1959–60 Yugoslav First League

The 1959–60 Yugoslav First League season was the 14th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football league of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. Twelve teams contested the competition, with Red Star winning their sixth title.

Teams

At the end of the previous season Željezničar and Vardar were relegated. They were replaced by OFK Belgrade and Sloboda Tuzla.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1958–59
Budućnost	Titograd	SR Montenegro	0099th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0055th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0077th
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	—
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0022nd
Radnički Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0044th
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0011st
NK Rijeka	Rijeka	SR Croatia	0088th
FK Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01010th
Sloboda	Tuzla	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	—
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0066th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0033rd

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Star Belgrade (C)	22	15	3	4	47	25	+22	33	Qualification for European Cup preliminary round
2	Dinamo Zagreb	22	14	4	4	48	20	+28	32	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
3	Partizan	22	11	5	6	49	29	+20	27
4	Vojvodina	22	10	7	5	36	22	+14	27
5	Hajduk Split	22	10	6	6	47	26	+21	26
6	Sarajevo	22	9	5	8	35	39	−4	23
7	OFK Belgrade	22	7	7	8	28	30	−2	21
8	Rijeka	22	7	4	11	30	52	−22	18
9	Radnički Beograd	22	5	7	10	31	38	−7	17
10	Velež	22	5	7	10	27	39	−12	17
11	Budućnost (R)	22	4	4	14	16	40	−24	12	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
12	Sloboda Tuzla (R)	22	3	5	14	15	49	−34	11	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League

Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Home \ Away	BUD	DIN	HAJ	OFK	PAR	RBE	RSB	RIJ	SAR	SLO	VEL	VOJ
Budućnost		0–1	2–3	0–0	2–4	2–1	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–2
Dinamo Zagreb	6–0		1–0	0–1	4–3	2–0	2–1	5–1	1–0	2–0	4–0	2–2
Hajduk Split	3–0	3–2		1–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	4–0	7–1	6–0	2–0	0–1
OFK Belgrade	2–1	0–0	2–4		0–5	2–0	1–2	4–1	1–1	0–0	3–2	2–2
Partizan	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–3		1–2	0–3	2–0	4–1	3–1	3–3	0–1
Radnički Beograd	3–0	0–1	3–3	1–0	0–4		1–2	1–1	4–4	0–1	1–1	0–2
Red Star	0–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	5–4		5–1	2–1	5–2	1–1	2–0
Rijeka	2–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–6	0–1	0–1		1–1	1–0	4–0	0–6
Sarajevo	3–1	0–4	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	2–4	5–1		1–0	4–3	1–0
Sloboda Tuzla	1–0	0–3	2–2	0–2	0–2	1–4	1–5	1–5	1–0		0–0	0–0
Velež	1–0	2–3	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	0–1	2–2		2–1
Vojvodina	4–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–3	5–2	2–0

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

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bora Kostić	Red Star	19
2	Andrija Anković	Hajduk Split	18
3	Dražan Jerković	Dinamo Zagreb	16
4	Zijad Arslanagić	Sarajevo	12
5	Milan Galić	Partizan	10
	Zlatko Papec	Hajduk Split
	Radivoj Ognjanović	Radnički Belgrade