Montenegrin First League

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Montenegrin First League
2007-08 season

Founded
2006
Nation
Montenegro
Relegation To
Montenegrin Second League
Number of Teams
12
European Qualification
Champions League UEFA Cup Intertoto Cup
Cups
Montenegro Cup
Current Champions
FK Budućnost
Website
Official

The First League of Montenegro (Serbian: Prva crnogorska fudbalska liga) is the top football league in Montenegro. It is headed by the Football Association of Montenegro. 12 teams participate in this league. The winner of the Montenegrin First League starts the qualifications for the UEFA Champions League from the first round. The second placed team and the National Cup winner play in the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Cup. The third-placed (or fourth) team competes in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. The 11th- and 12th-placed teams are relegated to the Montenegrin Second League.

1 History
2 UEFA Rankings
3 Teams Participating in 2007-08 season
4 Champions
- 4.1 Year by year
- 4.2 Performance by club
5 Top goalscorers
- 5.1 By season
- 5.2 All-time league scorers
6 External links and references
7 References

[edit] History

Main article: Past Champions of Second-Tier Montenegrin First League

While Montenegro was part of socialist Yugoslavia, its top league was the Yugoslav First League. When SFRY dissolved, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed in 1992 and the Serbian and Montenegrin teams played in this league, although it was still named Yugoslav First League. In 2003, the FR Yugoslavia was renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and the football league followed suit. The league of Serbia and Montenegro had 16 teams. During this time the First League of Montenegro functioned as one of the state's two second division leagues. In 2006, Montenegro split from Serbia and Montenegro, thus making the First League of Montenegro its top national competition.

[edit] UEFA Rankings

UEFA Country Ranking for league participation in 2009-10 European football season (Previous year rank in italics) ^[1]

48 (48) Faroese League
49 (49) Luxembourgian League
50 (50) Maltese League
51 (53) Montenegrin League
51 (52) Andorran League
53 (51) Sammarinese League

[edit] Teams Participating in 2007-08 season

[edit] Champions

[edit] Year by year

2006-07 - FK Zeta
2007-08 - FK Budućnost

[edit] Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Years
FK Zeta	1	0	2006-07
FK Budućnost	1	0	2007-08

[edit] Top goalscorers

[edit] By season

2006-07 - Damir Čakar (FK Rudar) - 16 goals

[edit] All-time league scorers

Players in bold are still active in the Montenegrin First League

Rank	Player	Years	Goals
1	Damir Čakar	2006 -	16
	Žarko Korać	2006 -	16
3	Albino Camaj	2006 -	13
4	Slaven Stjepanović	2006	12
5	Dragan Bošković	2006 -	11
	Igor Burzanović	2006	11
7	Nemanja Vukašinović	2006 -	10