Season 1980–81 Top goalscorer Milan Radović (26) | Champions Red Star (14th title) Start date 1980 | |
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The 1980–81 Yugoslav First League season was the 35th 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. A total of 18 teams competed in the league, with the previous season's champions Red Star successfully defending their title, finishing the season two points clear of runners-up Hajduk Split.
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Teams
A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1979–80 season and two sides promoted from the 1979–80 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.
Osijek and Čelik were relegated from the 1979–80 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted were NK Zagreb and OFK Belgrade, returning to the top level after being relegated in the 1978–79 season.
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.
Champions:
players (league matches/league goals):
Rajko Janjanin (34/6)
Srebrenko Repčić (33/10)
Zlatko Krmpotić (32/1)
Miloš Šestić (31/7)
Milan Janković (30/5)
Zdravko Borovnica (29/12)
Ivan Jurišić (27/1)
Boško Đurovski (26/0)
Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović (23/6)
Dragan Miletović (23/0)
Živan Ljukovčan (17/0) -goalkeeper-
Milan Jovin (16/2)
Cvijetin Blagojević (16/2)
Dragan Simeunović (16/0) -goalkeeper-
Milenko Rajković (14/0)
Ljubiša Stojanović (12/0)
Radomir Savić (12/0)
Zoran Jelikić (10/1)
Slavoljub Muslin (10/0)
Milko Đurovski (9/5)
Nedeljko Milosavljević (6/2)
Slobodan Goračinov (2/0)
Zdravko Čakalić (2/0)
Srboljub Stamenković (1/0)
Goran Živanović (1/0)
Slavko Radovanović (1/0)
Srboljub Marinković (1/0)