| Season | 1990–91 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 4 August 1990 – 16 June 1991 |
| Champions | Red Star |
| European Cup | Red Star |
| Cup Winners' Cup | Hajduk Split |
| UEFA Cup | Dinamo Zagreb Partizan |
| Goals | 883 |
| Top goalscorer | Darko Pančev (34) |
1991–92 → | |
The1990–91Yugoslav First League season was the 45th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian:Prva savezna liga), the top levelassociation football competition ofSFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. The title was won byRed Star Belgrade, the club's 18th in its history. It also turned out to be the last season in which teams fromSR Croatia andSR Slovenia participated. In 1991, these states left Yugoslavia and created their respective leagues.
Two points were awarded for a win, while the tied matches were decided by a penalty shootout with the winner getting a point.
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The season featured a huge politically and ethnically motivated incident during the Hajduk Split vs. FK Partizan tie on Wednesday, 26 September 1990 atPoljud Stadium, when a mob ofhardcore Hajduk fans invaded the pitch during second half in an attempt to lynch Partizan players. All of the Partizan players managed to run away into the dressing room, thus escaping unharmed. While chanting anti-Serb slogans, the violent mob then set fire to theYugoslav flag that was displayed on the stadium's official mast. They then proceeded to raise the Croatian chequerboard flag (at the time not in official use and thus considered a Croatian nationalist symbol). At the moment of the incident, Partizan was leading 0–2 courtesy of aMilan Đurđevićbrace. The match was never resumed and eventually registered 0–3 in Partizan's favour.
On Saturday, 27 April 1991, only three days after making theEuropean Cup final by advancing against favouredBayern Munich via managing a hard-fought home draw in the famous emotional rollercoastersemifinal return leg in front of 90,000 fans, league leaders Red Star hosted their heated cross-town rivalFK Partizan in the 88th league edition of theEternal derby. Following an entertaining first half played in front of some 35,000 spectators, at the end of which Red Star led 3–1, the match was halted for 10 minutes at the beginning of the second half due to FK Partizan ultras, theGrobari, rioting in theMarakana stadium's south stand by pelting the pitch and athletic track with construction material found in front of the stand.
The match play resumed before being interrupted several more times throughout the second half due to Partizan ultras continuing to riot despite increased police presence around the south stand and even, at one point, pleas of the team's strikerPredrag Mijatović sent by the head coachMiloš Milutinović in an attempt of calming them. The match ended 3-1 for Red Star.
On Saturday, 18 May 1991, Dinamo Zagreb hosted champions-elect Red Star Belgrade at Maksimir Stadium. The match was of no competitive importance since Red Star had already clinched the league title as it prepared to travel toBari for theEuropean Cup Final some ten days later while Dinamo had cemented its hold on the second place that ensured aUEFA Cup spot. However, the match still carried a degree of tension due to pitting a marquee Croatian side versus a marquee Serbian at a time whenethnic conflicts, some of them deadly, had started taking place in theSocialist Republic of Croatia, and especially in light of the fact this was the first time the two teams met at Maksimir following the previous season'sDinamo–Red Star riot in the stands, with that match being called off.
This time the match began as scheduled and finished without interruption with Red Star going 0–2 in front before Dinamo mounted a spirited come-back for a 3–2 win at full time. However, more than 20 years later, allegations appeared that the contest had been fixed via confessions from two of the match's protagonists.
Speaking toGlobus magazine in September 2012,Robert Prosinečki, Red Star midfielder back in 1991, said his team "let Dinamo win that day".[1][2]
Prompted by Prosinečki's claims,Ljupko Petrović, Red Star's head coach in 1991, expanded: "We didn't lose that match by arranging with someone from Dinamo beforehand to let them win. No. We were simply forced into losing by the political circles that wanted to ensure Dinamo's win that day. The war had practically already begun, Croatia was about to declare independence, and the match was taking place only a year after theprevious incident when Zvonimir Boban assaulted a policeman—our first away match versus Dinamo since then. I rememberFranjo Tuđman being at the match and watching it from the luxury box with his cronies and the overall atmosphere within the stadium being extremely hostile such that no result but Dinamo's win was going to be acceptable. We got up 0-2, but towards the end of the first half Dinamo got a penalty on a scandalous and very obviousdive byDavor Šuker. Later, they managed to tie the score. At halftime I protested vehemently with the referee, a Montenegrin guy whose name I can't recall at the moment, and from what he told me it was apparent between the lines that it had already been decided we had to lose that match for political reasons. Because Tuđman is sitting in the stands and because he doesn't want a Serbian team winning in the middle of Zagreb right in front of his eyes at a time when he's creating an independent state. I got thrown out of the match, we conceded once more, we lost the match and that's the whole story".[3]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Star Belgrade(C) | 36 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 88 | 35 | +53 | 54 | Qualification forEuropean Cup first round |
| 2 | Dinamo Zagreb[a] | 36 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 72 | 36 | +36 | 46 | Qualification forUEFA Cup first round andPrva HNL |
| 3 | Partizan | 36 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 62 | 36 | +26 | 41 | Qualification forUEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Proleter Zrenjanin | 36 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 50 | 49 | +1 | 35 | Qualification forIntertoto Cup |
| 5 | Borac Banja Luka | 36 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 42 | 38 | +4 | 35 | |
| 6 | Hajduk Split[a] | 36 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 49 | 38 | +11 | 33 | Qualification forCup Winners' Cup first round andPrva HNL |
| 7 | Vojvodina | 36 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 47 | 52 | −5 | 33 | |
| 8 | Rad | 36 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 42 | 34 | +8 | 32 | |
| 9 | Osijek[a] | 36 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 52 | 57 | −5 | 32 | Qualification forPrva HNL |
| 10 | Radnički Niš | 36 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 35 | 49 | −14 | 32 | |
| 11 | Sarajevo | 36 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 37 | 48 | −11 | 31 | |
| 12 | Velež | 36 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 54 | 55 | −1 | 30 | |
| 13 | Zemun | 36 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 40 | 53 | −13 | 30 | |
| 14 | Olimpija[a] | 36 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 41 | 59 | −18 | 30 | Qualification forSlovenian PrvaLiga |
| 15 | Rijeka[a] | 36 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 33 | 25 | +8 | 29 | Qualification forPrva HNL |
| 16 | Željezničar | 36 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 35 | 41 | −6 | 29 | |
| 17 | Budućnost | 36 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 43 | 48 | −5 | 28 | |
| 18 | Sloboda Tuzla | 36 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 36 | 56 | −20 | 23 | |
| 19 | Spartak Subotica | 36 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 25 | 74 | −49 | 4 |
Results in brackets indicate the results frompenalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.
| Home \ Away | BBL | BUD | DIN | HAJ | OLI | OSI | PAR | PRO | RAD | RNI | RSB | RIJ | SAR | SLO | SPA | VEL | VOJ | ZEM | ŽEL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borac Banja Luka | 3–1 | 1–1(6–5) | 0–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0(3–4) | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–2(6–5) | 0–0(4–3) | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| Budućnost | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1(2–4) | 1–1(2–4) | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 1–1(2–4) | 1–2 | |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 2–1 | 6–0 | 1–1(4–3) | 3–0 | 1–1(5–6) | 0–0(4–3) | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 8–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–2(7–6) | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| Hajduk Split | 1–1(3–4) | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–3[a] | 3–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 1–1(3–5) | 1–1(5–6) | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1(3–1) | 1–1(2–4) | 2–1 | 1–1(4–2) | |
| Olimpija | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1(3–4) | 0–6 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 5–0 | 1–3 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | |
| Osijek | 2–0 | 1–1(3–4) | 2–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 4–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 5–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 1–1(2–1) | |
| Partizan | 2–2(4–3) | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–2 | 0–0(5–4) | 3–1 | 1–1(3–5) | 1–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1(4–2) | 5–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | |
| Proleter Zrenjanin | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 1–1(4–5) | 2–0 | 2–2(2–3) | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 1–1(7–6) | 2–0 | 3–0 | |
| Rad | 1–0 | 1–1(3–2) | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0(4–5) | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | |
| Radnički Niš | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1(5–4) | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–0(3–4) | 0–4 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1(5–3) | 2–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| Red Star | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 6–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 4–3 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 3–1 | |
| Rijeka | 0–0(9–10) | 1–0 | 0–0(3–1) | 0–0(1–3) | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–0(6–5) | 3–0 | 0–0(1–3) | 2–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–1(1–4) | |
| Sarajevo | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0(4–5) | 1–1(4–2) | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1(2–4) | 3–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–0(6–5) | 4–1 | 0–0(4–3) | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1(2–4) | |
| Sloboda Tuzla | 0–0(10–11) | 2–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–4 | 2–2(4–2) | 0–0(6–7) | 1–2 | 1–1(4–5) | 1–0 | |
| Spartak Subotica | 1–1(4–5) | 2–3 | 0–0(2–4) | 0–1 | 0–2 | 3–3(1–4) | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0(5–6) | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1(2–4) | 1–3 | 1–1(3–4) | 1–2 | 0–0(5–4) | 1–2 | |
| Velež | 2–4 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 5–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 3–3(5–3) | 1–0 | 0–0(5–4) | 1–0 | 5–2 | 0–1 | 2–2(4–5) | 1–1(3–4) | |
| Vojvodina | 1–1(7–6) | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–0(4–2) | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1(4–5) | 1–1(4–2) | 4–3 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1(2–4) | 4–3 | 0–0(4–3) | |
| Zemun | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1(6–7) | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–2(4–2) | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–2(2–4) | 1–3 | 0–0(3–1) | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–3(4–5) | 2–1 | 1–0 | |
| Željezničar | 1–1(6–5) | 0–0(1–3) | 1–3 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 1–1[3–2) | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–1(4–3) | 1–1(4–2) | 0–0(2–3) | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1(2–3) |
| Player | League | |
|---|---|---|
| Matches | Goals | |
 Vlada Stošić | 35 | 4 |
 Miodrag Belodedić | 34 | 1 |
| Stevan Stojanović (goalkeeper) | 33 | 0 |
| Darko Pančev | 32 | 34 |
| Vladimir Jugović | 32 | 7 |
| Ilija Najdoski | 32 | 2 |
| Duško Radinović | 30 | 0 |
| Robert Prosinečki | 29 | 11 |
| Dragiša Binić | 27 | 13 |
| Slobodan Marović | 27 | 1 |
| Refik Šabanadžović | 26 | 0 |
| Dejan Savićević | 25 | 8 |
| Siniša Mihajlović[a] | 14 | 1 |
| Ivica Momčilović | 13 | 0 |
| Rade Tošić | 11 | 0 |
| Ljubiša Milojević | 8 | 1 |
| Goran Jurić[b] | 8 | 0 |
| Goran Vasilijević | 7 | 0 |
| Dejan Joksimović | 5 | 0 |
| Ivan Adžić | 4 | 1 |
| Vladan Lukić | 4 | 1 |
| Enes Bešić | 3 | 0 |
| Milić Jovanović (goalkeeper) | 3 | 0 |
| Slaviša Čula | 2 | 0 |
| Duško Savić | 2 | 0 |
| Đorđe Aćimović | 1 | 0 |
| Aleksandar Ilić | 1 | 0 |
| Mitar Mrkela[c] | 1 | 0 |
| Milorad Ratković | 1 | 0 |
| Head coach:Ljupko Petrović | ||
