1980–81 Yugoslav First League

Prva savezna liga

Season	1980–81
Champions	Red Star (14th title)
Relegated	Borac Banja Luka Napredak Kruševac
European Cup	Red Star
Cup Winners' Cup	Velež Mostar
UEFA Cup	Hajduk Split Radnički Niš
Top goalscorer	Milan Radović (26)
← 1979–80 1981–82 →

The 1980–81 Yugoslav First League season was the 35th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: 'Prva savezna liga'), 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 champions Red Star successfully defending their title, finishing the season two points clear of runners-up Hajduk Split.

Teams

A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1979–80 season and two sides promoted from the 1979–80 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) 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.

Osijek and Čelik were relegated from the 1979–80 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted were NK Zagreb and OFK Belgrade, returning to the top level after being relegated in the 1978–79 season.

Banja Luka

Belgrade

Kruševac

Ljubljana

Mostar

Niš

Novi Sad

Rijeka

Sarajevo

Skopje

Split

Titograd

Tuzla

Zagreb

Locations of teams' home cities in the 1980–81 Yugoslav First League

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1979–80
Borac Banja Luka	Banja Luka	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01414th
Budućnost	Titograd	SR Montenegro	01111th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	01212th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0055th
Napredak Kruševac	Kruševac	SR Serbia	0044th
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	N/A
Olimpija	Ljubljana	SR Slovenia	01515th
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	01313th
Radnički Niš	Niš	SR Serbia	0033rd
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0011st
Rijeka	Rijeka	SR Croatia	01010th
Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0022nd
Sloboda	Tuzla	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0066th
Vardar	Skopje	SR Macedonia	0077th
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0088th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	01616th
NK Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	N/A
Željezničar	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0099th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Star (C)	34	15	14	5	62	31	+31	44	1981–82 European Cup
2	Hajduk Split	34	16	10	8	57	36	+21	42	1981–82 UEFA Cup
3	Radnički Niš	34	13	15	6	39	28	+11	41
4	Sloboda Tuzla	34	14	8	12	46	51	−5	36	1981–83 Balkans Cup
5	Dinamo Zagreb	34	12	11	11	44	38	+6	35
6	Budućnost	34	11	12	11	38	34	+4	34	1981 Intertoto Cup
7	Rijeka	34	12	10	12	50	47	+3	34
8	Partizan	34	9	16	9	43	41	+2	34
9	Velež	34	13	8	13	44	47	−3	34	01981–82 European Cup Winners' Cup0
10	Vojvodina	34	13	8	13	37	40	−3	34
11	Vardar	34	11	11	12	41	48	−7	33
12	Olimpija	34	8	16	10	29	33	−4	32
13	Sarajevo	34	12	8	14	47	53	−6	32
14	Željezničar	34	11	10	13	42	51	−9	32
15	OFK Belgrade	34	8	14	12	34	39	−5	30
16	NK Zagreb	34	11	8	15	43	55	−12	30
17	Borac Banja Luka (R)	34	10	9	15	35	44	−9	29	01981–82 Yugoslav Second League0
18	Napredak Kruševac (R)	34	9	8	17	45	60	−15	26

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Champions:

• RED STAR BELGRADE (coach Branko Stanković):

players (league matches/league goals):
Rajko Janjanin (34/6)
Srebrenko Repčić (33/10)
Zlatko Krmpotić (32/1)
Miloš Šestić (31/7)
Milan Janković (30/5)
Zdravko Borovnica (29/12)
Ivan Jurišić (27/1)
Boško Đurovski (26/0)
Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović (23/6)
Dragan Miletović (23/0)
Živan Ljukovčan (17/0) -goalkeeper-
Milan Jovin (16/2)
Cvijetin Blagojević (16/2)
Dragan Simeunović (16/0) -goalkeeper-
Milenko Rajković (14/0)
Ljubiša Stojanović (12/0)
Radomir Savić (12/0)
Zoran Jelikić (10/1)
Slavoljub Muslin (10/0)
Milko Đurovski (9/5)
Nedeljko Milosavljević (6/2)
Slobodan Goračinov (2/0)
Zdravko Čakalić (2/0)
Srboljub Stamenković (1/0)
Goran Živanović (1/0)
Slavko Radovanović (1/0)
Srboljub Marinković (1/0)

See also

• 1980–81 Yugoslav Second League
• 1980–81 Yugoslav Cup

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables