The 1972–73 Yugoslav First League season was the 27th season of the First Federal League of Yugoslavia (), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. A total of 18 teams competed in the league, with the previous season's runners-up Red Star winning the title.
Teams A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1971–72 season and two sides promoted from the 1971–72 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.
Radnički Kragujevac and NK Maribor were relegated from the 1971–72 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Bor and Spartak Subotica.
Team Location Federal Republic Positionin 1971–72BorBorBorac Banja LukaBanja Luka01313thČelikZenica01212thDinamo ZagrebZagreb0088thHajduk SplitSplit01010thOFK BelgradeBelgrade0033rdOlimpija LjubljanaLjubljana0099thPartizanBelgrade0055thRadnički NišNiš01414thRed StarBelgrade0022ndSarajevoSarajevo01515thSlobodaTuzla0077thSpartak SuboticaSuboticaSutjeska NikšićNikšić01616thVardarSkopje01111thVeležMostar0066thVojvodinaNovi Sad0044thŽeljezničarSarajevo0011st
League table
Results
Winning squad Champions Red Star Belgrade
Zoran Antonijević Jovan Aćimović Zoran Bingulac Vladislav Bogićević Kiro Dojčinovski Ratomir Dujković Milovan Đorić Slobodan Janković Živorad Jeftić Nikola Jovanović Stanislav Karasi Mihalj Keri Branko Klenkovski Petar Krivokuća Vojin Lazarević Dušan Nikolić Mile Novković Miroslav Pavlović Aleksandar Panajotović Vladimir Petrović Ognjan Petrović Sead Sušić Zoran Filipović Dragan Džajić Championship Winners, Red Star Belgrade official site
Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Vojin LazarevićRed Star25 Slobodan SantračOFK Belgrade3 Dušan BajevićVelež214 Petar NadovezaHajduk Split195 Stanislav KarasiRed Star176 Josip BukalŽeljezničar157 Salem HalilhodžićVelež148 Nenad BjekovićPartizan139 Zvonko IvezićVojvodina1210 Momčilo VukotićPartizan11
See also 1972–73 Yugoslav Second League
External links
Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables