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1990–91 Yugoslav First League

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The 1990–91 Yugoslav First League season was the 45th 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. 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 states left Yugoslavia and created their respective leagues.

Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije
Season1990–91
Dates4 August 1990 –
16 June 1991
ChampionsRed Star
European CupRed Star
Cup Winners' CupHajduk Split
UEFA CupDinamo Zagreb
Partizan
Goals scored883
Top goalscorerDarko Pančev (34)

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

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Location of teams competing in the 1990-91 Yugoslav First League

Incidents

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Ethnically motivated violent pitch invasion

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The season featured a huge politically 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 a Milan Đurđević brace. The match was never resumed and eventually registered 0–3 in Partizan's favour.

Eternal derby: Red Star v. Partizan incidents

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On Saturday, 27 April 1991, only three days after making the European Cup final by advancing against favoured Bayern Munich via managing a hard-fought home draw in the famous emotional rollercoaster semifinal return leg in front of 90,000 fans, league leaders Red Star hosted their heated cross-town rival FK Partizan in the 88th league edition of the Eternal derby. Following an entertaining first half played in front of some 35,000 spectators, at the end of which Red Star led 3–1, the match was halted for 10 minutes at the beginning of the second half due to FK Partizan ultras, the Grobari, rioting in the Marakana stadium's south stand by pelting the pitch and athletic track with construction material found in front of the stand.

The match play resumed before being interrupted several more times throughout the second half due to Partizan ultras continuing to riot despite increased police presence around the south stand and even, at one point, pleas of the team's striker Predrag Mijatović sent by the head coach Miloš Milutinović in an attempt of calming them. The match ended 3-1 for Red Star.

Dinamo v. Red Star match-fixing allegations

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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 had already clinched the league title as it prepared to travel to Bari for the European Cup Final some ten days later while Dinamo had 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 at a time when ethnic conflicts, some of them deadly, had started taking place in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, and especially in light of the fact this was the first time the two teams met at Maksimir following the previous season's Dinamo–Red Star riot in the stands, with that match being called 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 years later, allegations appeared that the contest 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, expanded: "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 Franjo Tuđman being at the match and watching it from the luxury box with his cronies and the overall atmosphere within the stadium being 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 had already been 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

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Pos Team Pld W PKW PKL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Red Star Belgrade (C) 36 25 4 2 5 88 35 +53 54 Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Dinamo Zagreb[a] 36 20 6 4 6 72 36 +36 46 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Partizan 36 18 5 3 10 62 36 +26 41
4 Proleter Zrenjanin 36 17 1 3 15 50 49 +1 35 Qualification for Intertoto Cup
5 Borac Banja Luka 36 14 7 4 11 42 38 +4 35
6 Hajduk Split[a] 36 15 3 6 12 49 38 +11 33 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
7 Vojvodina 36 14 5 4 13 47 52 −5 33
8 Rad 36 14 4 3 15 42 34 +8 32
9 Osijek[a] 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[a] 36 14 2 1 19 41 59 −18 30
15 Rijeka[a] 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.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c d e 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.

Results

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Results in brackets indicate the results from penalty shoot-outs whenever games were drawn.

Home \ Away BBL BUD DIN HAJ OLI OSI PAR PRO RAD RNI RSB RIJ SAR SLO SPA VEL VOJ ZEM ŽEL
Borac Banja Luka 3–1 1–1(6–5) 0–2 2–0 3–0 0–0(3–4) 2–0 2–1 0–2 2–2(6–5) 0–0(4–3) 3–0 3–2 2–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–1
Budućnost 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–1(2–4) 1–1(2–4) 2–1 1–0 1–4 2–0 2–0 2–0 4–0 3–1 2–0 2–3 0–1 1–1(2–4) 1–2
Dinamo Zagreb 2–1 6–0 1–1(4–3) 3–0 1–1(5–6) 0–0(4–3) 4–1 2–1 2–0 3–2 3–1 8–1 3–1 3–1 2–1 2–2(7–6) 2–0 2–1
Hajduk Split 1–1(3–4) 1–0 1–2 2–0 3–0 0–3[a] 3–0 4–2 3–0 1–1(3–5) 1–1(5–6) 2–0 1–0 3–0 1–1(3–1) 1–1(2–4) 2–1 1–1(4–2)
Olimpija 1–2 2–1 1–3 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–1(3–4) 0–6 2–1 1–0 1–3 5–0 1–3 4–2 2–1 3–0
Osijek 2–0 1–1(3–4) 2–1 0–1 4–0 3–2 4–1 0–3 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–2 5–2 2–1 3–1 4–1 1–1(2–1)
Partizan 2–2(4–3) 2–1 2–1 4–0 1–0 4–0 0–2 0–0(5–4) 3–1 1–1(3–5) 1–2 2–0 3–1 1–1(4–2) 5–0 3–0 4–1 3–0
Proleter Zrenjanin 3–0 2–1 3–1 2–3 1–1(4–5) 2–0 2–2(2–3) 2–1 1–0 0–2 2–1 5–0 2–0 0–1 3–2 1–1(7–6) 2–0 3–0
Rad 1–0 1–1(3–2) 0–2 1–0 2–0 4–0 2–1 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–1 0–0(4–5) 3–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 2–1 2–0
Radnički Niš 2–0 1–0 1–1(5–4) 1–0 1–2 3–0 0–3 2–1 0–0(3–4) 0–4 1–0 2–0 1–1(5–3) 2–0 4–2 3–0 1–0 1–0
Red Star 2–0 4–1 3–1 1–0 2–1 5–1 3–1 1–2 2–0 6–0 2–1 4–1 4–3 4–0 2–0 2–1 5–1 3–1
Rijeka 0–0(9–10) 1–0 0–0(3–1) 0–0(1–3) 1–0 2–0 3–0 3–0 0–0(6–5) 3–0 0–0(1–3) 2–0 0–1 3–0 1–0 3–0 0–1 1–1(1–4)
Sarajevo 1–0 1–0 0–0(4–5) 1–1(4–2) 2–0 2–0 1–0 3–1 1–1(2–4) 3–0 3–2 1–0 0–0(6–5) 4–1 0–0(4–3) 1–0 1–0 1–1(2–4)
Sloboda Tuzla 0–0(10–11) 2–1 0–3 2–1 0–1 0–5 3–1 1–2 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 0–4 2–2(4–2) 0–0(6–7) 1–2 1–1(4–5) 1–0
Spartak Subotica 1–1(4–5) 2–3 0–0(2–4) 0–1 0–2 3–3(1–4) 0–1 0–1 0–0(5–6) 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–1(2–4) 1–3 1–1(3–4) 1–2 0–0(5–4) 1–2
Velež 2–4 2–0 1–2 4–3 3–1 1–0 0–1 5–2 3–2 2–0 3–3(5–3) 1–0 0–0(5–4) 1–0 5–2 0–1 2–2(4–5) 1–1(3–4)
Vojvodina 1–1(7–6) 2–0 3–1 0–2 4–3 1–0 1–2 0–0(4–2) 2–1 1–0 1–1(4–5) 1–1(4–2) 4–3 2–0 3–0 1–1(2–4) 4–3 0–0(4–3)
Zemun 1–0 0–2 1–1(6–7) 1–0 2–0 2–1 2–2(4–2) 1–0 2–1 2–2(2–4) 1–3 0–0(3–1) 1–0 1–0 2–1 3–3(4–5) 2–1 1–0
Željezničar 1–1(6–5) 0–0(1–3) 1–3 3–2 3–0 1–1[3–2) 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 1–1(4–3) 1–1(4–2) 0–0(2–3) 1–0 3–1 1–1(2–3)
Source: DataSoccer.it
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ Match awarded after it was abandoned due to the riots at the Poljud stadium.

Winning squad

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Champions: Red Star Belgrade
Player League
Matches Goals
  Vlada Stošić 35 4
  Miodrag Belodedić 34 1
  Stevan Stojanović (goalkeeper) 33 0
  Darko Pančev 32 34
  Vladimir Jugović 32 7
  Ilija Najdoski 32 2
  Duško Radinović 30 0
  Robert Prosinečki 29 11
  Dragiša Binić 27 13
  Slobodan Marović 27 1
  Refik Šabanadžović 26 0
  Dejan Savićević 25 8
  Siniša Mihajlović [a] 14 1
  Ivica Momčilović 13 0
  Rade Tošić 11 0
  Ljubiša Milojević 8 1
  Goran Jurić [b] 8 0
  Goran Vasilijević 7 0
  Dejan Joksimović 5 0
  Ivan Adžić 4 1
  Vladan Lukić 4 1
  Enes Bešić 3 0
  Milić Jovanović (goalkeeper) 3 0
  Slaviša Čula 2 0
  Duško Savić 2 0
  Đorđe Aćimović 1 0
  Aleksandar Ilić 1 0
  Mitar Mrkela [c] 1 0
  Milorad Ratković 1 0
Head coach: Ljupko Petrović
  1. ^ bought from FK Vojvodina January '91
  2. ^ sold to Celta de Vigo in December 1990
  3. ^ sold to FC Twente in early fall 1990

Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1   Darko Pančev Red Star 34
2   Davor Šuker Dinamo Zagreb 22
3   Zvonimir Boban Dinamo Zagreb 15
4   Ljubomir Vorkapić Vojvodina 14
  Predrag Mijatović Partizan
6   Dragiša Binić Red Star 13
  Anto Drobnjak Budućnost
  Meho Kodro Velež
9   Vladimir Gudelj Velež 12
10   Zoran Slišković Željezničar 11
  Robert Prosinečki Red Star
  Goran Vlaović Osijek
  Zoran Kuntić Spartak Subotica

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Robert Prosinečki: Štimac nema karizmu Archived 28 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine;Globus, September 2012
  2. ^ Zvezda pustila Dinamo 1991.;Kurir, 28 September 2012
  3. ^ Ljupko Petrović: Zvezda je 1991. morala da pusti Dinamo zbog Tuđmana!;Blic, 28 September 2012
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