1952–53 Yugoslav First League
Appearance
Season | 1952–53 |
---|---|
Champions | Red Star (2nd title) |
Relegated | Velež Napredak Kruševac |
Matches played | 132 |
Goals scored | 452 (3.42 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Todor Živanović (17) |
← 1952 1953–54 → |
Teams
Two clubs relegated at the end of the previous season were Rabotnički and Mačva. Teams promoted to the 1952–53 Yugoslav First League were Velež and Spartak.
Team | Location | Federal Republic | Position in 1952 |
---|---|---|---|
BSK Belgrade | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 5th |
Dinamo Zagreb | Zagreb | SR Croatia | 4th |
Hajduk Split | Split | SR Croatia | 1st |
Lokomotiva | Zagreb | SR Croatia | 3rd |
Partizan | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 6th |
Red Star | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 2nd |
Sarajevo | Sarajevo | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9th |
Spartak | Subotica | SR Serbia | — |
Vardar | Skopje | SR Macedonia | 7th |
Velež | Mostar | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | — |
Vojvodina | Novi Sad | SR Serbia | 8th |
NK Zagreb | Zagreb | SR Croatia | 10th |
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Red Star Belgrade (C) | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 47 | 27 | +20 | 31 | |
2 | Hajduk Split | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 49 | 35 | +14 | 29 | |
3 | Partizan | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 58 | 36 | +22 | 25 | |
4 | Vojvodina | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 37 | 36 | +1 | 24 | |
5 | BSK Belgrade | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 37 | −3 | 23 | |
6 | Sarajevo | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 39 | 33 | +6 | 22 | |
7 | Dinamo Zagreb | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 32 | 30 | +2 | 22 | |
8 | Lokomotiva | 22 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 33 | 40 | −7 | 21 | |
9 | Vardar | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 37 | 46 | −9 | 19 | |
10 | Spartak Subotica | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 33 | 44 | −11 | 19 | |
11 | Velež (R) | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 30 | 51 | −21 | 15 | Relegation to Yugoslav Second League |
12 | NK Zagreb (R) | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 37 | −14 | 14 |
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Champions:
- RED STAR BELGRADE (coach: Bane Sekulić, replaced by Žarko Mihajlović)
players (league matches/league goals):
Miljan Zeković (22/0)
Todor Živanović (21/17)
Branko Stanković (21/1)
Predrag Đajić (21/1)
Siniša Zlatković (21/0)
Rajko Mitić (18/8)
Tihomir Ognjanov (17/3)
Milorad Diskić (17/0)
Branislav Vukosavljević (13/8)
Kosta Tomašević (9/3)
Dimitrije Tadić (7/0)
Jovan Cokić (6/2)
Bela Palfi (6/1)
Vasilije Šijaković (6/1)
Ljuba Spajić (6/0)
Dragoljub Župac (3/0)
Milivoje Đurđević (2/0)
Branko Nešović (1/0)
Svetislav Milić (1/0)
Miodrag Petrović (1/0)
Miroslav Lazić (1/0)
Top scorers
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Todor Živanović | Red Star | 17 |
2 | Zdravko Rajkov | Vojvodina | 16 |
3 | Todor Veselinović | Partizan | 15 |
Marko Valok | Partizan | ||
5 | Bernard Vukas | Hajduk Split | 12 |
Vladimir Firm | Lokomotiva | ||
7 | Frane Matošić | Hajduk Split | 11 |
Božo Broketa | Hajduk Split | ||
9 | Vladimir Zelenika | Velež | 10 |
Dobrivoje Živkov | Sarajevo | ||
Đorđe Cincijevski | Vardar |