# 1956–57 Yugoslav First League

The 1956–57 Yugoslav First League season was the 11th 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 Red Star winning their fourth title.
The season featured an unusually long four-month winter break — from 28 October 1956 until 3 March 1957 — during which the Yugoslav Olympic national team, which entirely consisted of players from the Yugoslav First League, participated at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and won the silver medal.

## Teams

At the end of the previous season Željezničar and Proleter Osijek were relegated from top level. They were replaced by Lokomotiva and Vardar.
| Team | Location | Federal Republic | Position in 1955–56 |
| BSK Belgrade | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 01010th |
| Budućnost | Titograd | SR Montenegro | 01111th |
| Dinamo Zagreb | Zagreb | SR Croatia | 0044th |
| Hajduk Split | Split | SR Croatia | 01212th |
| Lokomotiva | Zagreb | SR Croatia | — |
| Partizan | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 0022nd |
| Radnički Belgrade | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 0033rd |
| Red Star | Belgrade | SR Serbia | 0011st |
| FK Sarajevo | Sarajevo | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0066th |
| Spartak Subotica | Subotica | SR Serbia | 0099th |
| Vardar | Skopje | SR Macedonia | — |
| Velež | Mostar | SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0077th |
| Vojvodina | Novi Sad | SR Serbia | 0055th |
| NK Zagreb | Zagreb | SR Croatia | 0088th |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Red Star Belgrade (C) | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 66 | 23 | 2.870 | 39 | Qualification for European Cup preliminary round |
| 2 | Vojvodina | 26 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 64 | 38 | 1.684 | 35 | |
| 3 | Hajduk Split | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 45 | 31 | 1.452 | 30 | |
| 4 | Partizan | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 51 | 45 | 1.133 | 26 | |
| 5 | Dinamo Zagreb | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 51 | 51 | 1.000 | 26 | |
| 6 | BSK Belgrade | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 41 | 47 | 0.872 | 25 | |
| 7 | NK Zagreb | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 39 | 45 | 0.867 | 25 | |
| 8 | Radnički Beograd | 26 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 41 | 47 | 0.872 | 23 | |
| 9 | Budućnost | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 38 | 47 | 0.809 | 23 | |
| 10 | Velež | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 44 | 57 | 0.772 | 23 | |
| 11 | Vardar | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 30 | 44 | 0.682 | 23 | |
| 12 | Spartak Subotica | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 44 | 46 | 0.957 | 22 | |
| 13 | Sarajevo (R) | 26 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 38 | 52 | 0.731 | 22 | Relegation to Yugoslav Second League |
| 14 | Lokomotiva (R) | 26 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 44 | 63 | 0.698 | 22 | Relegation to Yugoslav Second League |
* ↑ After this season, BSK Belgrade changed their name to OFK Belgrade, in an attempt to appeal to the rising numbers of fans in the younger generation.

## Results

| Home \ Away | BUD | BSK | DIN | HAJ | LOK | PAR | RBE | RSB | SAR | SPA | VAR | VEL | VOJ | ZAG |
| Budućnost | | 3–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 6–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 |
| BSK Belgrade | 5–2 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–2 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 2–1 | 3–3 | | 1–2 | 5–1 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–4 | 5–4 | 2–1 |
| Hajduk Split | 5–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 |
| Lokomotiva | 3–2 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 1–0 | | 3–0 | 0–8 | 1–0 | 4–3 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 5–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Partizan | 1–2 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 7–1 | 1–1 | 2–5 |
| Radnički Beograd | 3–2 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 0–5 | 1–2 | 3–1 | | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 0–6 | 1–1 |
| Red Star | 5–3 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 6–1 | 4–0 | 6–0 |
| Sarajevo | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 5–3 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 0–4 | | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| Spartak Subotica | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 5–1 | | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 |
| Vardar | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–5 | | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 |
| Velež | 3–1 | 2–2 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 4–1 | 1–0 | | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Vojvodina | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 4–1 | 6–0 | | 2–4 |
| NK Zagreb | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–7 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 2–3 | |

## Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Todor Veselinović | Vojvodina | 28 |
| 2 | Bora Kostić | Red Star | 27 |
| 3 | Tihomir Ognjanov | Spartak Subotica | 18 |
| 4 | Zoran Prljinčević | Radnički Belgrade | 17 |
| 5 | Dionizije Dvornić | NK Zagreb | 15 |
| 6 | Vladimir Zelenika | Velež | 14 |
| 7 | Sava Antić | BSK Belgrade | 13 |
| 7 | Živko Josić | BSK Belgrade | 13 |
| 9 | Anton Rudinski | Red Star | 12 |
| 9 | Radivoj Ognjanović | Radnički Belgrade | 12 |
| 9 | Mladen Krgin | Budućnost | 12 |
| 9 | Dobrivoje Živkov | Sarajevo | 12 |