1955–56 Yugoslav First League

Prva savezna liga

Season	1955–56
Champions	Red Star (3rd title)
Relegated	Željezničar Proleter Osijek
European Cup	Red Star
Top goalscorer	Muhamed Mujić Tihomir Ognjanov Todor Veselinović (21 goals each)
← 1954–55 1956–57 →

The 1955–56 Yugoslav First League season was the tenth season of the First Federal League (Serbian: Prva savezna liga, Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. Fourteen teams contested the competition, with Red Star winning their third title.

Teams

At the end of the previous season Lokomotiva and Vardar were relegated from top level. They were replaced by Velež and Budućnost Titograd.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1954–55
BSK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0022nd
Budućnost	Titograd	SR Montenegro	—
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0033rd
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0011st
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0055th
Proleter Osijek	Osijek	SR Croatia	01212th
Radnički Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	01010th
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0044th
FK Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0077th
Spartak Subotica	Subotica	SR Serbia	0088th
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0066th
NK Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0099th
Željezničar	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01111th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Star Belgrade (C)	26	16	8	2	62	29	2.138	40	Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2	Partizan	26	14	7	5	65	35	1.857	35
3	Radnički Beograd	26	13	5	8	54	45	1.200	31
4	Dinamo Zagreb	26	12	4	10	42	47	0.894	28
5	Vojvodina	26	9	9	8	57	41	1.390	27
6	Sarajevo	26	12	3	11	47	48	0.979	27
7	Velež	26	8	9	9	42	41	1.024	25
8	NK Zagreb	26	10	4	12	45	39	1.154	24
9	Spartak Subotica	26	8	8	10	43	44	0.977	24
10	BSK Belgrade	26	8	8	10	41	45	0.911	24
11	Budućnost	26	10	4	12	46	58	0.793	24
12	Hajduk Split	26	9	5	12	52	39	1.333	23
13	Željezničar (R)	26	7	7	12	33	54	0.611	21	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
14	Proleter Osijek (R)	26	5	1	20	30	94	0.319	11

Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal average
Cup not disputed this season.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BSK	BUD	DIN	HAJ	PAR	PRO	RBE	RSB	SAR	SPA	VEL	VOJ	ZAG	ŽEL
BSK Belgrade		1–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–6	1–3	2–2	1–0	5–2	2–0	3–3
Budućnost	1–0		3–0	2–1	2–3	5–0	0–2	1–3	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	7–0
Dinamo Zagreb	1–0	1–0		1–0	2–4	5–3	1–2	2–2	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–2	2–0	4–0
Hajduk Split	1–1	5–1	1–1		1–2	5–0	5–0	0–3	6–0	1–0	4–2	1–6	3–3	6–1
Partizan	1–1	9–0	0–0	1–0		8–1	2–4	0–1	2–2	2–2	2–2	0–3	2–1	3–1
Proleter Osijek	1–3	3–0	4–1	0–3	1–5		1–1	1–5	3–2	0–3	1–2	2–4	0–2	1–0
Radnički Beograd	1–4	5–1	4–0	1–0	4–3	0–2		0–2	1–2	1–0	2–2	3–2	2–0	3–1
Red Star	2–2	2–0	4–3	2–0	1–3	5–0	1–1		1–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1
Sarajevo	4–1	3–2	0–3	1–0	0–4	6–0	3–1	2–3		7–1	2–1	0–0	3–1	2–0
Spartak Subotica	3–0	3–1	6–2	1–4	1–1	4–1	1–7	0–0	4–0		0–0	2–0	3–0	0–0
Velež	2–1	2–4	6–1	1–1	1–3	4–2	3–1	1–3	3–0	2–1		1–1	2–1	2–2
Vojvodina	0–1	9–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	7–2	1–1	2–2	4–1	2–2	0–0		2–1	3–0
NK Zagreb	3–0	0–3	2–0	3–1	1–2	8–1	2–4	4–3	2–1	0–0	2–0	5–1		3–0
Željezničar	2–2	1–3	1–0	3–3	1–0	3–0	5–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	3–1	0–0

Source: DataSoccer.it
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Winning squad

Champions:

• RED STAR BELGRADE (coach: Milovan Ćirić)

players (league matches/league goals):

• Rajko Mitić (25/4)
• Lazar Tasić (25/4)
• Ivan Toplak (24/12)
• Antun Rudinski (24/6)
• Ljubomir Spajić (23/0)
• Dragoslav Šekularac (22/6)
• Branko Stanković (20/1)
• Srboljub Krivokuća (19/0) -goalkeeper-
• Borivoje Kostić (17/14)
• Vladimir Popović (17/2)
• Branko Nešović (17/0)
• Miljan Zeković (17/0)
• Todor Živanović (12/9)
• Vladimir Durković (7/1)
• Vladimir Beara (7/0) -goalkeeper-
• Jovan Cokić (5/2)
• Miljan Miljanić (2/0)
• Novak Tomić (2/0)
• Stevan Veselinov (1/0)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Todor Veselinović	Vojvodina	21
	Muhamed Mujić	Velež
	Tihomir Ognjanov	Red Star
4	Zdravko Rajkov	Vojvodina	15
5	Bora Kostić	Red Star	14
6	Miloš Milutinović	Partizan	13
	Bernard Vukas	Hajduk Split
8	Ivan Toplak	Red Star	12

See also

• 1955–56 Yugoslav Second League
• 1955 Yugoslav Cup

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables