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44-595: Its main role was to organise and control the league competition which consisted in interconnected leagues in a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels. At the top of the hierarchy was the First Division of the BLP (1. razred BLP / 1. разред БПЛ), often known simply as Belgrade Football Subassociation League and the winner had direct access to the Yugoslav Championship while

88-534: A 50-yard field in the spring and early summer). There have been attempts at forming true minor leagues for the professional game (most recently with the XFL in 2020); none so far have been able to balance the major leagues' requests with the ability to maintain financial solvency. League systems can have a negative effect on competitive balance, particularly in European professional football. This sports-related article

132-472: A consequence of FIFA decision to recognize N/FSBiH already in July 1996, while in the same year UEFA admitted N/FSBiH as an adjacent member until 1998 when they recognized its full membership. This meant that only N/FSBiH clubs and its national team could compete at the international and official level. Final unification has been preceded by several stages. At first was created a playoff where clubs were playing for

176-693: A governing body ( Minor League Baseball , an organization under the authority of the Commissioner of Baseball , governs baseball leagues; the United States Soccer Federation designates the American soccer pyramid.) Ice hockey 's professional minor league system is linear, with one league at most of the four levels of the game; the ice hockey league system in North America is governed by collective bargaining agreements and affiliation deals between

220-670: A lower division who finish at the top of the standings in their league are promoted (advanced to the next level of the system) while teams who finish lowest in their division are relegated (move down to a lower division). This process can be automatic each year, or can require playoffs. In North America, league systems in the most popular sports do not use promotion or relegation. Most professional sports are divided into major and minor leagues . Baseball and association football (known as soccer in North America) have well-defined pyramid shapes to their minor league hierarchies, each managed by

264-454: A marginal students leisure activity to become the most popular sports activity in the country. The press passed from an attitude of total ignorance towards full coverage, and most important, it became subject of interest from the lowest working and peasantry classes, to the Belgrade high society, with the royal family itself frequently attending the most important matches. However at beginning it

308-461: A new administration was elected with Danilo Stojanović , popularly named as Čika Dača (Unckle Dacha) as its president. As one of the pioneers of football in Serbia and the founder of a number of clubs, he was highly regarded for that position. However, in the fourth general assembly held on 31 December 1922 the administration headed by Janko Šafarik is elected with him becoming the new president. The BLP

352-426: A number of willingfull and passionate people who will improve the management and organisation of football in Serbia, turning it into a more developed and professionalised activity. This greatly contributed for the mass popularisation of football and the quality gap that existed in comparison to other footballistically more developed countries started to be diminish. In a relatively brief period, football went from being

396-432: Is a hierarchy of leagues in a sport. They are often called pyramids , due to their tendency to split into an increasing number of regional divisions further down the system. League systems of some sort are used in many sports in many countries. In association football , rugby union , rugby league and Gaelic games , league systems are usually connected by the process of promotion and relegation , in which teams from

440-471: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian : Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, Serbian : Прва савезна лига у фудбалу , Prva savezna liga u fudbalu , Croatian : Prva savezna nogometna liga , Slovene : Prva zvezna nogometna liga , Macedonian : Прва сојузна фудбалска лига , Albanian : Liga e parë federale e futbollit , Hungarian : Első szövetségi labdarúgó-bajnokság )

484-686: The Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 and the creation by the occupying German authorities of the puppet Serbian state the Serbian League will become the top-level league during the Second World War in Serbia, having its last edition in 1944. The Serbian League was organised by the Belgrade Football Subassociation. This period was marked by the fierce rivalry between the two most ambitious clubs, BSK and Jugoslavija, respectively named

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528-586: The First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina was launched. These three separate football leagues were operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina until 1998, and 2000. Since FIFA and UEFA showed support only for the association operating under patronage of the official and internationally recognized state institutions, during the war and prior to Dayton Peace Agreement as well as after its signage, they endorsed unification of all three organizations as N/FSBiH. This also came as

572-573: The Football Association of Yugoslavia so they both started their own football leagues. The Slovenian PrvaLiga was launched in late 1991, while the Croatian Prva HNL saw its first edition in 1992. Affected by the ongoing war in Croatia , the season was held over the course of a single calendar year, from February to June 1992. Both leagues have been going on ever since. The 1991–92 season

616-506: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1930). The league was started in 1923 and the first four seasons had a cup tournament format, while the first round-robin league competition was held in 1927. In the period from 1927 to 1940 seventeen seasons were completed, with all the titles won by clubs from Croatia ( Građanski Zagreb , Concordia Zagreb , HAŠK Zagreb and Hajduk Split ) or Serbia ( BSK Belgrade and Jugoslavija Belgrade ). It

660-535: The NHL , AHL and ECHL . Gridiron football does not operate on a league system. Different professional leagues play by very different sets of rules in different seasons (the NFL plays 11-a-side on a 100-yard field in autumn and early winter, the CFL uses 12-a-side on a 110-yard field in summer and early fall, while arena football and the minor indoor leagues each play 8-a-side on

704-411: The Yugoslav Championship , but since that year, the second placed teams of the leagues of Belgrade and Zagreb also get a chance to play on the national highest level by participating in one elimination round. By the mid 1930s the league system suffered numerous alterations, often on a year-to-year basis, however since then the subassociation leagues became a way for clubs to qualify to a group phase which

748-399: The republics , one of six federal units, associations, although same as before, all of them were under the national Yugoslav Football Association (FSJ). Numerous clubs were disbanded, mostly the ones which had a monarchic or bourgeois connotations, among them Jugoslavija and BSK. SK Jugoslavija was completely disbanded with most of its property and players, including the field, handed over to

792-489: The 2002–03 season, when the country changed its name so the league was renamed First League of Serbia and Montenegro. Finally, in June 2006 Montenegro declared independence and peacefully departed the union, so from the 2006–07 season onwards Montenegro started operating separate top-flight football league supervised by its football association. On the other hand, as the legal successor of Serbia-Montenegro state union, Serbia also got

836-633: The Blues and the Reds. At the time the press referred to their matches as the Eternal derby . During most of the period when the football season was divided into two halves, the first one being played on subassociation level and the second half at the national one, the BLP League usually served for BSK and Jugoslavija to measure strength between them, although the derby matches would repeat themselves as both usually took place at

880-505: The Republika Srpska , on a territory held by Republika Srpska regime at the time. Only football on a territory under the control of then Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina institutions and auspices of N/FSBiH, at the time consequently with Bosniak majority, apart from a brief competition for the season 1994–95 (won by Čelik Zenica ), came to a standstill. Competition under auspices of N/FSBiH did not resume until 1995–96 season when

924-666: The SFR Yugoslavia period (1945–1992). No minor European tournaments (like Mitropa Cup) included. Table sorted by success at European Cup / UEFA Champions League first and foremost. While the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is recognised as the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, it was not organised by UEFA. Consequently, UEFA do not consider clubs' records in the Fairs Cup to be part of their European record . However, FIFA do view

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968-418: The champion under N/FSBiH auspices. Idea was that playoff under unified N/FSBiH auspices should bring together clubs competing under three separate organizations for the first time but was rejected by Serb association, leaving clubs from Croat football association and N/FSBiH participating playoff for the seasons 1997–98 and 1999–00 , while 1998–99 playoff was canceled due to Croat's association hesitation on

1012-570: The competition as a major honour. Complete list of players who scored 100 goals or more in the 1946-1992 SFR Yugoslavia period. Source: RSSSF ; Last updated 14 December 2007 Over the years the Yugoslav First League featured many different teams, but there were always a number of teams that stood out, typically from the bigger cities. Among these were: The following data indicates historical Yugoslav coefficient rankings among European football leagues. The 1990–91 season

1056-484: The continuity of the country's league that was formed as Prva liga (First League) in 1992, and renamed and rebranded as Superliga in summer 2005. Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaimed independence in late winter 1992, and already in April same year N/FSBiH applied for membership with FIFA and UEFA. Meanwhile, due to the outbreak of Bosnian War in April 1992 no games were played in the 1992–93 season. In late 1993 some parts of

1100-406: The country re-launched football competitions with reduced scope. But just as the country was divided along ethnic lines, so was football. In 1993 Bosnian Croats launched the First League of Herzeg-Bosnia in which only Croatian clubs competed on parochial scale within the limits of West Herzegovina and few other enclaves. In the same year Bosnian Serbs also organized their own First League of

1144-659: The decision on which stadiums games should be played. Next season playoff was resumed for the last time prior to full and final agreement on unified N/FSBiH and its competition, Premier League BiH (Premijer Liga) , in the fall 2000. However, the first 2000–01 season seen clubs from Federation of BiH only, while clubs from Republic of Srpska entity continue to compete in their own separate league as their entity association still refused to join agreed unified N/FSBiH and its new competition. However, UEFA and FIFA never intended to recognize this separate organization nor its competition, which meant clubs couldn't compete outside territory of

1188-504: The development and expansion of football, its proliferation into provincial areas, the increase of competitions and the growing number of new clubs, a number of new subassociations was created within the initial territory of the Belgrade Football Subassociation. The first edition was played in 1920 and the first two editions were colloquially known as the Serbian Championship's. Until 1927 the champion gets automatically qualified to

1232-536: The entity and wouldn't see any international football. This situation forced clubs to insist that their organization also join N/FSBiH, and two years later they became part of the competition for the season 2002–03 . Ever since the year 2000 Premier League is the top tier of Bosnia and Herzegovina football, with two entity-based leagues, First League of Republika Srpska and First League of the Federation of BiH, being pushed to

1276-500: The league until it was suspended due to the outbreak of World War II . Consequently, with the moving of headquarters, Croatian players and coaches boycotted Yugoslavia national team. With the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia , separate Croatian and Serbian leagues were established, which operated during the World War II . Top 12 only: Table only shows best-finish achievements in major European/Intercontinental competitions during

1320-510: The national level. There they would face another aspect of Yugoslav football of the era, the equally fierce rivalry between the Belgrade teams and those from Zagreb. Those were usually the championship deciding matches. At the end of the Second World War the monarchy was abolished and the country became a federal people's republic, FPRY . The entire football system was restructured. The sub-associations ceased to exist and they gave place to

1364-452: The newly formed Red Star Belgrade , while BSK, although initially also disbanded, it ended being restored as OFK Beograd , a medium-small size club with obviously lower ambitions than BSK, and even so their right to assume and claim the continuity was only accepted after the socialist regime ended. The BSK vs Jugoslavija derby was succeeded by an equally intense Partizan vs Red Star Eternal derby . League system A league system

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1408-471: The season with a few games short of completing the season. Still, since most of the games were played as planned, Crvena Zvezda of Belgrade is credited with winning the last Yugoslav First League championship. Macedonian clubs abandoned the competition after the 1991–92 season because the new Macedonian First League was launched the following season. For the 1992–93 season Bosnian clubs were all on hiatus due to full blown fighting that developed there, with

1452-404: The second placed had to play a qualifying round. The Second and Third Divisions were divided in groups. Before the formation of the BLP, football clubs in Serbia lacked an organised competition and limited to play friendly or exhibition matches. Occasionally, tournaments were organised in major urban centers. Football was characterised as an amateur leisure activity. The formation of BLP joined

1496-464: The sole exception of Borac of Banja Luka (the strongest Bosnian Serb side at the time) which temporarily moved to Belgrade and joined the newly formed league featuring clubs from Serbia and Montenegro, this time restyled as the First League of FR Yugoslavia . (Serbia and Montenegro, the only ones left after other four member republics declared independence, renamed their country Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .) The league lasted under that name until

1540-479: The support for the seat of the Football Association of Yugoslavia to be moved from Zagreb to Belgrade. In 1926 Zarija Marković was elected president and will stay until 1929 when Svetislav Živković replaced him. Milan Bogdanović would be elected in 1931 and a year later Dimitrije Bojić will take his place. In 1933 Milan Bogdanović retook his position, and in 1934 Bojić succeeded him once again. This period

1584-469: The third general assembly hold that year, it was decided that Politika would become the official media of the BLP. The conference from 15 January 1922 was marked by the decision to strengthen the relations with the peripheral provincial clubs, and the territory was divided among Župa's, administrative units corresponding in English language to parishes or districts. In the general assembly held on 2 July 1922,

1628-667: Was governed at first by the Croatian -named Nogometni Savez Jugoslavije ( Football Association of Yugoslavia ) , founded in April 1919 in Zagreb , until in late 1929 disagreements arose between the Zagreb and Belgrade branches of the association. This resulted in the association headquarters being moved to Belgrade in May 1930 where it adopted the Serbian name Fudbalski Savez Jugoslavije and continued operating

1672-435: Was marked by the leadership of people well familiarised with the needs and problems of the organisation, so it is not unusual to see presidents being reelected or returning to the leadership position, as happened with Svetislav Živković who was president between 1929 and 1931 and was elected again in 1936. Jovan Spasojević, a physician by profession, took control in July 1937, and he was re-elected twice, in 1938 and 1940. With

1716-531: Was steadily growing and in 1923 it counted two main leagues, the First League of BLP ( 1. razred BLP ) and Second League of BLP ( 2. razred BLP ), and the leagues of the districts (župa's) which were 12, some counting 2 levels, a and b : Belgrade, Banat (a and b), Posavina, Bosnia, Kolubara, Šumadija, Krajina, Jelica, Morava and Skoplje. In 1925, Mata Miodragović was elected president in a general assembly held on 17 August 1925. The assembly unilaterally declared

1760-1388: Was the individuals with their own initiative and good-will that mostly contributed to the development of the clubs and the competition. The first president of the BLP was Dragutin Kostić. In 1921 he is replaced by Žika Simonović. That year the subassociation counted with only 66 clubs, 19 of which in the city of Belgrade itself, 9 in the district (župa - administrative unit) of Banat, 3 in Brčko , 4 in Bijeljina , 4 in Leskovac , 3 in Vranje , 2 in Skoplje , 3 in Zemun , 1 in Šabac , 2 in Sremska Mitrovica , 2 in Užice , 1 in Požega , 1 in Jagodina , 2 in Čačak , 1 in Ruma , 1 in Negotin , 1 in Kruševac and 1 in Veles . In

1804-529: Was the intermediate level to reach the national top level, although the BLP and Zagreb champions still qualified directly. By the late 1930s the clubs playing in the Yugoslav Championship did not play any more in the Subassociation leagues. In 1939 the league system is modified in a way that it is introduced the Serbian League, an intermediate level between the BLP and the Yugoslav Championship. After

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1848-502: Was the last season held in its usual format, with clubs from all federative units participating in the championship. The breakup of the country also broke up its top-flight league into several smaller ones. The UEFA recognised the First League of FR Yugoslavia as its successor league. In June 1991 Slovenia declared independence and Croatia followed suit in October of the same year. This meant that their football associations separated from

1892-551: Was the last season held officially under the name of SFR Yugoslavia , even though Slovenian and Croatian clubs have already abandoned the competition to play in their own leagues. Clubs from the remaining four federative units all took part in the competition, but since the Bosnian War broke out towards the end of the season, Bosnian clubs never finished it, with Željezničar of Sarajevo only managed to play 17 out of 33 scheduled fixtures, while Sloboda Tuzla and Velež Mostar ended

1936-530: Was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992). The First League Championship was one of two national competitions held annually in Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup being the other. The league became fully professional in 1967. This was the first club competition on a national level for clubs from Kingdom of Yugoslavia (named

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