| Season | 1960–61 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 18 September 1960 – 11 June 1961 |
| Champions | Partizan (3rd title) |
| Relegated | RNK Split Radnički Belgrade |
| European Cup | Partizan |
| Cup Winners' Cup | Vardar |
| Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | Red Star Dinamo Zagreb Vojvodina |
| Top goalscorer | Zoran Prljinčević Todor Veselinović (16 goals each) |
1961–62 → | |
The1960–61 Yugoslav First League season was won by FK Partizan, which was the club's third title and its first in twelve years. The season was also a coming-out party of sorts for the club's talented new generation of young players known as "Partizan's babies" that would dominate Yugoslav football for the next few years and would even go on to make it to the 1966 European Cup final.
The season began later than usual in order to accommodate theYugoslav Olympic national team's late August and early September 1960 participation at the1960 Rome Olympics where they won the gold medal with a rosterconsisting entirely of players from the Yugoslav First League.
At the end of the previous seasonBudućnost andSloboda were relegated. They were replaced byVardar andRNK Split.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Partizan(C) | 22 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 53 | 23 | +30 | 32 | Qualification forEuropean Cup preliminary round |
| 2 | Red Star Belgrade | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 38 | 21 | +17 | 31 | Invitation forInter-Cities Fairs Cup first round |
| 3 | Hajduk Split | 22 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 34 | 22 | +12 | 30 | |
| 4 | Dinamo Zagreb | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 36 | 27 | +9 | 27 | Invitation forInter-Cities Fairs Cup first round |
| 5 | Vojvodina | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 32 | 29 | +3 | 23 | |
| 6 | OFK Belgrade | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 23 | |
| 7 | Rijeka | 22 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 32 | 36 | −4 | 22 | |
| 8 | Sarajevo | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 33 | 39 | −6 | 18 | Invitation forBalkans Cup |
| 9 | Velež | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 27 | 39 | −12 | 17 | |
| 10 | Vardar | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 36 | −15 | 17 | Qualification forCup Winners' Cup first round |
| 11 | RNK Split(R) | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 38 | −9 | 16 | Relegation toYugoslav Second League |
| 12 | Radnički Beograd(R) | 22 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 33 | 58 | −25 | 8 |
| Home \ Away | DIN | HAJ | OFK | PAR | RBE | RSB | RIJ | SAR | SPL | VAR | VEL | VOJ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinamo Zagreb | 1–4 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 6–1 | 1–0 | 2–4 | |
| Hajduk Split | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | |
| OFK Belgrade | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | |
| Partizan | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 5–2 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | |
| Radnički Beograd | 3–4 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–4 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 3–0 | |
| Red Star | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| Rijeka | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 6–3 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | |
| Sarajevo | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | |
| RNK Split | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 6–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 5–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | |
| Vardar | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | |
| Velež | 0–0 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 2–5 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | |
| Vojvodina | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 4–0 |
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