1976–77 Yugoslav First League


1976–77 Yugoslav First League competition was the 49th top league season since 1923 in various incarnations of Yugoslavia. It was won in dominating fashion by Red Star Belgrade with a 9-point margin over the second placed team, which at the time set the record as largest ever points differential by which a team triumphed in the league.
This was Red Star's 12th league title.

Teams

A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1975–76 season and two sides promoted from the 1975–76 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.
FK Vardar and FK Radnički Kragujevac were relegated from the 1975–76 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were NK Zagreb and FK Napredak Kruševac.
TeamLocationFederal RepublicPosition
in 1975–76
Borac Banja LukaBanja Luka01010th
BudućnostTitograd01515th
ČelikZenica01313th
Dinamo ZagrebZagreb0033rd
Hajduk SplitSplit0022nd
NapredakKruševac
OFK BelgradeBelgrade0088th
Olimpija LjubljanaLjubljana01414th
PartizanBelgrade0011st
Radnički NišNiš01616th
Red StarBelgrade0044th
NK RijekaRijeka01111th
FK SarajevoSarajevo0077th
SlobodaTuzla0066th
VeležMostar0099th
VojvodinaNovi Sad0055th
NK ZagrebZagreb
ŽeljezničarSarajevo01212th

League table

Top scorers