2016–17 Montenegrin First League

Montenegrin First League

Season	2016–17
Dates	6 August 2016 – 27 May 2017
Matches played	192
Goals scored	381 (1.98 per match)
Biggest home win	Lovćen 6–0 Petrovac (30 April 2017)
Biggest away win	Dečić 1–4 Petrovac Petrovac 0–3 Mladost Podgorica
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 20 May 2017.

The 2016–17 Montenegrin First League (known as 1. CFL 2016–17) is the eleventh season of top-tier football in Montenegro. Mladost Podgorica are the defending champions. The season began on 6 August 2016 and will end on 27 May 2017; the relegation play-offs will follow.

Format of competition

Bokelj

Budućnost

Dečić

Grbalj

Iskra

Jedinstvo

Lovćen

Mladost

Petrovac

Rudar

Sutjeska

Zeta

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Locations of the 2016–17 Montenegrin First League teams

A total of 12 teams will participate in this edition of the First Montenegrin League. Mornar 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. From the 2017–18 season, there will be 10 clubs in the top-tier rank of Montenegro. At the end of the 2016–17 season, the three worst-placed teams in the league will be directly relegated to the Second Montenegrin League. Additionally, the 8th and 9th-placed teams will take part in play-offs against the 2nd and 3rd-placed teams from the 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.

Club	City	Finishing in 2015–16	First season in top division	Stadium	Official website
FK Bokelj	Kotor	4th	2007–08	Stadion pod Vrmcem (5,000)
FK Budućnost	Podgorica	2nd	1946–47	Stadion pod Goricom (15,230)	fkbuducnost.me
FK Dečić	Tuzi	6th	2006–07	Tuško polje (3,000)
OFK Grbalj	Radanovići	7th	2006–07	Donja Sutvara (1,500)
FK Iskra	Danilovgrad	10th	2015–16	Braće Velašević (2,500)
FK Jedinstvo	Bijelo Polje	1st in Second League	2005–06	Gradski stadion (5,000)
FK Lovćen	Cetinje	9th	2007–08	Stadion Obilića Poljana (2,000)	fklovcen.me
FK Mladost	Podgorica	1st	2006–07	FK Mladost (2,000)	fkmladost.me
OFK Petrovac	Petrovac	11th	2006–07	Stadion pod Malim brdom (1,630)	ofkpetrovac.com
FK Rudar	Pljevlja	3rd	1993–94	Stadion pod Golubinjom (5,140)	fkrudarpljevlja.com
FK Sutjeska	Nikšić	5th	1964–65	Stadion kraj Bistrice (5,214)	fksutjeska.me
FK Zeta	Golubovci	8th	2000–01	Stadion Trešnjica (4,000)	fkzeta.net

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

Home \ Away	BOK	BUD	DEČ	GRB	ISK	JED	LOV	MLA	PET	RUD	SUT	ZET
Bokelj	—	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–2	0–1
Budućnost Podgorica	3–0	—	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	5–0	1–0	5–0	0–2	4–2	1–0
Dečić	1–3	1–2	—	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–4	2–1	1–0	2–0
Grbalj	0–0	1–1	3–0	—	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	1–0
Iskra Danilovgrad	1–0	0–3	0–0	0–1	—	1–2	1–0	1–3	1–0	1–0	0–3	0–2
Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	—	0–2	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–3
Lovćen	2–0	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	—	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–1
Mladost Podgorica	3–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	5–0	0–0	—	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0
Petrovac	1–1	0–2	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–3	—	1–2	0–3	1–1
Rudar Pljevlja	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	5–0	1–1	0–1	3–2	—	1–0	1–1
Sutjeska Nikšić	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	—	0–0
Zeta	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	—

Source: Football Association of Montenegro Template:Mis icon
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Third round

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

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

Home \ Away	BOK	BUD	DEČ	GRB	ISK	JED	LOV	MLA	PET	RUD	SUT	ZET
Bokelj	—	—	2–1	0–0	—	—	0–1	0–0	—	0–0	—	—
Budućnost Podgorica	2–2	—	2–0	0–2	—	4–1	—	0–3	—	3–2	—	—
Dečić	—	—	—	—	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	—	1–0	—
Grbalj	—	—	0–1	—	2–3	1–0	0–3	0–0	1–0	—	—	—
Iskra Danilovgrad	0–0	1–0	—	—	—	—	—	—	4–0	—	1–0	1–0
Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje	1–3	—	—	—	0–2	—	0–1	—	3–1	1–4	—	—
Lovćen	—	1–0	—	—	0–0	—	—	—	6–0	—	0–2	0–3
Mladost Podgorica	—	—	—	—	1–2	6–2	7–2	—	2–0	—	1–3	0–1
Petrovac	1–3	1–0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3–1	0–1	3–1
Rudar Pljevlja	—	—	1–0	0–0	2–0	—	2–0	0–1	—	—	—	—
Sutjeska Nikšić	1–1	1–0	—	0–0	—	4–0	—	—	—	2–0	—	1–2
Zeta	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	—	3–0	—	—	—	1–0	—	—

Source: Football Association of Montenegro Template:Mis icon
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Relegation play-offs

The eighth and ninth-placed teams in this season's league, Rudar Pljevlja and Petrovac respectively, 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 draw was made on 29 May 2017. The two winners will play in next season's top-flight.

31 May 2017 (2017-05-31)

17:30 CEST

Otrant	1–0	Rudar Pljevlja
Tachibana 14'	Report

Stadion Olympic, Ulcinj

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Jovan Kaluđerović

4 June 2017 (2017-06-04)

17:30 CEST

Rudar Pljevlja	3–0	Otrant
	Report

Gradski stadion, Pljevlja

Rudar Pljevlja won 3–1 on aggregate and retained their spot in 2017–18 Montenegrin First League; Otrant remained in 2017–18 Montenegrin Second League.

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31 May 2017 (2017-05-31)

17:30 CEST

Petrovac	4–0	Ibar
Vučinić 37' (pen.) Kacić 45+3' (pen.), 61' Pepić 64'	Report

Stadion pod Malim brdom, Petrovac

Attendance: 350

Referee: Miloš Novović

4 June 2017 (2017-06-04)

17:30 CEST

Ibar	1–1	Petrovac
	Report

Bandžovo Brdo Stadium, Rožaje

Petrovac won 5–1 on aggregate and retained their spot in 2017–18 Montenegrin First League; Ibar remained in 2017–18 Montenegrin Second League.

Top scorers

As of 26 May 2017

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Zoran Petrović	Mladost Podgorica	14
2	Goran Vujović	Budućnost Podgorica	12
3	Bojan Božović	FK Sutjeska	11
	Vule Vujačić	Dečić
	Radomir Đalović	Budućnost Podgorica

See also

• Montenegrin First League
• 2016–17 Montenegrin Second League

External links

• Football Association of Montenegro – official site
• 1. CFL 2016–17 on Soccerway