Season 1976–77 European Cup Red Star UEFA Cup Dinamo Zagreb
Sloboda Start date 1976 Goals scored 773 | Champions Red Star (12th title) Cup Winners' Cup Hajduk Split Top goalscorer Zoran Filipović (21) Champion Red Star Belgrade Matches played 272 | |
Relegated FK Napredak Kruševac, FK Željezničar Sarajevo People also search for 1979–80 Yugoslav First League | ||
1976–77 Yugoslav First League (Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije, Prvenstvo 1976/77) competition was the 49th top league season since 1923 in various incarnations of Yugoslavia. It was won in dominating fashion by Red Star Belgrade with a 9-point margin over the second placed team (Dinamo Zagreb), which at the time set the record as largest ever points differential by which a team triumphed in the league.
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This was Red Star's 12th league title.
Teams
A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1975–76 season and two sides promoted from the 1975–76 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 34 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.
FK Vardar and FK Radnički Kragujevac were relegated from the 1975–76 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were NK Zagreb and FK Napredak Kruševac.
League table
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
League topscorer: Zoran Filipović (Red Star Belgrade) - 21 goals from 33 league match appearances
Champions:
players (league matches/league goals):
Vladislav Bogićević (34/7)
Zoran Filipović (33/21)
Slavoljub Muslin (32/0)
Dušan Nikolić (30/2)
Zoran Jelikić (27/0)
Branko Radović (26/0)
Dušan Savić (25/15)
Boško Kajganić (25/0)
Dušan Lukić (23/1)
Nikola Jovanović (23/0)
Miloš Šestić (22/8)
Srboljub Stamenković (19/4)
Mile Novković (18/1)
Petar Baralić (17/1)
Milan Babić (16/0)
Sead Sušić (13/7)
Aleksandar Stojanović (11/0) -goalkeeper-
Zdravko Borovnica (10/0)
Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović (10/0)
Dragoslav Stepanović (7/0)
Bratislav Đorđević (5/0)
Milan Ćalasan (3/0)
Radivoje Ratković (3/0)
Dragan Simeunović (1/0) -goalkeeper-
Aleksandar Panajotović (1/0)
Danilo Mandić (1/0)
Dušan Ajder (1/0)
Dejan Stanković (1/0)