1972–73 Yugoslav First League


The 1972–73 Yugoslav First League season was the 27th season of the First Federal League of Yugoslavia, the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. A total of 18 teams competed in the league, with the previous season's runners-up Red Star winning the title.

Teams

A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1971–72 season and two sides promoted from the 1971–72 Yugoslav Second League as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league was contested in a double 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 and NK Maribor were relegated from the 1971–72 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Bor and Spartak Subotica.
TeamLocationFederal RepublicPosition
in 1971–72
BorBor
Borac Banja LukaBanja Luka01313th
ČelikZenica01212th
Dinamo ZagrebZagreb0088th
Hajduk SplitSplit01010th
OFK BelgradeBelgrade0033rd
Olimpija LjubljanaLjubljana0099th
PartizanBelgrade0055th
Radnički NišNiš01414th
Red StarBelgrade0022nd
SarajevoSarajevo01515th
SlobodaTuzla0077th
Spartak SuboticaSubotica
Sutjeska NikšićNikšić01616th
VardarSkopje01111th
VeležMostar0066th
VojvodinaNovi Sad0044th
ŽeljezničarSarajevo0011st

League table


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

Top scorers