1976–77 Yugoslav First League
| Season | 1976–77 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Red Star (12th title) |
| Relegated |
Napredak Kruševac Željezničar |
| European Cup | Red Star |
| Cup Winners' Cup | Hajduk Split |
| UEFA Cup |
Dinamo Zagreb Sloboda |
| Matches played | 272 |
| Goals scored | 773 (2.84 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Zoran Filipović (21) |
|
← 1975–76 1977–78 → | |
1976–77 Yugoslav First League (Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije, Prvenstvo 1976/77) competition was the 49th top league season since 1923 in various incarnations of Yugoslavia. It was won in dominating fashion by Red Star Belgrade with a 9-point margin over the second placed team (Dinamo Zagreb), which at the time set the record as largest ever points differential by which a team triumphed in the league.
This was Red Star's 12th league title.
Teams
A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1975–76 season and two sides promoted from the 1975–76 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 34 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.
FK Vardar and FK Radnički Kragujevac were relegated from the 1975–76 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were NK Zagreb and FK Napredak Kruševac.
| Team | Location | Federal Republic | Position in 1975–76 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borac Banja Luka | Banja Luka |  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
10th |
| Budućnost | Titograd |  SR Montenegro |
15th |
| Čelik | Zenica | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
13th |
| Dinamo Zagreb | Zagreb |  SR Croatia |
3rd |
| Hajduk Split | Split | SR Croatia |
2nd |
| Napredak | Kruševac |  SR Serbia |
N/A |
| OFK Belgrade | Belgrade | SR Serbia |
8th |
| Olimpija Ljubljana | Ljubljana |  SR Slovenia |
14th |
| Partizan | Belgrade | SR Serbia |
1st |
| Radnički Niš | Niš | SR Serbia |
16th |
| Red Star | Belgrade | SR Serbia |
4th |
| NK Rijeka | Rijeka | SR Croatia |
11th |
| FK Sarajevo | Sarajevo | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
7th |
| Sloboda | Tuzla | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
6th |
| Velež | Mostar | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
9th |
| Vojvodina | Novi Sad | SR Serbia |
5th |
| NK Zagreb | Zagreb | SR Croatia |
N/A |
| Željezničar | Sarajevo | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina |
12th |
League table
| Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Star Belgrade (C) | 34 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 67 | 37 | +30 | 50 | 1977–78 European Cup |
| 2 | Dinamo Zagreb | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 52 | 36 | +16 | 41 | 1977–78 UEFA Cup |
| 3 | Sloboda Tuzla | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 43 | 32 | +11 | 39 | |
| 4 | Partizan | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 37 | 31 | +6 | 39 | |
| 5 | Rijeka | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 43 | 29 | +14 | 36 | 1978 Balkans Cup and 1977 Intertoto Cup |
| 6 | Borac Banja Luka | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 53 | 43 | +10 | 36 | |
| 7 | Radnički Niš | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 40 | 43 | −3 | 34 | |
| 8 | Hajduk Split | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 41 | 35 | +6 | 33 | 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup |
| 9 | Budućnost | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 44 | 47 | −3 | 33 | |
| 10 | NK Zagreb | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 48 | 48 | 0 | 32 | |
| 11 | Velež | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 46 | 48 | −2 | 32 | |
| 12 | Olimpija | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 36 | 42 | −6 | 32 | |
| 13 | Čelik | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 33 | 38 | −5 | 31 | |
| 14 | Vojvodina | 34 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 40 | 50 | −10 | 30 | 1977 Intertoto Cup |
| 15 | OFK Belgrade | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 39 | 51 | −12 | 30 | |
| 16 | Sarajevo | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 40 | 55 | −15 | 30 | |
| 17 | Napredak Kruševac (R) | 34 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 38 | 55 | −17 | 28 | 1977–78 Yugoslav Second League |
| 18 | Željezničar (R) | 34 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 33 | 53 | −20 | 26 |
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.
League topscorer: Zoran Filipović (Red Star Belgrade) - 21 goals from 33 league match appearances
Champions:
- RED STAR BELGRADE (coach: Gojko Zec)
players (league matches/league goals):
Vladislav Bogićević (34/7)
Zoran Filipović (33/21)
Slavoljub Muslin (32/0)
Dušan Nikolić (30/2)
Zoran Jelikić (27/0)
Branko Radović (26/0)
Dušan Savić (25/15)
Boško Kajganić (25/0)
Dušan Lukić (23/1)
Nikola Jovanović (23/0)
Miloš Šestić (22/8)
Srboljub Stamenković (19/4)
Mile Novković (18/1)
Petar Baralić (17/1)
Milan Babić (16/0)
Sead Sušić (13/7)
Aleksandar Stojanović (11/0) -goalkeeper-
Zdravko Borovnica (10/0)
Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović (10/0)
Dragoslav Stepanović (7/0)
Bratislav Đorđević (5/0)
Milan Ćalasan (3/0)
Radivoje Ratković (3/0)
Dragan Simeunović (1/0) -goalkeeper-
Aleksandar Panajotović (1/0)
Danilo Mandić (1/0)
Dušan Ajder (1/0)
Dejan Stanković (1/0)