1957–58 Yugoslav First League

The 1957–58 Yugoslav First League season was the 12th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: 'Prva savezna liga'), the top level association football league of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. Fourteen teams contested the competition, with Dinamo Zagreb winning their third title and qualifying for the 1958–59 European Cup.

At the end of season four teams were relegated instead of the usual two because the Football Association of Yugoslavia decided to reduce the league to 12 teams for the following season.

Teams

At the end of the previous season FK Sarajevo and Lokomotiva were relegated from top level. They were replaced by Željezničar and RNK Split.

Team	Location	Federal Republic	Position in 1956–57
Budućnost	Titograd	SR Montenegro	0099th
Dinamo Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0055th
Hajduk Split	Split	SR Croatia	0033rd
OFK Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0066th
Partizan	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0044th
Radnički Belgrade	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0088th
Red Star	Belgrade	SR Serbia	0011st
Spartak Subotica	Subotica	SR Serbia	01212th
RNK Split	Split	SR Croatia	N/A
Vardar	Skopje	SR Macedonia	01111th
Velež	Mostar	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	01010th
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SR Serbia	0022nd
NK Zagreb	Zagreb	SR Croatia	0077th
Željezničar	Sarajevo	SR Bosnia and Herzegovina	N/A

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo Zagreb (C)	26	15	7	4	53	33	1.606	37	1958–59 European Cup
2	Partizan	26	13	7	6	46	33	1.394	33
3	Radnički Beograd	26	11	6	9	50	38	1.316	28
4	Red Star	26	10	8	8	45	38	1.184	28
5	Vojvodina	26	12	3	11	55	32	1.719	27
6	Velež	26	11	4	11	40	42	0.952	26
7	Vardar	26	10	6	10	30	44	0.682	26
8	Željezničar	26	9	7	10	47	44	1.068	25
9	Hajduk Split	26	10	5	11	42	43	0.977	25
10	Budućnost	26	8	9	9	30	36	0.833	25
11	RNK Split (R)	26	12	1	13	35	42	0.833	25	01957–58 Relegation play-offs0 1
12	Spartak Subotica (R)	26	10	4	12	50	45	1.111	24
13	OFK Belgrade (R)	26	6	8	12	27	50	0.54	20	01958–59 Yugoslav Second League0
14	NK Zagreb (R)	26	5	5	16	31	61	0.508	15

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal average
¹ Budućnost and RNK Split had the same goal average so they played two play-off matches to decide who will enter the relegation play-offs. Budućnost won 4–0.
(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.

Champion squad

Dinamo Zagreb (Manager Gustav Lechner)

• Ivica Banožić 18 (0)
• Aleksandar Benko 12 (8)
• Tomislav Crnković 25 (0)
• Vladimir Čonč 20 (4)
• Emil Ferković 5 (0)
• Franjo Gašpert 22 (7)
• Drago Hmelina 8 (1)
• Ivan Horvat 26 (0)
• Bernard Hugl 3 (0)
• Gordan Irović 24 (0)
• Dražan Jerković 22 (17)
• Marijan Kolonić 1 (0)
• Mladen Koščak 22 (0)
• Luka Lipošinović 20 (8)
• Željko Matuš 20 (3)
• Zdravko Prelčec 4 (1)
• Branko Režek 24 (2)
• Ivan Šantek 8 (0)

See also

• 1957–58 Yugoslav Second League
• 1957–58 Yugoslav Cup

External links

• Yugoslavia Domestic Football Full Tables