1952 Yugoslav First League

Prva savezna liga

Season	1952
Champions	Hajduk Split (4th title)
Relegated	Rabotnički Mačva Šabac
← 1951 1952–53 →

The First Federal League of Yugoslavia's 1952 season (colloquially the Yugoslav First League) was shortened and sped-up. It was completed over a period of little more than three and a half months, beginning on 2 March 1952 and finishing on 22 June 1952. The reason for the changes was a desire to start the next season in the fall of 1952, thus implementing the fall-spring format that had become a norm all across Europe by this time.

The clubs were initially divided into two groups of six teams each, where everyone within a given group played each other twice (home and away).

Then, according to the placement in the these preliminary groups, three new groups were formed:

• First two teams in each of the two preliminary groups advanced to the 4-team group, the winner of which would become a champion.
• Teams placed 3rd and 4th in each of the two preliminary groups got to move to a 4-team group that would decide final league standings from 5th to 8th place.
• The bottom two teams in each of the two preliminary groups moved to a 4-team group that would decide final league standings at the bottom (places 9th through 12th) and thus determine who gets relegated to the Second League.

League

Preliminary stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo Zagreb	10	8	0	2	27	13	+14	16	0 Championship group0
2	Lokomotiva	10	7	0	3	20	9	+11	14
3	Partizan	10	6	0	4	24	15	+9	12	0 Central group0
4	Vojvodina	10	5	0	5	21	15	+6	10
5	Rabotnički	10	2	1	7	9	30	−21	5	0 Relegation group0
6	Mačva Šabac	10	1	1	8	10	29	−19	3

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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.

Home ╲ Away	DIN	LOK	MAČ	PAR	RAB	VOJ
Dinamo Zagreb						3–2
Lokomotiva						2–1
Mačva Šabac						1–5
Partizan						1–2
Rabotnički						0–3
Vojvodina	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–4	5–2

Updated to games played on 11 May 1952.
Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Star	10	7	0	3	20	16	+4	14	0 Championship group0
2	Hajduk Split	10	6	0	4	23	11	+12	12
3	BSK Belgrade	10	4	2	4	19	12	+7	10	0 Central group0
4	Vardar	10	5	0	5	13	18	−5	10
5	NK Zagreb	10	3	2	5	7	12	−5	8	0 Relegation group0
6	Sarajevo	10	3	0	7	8	21	−13	6

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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.

Home ╲ Away	BSK	HAJ	RSB	SAR	VAR	ZAG
BSK Belgrade		0–1
Hajduk Split	2–3		6–0	4–0	2–1	2–1
Red Star		3–1
Sarajevo		2–0
Vardar		0–5
NK Zagreb		1–0

Updated to games played on 11 May 1952.
Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final Round

Championship group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hajduk Split (C)	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	9
2	Red Star	6	3	2	1	11	6	+5	8
3	Lokomotiva	6	2	0	4	12	19	−7	4
4	Dinamo Zagreb	6	0	3	3	8	14	−6	3

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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.

Home ╲ Away	DIN	HAJ	LOK	RSB
Dinamo Zagreb		0–3
Hajduk Split	1–1		2–0	2–0
Lokomotiva		2–4
Red Star		1–0

Updated to games played on 22 June 1952.
Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Central group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
5	BSK Belgrade	6	5	1	0	15	6	+9	11
6	Partizan	6	3	1	2	17	11	+6	7
7	Vardar	6	2	1	3	8	15	−7	5
8	Vojvodina	6	0	1	5	7	15	−8	1

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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.

Home ╲ Away	BSK	PAR	VAR	VOJ
BSK Belgrade				2–1
Partizan				5–5
Vardar				3–1
Vojvodina	0–2	0–1	0–2

Updated to games played on 22 June 1952.
Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
9	Sarajevo	6	3	2	1	8	3	+5	8
10	NK Zagreb	6	2	3	1	6	6	0	7
11	Rabotnički (R)	6	2	1	3	10	14	−4	5	01952–53 Yugoslav Second League0
12	Mačva Šabac (R)	6	1	2	3	7	8	−1	4

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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.

Cup

The cup was played from August 24, 1952 until November 29, 1952.

Qualification

Partizan 5 - 4 Radnicki Kragujevac

BSK Beograd 1 - 2 Partizan

(rest unknown)

Round of Sixteen

Lovcen (?) 0 - 3 Partizan

Hajduk Split x - x X

X x - x X

X x - x X

X x - x X

X x - x X

Crvena Zvezda x - x X

Radnicki Nis x - x X

Quarter finals

Hajduk Split 0 - 5 Partizan

Crvena Zvezda Beograd x - x X

Radnicki Nis x - x X

X x - x X

Semi finals

Crvena Zvezda Beograd x - x X

Partizan 4 - 1 Radnicki Nis

Finals

November 29, 1952 - Belgrade, Serbia

Partizan 6 - 0 Crvena Zvezda Beograd

Stadium: Centralnog doma Jugoslovenske Armije (JNA Stadium)

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Vasa Stefanovič (Beograd)

Crvena Zvezda: Srboljub Krivokuća, Branko Stanković, Miljan Zeković, Siniša Zlatković, Milorad Diskić, Predrag Đajić, Kosta Tomašević, Rajko Mitić, Tihomir Ognjanov, Todor Živanović, Branislav Vukosavljević

Partizan: Slavko Stojanović, Bruno Belin, Ratko Čolić, Zlatko Čajkovski, Stefanović, Miodrag Jovanović, Marko Valok, Todor Veselinović, Stjepan Bobek, Aleksandar Atanacković, Branko Zebec

See also

• Yugoslav Cup
• Yugoslav League Championship
• Football Association of Yugoslavia

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables