1996–97 First League of FR Yugoslavia

The 1996–97 First League of FR Yugoslavia was the fifth season of the FR Yugoslavia's top-level football league since its establishment.

First League of FR Yugoslavia

Season	1996–97
Champions	Partizan 15th domestic title
Champions League	Partizan
UEFA Cup	Vojvodina
Cup Winners' Cup	Red Star
Intertoto Cup	Hajduk Kula Proleter Zrenjanin Čukarički
Goals scored	533
Top goalscorer	Zoran Jovičić (21)
← 1995–96 1997–98 →

Overview

For the fourth season in a raw that the league was divided in 2 groups, A and B, consisting each of 10 clubs. Both groups were played in league system. By winter break all clubs in each group meet each other twice, home and away, with the bottom four classified from A group moving to the group B, and being replaced by the top four from the B group. At the end of the season the same situation happened with four teams being replaced from A and B groups, adding the fact that the bottom three clubs from the B group were relegated into the Second League of FR Yugoslavia for the next season and replaced by the top three from that league.

At the end of the season FK Partizan were the champions in the second consecutive year.

The league top-scorer was Red Star Belgrade striker Zoran Jovičić with 21 goals.

The relegated clubs were OFK Kikinda, FK Sloboda Užice and FK Mladost Bački Jarak.

Teams

Belgrade

Bečej

Borac

Budućnost P.

Budućnost V.

Hajduk

Kikinda

Loznica

Mladost BJ

Mladost L.

Proleter

Radnički Niš

Rudar

Sloboda

Spartak

Sutjeska

Vojvodina

Belgrade clubs:

Čukarički
Obilić
OFK Beograd
Partizan
Rad
Red Star
Zemun
Železnik

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Location of teams in the 1996–97 First League
Red: 1A League; Blue: 1B League.

1A League

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Partizan	Belgrade	Partizan Stadium	32,710
Red Star	Belgrade	Red Star Stadium	55,538
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	Karađorđe Stadium	17,204
Zemun	Zemun, Belgrade	Zemun Stadium	10,000
Rad	Belgrade	Stadion Kralj Petar I	6,000
Proleter	Zrenjanin	Stadion Karađorđev park	13,500
Hajduk Kula	Kula	Stadion Hajduk	6,000
Budućnost Podgorica	Podgorica	Podgorica City Stadium	12,000
Bečej	Bečej	Stadion kraj Tise	3,000
Borac	Čačak	Čačak Stadium	6,000
Mladost Lučani	Lučani	Mladost Stadium	8,000
Čukarički	Belgrade	Stadion Čukarički	7,000

1B League

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Mladost Bački Jarak	Bački Jarak	Stadion Livadice	3,000
Sloboda	Užice	Užice City Stadium	12,000
Loznica	Loznica	Stadion Lagator	4,000
Obilić	Belgrade	FK Obilić Stadium	4,500
Sutjeska	Nikšić	Gradski stadion (Nikšić)	10,800
OFK Beograd	Karaburma, Belgrade	Omladinski Stadium	20,000
Spartak	Subotica	Subotica City Stadium	13,000
Radnički Niš	Niš	Čair Stadium	18,000
Železnik	Belgrade	Železnik Stadium	8,000
Budućnost Valjevo	Valjevo	Park Pećina	6,000
OFK Kikinda	Kikinda	Kikinda City Stadium	6,000
Rudar Pljevlja	Pljevlja	Stadion pod Golubinjom	10,000

IA league

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Partizan (C)	33	26	6	1	88	17	+71	84	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Red Star	33	25	3	5	79	30	+49	78	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
3	Vojvodina	33	15	8	10	49	35	+14	53	Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round
4	Hajduk Kula	33	12	8	13	34	37	−3	44	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
5	Proleter Zrenjanin	33	12	6	15	48	46	+2	42
6	Čukarički	33	11	8	14	35	46	−11	41
7	Zemun	33	10	11	12	40	37	+3	41
8	Mladost Lučani	33	12	5	16	45	59	−14	41
9	Rad	33	10	10	13	33	38	−5	40
10	Budućnost Podgorica	33	11	6	16	26	44	−18	39	Qualification for IA/IB play-off
11	Bečej	33	11	5	17	34	48	−14	38	Transfer to IB League
12	Borac Čačak	33	4	2	27	22	93	−71	14

Source:
(C) Champions

Results

First and second round

Home \ Away	BEČ	BOR	BPO	ČUK	HAJ	MLA	PAR	PRO	RAD	RSB	VOJ	ZEM
Bečej		2–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	2–3	3–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–3
Borac Čačak	2–1		2–1	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–10	3–2	0–2	1–3	0–2	0–2
Budućnost Podgorica	3–1	1–0		2–0	1–0	3–2	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	2–1
Čukarički	1–0	4–0	0–0		0–2	2–1	1–3	3–1	2–2	0–2	1–0	2–1
Hajduk Kula	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–0		1–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–2
Mladost Lučani	3–0	3–2	1–0	2–1	2–1		0–1	4–1	2–0	1–0	2–2	0–0
Partizan	6–0	3–0	1–0	4–1	2–1	2–0		3–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–0
Proleter Zrenjanin	2–1	4–0	3–1	1–0	5–0	6–1	0–2		0–0	1–2	1–3	2–1
Rad	1–2	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	0–5	0–0		1–2	0–0	2–1
Red Star	1–0	5–0	2–0	8–1	3–0	2–1	1–3	3–1	5–1		3–1	0–0
Vojvodina	3–0	5–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–3		2–1
Zemun	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–1

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

Third round

Home \ Away	BEČ	BOR	BPO	ČUK	HAJ	MLA	PAR	PRO	RAD	RSB	VOJ	ZEM
Bečej			2–0	1–0			0–3				3–2	2–1
Borac Čačak	1–3		2–0	0–2				2–2	1–2
Budućnost Podgorica				1–0			1–1	1–1			2–1	2–1
Čukarički					1–1	2–1		2–0	1–1	4–1
Hajduk Kula	2–0	3–0	2–0			2–1			1–0	1–3
Mladost Lučani	1–0	5–2	0–1						1–1	2–5		2–2
Partizan		4–0		1–1	2–0	7–0		3–1		2–1
Proleter Zrenjanin	2–0				2–1	1–0			4–1	0–0
Rad	3–1		3–0			1–2	1–0				1–0	0–0
Red Star	1–0	7–0	4–1						1–0		4–3	1–0
Vojvodina		2–0		2–1	2–0	4–1	0–2	0–1
Zemun		2–0		0–1	3–1		1–1	2–1			2–2

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

IB league

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Obilić	33	25	4	4	65	16	+49	79	Transfer to IA League
2	Železnik	33	20	4	9	54	34	+20	64
3	Loznica	33	20	1	12	48	25	+23	61	Qualification for IA/IB play-off
4	Radnički Niš	33	16	8	9	66	36	+30	56
5	OFK Beograd	33	16	8	9	44	28	+16	56
6	Rudar Pljevlja	33	14	4	15	44	46	−2	46
7	Budućnost Valjevo	33	11	8	14	42	49	−7	41
8	Sutjeska	33	12	4	17	43	56	−13	40
9	OFK Kikinda (R)	33	8	7	18	16	41	−25	31	Qualification for relegation play-off
10	Spartak Subotica	33	8	6	19	27	60	−33	30
11	Sloboda Užice (R)	33	7	7	19	27	52	−25	28	Relegation to Second League of FR Yugoslavia
12	Mladost Bački Jarak (R)	33	5	11	17	23	56	−33	26

Source:
(R) Relegated

Results

First and second round

Home \ Away	BVA	KIK	LOZ	MBJ	OBI	OFK	RNI	RUD	SLO	SPA	SUT	ŽEL
Budućnost Valjevo		1–0	0–1	3–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	6–2	4–1	2–1
Kikinda	2–0		1–2	3–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2
Loznica	1–0	3–1		1–0	0–1	3–0	4–2	2–1	3–0	4–1	2–0	2–0
Mladost Bački Jarak	0–1	0–0	0–0		0–3	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–2
Obilić	2–0	3–1	1–0	3–0		2–0	2–0	3–1	4–1	4–0	3–0	2–0
OFK Beograd	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–2		1–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–2
Radnički Niš	7–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–2		2–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	3–1
Rudar Pljevlja	2–0	0–1	0–3	4–0	1–0	2–0	1–1		4–2	6–0	2–0	3–0
Sloboda Užice	0–0	2–0	1–2	4–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–1		3–0	0–0	1–0
Spartak Subotica	1–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–5	1–4	1–2		3–0	1–1
Sutjeska	3–2	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–3	1–0	4–1	3–0	3–2	3–0		3–1
Železnik	3–1	2–0	1–0	4–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	3–0	2–1

Source: [1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round

Home \ Away	BVA	KIK	LOZ	MBJ	OBI	OFK	RNI	RUD	SLO	SPA	SUT	ŽEL
Budućnost Valjevo					1–0	2–2	2–2		3–0		1–1
Kikinda	0–0				0–0	0–0	0–5		0–0
Loznica	4–0	2–0		1–2		0–1	3–2			1–0
Mladost Bački Jarak	2–1	0–0							3–1	0–0	1–1
Obilić			1–0	5–1				4–1	3–0		2–0	2–2
OFK Beograd				3–0	0–3			4–0	4–0		3–0	1–2
Radnički Niš				1–1	1–0	2–1		4–1	4–0		7–0
Rudar Pljevlja	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0						0–1		0–1
Sloboda Užice			0–1					1–1		1–0	2–1	0–2
Spartak Subotica	1–1	4–0			2–1	0–1	1–1
Sutjeska		2–0	0–2					6–0		1–0		3–4
Železnik	2–0	3–1	1–0	4–2			3–1			1–1

Source: [2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

IA/IB Playoff

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Loznica	0–1	Budućnost Podgorica	0–0	0–1

Relegation playoff

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kikinda	2–4	Radnički Kragujevac	1–2	1–2
Spartak Subotica	3–1	Palilulac Beograd	2–1	1–0

Winning squad

Champions: Partizan Belgrade (Coach: Ljubiša Tumbaković)

Players (league matches/league goals)

• Ivica Kralj (goalkeeper)
• Nikola Damjanac (goalkeeper)
• Viktor Trenevski
• Bratislav Mijalković
• Darko Tešović
• Gjorgji Hristov
• Ivan Tomić
• Dražen Bolić
• Mladen Krstajić
• Predrag Pažin
• Đorđe Svetličić
• Dejan Peković
• Dejan Vukićević
• Damir Čakar
• Dragan Ćirić
• Niša Saveljić
• Igor Taševski

Source:

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Zoran Jovičić	Red Star	21
2	Damir Čakar	Partizan	20
3	Damir Stojak	Vojvodina	16
4	Dragan Mićić	Red Star	14
5	Branko Stojanović	Mladost Lučani	12
	Darko Pivaljević	Mladost Lučani
7	Milan Stojanoski	Proleter Zrenjanin	11
8	Ivan Tomić	Partizan	10
	Dejan Stanković	Red Star

External links

• Tables and results at RSSSF