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
Season1956–57
Dates5 August 1956 – 23 June 1957
ChampionsRed Star (4th title)
RelegatedFK Sarajevo
Lokomotiva
European CupRed Star
Top goalscorerTodor Veselinović (28)

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 edit

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 edit

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) Champions; (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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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