1990–91 Yugoslav First League

September 2022 Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije 1990–91 Red Star European Cup Red Star Cup Winners' Cup Hajduk Split UEFA Cup Dinamo ZagrebPartizan Darko Pančev (34) 4 August 1990 –16 June 1991 883 1989–90 1991–92 The 1990–91 Yugoslav First League season was the 45th season of the First Federal League (sh Prva savezna liga), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. The title was won by Red Star Belgrade, the club's 18th in its history. It also turned out to be the last season in which teams from SR Croatia and SR Slovenia participated. In 1991, these states left Yugoslavia and created their respective leagues. Two points were awarded for a win, while the tied matches were decided by a penalty shootout with the winner getting a point. Yugoslavia 400 right Location of teams competing in the 1990-91 Yugoslav First League Yugoslavia 45.815011 15.981919 Dinamo Zagreb right Yugoslavia 44.783115 20.464790 Red Star right Yugoslavia 44.788743 20.459062 Partizan left Yugoslavia 45.381561 20.368574 Proleter Zrenjanin right Yugoslavia 44.775970 17.199611 Borac bottom Yugoslavia 43.519444 16.431667 Hajduk top Yugoslavia 45.246944 19.842222 Vojvodina left Yugoslavia 44.815736 20.454837 Rad bottom Yugoslavia 45.544937 18.695705 Osijek left Yugoslavia 43.3246 21.903 Radnički Niš bottom Yugoslavia 43.873697 18.408633 Sarajevo top Yugoslavia 43.378360 17.854413 Velež top Yugoslavia 44.847726 20.396048 Zemun top Yugoslavia 46.055278 14.514444 Olimpija bottom Yugoslavia 45.339202 14.380959 Rijeka left Yugoslavia 43.846521 18.387336 Željezničar right Yugoslavia 42.444728 19.264378 Budućnost left Yugoslavia 44.508807 18.752773 Sloboda top Yugoslavia 46.081781 19.676958 Spartak bottom Incidents Ethnically motivated violent pitch invasion April 2020 The season featured a huge politically and ethnically motivated incident during the Hajduk Split vs. FK Partizan tie on Wednesday, 26 September 1990 at Poljud Stadium, when a mob of hardcore Hajduk fans invaded the pitch during second half in an attempt to lynch Partizan players. All of the Partizan players managed to run away into the dressing room, thus escaping unharmed. While chanting anti-Serb slogans, the violent mob then set fire to the Yugoslav flag that was displayed on the stadium's official mast. They then proceeded to raise the Croatian chequerboard flag (at the time not in official use and thus considered a Croatian nationalist symbol). At the moment of the incident, Partizan was leading 0–2 courtesy of a Milan Đurđević brace. The match was never resumed and eventually registered 0–3 in Partizan's favour. Eternal derby: Red Star v. Partizan incidents On Saturday, 27 April 1991, only three days after making the European Cup final by advancing against favoured Bayern Munich via managing a hard-fought home draw in the famous emotional rollercoaster semifinal return leg in front of 90,000 fans, league leaders Red Star hosted their heated cross-town rival FK Partizan in the 88th league edition of the Eternal derby. Following an entertaining first half played in front of some 35,000 spectators, at the end of which Red Star led 3–1, the match was halted for 10 minutes at the beginning of the second half due to FK Partizan ultras, the Grobari, rioting in the Marakana stadium's south stand by pelting the pitch and athletic track with construction material found in front of the stand. The match play resumed before being interrupted several more times throughout the second half due to Partizan ultras continuing to riot despite increased police presence around the south stand and even, at one point, pleas of the team's striker Predrag Mijatović sent by the head coach Miloš Milutinović in an attempt of calming them. The match ended 3-1 for Red Star. Dinamo v. Red Star match-fixing allegations On Saturday, 18 May 1991, Dinamo Zagreb hosted champions-elect Red Star Belgrade at Maksimir Stadium. The match was of no competitive importance since Red Star had already clinched the league title as it prepared to travel to Bari for the European Cup Final some ten days later while Dinamo had cemented its hold on the second place that ensured a UEFA Cup spot. However, the match still carried a degree of tension due to pitting a marquee Croatian side versus a marquee Serbian at a time when ethnic conflicts, some of them deadly, had started taking place in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, and especially in light of the fact this was the first time the two teams met at Maksimir following the previous season's Dinamo–Red Star riot in the stands, with that match being called off. This time the match began as scheduled and finished without interruption with Red Star going 0–2 in front before Dinamo mounted a spirited come-back for a 3–2 win at full time. However, more than 20 years later, allegations appeared that the contest had been fixed via confessions from two of the match's protagonists. Speaking to Globus magazine in September 2012, Robert Prosinečki, Red Star midfielder back in 1991, said his team "let Dinamo win that day".Robert Prosinečki: Štimac nema karizmu https://web.archive.org/web/20120928234052/http://globus.jutarnji.hr/zivot/robert-prosinecki--stimac-nema-karizmu 28 September 2012 ;Globus, September 2012Zvezda pustila Dinamo 1991.;Kurir, 28 September 2012 Prompted by Prosinečki's claims, Ljupko Petrović, Red Star's head coach in 1991, expanded: "We didn't lose that match by arranging with someone from Dinamo beforehand to let them win. No. We were simply forced into losing by the political circles that wanted to ensure Dinamo's win that day. The war had practically already begun, Croatia was about to declare independence, and the match was taking place only a year after the previous incident when Zvonimir Boban assaulted a policeman—our first away match versus Dinamo since then. I remember Franjo Tuđman being at the match and watching it from the luxury box with his cronies and the overall atmosphere within the stadium being extremely hostile such that no result but Dinamo's win was going to be acceptable. We got up 0-2, but towards the end of the first half Dinamo got a penalty on a scandalous and very obvious dive by Davor Šuker. Later, they managed to tie the score. At halftime I protested vehemently with the referee, a Montenegrin guy whose name I can't recall at the moment, and from what he told me it was apparent between the lines that it had already been decided we had to lose that match for political reasons. Because Tuđman is sitting in the stands and because he doesn't want a Serbian team winning in the middle of Zagreb right in front of his eyes at a time when he's creating an independent state. I got thrown out of the match, we conceded once more, we lost the match and that's the whole story".Ljupko Petrović: Zvezda je 1991. morala da pusti Dinamo zbog Tuđmana!;Blic, 28 September 2012 League table main WL OT 5 QR 2 no no yes yes RSB Red Star Belgrade DZA Dinamo Zagreb PAR Partizan PRO Proleter Zrenjanin BOR Borac Banja Luka HSP Hajduk Split VOJ Vojvodina RAD Rad OSI Osijek RNI Radnički Niš SAR Sarajevo VEL Velež ZEM Zemun OLI Olimpija RIJ Rijeka ŽEL Željezničar BUD Budućnost SLO Sloboda Tuzla SPA Spartak Subotica 25 4 2 5 88 35 C 20 6 4 6 72 36 After the season, Croatian and Slovenian clubs left the Yugoslav federation and formed their own leagues. Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Osijek and Rijeka joined 1992 Prva HNL, while Olimpija joined 1991–92 Slovenian PrvaLiga. 18 5 3 10 62 36 17 1 3 15 50 49 14 7 4 11 42 38 15 3 6 12 49 38 DZA 14 5 4 13 47 52 14 4 3 15 42 34 14 4 2 16 52 57 DZA 14 4 1 17 35 49 13 5 5 13 37 48 12 6 4 14 54 55 12 6 4 14 40 53 14 2 1 19 41 59 DZA 13 3 7 13 33 25 DZA 11 7 6 12 35 41 13 2 4 17 43 48 11 1 6 18 36 56 1 2 8 25 25 74 green1 Qualification for European Cup first round EC blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round UC blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round and Prva HNL UCRO yellow1 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round and Prva HNL ECWC #CCCCFF Qualification for Intertoto Cup IC red1 Qualification for Prva HNL CRO CRO red1 Qualification for Slovenian PrvaLiga SLO complete 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. rsssf.org Results Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn. main FBR grey BBL BUD DIN HAJ OLI OSI PAR PRO RAD RNI RSB RIJ SAR SLO SPA VEL VOJ ZEM ŽEL Red Star 3–1 3–1 1–2 2–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 5–1 6–0 4–1 2–0 5–1 2–1 2–1 3–1 4–1 4–3 4–0 Dinamo Zagreb 3–2 0–0(4–3) 4–1 2–1 1–1(4–3) 2–2(7–6) 2–1 1–1(5–6) 2–0 8–1 2–1 2–0 3–0 3–1 2–1 6–0 3–1 3–1 Partizan 1–1(3–5) 2–1 0–2 2–2(4–3) 4–0 3–0 0–0(5–4) 4–0 3–1 2–0 5–0 4–1 1–0 1–2 3–0 2–1 3–1 1–1(4–2) Proleter Zrenjanin 0–2 3–1 2–2(2–3) 3–0 2–3 1–1(7–6) 2–1 2–0 1–0 5–0 3–2 2–0 1–1(4–5) 2–1 3–0 2–1 2–0 0–1 Borac Banja Luka 2–2(6–5) 1–1(6–5) 0–0(3–4) 2–0 0–2 1–0 2–1 3–0 0–2 3–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 0–0(4–3) 2–1 3–1 3–2 2–0 Hajduk Split 1–1(3–5) 1–2 0–3 3–0 1–1(3–4) 1–1(2–4) 4–2 3–0 3–0 2–0 1–1(3–1) 2–1 2–0 1–1(5–6) 1–1(4–2) 1–0 1–0 3–0 Vojvodina 1–1(4–5) 3–1 1–2 0–0(4–2) 1–1(7–6) 0–2 2–1 1–0 1–0 4–3 1–1(2–4) 4–3 4–3 1–1(4–2) 0–0(4–3) 2–0 2–0 3–0 Rad 0–1 0–2 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 4–0 1–0 0–0(4–5) 1–0 2–1 2–0 0–1 2–0 1–1(3–2) 3–0 2–1 Osijek 2–0 2–1 3–2 4–1 2–0 0–1 3–1 0–3 2–1 1–0 2–1 4–1 4–0 2–0 1–1(2–1) 1–1(3–4) 1–2 5–2 Radnički Niš 0–4 1–1(5–4) 0–3 2–1 2–0 1–0 3–0 0–0(3–4) 3–0 2–0 4–2 1–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–1(5–3) 2–0 Sarajevo 3–2 0–0(4–5) 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–1(4–2) 1–0 1–1(2–4) 2–0 3–0 0–0(4–3) 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–1(2–4) 1–0 0–0(6–5) 4–1 Velež 3–3(5–3) 1–2 0–1 5–2 2–4 4–3 0–1 3–2 1–0 2–0 0–0(5–4) 2–2(4–5) 3–1 1–0 1–1(3–4) 2–0 1–0 5–2 Zemun 1–3 1–1(6–7) 2–2(4–2) 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–2(2–4) 1–0 3–3(4–5) 2–0 0–0(3–1) 1–0 0–2 1–0 2–1 Olimpija 0–6 1–3 0–1 1–0 1–2 2–1 4–2 1–0 1–0 1–1(3–4) 1–0 1–3 2–1 2–1 3–0 2–1 1–3 5–0 Rijeka 0–0(1–3) 0–0(3–1) 3–0 3–0 0–0(9–10) 0–0(1–3) 3–0 0–0(6–5) 2–0 3–0 2–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–1(1–4) 1–0 0–1 3–0 Željezničar 0–2 1–3 1–0 2–0 1–1(6–5) 3–2 3–1 1–0 1–1[3–2) 1–0 1–1(4–3) 1–0 1–1(2–3) 3–0 2–0 0–0(1–3) 1–1(4–2) 0–0(2–3) Budućnost 2–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 3–0 1–0 0–1 1–4 1–1(2–4) 2–0 4–0 2–3 1–1(2–4) 1–1(2–4) 2–0 1–2 3–1 2–0 Sloboda Tuzla 0–1 0–3 3–1 1–2 0–0(10–11) 2–1 1–2 2–1 0–5 1–0 0–4 0–0(6–7) 1–1(4–5) 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–2(4–2) Spartak Subotica 1–2 0–0(2–4) 0–1 0–1 1–1(4–5) 0–1 1–2 0–0(5–6) 3–3(1–4) 1–2 1–1(2–4) 1–1(3–4) 0–0(5–4) 0–2 0–1 1–2 2–3 1–3 Match awarded after it was abandoned due to the riots at the Poljud stadium. complete DataSoccer.it Winning squad + Champions: Red Star Belgrade Player League MatchesGoals Yugoslavia Vlada Stošić 35 4 Romania Miodrag Belodedić 34 1 Yugoslavia Stevan Stojanović (goalkeeper) 33 0 Yugoslavia Darko Pančev 32 34 Yugoslavia Vladimir Jugović 32 7 Yugoslavia Ilija Najdoski 32 2 Yugoslavia Duško Radinović 30 0 Yugoslavia Robert Prosinečki 29 11 Yugoslavia Dragiša Binić 27 13 Yugoslavia Slobodan Marović 27 1 Yugoslavia Refik Šabanadžović 26 0 Yugoslavia Dejan Savićević 25 8 Yugoslavia Siniša Mihajlović bought from FK Vojvodina January '91 14 1 Yugoslavia Ivica Momčilović 13 0 Yugoslavia Rade Tošić 11 0 Yugoslavia Ljubiša Milojević 8 1 Yugoslavia Goran Jurić sold to Celta de Vigo in December 1990 8 0 Yugoslavia Goran Vasilijević 7 0 Yugoslavia Dejan Joksimović 5 0 Yugoslavia Ivan Adžić 4 1 Yugoslavia Vladan Lukić 4 1 Yugoslavia Enes Bešić 3 0 Yugoslavia Milić Jovanović (goalkeeper) 3 0 Yugoslavia Slaviša Čula 2 0 Yugoslavia Duško Savić 2 0 Yugoslavia Đorđe Aćimović 1 0 Yugoslavia Aleksandar Ilić 1 0 Yugoslavia Mitar Mrkela sold to FC Twente in early fall 1990 1 0 Yugoslavia Milorad Ratković 1 0Head coach: Ljupko Petrović Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1YUG Darko PančevRed Star342YUG Davor ŠukerDinamo Zagreb223YUG Zvonimir BobanDinamo Zagreb154YUG Ljubomir VorkapićVojvodina14YUG Predrag MijatovićPartizan6YUG Dragiša BinićRed Star13YUG Anto DrobnjakBudućnostYUG Meho KodroVelež9YUG Vladimir GudeljVelež1210YUG Zoran SliškovićŽeljezničar11YUG Robert ProsinečkiRed StarYUG Goran VlaovićOsijekYUG Zoran KuntićSpartak Subotica See also 1990–91 Yugoslav Second League 1990–91 Yugoslav Cup Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot References External links RSSSF Yugoslavian First Division 1990-91; by Jonathan Wilson, WSC, July 2007 Category:Yugoslav First League seasons Yugo Category:1990–91 in Yugoslav football