Dinko Vrabac	Olimpija
9	Siniša Mihajlović	Vojvodina	11
	Željko Ivanović	Sloboda Tuzla

See also

• 1989–90 Yugoslav Second League
• 1989–90 Yugoslav Cup
• Dinamo Zagreb-Red Star Belgrade riot

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables