Yugoslav Cup


The Yugoslav Cup, officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup, was one of two major football competitions in Yugoslavia, the other one being the Yugoslav League Championship. The Yugoslav Cup took place after the league championships when every competitive league in Yugoslavia had finished, in order to determine which teams are ranked as their corresponding seeds. The Marshal Tito Cup trophy was based on a design by Branko Šotra.

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1923–1940)

The pre-WW II competition in the then Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs was held irregularly, and sometimes involved only regional selections, sometimes only clubs, and occasionally both clubs and regions. Between 1924 and 1927 the competition consisted of squads from the regional subassociations. Only the players with citizenship of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes were eligible.

List of winners

The winners of the 1928 and 1930 editions are unknown. Split XI, losing finalists in 1924 and 1925, was composed of Hajduk Split players only. After their third successive win in 1926, Zagreb obtained the golden cup of King Aleksandar to keep.

SFR Yugoslavia (1947–92)

Competition format

The competition format was an elimination championship where every competitive team was offered a chance to enter. Beginning in the lowest tiers of teams, the competition followed a one-game elimination format. Higher tier teams got berths in the second round, third round, and so on. The First League teams always began in the 1/16 finals, and the rest of the 16 berths being filled by lower tier teams who managed to make it to the round of 32.
Once the round of 16 was reached, the format would be changed to a two-game elimination format, being played at home and away for each team. At this point it became a First League ordeal, as the smaller teams had zero chance against the titans of Yugoslavian football. Historically, the finals were usually reached only by the better-performing First League teams.

Key

List of winners

Teams shown in italics are no longer in existence.
ClubRepublic/ProvinceWinnersLast final wonRunners-upLast final lostTotal apps
Red Star BelgradeSerbia1219908199220
Hajduk SplitCroatia919915199014
Dinamo ZagrebCroatia719838198615
PartizanSerbia619924197910
OFK BelgradeSerbia419664
VeležBosnia and Herzegovina21986219894
RijekaCroatia21979119873
Borac Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina11988119742
VardarMacedonia119611
SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina219832
Budućnost TitogradMontenegro219772
Naša Krila ZemunSerbia219492
ŽeljezničarBosnia and Herzegovina119811
TrepčaKosovo119781
Sloboda TuzlaBosnia and Herzegovina119711
Olimpija LjubljanaSlovenia119701
BorSerbia119681
Spartak SuboticaVojvodina119621
VarteksCroatia119611
Radnički BelgradeSerbia119571
VojvodinaVojvodina119511

Performance by Republic/Province

RepublicWinnerRunner-UpAppearances
SR Bosnia and Herzegovina3710
SR Croatia181533
SAP Kosovo11
SR Macedonia11
SR Montenegro22
SR Slovenia11
SR Serbia221638
SAP Vojvodina22

Successor cups