# 1975–76 Yugoslav First League
## Teams

A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1974–75 season and two sides promoted from the 1974–75 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 Bor and Proleter Zrenjanin were relegated from the 1974–75 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Borac Banja Luka and Budućnost.
| Team | Location | Federal Republic | Position in 1974–75 |
| Borac Banja Luka | Banja Luka | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | — |
| Budućnost | Titograd | SR Montenegro | — |
| Čelik | Zenica | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 01111th |
| Dinamo Zagreb | Zagreb | SR Croatia | 0055th |
| Hajduk Split | Split | SR Croatia | 0011st |
| OFK Belgrade | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 0088th |
| Olimpija Ljubljana | Ljubljana | SR Slovenia | 01212th |
| Partizan | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 0066th |
| Radnički Kragujevac | Kragujevac | SR Serbia | 01515th |
| Radnički Niš | Niš | SR Serbia | 01010th |
| Red Star | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 0033rd |
| NK Rijeka | Rijeka | SR Croatia | 01414th |
| FK Sarajevo | Sarajevo | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 01313th |
| Sloboda | Tuzla | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0077th |
| Vardar | Skopje | SR Macedonia | 01616th |
| Velež | Mostar | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0044th |
| Vojvodina | Novi Sad | SR Serbia | 0022nd |
| Željezničar | Sarajevo | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0099th |

### Managers

| Club | Managers |
| Borac Banja Luka | Miljenko Mihić |
| Budućnost | Dušan Varagić |
| Čelik | Alojz Renić |
| Dinamo Zagreb | Mirko Bazić |
| Hajduk Split | Tomislav Ivić |
| OFK Belgrade | Milutin Šoškić |
| Olimpija Ljubljana | Slavko Luštica |
| Partizan | Tomislav Kaloperović |
| Radnički Kragujevac | Zoran Ristić |
| Club | Managers |
| Radnički Niš | Ðorđe Kačunković |
| Red Star Belgrade | Milovan Ćirić |
| Rijeka | Gojko Zec |
| Sarajevo | Vukašin Višnjevac |
| Sloboda | Josip Duvančić |
| Vardar | Petar Šulinčevski |
| Velež | Sulejman Rebac |
| Vojvodina | Todor Veselinović |
| Željezničar | Milan Ribar |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Partizan (C) | 34 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 60 | 30 | +30 | 50 | Qualification for European Cup first round |
| 2 | Hajduk Split | 34 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 57 | 22 | +35 | 49 | Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round |
| 3 | Dinamo Zagreb | 34 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 38 | 23 | +15 | 44 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 4 | Red Star Belgrade | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 53 | 31 | +22 | 40 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 5 | Vojvodina | 34 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 41 | 42 | −1 | 34 | Qualification for Intertoto Cup |
| 6 | Sloboda Tuzla | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 46 | 42 | +4 | 33 | |
| 7 | Sarajevo | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 45 | 51 | −6 | 33 | |
| 8 | OFK Belgrade | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 40 | 48 | −8 | 33 | |
| 9 | Velež | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 39 | 37 | +2 | 32 | |
| 10 | Borac Banja Luka | 34 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 34 | 40 | −6 | 32 | |
| 11 | Rijeka | 34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 35 | 37 | −2 | 31 | |
| 12 | Željezničar | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 40 | 47 | −7 | 31 | |
| 13 | Čelik | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 29 | 35 | −6 | 30 | |
| 14 | Olimpija | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 44 | −7 | 30 | |
| 15 | Budućnost | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 30 | |
| 16 | Radnički Niš | 34 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 30 | 41 | −11 | 29 | |
| 17 | Vardar (R) | 34 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 27 | 36 | −9 | 28 | Relegation to Yugoslav Second League |
| 18 | Radnički Kragujevac (R) | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 29 | 57 | −28 | 23 | Relegation to Yugoslav Second League |

## Results

| Home \ Away | BOR | BUD | ČEL | DIN | HAJ | OFK | OLI | PAR | RDK | RNI | RSB | RIJ | SAR | SLO | VAR | VEL | VOJ | ŽEL |
| Borac Banja Luka | | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 |
| Budućnost | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Čelik | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–4 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Hajduk Split | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | | 4–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 5–1 |
| OFK Belgrade | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| Olimpija | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 2–1 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 |
| Partizan | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–6 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 0–0 |
| Radnički Kragujevac | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| Radnički Niš | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 |
| Red Star | 2–1 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 3–0 | | 2–1 | 5–1 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 |
| Rijeka | 0–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 |
| Sarajevo | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 6–0 | 2–1 | 3–5 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | | 3–3 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 |
| Sloboda Tuzla | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 |
| Vardar | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Velež | 2–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 2–0 | | 2–2 | 2–2 |
| Vojvodina | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | | 2–0 |
| Željezničar | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 5–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 4–2 | |

## Winning squad

Champions: FK Partizan :
| Player | League | League |
| Player | Matches | Goals |
| Momčilo Vukotić | 33 | 7 |
| Rešad Kunovac | 33 | 0 |
| Borislav Đurović | 32 | 1 |
| Radmilo Ivančević | 32 | 0 |
| Nenad Bjeković | 31 | 24 |
| Ilija Zavišić | 31 | 6 |
| Refik Kozić | 30 | 0 |
| Ivan Golac | 26 | 0 |
| Aranđel Todorović | 25 | 2 |
| Boško Đorđević | 23 | 5 |
| Predrag Tomić | 23 | 1 |
| Vukan Perović | 19 | 7 |
| Vladimir Pejović | 19 | 0 |
| Dragan Arsenović | 16 | 1 |
| Svemir Đorđić | 14 | 1 |
| Nenad Stojković | 14 | 0 |
| Pavle Grubješić | 12 | 3 |
| Aleksandar Trifunović | 8 | 0 |
| Radomir Antić | 7 | 1 |
| Blagoj Istatov | 3 | 0 |
| Sima Nikolić | 3 | 0 |
| Xhevat Prekazi | 3 | 0 |
| Nenad Cvetković | 1 | 0 |
| Head coach: Tomislav Kaloperović |||

## Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Nenad Bjeković | Partizan | 24 |
| 2 | Dragutin Vabec | Dinamo Zagreb | 19 |
| 3 | Vahid Halilhodžić | Velež | 17 |
| 4 | Slaviša Žungul | Hajduk Split | 14 |
| 5 | Jovan Geca | Sloboda Tuzla | 13 |
| 6 | Jurica Jerković | Hajduk Split | 12 |
| 7 | Zoran Filipović | Red Star | 11 |
| 8 | Srebrenko Repčić | Sarajevo | 10 |
| 8 | Muhamed Ibrahimbegović | Borac Banja Luka | 10 |
| 8 | Goran Jurišić | Olimpija | 10 |
| 8 | Vili Ameršek | Olimpija | 10 |

## Attendance

| Club | Average home attendance | Average away attendance |
| Red Star Belgrade | 27,176 | 23,882 |
| FK Partizan | 22,647 | 24,412 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 18,176 | 13,912 |
| Hajduk Split | 17,941 | 23,647 |
| Budućnost Titograd | 12,529 | 8,176 |
| FK Vardar | 12,235 | 7,265 |
| Borac Banja Luka | 10,147 | 9,412 |
| NK Rijeka | 9,176 | 7,794 |
| Čelik Zenica | 9,176 | 7,382 |
| FK Sarajevo | 9,147 | 9,412 |
| FK Željezničar | 9,000 | 10,647 |
| Radnički Niš | 8,941 | 8,941 |
| FK Vojvodina | 8,529 | 11,294 |
| Radnički Kragujevac | 8,029 | 7,912 |
| NK Olimpija | 7,265 | 8,765 |
| FK Velež | 7,235 | 11,324 |
| OFK Beograd | 6,382 | 8,441 |
| Sloboda Tuzla | 6,324 | 7,441 |
* Overall league attendance per match: 11,670 spectators