1953–54 Yugoslav First League

The First Federal League of Yugoslavia's 1953/1954 season was the highest level football competition held in communist Yugoslavia between 1953 and 1954. The league was won by Croatian side NK Dinamo Zagreb.

Prva savezna liga

Season	1953–54
Champions	Dinamo Zagreb (2nd title)
Relegated	Odred Ljubljana Rabotnički
Matches played	182
Goals scored	639 (3.51 per match)
Top goalscorer	Stjepan Bobek (21)
← 1952–53 1954–55 →

Teams

Due to the league's expansion from 12 to 14 teams two clubs were relegated and four teams were promoted at the end of the previous season.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1952–53
BSK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0055th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0077th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0022nd
Lokomotiva	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0088th
Odred Ljubljana	Ljubljana	SR Slovenia	—
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0033rd
Proleter Osijek	Osijek	SR Croatia	—
Rabotnički	Skopje	SR Macedonia	—
Radnički Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	—
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0011st
Sarajevo	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	0066th
Spartak Subotica	Subotica	SR Serbia	01010th
Vardar	Skopje	SR Macedonia	0099th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0044th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Relegation
1	Dinamo Zagreb (C)	26	19	4	3	72	22	3.273	42
2	Partizan	26	18	5	3	77	30	2.567	41
3	Red Star Belgrade	26	17	4	5	51	22	2.318	38
4	Hajduk Split	26	16	3	7	55	34	1.618	35
5	Vojvodina	26	14	5	7	60	37	1.622	33
6	Spartak Subotica	26	12	3	11	51	50	1.020	27
7	Sarajevo	26	10	4	12	35	45	0.778	24
8	BSK Belgrade	26	8	7	11	38	40	0.950	23
9	Vardar	26	5	10	11	31	38	0.816	20
10	Proleter Osijek	26	6	8	12	34	62	0.548	20
11	Lokomotiva	26	7	5	14	38	49	0.776	19
12	Radnički Beograd	26	8	3	15	38	51	0.745	19
13	Odred (R)	26	4	4	18	39	71	0.549	12	Relegation to Yugoslav Second League
14	Rabotnički (R)	26	4	3	19	20	88	0.227	11

Source: rsssf.org
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal average
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BSK	DIN	HAJ	LOK	ODR	PAR	PRO	RAB	RBE	RSB	SAR	SPA	VAR	VOJ
BSK Belgrade		0–3	3–4	3–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	8–1	2–0	0–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–2
Dinamo Zagreb	1–1		3–1	1–0	5–3	2–0	6–2	5–0	4–1	1–0	5–0	5–0	2–0	0–2
Hajduk Split	3–1	1–0		2–1	4–0	2–2	8–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–2
Lokomotiva	3–0	0–6	2–5		5–2	0–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–1
Odred	1–0	4–6	1–1	1–2		2–6	2–2	0–1	4–2	4–3	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–4
Partizan	1–2	1–0	4–2	2–0	2–0		3–3	8–0	1–1	7–1	4–1	2–1	1–0	4–2
Proleter Osijek	0–2	2–5	1–4	2–2	1–1	2–3		1–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–2	1–2
Rabotnički	1–0	1–5	0–2	4–3	3–2	0–8	0–2		0–3	0–4	0–1	2–7	2–2	0–1
Radnički Beograd	2–3	0–0	2–5	3–1	3–2	2–4	1–2	2–0		0–2	2–1	6–1	2–0	1–3
Red Star	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	5–1	0–2	3–0	3–0	1–1		3–1	2–1	1–0	1–0
Sarajevo	1–1	1–3	0–1	2–2	3–2	2–1	6–1	3–0	1–0	0–1		0–1	2–0	1–6
Spartak Subotica	2–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	3–2	2–6	2–4	4–1	4–1	0–3	6–1		0–0	4–1
Vardar	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	4–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–3	1–1	3–4		3–3
Vojvodina	2–2	0–1	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	4–0	7–1	4–1	0–3	1–2	3–0	2–2

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

Winning squad

Champions:

• Dinamo Zagreb (coach: Ivan Jazbinšek)

players (league matches/league goals):

• Ivica Banožić 3 (0)
• Aleksandar Benko 21 (13)
• Zvonimir Cimermančić 2 (0)
• Dragutin Cizarić 9 (0)
• Tomislav Crnković 20 (0)
• Željko Čajkovski 24 (13)
• Vladimir Čonč 26 (13)
• Dionizije Dvornić 26 (16)
• Emil Ferković 10 (0)
• Drago Horvat 6 (0)
• Ivan Horvat 20 (0)
• Dragutin Kukec 3 (0)
• Luka Lipošinović 10 (3)
• Vladimir Majerović 10 (0)
• Lav Mantula 21 (2)
• Stojan Osojnak 10 (9)
• Branko Režek 23 (2)
• Zvonko Strnad 1 (0)
• Josip Šikić 25 (0)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Stjepan Bobek	Partizan	21
2	Zdravko Rajkov	Vojvodina	16
3	Dionizije Dvornić	Dinamo Zagreb	15
	Branko Zebec	Partizan
5	Aleksandar Petaković	Radnički Belgrade	14
	Miloš Milutinović	Partizan
	Ivan Toplak	Odred
	Aleksandar Benko	Dinamo Zagreb

See also

• 1953–54 Yugoslav Second League
• 1953 Yugoslav Cup

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables