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.
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.
TeamLocationFederal RepublicPosition
in 1959–60
Dinamo ZagrebZagreb0022nd
Hajduk SplitSplit0055th
OFK BelgradeBelgrade0077th
PartizanBelgrade0033rd
Radnički BelgradeBelgrade0099th
Red StarBelgrade0011st
RijekaRijeka0088th
SarajevoSarajevo0066th
RNK SplitSplit
VardarSkopje
VeležMostar01010th
VojvodinaNovi Sad0044th

League table


CHAMPIONS: FK Partizan
player
Tomislav Kaloperović
Milutin Šoškić
Velibor Vasović
Fahrudin Jusufi
Milan Galić
Milan Vukelić
Joakim Vislavski
Vladica Kovačević
Lazar Radović
Jovan Miladinović
Branislav Mihajlović
Aleksandar Jončić
Velimir Sombolac
Bora Milutinović
Bruno Belin
Ilija Mitić
Božidar Pajević
Milorad Milutinović
Miodrag Petrović
Dragomir Slišković

Top scorers