1990–91 Yugoslav First League

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Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije
Season 1990–91
Champions Red Star
European Cup Red Star
Cup Winners' Cup Hajduk Split
UEFA Cup Dinamo Zagreb
Partizan
Goals scored 883
Top goalscorer Darko Pančev (34)

The Yugoslav First Federal League's 1990/1991 season was the 63rd time the competition was contested. The title was won by Red Star Belgrade, the club's 18th in its history. It also turned out to be the last season in which teams from SR Croatia and SR Slovenia participated. In 1991 these constituent republics declared their independence from Yugoslavia.

Two points were awarded for a win, while the tied matches were decided by a penalty shootout with the winner getting a point.

The first half of the season (the fall part) completed on December 19, 1990 with the postponed week 17 match in Split between Hajduk and Red Star. The second half of the season (the spring part) began on February 17, 1991.

Incidents

Ethnically motivated violent pitch invasion

The season featured a huge political and ethnically motivated incident during the Hajduk Split vs. FK Partizan tie on Wednesday, 26 September 1990 at Poljud Stadium, when a mob of hardcore Hajduk fans invaded the pitch during second half in an attempt to lynch Partizan players. All of the Partizan players managed to run away into the dressing room, thus escaping unharmed. While chanting anti-Serb slogans, the violent mob then set fire to the Yugoslav flag that was displayed on the stadium's official mast. They then proceeded to raise the Croatian chequerboard flag (at the time not in official use and thus considered a Croatian nationalist symbol). At the moment of the incident, Partizan was leading 0-2 courtesy of the Milan Đurđević brace. The match was never resumed, and eventually registered 0-3 in Partizan's favour.

Dinamo v. Red Star match fixing allegations

On Saturday, 18 May 1991, Dinamo Zagreb hosted champions-elect Red Star Belgrade at Maksimir Stadium. The match was of no competitive importance since Red Star already clinched the league title as it prepared to go to Bari some ten days later for the European Cup Final while Dinamo cemented its hold on the second place that ensured a UEFA Cup spot. However, the match still carried a degree of tension due to pitting a marquee Croatian side versus a marquee Serbian one at a time when ethnic incidents, some of them deadly, started taking place in SR Croatia, and especially in light of the fact this was the first time the two teams met at Maksimir following the previous season's violent clashes in the stands that called the match off.

This time the match began as scheduled and finished without interruption with Red Star going 0-2 in front before Dinamo mounted a spirited come-back for a 3-2 win at full time. However, more than 20 year later, allegations appeared that the match had been fixed via confessions from two of the match's protagonists.

Speaking to Globus magazine in September 2012, Robert Prosinečki, Red Star midfielder back in 1991, said his team "let Dinamo win that day".[1][2]

Prompted by Prosinečki's claims, Ljupko Petrović, Red Star's head coach in 1991, said the following: "We didn't lose that match by arranging with someone from Dinamo beforehand to let them win. No. We were simply forced into losing by the political circles that wanted to ensure Dinamo's win that day. The war had practically already begun, Croatia was about to declare independence, and the match was taking place only a year after the previous incident when Zvonimir Boban assaulted a policeman - our first away match versus Dinamo since then. I remember that Franjo Tuđman came to the match and watched it from the luxury box with his cronies and that the overall atmosphere within the stadium was extremely hostile such that no result but Dinamo's win was going to be acceptable. We got up 0-2, but towards the end of the first half Dinamo got a penalty on a scandalous and very obvious dive by Davor Šuker. Later, they managed to tie the score. At halftime I protested vehemently with the referee, a Montenegrin guy whose name I can't recall at the moment, and from what he told me it was apparent between the lines that it was already decided we had to lose that match for political reasons. Because Tuđman is sitting in the stands and because he doesn't want a Serbian team winning in the middle of Zagreb right in front of his eyes at a time when he's creating an independent state. I got thrown out of the match, we conceded once more, we lost the match and that's the whole story".[3]

League table


Pos
Team
Pld
W
PW
PL
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Red Star (C) 36 25 4 2 5 88 35 +53 54 1991–92 European Cup
2 Dinamo Zagreb 36 20 6 4 6 72 36 +36 46 1991–92 UEFA Cup
3 Partizan 36 18 5 3 10 62 36 +26 41
4 Proleter Zrenjanin 36 17 1 3 15 50 49 +1 35 01992 Intertoto Cup0
5 Borac Banja Luka 36 14 7 4 11 42 38 +4 35
6 Hajduk Split 36 15 3 6 12 49 38 +11 33 01991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup0
7 Vojvodina 36 14 5 4 13 47 52 −5 33
8 Rad 36 14 4 3 15 42 34 +8 32
9 Osijek 36 14 4 2 16 52 57 −5 32
10 Radnički Niš 36 14 4 1 17 35 49 −14 32
11 Sarajevo 36 13 5 5 13 37 48 −11 31
12 Velež 36 12 6 4 14 54 55 −1 30
13 Zemun 36 12 6 4 14 40 53 −13 30
14 Olimpija 36 14 2 1 19 41 59 −18 30
15 Rijeka 36 13 3 7 13 33 25 +8 29
16 Željezničar 36 11 7 6 12 35 41 −6 29
17 Budućnost 36 13 2 4 17 43 48 −5 28
18 Sloboda Tuzla 36 11 1 6 18 36 56 −20 23
19 Spartak Subotica 36 1 2 8 25 25 74 −49 4

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored
For deciding champions, qualification to European competitions and relegation: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th head-to-head away goals scored
If a match ended in a draw, penalties were taken, and only the winner of the penalty shoot-out was rewarded with a point
After the season, Croatian and Slovenian clubs left the Yugoslav federation and formed their own leagues.
Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split, Osijek and Rijeka joined 1992 Prva HNL, while Olimpija joined 1991–92 Slovenian PrvaLiga.
(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:

players (league matches/league goals):
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vlada Stošić (35/4)
Romania Miodrag Belodedić (34/1)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Stevan Stojanović (33/0) -goalkeeper-
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Darko Pančev (32/34)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladimir Jugović (32/7)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ilija Najdoski (32/2)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Duško Radinović (30/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Robert Prosinečki (29/12)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragiša Binić (27/14)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Marović (27/1)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Refik Šabanadžović (26/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dejan Savićević (25/8)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Siniša Mihajlović (14/1) bought from FK Vojvodina January '91
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ivica Momčilović (13/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Rade Tošić (11/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ljubiša Milojević (8/1)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Goran Jurić (8/0) sold to Celta de Vigo in December 1990
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Goran Vasilijević (7/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dejan Joksimović (5/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ivan Adžić (4/1)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladan Lukić (4/1)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Enes Bešić (3/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milić Jovanović (3/0) -goalkeeper-
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slaviša Čula (2/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Duško Savić (2/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Đorđe Aćimović (1/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Aleksandar Ilić (1/0)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Mitar Mrkela (1/0) sold to FC Twente in early fall 1990
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milorad Ratković (1/0)

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