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59-539: At the top of the Serbian football league system , it is the country's primary football competition. It operates a system of promotion and relegation with Serbian First League , the second tier in the Serbian football pyramid . Serbian Super League is usually contested by 16 clubs, but the 2020–21 season was contested by 20 clubs, because the Football Association of Serbia restructured the league due to

118-687: A Jewish student, Hugo Buli , after he had returned from his studies in Germany , brought the first football from Berlin to Belgrade . He brought the ball to his friends from the Belgrade gymnastics society Soko , and founded the first football section in Southeast Europe on 12 May. The inaugural meeting of the First Serbian Football Society ( Prvo srpsko društvo za igranje loptom ) took place on 1 May 1899, at

177-476: A consequence of FIFA decision to recognize N/FSBiH already in July 1996, while in the same year UEFA admitted N/FSBiH as an adjacent member until 1998 when they recognized its full membership. This meant that only N/FSBiH clubs and its national team could compete at the international and official level. Final unification has been preceded by several stages. At first was created a playoff where clubs were playing for

236-561: A meeting in Zagreb, on 18 April 1919. The founding assembly was presided Danilo Stojanović , popularly known as Čika Dača , important because he was the founder of several football clubs such as Šumadija, BSK and others. In 1919 the Belgrade Football Subassociation formed the first league tournament that started being held regularly since its inaugural season in 1919–20 . The first Yugoslav state championship

295-535: Is the game that attracts most attention from the foreign media. In 2010, the 139th Eternal derby was broadcast in 19 countries and over 60 foreign correspondents were present. Football in Serbia Football is the most popular sport in Serbia . The Football Association of Serbia ( FSS ) is the national governing body and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in

354-722: The 2007 UEFA Under-21 Championship having lost to the Netherlands in the final. As well, Serbia won the U-20 World Cup in 2015 in New Zealand. The governing body of football in Serbia is the Football Association of Serbia . It oversees the organization of: Note: the aforementioned competitions are for men if not stated differently. Women's football exists but is much less developed or popular. By far

413-477: The COVID-19 pandemic , operating a system of promotion and relegation with Serbian First League , the second tier in the Serbian football pyramid . The SuperLiga was formed during the summer of 2005 as the country's top football league competition in Serbia and Montenegro . Since summer 2006 after the secession of Montenegro from Serbia, the league only has had Serbian clubs. Serbian clubs used to compete in

472-596: The First League of Bosnia and Herzegovina was launched. These three separate football leagues were operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina until 1998, and 2000. Since FIFA and UEFA showed support only for the association operating under patronage of the official and internationally recognized state institutions, during the war and prior to Dayton Peace Agreement as well as after its signage, they endorsed unification of all three organizations as N/FSBiH. This also came as

531-524: The Football Association of Yugoslavia so they both started their own football leagues. The Slovenian PrvaLiga was launched in late 1991, while the Croatian Prva HNL saw its first edition in 1992. Affected by the ongoing war in Croatia , the season was held over the course of a single calendar year, from February to June 1992. Both leagues have been going on ever since. The 1991–92 season

590-511: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1930). The league was started in 1923 and the first four seasons had a cup tournament format, while the first round-robin league competition was held in 1927. In the period from 1927 to 1940 seventeen seasons were completed, with all the titles won by clubs from Croatia ( Građanski Zagreb , Concordia Zagreb , HAŠK Zagreb and Hajduk Split ) or Serbia ( BSK Belgrade and Jugoslavija Belgrade ). It

649-603: The Montenegrin First League . The current SuperLiga champions are Red Star Belgrade . UEFA currently ranks the league 13th in Europe of 55 leagues. The league was known as Meridian SuperLiga from 2005 until 2008. The league's official sponsor until 2015 was beer brand Jelen pivo , this resulted in the league's official name to be Jelen SuperLiga. The SuperLiga began as a league with a playoff system in an attempt to boost ratings and improve competition. After

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708-553: The Serbian Cup , the country's league cup competition. It has been played from the end of the 19th century and there were a number of very successful Serbian football players and coaches throughout history. One of Serbia's top football clubs Red Star Belgrade has won the prestigious European Champions Cup in 1991 and has also won the Intercontinental Cup the same year . Its local rival Partizan Belgrade

767-594: The Serbian Olympic Committee organised the first ever trophy to be played among the best football clubs of the Kingdom of Serbia . It was played in a single-round robin system, and in the final held in Belgrade it was won by Velika Srbija. This seemed to be a promising start of an organised football tournament to be held regularly, however later that same year the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war against Serbia in what will be

826-716: The Yugoslav First League became the First League of FR Yugoslavia ( Prva savezna liga or Meridian SuperLiga ) and was played since then with the clubs from Serbia and Montenegro. The league winner had access to the UEFA Champions League qualifications rounds, and the 2nd, 3rd and the Cup winner had played in the UEFA Cup. The bottom clubs would be relegated to the two Second Leagues depending on

885-424: The Yugoslav First League . This competition was formed in 1923 and lasted until 2003. After the downfall of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991 a new Yugoslavia would be formed that would be named FR Yugoslavia with Montenegro and Serbia. They kept the name Yugoslavia until 2003 when the country changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro : this union lasted until 2006 when Montenegro gained independence and formed its own league,

944-493: The 2002–03 season, when the country changed its name so the league was renamed First League of Serbia and Montenegro. Finally, in June 2006 Montenegro declared independence and peacefully departed the union, so from the 2006–07 season onwards Montenegro started operating separate top-flight football league supervised by its football association. On the other hand, as the legal successor of Serbia-Montenegro state union, Serbia also got

1003-579: The Champions League regarding the suspension of Russian teams, and Serbia was ranked 11th in the UEFA coefficient list. TSC was also promoted from the UCL second qualifying round to the third qualifying round. This meant that for the first time ever, Serbia was allocated a group stage berth in the Champions League. The Yugoslav First League started being played in 1923, and gathered the best clubs from

1062-554: The FA's of Croatia and Slovenia were formed, and the delegates of Ljubljana , Osijek , Split and Zagreb subassociations decided to abandon the Yugoslav Football Association. The end of the war was the beginning of the reconstruction, and the devastated football grounds and stadiums, as well as the football clubs needed to be restored. On 25 February 1945, the football club Metalac was founded, later its name

1121-513: The Republika Srpska , on a territory held by Republika Srpska regime at the time. Only football on a territory under the control of then Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina institutions and auspices of N/FSBiH, at the time consequently with Bosniak majority, apart from a brief competition for the season 1994–95 (won by Čelik Zenica ), came to a standstill. Competition under auspices of N/FSBiH did not resume until 1995–96 season when

1180-637: The SFR Yugoslavia period (1945–1992). No minor European tournaments (like Mitropa Cup) included. Table sorted by success at European Cup / UEFA Champions League first and foremost. While the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is recognised as the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, it was not organised by UEFA. Consequently, UEFA do not consider clubs' records in the Fairs Cup to be part of their European record . However, FIFA do view

1239-721: The Serbian SuperLiga. The table is accurate as of the start of the 2024–25 season. League or status at 2024–25: The following 16 clubs compete in the Linglong Tire SuperLiga during the 2024–25 season . Serbian top-level football has been played in 27 stadiums since its formation in 2006. The top-three stadiums by clubs who are competing currently (2023-2024) in the Serbian top flight by seating capacity are Belgrade-based Red Star Stadium , Partizan Stadium and FK Radnicki Nis Cair Stadium . Below are

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1298-588: The Serbian Superliga. After 18 seasons, Red Star has won 10 championship titles and Partizan has won 8 championship title. Also, Red Star is record holder by winning 7 consecutive champion titles. The following is a list of clubs who have played in the Serbian SuperLiga at any time since its formation in 2006 to the current season. Teams playing in the 2024–25 Serbian SuperLiga are indicated in bold . A total of 41 teams have played in

1357-458: The SuperLiga. The 2009–10 season will be the first with a 16 team league played in a conventional league format of one home and one away match rather than the previous 3 match encounters. This drops the match schedule from 33 rounds to 30. As of the 2015-16 season, the league reverted to its previous playoff system, whereby the top 8 placed teams compete in the championship round at the end of

1416-463: The beginning of the First World War and the halt of all recreational and sports activities in Serbia. At the end of the First World War the boundaries in the region were changed and the Serbian state was part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , later in 1929 renamed into Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav Football Association ( Jugoslovenski nogometni savez ) was founded at

1475-418: The champion under N/FSBiH auspices. Idea was that playoff under unified N/FSBiH auspices should bring together clubs competing under three separate organizations for the first time but was rejected by Serb association, leaving clubs from Croat football association and N/FSBiH participating playoff for the seasons 1997–98 and 1999–00 , while 1998–99 playoff was canceled due to Croat's association hesitation on

1534-579: The competition as a major honour. Complete list of players who scored 100 goals or more in the 1946-1992 SFR Yugoslavia period. Source: RSSSF ; Last updated 14 December 2007 Over the years the Yugoslav First League featured many different teams, but there were always a number of teams that stood out, typically from the bigger cities. Among these were: The following data indicates historical Yugoslav coefficient rankings among European football leagues. The 1990–91 season

1593-488: The continuity of the country's league that was formed as Prva liga (First League) in 1992, and renamed and rebranded as Superliga in summer 2005. Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaimed independence in late winter 1992, and already in April same year N/FSBiH applied for membership with FIFA and UEFA. Meanwhile, due to the outbreak of Bosnian War in April 1992 no games were played in the 1992–93 season. In late 1993 some parts of

1652-406: The country re-launched football competitions with reduced scope. But just as the country was divided along ethnic lines, so was football. In 1993 Bosnian Croats launched the First League of Herzeg-Bosnia in which only Croatian clubs competed on parochial scale within the limits of West Herzegovina and few other enclaves. In the same year Bosnian Serbs also organized their own First League of

1711-482: The country, both professional and amateur. The association organizes the professional Serbian Superliga (top tier) and is responsible for appointing the management of the men's , women's , and youth national football teams in Serbia. The association also organizes the Serbian First League (second) and Serbian League (third), operating the top 3 leagues. The FSS is also responsible for organizing

1770-659: The decision on which stadiums games should be played. Next season playoff was resumed for the last time prior to full and final agreement on unified N/FSBiH and its competition, Premier League BiH (Premijer Liga) , in the fall 2000. However, the first 2000–01 season seen clubs from Federation of BiH only, while clubs from Republic of Srpska entity continue to compete in their own separate league as their entity association still refused to join agreed unified N/FSBiH and its new competition. However, UEFA and FIFA never intended to recognize this separate organization nor its competition, which meant clubs couldn't compete outside territory of

1829-547: The entity and wouldn't see any international football. This situation forced clubs to insist that their organization also join N/FSBiH, and two years later they became part of the competition for the season 2002–03 . Ever since the year 2000 Premier League is the top tier of Bosnia and Herzegovina football, with two entity-based leagues, First League of Republika Srpska and First League of the Federation of BiH, being pushed to

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1888-470: The female population, as was Bane Sekulić . The year of 1935 marked the professionalization of football in Yugoslavia, with the replacement of amateur status to the professional one, and the introduction of contracts for players. On the assembly of the Yugoslav Football Association held on October 1, 1939, a decision was made to rename the FA into Serbian Football Association, after earlier that year

1947-425: The first season however, the SuperLiga changed its format. The 2007–08 season was the first to be played in a more traditional format. The league no longer divided into a play-off and play-out group midway through the campaign. Instead, the 12 teams began playing each other three times in a more conventional league format. After two seasons with that format the Football Association of Serbia decided to add 4 teams to

2006-477: The former Yugoslavia. In 1991, clubs from Slovenia and Croatia left and formed their own league systems, and in 1992 so did the clubs from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. The Yugoslav First League was played since 1992 with clubs from Serbia and Montenegro, until 2006, when Montenegro declared independence and subsequently formed its own league system. Since 2006 the league is formed exclusively by clubs from Serbia and got renamed into Serbian SuperLiga. In 1992

2065-570: The honor of Golden Star for Sports Excellence was introduced to recognize sides that have won multiple championships or other honours by the display of gold stars on their team badges and jerseys. The current officially sanctioned SuperLiga stars indicate a club had won 10 titles per star and are: Serbian Superliga games are broadcast live on Arena Sport in countries of Ex-Yugoslavia. 02.TV starts broadcasting Serbian Superliga from March 2019. SportKlub Slovenia and Match TV also broadcasting live Serbian Superliga matches. The Eternal derby

2124-598: The initiative of player and enthusiast Zoltán Wagner. Another club was founded in Subotica on May 3, 1901, the Sports Athletic Club Bačka . More than two years later, on 14 September 1903, the football club Šumadija was founded in Kragujevac . The Subotica clubs were older, but at the time of the foundation of Sport and Bačka, the city of Subotica was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire , while Kragujevac

2183-556: The league until it was suspended due to the outbreak of World War II . Consequently, with the moving of headquarters, Croatian players and coaches boycotted Yugoslavia national team. With the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia , separate Croatian and Serbian leagues were established, which operated during the World War II . Top 12 only: Table only shows best-finish achievements in major European/Intercontinental competitions during

2242-634: The play-off round and second qualifying round respectively. The cup winner qualifies for the Europa League playoff round. The third and fourth placed teams enter the qualyfing round of the UEFA Europa Conference League , entering in the third and second qualifying round respectively. In 2022-23, champions Red Star Belgrade were guaranteed to enter the Champions League group stage, due to access list changes in

2301-567: The previous national associations whose part it was. By this the world and European federations have acknowledged the continuity of football in the territory of Serbia, and the decisive role of Serbia in creating the history of the game in Western Balkans since the end of the 19th century. In recent years, many top Serbian players such as Dejan Stanković , Nemanja Vidić and Branislav Ivanović have gone on to forge successful careers in top European leagues. The U-21 team were runners-up at

2360-549: The republic they were based in, the Second League of Serbia ( Druga savezna liga Srbija ) and the Second League of Montenegro ( Druga savezna liga grupa Crna Gora ). In 2002, FR Yugoslavia changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro, and the league was named First League of Serbia and Montenegro between 2002 and its dissolution, in 2006. In 2006 Serbia and Montenegro separated and formed their own top leagues (Serbian SuperLiga and Montenegrin First League ). Serbian SuperLiga

2419-578: The restaurant Trgovačka kafana , at initiative of Hugo Buli, and with support of Andra Nikolić, who was then Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Serbia . Feti Bey, the Turkish consul in Belgrade, was elected as President, and the lawyer Mihailo Živadinović as the Vice-President. In spring 1899, the first football field was built in the Topčider neighbourhood of Belgrade, and the first match

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2478-508: The season and the 8 lowest placed teams play in the relegation playoff round. The two bottom placed teams are relegated to the second division, the Serbian Prva Liga . The third lowest-placed team is then sent to a relegation playoff against the third-placed team in the second division. Whichever team wins will play in the SuperLiga the following season. Superliga champions and runner-ups enter Champions League qualifying entering

2537-471: The season with a few games short of completing the season. Still, since most of the games were played as planned, Crvena Zvezda of Belgrade is credited with winning the last Yugoslav First League championship. Macedonian clubs abandoned the competition after the 1991–92 season because the new Macedonian First League was launched the following season. For the 1992–93 season Bosnian clubs were all on hiatus due to full blown fighting that developed there, with

2596-464: The sole exception of Borac of Banja Luka (the strongest Bosnian Serb side at the time) which temporarily moved to Belgrade and joined the newly formed league featuring clubs from Serbia and Montenegro, this time restyled as the First League of FR Yugoslavia . (Serbia and Montenegro, the only ones left after other four member republics declared independence, renamed their country Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .) The league lasted under that name until

2655-551: The ten largest stadiums in Serbia of clubs who are competing or have competed in the Serbian top division of football. Currently in the below list only six of these clubs are competing in the Serbian top flight, them been as follows : Red Star, Partizan, Vojvodina, Radnički Niš, Radnički Kragujevac and Spartak Subotica. Attendance Single game Players Clubs Season Goalkeepers The following data indicates Serbian coefficient rankings between European football leagues. Based on an idea of Umberto Agnelli ,

2714-773: The two most popular clubs in the country are Partizan and Crvena zvezda , both from Belgrade . The Serbian Footballer of the Year award is an annual award given from the Football Association of Serbia to the best player of the year. Stadiums with a capacity of 20,000 or higher are included. Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian : Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, Serbian : Прва савезна лига у фудбалу , Prva savezna liga u fudbalu , Croatian : Prva savezna nogometna liga , Slovene : Prva zvezna nogometna liga , Macedonian : Прва сојузна фудбалска лига , Albanian : Liga e parë federale e futbollit , Hungarian : Első szövetségi labdarúgó-bajnokság )

2773-510: The war. Some clubs were initially disbanded but shortly after, restored, the BASK case being the most evident, while a few top league clubs had continued their activity, as Vojvodina Novi Sad , RFK Novi Sad , Mačva Šabac and Radnički Kragujevac . After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and the separation of Montenegro , on 26 June 2006, the Football Association of Serbia was admitted to the membership of FIFA and UEFA , as legal successor to all

2832-527: Was changed into BSK, and then into OFK Beograd , as successor to the tradition of the pre-war Beogradski Sport Klub (BSK). The Red Star Belgrade was formed on 4 March 1945, and Partizan Belgrade on 4 October of the same year. Some clubs were disbanded by the new socialist authorities, many on the ideological basis, for being considered too cosmopolitan and representative of the abolished monarchy , such as Jugoslavija or Jedinstvo Beograd , and some had simply disappeared due to man loss and long inactivity during

2891-452: Was convened, and it took place in Zagreb on 16 May 1930. It was voted that the association's headquarters be moved to the state capital, Belgrade, and that the name of the association would be changed into Yugoslav Football Association ( Fudbalski savez Jugoslavije ). BSK, along with HŠK Građanski , dominated the state scene until the beginning of World War II . This period was marked by the mass popularization of football. The national league

2950-551: Was dominated by clubs from Belgrade and Zagreb, but within Belgrade major rivalry was created between BSK and Jugoslavija (Reds and Blues respectively) creating what will be the Eternal derby of that period. The rivalry expanded throughout the country, more intensely in Serb populated areas but in others as well, dividing citizens between Reds and Blues. Best league players became real media stars, and some became real heartbreakers among

3009-581: Was governed at first by the Croatian -named Nogometni Savez Jugoslavije ( Football Association of Yugoslavia ) , founded in April 1919 in Zagreb , until in late 1929 disagreements arose between the Zagreb and Belgrade branches of the association. This resulted in the association headquarters being moved to Belgrade in May 1930 where it adopted the Serbian name Fudbalski Savez Jugoslavije and continued operating

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3068-559: Was launched in 1923 . The championships were played until 1940, and in this period the best Serbian clubs won seven state championship titles: BSK five and SK Jugoslavija two. The interruption of the championship occurred due to disagreements between the sub-associations, which culminated in 1929 when the YFA Assembly was dissolved. The differences were resolved in February 1930, after three months of crisis. An extraordinary Assembly

3127-544: Was officially declared the successor of the First Leagues of FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. A total of 41 clubs participated between 1992 and 2006, being 34 from Serbia, 6 from Montenegro and one from Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Borac Banja Luka was temporarily based in Serbia in early 1990s). A total of 3 clubs were champions, all from Serbia, Partizan (8 times), Red Star (5 times) and Obilić (once). A total of 39 clubs participated between 2006 and 2023 in

3186-426: Was on the territory of the then kingdom of Serbia. Being still active, Bačka is the oldest club in nowadays Serbia. Just following the foundation of Šumadija, Soko was founded in Belgrade, and thus became the first football club from the capital city. Since then several other clubs were formed such as Srpski mač in 1906, BSK in 1911 and SK Velika Srbija (later renamed to SK Jugoslavija) in 1913. In spring 1914,

3245-536: Was played in May that year between two teams of the members of the football society. Most of the first Serbian football clubs were multi-sports societies which included football sections. The first football club was founded in Subotica in 1898, the Szabadkai Sport Egylet (Sport Club Szabad), among the then fans better known simply as "Sport", within which was formed a football section in 1898 on

3304-490: Was the first Southeast and Eastern European football club to reach the European Champions Cup final, when it did so in 1966 . The most successful and popular teams are Red Star and Partizan from Belgrade as well as Vojvodina from Novi Sad . An important role also played OFK Belgrade and Radnički Niš in the history of the Serbian football Football first came to Serbia in the spring of 1896 when

3363-507: Was the last season held in its usual format, with clubs from all federative units participating in the championship. The breakup of the country also broke up its top-flight league into several smaller ones. The UEFA recognised the First League of FR Yugoslavia as its successor league. In June 1991 Slovenia declared independence and Croatia followed suit in October of the same year. This meant that their football associations separated from

3422-557: Was the last season held officially under the name of SFR Yugoslavia , even though Slovenian and Croatian clubs have already abandoned the competition to play in their own leagues. Clubs from the remaining four federative units all took part in the competition, but since the Bosnian War broke out towards the end of the season, Bosnian clubs never finished it, with Željezničar of Sarajevo only managed to play 17 out of 33 scheduled fixtures, while Sloboda Tuzla and Velež Mostar ended

3481-483: Was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992). The First League Championship was one of two national competitions held annually in Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup being the other. The league became fully professional in 1967. This was the first club competition on a national level for clubs from Kingdom of Yugoslavia (named

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