| Season | 1970–71 |
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| Champions | Hajduk Split 4th Federal League title 6th Yugoslav title overall |
| Relegated | Bor Crvenka |
| European Cup | Hajduk Split |
| Cup Winners' Cup | Red Star |
| UEFA Cup | Željezničar Dinamo Zagreb OFK Beograd |
| Top goalscorer | Petar Nadoveza Božo Janković (20 goals each) |
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The 1970–71 Yugoslav First League season was the 25th 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. Eighteen teams contested the competition, which ended with Hajduk Split winning their fourth title, club's first in 16 years.
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The season featured an incident that occurred in Split's Stari plac Stadium in fall 1970 during the Hajduk vs. OFK Beograd fixture. With the score tied at 2-2, match referee Ristić fell unconscious after getting hit in the head with an object thrown from the stands. The match was stopped and the Yugoslav FA's (FSJ) disciplinary body decided to register it with 0-3 score for OFK Beograd.
The disciplinary measure set off huge days-long, often violent protests in Split that quickly assumed a distinctly anti-Belgrade and anti-Serbian tone. Led by the club's hardcore fans Torcida Split, the practice of seeking out parked cars with city of Belgrade license plates and pushing them into the sea from the docks was especially widespread in Split during the protests.
Due to their political undertones and the potential to undermine the country's official inter-ethnic guiding principle during the sensitive time when MASPOK was gathering steam in SR Croatia, the Split football protests quickly came to the attention of Yugoslav politicians who decided to deal with the situation by pressing FSJ into changing its disciplinary ruling and registering the 2-2 score. FSJ did exactly that, reinstating the score at the moment when the match was interrupted as the official result.[1]
| Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
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| 1 | Hajduk Split (C) | 34 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 61 | 31 | +30 | 49 | 1971–72 European Cup |
| 2 | Željezničar | 34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 59 | 34 | +25 | 45 | 1971–72 UEFA Cup |
| 3 | Dinamo Zagreb | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 55 | 32 | +23 | 43 | |
| 4 | OFK Belgrade | 34 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 54 | 44 | +10 | 38 | |
| 5 | Partizan | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 44 | 34 | +10 | 38 | |
| 6 | Red Star | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 62 | 46 | +16 | 36 | 1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup |
| 7 | Olimpija | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 47 | 35 | +12 | 36 | |
| 8 | Velež | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 52 | 48 | +4 | 36 | |
| 9 | Čelik | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 35 | 32 | +3 | 36 | |
| 10 | Sloboda | 34 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 23 | 29 | −6 | 32 | |
| 11 | Radnički Niš | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 38 | 43 | −5 | 31 | |
| 12 | Sarajevo | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 42 | 51 | −9 | 29 | |
| 13 | Maribor | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 33 | 48 | −15 | 29 | |
| 14 | Borac Banja Luka | 34 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 47 | 66 | −19 | 29 | |
| 15 | Vojvodina | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 38 | 43 | −5 | 29 | |
| 16 | Radnički Kragujevac | 34 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 29 | 50 | −21 | 28 | |
| 17 | Bor (R) | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 43 | 66 | −23 | 26 | 1971–72 Yugoslav Second League |
| 18 | Crvenka (R) | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 28 | 58 | −30 | 23 |
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (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; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
League top scorers:
Promoted from Yugoslav Second League:
| Club |
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| Sutjeska Nikšić |
| Vardar Skopje |
| Pos | Player | Apps | Goals |
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| MF | Ivica Hlevnjak | 34 | 6 |
| DF | Dragan Holcer | 33 | 0 |
| MF | Jurica Jerković | 33 | 11 |
| DF | Vilson Džoni | 32 | 0 |
| FW | Ivan Pavlica | 30 | 7 |
| Marino Lemešić | 29 | 1 | |
| Mićun Jovanić | 29 | 7 | |
| GK | Radomir Vukčević | 25 | 0 |
| FW | Pero Nadoveza | 24 | 20 |
| Miroslav Vardić | 23 | 4 | |
| DF | Mario Boljat | 20 | 0 |
| DF | Ivan Buljan | 16 | 1 |
| DF | Miroslav Bošković | 16 | 1 |
| DF | Luka Peruzović | 14 | 0 |
| Dinko Žutelija | 12 | 1 | |
| MF | Dražen Mužinić | 11 | 0 |
| GK | Ante Sirković | 9 | 0 |
| Joško Gluić | 8 | 0 | |
| Veselin Zrilić | 8 | 0 | |
| Vladimir Smolčić | 3 | 0 | |
| Ivica Matković | 2 | 0 | |
| Miroslav Ferić | 1 | 1 | |
| Ante Ivković | 1 | 0 |
Napredak Kragujevac 0 - 0 Partizan
(pen. Napredak)
Crvena Zvezda Beograd x - x X
Sloboda Tuzla x - x X
| Home Club | Score | Visiting Club |
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| Sloboda Tuzla |
0 - 4 | Crvena zvezda |
| Date | May 12, 1971 | |
| Locale | Tušanj Stadium, Tuzla, Bosnia | |
| Attendance | 7,000 (Cap. 15,000) | |
| Referee | R. Canak (Beograd) | |
| Sloboda (Coach: Josip Duvančić) |
Rizah Mešković, Aleksandar Miličić, Radomir Jovičić, Fahrudin Avdičević, Faruk Pašić, Jusuf Hatunić, Muhamed Glavović (Tihomir Trifunović), Časlav Jevremović (Fuad Mulahasanović), Omer Jusić, Mustafa Hukić, Dušan Jovanović | |
| Crvena Zvezda (Coach: Miljan Miljanić) |
Ratomir Dujković, Branko Klenkovski, Petar Krivokuća, Zoran Antonijević, Miroslav Pavlović (Mihalj Keri),
Vladislav Bogićević, Slobodan Janković (Mile Novković), Stanislav Karasi, Zoran Filipović, Jovan Aćimović, Dragan Džajić |
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| Notes | 0-1 Džajić (39'), 0-2 Filipović (44'), 0-3 Džajić (53'), 0-4 Karasi (65') | |
| Home Club | Score | Visiting Club |
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| Crvena zvezda |
2 - 0 | Sloboda Tuzla |
| Date | May 26, 1971 | |
| Locale | Stadion Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade, Serbia | |
| Attendance | 6,000 (cap. 51,328) | |
| Referee | P. Kostovski (Skopje) | |
| Crvena zvezda (Coach: Miljan Miljanić) |
Ratomir Dujković, Branko Klenkovski, Petar Krivokuća, Zoran Antonijević, Miroslav Pavlović, Vladislav Bogićević, Slobodan Janković, Stevan Ostojić (Trifun Mihajlović), Zoran Filipović, Jovan Aćimović, Stanislav Karasi (Dragan Džajić) | |
| Sloboda (Coach: Josip Duvancic) |
Rizah Mešković, Aleksandar Miličić, Radomir Jovičić, Fahrudin Avdičević, Faruk Pašić, Djordje Gerum, Dušan Jovanović (Alberto Altarac),
Fuad Subašić, Omer Jusić (Muhamed Glavović), Tihomir Trifunović, Časlav Jevremović |
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| Notes | 1-0 Slobodan Janković (29'), 2-0 Filipović (80') | |
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