Yugoslav First League 1952

The First Federal League of Yugoslavia's 1952 season (colloquially the Yugoslav First League) was shortened and sped-up. It was completed over a period of little more than 3 and a half months, beginning on March 2, 1952 and finishing on June 22, 1952. The reason for the changes was a desire to start the next season in the fall of 1952, thus implementing the fall-spring format that had become a norm all across Europe by this time.

The clubs were initially divided into two groups of six teams each, where everyone within a given group played each other twice (home and away).

Then, according to the placement in the these preliminary groups, three new groups were formed:
*First two teams in each of the two preliminary groups advanced to the 4-team group, the winner of which would become a champion.
*Teams placed 3rd and 4th in each of the two preliminary groups got to move to a 4-team group that would decide final league standings from 5th to 6th place.
*The bottom two teams in each of the two preliminary groups moved to a 4-team group that would decide final league standings at the bottom (places 9th through 12th) and thus determine who gets relegated to Second League.

League

Preliminaries

First Preliminary Group

Central Group

Relegation Group

Cup

Qualification

Partizan 5 - 4 Radnicki Kragujevac

BSK Beograd 1 - 2 Partizan

(rest unknown)

Round of Sixteen

Lovcen (?) 0 - 3 Partizan

Hajduk Split x - x X

X x - x X

X x - x X

X x - x X

X x - x X

Crvena Zvezda x - x X

Radnicki Nis x - x X

Quarter finals

Hajduk Split 0 - 5 Partizan

Crvena Zvezda Beograd x - x X

Radnicki Nis x - x X

X x - x X

emi finals

Crvena Zvezda Beograd x - x X

Partizan 4 - 1 Radnicki Nis

Finals

November 29, 1952 - Belgrade, Serbia

Partizan 6 - 0 Crvena Zvezda Beograd

Stadium: Centralnog doma Jugoslovenske Armije (JNA Stadium)

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Vasa Stefanovič (Beograd)

Crvena Zvezda: Srboljub Krivokuća, Branko Stanković, Miljan Zeković, Siniša Zlatković, Milorad Diskić, Predrag Đajić, Kosta Tomašević, Rajko Mitić, Tihomir Ognjanov, Todor Živanović, Branislav Vukosavljević

Partizan: Slavko Stojanović, Bruno Belin, Ratko Čolić, Zlatko Čajkovski, Stefanović, Miodrag Jovanović, Marko Valok, Todor Veselinović, Stjepan Bobek, Aleksandar Atanacković, Branko Zebec

ee also

*Yugoslav Cup
*Yugoslav League Championship
*Football Association of Yugoslavia

External links

* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/joeghist.html Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables]