The 1974 Yugoslav Cup was the 27th season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup (), also known as the "Marshal Tito Cup" (Kup Maršala Tita), since its establishment in 1946.
Calendar The Yugoslav Cup was a tournament for which clubs from all tiers of the football pyramid were eligible to enter. In addition, amateur teams put together by individual Yugoslav People's Army garrisons and various factories and industrial plants were also encouraged to enter, which meant that each cup edition could have several thousands of teams in its preliminary stages. These teams would play through a number of qualifying rounds before reaching the first round proper, in which they would be paired with top-flight teams.
Unlike most cup finals played since the late 1950s which had been traditionally scheduled to coincide with the end of the football league season and Youth Day celebrated on 25 May (a national holiday in Yugoslavia which also doubled as the official commemoration of Josip Broz Tito's birthday), the 1973 and 1974 cups were played over only four months, with finals played in November in capital Belgrade, to coincide with Republic Day on 29 November.
Since the final was always meant to be determined on or around a national holiday at the JNA Stadium in capital Belgrade, and to avoid unfair advantage this would give to Belgrade-based clubs, the Football Association of Yugoslavia adopted the rule in the late 1960s which said that the final could be played as a one-legged tie (in cases when both finalists are from outside Belgrade) or double-legged (when at least one of them is based the capital), with the second leg always played in Belgrade. This rule was used for all eight cup finals involving Belgrade clubs played from 1970 to 1985.
Round Legs Date Fixtures ClubsFirst round (round of 32) Single 14 August 1974 16 32 → 16Second round (round of 16) Single 11 September 1974 8 16 → 8Quarter-finals Single 16 October 1974 4 8 → 4 Semi-finals Single 13 November 1974 2 4 → 2 Final Single 29 November 1974 1 2 → 1
First round In the following tables winning teams are marked in bold; teams from outside top level are marked in italic script.
Tie noHome teamScoreAway team1Bačka Subotica1–0Neretva2Bokelj0–1 (a.e.t.)Olimpija Ljubljana3Borac Travnik2–1 (a.e.t.)Metalac G. Milanovac4Dinamo Zagreb2–0Radnički Kragujevac5Hajduk Split3–0Proleter Zrenjanin6Maribor1–1 (5–4 p)Bor7Novi Sad0–2Velež8OFK Belgrade1–0Karlovac9Rabotnički4–0Čelik Zenica10Red Star1–4Borac Banja Luka11Sarajevo2–0Igman Ilidža12Sloboda Tuzla2–1Vojvodina13Timok Zaječar1–0Radnički Niš14Vardar1–0Osijek15NK Zagreb2–0Partizan16Željezničar Sarajevo4–0Prishtina
Second round Tie noHome teamScoreAway team1Bačka Subotica0–2Hajduk Split2Borac Banja Luka0–0 (4–2 p)Sarajevo3Dinamo Zagreb1–0Borac Travnik4OFK Belgrade2–1Maribor5Olimpija Ljubljana1–1 (6–5 p)Rabotnički6Timok Zaječar2–5Željezničar Sarajevo7Vardar3–0Sloboda Tuzla8Velež2–1NK Zagreb
Quarter-finals Tie noHome teamScoreAway team1Hajduk Split3–0OFK Belgrade2Olimpija Ljubljana2–2 (6–7 p)Borac Banja Luka3Vardar2–0Dinamo Zagreb4Željezničar Sarajevo4–3 (a.e.t.)Velež
Semi-finals Tie noHome teamScoreAway team1Borac Banja Luka2–1Željezničar Sarajevo2Hajduk Split5–0Vardar
Final
GK 1 Rizah MeškovićDF 2 Marin Kurtela DF 3 Vedran RožićDF 4 Mario BoljatDF 5 Šime LuketinDF 6 Ivan BuljanFW 7 Slaviša ŽungulMF 8 Dražen MužinićMF 9 Branko OblakFW 10 Jurica Jerković (c)MF 11 Ivica ŠurjakSubstitutes:DF ? Joško Duplančić Manager: Tomislav Ivić GK 1 Marijan JantoljakDF 2 Milan VukeljaDF 3 Hikmet KušmićDF 4 Zvonimir VidačakDF 5 Mario BrnjacMF 6 Dževad KresoMF 7 Dušan Jurković MF 8 Zoran SmilevskiFW 9 Miloš Cetina FW 10 Dragan MarjanovićFW 11 Abid Kovačević (c)Substitutes:MF ? Nenad Lazić FW ? M. Ivanović Manager: Boris Marović
See also 1974–75 Yugoslav First League 1974–75 Yugoslav Second League
External links 1974 cup season details at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 1974 cup final details at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation "Kad je Borac izašao na megdan Hajduku" article about the final match