1981–82 Yugoslav First League

Prva savezna liga

Season	1981–82
Dates	26 July 1981 – 2 May 1982
Champions	Dinamo Zagreb (4th title)
Relegated	Teteks NK Zagreb
European Cup	Dinamo Zagreb
Cup Winners' Cup	Red Star
UEFA Cup	Hajduk Split Sarajevo
Top goalscorer	Snješko Cerin (19)
← 1980–81 1982–83 →

The 1981–82 Yugoslav First League season was the 36th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. The season began on 26 July 1981 and ended on 2 May 1982. Dinamo Zagreb led by Miroslav Blažević won their fourth title five points ahead of previous season's champions Red Star.

Teams

A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1980–81 season and two sides promoted from the 1980–81 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 34 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.

Borac Banja Luka and Napredak Kruševac were relegated from the 1980–81 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Osijek and Teteks Tetovo.

Belgrade

Ljubljana

Mostar

Niš

Novi Sad

Osijek

Rijeka

Sarajevo

Skopje

Split

Titograd

Tetovo

Tuzla

Zagreb

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Locations of teams' home cities in the 1981–82 Yugoslav First League

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1980–81
Budućnost	Titograd	MNE	0066th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	CRO	0055th
Hajduk Split	Split	CRO	0022nd
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SRB	01515th
Olimpija	Ljubljana	SLO	01212th
Osijek	Osijek	CRO	—
Partizan	Belgrade	SRB	0088th
Radnički Niš	Niš	SRB	0033rd
Red Star	Belgrade	SRB	0011st
Rijeka	Rijeka	CRO	0077th
Sarajevo	Sarajevo	BIH	01313th
Sloboda	Tuzla	BIH	0044th
Teteks	Tetovo	MKD	—
Vardar	Skopje	MKD	01111th
Velež	Mostar	BIH	0099th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SRB	01010th
NK Zagreb	Zagreb	CRO	01616th
Željezničar	Sarajevo	BIH	01414th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo Zagreb (C)	34	20	9	5	67	32	+35	49	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Red Star Belgrade	34	17	10	7	68	40	+28	44	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Hajduk Split	34	17	10	7	53	31	+22	44	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Sarajevo	34	16	7	11	57	54	+3	39
5	Željezničar	34	16	6	12	52	37	+15	38
6	Partizan	34	14	9	11	40	31	+9	37
7	Velež	34	13	10	11	49	40	+9	36
8	Budućnost	34	13	8	13	47	44	+3	34
9	Olimpija	34	9	15	10	39	38	+1	33
10	Vojvodina	34	12	8	14	48	48	0	32
11	Radnički Niš	34	12	8	14	37	44	−7	32
12	Rijeka	34	11	10	13	39	54	−15	32
13	Sloboda Tuzla	34	9	13	12	36	44	−8	31
14	Vardar	34	12	6	16	43	51	−8	30
15	OFK Belgrade	34	9	12	13	33	41	−8	30
16	Osijek	34	9	11	14	36	37	−1	29
17	Teteks (R)	34	8	7	19	31	68	−37	23	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
18	NK Zagreb (R)	34	7	5	22	27	68	−41	19

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Champions: Dinamo Zagreb

Player	League
	Matches	Goals
Marko Mlinarić	33	2
Marijan Vlak	32	0
Snježan Cerin	31	19
Petar Bručić	31	2
Dragan Bošnjak	30	2
Džemal Mustedanagić	29	0
Velimir Zajec	28	1
Zvjezdan Cvetković	26	3
Milivoj Bračun	26	0
Stjepan Deverić	25	11
Zoran Panić	23	8
Zlatko Kranjčar	17	12
Ismet Hadžić	16	0
Emil Dragičević	15	1
Zlatan Arnautović	9	4
Borislav Cvetković	9	1
Željko Hohnjec	9	1
Marin Kurtela	6	0
Drago Dumbović	6	0
Milan Ćalasan	4	0
Zvonko Marić	3	0
Branko Devčić	3	0
Mladen Munjaković	3	0
Radimir Bobinac	2	0
Davor Braun	2	0
Čedomir Jovičević	1	0
Edward Krnčević	1	0
Coach: Miroslav Blažević

Results

Home \ Away	BUD	DIN	HAJ	OFK	OLI	OSI	PAR	RNI	RSB	RIJ	SAR	SLO	TET	VAR	VEL	VOJ	ZAG	ŽEL
Budućnost		1–0	0–0	4–2	4–2	3–2	1–3	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	4–2	2–0	2–0	3–1	4–0	0–1
Dinamo Zagreb	1–0		0–0	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	3–2	4–0	4–0	3–2	4–2	3–0	7–0	2–0
Hajduk Split	2–1	1–2		1–4	3–1	4–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–4	2–1	7–0	2–0	0–3	0–0	4–0	2–1
OFK Belgrade	1–3	0–0	2–2		0–0	3–2	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	3–1	3–1	4–2	0–0
Olimpija	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–0		0–0	3–1	2–2	0–3	3–0	4–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	3–0
Osijek	0–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–0		1–1	2–1	2–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	5–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0
Partizan	0–0	0–0	2–3	1–0	0–0	1–0		1–0	1–4	1–0	0–0	7–2	4–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–0	1–0
Radnički Niš	5–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0		2–0	1–0	2–4	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0
Red Star Belgrade	1–1	2–2	2–1	4–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	3–0		4–1	5–1	2–2	3–2	4–0	0–0	2–3	3–2	1–2
Rijeka	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	5–4	0–0		2–1	0–1	2–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–0	3–1
Sarajevo	2–1	2–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–2	2–1	6–1		1–4	4–1	3–1	4–1	1–0	0–0	2–1
Sloboda Tuzla	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	0–1		2–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–4
Teteks	2–1	1–4	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–3	2–1	2–3	1–1		0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2
Vardar	2–1	0–3	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–2	2–0	3–2	1–0	3–1		1–0	2–1	3–0	3–0
Velež	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–4	4–1	4–0	0–0	2–0	0–0		1–0	5–1	1–1
Vojvodina	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	4–3	4–0	0–2	1–1	4–1	4–1	1–1	4–3	0–3		4–1	2–0
NK Zagreb	1–1	1–2	0–3	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	0–3	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–0		1–2
Željezničar	3–1	3–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	4–0	0–0	1–2	4–1	1–1	6–0	4–2	2–0	2–1	2–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

Season statistics

• Widest winning margin: 7 goals:
  • Dinamo Zagreb 7–0 NK Zagreb (13 September 1981)
  • Hajduk Split 7–0 Teteks (31 March 1982)
• Most goals in a match: 9 goals:
  • Rijeka 5–4 Radnički Niš (23 August 1981)
  • Partizan 7–2 Sloboda (25 April 1982)

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Snješko Cerin	Dinamo Zagreb	19
2	Edin Bahtić	Željezničar	17
3	Dušan Savić	Red Star	16
4	Zlatko Vujović	Hajduk Split	15
	Vasil Ringov	Vardar
6	Zlatko Kranjčar	Dinamo Zagreb	12
	Predrag Pašić	Sarajevo
	Vili Ameršek	Olimpija
9	Stjepan Deverić	Dinamo Zagreb	11
	Safet Sušić	Sarajevo
	Dušan Bajević	Velež

See also

• 1981–82 Yugoslav Second League
• 1981–82 Yugoslav Cup
• 1981–82 NK Dinamo Zagreb season

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables