| Season | 1972–73 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 20 August 1972 – 24 June 1973 |
| Champions | Red Star (11th title) |
| Relegated | Spartak Sutjeska |
| Top goalscorer | Vojin Lazarević Slobodan Santrač (25 goals each) |
1973–74 → | |
The1972–73Yugoslav First League season was the 27th season of the First Federal League of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian Latin:Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije), the top levelassociation football competition ofSFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. A total of 18 teams competed in the league, with theprevious season's runners-upRed Star winning the title.
A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the1971–72 season and two sides promoted from the 1971–72Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league was contested in adouble 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.
Radnički Kragujevac andNK Maribor were relegated from the1971–72 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level wereBor andSpartak Subotica.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Star Belgrade(C) | 34 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 71 | 28 | +43 | 52 | Qualification forEuropean Cup first round |
| 2 | Velež | 34 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 48 | 27 | +21 | 46 | Qualification forUEFA Cup first round |
| 3 | OFK Belgrade | 34 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 52 | 31 | +21 | 45 | |
| 4 | Partizan | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 50 | 37 | +13 | 43 | |
| 5 | Željezničar | 34 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 59 | 41 | +18 | 42 | |
| 6 | Sloboda Tuzla | 34 | 8 | 18 | 8 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 34 | |
| 7 | Sarajevo | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 48 | 50 | −2 | 34 | |
| 8 | Dinamo Zagreb | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 39 | 47 | −8 | 33 | Qualification forCup Winners' Cup first round |
| 9 | Hajduk Split | 34 | 14 | 3 | 17 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 31 | |
| 10 | Vardar[a] | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 35 | 50 | −15 | 31 | |
| 11 | Radnički Niš | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 24 | 40 | −16 | 30 | |
| 12 | Borac Banja Luka | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 30 | 26 | +4 | 29 | |
| 13 | Vojvodina | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 39 | 46 | −7 | 29 | |
| 14 | Čelik | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 27 | 44 | −17 | 28 | |
| 15 | Bor | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 36 | 57 | −21 | 28 | |
| 16 | Olimpija | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 35 | 43 | −8 | 26 | |
| 17 | Spartak Subotica(R) | 34 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 37 | 48 | −11 | 26 | Relegation toYugoslav Second League |
| 18 | Sutjeska Nikšić(R) | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 32 | 49 | −17 | 25 |
| Home \ Away | BOR | BBL | ČEL | DIN | HAJ | OFK | OLI | PAR | RNI | RSB | SAR | SLO | SPA | SUT | VAR | VEL | VOJ | ŽEL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bor | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–5 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | |
| Borac Banja Luka | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 6–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | |
| Čelik | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–4 | 7–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | |
| Hajduk Split | 4–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 0–3 | 7–0 | 3–2 | |
| OFK Belgrade | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–3 | |
| Olimpija | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | |
| Partizan | 2–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| Radnički Niš | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | |
| Red Star | 5–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | |
| Sarajevo | 3–1 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 2–4 | |
| Sloboda Tuzla | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–3 | |
| Spartak Subotica | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | |
| Sutjeska | 5–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | |
| Vardar | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | |
| Velež | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | |
| Vojvodina | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | |
| Željezničar | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 7–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
Champions
Red Star Belgrade
Zoran Antonijević
Jovan Aćimović
Zoran Bingulac
Vladislav Bogićević
Kiro Dojčinovski
Ratomir Dujković
Milovan Đorić
Slobodan Janković
Živorad Jeftić
Nikola Jovanović
Stanislav Karasi
Mihalj Keri
Branko Klenkovski
Petar Krivokuća
Vojin Lazarević
Dušan Nikolić
Mile Novković
Miroslav Pavlović
Aleksandar Panajotović
Vladimir Petrović
Ognjan Petrović
Sead Sušić
Zoran Filipović
Dragan Džajić
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