1960–61 Yugoslav First League

The 1960–61 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.

Prva savezna liga
Season1960–61
Dates18 September 1960 – 11 June 1961
ChampionsPartizan (3rd title)
RelegatedRNK Split
Radnički Belgrade
European CupPartizan
Cup Winners' CupVardar
Inter-Cities Fairs CupRed Star
Dinamo Zagreb
Vojvodina
Top goalscorerZoran Prljinčević
Todor Veselinović
(16 goals each)

The season began later than usual in order to accommodate the Yugoslav Olympic national team's late August and early September 1960 participation at the 1960 Rome Olympics where they won the gold medal with a roster consisting entirely of players from the Yugoslav First League.

Teams

At the end of the previous season Budućnost and Sloboda were relegated. They were replaced by Vardar and RNK Split.

Team Location Federal Republic Position
in 1959–60
Dinamo Zagreb Zagreb  SR Croatia 0022nd
Hajduk Split Split  SR Croatia 0055th
OFK Belgrade Belgrade  SR Serbia 0077th
Partizan Belgrade  SR Serbia 0033rd
Radnički Belgrade Belgrade  SR Serbia 0099th
Red Star Belgrade  SR Serbia 0011st
Rijeka Rijeka  SR Croatia 0088th
Sarajevo Sarajevo  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 0066th
RNK Split Split  SR Croatia —
Vardar Skopje  SR Macedonia —
Velež Mostar  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina 01010th
Vojvodina Novi Sad  SR Serbia 0044th

League table
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 for European Cup preliminary round
2 Red Star Belgrade 22 13 5 4 38 21 +17 31 Invitation for Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round
3 Hajduk Split 22 13 4 5 32 22 +10 30
4 Dinamo Zagreb 22 10 7 5 36 27 +9 27 Invitation for Inter-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 for Balkans Cup
9 Velež 22 5 7 10 27 39 −12 17
10 Vardar 22 6 5 11 21 36 −15 17 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
11 RNK Split (R) 22 5 6 11 29 38 −9 16 Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
12 Radnički Beograd (R) 22 4 0 18 33 58 −25 8
Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results
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 0–1 3–2 1–0 1–0 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
Source: DataSoccer.it
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Winning squad

Champions:

player (league matches/league goals)

Top scorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zoran Prljinčević Radnički Belgrade 16
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Todor Veselinović Vojvodina
3 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Andrija Anković Hajduk Split 15
4 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Galić Partizan 14
5 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Tonči Gulin RNK Split 13
6 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Anton Rudinski Red Star 10
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Željko Matuš Dinamo Zagreb
8 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bora Kostić Red Star 9
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bruno Veselica Rijeka
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zijad Arslanagić Sarajevo

See also
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