Season 2009–10 Champions League Koper Dates 17 Jul 2009 – 16 May 2010 Location Slovenia Goals scored 512 | Champions Koper
(1st title) Best goalkeeper Jan Oblak Champion FC Koper Best player Miran Pavlin Matches played 180 | |
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Europa League Maribor
Gorica
Olimpija Top goalscorer Milan Osterc
(23 goals) Relegated NK Drava Ptuj, NK Interblock | ||
The 2009–10 Slovenian PrvaLiga (also known as the 1. SNL, English: Slovenian First League) was the 19th season of top-tier football in Slovenia. The season began on 18 July 2009 and finished in May 2010. Koper won the league for the first time.
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Teams
NK Primorje were relegated to the Slovenian Second League after a last-place finish, thus ending a fifteen-year spell in Slovenias highest league. Drava Ptuj successfully avoided relegation for the second year in a row by beating Second League runners-up Aluminij in the relegation play-offs.
Promoted to the Slovenia's top football league were the Second League champions Olimpija, who were promoted from the lowest tier of Slovenian football to the top league in only five seasons. This will be their first league season in short history of the club.
League table
Source: PrvaLiga
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
1Olimpija were docked two points for missing a game in Slovenian Second League.
2Maribor are the winners of the 2009–10 Slovenian Cup and qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League as cup-winners.
(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.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.
Relegation play-offs
The 9th placed team, Interblock, played a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of 2009–10 Slovenian Second League, Triglav, for one spot in the 2010–11 PrvaLiga.
Results
Every team plays four times against their opponents, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 36 matches.
First half of the season
Source: NZS (Slovene)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Second half of the season
Source: NZS (Slovene)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top goalscorers
Source: NZS (Slovene)