Season 1987–88 European Cup Red Star Top goalscorer Duško Milinković (16) | Champions Red Star (16th title) Cup Winners' Cup Borac Banja Luka Champion Red Star Belgrade | |
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The 1987–88 Yugoslav First League season was the 42nd 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. The season began on 2 August 1987 and ended on 12 June 1988. Red Star led by Velibor Vasović won their 16th title with a single points ahead of previous season's champions Partizan.
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Teams
A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1986–87 season and two sides promoted from the 1986–87 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level groups 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.
Dinamo Vinkovci and Spartak were relegated from the 1986–87 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Vojvodina and Rad.
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):
Žarko Đurović (34/5)
Goran Milojević (33/3)
Bora Cvetković (32/9)
Slobodan Marović (30/1)
Miodrag Krivokapić (30/0)
Dragan "Piksi" Stojković (28/15)
Dragiša Binić (27/13)
Slavko Radovanović (25/5)
Robert Prosinečki (23/4)
Goran Jurić (23/0)
Stevan Stojanović (23/0) -goalkeeper-
Dejan Joksimović (17/3)
Zlatko Krdžević (17/0)
Dragić Komadina (16/1)
Husref Musemić (15/4)
Dragan Punišić (11/1)
Branko Davidović (11/0) -goalkeeper-
Refik Šabanadžović (10/1)
Jovica Nikolić (10/0)
Mitar Mrkela (5/0)
Vladan Lukić (2/1)
Slavoljub Janković (2/0)
Top scorers
The top goalscorers in the 1987–88 Yugoslav First League were as follows: