Yugoslav First League 1985-86

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The 1985-1986 season was a very controversial one in Yugoslav top football league due to allegations of wide match-fixing during the last week of fixtures (week 34).

After the last week was played, FK Partizan was crowned champion due to better goal difference than second-placed Red Star Belgrade. However, after weeks of public pressure and huge public outcry, on June 20, 1986, the Yugoslav FA presidency decided to impose extraordinary measures that included the following:

voiding the already played week 34 matches of the 1985-86 season and ordering a replay of every single one of nine fixtures
docking 6 points from each of the 12 clubs suspected of being involved in match-fixing, meaning they would start the following league season (1986-87) with -6 points

Each club agreed to play the replay except for FK Partizan. As a result its week 34 fixture was registered as a 0-3 loss, and the club was thus stripped of the league title, which was now awarded to Red Star.

It was Red Star who got to represent SFR Yugoslavia in the 1986-87 UEFA European Champions' Cup.

What followed on domestic front was a series of appeals and lawsuits and the entire case eventually went all the way to the Yugoslav Constitutional Court. By the time Yugoslav Constitutional Court delivered its final ruling to the Court of Joint Labour of SR Serbia on July 29, 1987, the next league season 1986-87 was already started and completed with FK Vardar winning the title due to 12 teams starting the season with -6 points.

The court's ruling was that there was no evidence of wrongdoing in the week 34 of the 1985-86 season and thus that season's title was given back to FK Partizan. That also meant that there was no merit for the 6-point docking in the 1986-87 and now that season's table was re-counted so that now FK Partizan became a new champion.

Still, FK Vardar got to represent SFR Yugoslavia in the 1987-88 UEFA European Champions' Cup.

1 League
2 Cup
- 2.1 Final
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] League

Rank	Club	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	P
1	Partizan Belgrade	34	21	7	6	65	29	+36	49
2	Red Star Belgrade	34	21	7	6	73	38	+35	49
3	Velež Mostar	34	13	11	10	64	50	+14	37
4	Hajduk Split	34	15	7	12	55	44	+11	37
5	NK Rijeka	34	12	13	9	42	31	+11	37
6	Dinamo Zagreb	34	11	14	9	53	43	+10	36
7	Željezničar Sarajevo	34	15	5	14	58	63	-5	35
8	Vardar Skopje	34	14	6	14	52	59	-7	34
9	NK Osijek	34	12	9	13	39	42	-3	33
10	Sutjeska Nikšić	34	14	4	16	55	61	-6	32
11	FK Priština	34	13	6	15	37	47	-10	32
12	Sloboda Tuzla	34	11	9	14	47	59	-12	31
13	Dinamo Vinkovci	34	11	8	15	51	54	-3	30
14	Budućnost Titograd	34	13	4	17	47	52	-5	30
15	FK Sarajevo	34	11	8	15	41	46	-5	30
16	Celik Zenica	34	11	8	15	39	49	-10	30
17	OFK Beograd	34	12	6	16	48	63	-15	30
18	Voivodina Novi Sad	34	6	8	20	33	69	-36	20
-	Spartak Subotica	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Radnički Niš	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

League topscorer: Davor Čop (Dinamo Vinkovci) - 22

Champions:

PARTIZAN (coach: Nenad Bjeković)

players (league matches/league goals):
Fahrudin Omerović (34/0) -goalkeeper-
Zvonko Varga (32/17)
Ljubomir Radanović (32/4)
Vladimir Vermezović (32/1)
Admir Smajić (30/2)
Slobodan Rojević (29/0)
Goran Stevanović (28/3)
Nebojša Vučićević (27/6)
Miloš Đelmaš (26/11)
Zvonko Živković (24/12)
Bajro Župić (24/0)
Milonja Đukić (23/1)
Vlado Čapljić (21/3)
Radoslav Nikodijević (17/0)
Miodrag Bajović (15/0)
Miodrag Radović (12/0)
Milinko Pantić (9/2)
Milorad Bajović (6/0)
Dragan Mance (5/2) died September 3, 1985 in a car accident
Goran Bogdanović (5/0)
Jovica Kolb (4/1)
Isa Sadriju (4/0)

[edit] Cup

[edit] Final

Home Club (de facto)	Score	Visiting Club
Velež Mostar	3 - 1	Dinamo Zagreb
Date	May 14, 1986
Locale	JNA Stadium, Belgrade, Serbia
Attendance	40,000 (cap. 38,923)
Referee	Colic (Belgrade)
Velež (coach: Dušan Bajević)	Vukašin Petranović, Ismet Šišić, Goran Jurić, Nenad Bijedić, Vladimir Matijević, Draženko Prskalo, Sead Kajtaz, Vladimir Skočajić, Predrag Jurić, Anel Karabeg (74' Vladimir Gudelj), Semir Tuce
Dinamo (coach: Ćiro Blažević)	Ranko Stojić, Milivoj Bračun (70' Dražen Besek), Zvijezdan Cvetković, Srečko Katanec, Mirko Lulić, Mustafa Arslanović, Željko Cupan, Snježan Cerin, Borislav Cvetković, Marko Mlinarić, Mladen Munjaković
Notes	Scorers: 1-0 Bijedic (6'pen), 2-0 Bijedic (51'), 2-1 Mlinaric (58'), 3-1 P. Juric (87') Sent off: Z.Cvetkovic (75') and Matijevic (90')