1952–53 Yugoslav First League

Prva savezna liga

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	0055th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0044th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0011st
Lokomotiva	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0033rd
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0066th
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0022nd
Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0099th
Spartak	Subotica	SR Serbia	—
Vardar	Skopje	SR Macedonia	0077th
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0088th
NK Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	01010th

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

Results

Home \ Away	BSK	DIN	HAJ	LOK	PAR	RSB	SAR	SPA	VAR	VEL	VOJ	ZAG
BSK Belgrade		1–0	4–2	0–2	1–0	1–3	1–0	4–3	1–1	2–4	3–1	3–0
Dinamo Zagreb	1–1		5–1	4–3	1–3	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	4–0	4–2	0–0
Hajduk Split	0–2	2–0		1–1	4–2	2–2	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	6–1	6–3
Lokomotiva	1–1	1–1	4–4		2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0
Partizan	5–1	3–2	2–4	3–0		2–4	2–2	6–2	9–2	4–1	4–0	2–1
Red Star	5–3	3–0	1–4	3–2	1–1		2–1	5–1	0–0	4–0	1–1	3–1
Sarajevo	2–3	3–0	0–0	7–2	2–1	0–1		3–2	5–1	2–0	0–1	2–1
Spartak Subotica	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–4	3–1		3–1	4–0	1–0	3–0
Vardar	2–1	0–1	2–2	1–2	3–1	3–1	4–2	5–1		5–2	0–1	2–1
Velež	0–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	0–4	0–1	1–2	2–0	3–1		3–5	2–0
Vojvodina	1–1	1–0	1–2	4–1	1–1	0–1	5–1	2–0	3–1	5–3		0–2
NK Zagreb	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	3–1	3–3	0–1

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

Winning squad

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

See also

• 1952–53 Yugoslav Second League
• 1952 Yugoslav Cup

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables