2007–08 Serbian SuperLiga

2nd season of Serbian SuperLiga August 2022 Meridian SuperLiga 2007–08 Partizan1st SuperLiga title20th domestic title BežanijaMladost LučaniSmederevo Champions League Partizan (second qualifying round) UEFA Cup Red StarVojvodinaBorac Čačak Nenad Jestrović (13) Red Star 5–0 Napredak (2 April 2008)Vojvodina 5–0 Borac Čačak (30 April 2008) Banat 0–4 Napredak (3 May 2008) Bežanija 6–2 Banat (29 March 2008) 198 452 2006–07 2008–09 Serbia right 300 Location of teams in the Serbian SuperLiga 2007–08 Serbia 45.366667 20.383333 Banat Serbia 43.883333 20.35 Borac Serbia 45.6 19.533333 Hajduk Serbia 43.866667 20.133333 Mladost left Serbia 44.666667 20.933333 Smederevo bottom Serbia 43.583333 21.316667 Napredak Serbia 44.8162 20.4816 Belgrade Serbia 45.246944 19.842222 Vojvodina bottom Serbia TransparentPlaceholder.png 46.18 23.0 Belgrade clubs: left Serbia TransparentPlaceholder.png 46.05 23.2 BežanijaČukaričkiOFK BeogradPartizanRed Star left The 2007–08 Serbian SuperLiga (known as the Meridian SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons) was the second season since its establishment in 2006. Red Star Belgrade were the defending SuperLiga champions, having won their twenty-fifth national title the season before. The SuperLiga changed its format from this season. The League was no longer divided into a playoff and play-out group midway through the campaign. Instead the 12 teams played each other three times in a conventional league format. For the SuperLiga's inaugural season and this one the league had been named the Meridian SuperLiga. This however, was the last season that Meridian Bank had sponsorship rights to the SuperLiga. The rights to the Serbian SuperLiga were bought by Jelen and starting from the 2008–09 season the league was known as the Jelen SuperLiga. European placing Like in many previous seasons, the allocation of European spots based on the final 2007–08 league and cup standings turned out to be messy. According to the propositions, the second UEFA Cup spot is supposed to go to the Serbian Cup winner. However, since the Cup was won by FK Partizan, a club that also won the league, the second UEFA Cup spot went to the 2007–08 Serbian Cup finalist FK Zemun. This created problems, since FK Zemun couldn't obtain the UEFA licence for the year due to poor financial situation at the club, and their UEFA Cup spot went to the 4th placed league team - Borac Čačak. Now, since Borac Čačak earned a 2008 Intertoto Cup berth based on finishing 4th in the league, they now passed their Intertoto Cup spot down to 9th placed OFK Beograd because Napredak Kruševac, Čukarički, Mladost Lučani, and Hajduk Kula (5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th placed teams in the league, respectively) didn't want it. This created a bizarre situation whereby a team that finished fourth from the bottom barely avoiding relegation playoff (OFK Beograd) still got to play in the 2008 Intertoto Cup. Participating clubs and their stadia The following twelve clubs competed in the 2007–08 Serbian SuperLiga season. Team Stadium Capacity Crvena zvezda Stadion Crvena Zvezda 55,000 Partizan Partizan Stadium 32,710 Vojvodina Karađorđe Stadium 20,000 Banat Karađorđev Park Stadium 18,700 Smederevo Smederevo City Stadium 17,200 OFK Beograd Omladinski Stadium 16,000 Hajduk Kula Stadion Hajduk 12,000 Napredak Kruševac Stadium 10,811 Bežanija Bežanija Stadium 9,350 Mladost Lučani Stadion Mladost 8,000 Borac Čačak Čačak Stadium 7,600 Čukarički Čukarički Stadium 6,600 League table main WDL QR 5 PAR Partizan RSB Red Star VOJ Vojvodina BOR Borac Čačak NAP Napredak ČUK Čukarički MLA Mladost Lučani HAJ Hajduk Kula OFK OFK Beograd SME Smederevo BAN Banat BEŽ Bežanija 24 8 1 63 23 C 21 12 0 65 22 18 8 7 53 33 12 10 11 29 33 11 8 14 25 33 10 10 13 31 32 8 14 11 32 41 8 13 12 25 31 9 9 15 31 45 10 6 17 33 44 6 10 17 34 57 R 5 4 24 31 58 R green1 Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round CL2 blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup second qualifying round UC2 blue2 Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round UC1 UC1 #ccccff Qualification for Intertoto Cup second round IC2 red2 Qualification for relegation play-off RP red1 Relegation to Serbian First League R R complete soccerway.com 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 matches. 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 main FBR grey BAN BEŽ BOR ČUK HAJ MLA NAP OFK PAR RSB SME VOJ Banat Zrenjanin 2–1 2–1 1–3 1–2 0–0 0–1 2–1 0–2 2–2 2–3 1–1 Bežanija 6–2 1–2 1–2 1–0 0–0 2–1 1–2 0–2 0–1 2–0 0–1 Borac Čačak 0–0 4–1 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 0–2 2–4 Čukarički 2–1 0–2 0–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–2 0–3 0–1 2–2 1–0 Hajduk Kula 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 2–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 3–1 1–2 Mladost 1–1 3–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 2–2 1–4 1–1 3–2 0–1 Napredak Kruševac 0–2 1–0 0–0 0–2 1–0 0–1 2–0 0–2 0–1 3–1 0–1 OFK Beograd 0–2 1–0 2–0 0–3 3–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 0–2 1–2 0–0 Partizan 4–2 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 4–0 3–1 5–1 2–2 1–0 3–3 Red Star Belgrade 2–0 2–0 4–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 1–1 2–0 4–1 1–0 1–1 Smederevo 0–1 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 2–5 1–0 Vojvodina 1–0 3–1 1–2 0–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–1 complete soccerway.com Third round main FBR grey BAN BEŽ BOR ČUK HAJ NAP MLA OFK PAR RSB SME VOJ Banat Zrenjanin null 0–1 null null 2–2 0–4 1–2 null 1–2 null null Bežanija 3–3 null null 0–1 null 0–1 2–2 null null 1–2 null Borac Čačak null 2–0 2–1 null null 1–1 0–0 null 0–2 1–0 null Čukarički 2–0 1–0 null 0–1 3–0 null null 0–1 null null 1–3 Hajduk Kula 0–0 null 1–1 null 0–0 2–0 null null 1–1 null null Mladost null 3–0 2–1 null null 0–0 3–1 null 0–1 0–1 null Napredak Kruševac null null null 2–0 null null 1–0 0–1 null 1–0 1–0 OFK Beograd null null null 1–1 1–1 null null 1–3 null 2–1 2–0 Partizan 3–1 2–2 1–0 null 1–0 2–0 null null 1–1 null null Red Star Belgrade null 4–1 null 1–0 null null 5–0 1–0 null 4–3 5–1 Smederevo 1–1 null null 1–0 0–0 null null null 0–1 null 1–2 Vojvodina 4–1 null 5–0 null 4–1 2–0 null null 3–2 null 1–1 complete soccerway.com Top scorers RankPlayerTeamGoals1SRB 2004 Nenad JestrovićRed Star 132SEN Lamine DiarraPartizan12MNE Stevan JovetićPartizanSRB 2004 Predrag RanđelovićBežanija5SRB 2004 Gojko KačarVojvodina 11 Hat-tricks Player For Against Result DateSRB 2004 Nenad Jestrović Red Star Smederevo 2-5 dmy 2007 11 11CHA Misdongarde Betolngar Red Star Napredak 5–0 dmy 2008 4 2SRB 2004 Nenad Milijaš Red Star Bežanija 4-1 dmy 2008 4 12 Winning squad Champions: FK Partizan (coach: Miroslav Đukić until 18 round, Slaviša Jokanović from 18 round) Players(League matches/league goals) SRB 2004 Zoran Tošić (32/8) SEN Lamine Diarra (31/12) SRB 2004 Đorđe Lazić (30/6) POR Almani Moreira (28/7) BIH Darko Maletić (28/0) MNE Stevan Jovetić (27/12) BRA Juca (25/5) SRB 2004 Nemanja Rnić (25/0) MNE Darko Božović (24/0) SRB 2004 Ivan Obradović (19/0) MKD Aleksandar Lazevski (16/2) SRB 2004 Žarko Lazetić (15/1) SRB 2004 Nikola Mitrović (15/0) SRB 2004 Nenad Đorđević (14/6) POR Ednilson (14/0) MNE Mladen Božović (10/0) SRB 2004 Srđa Knežević (10/0) SRB 2004 Milan Vještica (9/0) SRB 2004 Marko Jovanović (9/0) MKD Dragan Čadikovski (7/2) MNE Slaven Stjepanović (7/1) MNE Marko Ćetković (6/0) SRB 2004 Milovan Sikimić (5/0) MNE Risto Lakić (2/0) Relegation playoff The third-placed team form the bottom in 2007–08 SuperLiga (FK Smederevo) plays the winner of the 4-team playoff consisting of 3rd to 6th placed teams from 2007 to 2008 Serbian First League (FK Rad). The playoff has a home-and-away tie format 7 June 2008, FK Rad - FK Smederevo 3:1https://archive.today/20120720104550/http://www.blic.co.rs/sport.php?id=44709 Rad pobedio Smederevo 3:1 u prvoj utakmici baraža, Blic, June 7, 2008 http://www.studiob.rs/info/vest.php?id=24857 Rad pobedio Smederevo u prvoj utakmici Baraža Studio B 7 June 2008 3 December 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20111009035815/http://www.studiob.rs/info/vest.php?id=24857 9 October 2011 dead 11 June 2008, FK Smederevo - FK Rad 2:1 Promoted teams The following teams were promoted to the Meridian SuperLiga at the end of the 2007–08 season: Javor Ivanjica - Serbian First League champion Jagodina - Serbian First League runner-up Rad - Winner of the playoffs against Smederevo Relegated teams The following teams were relegated to the Serbian First League at the end of the 2007–08 season based on their performance: Bežanija - Automatically relegated after finishing the season in the 12th position (last place). Banat Zrenjanin - Automatically relegated after finishing in the 11th position (second last place). Smederevo - As a result of finishing 10th (third place from the bottom) entered and lost relegation playoffs against FK Rad (a team that won the chance to compete for promotion from First League amongst the 4 teams that finished 3rd to 6th inclusive) However, following speculation on 29 June 2008 that 7th placed SuperLiga team - Mladost from Lučani - might decline the opportunity to compete in 2008–09 SuperLiga season due to lacking the funds required to compete at the top level,http://www.mtsmondo.com/sport/vesti/text.php?vest=101658 Lučanci istupaju iz MSL!?, MTS Mondo, June 29, 2008 29 June 2008 15 July 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080715003823/http://www.mtsmondo.com/sport/vesti/text.php?vest=101658 dead the official confirmation of their decision came on 2 July 2008.http://www.mtsmondo.com/sport/vesti/text.php?vest=101953 Mladost iz Lučana napustila Superligu, MTS Mondo, July 2, 2008 2 July 2008 2 July 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080702202823/http://www.mtsmondo.com/sport/vesti/text.php?vest=101953 dead The possibility of Mladost Lučani being relegated two levels down to Srpska Liga as punishment was initially talked about, nut the club was eventually moved only one level down to First League for the 2008–09 season. By the decision of Serbian Football Association (FSS), the relegated team that ended up keeping its SuperLiga status as a result of Mladost's withdrawal became 11th placed Banat Zrenjanin, not the 10th placed FK Smederevo. The FA made the decision based on their opinion that Banat Zrenjanin has better support of the sponsors and its community (city of Zrenjanin) than does FK Smederevo. The decision caused a lot of controversy and protest from FK Smederevo officials who claimed they should've been given the opportunity to retain the SuperLiga status after Mladost's withdrawal. They even launched an official appeal with UEFA, but it got rejected.http://www.mtsmondo.com/sport/vesti/text.php?vest=105499 UEFA odbila žalbu Smedereva, MTS Mondo, August 6, 2008 6 August 2008 26 August 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080826072914/http://www.mtsmondo.com/sport/vesti/text.php?vest=105499 dead So, in the end, the three 2007–08 SuperLiga teams that will not compete in the 2008–09 SuperLiga season are: Bežanija Mladost Lučani Smederevo References External links UEFA Site Serbian Superliga SiteSeptember 2018 InternetArchiveBot yes Tables and results at RSSSF Category:Serbian SuperLiga seasons 1 Serbia