2016–17 Montenegrin First League

Format of competition

A total of 12 teams will participate in this edition of the First Montenegrin League. FK Mornar Bar was relegated to 2016–17 Montenegrin Second League. They were replaced with FK Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje.
This is the last season of Prva CFL with 12 participants. Namely, from the season 2017-18, there will be 10 clubs in the top-tier rank of Montenegro. So, at the end of the season 2016-17, three worst-placed teams on the table will directly be relegated to the Second Montenegrin League. Additionally, 8th and 9th will play playoffs against 2nd and 3rd club from Second League.

Teams and stadiums

From the first time in history, championship title from the previous season will defend FK Mladost Podgorica.
Among 12 members which are participating in Montenegrin First League 2016-17, there are 11 members from the previous season - FK Bokelj, FK Budućnost, FK Dečić, OFK Grbalj, FK Iskra, FK Lovćen, FK Mladost, OFK Petrovac, FK Rudar, FK Sutjeska and FK Zeta. New member is FK Jedinstvo, which played their last games in the First League during the 2012-13 season.
The only town which had more than one member of the First League is Podgorica, with its' teams Budućnost and Mladost. Except that, two other clubs are from the cities of Podgorica Capital territory - Zeta from Golubovci and Dečić from Tuzi. There are two clubs from the territory of Municipality of Kotor - Bokelj from Kotor and Grbalj from Radanovići.
First time since foundation of the First Montenegrin League, at the start of the season, managers of all clubs were from Montenegro.

Results

The schedule consists of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home and away for a total of 22 games. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.

First and second round

Updated to games played on 22 February 2017.
Source: FSCG (Montenegrin)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Third round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position after 22 games):

23rd round 24th round 25th round 26th round 27th round 28th round 1 - 12 1 - 2 2 - 12 1 - 4 3 - 12 1 - 6 2 - 11 8 - 6 3 - 1 2 - 3 4 - 2 2 - 5 3 - 10 9 - 5 4 - 11 9 - 7 5 - 1 3 - 4 4 - 9 10 - 4 5 - 10 10 - 6 6 - 11 10 - 8 5 - 8 11 - 3 6 - 9 11 - 5 7 - 10 11 - 7 6 - 7 12 - 7 7 - 8 12 - 8 8 - 9 12 - 9 29th round 30th round 31st round 32nd round 33rd round 4 - 12 1 - 8 5 - 12 1 - 10 6 - 12 5 - 3 2 - 7 6 - 4 2 - 9 7 - 5 6 - 2 3 - 6 7 - 3 3 - 8 8 - 4 7 - 1 4 - 5 8 - 2 4 - 7 9 - 3 8 - 11 11 - 9 9 - 1 5 - 6 10 - 2 9 - 10 12 - 10 10 - 11 12 - 11 11 - 1

Source: FSCG (Montenegrin)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The tenth and eleventh-placed teams in this season's league will each pair off against the runners-up and third-placed team from the 2016–17 Montenegrin Second League in the relegation play-offs, to be played over two legs. The two winners will play in next season's competition.